Extended family is from Liberal, Kansas - pheasants, antelope, coyotes, the most beautiful sunsets over the table of the great plains. I was born in Hays in ‘55, lived in St. Francis, Salina, Topeka and Manhattan. Such wonderful places to grow up… Kansas is a blessed land.
@@minajones1635 - That’s awesome. My mom and dad graduated from Liberal High School in 1952. I spent every summer in Liberal from 1959 to 1967. I loved that place.
I was born in Wichita and still living here. When I was younger, I remember thinking how much I'd love to move to a very big metro like Chicago or something, but now after all these years driving to those places and seeing the sights, I've noticed Wichita has a good balance of being big enough that you can generally do all the things you need and want to do, but small enough that heavy traffic is never really an inconvenience. The only slow-moving freeway traffic we get is a 3-mile stretch of US-54 going through downtown to the I-135 interchange at 5:30 on a weekday. Every now and then if we want to do something more than what Wichita has, Kansas City and Oklahoma City are only a couple hundred miles away. We can go there, do whatever and come back all in one day. I've really grown to like this city. Also, I share her aversion to John Denver created by torturous road trips.
Did you ever drive down Pawnee during rush hour? I lived near Harry and Webb Rd and worked over near the flea market. Former boyfriend drowned in the Arkansas River during River Fest. Oh and the tornado of 2012 hit my place so yeah…tornados are real and my grandmas name was Dorothy.
@poisonlady1965 Yes, I commonly drive down Pawnee during rush hour. I also lived near Harry and Webb when I was younger. The tornado of 2012 came within hundreds of feet to my house. We had a huge willow in our back yard lose a primary branch which took out a third of its canopy. Sorry to hear about your boyfriend.
Country roads, take me home to a place I belong, Newton Kansas, the Omega Auto Clinic! There’s a Wizard there that can fix anything, so country roads take me there (if I do not break down and need the car Wizard)!😂😂😂
LOL So many things I can relate to in this video!! Hello from NE Kansas! Funny thing, I just recently found Car Wizards channel, but did not know that he was Kansas based, until I found your channel! Both great channels, subbed to both. LOL The wind aspect cracked me up. My other channel is an outdoors channel, and have have had many video ruined by the wind on seemingly nice days. I have not been to Halstead, but do have an acquaintance from there. I have heard that it is a nice town. I say Kansas is only boring if a person is boring and only has limited interests and activities. Thanks for an awesome video!!
couple more youtube channels for you: westen champlin, watch jr go, hoovies garage, jojo snow. It would be great if UA-cam would have a way to search for channels from a specific state, etc
I’m from Newton too, born here and have lived here my whole life. I’m 17, soon to graduate high school. I love Newton and Kansas, which I find rare for kids in my town. I’ve always found it to be the prettiest town I’ve ever seen. I’ll be moving from here soon but I can’t wait to come back, great place to grow up. Just small enough to be quant, but big enough to have people you’ll be able to connect with
Halstead has a nice little pizza place downtown and a great system of parks down by the river. South of the town is a house which resembles nothing less than the Weasley's house from Harry Potter!
I loved growing up in the mountains of Colorado but I moved to the Newton area of Kansas 15 years ago and I am so in love with it. I plan to never leave.
I was born and raised in Boulder when it was a small college town that was dry. I don't consider it home anymore. I have no desire to ever go there again. I'm in Newton now and I like it.
my dear German grandmother's family moved from Germany to a Mennonite region of Kansas in 1913, and she learned to speak English without a trace of an accent due to the prevalent anti-German sentiments of that time..... I miss her and the beauty she brought to the world.....she once told me, "I know God doesn't want us to hate, and God please forgive me but I hated Hitler"
My Mom’s side of the family came from a very “Dutch” region of Kansas, and wherever else we were in the USA, every Christmas we would receive the most delicious Dutch cheeses and sausages…
Thank you for a peek in your family album, Mrs Wizard! As a EU citizen the only thing I know about Kansas is their great music as a band, from Song For America to Dust In The Wind. And Wichita Lineman by Glenn Campbell! I wish you many tentless vacations in the campervan! 😂
Lived in Coffeyville, KS for about 6 months as a kid, (1989 7th grade). We found out about the humidity during the summer lol. Packed up in the fall and moved back to Colorado. Lived here ever since. But we lived near the Verdigree river and I loved riding my 4-wheeler in that area, lot's of hills and beautiful trees! Great place for a kid to grow up for sure. Thank you for sharing your stories Mrs Wizard! 🙂
I drive my kids to every vacation. Last summer was 18 hours one way to Florida. When we get to our destination, my kids really appreciate getting out of the car. It’s all about the experience good and bad
We try to include museums or land marks but mostly focus on driving depends on time schedules. We have been fortunate to be able to spend time together on road trips.
I grew up in Manhattan, KS and have lived in Kansas all my life except for 2 years. Went to KSU in the 70s. My parents and grand and great grand parents all were life long Kansas people. People from out of state always ask me about Dorothy and ToTo...
