Exploring an Old Abandoned Trailer Park. (So much left behind)
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- Опубліковано 20 бер 2019
- Exploring an old forgotten trailer park. Over thirty different campers, as well as over thirty cabins. A huge area, and one of our all-time favorite spots. This trailer park was once a small lakeside vacation spot for families. After the owner passed away, his wife took over operations but after just a couple of years, she gave the property to her son. The son almost immediately closed the park without warning, leaving trailers and cabins full of the personal belongings of the people who once spent their summers here.
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I keep expecting feral ghoul swarms
Happened immediately after I stopped filming.
So do you think somebody's just supposed to support them and give them a free place to live whether to f****** lazy to get off of their ass and work maybe you should let them sleep in your spare bedroom
I agree 100%
I wouldn't have minded being the one to do the exploring!!
Relax when would it be any of those type of things around there it doesn't look like the place for it plus just because there's bells and you see trains going by I don't find it scary at all
A long gone era of families going to rent a cabin on the lake for a summer holiday. Imagine the place with 100s of kids on bicycles,Mon & Dad grilling burgers,teenagers experiencing first love,first kisses.Promising to write each other.Swimming,fishing,making out after dark while the parents catch up on a years past news. I did all this for 6 straight years probably 68-74 when I was 9-15.
The tv series The Wonder Years had episodes where they spent time on the summer lake.
Yes, those were the days!
Good memories.
I loved that show, The Wonder Years, as I'm from the baby boomer generation ❤️
I'm in my caravan now in Ireland an my daughter is a month old hopefully I have all those future memories to look forward to fingers crossed. it really is amazing place to bring up kids an making friends an all that stuff you just said
@@paradoxstudios6639 Of course.Our 7 house neighbor hood had probably 30 kids 3-16 y/o.
Sounds like so much fun. I was born in 70's, and My Great Grandmother had a cottage at the beach so our parents would drive us the 2+ hours during summer and drop us off with her for a couple weeks, I suppose to get a break from us lol,, She was amazing. Other times relatives would visit at same time and there was always fresh steamed crabs, and snapper soup that our grandad had caught himelf. Wonderdul times. 🙂 Yes
Those were great times never to return 😔
My family went to the lake from when I was 6 to 14 (1972-1980). I met my first crush (who later became my husband) there when I was 12. Those were such innocent times. I feel sad for most kids today who will never experience that.
What will they be missing within what you wrote here?
imagine all the friendships that kids made with others spending weeks or months or summers
there
It's wasn't built 4 fun, its a coal camps where coal miner live & worked. The workers payed rent. Also there would have been a coal company owned store. They kept a book, on what u bought, & that amount came out your pay check, plus rent. My grandfather built coal camps & set coal mine timber 1930 40s 50s this coal mine ,was played out, meaning all the coal was dug & coal companies abandon the camps site.
@@houston6737 Sad no bathroom, tho.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 most would have had a chamber pot . It was a rough life, no running water either. That's how people made a living in those days. My grandfather if I remember correctly in the early 70s he got a check from the government. It was a black lung check, cool dust in his lungs 🫁, it's stays in your lungs 4 rest of your life. He was disabled. He had 20 tons of slate fall on him ,while setting timbers in mines, broke his back arms legs. He was on morphine the rest of his. Iife .his back never healed right. He died at age 76 . He would get muscle spasms, my grandmother would rub him down, with horse liniment .
This is what families in the 50's 60's and 70's did together. The neighbors had cabins too, everyone went on vacation together.
Sometimes the moms would take the kids most of the summer and dads would come on weekends.
During that time dad got the repairs done on the house, had his neighbor friends over for scotch, cigars and cards, and people enjoyed each other's company. These days if you speak to your neighbors they act like you're trying to assault them!!
Amen!
Yeah, no community anymore 😢 It sucks.
AàA1 duffsesaew
"Enjoyed each other's company." Yeah because they were probably white and heterosexual lmao.
