Whenever you go between towns that are strictly farms and the next town is strictly ranches with cows, it always reminds me of that song from the musical "Oklahoma" "Oh the farmers and the cowmen should be friends." And so now I have that song rent free playing in my head.
What picturesque vistas you capture in your videos! Of particular interest, note the beautiful blue skies and vast prairies! So quiet and peaceful! You won't get this in the city.
The business in Straight is a natural gas compressor station. It is used to pump natural gas through the pipeline. They are set up at regular intervals along the pipeline.
You are correct about Midway being off on the map. The lone elevator you seen IS Midway. I grew up in Hooker and moved around a bit in my 20's. Now I'm back and it's honestly the best place to live!! The people here are like no other! ❤️
Another wonderful day in Texas County! As well as another wonderful trip with the Wiseguy. I think we could definitely say this is part of the plains. Ready for the next installation!
Always interesting. I wouldn't want to live in such a dry, dusty place. I give those who do a lot of credit! Thanks so much for the trip. You sure find some lonesome places!
Good video as usual. Hovey reminds me of Ray City, Oklahoma. There was an oil boom town there in the 1930s. Ray City had a church, school, and some stores. My grandfather was on the school board and was involved in some kind of lawsuit because of it. Now all that is left is a bare place on the land due to salt water spillage (long ago) and a metal sign put up by a landowner. Even the "Danger H2S may be present" sign is appropriate. There are several oil wells still in the area and they reek of H2S.
Hey Coach Nice trip. Good still photos. Regarding the play machines, Good tick and snake free stone bed, along with an excellent drive axle placement pleasing aesthetics and so on for machine #1, alas, a splinter factor doth rear it's ungainly skull, so we find it a challenge to rate such higher than 8.8 . As for apparently well constructed second contrivance, This is a cool weather machine for the reason you stated, although we marvel @ the sturdy build quality. After crunching the numbers, we arrive @ a strong 8.0 rating overall, with a heavy cloud rating somewhere approaching 8.8. The grassy base surface, says bug or worse as a possible factor to be considered. Happy Motoring.
To say some of those places are isolated is not an understatement.. you would see so few people that must be pretty mentally tough to work in places like that? I couldn’t do it…
Just watched the video. No Man's Land is quite the territory. The story of the massacre was sure interesting and the fact no one had any jurisdiction over that part of the country. You could literally get away with murder and not be punished. Crazy, but kind of funny. You sure had to be tough to live there back then. Keep up the good work. So interesting.
Read the excellent book “The Worst Hard Time” regarding the days of The Dust Bowl. If you think today’s world is challenging, this will put our ‘first-world’ problems into proper perspective.
Hé Wiseguy!...😀 could you slow down a bit the picture switching? sometimes it goes so fast that I can't really enjoy it and pausing it every 2 seconds is a bit to much.
Shoutout to my brother, he is the mayor of Optima. He got a grant to restore the old bank building, it will be the new town hall when it is finished. I can't wait till you see Optima Dam, I still laugh when I think about it.
Beware of those High Plains grasshoppers, especially during droughts. I've made the mistake of stepping out of vehicles unaware that they were lying in wait for some unsuspecting traveler to make himself available for their entertainment. It's scary how quickly you can find yourself covered in them, with no easy way to shake them off. The part about the massacre is pretty creepy, but not unheard of in those days. Thanks for another great video Coach.
This was a nice video / it is interesting how the panhandle is different from the rest of Oklahoma / I live in Tulsa in the east part of Oklahoma with the Ozark mountains in Northeast Oklahoma and the Ouachita, Kiamichi Mountains in Southeast Oklahoma and zillions of trees
Speaking of your Google maps, I noticed that you haven't done a single video in Saline county. I know Salina is too big but there are several small towns.
Straight at one time had 50 families living there, 1940’s to 1990’s. The bread winner of the family was employed with Cities Service Natural Gas Company working at either compressor plant or the pipeline division. In the early 70’s my dad was the Superintendent of the pipeline. Cities Service was bought out by Williams Natural Gas Company in the 90’s. Not sure who owns this energy supplier now. We moved to Straight my Junior year of high school in 1972. However, many of my summers were spent there since my maternal grandparents resided there since the late 1950’s. High school age kids there had the option of going to either Hooker or Guymon High School. I chose Guymon, graduating in 1973 and then off to the Navy for 27-year career and to see the world. Two of my siblings graduated from Hooker HS. Straight has a lot of good history and memories for me.