@@GillMac666 I grew up in Manhattan and went to KSU(early 70's) and relocated to Wichita. Im almost a lifelong resident of Kansas except for 2 years out of state.
Thank you for sharing this. I understand the John Denver thing. My father was a big fan of Mitch Miller and when he started to buy vehicles with cassette or cd players in them, that is what I heard on road trips.
You’re very entertaining!! Grew up in west Wichita-dad transferred to Buffalo NY in 1973-showed my Kansas drivers license for ID to get into a bar-guy said “ hey-say hi to Dorothy for me!” Kids i worked with thought there were still cowboys and indians running around in Kansas. They used to ask me to say stuff -then laugh at my “accent” Good ole Kansas. One day, during a little league baseball game, the wind just stopped! All the outfielders fell over. 😊
Mrs Wizard, the wife and I love your vids! We are planning to move to near Witchita, she has fam there. I'm a Colorado native. Yes, GO COLORADO!! Haha! We are retired and plan to bring our 2021 Suby Crosstrek and our barely driven '07 Lexus RX350 for the Car Wizard to maintain! We plan to start a squirrel rehab sanctuary in our future backyard! Greg says Mr Wizard needs a "little squirrel in his shirt pocket like Bob Ross did" Lol! Viewers would enjoy that since Mr Wizard is so easy spoken. We enjoy your vids and keep it up! We will bring the "Rosstreck" only has 26k miles and its the daily driver, also will bring the '07 RX350- has 152k miles but only driven maybe 500 miles a year for the last 2 years. Greg is not a fan of the Crosstrek, he likes the Lexus more, smoother and more reliable. He was a mechanic back in the day.
Hi Mrs Wizard, thanks for the glimpse into your growing up in Kansas!!! I was born & raised in Southern California but I had family in Topeka so for many years I spent summers & some Christmas's in Kansas & I remember the people being so nice & friendly!!! 👍👍🙂
Hello from another Kansas girl, Wyandotte co, the hilly part. I'm a Ks/Mo border baby. I also grew up camping. However, it was a tent with an axle, a bare bones pop-up.
I was born and raised in Kansas, in lenexa. I gre up, just outsied of Olathe, then moved to Wichita when I was a teenager. I left to move to L.A. in my early 20's, the first thi g I did when I moved back from L.A. was get on I235, and just drove, because I hadn't been able to just drive without traffic jams. I now live in a suburb of Wichita. There's a lot about Kansas I can't stand. But, as I've gotten older, I appreciate a lot more about it. I had a studio apartment in Wichita when I was 19, for $350 a month, then I moved to L.A. and paid $1,200 a month for the same kind of studio apartment. Our 4 bedroom h[use costs us $550 in rent. You really can't beat that.
Hello, here wathcing In Portugal ! An ocean away, but pretty close memoryes here, as someone gron ip in the interior of the country . Its amazing the fluidity of your speech, and how much story you can tell per minute :)
Some similarities to my life in Kansas. In fact it was almost idyllic. Lived in Wichita but we were on the edge of town so to speak. Had enough room to have three horses. We were backed up the the Little Arkansas River which provided all kinds of hunting, camping, horseback riding, swimming, rafting and exploring the tree groves. I grew up in the 60’s and we were pretty much free to roam anywhere we wanted. My summers we comprised of riding motorcycles down on the river banks, that and swimming in the family pool. Every kid in the neighborhood was welcomed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There had to be at least twenty of us. Also in the summer months I would spend two weeks in grandpas cabin on Marion county lake. Swimming, sailing a little dingy and endless exploring. I wouldn’t trade my life back then for these kids lives today. To them it might be sports or playing a Nintendo Switch. Most of them don’t know a single soul on the same street they live on.
El Dorado checking in. Born and grew up there. I have a sister who was in Valley Center. Dad lives in Hutchinson. Currently in Aurora CO but still own a condo over near Harry and Webb Rd in Wichita. I miss nothing but my kids there but they’re adults.
That's been an interesting viewpoint. I grew up on a farm in the UK. I know about all hands on deck when theres something happening! We did plenty of camping trips usually not in summer holidays as farming was deemed OK to have a week off in September. At 15 we went on a family holiday and flew to jersey. Yes still in the UK. At 16 I got travelling and headed to Canada. To see more family. I've loved travelling ever since.
Living in the Topeka and Manhattan area, this is somewhat similar to what happened here. No uniforms for band, but that is probably due to time difference. Also, buying farmland here in north eastern Kansas, farmland is unfortunately fairly expensive…
Truly enjoyed your memories and pictures...growing up in Kansas sounds a lot like growing up in Indiana...maybe with the exception of race tracks ..big & small..Indiana has lots of those..yay !!
