My Dad owns the old gas station & after the pumps were taken out it was still a mechanic shop. The former owner lives behind the shop. It was so nice to see a video about Lena. It’s a great little town to live in & to visit.
Wasn't there a Wildlife Bar in Lena that had hundreds of stuffed animals on display? I vaguely remember stopping in there about 45 years ago. My Dad used to sell apples to the little grocery store there as well, over 55 years ago.
Kinzinger’s owned the tavern back in the 60’s when I lived south of Lena in Stiles. Shopped at Wagner’s grocery store with the squeaky wood floors as a kid too.
My mom's side of our family is from Lena. "Junior" and Marie Kinzinger owned the Hunters and Fishermans tavern. Marie was my grandmothers sister. My first memories of Kinzingers was when I was a little tyke, about 4 or 5, and all of the stuffed animals, fish and other creatures were fascinating. There was an "Elk chair" which was created using the head and antlers of a bull Elk, as well as the elks legs being used for the legs of the chair, it really was a chair, although people were not allowed to sit in it for fear it would somehow break. On the Fridays we went to my grandparents home on Shay Lake we would stop at Kinzingers and while the adults had a few beers, us kids would go to the basement to sort and case the empty beer bottles that were in the bottle shoot and Marie rewarded us with a candy bar. What the general public never saw was the amount of unfinished or forgotten mounts that were in the basement. Thousands of them. Seeing this brought back so many great memories of the times I spent in Lena. Thanks Sally for the trip down memory lane.
I used to swim in the old swimming hole in the river about a mile outside of Lena to the west. After coming out of the water, my friends and I would have to remove the leeches from our bodies. Didn't bother us in the least. Also, we would spend spring days walking for miles on the railroad tracks to pick wild asparagus.
Is that the swimming hole on the Little River on Sunshine Rd?? I used to swim there as a kid visiting my grandparents home about a block from the swimming hole. There was a gravel pit across the road. My mothers side of the family are from Lena and I spent many summers there. I do remember the leeches by the way.
I really can't remember the last time I had full service at a gas station I think it was back when they had gasoline called Ethel lol thanks for the nice video Sally 👍🌺✌️
I used to live about 30 miles from Lena. It's not considered the most desirable place to live in the area but the Bavarian Inn Restaurant there was very good and we used to eat there regularly in the 90's and 00's. We also shopped regularly at the Brubaker Mennonite store several miles east of town on County Trunk A.
I’ve been to the little red schoolhouse rummage sale. It’s a pretty cool building. I also have had gas pumped from the gas station. My car has been fixed there also. My first job at 16 YO was at The Bavarian Inn. George Schussler Jr. owned it when I worked there. He bought it from his father and his father was a Packer player back in the day. I also worked at the Frito cheese factory for a bit, and The Village Tavern back when that was the hot spot on weekend nights!. I could go on about this little town called Lena because this is where I grew up, and never moved very far away. I guess I like a small Midwest town. Thanks for checking out Lena Sally.
This video reminds me of visiting my grandparents dairy farm just outside Wausau, Wisconsin. The memories of riding with my grandfather on his tractor and helping him around the barn have never left me. It seems so long ago when times were slower and everyone in the community knew one another. Living in the desert in rural Arizona was a great experience up to a few years ago. Same small town feel until all the people fleeing California decided to relocate here. Watching your Wisconsin videos takes me back to a time in my life I wish I could relive. Keep up the great work.
My cousin still runs the family farm, south of Eau Claire (est.1872), So sad when he describes how the family dairy farm culture of the '50's & '60's is totally gone.....
Small towns all seem to have a kind of familiarity to them, and the slow pace is so peaceful. Another great tour, and education on some history. Sally, you were a cutie in your early years, and still a cutie today. Thank you for always making me smile, and laugh too, you're a great tour guide, and its great to see Marty touring too. I always look forward to what you two are exploring.
