"AWAY IN WISCONSIN" 1960s TRAVEL TOUR OF WISCONSIN RACINE, MADISON, MILWAUKEE 11504

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  • Viewers are treated to tour of Wisconsin in this episode of Jack Douglas’ America! Douglas opens the episode, “Away In Wisconsin,” addressing the audience. A quick montage of shots show viewers a river, rolling hills of dairy land farms, Winnebago Indians performing a traditional dance, and a descendants of Swiss immigrants. A badger runs around its enclosure at the Milwaukee Zoo (01:23). At the city of Racine (01:51), viewers see modern architecture on display in the city’s buildings, included some designed by Frank Lloyd Wright like the Johnson Wax Building. The episode then shows the capital building in Madison (02:07), Milwaukee, and the famous Milwaukee County War Memorial Center designed by Eero Saarinen (02:30). The glass domes of the Horticulture Conservatory in Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park dominate the horizon (03:10). Inside the “Show House” dome (now called the “Show Dome”), viewers see summer flower gardens on display. People relax on a sandy beach of Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park in Sheboygan (04:08). The city of Green Bay sits on the Fox River as it meets Lake Michigan (04:40). The quiet park that is home to Nicolet Memorial (04:57) is just outside Green Bay. Members of the Green Bay Packers train next to the stadium as local citizens watch the practice (05:25). Near Baileys Harbor is small Scandinavian wooden chapel (06:06). In Little Norway (06:32), located in Blue Mounds, viewers see a living museum of Norwegian culture. A young woman in traditional Norwegian costume shows off beaded work (07:27), wooden wedding spoons, a wooden lock jewel box, and an ale bowl. A small model of a Viking ship is also on display. Little Norway also features a small storage house called a Stabbur house, a log cabin used by women who herd cattle (09:19), and a garden gnome. The next stop is at the Alpine Café in New Glarus, WI (09:55). Large rocks sit on the roofs of the Swiss buildings at New Glarus. Men and women play music in a parade celebrating their Swiss heritage; a swiss flag thrower performs in the parade. A music group plays a traditional song for the audience (11:18). At Greenbush, WI is the Old Wade House State Park; the episode shows the old house and inn (12:25). Inside the restored building is a hutch chair, an old pitcher, and two women showing how the Wade family retreived water from a well inside the kitchen. The episode also shows old bedroom furniture and other antique furniture on display at the Wade House. At White Birch Lake, two men walk down to their fishing boat (13:58); they catch a 26-lb musky. Next, the film goes to Craft Mart near Sister Bay, WI. Here, a woman weaves fabrics on an old weaving loom. The next stop is at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI. People walk across a bridge to see the carnival exhibits (15:02); visitors see the operations of loading circus cars on and off of train cars. The episode shows a France Bandwagon and an old chain-driven MAC truck from the 1920s that was used by the Bailey Brothers. Elephants perform a brief show for the audience (16:43). Near Hayward, Chippewa harvest wild rice from their canoe (17:05). At History Land, two lumberjacks demonstrate sawing logs. A man throws a hatchet at a target (18:10), and two other men compete in a log roll on the water. Also on the water, men engage in a game of canoe jousting. Next, viewers are taken to Fort Dells in the Wisconsin Dells (19:20). Visitors walk on a hanging bride, take a ride in a stage coach, and are delighted when their train is held up by the outlaw Black Bart. Chief Edward Cloud of the Winnebago tribe plays a drum while his four sons perform a traditional dance (20:08). Passenger boats take people on a tour through the upper dells (20:37), passing Witches Gulch, and motoring through narrow waterways. A Duck boat drives down a dirt road (21:37), then splashes into the Wisconsin River, taking visitors on a ride through the Wisconsin Dells. There is a scenic shot of Wisconsin’s rolling landscape. The film concludes back at New Glarus (22:45), where three men play a song on the large ornate wooden alpine horns.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 523

  • @tealnoise
    @tealnoise 2 роки тому +182

    People say Wisconsin isn't as nice as it used to be. It actually still is, I would travel around WI with my family a lot. Still many beautiful places to visit. I will always love my home, Wisconsin.

    • @countrygirl4422
      @countrygirl4422 2 роки тому +14

      You obviously don't live in the Capital of Wisconsin.

    • @cjdfv
      @cjdfv 2 роки тому

      I feel mostly the same about Michigan.

    • @spookgook4903
      @spookgook4903 2 роки тому +29

      Just Milwaukee and Madison are getting shittier with their democratic leaders.

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 роки тому +10

      @@stonerbearlyrics8143 there are meth and heroin addicts throughout the country. Wisconsin's not alone. Does it matter if Democratic or Republican.

    • @memeteam7030
      @memeteam7030 2 роки тому +1

      Alert information is cap! Yeah real Wisconsinite would not say this!

  • @TheBookofRai
    @TheBookofRai 2 роки тому +40

    This video made Wisconsin seem mysterious.

    • @jlmurphy6530
      @jlmurphy6530 2 роки тому +2

      It is. I grew up there. It has a film noir quality about it.

    • @RT-dm4bi
      @RT-dm4bi 2 роки тому +2

      Its so intresting to see how many of these facts have changed overtime. Like that madison was once a small city and that the woods took up 50% of our state. Bizzare

  • @juanramos6573
    @juanramos6573 Рік тому +3

    Born in Milwaukee 1951. Went to Dells quite often. Still have old pics from the 50"s.