And that right there is the problem ☝️
I spent most of my childhood here. They had electric in the 70's no water in any of them ( mobile homes ). That was out house only. The spiders were huge and all over. You rent the cabin and people own the homes. It was Sony's Beach. Yes they used a neighbors boat ramp. No you was not aloud to live there.
I bet it was a fun place back in the day! I’m not big on the idea of having to use an outhouse but other than that I’m sure it was a nice place to spend the summer.
Where was this place located?
It’s sad that so many buildings just rotting away when homeless people sleep in the streets
Exactly I agree
It's noble of you to think that, but I'm not sure you really understand how homelessness works if you think rotted cabins by a train track + people that need homes = solution.
well, did you think about it?. just like them, you have no idea.
That's exactly what I was thinking about our homeless
Yes having been homeless yup I would haveluved to live there
This looks like the trailer park I tried to buy to save the residents. The widow wife and son quickly ran it into the ground. They had no idea how to run a park. People lived in those cabins year round. Most of the folks ended up homeless with the just the clothes they wore. Such a shame, a real shame
Making stuff up, are we?
Yeah, sure. I love lying in the comment section to peopl I will never meet for no reason. The benefits of doing so are incredible.....
@@1realtruthrightnow742 People weren't allowed to live there, as they were summer rentals. So, yes, you do like to sit there and make sh*t up.
@@onekerri1 You are correct, people did rent those cabins in the summer when the husband was alive and the park was running as it should. but as it started going downhill and towards the end of the parks life, people DID live there year round, until it was shut down. There were small kerosene heaters in some of those cabins. There is a difference between people "not allowed" to do something and them actually doing it. You would not believe the stuff I have seen over the years. Woukd you believe someone attempted to build a basement underneath their trailer within the park! He certainly wasn't allowed but damn if he didnt try and kept trying too. You have yourself a great day!
I am currently living in a 1962 10x55 Mobile Home and have been for 30 years :) I have updated most of it including windows, furnace, roof and floors....etc. Still a well made home if you take care of it !!!!
Mine's a 1977 13X70. I've done a lot of upgrades and it's still nice. Trailers and the parks get a bad reputation, but with TLC, they can be just as nice as a small house.
Being someone who actually spent his childhood growing up in a Trailer park, they weren't as bad as the stereotypes say they were. Not even close. I guess some things the stereotypes claimed in some cases or some people, it was true. But overall I had a lot of great memories growing up there. When my parents bought our Mobile Home, it was the newest "State of the Art" in Mobile Homes. It was one of the biggest at that time. A 16' x 80', 3 bedroom, a sunk in living room, a massive kitchen and bathroom with a washer and dryer. The front was a large bedroom or office, then the living room, next a divider and a step and there was the kitchen. Next on the left was the hallway. The1st door on the right was the bug bathroom, next was a big linen closet, and then the 2nd bedroom, which wasn't as big as the others, wasn't tiny by any means. Then came the master bedroom. It had a built in "dresser" which had a top that covered it and it extended across the whole side of the bedroom. Then there was a closet that extended from the dresser to the 🚪door🚪 that let you into the bedroom. It was a nice big place, but yeah it was a "Trailer" and the stigma that accompanied that was tough for a kid, and that SUCKED! I said it before, KIDS ARE THE MEANEST MOST VICIOUSLY CRUEL PEOPLE IN THE 🌎WORLD!🌎 Painfully brutally honest or flat out NASTY AND MEAN! But no matter what was said, or what people thought 🤔? Living in a Trailer Park was a great place to live! Childhood memories and fun experiences, and since we lived near a woodland forest that had multiple ponds, one was called Mud Lake. We had biking & hiking trails that led completely around it. We built forts, we'd go fishing at Mud Lake, and in winter we'd sled down suicide hill. NOT from the top, THAT was how it got its name. There was a slant that could really nail you if you had too much speed, right into trees and a steep drop. We also had a huge field for 🏈🏉football🏉🏈 and ⚾️🥎baseball.🥎⚾️ So we had a lot of options for fun and adventures. In 1973 I was six years old. Looking back the 70's was a perfect time to be a kid. We relied on our IMAGINATIONS not our smartphones....lol. It was a great place and a great time.
