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- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #573
Staying at another strange Nevada border town -- only this time, it's split into two legally distinct cities: Wendover, Utah and West Wendover, Nevada. Which will prove to be more interesting?? The answer might surprise you!
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No idea why this channel does not have at least double/triple the subscribers, I find it very enjoyable to follow along on these journeys, wishing I was traveling as well.
yes she's very entertaining
@@kevio6868 AMEN!
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90 minutes from Salt Lake City @80 miles per hour on I-80. We escape to West Wendover at least once a month for fun and food. Very comfortable rooms at the Montego Bay Casino. Wendover Will was in the movie Indepence Day 2. I enjoy all your adventures and it was fun seeing your rendition of a familiar place.
Hello yea
For you aviation nerds: The airplane is a Fairchild C-123K "Provider" of 60's vintage; one of three used in the movie "Con Air" starring Nicolas Cage. This hulk had an automotive engine in it to do taxiing scenes; which explains the steering wheel and crude shifter. Wendover AFB was a large WWII bomber training base for B-17 crews as well as the B-29 atom bomber crews.
Lucky that a Bonneville 'speed week' was not in progress - you would never have found a room! Keep those videos coming!!
When it said US Marshall on the plane I suspected it was used in Con Air. Thanks for confirming.
GEEE
My father fly on b17 in ww2 and trained there in Nevada! Nice to see the base!
Thanks, was going crazy trying to figger out what plane.
Thanks MT, Sarah shows us good stuff,
but y'all tell us what we are looking at.
Thanks for showing the maps Sarah-it puts the places that you visit into context for me-🇬🇧😎
I like it too
Glad you made it to Wendover...the history of the place is amazing. Training the military for dropping the bombs on Japan was high priority. That plane was in the movie ConAir I think...The hangar used to be trashed...they have put a lot of money and time into them. They look almost new now. The barracks are still amazing.
They filmed part of Independence Day and one of the Hulk movies too.and a couple others
@@sly7856 Wind with Jenifer Grey (the girl from Dirty Dancing) and Worlds Fastest Indian. (Indian Motorcycle). Philadelphia something?
I don't usually read other comments but I enjoyed yours. Informative. Thanks.
Historic Wendover airfield and the Arizona ground crew are restoring buildings and shooting for a living history museum like colonial Williamsburg
@@sly7856 Philadelphia project
Been.to.Wendover 3 times for military deployments. The first was about 3 weeks after Mt St Helen's went off (May 1980). They almost canceled the trip because volcanic ash is hazardous to jet engines. We were the first unit to fly out of there since the late 50s I think. It was considered a bare base operation.
My Dad was a Naval and Civilian pilot. It trips me out to think he flew us in a Cessna from CA to North Dakota To Montana and back to CA in the 70’s. We are lucky to be alive. His friend crashed into Devils Butte in California with his family. I think he was cheap not to buy tickets since it was a vacation. He stopped flying after the crash. A couple years before that a partner flew the Cessna into a nameless canyon north of Magic Mountain. I still remember a few pieces of the plane he brought back, no emotion.
Thanks for the memories! Stayed at the Best Western a few years ago.
Thank you for your service!
Sheryl H Thank you!
1980 MOUNT ST HELENS---IN the 2003--2007...there were bus trips--cheap---to wendover--and u got 7 dollars a day --free gambling money----- rest of time can be used wandering around the salt flats
Your editing skills has gotten so fun to watch 🥰😎
I guessed 49 for the room! LOL! Love watching your videos, you're a hoot! ✌️💨
My wife and I stopped in Wendover during the spring. Found a small place to get food and eat at the small park so the dogs could get out. I explored a little but missed the airfield. Thanks for the entertaining video. Glad you got your bumper.
I drove through there quite a few times as a trucker! I live in central Utah now, but as an expatriated citezen of Lost Wages, I do miss the gambling a bit LOL! Enjoy your time there and thanks for all the videos!!!
La Joya is a party building not apartments. And growing I went to school on the Nevada and Utah side. Didn't do much growing up just hanged out with my friends and stayed at home. And there is no bad sides of town, the only thing we have are the small rich street where the casino bosses live, those are the fancy houses. I'm glad you enjoyed our little town.
I cruised past the Motel 6 etc and stayed at a casino It was cheap with an OK buffet.
The only downside was it was the biggest Harley meet I have ever seen ,the riders were good fun but dang those bikes are loud .