  • @Mitch-rd9gs
    @Mitch-rd9gs 2 роки тому +40

    The amount of pride I have for my home state is amazing. Being stationed overseas for 2 years has only made me realize how much I miss home.

    • @johnnymaximum3828
      @johnnymaximum3828 2 роки тому

      over throwing a democracy or stalling a dicatorship?

    • @l7537
      @l7537 2 роки тому +3

      Same. I couldn’t imagine growing up and living in any other state

  • @heyitsmichael6256
    @heyitsmichael6256 2 роки тому +31

    I am 91 yrs. old and have traveled much of the U.S. and the milage show's on my face. But this travel documentary is the shit y'all.

  • @koolaidacidkilla179
    @koolaidacidkilla179 2 роки тому +14

    Born
    Raised
    And I'll never leave.
    I love Wisconsin!

  • @flower691
    @flower691 2 роки тому +23

    if only the world was still like this 😥 why was i born in the 90's? if only i could have lived these times 😞 i love my wisconsin, but seeing this makes me kinda sad... it feels like the heritage is just gone now.

    • @marttram2183
      @marttram2183 2 роки тому

      Turning 27 in 2 days (golden bday!)
      But yeah I'm with you there lol

    • @SkateAndCreate81
      @SkateAndCreate81 2 роки тому +4

      I was born in 2000 I always wished I could’ve lived back then. I hate this generation I would’ve thrived back then

    • @marcoaraiza9381
      @marcoaraiza9381 2 роки тому +4

      Segregation

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 2 роки тому +2

      It's a glorified film, you know that, right? :)

    • @flower691
      @flower691 2 роки тому +1

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 so? isn't that kind of obvious? its still way different/better than current times.

  • @embracethesuck1041
    @embracethesuck1041 2 роки тому +101

    The ducks are one of the few surviving attractions today. Now the Dells is mostly tacky waterparks.

  • @c-dublife
    @c-dublife 2 роки тому +123

    Wisconsin has 15000 lakes. more than Minnesota. we are just humble.

    • @julianklatte6221
      @julianklatte6221 2 роки тому +10

      But y’all can’t ever go without talking about cheese curds lol 😂 just kidding

    • @jayswipedyohead6490
      @jayswipedyohead6490 2 роки тому +3

      @@julianklatte6221 bro I’m from here Nd I’ve never even had a cheese curd

    • @Angel-xk3uq
      @Angel-xk3uq 2 роки тому +6

      @@jayswipedyohead6490 You are missing out. Fried cheese curds is one of my favorite appetizers. I am not even from WI and I know that much. You sure definitely give the fried one a shot when you get the chance!

    • @olegty4007
      @olegty4007 2 роки тому +11

      On behalf of Minnesota, Wisconsin measures lakes wrong.

    • @Woodey79
      @Woodey79 2 роки тому +12

      yes, the measurement is different for Minnesota and Wisconsin. If Minnesota Measure their lakes like Wisconsin does, they would have over 25,000.

  • @skjaldulfr
    @skjaldulfr 2 роки тому +8

    Now I want a Fallout game set in retro Wisconsin.

    • @RomanKlein414
      @RomanKlein414 2 роки тому

      Funny thing is if they made that the story would be why is there no mutants oh wait 2 headed cows but no one is looting or being crazy there just shooting anything that moves funny and drinking A LOT of beer

  • @thomaspham9077
    @thomaspham9077 2 роки тому +11

    It’s so weird to see Milwaukee without the Art Museum 🥺

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 2 роки тому +65

    In my opinion, the best part of Wisconsin is the part this film left out: the Lake Superior shoreline along nearly all of the state’s northern border, to include the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, which can be accessed at Bayfield, WI. There are so many beautiful places to vacation along that coast, and my husband and I feel Lake Superior is by far the “superior” Great Lake, even though we’ve lived in a city next to Lake Michigan for 25 years. Probably bc we were born and raised in Superior, a lovely city across the St. Louis Bay from Duluth, Minnesota.

    • @lil_lyrix
      @lil_lyrix 2 роки тому +2

      They probably didn’t include it cause that lake belongs to Michigan

    • @theodoreiaccino7762
      @theodoreiaccino7762 2 роки тому +2

      I am fortunate enough to have a friend with a house on Madeline Island. I am from Chicago, but have always maintained that the Apostle islands are America's best kept secret.

    • @JeffreyDahmenator
      @JeffreyDahmenator 2 роки тому +2

      Superior is not a lovely city

    • @randomstuffilookup2384
      @randomstuffilookup2384 2 роки тому +2

      I’ve lived up in this area for 3 years now and it sucks so bad up here. Nature is the only good thing.

    • @chickennugget6233
      @chickennugget6233 2 роки тому +1

      It will all be ruined when line 3 breaks...

  • @tomshaw6373
    @tomshaw6373 2 роки тому +18

    My grandparents lived in Milwaukee when I was growing up. We vacationed in Door County for over a decade. I met my future wife there when we were kids in the mid 70s. She's from Milwaukee. In 2023, we are moving to Madison. I've always dreamed of living there since I was a kid. It's a beautiful state.