My Dad grew up in that store that's now Bavarian Inn. They lived upstairs and owned the grocery store below. My great Uncle John Ausloos owned the Gas Station across the Street. The Hwy is named Rosera Ave. as it goes through town. He bought the Organ for St Charles Church. The Barn next to the Gas Station and the big white house in the center of town was my mother's family. My Uncle Ervin ran the farm his whole life. My grandpa donated the land for St Charles Church and Grandma did all the linens for church and priests. That icecream shop was a big hangout. Fun video!!!!!😊🙂😄😀😃😉😊
My family moved up to Lena when my dad became the elementary principal in 1969. I attended all 4 years of high school and graduated from Lena. It was a quiet town and something must have rubbed off because after I finished college downstate, even though my family had moved back to Racine County, I moved up to Ladysmith which is north of Lena in the west central part of the state. I have lived most of my life in small towns in northern WI. Our 50 year high school reunion is next year and I'll be back to Lena to see classmates.
That set of maps were old when I started school in Iowa in 1956. Maps do have dates published on them. The flag in the school was a 48 star flag, before 1958 when Hawaii and Alaska became states. I went to a 2 room school with outhouses for use in 1956 in iowa.
Saputo cheese is right down from the Wooden Shoe. They use one million lbs of milk a day to make string cheese. Many in the town are employed there and it’s been part of the community for years.
That’s wonderful! I’m a fan of local/small town family owned businesses so it’s always great to hear when they succeed the passage of time. Ps. I love cheese 😁
@@SightseeingSally, Oregon & New Jersey - the only 2 States with NO self-serve gas stations. 1 town in Massachusetts & 1 in New York also prohibit self-serve.
Toward the end of the 1960's my mother and Father moved to Lena from Rochester Wisconsin taking the four younger children of eight with them. Dad had just landed a new job as the principal of the Local school there. I had just graduated high school and had a good job in Burlington at the local glass factory and I was the youngest of the four older children. My girlfriend (now my wife of 52 years) and I would visit Lena many times and it seemed like a very nice little town. Dad and I would fish the local lakes like Porcupine, and it couldn't have been more beautiful! Thanks for the nice visit to Lena, Wisconsin.
Lived in Lena as a teenager from 1969 to 1973 while my dad was a principal at the elementary school. I have fond memories of my time there and the friendships I made. At that time there were less than 600 people living in town and a cheese factory. The main highway went right through the middle of town. Not anymore. We have visited Kugel’s cheese shop a couple times but really haven’t made any contacts since about 1975.
Wisconsin has all sorts of small towns. The people are so nice once you’re out of Milwaukee or Madison. I grew up in Wisconsin. I’ve lived in NYC and California. If you have children, Wisconsin is superior in values and things to do.
My home town of Plainfield would fit into your documentaries. Only thing when a bar caught fire (Stash's) it took out half of main street. Actually it's state hwy 73. Main street burnt down long before that. Plainfield folded when highway 51 (39) moved from the east end of town to the west side. Now everyone just passes by it. Dad met mom at grandpa's soda jerk. Original root beer stand. He rolled up on his 47 Harley and the rest is history. I lived there for 19 years joined the military and now live in Alaska after retiring. Whenever I need to get grounded I take a trip home in July do the multi class reunion and drive my motorcycle through town. The memories just flood back in. I was the paper boy so knew everyone in town.
I ate lunch at a diner in Plainfield awhile back. Best hot ham and cheese sandwich I ever had! Maybe it’s time I head back for a filming session and see if that diner is still open. 😉
@@SightseeingSally if you go their tell Dawn Neil says hi. She's great. Hope that's thr diner your talking about. It was the old Gambles store in my time their.
Never had my gas pumped for me, though it was an option at most gas stations when I started driving, self serve was cheaper. Love to have been born and raised in a small town and Lena is a nice one! Nice tour! Thanks Sally, thanks Marty! 👍👍👍
Funny, as a kid i worked for grandpa and pumped gas, washed windows and checked your oil all at the same time. You just sat in the car unless you needed to use the restroom or buy a pack of cigarettes or a soda pop.