I can imagine this is representative of a "normal" childhood pretty far from my experience. It's very strange but I didn't even know how abnormal my childhood was until I was an adult for many years. Growing up in Chicago very very poor and then the suburbs but in a poor neighborhood, I experienced sexual abuse, constant bullying, fighting, financial struggles causing family arguments between parents and all before 6th grade. As a preteen and teen, more fighting and bullying, as the neighborhood got more populated, drugs became pervasive, I think this was when I started to smoke, and drink which became habitual at 12 or 13 along with smoking weed. As a teen I really became hooked on drugs, smoking weed everyday all day long as well as anything else I could get my hands on. Drug dealing, not only with other teens but with hardened adult criminals some of which were ex cons from prison who were in for some form of murder. I was involved in several high speed car chases, seen people get seriously hurt and hospitalized as well as myself with at least 3 trips to the trauma unit before I turned 18. I was on probation until age 18 for gun possession charges as I carried a handgun in high school and was eventually caught with it when I was in a rollover jeep crash that sent me to the head trauma unit Loyola in Chicago and my buddy shattered femur. I got kicked out of high school junior year and was sent to adult drug rehab at age 19 after I hit rock bottom. Afterwards I got completely sober, managed to quit smoking when I was 23, worked in just about every trade and eventually raised a family. I currently work 6 figure job and have two daughters with college degrees, divorced of course but successful nonetheless. My struggles never stopped however, been wiped out at least 3 times financially, crazy bad divorce, was robbed and had to buy back every tool I had and go into debt. So, couldn't be further from your upbringing but how different was the end results?
I moved to Kansas Jan 1 1976 from overseas to go to college, KU. 48 years later and I am still here LOL, moved around the metro Kansas City area few times but generally in the same area. I lived in Nebraska for 10 years then moved back. There's nothing like home LOL. I wouldn't want to live in any other state really. Only thing I hate is the humidity.
John Denver has many Kansas connections though. I could list them or you could do a search. His uncle lived in Newton etc. I play his music when traveling to Colorado and I'm "only" 62.
Got to visit Wichita and SC Kansas in 2017, had to visit Pratt and the areas from Augusta down to Ark City, Wellington & Winfield for work. The town itself has a lot of interesting museums to go to like the Sedgwick Zoo and stuff around Old Town. I was lucky in that Automobilia was happening that weekend I was there, so as a car guy that was a cherry on top of the cake for my time...too bad Hoovie and the rest of the mafia weren't widely known at that time until ya'll put Kansas on the map.
Did you guys know Jess Hoover??? He lived in Carthage Missouri. He Owned the largest independently owned dairy business in all of the four states in the 70's, and 80's. That's even when Hiland dairy was in Kansas independently owned
Grew up in and around NYC, along the way i lived in Florida (in the 90's, Florida was way different then) and eastern Quebec and now I'm back in NYC. Was at ground zero on 9/11 and back on 9/12, super storm sandy, blizzards. crazy stuff. The cool thing about living in a city of many millions is that no one is nosy and you are free to be who or whatever you want. I feel same about John Denver, my dad would play that when we would go on trips upstate, i also HATE Billy Joel. Its cool to hear peoples stories about where they are from.
Jenny, thanks for the insight into your childhood. I grew up in one of the major UK cities in the north of England. I was the eldest of 3 boys. My parents didn't drive so we had to use public transport. My dad (May he rest in peace. He died from lung cancer in 2017 at the age of 69) worked long hours in a wool combing plant to provide for us all. My mum subsequently became a primary school teacher and is now living a comfortable and active retirement. My parents loved prog rock (Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd) but most of the music I listented to was the chart music of the day and Top of the Pops was on the TV every week (essential Thursday night viewing). In the UK a band knew they'd "made it" if they appeared on TOTP. I now live in a neighbouring town about 10 miles from where I was born and spent most of my life.
The most important thing to know about Kansas and the general Midwest is that convertibles make Zero sense. The humidity defeats the purpose of a convertible.
I was born in Ellinwood, Ks but moved to Liberal in 1976. I graduated High School there but married and moved to Oklahoma in 1991. I will always consider myself a proud Kansan! 😊
My dad grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in possum holler I believe that south of Wichita somewhere he grew up on his uncle and aunts farm with his older sister during the depression and his uncle was an alcoholic that lived life in the bar and my dad did most of the farm work with the horses And when my dad was in high school, he told the professor that he knew more than he did and he was kicked out of high school so he had to go back to live with his mother and a stepfather and Casper Wyoming and then he eventually wound up scouting the roads of Californiain a jeep being called up to active duty the day after Pearl Harbor. I also for the first few months of my marriage back in 1985 live with my dad‘s sister and her husband in Wichita for a couple months. We both got a job but we then we got home sick and came back to Michigan shortly there after and been here ever since, but it was hot.
Fascinating story! I grew up in Sweden. I think we're about the same age, I might be slightly older having passed the big 5-0 but we share the 80's and 90's. I also grew up on a farm-ish. We were a socialist country but pretty soft - we had Star Trek and the Muppets on national TV. Music was free so we listened to The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen and whatever was on the Billboard list.