    • @samknox8502
      @samknox8502 2 роки тому +2

      I currently live in Madison, you’re going to absolutely love it this city is better than ever!

    • @tomshaw6373
      @tomshaw6373 2 роки тому

      @@samknox8502 Well, that’s an endorsement I am very encouraged by.

  • @johng.9877
    @johng.9877 2 роки тому +8

    This state was nice all the way up to the 80's where it started to change, rapidly. By the mid 90's almost everything that made WI south of westfield unrecognizable. Cultural influence removed in the goal of diversity. Cities changed drastically and became dirty and crime ridden, this accelerated into the 20's. The southern part of the state is not even a shell of my childhood, and Northern WI has been transformed to a tourist haven where all small city charm has been replaced with modern coffee shops an boutiques

    • @NyxSerenity
      @NyxSerenity 2 роки тому +2

      I wish I could have seen the old version of Wisconsin. Now southern Wisconsin doesn't have many woodlands and crime has gotten higher. Thankfully I live in a town that still has its old buildings and lots of history, but not many people care about that anymore

    • @Cook-hb2nf
      @Cook-hb2nf Рік тому

      This makes me sad to read 😥

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines 5 років тому +94

    My Grandmother was born and raised in Milwaukee. It's so beautiful. I love the Public Museum.

    • @star_gazer2967
      @star_gazer2967 4 роки тому +4

      I love *LOVE* the Milwaukee museum! Have visited it all throughout my life! I live in Madison ♡⚘

    • @bcshelby4926
      @bcshelby4926 3 роки тому +2

      @@star_gazer2967 ...the Museum the Central Library were my usual hangouts in downtown when I was gowning up there.

    • @star_gazer2967
      @star_gazer2967 3 роки тому

      @@bcshelby4926... How cool!

    • @SUNNYLEO24
      @SUNNYLEO24 2 роки тому +1

      Where are you from

    • @Shanecho414
      @Shanecho414 2 роки тому +2

      @@SUNNYLEO24 not Milwaukee with those kinda comments lol

  • @jimsimmons5627
    @jimsimmons5627 2 роки тому +14

    I can’t believe they didn’t talk about Minocqua in the Northwoods that’s what everybody likes to visit

    • @Seankamrath
      @Seankamrath 2 роки тому +2

      That's where I worked for years doing flooring. Super gorgeous up there. Lived in tomahawk for about 23 years.

    • @MrMajikman1
      @MrMajikman1 2 роки тому +1

      @@Seankamrath I have relatives in Rhinelander, and Three Lakes....beautiful snowmobile trails up north, especially in the Nicolet Forest!

  • @caturdaynite7217
    @caturdaynite7217 2 роки тому +14

    Lots of old people complaining about the way things used to be. Pretty damn sad if you ask me. It's still a beautiful state. Lots to see and do, come on up and spend your money. Our towns, large and small, appreciate your business.

    • @Branflakes143
      @Branflakes143 2 роки тому +12

      Here's an idea for a drinking game: Take a shot every time you see a comment from some racist boomer with a comment that all-but says "This state was nicer before black people."
      Yeah I grew up in Wisconsin and have no clue what these racist old coots are on about. The place hasn't "gone downhill" just because you saw a Muslim person on State St, grandma. The state isn't "falling apart" just because a black family went to a waterpark.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +2

      @@Branflakes143 - No, it's falling apart because the education system in Milwaukee sucks (standardized test scores on the web will bear that out), children are having babies, and the good employers (A.O. Smith, Tower Automotive, et al) no longer manufacture there. There's no place a minimally-educated person can make a decent buck in the city, or at least not enough to soak up the supply. All the jobs moved out to Waukesha and other points. And I've seen the stats in Milwaukee - ALL races and both sexes don't do well up to state averages in the aggregate. It will be interesting the results of education pre- and post-Covid. I've said for a long time that public education needs to be shaken up. Well, it has been now.

    • @dylanb4494
      @dylanb4494 2 роки тому

      @@Branflakes143 im going to ignore the murder mil and roving gangs of se xu al assaulters and drug dealers and pretend that people are mad at dark ones for existing. I PRAY youre culturally enriched next.

    • @bluebee5266
      @bluebee5266 2 роки тому

      @@Branflakes143 You indeed have no clue. You think you know better than people who have actually seen something that you haven't.

  • @neilschmid4991
    @neilschmid4991 2 роки тому +29

    Being of Norwegian decent use to love going to little Norway, so beautiful but it's been closed now quite awhile and miss visiting.

    • @ShannonHarper
      @ShannonHarper 2 роки тому +2

      I didn’t realize it closed, I’m super sad

  • @SPotter1973
    @SPotter1973 2 роки тому +5

    Tommy Bartlett Skii show and the Pow Wow in the river. Best summers EVER!! Rock climbing and sneaking into Witches Calderon.

  • @United_HVAC_and_Fans
    @United_HVAC_and_Fans 2 роки тому +30

    This is just historical! Very well persevered the quality is amazing!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed it! Consider becoming a member ua-cam.com/video/ODBW3pVahUE/v-deo.html

  • @SounDiZLife
    @SounDiZLife 2 роки тому +7

    I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and I will never leave, for those who don't live here please stay away, LOL I put my life on it this is the best state in the states!!!!