I admit I was one of those people who had trailer park jokes. My son moved to one and I said we always were trailer park trash now it's official. I had to watch my grandchildren one night and I had a new opinion about the trailer. The park was garbage but the trailers had everything you need and his kitchen and bathroom where better use of space. So I bought one eventually and I love it. Park not so much but the trailer I love it's exactly what I wanted to live in. Storage not so good but better lay out than my house.
Nothing wrong with a nice single wide in a trailer park! I live in one now
I find this far more fascinating than abandoned castles, mansions, chateaux & trillion dollar "homes". It would be so cool to see the "befores" of this place, what happened & "where are they now?".
Thanks for a great video!!!
Thanks! I agree, it’s certainly more interesting than a lot of the abandoned places that you see.
For some of us who love vintage trailers, this is a field of dreams!
I read some of those books that were on the shelf back in the early 70s
What happened here. Why every gone
@Steve Robinson no one cares.
Ya. They all look about 1950's vintage. ✌️😊
I'd like to know where it is I saw a couch not the flowered one I'd like to redo
The owners should turn this place into a tiny home village! Some of the buildings and trailers are in unexpectedly decent shape for their age and being abandoned for so long!
I would love to meet some of the original owners of these homes, and hear their stories. I'd be afraid of stepping on nails or other sharp objects in those old places.
It would be interesting to know the history of the property.
Loved the video!
Glad you liked the video. Thanks for watching!
Yes, it would be awesome if we could see pictures of what the place looked like originally all those years ago.
Do you know anything more about its history?
Or the people that that were there
The trailers looked you be 60s or 70s models
I'll bet that place was fun in the 60s and 70s nothing like today's fun.
Back in the 40s that would of been a cool place to chill with the cabins
I would love to just park my van there and spend a few days
I am having a visceral response to watching you go through these mobile homes. It's like going back to my schitty childhood and seeing the places we lived all over again. Even though I'm crying, I'm glad I'm watching this. Thank you for doing this video. Maybe I can put my demons to rest. 💙
My parents used to rent a cabin just like those in the early '60's. No electricity, no running water. My Mom and I hated it. Community bath house to take a shower and toilet facilities. Talk about roughing it, lol
So, you'd of rather been in the street ?
@@dragons8822 cabins were for vacations. What's wrong with you people
Think of it like camping. That's what camping was all about!!
@@dragons8822 uhhhhh, what are you talking about??? It was a vacation cabin. We had a regular house.
Little "pickers" cabins like these were common in eastern Washington and used for temporary agriculture workers.
There's alot of History there. If you could only go back in time
Those small rooms remind me of the homes we lived in back in around 1979 when our family would be migrant workers in Iowa or Illinois. And those trailers omg exactly like the ones they had back then and even then they were already old.so they were probably like from the 60s or and 70s . great memories though. I can even feel the smell of those trailers interiors, wood work and those windows.
migrant workers community
These are cabins provided for workers whether it be the rail road, logging or other types of work.My dad lived in a tiny trailer while he was working. There were 20 or 30 little trailers and they were old at the time.
That's what I think, some form of corporate housing for the workers!
I can tell it must have the early 1970's because I saw the Book Oliver's Story. It was a sequel the the movie "Love Story" that was released in 1970 with Ryan O'Neill and Ali MacGraw. The Mobile homes also look like early 70's or late 60's. The one room cabins are even older. I am 64 so I was young in those days but I still remember.
I bet the books are worth something right?
yes I agree, the sofas in a couple of the cabins looked even older than the 60s!
Some furniture looked like 50s in the shacks
Ugly Gold. Green and orange gave it away for me.