The plane you got on is a Fairchild C-123K Provider, painted as "N709RR", (ex-USAF 56-4361), used for static and taxi scenes at Wendover (left at Wendover Airport). It was used in the Nicolas Cage movie "Con Air". The "US Marshal Service" painted on the tail was the tipoff.
wow interesting fact!
Thought so . . . But I don't remember that Volvo truck steering wheel in any of the cockpit scenes . . .
That was the 1st thing that came to my mind when I saw the US Marshall, I said that plane really looks familiar. Then I started talking to myself saying wasn't that the plane in that Nicholas cage movie .And then you post this and I go it was I knew it was.
And they were still flying when I was in the Air Force, 69 through 73. A lot of cargo capacity for a two engine propeller aircraft. Notice some of the pods on the wings, that were jet assist for takeoffs in short airfields. They were used Vietnam and, unfortunately for some of us, sprayed agent orange chemicals and other defoliants.
@@robertphillips93 The scenes that viewed the cockpit were probably dubbed in by replacing the steering wheel with the yoke when the need arose. Holliweird is
full of tricks like that.
The airplane was a C-123. In the cockpit, all of the instrumentation and controls were removed. For some reason, the steering wheel and a shifter, from a old truck, were installed in place of the original controls.
It was driven around like that in some movie scenes. I'm sure they had a cockpit set up (complete with the real "yoke") for the critical scenes.
The story we were told when we auto-crossed out there in the early 2000’s was that the Con Air prop/plane was a bus mocked up to look like a C-123.
Just a few quick comments,first of all HAPPY BIRTHDAY, secondly I really enjoy your videos,and as someone who also lived in GERMANY,I love how when you count on your fingers you do it "German style."
Happy Birth Day!
Like in inglorious bastards treys glasses the Brit forgot to use his thumb holding three fingers up ordering a bottle of vino SS Nazi officer caught it , trying to figure out his Bavarian accent, ✌️💪👍🇺🇸😸👍🖖🙏🤔
Noticed that myself. Never lived in Germany, but studied German in high school and college, and I subscribe to a couple of German language UA-cam channels. Cheers.
The first transcontinental telephone line was completed in Wendover in 1914. The Atomic bomber crews trained at the army air base there during WW2. Stuff happens in the middle of nowhere.
awesome info tnx!
My lounge musician friends always called Wendover "Bendover" because of the town's isolation and distance from Las Vegas.
The second I saw that plane....CON AIR!!!!!!! Awesome!!!!!
And I believe there is a pool at the airfield where Garland Green was hanging out.
I remember driving up on wendover while it was dark out, and seeing half the city lit up and the other half totally dark was so surreal!
Never lose that silliness Sara.
Amen to that!😉
Great video wonderhussy your looking great I enjoy all the videos keep the videos coming
Pretty close to my neck of the woods. I do my routine shopping in Wendover, 50 miles away, once a month or so. That cafe is the best place in town. It used to be on I80 just over the state line. Always packed. Showers are $14 at the Flying J.
PS: I get snowed in for at least a few weeks every winter. Four months, four days is the record so far. There are a couple gold mines nearby that pay pretty good wages.
I love doing road trip adventures and finding interesting places and cool stuff. Though I live in the Bay Area, I really enjoy the weirdness of Nevada. And its desolate beauty.
Desolate! Lol
Spent a week in Salt Lake City years ago getting my truck fixed. Soon as it got out of the shop we hauled ass across the salt flats to Wendover Nevada to gamble and drink comp beer at the Peppermill.
That was a WW2 Internment camp, not military barracks. You are the craziest entertaining UA-camr I’ve encountered
Of all places to maintain the Enola Gay, incredible what you find when you get off the bland highways and actually search out small town America. Thank you so much. I love your videos as you really do your research.
It is a dry desert and good for metal preservation
Actually the interstate runs right along side of
both Wendovers
The plane is on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, VA
The Enola Gay got it’s name just before the bombing raid on Hiroshima. Wendover Army Air Force Base was used by then Lt. Col. Tibbets (later, General Tibbets) to train the crews and develop the specialized bombing tactics necessary for the dropping of the A-bomb. It was chosen for it’s isolation, and proximity to suitable bombing ranges. They were there for several months before transferring to Tinian Island in the Pacific.
@@TKPorsche Enola Gay was named after Tibbets’s mother
Wendover is one of few spots on earth, where you can actually see the curveture of the earth with the naked eye, due to it's elevation above the desert floor.