When you did the drone shot in Straight. It look like the majority of the town was across from the school. Awesome video. By the way the railroad that ran through Guymon is the southwest mainline of the Rock Island Railroad that use to go through Horton Kansas. Thanks for sharing. 😊
STraight is a gas compressor station and long time ago they had a bunch of houses for workers but they abandoned the houses and a lot of the houses were moved to guymon
A level 10 (on them both) for me. You rarely see 2 Merry-go-Rounds spin that easy/and that long. Nice video. We lived in Oklahoma (Enid and Woodward) and never knew anything was in the panhandle. Be good, be safe !!
Golly John, Optima in Texas County Oklahoma was cool. I just knew it the minute I saw the school you would have to push/ride the Merry-go-rounds if there was one and sure enough there was two. On a trip my family took in the early 1970s we went through Guyman but it must have been on the outskirts of the city because I sure don't remember it being that big. The lake looked like it was drying up from lack of rain. Sure was a bad time for all concerned and the men that did the killing sure got off without being hung easily enough. Oh well that's all history now. Thank you for the trip as it was good. Happy trails to you and God bless.
That was desolate John. It was nice to see a ten. All too well I remember the scalder as that is what we called our all metal death go round at my elementary school. Now, on to Hooker.
Interesting about Optima is on the map you displayed that there is/was an "Old Optima." I wonder if the town was founded elsewhere then moved to it's current location? Great video Coach, looking forward to the next one!
Gotta love Guymon been on hiway 54 many times. Love those merry-go-round and playgrounds. Back in my youth all the merry-go-round had a trench all around it ,from the kids feet.😊
Here's all my No Man's Land videos! ua-cam.com/play/PL4jqwLUrhjNSuLP__mQe66FDwHyuWmLBK.html
Whenever you go between towns that are strictly farms and the next town is strictly ranches with cows, it always reminds me of that song from the musical "Oklahoma" "Oh the farmers and the cowmen should be friends." And so now I have that song rent free playing in my head.
Very catchy tune 😊
What picturesque vistas you capture in your videos! Of particular interest, note the beautiful blue skies and vast prairies! So quiet and peaceful! You won't get this in the city.
Many thanks! And I totally agree 😊
We need to be grateful for the farmers who care for the cemeteries located on their property.
Absolutely 💯
We had the scalding hot death go rounds as a kid. They sucked in winter too, but they could go FAST
Yes! 😂😂
The business in Straight is a natural gas compressor station. It is used to pump natural gas through the pipeline. They are set up at regular intervals along the pipeline.
I believe that was originally Williams. And those abandoned houses that look the same where company houses?
Thanks for the info!
You are correct about Midway being off on the map. The lone elevator you seen IS Midway. I grew up in Hooker and moved around a bit in my 20's. Now I'm back and it's honestly the best place to live!! The people here are like no other! ❤️
Thanks for the info!
Another wonderful day in Texas County! As well as another wonderful trip with the Wiseguy. I think we could definitely say this is part of the plains. Ready for the next installation!
You got that right!
THANKS COACH 😊
Any time! 😊
Death Go Rounds on a t-shirt!
My best selling shirt 😂😂
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I saw that in the merch store. I will be ordering one!
..and by the way, your finale is proof that whoever designed the death-go-rounds never sat on them in the summer! 🔥🔥🔥
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Always interesting. I wouldn't want to live in such a dry, dusty place. I give those who do a lot of credit! Thanks so much for the trip. You sure find some lonesome places!
So nice of you! And I agree it would be such a tough place to earn a living!
Looks Dusty there...Love those back roads
Very dusty! My allergies were kicking!
Good video as usual. Hovey reminds me of Ray City, Oklahoma. There was an oil boom town there in the 1930s. Ray City had a church, school, and some stores. My grandfather was on the school board and was involved in some kind of lawsuit because of it. Now all that is left is a bare place on the land due to salt water spillage (long ago) and a metal sign put up by a landowner. Even the "Danger H2S may be present" sign is appropriate. There are several oil wells still in the area and they reek of H2S.