  • @knighttuttruptuttrup8518
    @knighttuttruptuttrup8518 3 роки тому +28

    Summer trips to Wisconsin with Dad, good times! Skiing in the winter, great fun.

  • @spritz19
    @spritz19 2 роки тому +14

    The fact that they didn't mention Devil's Lake is a sin

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      My niece was in an article some years back for spotting cougar tracks there. The DNR confirmed them.

  • @Rahul-op3ry
    @Rahul-op3ry 5 років тому +43

    Oh god, Wisconsin was so beautiful..😘😘

  • @jeffirish9698
    @jeffirish9698 2 роки тому +7

    This is wonderful. Growing up in the 60's we watched a lot of these in the classroom.

  • @rockermarco
    @rockermarco 2 роки тому +11

    Beautiful country, brutal winters.

    • @MrMajikman1
      @MrMajikman1 2 роки тому +4

      Perfectly made for snowmobiling!

    • @tomshaw6373
      @tomshaw6373 2 роки тому +1

      Free ice for hockey!

  • @Playsinvain
    @Playsinvain 2 роки тому +1

    What an ending. Those horns of one pine tree are heart beating

  • @dr.plutonus1496
    @dr.plutonus1496 2 роки тому +8

    Visited Wisconsin on our summer holiday in 2008 when our children were small. So many good memories: Door County, Sturgeon Bay, a fish boil at Mill Supper Club (where a British family were given a very warm welcome even though my children didn't like the root beer!). Loved Milwaukee too, especially the Betty Brin Children's Museum. Happy days 😁

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      I hear the Brits generally think root beer tastes like medicine, so I want to know what medicine you have that tastes like root beer. Ours is usually flavored with a God-awful cherry flavor. And I'd love to get an Irn Bru that the wife's Scots friends keep going on about.
      The Betty Brin Museum was built on the footprint of the old Chicago & North Western RR station. The Summerfest Grounds just south of there were alternately a Nike Missile site and an airport. The northeastern side now hosts the Discovery World Museum and the state's newest state park.

    • @dr.plutonus1496
      @dr.plutonus1496 2 роки тому +2

      @@jdcunnington In the UK we used to have an ointment called Germolene that you rubbed on your chest when you had a heavy cold. Root beer smells exactly like Germolene! 🤧

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 2 роки тому

      Glad you enjoyed Door County! My extended family vacations up there every summer.

  • @track1219
    @track1219 2 роки тому +8

    Grew up in Racine, great memories of summer vacations in Door County!

  • @17primemover
    @17primemover 4 місяці тому +1

    When I was a little kids, I thought Wisconsin Dells was the coolest place ever, especially Fort Dells

  • @Fantom76Keyz
    @Fantom76Keyz 2 роки тому +5

    Thank you for uploading this Gem .

  • @bigtub1101
    @bigtub1101 2 роки тому +14

    I love videos like this! Historical videos are always so interesting

  • @kennethjohnson6319
    @kennethjohnson6319 2 роки тому +10

    I was born in wi i used to go to the Mitchell Park domes and the zoo we use to take drives in the country especially in the fall a.nd the german architecture history and culture we use to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium
    and Milwaukee Arena to watch wrestling the Crusher Bruiser vashons blackjacks Etc when wrestling was great in Milwaukee

    • @Atlas-wq9vo
      @Atlas-wq9vo 2 роки тому +2

      Crusher fest is a great addition to Wisconsin

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +1

      The Arena is still in use. The UW Panthers play there now along with the IHL Milwaukee Admirals hockey team. The Domes just got a rebuilding as the concrete was starting to crumble, and a lot of the old iron front buildings are preserved downtown.

  • @joe-e-geo
    @joe-e-geo 2 роки тому +5

    Wow. In the early 70's my family took a 6-week camping vacation circling the country from Jersey to Cali and back again. So many tourist spots in so many states so much like these - all unique in their own ways.

    • @muuutch
      @muuutch 2 роки тому

      What a beautiful memory.

  • @seasonofthewatchers1010
    @seasonofthewatchers1010 3 роки тому +52

    The big cities in WI used to be so decent, clean, & civilized. What a filthy shame.

    • @Branflakes143
      @Branflakes143 2 роки тому +6

      They still are?

    • @forgetnumberone3335
      @forgetnumberone3335 2 роки тому +10

      @@Branflakes143 racine still decent, clean, and civilized?

    • @johnnash297
      @johnnash297 2 роки тому +15

      The small towns and rural farmland used to be decent opened minded welcoming & civilized.

    • @GoodSirMori
      @GoodSirMori 2 роки тому +1

      I'm from Burlingon/Lake Geneva, it held up well

    • @bertb5992
      @bertb5992 2 роки тому

      @@johnnash297 why the hate, see something you don't like? Can't stand an opposing viewpoint? Move to California already.

  • @staceycalder3233
    @staceycalder3233 3 роки тому +18

    I grew up in Racine Wisconsin but things are going down hill there not a lot of fun free things to do.lot of snow each winter

    • @RJT80
      @RJT80 3 роки тому +4

      It's such a beautiful lake city (small city) but yes, it has a few thousand jerks that ruin it for everyone else. Such is the case in many parts of the US. I grew up in Chicago and never heard as much gunfire as I heard living in Racine. Although during the pandemic it unexpectedly went way down. I cant explain that. But now even Madison has an urban gun violence problem. It spread all the way up from Chicago 30 years ago and has just become a cancer on a once very prosperous and civilized area.