Well I never been to Kansas seems interesting I have seen some UA-camrs that are from that area of witchita like Tanner braungardt and watch Jr go and hoovies garage. I live in new Mexico which is next to Arizona let me tell you if you came here you won't believe the amount of crime and murders we have here other dumb stuff that happens here but I guess here in new Mexico we got the green chili and red chili other different stuff. Sometimes yes its nice but idk I wanna explore other areas cause the things here to do don't seem like much some people are just rude whatever oh geez yeah.
Is it true it smells of cows everywhere you go in Kansas? I had a classmate with family there, she didn't like visiting because of that lol but that stereotype aside Kansas seem like a very friendly, close knit and down to earth type of place.
I was born and raised in Kansas but now the age of 63 I have to sell my house because the real estate taxes and the sales tax are one of the highest in America.. we have a corrupt governor Kelly who’s setting on $9 billion of excess money just trying to figure out how to spend it meanwhile she has vetoed three tax breaks
You can thank Sam Brownback for opening the door for Kelly to become governor. Both Dems and Republicans were disgusted with him and now you see what we got out of it.
@ he is way better than Kelly, schools were not closed under brownback, everything was funded, just wasn’t Setting on an extra eight - 9 billion in one little state
Thise yellow green storm clouds are the worst. You KNOW its going to be bad. I have seen \ been in 3 tornadoes and they all started out very still with those yellow green clouds.
I'm born and raised in Wichita and it sucks all around. I lived in Austin Tx for 5 years and coming back to KS is such a shock. Coming from a 2.5M+ metro area to basically a dud is shocking. All the stuff I saw there is a brand new thing here. Or its coming in a year or so. Top Golf has been a thing forever, and seeing people in Wichita freak out about it is crazy. This city feels 10 years behind everything. Trends here are things that were popular years ago.
Camping: sleeping on rocks in the cold, hauling it in the freezing cold and the pitch black to the spider-filled wooden shack with soggy tp everywhere, squatting over a filthy and crusty hole that stinks of something unimaginable, and hoping to not get eaten by the nearby mommy cougar of a litter of cougar kittens.
I love the smell of cows , I miss it. Your property would be called a “ small holding” in the U.K. . Big enough to have a few animals but you need a day job to survive.
I live in the Tn mountains now but grew up in western Ohio. Its as flat as Kansas and has the best blackest soil I have ever seen. It was carried down by the glaciers. John denver died in a plane crash years and years ago.
I was born in central Kansas in the mid 1950’s. I escaped when I was 21 and moved to another state. I hated Kansas. I saw so many instances of blatant discrimination. I found that generally the people are extremely clannish. They don’t like anything or anyone they deem as different. They want everyone to all dress alike and think alike. If you happen to express new and interesting ideas you are doomed. I still have a few relatives that live in Kansas but I refuse to go visit them. I will never ever step foot again in that horrid place. The best one word description for Kansas is “bleak”.
Extended family is from Liberal, Kansas - pheasants, antelope, coyotes, the most beautiful sunsets over the table of the great plains. I was born in Hays in ‘55, lived in St. Francis, Salina, Topeka and Manhattan. Such wonderful places to grow up… Kansas is a blessed land.
I lived in Liberal from ‘76, graduated Liberal High School, but married and moved to Oklahoma in ‘91. Great memories! 😊
@@minajones1635 - That’s awesome. My mom and dad graduated from Liberal High School in 1952. I spent every summer in Liberal from 1959 to 1967. I loved that place.
I was born in Wichita and still living here. When I was younger, I remember thinking how much I'd love to move to a very big metro like Chicago or something, but now after all these years driving to those places and seeing the sights, I've noticed Wichita has a good balance of being big enough that you can generally do all the things you need and want to do, but small enough that heavy traffic is never really an inconvenience. The only slow-moving freeway traffic we get is a 3-mile stretch of US-54 going through downtown to the I-135 interchange at 5:30 on a weekday. Every now and then if we want to do something more than what Wichita has, Kansas City and Oklahoma City are only a couple hundred miles away. We can go there, do whatever and come back all in one day. I've really grown to like this city.
Also, I share her aversion to John Denver created by torturous road trips.
I'm here in Wichita also. Born and raised! ❤
Did you ever drive down Pawnee during rush hour? I lived near Harry and Webb Rd and worked over near the flea market. Former boyfriend drowned in the Arkansas River during River Fest. Oh and the tornado of 2012 hit my place so yeah…tornados are real and my grandmas name was Dorothy.
@poisonlady1965 Yes, I commonly drive down Pawnee during rush hour. I also lived near Harry and Webb when I was younger. The tornado of 2012 came within hundreds of feet to my house. We had a huge willow in our back yard lose a primary branch which took out a third of its canopy. Sorry to hear about your boyfriend.