It is 2022, and 34 years ago i used to be an attendant at a full service gas station... i use to pump your gas, checked your oil, tires, and washed your windows, also took your cash and made change for you right at the pumps...
Hey Sally, the milk can as your thumbnail for this vid caught my attention! My mother used to hold umbrellas in a milk can placed on the side of the front door. One day the doorbell rang and I went running down the hallway, tripped over a hump in the rug went flying and landed face first against the decorative milk can! I was 7 and we'd just moved into the house so I guess it was tricky for her to pick me up and find the hospital... long story short, I almost lost my right eye vs. a milk can! My cheekbone has never been the same and I have a scar from the stitches. 😍 😝
Wow! What a story… who would’ve thought those milk cans could be so darn dangerous!!! Glad to hear you ended up being ok and that it turned out the way it did.
Thank you for showing the picture of my Great Grandmother Dorothy LeFebre in the Beauty Shop! 😍 Makes my heart happy! Where are you from that you where just passing by the old school house?…😎
Wow, thank you for this video! My dad's family is from Lena---dad was born there in 1925 and my grandfather in 1894. Grandma's family were Belgian settlers and owned a farm outside of Lena and my grandpa's family home still stands on E. Railroad St. I've heard so many stories about growing up in Lena and it's so nice to actually see the town.
This was such a lovely walk back in time for me. I used to drive through Lena on the old Highway on the way to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Crivitz. I always thought it was such a nice little town. Well kept homes and gardens, very charming.
I grew up in the Green Bay area, and my Dad and I uses to drive through Lena many times while heading to the Crivitz area on hunting or fishing trips. Used to stop at Kugel's cheese fairly often, and once or twice at the restaurant/ ice cream shop. I moved away years ago and only recently moved back to the area. The only time I was back in the area in the last forty years was about a decade ago after U.S. 141 had been rerouted to bypass Lena. Sad to say I didn't go through town.
Amazing content thanks 👍 in Illinois only one gas station in the mount greenwood area of Chicago still gives full service and are most likely lower in price nice seeing you both I did explore wisconsin alot and always went to tomahawk wis to fish and snowmobile thanks 👍 again
Lena is a beautiful town on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The celebration of the 100 year anniversary (Centennial)That is interesting about the dates on the church. Love one room school houses. Small town rummage sales are cool. My dad attended an one room School house in a small town in Missouri. That is always cool to see the pictures of the students. Old waterpumps and outhouses are interesting! That is nice you meet the city clerk. Original log cabin is special. Love the inside of the log cabin. Original highways going through small towns need to be preserved abd marked. Pointing out old buildings on main Street is appreciated! Love cheese and glad hear the cheese shop is still open. Love this video!!
We have a gas station here i Spring Valley IL that still pumps the gas for you. Sally, I noticed somthing in that little school house that you finally go go into and look at all that old stuff that there was an old flag hanging in there that had 48 stars on it but it was in very good condition.
The upper level of the Barn Tavern was the old hayloft, and people would hold dances and parties up there. I actually attended my high school class reunion there. The lower level, where the cows were, was turned into a restaurant . . . best perch fry around on Friday evenings. The sign out front said, "Come sit, relax, and drink where the cows used to stink."
Thank you Sightseeing Sally & Marty. Another great video. I lived in Prince George's County, Md. until 1988. I can't exactly recall the year, but it was sometime in the very early 1970's, maybe 1971, when gas was still pumped by an attendant. And as you said, New Jersey, still has attendants pumping gas. Thank you again Marty & Sally.
Here in Vermont, my kids went through any one of four one room schoolhouses. Then, finally 15 years ago they opened a nice new K-8 school. It was great while it lasted. My daughter and her class made the centerfold in Yankee Magazine, as the last class to attend theirs... Thanks Sally for the reminiscing episode. Love your and Marty's videos!