My fav. years was the 60s and 70s.
Most of these trailers look like campers. Its crazy that todays trailer of "just getting by" would gave been a luxury to these families
Looks like the houses at the cotton gins in California, one room homes ,people had just one room to live in with their whole families 👪 and had to shower and use the outside facilities for eliminating. I can still remember them to this day.
Gotta love trains!
If I could win the lottery, I'd try to buy that property! Lots of potential, lots of repair, but yeah I'd try!
I hope you win, and when you do please invite me up for the weekend. I'd love to see place made nice again.
@@ClimbingtheFence that one word is always in my way! "IF"
@@tammybaker6635
Haha same here IF.
I don't think anyone wants to buy this property. It would cost a fortune to clean it up. The son who inherited this has created an environmental disaster.
repairs lol like piay off play offs really 30 yard dumpsters and heavy equipment
Thanks for the tour . It's a shame that the park was never kept up. I'm sure in it's day it would have been a pleasant area to vacation.
I totally agree! Thanks for watching!
You should try to get away here in the Netherlands and leave all the junk behind. Who cleans this up and who ultimately pays for this. What a pollution
Why not renovate and save the trailers and turn them over to RESPONSIBLE poor people and begin a community there?
@@paxhumana2015 Now that's a good idea!
@@henkholdingastate The responsibly should fall on the land/property owner. If the property had been taken by the county or state because of a possible tax lien, then it would be the county or the state who is responsible.
Also, don't get the idea that all of America looks this way...
Because it doesn't!
✌️
There is something very authorial about an abandoned home. As you walk around, you can almost see ghosts of the life's that once lived there, and for me anyway, I always wonder, why they left, where they went and where they are today. Finding old family photos makes this even more intense, and you often do find that sort of stuff.
I couldn’t agree more! I try to explain this to people all the time. Abandoned houses or other residential structures have an unsettling feeling that you don’t see in other abandoned buildings like hospitals, or churches, or schools, factories, or anything else. Houses feel familiar. We can relate and easily picture a family not unlike our own going about their lives within those rooms. It’s a strange nostalgia that haunts these places.
Me too
I'm retired. Makes me want to slap the old tool belt back on and get to work🧔🛏🚽🛋🛁🚿
With plywood at 60+ a sheet, not sure it's worth the cost.
Looks like outcast places in my area. In a trash/caving-in travel trailer we found a lovely very 70s looking ceramic lamp lying in a corner unscathed. Took it home and hung in bedroom.
I'm with you there one hundred percent, there's no way whatsoever I could not go in each and every one of these small huts. Theres always at least a few things that are going to be different that would make it interesting to visit.
Have you thought about checking with the local county to find out what this community was all about? I see a lot of the 60’s and 70’s represented here. Would love to know who all lived here. Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
It reminds me of the court I lived in after buying my first trailer. The park was located right behind a drive in. It triggers my PTSD , super creepy!! Thank God there weren't any old children's toys still there!!!
I too, get PTSD from old movie theaters, the price of 🍿 is traumatizing.
The books in the first few minutes are all really old thriller/romance novels. Like from the 50’s and 60’s mostly. Pretty cool
wow, thanks for sharing! Too bad it was left to just decay. It reminds me of some places from my childhood in the 1960s...
I live in a 1969 trailer surrounded by old trailers. I also work in plants. I'm seeing soft wood tree growth of about 10-15 years. The trailers are circa 1965-1985 by what I know of the trailers around me. I saw a couple that are the exact same model of my mine and my neighbors. I'll tell ya man, they ain't in much better shape here and they're still being lived in. Lol. I'd love to upgrade to one of those shacks. I suspect this was company housing for the rail workers. I bet the rail yard is close. Single persons got a shack, families got a trailer. It was common in the 60's and 70's. Doesn't seem so much now. Probably fell into disuse in the late 90's and abandoned entirely like 2000-2005 based on tree growth. Trailers fall apart very quickly without proper maintenance. Dude needs to be careful. I went through the floor and cut up my legs several times working on mine when I first got it. That sub flooring is not thick and once rot sets in it just disintegrates. Also... Wear a mask, mold son, and they could have been cooking meth in these places or god knows what else.