Country roads, take me home to a place I belong, Newton Kansas, the Omega Auto Clinic! There’s a Wizard there that can fix anything, so country roads take me there (if I do not break down and need the car Wizard)!😂😂😂
LOL So many things I can relate to in this video!! Hello from NE Kansas! Funny thing, I just recently found Car Wizards channel, but did not know that he was Kansas based, until I found your channel! Both great channels, subbed to both. LOL The wind aspect cracked me up. My other channel is an outdoors channel, and have have had many video ruined by the wind on seemingly nice days. I have not been to Halstead, but do have an acquaintance from there. I have heard that it is a nice town. I say Kansas is only boring if a person is boring and only has limited interests and activities. Thanks for an awesome video!!
couple more youtube channels for you: westen champlin, watch jr go, hoovies garage, jojo snow. It would be great if UA-cam would have a way to search for channels from a specific state, etc
I’m from Newton too, born here and have lived here my whole life. I’m 17, soon to graduate high school. I love Newton and Kansas, which I find rare for kids in my town. I’ve always found it to be the prettiest town I’ve ever seen. I’ll be moving from here soon but I can’t wait to come back, great place to grow up. Just small enough to be quant, but big enough to have people you’ll be able to connect with
Halstead has a nice little pizza place downtown and a great system of parks down by the river. South of the town is a house which resembles nothing less than the Weasley's house from Harry Potter!
I'm amazed how much you can talk so effortlessly 😊
I loved growing up in the mountains of Colorado but I moved to the Newton area of Kansas 15 years ago and I am so in love with it. I plan to never leave.
I was born and raised in Boulder when it was a small college town that was dry. I don't consider it home anymore. I have no desire to ever go there again. I'm in Newton now and I like it.
We traveled from Florida to Kansas for our vacation last year. Stayed in a lakeside cabin at Tuttle creek state park. Lov3d it.
We traveled from Kansas to Panama city for many years and camped at Saint Andrew’s state park.
my dear German grandmother's family moved from Germany to a Mennonite region of Kansas in 1913, and she learned to speak English without a trace of an accent due to the prevalent anti-German sentiments of that time..... I miss her and the beauty she brought to the world.....she once told me, "I know God doesn't want us to hate, and God please forgive me but I hated Hitler"
My family immigrated from Poland and landed in Greensburg Kansas.
My Mom’s side of the family came from a very “Dutch” region of Kansas, and wherever else we were in the USA, every Christmas we would receive the most delicious Dutch cheeses and sausages…
Thank you for a peek in your family album, Mrs Wizard!
As a EU citizen the only thing I know about Kansas is their great music as a band, from Song For America to Dust In The Wind.
And Wichita Lineman by Glenn Campbell!
I wish you many tentless vacations in the campervan! 😂
You're from the Estados Unidos? LOL
Lived in Coffeyville, KS for about 6 months as a kid, (1989 7th grade). We found out about the humidity during the summer lol. Packed up in the fall and moved back to Colorado. Lived here ever since. But we lived near the Verdigree river and I loved riding my 4-wheeler in that area, lot's of hills and beautiful trees! Great place for a kid to grow up for sure. Thank you for sharing your stories Mrs Wizard! 🙂
If you think Kansas is bad in humidity, move to Texas or Florida.
@@jamesrobert782 Right! I'd agree with that👍🏻
Grew up in Chanute. That's why I love watching you guys. Moved to Texas 30 years ago. Retired now at 77.
I grew up in the Texas!
You are awesome!
Love the stories 😊
I drive my kids to every vacation. Last summer was 18 hours one way to Florida. When we get to our destination, my kids really appreciate getting out of the car. It’s all about the experience good and bad
Do you see cool stuff along the way like national parks or art museums. Or focusing on driving only?
We try to include museums or land marks but mostly focus on driving depends on time schedules. We have been fortunate to be able to spend time together on road trips.
I grew up in Manhattan, KS and have lived in
Kansas all my life except for 2 years. Went to KSU in the 70s. My parents and grand and great grand parents all were life long Kansas people. People from out of state always ask me about Dorothy and ToTo...
@@billbrown6889 - My dad taught journalism at KSU until 1970. Wonderful place.
@@GillMac666 I grew up in Manhattan and went to KSU(early 70's) and relocated to Wichita. Im almost a lifelong resident of Kansas except for 2 years out of state.
@@GillMac666 he probably knew my uncle Delbert Staab in Radio/TV.
My mom is from western Kansas and doesn’t like to talk about her childhood, so I enjoyed this video.
Thank you for sharing this. I understand the John Denver thing. My father was a big fan of Mitch Miller and when he started to buy vehicles with cassette or cd players in them, that is what I heard on road trips.
You’re very entertaining!!
Grew up in west Wichita-dad transferred to Buffalo NY in 1973-showed my Kansas drivers license for ID to get into a bar-guy said “ hey-say hi to Dorothy for me!” Kids i worked with thought there were still cowboys and indians running around in Kansas. They used to ask me to say stuff -then laugh at my “accent” Good ole Kansas. One day, during a little league baseball game, the wind just stopped! All the outfielders fell over. 😊
Loved the video! Really interesting to get to know where your roots are!
Kansas Rules!!!