Sally - one thing drove me crazy during this video was the image flipping back and forth from left to right and vise versa. Isn't there some way to flip the image during editing so I don't have to master mirror reading???
Hey, thanks for asking about this! The mirroring should no longer be an issue on my current episodes. I fixed the settings on my camera a while ago. However, it is quite likely that you will run into this issue again. There were several videos that were filmed like this before I figured out I needed to change a setting.
I live in Lena. I have lived in several places throughout the years and I know that Lena has some really neat history. If you haven't already, you have to get to the museum. It is the best. You will love it. I know that a letter from Abraham Lincoln is hanging on the wall. The oldest house in town is in eye sight right now. I ❤️ the pictures that are framed in the local police station.
My Dad owns the old gas station & after the pumps were taken out it was still a mechanic shop. The former owner lives behind the shop. It was so nice to see a video about Lena. It’s a great little town to live in & to visit.
I notice that the US flag in the schoolhouse has 48 stars, prior to Alaska and Hawaii joining the union.
Wasn't there a Wildlife Bar in Lena that had hundreds of stuffed animals on display? I vaguely remember stopping in there about 45 years ago. My Dad used to sell apples to the little grocery store there as well, over 55 years ago.
Kinzinger’s owned the tavern back in the 60’s when I lived south of Lena in Stiles. Shopped at Wagner’s grocery store with the squeaky wood floors as a kid too.
My mom's side of our family is from Lena. "Junior" and Marie Kinzinger owned the Hunters and Fishermans tavern. Marie was my grandmothers sister. My first memories of Kinzingers was when I was a little tyke, about 4 or 5, and all of the stuffed animals, fish and other creatures were fascinating. There was an "Elk chair" which was created using the head and antlers of a bull Elk, as well as the elks legs being used for the legs of the chair, it really was a chair, although people were not allowed to sit in it for fear it would somehow break. On the Fridays we went to my grandparents home on Shay Lake we would stop at Kinzingers and while the adults had a few beers, us kids would go to the basement to sort and case the empty beer bottles that were in the bottle shoot and Marie rewarded us with a candy bar. What the general public never saw was the amount of unfinished or forgotten mounts that were in the basement. Thousands of them. Seeing this brought back so many great memories of the times I spent in Lena. Thanks Sally for the trip down memory lane.
You're best traveler. Always be carefully. And always save your health. ♥️♥️
If you’re ever in Lena check out the sportsman and hunters bar quite the treat great deal history inside that tavern PS love your channel
Thank you Dave!
One thing for sure, after your trip there and this video, Lena will not be forgotten.
I used to swim in the old swimming hole in the river about a mile outside of Lena to the west. After coming out of the water, my friends and I would have to remove the leeches from our bodies. Didn't bother us in the least. Also, we would spend spring days walking for miles on the railroad tracks to pick wild asparagus.
Is that the swimming hole on the Little River on Sunshine Rd?? I used to swim there as a kid visiting my grandparents home about a block from the swimming hole. There was a gravel pit across the road. My mothers side of the family are from Lena and I spent many summers there. I do remember the leeches by the way.
I really can't remember the last time I had full service at a gas station I think it was back when they had gasoline called Ethel lol thanks for the nice video Sally 👍🌺✌️
Did the Ethel had come with a Lucy?Lol 😂 thanks Duane, glad you enjoyed touring Lena with me! ✌🏻😁
@@SightseeingSally 😃😁👍 Lol
The gas was called ethyl.
I used to live about 30 miles from Lena. It's not considered the most desirable place to live in the area but the Bavarian Inn Restaurant there was very good and we used to eat there regularly in the 90's and 00's. We also shopped regularly at the Brubaker Mennonite store several miles east of town on County Trunk A.