    • @jeaniemarczniec7755
      @jeaniemarczniec7755 2 роки тому +4

      It is bad there, I would not waste my time going back there.

    • @staceycalder3233
      @staceycalder3233 2 роки тому

      @@jeaniemarczniec7755 I moved from Racine Wisconsin a little over a year ago

    • @davitronresidentevilking1181
      @davitronresidentevilking1181 2 роки тому +1

      @@staceycalder3233 I live in Racine lol

    • @staceycalder3233
      @staceycalder3233 2 роки тому

      @@davitronresidentevilking1181 I moved a year ago

  • @jeffmrochinski
    @jeffmrochinski 2 роки тому +2

    This is absolutely fantastic. I live in downtown Milwaukee and love it. What a great state. I've traveled to many states and European countries, but I'm so happy to call WI home.

  • @vonspitz3017
    @vonspitz3017 2 роки тому +3

    So cool watching a video from the 60s about towns that I'm familiar with

  • @501764727
    @501764727 4 роки тому +10

    Amazing Gem of a find..... Nice Upload!!

  • @Tadesan
    @Tadesan 2 роки тому +10

    This is for those FIBs…

    • @WN_Byers
      @WN_Byers 2 роки тому +5

      I moved from Wisconsin to Colorado 11 years ago, and still say FIB when I see one of their license plates. 414 ever 🤣🤙

    • @TheMW2informer
      @TheMW2informer 2 роки тому +1

      I call em flatlanders too

  • @davidwells2515
    @davidwells2515 2 роки тому +7

    Lived between Chicago and Milwaukee in Wisconsin for 30 years, it’s still a nice place to live depending on the neighborhood

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +2

      My hometown went to Hell in a handbasket because of Chicago.

  • @Og-Judy
    @Og-Judy 2 роки тому +8

    I saw this stuff in the 60s. I live in Wisconsin!

  • @stevensolway1054
    @stevensolway1054 2 роки тому +9

    Go Packers!! Yet, Green Bay also has the NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM since 1956, with 11 historic steam locomotives from all around 🇺🇸AMERICA, and it's the "SHRINE TO THE AGE OF STEAM", when the Railroads built up U.S.A. from 1829 to 1960.

  • @coreycoyle9548
    @coreycoyle9548 2 роки тому +7

    Awesome Video!!!!! of My State Wisconsin. The New Glarus part says the Swiss Cheese Queen it is a float for Cheese Days in nearby City of Monroe not the Swiss Cheese Queen. Two of those Women singing knew My grandmother who was from Green County. Anyway This is a Very Great Vintage Video F+L, Corey

  • @mikeodell9688
    @mikeodell9688 2 роки тому +4

    Part of my childhood in this video.

  • @travelstagram6198
    @travelstagram6198 5 років тому +4

    Amazing video!! Thank you for sharing it ✈️

  • @briansbikes9469
    @briansbikes9469 2 роки тому +6

    I love it here…

  • @dazeworld8236
    @dazeworld8236 2 роки тому +10

    I live in Milwaukee and I’ve been here 17 years and I hate it

  • @markberman8958
    @markberman8958 2 роки тому +4

    This is so cool! Thanks for taking all the time and effort to get these uploaded! Just awesome!

  • @rivamarsh
    @rivamarsh Рік тому

    Fort Dells was classic! I wish it was still there 😢

  • @TWLML420
    @TWLML420 2 роки тому +3

    Born and raised in Superior, Wi. I'm of Swiss/German decent. Wisconsin is pretty Awesome!

  • @jt624
    @jt624 2 роки тому +5

    Not a SINGLE clip of the frozen winter hell that we endure every winter for 5 months? Alcoholic ice fishing? I can't wait to leave.

  • @kod333_3
    @kod333_3 2 роки тому

    Im going to the Mitchell Park domes for a work party and its so cool to see it in the 60s

  • @elizabethpeterson1644
    @elizabethpeterson1644 Рік тому

    I do lived in Wisconsin. I lived in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. There is some places that I have been in when I was a kid.

  • @helios1912
    @helios1912 2 роки тому +2

    Wow Dad, we can take our "59 Ford Ranch Wagon anywhere...thanks for the post

  • @The_SEWI_Railfanner
    @The_SEWI_Railfanner 3 роки тому +5

    I lived in Wisconsin for 10 years and I haven't moved out of Wisconsin

  • @raestalgia
    @raestalgia 2 роки тому +2

    As a former Wisconsinite, there's a couple things I like to point out that either this video missed, or just some stuff I like to add stuff from my own experiences from living in Wisconsin.
    1. You talk about the unique architectures, and the buildings there, but you failed to mention the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, or the House On The Rock.
    2. You talk about the Dells, but you failed to mention about the Tommy Bartlett Water Show which is probably the most popular attraction to the park, right next to the Duck rides.
    3. You talk about the popular Swedish/Norwegian attractions there, but you failed to mention one of the most popular Swedish restaurants in Wisconsin. Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant with the goats on the roof.
    4. And as an added tip. 4:13-When you go to Andrae Park, make sure you are wearing swim shoes, or any kind foot protection when you are walking on the sand dunes, and/or you are going into the lake because even though the sand is very soft, it is also EXTREMELY hot, especially during the summer time. Also, just as the sand is extremely hot, the water is EXTREMELY cold. Lake Michigan is like about 40 degrees in the summer time. Yeah, it's like walking from into an oven to right into the freezer real quick. Along with that, the sand makes it very easy for sticks, twigs, and rocks to hide, so you have to be careful on where you step, or otherwise you can get a stick jabbing right into the bottom of your foot. Oh, and one more thing. When you go swimming into Lake Michigan make sure you are swimming relatively close to the beach because the currents are strong out there. One of our camp councilors told us a kid swam way out into the lake, and the currents pulled him under, and he'd drowned, so yeah.