Thanks for watching the video! You're correct about the tree growth, that would be roughly when the park was closed. Wasn't company housing though. A lot of people have assumed the same thing but there's no rail yard, farms, or factories anywhere near this place. It was actually just a small lakeside summer vacation village. The owner passed away and his son closed it not long afterward.
Lead, asbestos. Tetanus if you cut yourself on anything nasty metal. Get your shot first. Lasts 10 years.
Those places had help rotting away. You know people over the years destroyed those homes. It would be interesting to find places that were abandoned and undisturbed where there weren’t furniture and items thrown all over the place.
Some of those old trailers had beautiful wood paneling other woodwork.
History of this would be very interesting!
Now you see why it's abandoned, the train tracks are practically in their back bedrooms!
Those trains used to come through constantly which meant nobody got any solid sleep!
You get use to them and you don't hear them in your sleep
You ignore them easily. My dogs and I only woke up on the 1st one. After that, eh.
I'm really amazed that the area isn't graffitied, vandalized, and/ or littered with empty beer cans and bottles.
Probably too isolated....
So sad that these mobile homes are going to waste now
It'd cost way more to fix them than it's likely worth.
Surprised people left their furniture and tvs behind. My mom had a floral sofa like you showed in one of the mobile homes. Old mobile homes came in crazy colors. First one I lived in was green and white colors like first one you went into. Last mobile home you showed with table and chairs with blue and white floor was in good shape compared to others.
I understand the interest in going threw these trailers just remember they were peoples home at one time.
All of the metal cabinets look like they are from the 50’s 👍🏻
Could be back to 40s. They still make them, btw. Last friggin FOREVER.
I'm sure that was very nice place at one time. I'm thinking 60's and even into the 70's. Lake behind the trailers. Lake camps is what they are.
What a strange place! Interesting that the cabins have full kitchens with water & electricity, but no bathrooms. I have to imagine there must’ve been a bath/activity/laundry building somewhere. One of the trailers had been retrofitted with a marine toilet, so there must not have been a full sewer system. Being so close to the lake there was probably a boat ramp nearby.
Or they just used bucket toilets.
There were toilets In them
@@yurikendal4868 No hint of a toilet on any of these. Look close.
The tracks are too close for outhouses to be there. I guess you had to 'take responsibility' for your own...
Cool video. Sad that these places were ran sacked and left a mess. Thanks 🤗
Thanks! And I agree, I wish people would leave things alone and enjoy them for what they are without smashing and breaking and vandalizing.
My best quess is that at one time that trailer park was a thriving community that the owner may have passed away or couldn't keep up with the upkeep. The RR company may have also increased their easement in relation of the tracks to the property or finally enforced the easement. (The RR company recently did exactly just that in our town within the last couple of years, claiming almost the whole one side of our "downtown district").
Then it most likely was taken over by squatters and of course, subject to vandalism and the elements.
Great video! I stumbled upon your channel purely by accident and immediately subscribed! I do photography too and I so wish I had a local group of friends/photographers to go exploring with like y'all do.
I love how your generation loves the stuff my generation (Gen X) grew up with.
Wish we could all go back in time.
What can I say? You grew up with better stuff.
Even problems with a particular area could possibly explain people leaving a certain place. Research can sometimes explain reasons why.
I agree with you, the furniture is FABULOUS!! And the metal cabinetry is so right on!! My new fav. Vid.
There were some cool MCM couches in there. But probably full of cooties by now.
The furniture needs a dump ground and the trailers.
I know right? It would be very difficult for me not to pick up a couple of those vintage kitchen tables and chairs like the one at 25:44 and take them home to save them from rusting away. The couches and recliners and done for but some of that wood furniture can be salvaged!