I had classrooms /maps and all…like that in the fifties. 💁🏻♀️. Thank you Sally, love seeing you up to your capers. 😘
I’ve been to the little red schoolhouse rummage sale. It’s a pretty cool building. I also have had gas pumped from the gas station. My car has been fixed there also. My first job at 16 YO was at The Bavarian Inn. George Schussler Jr. owned it when I worked there. He bought it from his father and his father was a Packer player back in the day. I also worked at the Frito cheese factory for a bit, and The Village Tavern back when that was the hot spot on weekend nights!. I could go on about this little town called Lena because this is where I grew up, and never moved very far away. I guess I like a small Midwest town. Thanks for checking out Lena Sally.
You meant Frigo, right?
Yes, it’s Frigo! Actually when I worked there it was Saputo. I just noticed that error. Thanks for the correction!
Sorry Sally didn't know my credit card had expired for your Patreon Membership.... I updated the card so payment will go through again
No worries, thank you so much 😊
This video reminds me of visiting my grandparents dairy farm just outside Wausau, Wisconsin. The memories of riding with my grandfather on his tractor and helping him around the barn have never left me. It seems so long ago when times were slower and everyone in the community knew one another. Living in the desert in rural Arizona was a great experience up to a few years ago. Same small town feel until all the people fleeing California decided to relocate here. Watching your Wisconsin videos takes me back to a time in my life I wish I could relive. Keep up the great work.
My cousin still runs the family farm, south of Eau Claire (est.1872), So sad when he describes how the family dairy farm culture of the '50's & '60's is totally gone.....
Love your enthusiasm and delivery of knowledge! I always enjoy your vids...where's next??
Small towns all seem to have a kind of familiarity to them, and the slow pace is so peaceful. Another great tour, and education on some history.
Sally, you were a cutie in your early years, and still a cutie today.
Thank you for always making me smile, and laugh too, you're a great tour guide, and its great to see Marty touring too. I always look forward to what you two are exploring.
My Dad grew up in that store that's now Bavarian Inn. They lived upstairs and owned the grocery store below. My great Uncle John Ausloos owned the Gas Station across the Street. The Hwy is named Rosera Ave. as it goes through town. He bought the Organ for St Charles Church. The Barn next to the Gas Station and the big white house in the center of town was my mother's family. My Uncle Ervin ran the farm his whole life. My grandpa donated the land for St Charles Church and Grandma did all the linens for church and priests. That icecream shop was a big hangout. Fun video!!!!!😊🙂😄😀😃😉😊
My family moved up to Lena when my dad became the elementary principal in 1969. I attended all 4 years of high school and graduated from Lena. It was a quiet town and something must have rubbed off because after I finished college downstate, even though my family had moved back to Racine County, I moved up to Ladysmith which is north of Lena in the west central part of the state. I have lived most of my life in small towns in northern WI. Our 50 year high school reunion is next year and I'll be back to Lena to see classmates.
So glad to see Lena is still thriving and doing well after the highway bypass.
Thanks for posting this video. I always love them.
We have a service station in Michigan (on Lake Michigan) that they will pump gas for you.Gas "island" on the side street even has a bell hose.
Sounds like a place we need to visit sometime!
This is one of your best videos. You are so good at what you do
Thanks Michael!!! I really enjoyed filming this one.
That set of maps were old when I started school in Iowa in 1956. Maps do have dates published on them. The flag in the school was a 48 star flag, before 1958 when Hawaii and Alaska became states. I went to a 2 room school with outhouses for use in 1956 in iowa.
Holy samokes! I thought I subscribed before today, but did today for sure. Keep on travelin' !
I had my petrol dispensed by the gas vendor in the uk in 1967..
Saputo cheese is right down from the Wooden Shoe. They use one million lbs of milk a day to make string cheese. Many in the town are employed there and it’s been part of the community for years.
SSS, how cool. Lena is a hoppin' little town. Thank you for taking us along. If I ever get up that way, I will be sure to stop by.
Awesome 🤩 glad I was able to share Lena’s history with you!