Thank you!
The plant in Straight, looks like a natural gas plant. Very similar to one that used to be in south Wichita back in the day.
Hey Coach Nice trip. Good still photos. Regarding the play machines, Good tick and snake free stone bed, along with an excellent drive axle placement pleasing aesthetics and so on for machine #1, alas, a splinter factor doth rear it's ungainly skull, so we find it a challenge to rate such higher than 8.8 . As for apparently well constructed second contrivance, This is a cool weather machine for the reason you stated, although we marvel @ the sturdy build quality. After crunching the numbers, we arrive @ a strong 8.0 rating overall, with a heavy cloud rating somewhere approaching 8.8. The grassy base surface, says bug or worse as a possible factor to be considered. Happy Motoring.
Very thorough and logical ratings this week 😊
👍👏🤠another great video you never disappoint me
Safe travels Coach
I appreciate that!
0:46 A car driving by is so rare that the horses stop grazing to watch it go by.
Very true! 😂
I was hoping you would release the drone. Annd you did. Very Cool!😎👍
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To say some of those places are isolated is not an understatement.. you would see so few people that must be pretty mentally tough to work in places like that? I couldn’t do it…
I would agree!
We play music in Boise City. It's a quiet little town.
You should film the Lutheran cemetery north of Guymon. I can give you some history.
The flowers are Jerusalem artichokes if anyone wonders.
Guymon and Hardesty lots of snakes lol!
I didn’t see any!
Just watched the video. No Man's Land is quite the territory. The story of the massacre was sure interesting and the fact no one had any jurisdiction over that part of the country. You could literally get away with murder and not be punished. Crazy, but kind of funny. You sure had to be tough to live there back then. Keep up the good work. So interesting.
I agree. Such a unique part of our country!
It's odd I find beauty in Desolate places. I would love to live out there.
A lot of us feel the same 😊
Read the excellent book “The Worst Hard Time” regarding the days of The Dust Bowl. If you think today’s world is challenging, this will put our ‘first-world’ problems into proper perspective.
Thanks again John for touring me through the Panhandle, you have bought me places I haven't been. My wife and I tour Oklahoma quite often.🌾🛤
Thank you 😊
Where do you get death go round , I always heard them called Merry go round!
Me too, decades ago when I was in elementary school. We never heard them called death-go-rounds back then...😁
death looms at every turn as the speed increases the daring cling on and it isn't so merry anymore
@@tinman7130 😵💫
I can’t remember where I saw it the first time. It just made sense because it seems more dangerous than a typical merry go round 😊
@@TravelwithaWiseguy You have a point there...😨
in honor of my late daddy (Garfield Sniffles Gazooberful ) id like to remind everybuddy to NOT drink and spin !!😵
😂😂😂
Hé Wiseguy!...😀 could you slow down a bit the picture switching? sometimes it goes so fast that I can't really enjoy it and pausing it every 2 seconds is a bit to much.
I like to keep things moving 😊
Why would they go all the way to Paris,TX for a trial? No wonder they had no jurisdiction.
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I love your videos, I watch a lot, but...I wonder why no one but me mentions chemtrails, the skies are full of them and it kills the buzz.
The first death-go-round was a perfect 10. The second one looked like a medieval torture device so I have to give it a lesser score...7 maybe an 8! 🫠
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@21:10 is the reason we got them going as fast as we could to help cool it down, lol :)
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So was Mouser named after the founders cat? Asking for a friend.🧐🥸
🐱 😂
Shoutout to my brother, he is the mayor of Optima. He got a grant to restore the old bank building, it will be the new town hall when it is finished. I can't wait till you see Optima Dam, I still laugh when I think about it.
Awesome that he’s helping take care of the town. Small town pride is a great thing
@@Rfk1966 cool
I have learned more about history and geography than I learned in school or college by viewing these videos. Thanks coach.
Wow that’s very humbling 😊
@@senzanome8294 amen
Great production ,great history lesson , thanks WG
Very welcome!
Looks Dusty there...Love those back roads
It was!