Mrs Wizard, the wife and I love your vids! We are planning to move to near Witchita, she has fam there. I'm a Colorado native. Yes, GO COLORADO!! Haha! We are retired and plan to bring our 2021 Suby Crosstrek and our barely driven '07 Lexus RX350 for the Car Wizard to maintain! We plan to start a squirrel rehab sanctuary in our future backyard! Greg says Mr Wizard needs a "little squirrel in his shirt pocket like Bob Ross did" Lol! Viewers would enjoy that since Mr Wizard is so easy spoken. We enjoy your vids and keep it up! We will bring the "Rosstreck" only has 26k miles and its the daily driver, also will bring the '07 RX350- has 152k miles but only driven maybe 500 miles a year for the last 2 years. Greg is not a fan of the Crosstrek, he likes the Lexus more, smoother and more reliable. He was a mechanic back in the day.
fellow Wild Prairie Child here! 🐃🌾😎🌈🌪
Hi Mrs Wizard, thanks for the glimpse into your growing up in Kansas!!! I was born & raised in Southern California but I had family in Topeka so for many years I spent summers & some Christmas's in Kansas & I remember the people being so nice & friendly!!! 👍👍🙂
Hello from another Kansas girl, Wyandotte co, the hilly part. I'm a Ks/Mo border baby. I also grew up camping. However, it was a tent with an axle, a bare bones pop-up.
I was born and raised in Kansas, in lenexa. I gre up, just outsied of Olathe, then moved to Wichita when I was a teenager. I left to move to L.A. in my early 20's, the first thi g I did when I moved back from L.A. was get on I235, and just drove, because I hadn't been able to just drive without traffic jams. I now live in a suburb of Wichita. There's a lot about Kansas I can't stand. But, as I've gotten older, I appreciate a lot more about it. I had a studio apartment in Wichita when I was 19, for $350 a month, then I moved to L.A. and paid $1,200 a month for the same kind of studio apartment. Our 4 bedroom h[use costs us $550 in rent. You really can't beat that.
Hello, here wathcing In Portugal ! An ocean away, but pretty close memoryes here, as someone gron ip in the interior of the country . Its amazing the fluidity of your speech, and how much story you can tell per minute :)
Very accurate. I’m 67. Moved here from Missouri when I was 12 in 1968. We traveled all over the USA and Canada by car and camper. 😊
We almost moved to Newton but we chose clay center, we love Kansas. I grew up in Washington State and moved here in 2019. ❤❤❤
It was Mt. Saint Helen's that erupted in 1980, not Mt. Ranier. 😊
Some similarities to my life in Kansas. In fact it was almost idyllic. Lived in Wichita but we were on the edge of town so to speak. Had enough room to have three horses. We were backed up the the Little Arkansas River which provided all kinds of hunting, camping, horseback riding, swimming, rafting and exploring the tree groves. I grew up in the 60’s and we were pretty much free to roam anywhere we wanted. My summers we comprised of riding motorcycles down on the river banks, that and swimming in the family pool. Every kid in the neighborhood was welcomed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There had to be at least twenty of us. Also in the summer months I would spend two weeks in grandpas cabin on Marion county lake. Swimming, sailing a little dingy and endless exploring. I wouldn’t trade my life back then for these kids lives today. To them it might be sports or playing a Nintendo Switch. Most of them don’t know a single soul on the same street they live on.
El Dorado checking in. Born and grew up there. I have a sister who was in Valley Center. Dad lives in Hutchinson. Currently in Aurora CO but still own a condo over near Harry and Webb Rd in Wichita. I miss nothing but my kids there but they’re adults.
I loved listening to you talk on this video, it made my day
That's been an interesting viewpoint. I grew up on a farm in the UK.
I know about all hands on deck when theres something happening! We did plenty of camping trips usually not in summer holidays as farming was deemed OK to have a week off in September.
At 15 we went on a family holiday and flew to jersey. Yes still in the UK.
At 16 I got travelling and headed to Canada. To see more family. I've loved travelling ever since.
Living in the Topeka and Manhattan area, this is somewhat similar to what happened here. No uniforms for band, but that is probably due to time difference. Also, buying farmland here in north eastern Kansas, farmland is unfortunately fairly expensive…
Mt. Ranier erupted? Maybe Mt. St Helen's.
Truly enjoyed your memories and pictures...growing up in Kansas sounds a lot like growing up in Indiana...maybe with the exception of race tracks ..big & small..Indiana has lots of those..yay !!
I love finding fellow Kansans on UA-cam
I didn’t realize you were from Halstead. I went to church in Halstead and had many friends in Halstead.
Last eruption of Mt Rainer was about 1450. Think you might be talking about Mt Saint Helens which erupted in 1980.
