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I loved it ❤ I had never heard of it and I got it in a box set I purchased on eBay I will make it a part of my Christmas list movies for sure 😊

Wonderful local historyLee! The parking lots aren't as much fun.🤨

Nice job putting this together Mike. Thanks for including me!

I Bartended at Good Knight's until it sold to the city! Fun Bar!

I worked at the Globe Printing Company back in 1968, which was on Ceape Street. Any photos of this place floating around?

The Wharf was a place that cashed payroll checks for customers that bought a drink. I remember going in the Oshkosh House, the rooms were little more than a sleeping space with one toilet per floor.

Lee knocks it out of the park as usual. Unfortunately Oshkosh has had no interest in saving anything historic.

Another video showcasing the obsession Oshkosh has with destroying history in favor of having a parking lot

I hear the old familiar refrain, "and now it's a parking lot." I think one of the buildings that was in that block was once the Molle typewriter factory. I've only been able to find one picture of it online, and now it's a parking lot. Edit: the 1916 city directory lists it at 53 Ceape, possibly the same building labeled "Oshkosh Boiler Works" in the map at 10:33.

These videos are awesome, great job Sarah!!

damn I live on another continent and have never been to wisconsin but I really like these videos. I appreciate u sharing stuff you're passionate about with the world and I really appreciate how u actually go to the location and show us what's there today

Thank you. Charlie Toy's great granddaughter sent me this link.

This was really good. Thanks. I would love to talk with you about Lewis Hine’s biography concept.

Fantastic! 🎉🎉This is impressive, everyone! Fresh, informative, lively. New website is easy to navigate, thorough and quick. Simply excellent.

❤❤ Awesome job everyone. My memory of the library goes back to my childhood as well. Thanks for all the hard work!

Thank you for researching and documenting this!

Great recommendations. If you're interested, Talking Scared is a fantastic horror podcast. And I love your tattoo.

G. W. Washington built his mansion (to become Steins) right across from John Rogers Morgan's - now the Morgan House home of the Historical Society. Washington's daughter Ada Gates married John Roger Morgan's son John Earl in 1891

Why "High Street" in the description when it was on Church Street? I moved to Oshkosh in 1950. Some of the glass that was in the shop when into 518 Franklin

I saw a vid about the back rooms just recently, this is a great extra bit!

Great stuff! I look forward to more from you!!!

Lewis Hine has always been one of my favorite photographers. Unclear if he was a photographer who championed social causes or a social reformer that utilized photography to make his point. What happened to the end of the story?

A great story with a cliffhanger ending!

Danke

Not to brag but, I went here today, and it was pretty cool, there was no more wallpaper because of some stupid convention, but it's fine, I got drywall that I found on the floor, I immediately went to the dollar general and bought a picture frame, a 4x4 to be exact, then we went to eat :D

👀 Library Board now that is interesting

American Imperialism? Try learning to be unbiased. Maybe then you can defeat your liberal guilt. I just found your channel and was enjoying the History of my birthplace. Once I got past the weak and low power humor I was Ok. But then this 'American Imperialism' tripe fell out of your mouth. I am concerned that the children of Oshkosh have someone with your lack of Patriotism influencing any facet of their learning experience.

I would love to know what the people of Oshkosh think about the movie being created on the lore

I think I have something you Will find very interesting , what is you’re email perhaps. I can shoot you a picture

1871!

Since the discovery of the backrooms location people all around the globe heard of a place named Oshkosh for the first time, it really put your city "on the map". Greetings from germany! ;-)

This is a great video. So glad it popped into my feed. Now I want to learn more about Oshkosh!

I was the owner of Kitz Printing and I helped Robert Kachur pronounced Kay cher produce some of his booklets. He was a bit hard to understand at times. He told me that he had an accident when playing basketball and suffered brain damage. Bob also said that he once considered becoming a Catholic priest. He also mentioned that his father was a Famous Green Bay Packer one of those whose names decorate the stadium. Take note that any one of us can get a bump on the head and things will never be the same. RIP Bob!

I'm really interested in this for 2 reasons: 1: Part of my family is Volga Deutsch, and I'd like to know if I have to come to the library to look at archive materials, or if inter-library loan is still a thing. 2: Peg Lautenshlager held a spot in local office in the 90's, right? I remember hearing a pivotal story that involved her and a few friends testing whether a VW Beetle could actually float in the 70's, it may have been late at night, they drove it down a boat ramp in Miller's bay and it actually floated! Until she said "I wonder how deep it is here," opened the door, and it sank all 4 feet to the bottom. The version of the story I heard was that it was one of those after bar time experiments where everyone is doing their best thinking. I highly doubt there is any archival material to support the story, and I have no idea if it's actually true. One of the moms told the story at my graduation party and we all died laughing. Anyway, that's my contribution to Oshkosh history.

Another great video! My Great Gpa owned a shop one block over in the 1950’s - Widmer Plumbing.

Love seeing your videos pop up, thanks for making them.

"you have always been here" -Kane Pixels Backrooms

Do we know what the inscription on the scrolls say?

Awesome! I will check it out

Man, I would like to introduce you to some real chinese food... Instead of the Hmong facsimile that we get in Oshkosh.

Another awesome installment!

Thank you, wish more would listen to your true facts and not jump to conspiracy theories.

I can appreciate getting the tracks off of the streets-- but it was really neat the way it wandered across the driveways. There is a street in St. Clair, Mich., that has the same set up, but only sees 1 or 2 trains a day.

Another great episode!

I first heard the Oshkosh song just a few months ago, and today just stumbled on the Liberian Learns channel. Loved this! Funny, interesting and really well produced. I'm a Michigander (don't hold it against me) and spent a decade or so in Michigan's UP, but now I live snow-free in the Southwest. Actually am feeling a bit homesick after watching this. Hope it continues.

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Thanks, Michael, for this great history! My grandparents met there in the 1950’s and the rest is history.

Thank you for the shout out for the Electric Lounge, Me and my wife Tiffany own the Electric Lounge (we are now 2 blocks directly north) We operated the bowling alley from 2006 - through the end of 2012. We took over the entire building during the year of 2010. Many great memories were made. We would possibly still be there today, if the timing of us taking over the upstairs was a little different. The inception of the smoking ban happened shortly after opening. That being said we still had some amazing events, from weddings and MMA events to raves and concerts and everything in-between. The heavy metal concert you talked about was actually pretty amazing. It sold out the entire weekend with people from literally all over the world. After we left the facility it was held another successful time at the Masonic Lodge. Ultimately in the end, as the smoking ban crushed the bowling and tavern industry, being a newly established banquet facility. We were unable to aquire the capital needed to fully update the facility and recover from that set back. After pouring our heart and soul into the building (and living in the beautiful house next door that was also razed) we are glad to see that someone was able to restore it to its past grandeur. Great little video.

I worked with good friends Ryan and Tiff extensively on events when they had it as Electric Lounge. As far as that Metal Fest...those were the most well behaved people out of all the shows there believe it or not lol. ...The times we had in there will be forever engrained in my memories forever.

great energy! and so informative!