I'm delighted that you mentioned Kugel's Cheese Mart.....My son now owns this business as a third generation family owner....
That’s wonderful! I’m a fan of local/small town family owned businesses so it’s always great to hear when they succeed the passage of time. Ps. I love cheese 😁
Really sad , seeing these old towns , way it was !
Good jobs gone !
Do it in Oregon , filling your gas ! Sure remember way it was when I was young !
They still fill your gas for you in Oregon? I didn’t know that. I know it’s been a long time since I was at a full service gas station in Wisconsin.
@@SightseeingSally I know , check your oil & everything !
Miss those days !
@@SightseeingSally, Oregon & New Jersey - the only 2 States with NO self-serve gas stations. 1 town in Massachusetts & 1 in New York also prohibit self-serve.
I attended St. Charles and my mother was the music teacher for over 20 years at the Lena School system. Great town, many memories.
Love these small, old towns!
Awesome video! 🙂👍🌹
Toward the end of the 1960's my mother and Father moved to Lena from Rochester Wisconsin taking the four younger children of eight with them. Dad had just landed a new job as the principal of the Local school there. I had just graduated high school and had a good job in Burlington at the local glass factory and I was the youngest of the four older children. My girlfriend (now my wife of 52 years) and I would visit Lena many times and it seemed like a very nice little town. Dad and I would fish the local lakes like Porcupine, and it couldn't have been more beautiful! Thanks for the nice visit to Lena, Wisconsin.
What a step back in time.
Love it!
Thank you so much.
Hello beautiful friend nice video see you soon
Thanks Donna!
Lived in Lena as a teenager from 1969 to 1973 while my dad was a principal at the elementary school. I have fond memories of my time there and the friendships I made. At that time there were less than 600 people living in town and a cheese factory. The main highway went right through the middle of town. Not anymore. We have visited Kugel’s cheese shop a couple times but really haven’t made any contacts since about 1975.
Wisconsin has all sorts of small towns. The people are so nice once you’re out of Milwaukee or Madison. I grew up in Wisconsin. I’ve lived in NYC and California. If you have children, Wisconsin is superior in values and things to do.
There are plenty of nice people in Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, etc.......🥰❤️🥰
My home town of Plainfield would fit into your documentaries. Only thing when a bar caught fire (Stash's) it took out half of main street. Actually it's state hwy 73. Main street burnt down long before that. Plainfield folded when highway 51 (39) moved from the east end of town to the west side. Now everyone just passes by it. Dad met mom at grandpa's soda jerk. Original root beer stand. He rolled up on his 47 Harley and the rest is history. I lived there for 19 years joined the military and now live in Alaska after retiring. Whenever I need to get grounded I take a trip home in July do the multi class reunion and drive my motorcycle through town. The memories just flood back in. I was the paper boy so knew everyone in town.
I ate lunch at a diner in Plainfield awhile back. Best hot ham and cheese sandwich I ever had! Maybe it’s time I head back for a filming session and see if that diner is still open. 😉
@@SightseeingSally if you go their tell Dawn Neil says hi. She's great. Hope that's thr diner your talking about. It was the old Gambles store in my time their.
Hi Neil, Bob Ludtke says Hi!
@@jeanludtke2913 tell Bob hi from me. How's your weather? I had snow 3 times but warmed up this week after a bunch of rain and it's all gone.
Cold and cloudy here. 40's during the day, and 20's at night.
The original Pledge made no mention of god, and it wasn't added to currency until 1955.
get your gas pumped for you in scales mound illinois!
You've just gotta love a nice, peaceful midwestern town....so much interesting history and memories! Thanks for the a great walk Sally and Marty!!
Lovely. Had to pump your own petrol in the U.K. for over 40 years
I love small town America and you
vlog it so well 💓
I'm watching this, you saying how hot it is, showing 88, while it's 103 here
Why dont they play cricket in america?
Never had my gas pumped for me, though it was an option at most gas stations when I started driving, self serve was cheaper.