I can imagine this is representative of a "normal" childhood pretty far from my experience. It's very strange but I didn't even know how abnormal my childhood was until I was an adult for many years. Growing up in Chicago very very poor and then the suburbs but in a poor neighborhood, I experienced sexual abuse, constant bullying, fighting, financial struggles causing family arguments between parents and all before 6th grade. As a preteen and teen, more fighting and bullying, as the neighborhood got more populated, drugs became pervasive, I think this was when I started to smoke, and drink which became habitual at 12 or 13 along with smoking weed. As a teen I really became hooked on drugs, smoking weed everyday all day long as well as anything else I could get my hands on. Drug dealing, not only with other teens but with hardened adult criminals some of which were ex cons from prison who were in for some form of murder. I was involved in several high speed car chases, seen people get seriously hurt and hospitalized as well as myself with at least 3 trips to the trauma unit before I turned 18. I was on probation until age 18 for gun possession charges as I carried a handgun in high school and was eventually caught with it when I was in a rollover jeep crash that sent me to the head trauma unit Loyola in Chicago and my buddy shattered femur. I got kicked out of high school junior year and was sent to adult drug rehab at age 19 after I hit rock bottom. Afterwards I got completely sober, managed to quit smoking when I was 23, worked in just about every trade and eventually raised a family. I currently work 6 figure job and have two daughters with college degrees, divorced of course but successful nonetheless. My struggles never stopped however, been wiped out at least 3 times financially, crazy bad divorce, was robbed and had to buy back every tool I had and go into debt. So, couldn't be further from your upbringing but how different was the end results?
I moved to Kansas Jan 1 1976 from overseas to go to college, KU. 48 years later and I am still here LOL, moved around the metro Kansas City area few times but generally in the same area. I lived in Nebraska for 10 years then moved back. There's nothing like home LOL. I wouldn't want to live in any other state really. Only thing I hate is the humidity.
and the allergens that stick around due to that humidity!
John Denver has many Kansas connections though. I could list them or you could do a search. His uncle lived in Newton etc. I play his music when traveling to Colorado and I'm "only" 62.
Jenny you are a gifted conversation alist. Very much enjoy Mrs Wizards ways
My grandfather had a farm in south west Illinois and he had cows, pigs chickens and I would help him in the summer time
Got to visit Wichita and SC Kansas in 2017, had to visit Pratt and the areas from Augusta down to Ark City, Wellington & Winfield for work. The town itself has a lot of interesting museums to go to like the Sedgwick Zoo and stuff around Old Town. I was lucky in that Automobilia was happening that weekend I was there, so as a car guy that was a cherry on top of the cake for my time...too bad Hoovie and the rest of the mafia weren't widely known at that time until ya'll put Kansas on the map.
Did you guys know Jess Hoover??? He lived in Carthage Missouri. He Owned the largest independently owned dairy business in all of the four states in the 70's, and 80's. That's even when Hiland dairy was in Kansas independently owned
Grew up in and around NYC, along the way i lived in Florida (in the 90's, Florida was way different then) and eastern Quebec and now I'm back in NYC. Was at ground zero on 9/11 and back on 9/12, super storm sandy, blizzards. crazy stuff. The cool thing about living in a city of many millions is that no one is nosy and you are free to be who or whatever you want. I feel same about John Denver, my dad would play that when we would go on trips upstate, i also HATE Billy Joel. Its cool to hear peoples stories about where they are from.
Jenny, thanks for the insight into your childhood. I grew up in one of the major UK cities in the north of England. I was the eldest of 3 boys. My parents didn't drive so we had to use public transport. My dad (May he rest in peace. He died from lung cancer in 2017 at the age of 69) worked long hours in a wool combing plant to provide for us all. My mum subsequently became a primary school teacher and is now living a comfortable and active retirement. My parents loved prog rock (Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd) but most of the music I listented to was the chart music of the day and Top of the Pops was on the TV every week (essential Thursday night viewing). In the UK a band knew they'd "made it" if they appeared on TOTP. I now live in a neighbouring town about 10 miles from where I was born and spent most of my life.
The most important thing to know about Kansas and the general Midwest is that convertibles make Zero sense. The humidity defeats the purpose of a convertible.
I was born in Ellinwood, Ks but moved to Liberal in 1976. I graduated High School there but married and moved to Oklahoma in 1991. I will always consider myself a proud Kansan! 😊
The difference between you and Mr. Wizard is funny. He is like a deer in headlights, especially in the early hoovie videos lol.
I love your videos..its like a pleasant visit with a friend
"...too the place, I belong. WEST VIRGINIA!!!"
You've been a great crowd, I'll see myself out. 😂
Love your videos
"All most heaven, West Virginia...."
You are so cool :) Wish we had more of you in the would...
My dad grew up in the 1920s and 1930s in possum holler I believe that south of Wichita somewhere he grew up on his uncle and aunts farm with his older sister during the depression and his uncle was an alcoholic that lived life in the bar and my dad did most of the farm work with the horses And when my dad was in high school, he told the professor that he knew more than he did and he was kicked out of high school so he had to go back to live with his mother and a stepfather and Casper Wyoming and then he eventually wound up scouting the roads of Californiain a jeep being called up to active duty the day after Pearl Harbor. I also for the first few months of my marriage back in 1985 live with my dad‘s sister and her husband in Wichita for a couple months. We both got a job but we then we got home sick and came back to Michigan shortly there after and been here ever since, but it was hot.