Thanks for taking me along. I really love these types of videos. Thanks for bringing us along on this exploration. I'll be checking back friend.
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
First visited it in 2013...so sad to see how bad it looks now. Such a cool spot..I got a bunch of pics back when. The weirdest one to me was a trailer bedroom with stuffed animals pinned to the walls.
2013,that can't be right.Where is this that so much damage would happen so quick?
Those doors on those cabins would make for some really cool table tops. You could also make some rustic furniture from the siding from this structures. I do this all time. Good money, fun projects.
Wish i had info to live there myself. Anything with roof floor some walls would beat places have stayed
I want to snag those tables in the cabin at 25:44 just to save them from rusting away. I always loved the look of that furniture. I still have my Grandparent's kitchen table from the 50s in the basement.
If anyone is curious...I have heard from locals (believe in the 90s) there was some kind of water contamination problem (why you see all those water jugs in each place) and residents had to evaluate. This makes sense as to why so much is left behind
Not sure if you saw...but there's also an old abandoned bar/inn at the top of the road ;)
Girls AndG "Evacuate" not evaluate!
Thanks for the awesome info friend.
@@chairlesnicol672 however they may wish to evaluate before they evacuate.
@@normanjones8089 Ya! I guess they'd had to do both ! U could live part of the day without quality water! For example the natives are still doing it on reservations by boiling it first or buying bottled "spring Water" @Walmart !
This would be a great opportunity for a tiny home community for the homeless since all of these buildings are already there to be redone for somebody who really needs a place to live instead of on the streets
I just remembered once about 25 years ago in Lancaster,TX (Suburb of Dallas; borders Dallas) as I was wandering the area immediately around while I was waiting while getting a tuneup/oil change, there wasn't much around, and there was an abandoned house. I entered it, and it hadn't been tampered with much since being abandoned, apparently in the mid/late 60s. Major urbanity was only 1/4 mile away, but all it had was a little graffiti, and it was pretty time-capsuled and preserved. Bookshelves which were cleared of books and records, but there were "Look" and other magazines, set up in holders keeping them upright as to not clash with books, and they were in near-perfect shape. I sat down in a still fairly viable cushy chair and read magazine articles from like 1966 for awhile, before going back down to get my car. I used to remember more details..there were pictures and clocks on the walls. It was surprising there was so little vandalism, I remember. Pretty weird and unexpected thing to happen upon.
When I lived in Florida, I lived near a campground and once a year they took old trailers out of lots because no one has paid for it in a while and put them out by the road for sale, they sell fast too for like $500 or $1000... No matter the condition.. Last one I saw before I moved away had ferns growing out of the roof and was green with algae or whatever.. that was out for sale for at least a week before it was gone
Cool
Theres a little camp ground such as this on the chesapeake bay. Just a little spot to eat and sleep for people who spend the day fishing for flounder, clams and maryland crabs. Sadly, a lot of them that sat on the bulk head were destroyed when sandy came thru
Yeah I think back in the day,cabins were very popular for vacationing families🙂 Traveling with my family,I recall staying in them. Although ours had bathrooms. Nice video,thumbs up👍😉 oh,and I love the train!!
I guess it's not much different from camping, just more comfortable than a tent. Thanks for watching!
I admit some were run down but some were good enough to get people off the streets.
If the county sent dump trucks around to haul away the trash and people used their tents like they do in the city, it would still be better than living and sleeping on cold, hard concrete city streets. Remember, the Indians lived in teepees !
Summer bungalows is what I would call the little cabins.👍😁😎
Need to get in there with some metal detectors. I bet you'd find all kinds of goodies.
Thanks for the video. Takes me back to good old days. Fantastic!!!!!
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for watching!
I love all the metal cabinets...
The trailer look like fifties style. Eight track we played those early to mid sixties. Before that we had four tracks that could be plug so they would play in eight track players. I liked the pink one.