    • @ottffssentet
      @ottffssentet 2 роки тому

      1) The Natural Gas Co building with large glass, color-changing flame that forecasts changing weather conditions. And descriptive poem.

    • @ottffssentet
      @ottffssentet 2 роки тому

      P.S. House On The Rock might be newer than this film. :)

  • @dinklehimerschlitz9111
    @dinklehimerschlitz9111 2 роки тому +1

    I love Wisconsin and wouldn't be from anywhere else.

  • @kickthesky
    @kickthesky 3 роки тому +46

    I remember being terrified of Black Bart when I was a kid. Our state has changed so much over the years, mostly for the worst.

    • @JulianGem
      @JulianGem 2 роки тому

      As in Bartholomew Roberts?

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 роки тому

      @@JulianGem perhaps Charles E Boles?

    • @JulianGem
      @JulianGem 2 роки тому

      @@ryn-pg9wb ah, right!

  • @OllieOxyn
    @OllieOxyn 2 роки тому +2

    Weird not seeing the calatrava! And I had no idea the domes have been around for so long!

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l 5 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing

  • @melmoon8412
    @melmoon8412 2 роки тому

    Ayeeee I love very close to New Glarus! So cool

  • @nightfire734
    @nightfire734 2 роки тому +1

    I feel like I was recommended this from all the RLM I watch.

  • @cjdfv
    @cjdfv 2 роки тому +9

    I imagine Norm MacDonald narrating this to make it funny. RIP

    • @SlopTopPapa
      @SlopTopPapa 2 роки тому

      Immediate comedic shift. Thank you.

    • @daBEAGLE1017
      @daBEAGLE1017 2 роки тому

      RIP to the ole chunk of coal.

  • @ocruadlaoic
    @ocruadlaoic 2 роки тому +8

    Sconny was lit in the 60's 😂

  • @theshib277
    @theshib277 2 роки тому +1

    Cathartic ending

  • @garyhazlett1283
    @garyhazlett1283 2 роки тому +4

    im from milwaukee and its the best place to live when all hell brakes loose in the world

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 роки тому +5

      Worst*

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +5

      Yeah...no. I had 5 George Floyd protests go right by my old residence (rented). One was at 1:30 AM and another at 3 AM. After the third one, they were thinly attended and mostly an inconvenience as the demonstrators hogged both lanes of North Avenue.
      I'm now about 12 miles west of the county line in a quiet place where on an average weekend absolutely nothing happens.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 2 роки тому

      Never trust a city with it's own nasty smell. Same for Indiana.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I was thinking of Gary. Went through there in 1976 going to Indy for the race. It was...fragrant.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 роки тому

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 weed doesn’t smell nasty

  • @randomstuffilookup2384
    @randomstuffilookup2384 2 роки тому +2

    Need to see some canoe jousting come back

  • @emaugustBRDLC
    @emaugustBRDLC 2 роки тому +5

    Let's get a canoe jousting league going. Or a tournament at least.

  • @matthewvandenbranden1307
    @matthewvandenbranden1307 2 роки тому

    Born in Racine 1979 now I call Milwaukee home ♡

  • @davidbaysinger3381
    @davidbaysinger3381 5 років тому +39

    What oh what has happened to our beautiful country...?

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet 5 років тому +24

      The wrong people are making
      the decisions for the rest of us.

    • @tcmmxgo
      @tcmmxgo 3 роки тому +5

      @Bill Barnews no not Africans, it's more of the people who don't think everyone is equal

    • @laylajohnikin2279
      @laylajohnikin2279 3 роки тому +6

      @Bill Barnews how about we don't blame certain races for the problems of our stupid/uneducated government and president.

    • @laylajohnikin2279
      @laylajohnikin2279 3 роки тому +2

      @Bill Barnews but does that justify your ignorant comment?

    • @wifighostcruiser9665
      @wifighostcruiser9665 3 роки тому +14

      Our beautiful country went to hell, people think rap is music, they think there are more than 2 genders and that the words family and normal and decency are swear words.
      God warned us about this and it looks like the time is about here

  • @kenaidog6974
    @kenaidog6974 2 роки тому +1

    Grew up there. Great place to be a kid.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 роки тому

      Same here..wouldn't have it any other way!

  • @AuRowe
    @AuRowe 2 роки тому

    Amazing

  • @jdcunnington
    @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +1

    The Nicolet Memorial is actually more east of the city at the base of the Door Peninsula.
    The small chapel is actually closer to Jacksonport on the east side of the peninsula.
    The shame is Fort Dells is now a McDonalds, but in the Dells, the Ducks (DUKWs) still run.
    I'm thinking that last panoramic shot might be from Shot Tower State Park, overlooking the Wisconsin River in the distance. Or perhaps Devil's Lake.