Love to have been born and raised in a small town and Lena is a nice one!
Nice tour! Thanks Sally, thanks Marty!
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Funny, as a kid i worked for grandpa and pumped gas, washed windows and checked your oil all at the same time. You just sat in the car unless you needed to use the restroom or buy a pack of cigarettes or a soda pop.
It is 2022, and 34 years ago i used to be an attendant at a full service gas station... i use to pump your gas, checked your oil, tires, and washed your windows, also took your cash and made change for you right at the pumps...
Now that must be a real thing of the past. A full service gas station? Can't remember even being to one.
Never explored western Wisconsin .Beautiful
Map was old USSR now Russia!
Your childhood pictures, lead me to believe that you were a model child. I bet your parents were like the Cleavers on " Leave it to beaver".
Hey Sally, the milk can as your thumbnail for this vid caught my attention! My mother used to hold umbrellas in a milk can placed on the side of the front door. One day the doorbell rang and I went running down the hallway, tripped over a hump in the rug went flying and landed face first against the decorative milk can! I was 7 and we'd just moved into the house so I guess it was tricky for her to pick me up and find the hospital... long story short, I almost lost my right eye vs. a milk can! My cheekbone has never been the same and I have a scar from the stitches. 😍 😝
Wow! What a story… who would’ve thought those milk cans could be so darn dangerous!!! Glad to hear you ended up being ok and that it turned out the way it did.
@@SightseeingSally and now we know the rest of the store behind why milk cans went out of use by lawyers.
WOW, very nice. I enjoyed this. Thank you 🏠🏡
Thank you for showing the picture of my Great Grandmother Dorothy LeFebre in the Beauty Shop! 😍 Makes my heart happy! Where are you from that you where just passing by the old school house?…😎
Also, you should’ve featured the Dead Animal Bar AKA Kingzinger’s Hunter and Fisherman’s Bar. Brett Farve was in there…😎
Wow, thank you for this video! My dad's family is from Lena---dad was born there in 1925 and my grandfather in 1894. Grandma's family were Belgian settlers and owned a farm outside of Lena and my grandpa's family home still stands on E. Railroad St. I've heard so many stories about growing up in Lena and it's so nice to actually see the town.
Thank for your video.♥️
Hey, that's my yard!
Cliff's garage in Fairview, Michigan still pumps your gasoline for you and this is Nov. 2022. Nice northeastern Michigan small town.
How old is this video? Just curious.
With the exception of the part where I got to see inside the Lena Road Schoolhouse, the video is less than 5 days old.
Nicely cut Grass Sally!
This was such a lovely walk back in time for me. I used to drive through Lena on the old Highway on the way to visit my Aunt and Uncle in Crivitz. I always thought it was such a nice little town. Well kept homes and gardens, very charming.
I grew up in the Green Bay area, and my Dad and I uses to drive through Lena many times while heading to the Crivitz area on hunting or fishing trips. Used to stop at Kugel's cheese fairly often, and once or twice at the restaurant/ ice cream shop.
I moved away years ago and only recently moved back to the area. The only time I was back in the area in the last forty years was about a decade ago after U.S. 141 had been rerouted to bypass Lena. Sad to say I didn't go through town.
I remember stopping at the cheese mart whenever passing through Lena, before they moved the 141 HI way. Wow what a selection of cheese's
Full service gas station in Oshkosh. B/P Service Oil. On Old Omro Rd.
Amazing content thanks 👍 in Illinois only one gas station in the mount greenwood area of Chicago still gives full service and are most likely lower in price nice seeing you both I did explore wisconsin alot and always went to tomahawk wis to fish and snowmobile thanks 👍 again
Last summer 2022, I stopped in Cashton WI and had my gas pumped. It was the only time I can remember since I was driving.