I've stayed in shacks like these for a couple nights when I was hitchhiking many years ago,,,but I can tell you it was dangerous in many aspects
Maybe it is an old railroad camp, people lived in camps like this when they we’re putting in the tracks. Maybe they were migrant housing for farm workers.
So cool thanks for sharing
I like adventures like this, exploring abandoned structures of any kind. Each one is it's own little time capsule. But I need a shower just watching this one.
That's what I want, a nice little vacation shack near the train tracks!
Good morning. I'm a new subscriber and I just came across your channel by accident when I was looking for a video and I'm glad that I found you guys. This is so fascinating , exploring old abandoned buildings because you can just imagine what their life or story was . I just wish that someone can or would fix up those buildings and make them liveable because can't you imagine what that would mean to a homeless person or family that have lost everything ? Thank you for taking us along .
Thanks for watching and subscribing! I really appreciate it.
@@ClimbingtheFence can you divulge the location? I love looking things up on Google maps to see the satellite view and would be curious what lake this is. I’m from Central Illinois and I’m not headed there anytime soon two encroach on your territory LOL I’m just a nosy bystander. Great video by the way ...thanks
VALIRIE R RANSOME where is this place I dunno why when they make these vlogs they keep it such s big mystery!
@@ClimbingtheFence Why don't u guys say where it is?
@@chairlesnicol672 because when you post a location on the internet for anyone to see, people go there and trash the place and ruin it. Not everyone is respectful of these places.
If I had some money I'd scoop that place up. Would be cool to offer it to vanlifers as a home base during the pandemic . Plus I love trains.
No tf you wouldn't
If you hadn't known about this place at all you wouldn't care that much about "buying it"
I noticed something that you didn't take into account. Since there wasn't any bathroom's in the cabins. I didn't see any public restrooms in the trailer park. Most of the trailers look to be manufactured from late 1950's to the middle 1960's. None had no real hallways. But instead a walkway through the bedroom, bathroom and the master bedroom.
When I was a teen, I went to a lake in Missouri with family-friends during weekends. The other kids and I would drive around the lake town in our golf cart, and we would find little trailers off the beaten path that were abandoned like these. They went in some trailers, but I felt like it was wrong because their stuff was still there, and it felt like we were invading someone's privacy. I can't.
This place is amazing. Sad to see it in this condition. Great video.😊
Thanks, and thanks for watching! I agree, it sad to see it in this condition.
Love these these old videos!
OMG 😳 The first mobile home you went in (green and white) had the same floor plan as a 1960 Buddy Caravan I had back in 1992 - 96. Only 9 feet wide.
Wish I knew the back story of what this place was lol.
Me too. From what I’ve heard the owner passed away and his wife couldn’t afford to, or didn’t want to keep up with the place so she closed it. I think the people who used to vacation here in the summers had no idea it would be closing and that’s why so much was left behind.
Me too👍🏼
I use to live in a trailer so I know all about them. There is a section for all year round which I lived in. There is also a section for just the summer ones. In the summer part there are shacks like that. This camp is still running today and it is a fare sized one. I had a larger trailer than thought it was a 14 foot wide one. This look to be about 12. I got mine all renovated on the outside with a peaked roof. So of curse it looked nice with a nice big deck.
Sad to look at a abandoned trailer para. I lived in one for 18yrs mine was a brand knew 14x70 it was very spacious and beautiful with 3bd rm and 2bathr. those 18yrs were the Best of My life. I hace the Best memorias from ther , i sold mine, mykids got me a Home now Ive been here for 20yrs and getting more old. And yes it would be a wonderful place for the homeless to live. And now i wish i lived in a smaller mobilehome for me. My kids left got married.
If you a railroad fan this is perfect place to vacation!!
Did you check with the town to see if they knew any history on this row of the past that was obviously once a lively little corner of the area? It would be so cool to have the backstory ☺️. Rock on guys and gals, be careful 😉
great video guys , i can feel the energy of what it ounce was
Thanks!