Great video of Wendover never been their, heard about the base from WW2!!! Take Care and Stay Safe Wonderhussy!!!!!
There's a deep and clear freshwater spring near Wendover with fish in it. A nice place to swim if you have a snorkel and mask.
@ISeeDogs It's Blue Lake and they train scuba there. Shhhh don't tell the water authority
... Speaking of maintenance, keep that sweet ride of yours checked out...
Those "two" towns do get some ferocious blizzards in the winter.
You made me laugh so hard in the airplane and reminded me of Christopher Mcandles aka Super tramp, When he was on the bus behind the bus wheel talking to himself just like you were.
$65
Go home and get moved out of Las vegas and help your Sis get the new home squared away.
We live in a town close to the same sz of the town your in. Our house taxes just for schools are over $2000. A yr. We raised our kids and are disabled. We shouldn't have to pay that much!
@@kimbrundige6320 She's out & about because it's her job. I'd love to have a job like that! WH is amazing! So funny & entertaining. I sometimes check every day to see if she snuck one in & once in awhile she does. Keep up the good work Sarah Jane. We love you!
Alas, small Nevada border towns I have interest, but I was so caught up in your narration, I missed everything, got me again! 🥵
That spot on the shower floor that's taped.......Someone Really Dropped The Soap ! LoL !!!
I worked there hundreds of times, as a musician, since 1983. It’s quite unusual and has some amazing hiking above the town.
Many scenes from’Independence Day’ were filmed on the base there, as well as ‘Con Air’
@DS Private was that the plane she was touring?
@DS Private all working Nevada musicians had to occasionally ‘bend over’ for ‘Wendover…
Wendover is over 4,000 feet in elevation, so it DOES snow there in the winter, albeit generally not much because it is a desert so there usually isn’t much moisture.
Do you ever check the rooms for bed bugs…if you don’t you should. 😂
🎉🎈Happy 45th Birthday Wonderhussy...hope you celebrate well!! 🎈🎉
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Fine looking 45...............
I spent a horrible Labor Day Weekend ( my birthday) in West Wendover a few years ago when my truck ate its serpentine belt on I-80 30 miles west of town. I'd likely still be there if my friend hadn't driven the replacement parts out from Salt Lake.....
People living in an old church: shades of "Alice's Restaurant".😎
We have a bunch of old churches in our town that are apartments. One was even a home for people with disabilities.
Several different bomber groups trained at Wendover Army Air Field. Buildings were barracks for soilders. Wendover not on Japanese internment camp lists.
" Im just here to look at weird things"
😆💨
Captain Wonderhussy will be your bomber pilot today, que music 🎶 ✈🤣
Our Reno Corvette Club booked one of the two yearly tours of the base (limited to 40 people each) which lasted4.5 hours and toured the entire base. We go to go inside the Enola Gay Hanger (the are four private planes inside the from WWII days and the 1950"s including one of the original Blue Angels trainer jet. Had lunch at the officers club and toured all of the old buildings on the base including one of the ammunition bunkers and saw one of the pits used to load the atomic bomb into the B-29. Their museum is fascinating and worth a visit. Yes, the plane she went inside is the one used in the movie "Con Air" with Nicholas Cage.
Probably the longest car tour of Wendover ever.
camping and sightseeing with wonderhussy
The first time I drove through Wendover I was 19 and driving back to Minnesota after my Freshman year in college. I've loved the town and its character ever since.
I'm fascinated by the desert s/w as well.. I can't believe how cheap that room was.
I love oddball towns like this. Always have. I definitely prefer West Wendover. I like to gamble once in awhile
It's usually cheaper to stay at a casino hotel along with the gut busting buffets, or did that all end after the plandemic?
Wow...
I was in Wendover this past weekend. Stayed at the very same Motel6....room 105....paid $72....
I live in WY , and Wendover is actually the closest gambling town to me , other than small Indian casino in Riverton WY.
We go 5 times a year. We go down to Great Basin Nat Park for hiking. You can also take Wendover Blvd west , past Wendover Will up into the hills right outside town. Great hiking up there , and incredible views of the town , salt flats , etc.
Just on our way to Bendover area and points north. Hadn't seen the magic wonder Hussy for years. You still got it girl!!
My father contemplated buying Jackpot Nevada back in the day when the whole shebang was for sale.
Love you videos and commentary...I get to see the places that I missed, when trucking...due to meeting destination timelines...been tnrough this bordertown many times.