Beware of those High Plains grasshoppers, especially during droughts. I've made the mistake of stepping out of vehicles unaware that they were lying in wait for some unsuspecting traveler to make himself available for their entertainment. It's scary how quickly you can find yourself covered in them, with no easy way to shake them off. The part about the massacre is pretty creepy, but not unheard of in those days. Thanks for another great video Coach.
😮 they are pretty intense at times. Thanks!
This was a nice video / it is interesting how the panhandle is different from the rest of Oklahoma / I live in Tulsa in the east part of Oklahoma with the Ozark mountains in Northeast Oklahoma and the Ouachita, Kiamichi Mountains in Southeast Oklahoma and zillions of trees
Thanks!
I grew up in Tyrone, thanks for showing the current state of the county. (Out of state now)
Thanks 😊
In 1962 I moved from Hutchinson, Ks to Albuquerque, NM. I traveled US54 many times between then and when I moved to Texas.
Speaking of your Google maps, I noticed that you haven't done a single video in Saline county. I know Salina is too big but there are several small towns.
Someday! It’s a big country 😊
Straight at one time had 50 families living there, 1940’s to 1990’s. The bread winner of the family was employed with Cities Service Natural Gas Company working at either compressor plant or the pipeline division. In the early 70’s my dad was the Superintendent of the pipeline. Cities Service was bought out by Williams Natural Gas Company in the 90’s. Not sure who owns this energy supplier now. We moved to Straight my Junior year of high school in 1972. However, many of my summers were spent there since my maternal grandparents resided there since the late 1950’s. High school age kids there had the option of going to either Hooker or Guymon High School. I chose Guymon, graduating in 1973 and then off to the Navy for 27-year career and to see the world. Two of my siblings graduated from Hooker HS. Straight has a lot of good history and memories for me.
Thanks for the info!
I would’ve checked out the sign. They ain’t gonna shoot ya! 😂😂😂
😬😂
When you did the drone shot in Straight. It look like the majority of the town was across from the school.
Awesome video. By the way the railroad that ran through Guymon is the southwest mainline of the Rock Island Railroad that use to go through Horton Kansas.
Thanks for sharing. 😊
I appreciate that! Thanks!
STraight is a gas compressor station and long time ago they had a bunch of houses for workers but they abandoned the houses and a lot of the houses were moved to guymon
Thanks for the info!
A level 10 (on them both) for me. You rarely see 2 Merry-go-Rounds spin that easy/and that long. Nice video. We lived in Oklahoma (Enid and Woodward) and never knew anything was in the panhandle. Be good, be safe !!
For sure! Next video in the series will have ratings all over the place 😂
Golly John, Optima in Texas County Oklahoma was cool. I just knew it the minute I saw the school you would have to push/ride the Merry-go-rounds if there was one and sure enough there was two. On a trip my family took in the early 1970s we went through Guyman but it must have been on the outskirts of the city because I sure don't remember it being that big. The lake looked like it was drying up from lack of rain. Sure was a bad time for all concerned and the men that did the killing sure got off without being hung easily enough. Oh well that's all history now. Thank you for the trip as it was good. Happy trails to you and God bless.
Thanks for the comment! A lot going on there!
That was desolate John. It was nice to see a ten. All too well I remember the scalder as that is what we called our all metal death go round at my elementary school. Now, on to Hooker.
😊 yes on to Hooker - a location not a vocation!
Interesting about Optima is on the map you displayed that there is/was an "Old Optima." I wonder if the town was founded elsewhere then moved to it's current location? Great video Coach, looking forward to the next one!
Yes actually I mentioned that when I showed the map. They moved it to line up with the railroad. Thanks!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I must have missed that. I'll go back and relisten! Yep, found it!
Sometimes your videos seem like a post-apocalyptic movie: there are so few people in them.
Something fascinating about those places to me!
Why on earth would you call a County Texas when there is another State called Texas????
There’s a Texas New York , maybe the state of Texas was named after Texas New York❤
@@Mikell-h2c Hahaha maybe not lol
I think I I read they named it Texas because that area used to be Texas 🤷🏼♂️
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Thank you John
Gotta love Guymon been on hiway 54 many times. Love those merry-go-round and playgrounds. Back in my youth all the merry-go-round had a trench all around it ,from the kids feet.😊
Nice!