We took vacations every year, but we went to my grandparents house and Six Flags
I had a similar experience living in the Texas.
Sounds like great memories.
back then u could go on vacations like that... gas was cheap and stuff wasn't expensive like it is now
ROCK CHALK JAYHAWKS
Fascinating story! I grew up in Sweden. I think we're about the same age, I might be slightly older having passed the big 5-0 but we share the 80's and 90's. I also grew up on a farm-ish. We were a socialist country but pretty soft - we had Star Trek and the Muppets on national TV. Music was free so we listened to The Ramones, Bruce Springsteen and whatever was on the Billboard list.
Grew up in Sedgwick Kansas.
A friend of mine is a cop there.
Mrs Wizard could you ever speak on your skin on the left side like around your shoulder was there an accident burn or birth mark?
How old was your great great grandma when she passed? I bet she could have told some amazing things she was able to experience in her life.
Sounds very much like my growing up in MN. Just add a lutefisk supper or two.
who wow what,cools best vid i have ever seen .wow. wow.
I know where Halstead is. I’m from Hillsboro.
Well I never been to Kansas seems interesting I have seen some UA-camrs that are from that area of witchita like Tanner braungardt and watch Jr go and hoovies garage. I live in new Mexico which is next to Arizona let me tell you if you came here you won't believe the amount of crime and murders we have here other dumb stuff that happens here but I guess here in new Mexico we got the green chili and red chili other different stuff. Sometimes yes its nice but idk I wanna explore other areas cause the things here to do don't seem like much some people are just rude whatever oh geez yeah.
😎 cool
Is it true it smells of cows everywhere you go in Kansas? I had a classmate with family there, she didn't like visiting because of that lol but that stereotype aside Kansas seem like a very friendly, close knit and down to earth type of place.
I was born and raised in Kansas but now the age of 63 I have to sell my house because the real estate taxes and the sales tax are one of the highest in America.. we have a corrupt governor Kelly who’s setting on $9 billion of excess money just trying to figure out how to spend it meanwhile she has vetoed three tax breaks
You can thank Sam Brownback for opening the door for Kelly to become governor. Both Dems and Republicans were disgusted with him and now you see what we got out of it.
@ he is way better than Kelly, schools were not closed under brownback, everything was funded, just wasn’t Setting on an extra eight - 9 billion in one little state
You're just as beautiful as Glinda, the good witch 😊
You can get anywhere in Wichita in 25 minutes.
You didn't talk about your mother. I lost both my parents in a car accident. It always hurts.
Wichita girl born and raised!
Hi neighbor! I live in northwest Missouri.
I'd love to drive to vacation spots.
I love driving through Kansas except for Kansas city
Thise yellow green storm clouds are the worst. You KNOW its going to be bad. I have seen \ been in 3 tornadoes and they all started out very still with those yellow green clouds.
I'm born and raised in Wichita and it sucks all around. I lived in Austin Tx for 5 years and coming back to KS is such a shock.
Coming from a 2.5M+ metro area to basically a dud is shocking. All the stuff I saw there is a brand new thing here. Or its coming in a year or so. Top Golf has been a thing forever, and seeing people in Wichita freak out about it is crazy.
This city feels 10 years behind everything. Trends here are things that were popular years ago.
Hello from Salina
Is it true Kansas Land was baséd upon a Cricket Pitch Measurements ¿¿¿¿
Newton
Three words: Fried bologna sandwiches.
Camping: sleeping on rocks in the cold, hauling it in the freezing cold and the pitch black to the spider-filled wooden shack with soggy tp everywhere, squatting over a filthy and crusty hole that stinks of something unimaginable, and hoping to not get eaten by the nearby mommy cougar of a litter of cougar kittens.
I love the smell of cows , I miss it.
Your property would be called a “ small holding” in the U.K. . Big enough to have a few animals but you need a day job to survive.
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Growning up? Is it that bad?
I live in northern Illinois and I love country music and rock. I never liked Rap music. I liked John Denver
I live in the Tn mountains now but grew up in western Ohio. Its as flat as Kansas and has the best blackest soil I have ever seen. It was carried down by the glaciers.
John denver died in a plane crash years and years ago.
Another Kansas myth , maybe? Has the highest per capita auto youtubers per square mile? 😊😊😊
I think Kyle 1320 is Kansas too.
I just figured I couldn’t relate cause you’re married to a rich internet star 🤣
Somebody loved you a lot.
Life is only boring if youre trapped in the city where all there is to do is spend money.
I have family in Kansas. It's flat
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I was born in central Kansas in the mid 1950’s. I escaped when I was 21 and moved to another state. I hated Kansas. I saw so many instances of blatant discrimination. I found that generally the people are extremely clannish. They don’t like anything or anyone they deem as different. They want everyone to all dress alike and think alike. If you happen to express new and interesting ideas you are doomed. I still have a few relatives that live in Kansas but I refuse to go visit them. I will never ever step foot again in that horrid place. The best one word description for Kansas is “bleak”.
Your outlook is "bleak" because you're a malcontent no matter where you live.