Trucker here. Took a lunch break at that Pilot she past at 16:50. It was the 4th of July. When I got in the store the employees gave me fair warning the town was going to shut down for a parade. I waited it out and watched the parade.
After parade was over, I waited about 10 minutes, however the fire truck at the end of parade was sitting in the middle of town and blasting water in the air. The parade crowd was loving it. So watch that for about 5 more minutes.
My father was a civilian scientist in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos NM (where I was born), but he was also went to Wendover Army Airfield to assist assembling inert practice A-bombs. In the 1960's, I asked him what Wendover was like, and all he said was "it was very windy and dusty". He would never ever talk about his A-bomb job duties and experiences.
interesting! code of silence till death
@@kevio6868 Yes, he took almost everything to his death in 1991. All I know is that he was on the team that developed and built the implosion detonators for "Fat Man" bombs.
@@janblake9468
that is so interesting thanks
You definitely have the gift of gab. I could to it all day. Lol
People from Salt Lake City come out to the casinos to party on the weekends. I stopped for a night driving between Breckenridge and North Tahoe and it was hoppin! Note: the casino rooms have very thin walls... :p
You really missed a cool experience by not going in the museum, it has a replica of the "Little Boy" bomb, the first used on Japan. Also if they are not busy at the FBO, "Fixed Base Operaton" next to the control tower, they would take you to see the pit where the bomb was loaded into a B-29. The C-123 is still there because during the making of" Con Air" a man was killed and the aircraft was needed for the law suit that followed. And lastly, this flightline is the only complete one in the United States, all the hangars are still in place from WW2.
Thanks for telling the rest of the story about the 'Con-Air' plane. I worked on that movie set as an EMT. Everyone forgets or just doesn't know about it.
Also the Chappel Apartments was originally the Church.
During the Military years there was over 40000 troops stationed here.
Another fun fact is no Brothels are allowed within 60 miles of the bordering states.
My favorite Wonderhussy vid.
Loving the Rowan and Martin’s Laugh in references very interesting 👍😎
Your sound effects are hilarious.
I visited the restored Enola Gay at Udvar Hazy in Dulles Va in June.
Thirty years ago I saw it in pieces prior to restoration at the Smithsonian Center in Suitland Maryland.
That would have been the Paul Garber facility. That is where storage and restoration is done. My father was a docent there. There was great debate as to restore the Enola Gay or not due to it's role in WW2. Glad it was finally restored and put on display.
Another fascinating video! Thanks again for all your hard work and dedication to these video reports! Please keep them coming!
I used to go to West Wendover all the time to play blackjack and had no idea how many things I have missed! I need to see the Enola Gay hangar next time. 😊
Just love your work!
Hi W-H! Watching your video of the old buildings at the end of this, one you thought might be barracks, looked familiar. Poked around the interwebs and those were probably internment cabins for Japanese-Americans during the war. Internment camps looked very similar across the U.S and Canada. Scary times…
I lived there for 5 years. It was a nice playground as a kid, glad we left. You can't beat Los Angeles, we have it all. Also it does snow there.
I can’t believe you were so close to my favorite spring and missed it
I always love these simple follow me around adventures... AND considering I live right off of I-80 I guess if drove straight on it I could EVENTUALLY check out Wendover and West Wendover myself( might take me a few days tho considering I live in NE OHIO Youngstown...off I-80. Still cool video and even Cooler recognizing the Con-Air plane immediately!!😉
2 full days tops 3 if doing sightseeing along the way.,👍✌️💪🙏🤔😸🇺🇸
You were soooo close to the dispensary. If you had just turned south on U.S. 93 off of Wendover Blvd you would have seen Deep Roots Harvest. As a Utahn, I know nothing about that.
lol!!
Someone told you about it.............
Marijuana is a gate way drug.
...just a rumour 😉
Same with church wine. In no time you're chugging back them cognacs.
Stayed in Wendover for a weird week back in the 80's. Definitely a vibe there. We camped in the campground that you drive by in West Wendover.
When i was a wee little one, many years ago, after having visited my Grandfather in the hospital before he passed, we headed for California to my Aunt's house and we broke down just over the border between Utah and Nevada (might have been between Nevada and California) and the only thing I remember is a huge statue of a cowboy waving! I was only around 3 years old by the way.
That was Wendover. Wendover Will was right on the line at State Line Casino. Casino is now The Nugget and Will has been moved about a mile west.