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 2 роки тому

      Was about to comment, it’s to the northeast of the city, but it’s indeed near Hwy 57. They also didn’t mention Wequiock Falls that’s nearby.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      @@vidcas1711 - Yes, I'd forgotten about Wequiock Falls.

  • @mvirdi333fromUNITEDSTATES
    @mvirdi333fromUNITEDSTATES 2 роки тому

    God Bless Great USA 🇺🇸. Wisconsin is one of The Best State of Great America 🙏

  • @shinyoneincarnate5565
    @shinyoneincarnate5565 2 роки тому +12

    My family lived in Northern Wisconsin, then Milwaukee from 1900 to 2000.
    No one locked their building doors. All gates were left unlocked. We left our car keys in our unlocked cars.
    The grass was green. The farms were bountiful. Farmers markets were plentiful.
    All political parties were welcome. If you proved your worth, you got re-elected. If you were not for the people & business, you were not re-elected.
    It was beautiful in the spring, summer , fall. Winter was there for the kids to play in the white snow.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 роки тому +1

      "We left our car keys in our unlocked cars" stfu lol bs

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 роки тому

      @@FATMAN162x I don't leave my keys in my car but I could.

    • @dylanb4494
      @dylanb4494 2 роки тому +3

      @@FATMAN162x its true. Its amazing what a high trust homogenous society was like. When you didnt have to worry about being culturally enriched at any given moment.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 роки тому

      @@dylanb4494 only reason I said anything is cuz I’m from Milwaukee, which is Wisconsins worst lol but I’m only 25 I guess. But from the 90’s on ur just lying

    • @elizabethfrohn-hengst296
      @elizabethfrohn-hengst296 2 роки тому

      I dont lock my house or car never had a problem

  • @Iconoclasher
    @Iconoclasher Рік тому

    I used to watch this TV show when it started in 1963. Ran on Sunday nights I think. It's strange there's practically no reference to it anywhere except a few UA-cam videos. Not even listed in the IMDB.

  • @X_explorer
    @X_explorer 5 років тому +2

    Good movie!

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo 2 роки тому +2

    At 18:59 first time I have seen canoe jousting, cool.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 роки тому

      We did that at summer camp! That was a lot of fun!

  • @ClayChapman0
    @ClayChapman0 2 роки тому +2

    60 years later and I swear that same dog is still doing that jump in the dells

    • @charlespatrick8650
      @charlespatrick8650 2 роки тому

      my dad took 8mm film of that around the time of this doc, always felt screwed that I never got to go (was about 10 years before I was born), and my parents were done with doing things like the Dells by the '70s/'80s, best travel-like thing I got to do when I was a kid was a day at Great America in Gurnee

  • @Acrowe
    @Acrowe 2 роки тому

    OMG! Rifftrax has GOT to redo this!

  • @parkfor3906
    @parkfor3906 2 роки тому +4

    Plenty to love about living in WI, but, too cold, too much of the year.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +2

      It keeps the mosquitoes down and the cockroaches away.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 роки тому

      @@jdcunnington Ya get used to the cold! I ride a motorcycle in the middle of winter here! Talk about freezing the 'ol "nether regions"!

    • @Miguel-ve1lh
      @Miguel-ve1lh 2 роки тому

      @@jdcunnington 🙌👏👏👏👏👏🫶 🪳 🦟🚫🚫🚫🚫🗣🗣🗣

    • @Miguel-ve1lh
      @Miguel-ve1lh 2 роки тому

      @@jdcunnington seriously! 🪳 i lived in Texas for about three months last year and those roaches were something els!!!, so i packed up my things and came back home 🧀
      It’s nice to actually feel spring this time around 🍃
      Rather than full blazing heat 🥵

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      @@Miguel-ve1lh - I remember seeing one in the barracks at Lackland AFB back in '84. 2.5 to 3 inches long. Yikes! A friend who grew up in Melbourne, FL told about how they had back his chihuahua puppy into a corner the first night they had him.

  • @rwinkler7511
    @rwinkler7511 2 роки тому +2

    15:11 that steam calliope I'm dying🤣

  • @kahmarigreen5392
    @kahmarigreen5392 2 роки тому

    I love Milwaukee 😩

  • @chillydawgg4354
    @chillydawgg4354 Місяць тому +1

    I miss the old days, where people believed in "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all"

  • @HansZuerner918
    @HansZuerner918 2 роки тому +3

    To bad its not then anymore 😔

  • @cappysdad383
    @cappysdad383 2 роки тому

    Have visited Wisconsin a few times and on a whim decided to to take a look at this old video. To my surprise I was brought back to the good old days of travel shows that were about getting worthwhile travel information out. I occasionally watch travel shows but feel they transfer little useful information as they concentrate too much on getting the host in front of the camera instead of the area they are visiting. There is even one where it's the host and kids, like watching someone else's mediocre home vacation video's! Nice to see a travel show where it is moderated behind camera and the travel location is the subject not the vain host/moderator.