Lena is a beautiful town on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The celebration of the 100 year anniversary (Centennial)That is interesting about the dates on the church. Love one room school houses. Small town rummage sales are cool. My dad attended an one room School house in a small town in Missouri. That is always cool to see the pictures of the students. Old waterpumps and outhouses are interesting! That is nice you meet the city clerk. Original log cabin is special. Love the inside of the log cabin. Original highways going through small towns need to be preserved abd marked. Pointing out old buildings on main Street is appreciated! Love cheese and glad hear the cheese shop is still open. Love this video!!
Nice little place. Be safe.
I am from Waukesha, WI and it not to surprising the cheese factory is still in business Wisconsin is known for there cheese.
Oh, and I've been told there's a gas station here in the Green Bay area that will pump your gas for you.
We have a gas station here i Spring Valley IL that still pumps the gas for you. Sally, I noticed somthing in that little school house that you finally go go into and look at all that old stuff that there was an old flag hanging in there that had 48 stars on it but it was in very good condition.
You can tell the flag on the wall is old... 48 stars only, 6 rows of 8...
I loved this video great facts from past
Thanks Michael!
Thanks for the History lesson, I found it very interesting
I would love to see more videos of small towns in Wisconsin
I was going to ask where the outhouse was, and there it is!
I actually live in this town
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Miss Sally, you missed the Barn Tavern!
I just learned about it today from someone on Facebook. They said this is the place to grab a drink where the cows used to stink.
The Barn Tavern had great history. Unfortunately, it has permanently closed now.
The upper level of the Barn Tavern was the old hayloft, and people would hold dances and parties up there. I actually attended my high school class reunion there. The lower level, where the cows were, was turned into a restaurant . . . best perch fry around on Friday evenings. The sign out front said, "Come sit, relax, and drink where the cows used to stink."
Barn Tavern now closed! 😭
Thank you Sightseeing Sally & Marty. Another great video. I lived in Prince George's County, Md. until 1988. I can't exactly recall the year, but it was sometime in the very early 1970's, maybe 1971, when gas was still pumped by an attendant. And as you said, New Jersey, still has attendants pumping gas. Thank you again Marty & Sally.
Here in Vermont, my kids went through any one of four one room schoolhouses. Then, finally 15 years ago they opened a nice new K-8 school. It was great while it lasted. My daughter and her class made the centerfold in Yankee Magazine, as the last class to attend theirs... Thanks Sally for the reminiscing episode. Love your and Marty's videos!
Sally - one thing drove me crazy during this video was the image flipping back and forth from left to right and vise versa. Isn't there some way to flip the image during editing so I don't have to master mirror reading???
Hey, thanks for asking about this! The mirroring should no longer be an issue on my current episodes. I fixed the settings on my camera a while ago. However, it is quite likely that you will run into this issue again. There were several videos that were filmed like this before I figured out I needed to change a setting.
@@SightseeingSally OK, I am probably noticing this since I have been going back and watching some of your early videos.
I love these visits to these towns. It reminds me of my childhood when we'd visit grandma on the farm outside Birnamwood, Wi..
Sally I like your dress!
You were looking very tasty in that dress Today I don't know why?
Nice skin Sally!
You were cute as a kid!
I'm also Kid of 70's!
I live in Lena. I have lived in several places throughout the years and I know that Lena has some really neat history. If you haven't already, you have to get to the museum. It is the best. You will love it. I know that a letter from Abraham Lincoln is hanging on the wall. The oldest house in town is in eye sight right now. I ❤️ the pictures that are framed in the local police station.
Your Lips are Dry! Have a Drink!
It was pretty hot outside, almost melted away lol
@@SightseeingSally Yeah that's why I suggested a cold drink or coke or Juice! Just saying!
@@SightseeingSally Take care my Dear!
@@SightseeingSally Those Railway videos were nice! Sally start them again!
@@SightseeingSally Were there any Bars in Forgotten Town?
The CONSTITUTION has God all over and in it. So school shame on you.
God was added to the Pledge of Allegience much later. google it