So many cabins and trailers
We think we have it better now. Better morals better technology etc. But do we really. I say overall no. Judging by the comments I have read and everything I have seen an overwhelming amount of people think and believe that we all long for the simpler things and simpler times. The closeness of our communities. Just plain family and life. Cheers where everybody knows your name and you know your neighbors. Thank you for sharing this video and thank you to everyone for sharing your opinions. I recently lost my dad to cancer. I have a cousin who is in recovery with cancer and I myself have thyroid cancer. Running into this video has put a smile on me and my 6 kids face. Thank you.
I would agree with you. And thanks for watching the video, I’m glad you enjoyed it.
It looks like this park was there for the railroad workers.
Sounds like it
I remember old timers around my parts called these type of thing saw mill shacks for the workers likely something like that for some other type of workers.
Nope. It was a summer vacation and mobile home spot
So many homeless people. These could have been fixed up, maybe some could still be. Then quite s few people could have homes.
I was thinking the same thing
My thoughts exactly
It's a nice sentiment, but the cabins are too far gone to help, and the old travel trailers are complete write-offs because of the way they were originally constructed.
However... It'd be a GREAT IDEA if the land was bought, re-graded for proper drainage, and a big bunch of Tiny Houses were put on the property... And then rented to deserving people... If not for money, for "credits" in exchange for some sort of work... Kind of like the old W.P.A. ... Which is something I can't understand any of our crooked Politicians haven't thought of, seeing as how nobody seems to be able to find a decent job these days.
Thank you guys for the idea... I think I'm gonna start making a stink with local County Government, and ask WHY the County can't employ People who are willing to work, even if it's for a tiny salary AND a decent roof over their heads.
Cheers!😄
@@slicksnewonenow yeh, there’s nothing left to save at this point, sad. Still plenty of places empty that could be utilized.
@@deborahchesser7375 There are SO MANY places that could be utilized for GOOD here and around the World, but I'm inclined to think that people either want something for "free", or if the person fancies themselves a 'Philanthropist', they want to "give", but end up pushing their goody Ideology along with it...
We live in a sick World 🤔
Crazy video
Lived in a community like this many years ago. Got my first time using the community shower with my mom's friend and her kids. Kinda wasn't the vacation I was looking for. Been into the lady's ever since.
Just saw this video on You Tube's recommended . . . WOW!! I LOVE exploring & photographing abandonment! :) :) :) Great video! Thanx for sharing it. Ive seen some amazing places like this over the years. Incredible things people leave behind. I cant wait to see your channel, I subscribed. Just leaving for work, cant wait to get home tonight! . . .
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I bet they're all full of mold. You have to be careful because that stuff can make you sick.
Black mold I'd extremely nasty. You'd also have lead (paint) and probably asbestos.
There’s some cool mid century stuff in that last house you went in. The flooring, the yellow ash tray, the kitchen chairs. So cool.
Could you imagine living in one of those trailers when one of those trains went by? You know those walls are paper-thin
You can tell that the older models were made so durable in comparison to the white trailer that looks more like the newer models
When I was young, I went to a similar place along the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh. There was no water, sewage or garbage pickup. There was electric. The "town" was one long strip situated between the RR tracks and the river. The RR owned the land and would lease out parcels. People built wonderful summer vacation homes along the river. The "home" I stayed in had been built by the grandfather consisting of a large rock fireplace in the back aside the hill with timbers as beams. The sleeping loft was above the common area and above the fireplace. The bathroom was built over a sewage vault 10 foot from the main house. Nobody stayed in the winter. But they would party all summer with their own dock on the Allegheny river. You can just "reply" if you want to know more about what this was like.
Oh please tell me more I find this fantasising. Thank you.
Those "Destroyer" paperbacks were published in roughly the late '60s to around mid '79s. Have them in my library still.