  • @gwerphinc6033
    @gwerphinc6033 2 роки тому

    21:00 I enjoy paddling this spot whenever I can.

  • @THATGuy5654
    @THATGuy5654 2 роки тому

    Here's Madison. Cute. Racine has some Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Here's Milwaukee. It's got a cool building, too. I think Sheboygan is a beach? Whatever. Now let's spend a good long time talking about this Scandinavian village no one will know exists in 2021!

  • @eascec8374
    @eascec8374 2 роки тому +1

    The Milwaukee County Zoo opened on May 15, 1961, so this is definitely from 1960.

  • @kmking1986
    @kmking1986 2 роки тому +8

    We are the badger state because of badger mining. Not because of the animal badger mining is digging straight holes into a mountain

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +2

      A historical marker out near Cuba City says it's because of the lead miners, who were nicknamed "badgers" for tunneling into the hillsides.

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 роки тому

      gotta love galena

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      @@ryn-pg9wb - The town or the lead ore?

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 роки тому +1

      @@jdcunnington The ore! As far as I've heard, that's what the men were mining for when they earned the nickname "badgers".

  • @countrygirl4422
    @countrygirl4422 2 роки тому +9

    Wisconsin especially Madison used to be a great place to live. It's sad to see what's happening to the place I was born and raised. Over the summer I got out of my car on E. Washington Ave. and almost stepped on a needle.

    • @brosefmcman8264
      @brosefmcman8264 2 роки тому +2

      Obama’s America

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +1

      The big cities suck. I escaped Milwaukee for rural Waukesha County. Much better quality of life. I still work in the city, so I have a continual basis for comparison.

    • @k.lynngearing9770
      @k.lynngearing9770 2 роки тому +2

      Unhinged leftist socialist goons rule the day in urban Madison. Business owners other professionals beware. Voting or expressing political opinion contrary to big government control may jeopardize your business. No joke!

    • @JeffreyDahmenator
      @JeffreyDahmenator 2 роки тому +1

      K. Lynn Gearing Madison is the only area in WI doing well, economically, so the goons must be doing something right.

    • @BenJamin-pd4mp
      @BenJamin-pd4mp 2 роки тому

      Yeah it's disgusting nothing but needles and poop all over the place I thought I was gonna get aids just walking down state street took a long cold shower when I got home I just felt so dirty

  • @daviddavenport1485
    @daviddavenport1485 2 роки тому +3

    GO PACKERS!

  • @Bendoofus
    @Bendoofus 2 роки тому +19

    Ahhh...the sights and sounds of riots in Kenosha in the summer. And don't forget the drive-by shootings in Milwaukee. Good family fun! See you at Walgreens.

    • @123kdailey
      @123kdailey 2 роки тому +8

      Acting like there weren’t riots all over in the 60s…I wonder who you still want to be president lmao smh

    • @UnkleAce
      @UnkleAce 2 роки тому +2

      @@123kdailey Stop! Please your embarrassing yourself with your riots to president argument. It’s funny and redundant at the same time

    • @TheMW2informer
      @TheMW2informer 2 роки тому +2

      If you live in the country you have zero issues like that.

    • @123kdailey
      @123kdailey 2 роки тому +2

      @@UnkleAce what’s embarrassing is still having people like you to stick up for people like him. Straight up you are what’s wrong with this country

    • @UnkleAce
      @UnkleAce 2 роки тому

      @@123kdailey your welcome 👍

  • @chriscross6045
    @chriscross6045 2 роки тому +1

    "This German Shepherd makes the 12 foot jump ..." Ummm, I think we should be talking about the fact that if the distance is correct, that dog is almost 10 ft long.

  • @andaimhineach4131
    @andaimhineach4131 4 роки тому +5

    Man I love this. Anyone know what year it was done? 1965 or so, perhaps? Or earlier?

    • @CJinsoo
      @CJinsoo 2 роки тому +5

      I am guessing 1963 because in the first few minutes when they visit green Bay they state the Packers are the first team to win NFL championship 2 years in a row, which should be referencing the 1961, 1962 championship seasons and when “Title town’ started.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +4

      The cheese queen in the New Glarus parade advertises a fair on Sept 18-19, 1965, so a good bet it's from earlier that year.

    • @CJinsoo
      @CJinsoo 2 роки тому

      @@jdcunnington that’s even better than my speculation.

  • @scotthruska4906
    @scotthruska4906 2 роки тому +1

    I’m of bohemian descents along with French Canadian.
    From Marinette/ MENEKAUNEE… WI.

    • @iancostigan5047
      @iancostigan5047 2 роки тому

      My family is from Marinette. I love that place. My dad use to take us across the railroad bridge on the Menomonie to bum island in Marinette was always fun.

  • @lastotallyawesomebleach204
    @lastotallyawesomebleach204 Рік тому

    I wish I could've experienced the dells during those times, that place really sucks now.

  • @HalkerVeil
    @HalkerVeil 2 роки тому +1

    I wonder how much of this still exists there.

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo 2 роки тому +2

    At 10:05 home to outstanding beer.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому +1

      More breweries popping up all the time.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 роки тому

      Just a few I've seen - Vennture (sic) Brewing on North Avenue in Milwaukee, Big Head Brewing on State St. in Wauwautosa, and Hound & Tap on Silver Spring Drive in Menomonee Falls.