@@frankanzalone3836 Could be, as I was only around 3 and don't remember and I have no real way to confirm or deny either way.
@@mikecapps1603 The mechanical sign that used to wave is still in Wendover. Sits in middle of the main street. On a pedistal it is over 50 feet high. Next time thru you can see it.
@@frankanzalone3836 other places in Nevada have the cowboy. But you know that
Excellent overview. Though you should have gone into the museum there at the airfield. That was where bomber crews trained, including the initial training for the atomic bomb pilots. The Japanese started it at Pearl Harbor, we ended it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You also should have gone out to the Bonneville Salt Flats. I haven't stayed at a Motel 6 since I returned to my room one night only to find housekeeping inexplicably threw all my stuff away. Not the Wendover Motel 6. The locals refer to Wendover as Bendover due to the gambling losses.
Landed my plane at Wendover for fuel on my way from Oshkosh, WI back to Northern CA. You didn’t miss much in the museum.
Charlie Burton, you could came over my way in Wisconsin, we have a small airport in between Jefferson and Fort Atkinson, I could have used a small mini vacation in. California. Dang it Maybe next time..
Great stuff Sarah, have a toke for me dear. Love that red dress the other day. 😎👍
Red dress will make you do crazy things.
Really enjoying your tours of various towns
Down to earth, pretty, funny WH
I like Wendover, its nice to have a crack cocaine version of Vegas 90 minutes away. They have pretty decent comps at the casinos during the week.. free room and some money to play on, plus the restaurants in the casinos are surprisingly good! The " fine dining" ones not the buffets lol
I have fond memories there during speed week on the flats ")
' On the road again' Great video. Happy trails.
Don’t forget the state motto of Utah…..”UTAH……GATEWAY TO NEVADA’
We ll leave the light on for ya. The cockroaches hate bright places😅
hahaha!
I spent the night in Wendover Nevada at the Peppermill hotel and casino
They left the light on for ya👍🏻
I worked in a bikini bar and I made more money than my topless friends.
I bet you certainly did!
That's because they didn't look like you did in a bikini
Fun, as always... and... taco's ...so... I'm there... oh... and
kudo's to the musical score
You and your glasses kill me. lol
We just tried Salt Flats Diner. It was amazing. If you get back you should try it. We will be going there every rime we are in Wendover. Thank you for they suggestion. Way better than any Casino restaurant.
A polygamist rarely needs a brothel for variety😏
lol!!
Bendover Utah, city of the Damned. One time I drank too much Old Overholt there and puked all night then had to drive to Denver the next morning. I'll never go back
Bendover🤣🤣🤣
That’s too funny!!
Rye whisky
Methinks the root of your problems lie with the Old Overholt rather than Bendover Utah; (LOL).
@@badgerrrlattin35 I forgot to mention that I will never go back to the Old Overholt again either🤣
I think Wendover was also where Jimmy Dolittle trained to take off from an air craft carrier with a B 25.
" 30 seconds over Tokyo ".
Love'n this vlog. In the mid 90's I lived in Park City, UT. My ex husband and I would visit West Wendover a few times a month and visit the slots and tables.
I wonder if those housing units might have been for Japanese relocation in ww2
They trained pilots, couldn't run into a mountain with the salt flats
@@kevinmoore.7426 Not a relocation camp. Nearest one is in a suburb of Salt Lake City. Durring WW2 it was the largest Army( Army Air Force) base in the World. Most was just open space. Must have been 1000 sq. miles or larger.
@@frankanzalone3836 where she is at is only an hour or less from
slc
Just read about base almost 2 mill acres during wwll interesting history.
@@frankanzalone3836 in spring, that lake expands way west in wet years about a foot deep. Wendover is on a big hill. Those salt fats are flat in summer
Hey! Didn't you know that when you get to see a train's engine with engineer you're supposed to flash them by lifting up your shirt! True story
Hi - Really enjoy your videos and your sense of humour!
What a cool video thanks for letting me tag along I find you quite articulated and full of information that's it that's all I got till the next wonderhussy video bye-bye
SALT FLATS CAFE is a must!! It's a family-run place, so they probably had something going and closed early. You must must must go back and eat there. Chili verde burrito FTW.
I was passing thru there last year as well. Mine was for work. I tried Fratellis Pizza in West Wendover. Amazing!!
Glad to see you travelin along!
Great video. Been wanting to go to Bonneville for Speedweek. Anything about wendover is interesting. Thank you.