Wizard of Oz Museum - Wamego, KS
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
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The pink dress appearing white on camera was interesting. What I learned, only somewhat recently, was that after Dorothy's house lands in Oz, the “Dorothy” that opens the door to reveal Munchkinland was a photo double and not Judy Garland. This was done so that the photo double could open the door in the sepia tone dress, step aside off-camera, hand Toto over, and then Judy would walk through wearing the technicolor dress; thus doing it all in one take.
Bobby Kashay. Judy's double. She also fell into the pig pen.
@@kallen868 I didn't know Bobbie Koshay was also the pig sty double. Thanks for the info. I keep learning new things about this film all the time.
@@kallen868 Bobbie Koshay was Judy's stunt double, and was the one snatched up by the Winged Monkeys. She had another function, namely being Judy's physical trainer for the movie. She took Judy on hikes and swimming excursions, as well as playing tennis and badminton with her.
@@kallen868 ....and came.out clean haha watch again and see
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When I was a child we always looked forward to seeing this movie once a year. Never missed it!!
Yes same here..in the 1970s it was on tv most years..loved it and never missed it..oddly I've never had it in dvd but I think I'm gonna do that now
Something so nostalgic about theatrical releases and television showings that we just don’t have anymore with on-demand viewing right…
It was always a family night, we all watched it, mom would make one of those jiffy pop popcorn tins on the stove, and I was allowed a coke in the bottle.
it always plays on thanksgiving!
@@JohnDonovanProductions I agree..same goes for music..when you had to search a record out and finally found it..then continually played it's a and b sides, you really got to appreciate it..kids dont do that anymore and consequently treat it as disposable
As someone who lives in this town, it’s cool to see people actually showing interest in one of our attractions.
Also, “Wamego” is pronounced “Wa-me-go” not “Wa-mango”.
I was laughing too!! Salina gets mispronounced, not Wamego! 😂😂
😂😂 me too!
SAME! The way he said it made me chuckle. A lot of places and names are mis-prounounced around here! lol
Carpetbagger must have had some of that Mango-flavored iced tea from Quicktrip - just can't seem to get it off his mind.
I was hoping someone commented with the correct pronunciation. My grandfather was born there in 1901.
"Auntie Em! Auntie Em!"
I get married in a few weeks and the wedding theme is Oz 😍 thank you so much for sharing!
Hope you had great day best wishes
The other major Wizard of Oz museum/attraction is in Liberal, KS!
Carpetbagger’s new party trick: His hat can stay on during 78 MPH winds.
It's all those pins they hold it down
Its not a hat
@@givemeham2301 Then what is it
@@polmccartknee3792 obviously it's a rat
@@amyconnelly7895 smart ass
By far my Favorite movie of all time. I own all Wizard of Oz Barbie Dolls my grandma got me them when i was 11. I own every anniversary edition. This movie will always have my heart. The return to Oz was basically the horror version of The Orginal Wizard of Oz!! Lol. Thank you so much for visiting Musuem.
I love the Wizard of Oz. It's one of the greatest films ever made. Definitely the best pure fantasy ever put on film. I was five or six the first time I saw it and Margaret Hamilton scared me so bad I had to put on my Batman costume to keep watching.
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Nah. Willow is a way better fantasy film.
@@englishatheart You're entitled to your opinion. You're wrong, but entitled to you opinion.
Ha! That’s so cute! Everyone feels braver when they’re Batman, I guess.
@@mikehughes4969 Lol 😂
Some of my family live in Wamego. Thank you for doing the Wizard of Oz Museum justice and for showing off the Yellow Brick Road. Fun fact there are 15 totos you can find around town.
Wizard of Oz, my favorite movie of all time.
Fun Fact: A couple doors down from the OZ Museum is the Columbian Theater and Museum. The story is that in the 1890s, a wealthy resident of Wamego, KS took a trip to Chicago to see the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. He was so blown away by all the stuff that he saw that he decided to buy a lot of stuff from the fair and bring it back with him. He built a theater using some of the white marble from the fair and he housed the rest of the artifacts in it.
Today you can actually go in and still see his collection.
In the up stairs of the building, inside the room with the actual stage, there are several hand painted wall tapestries that align both sides of the room. They are massive and they are original pieces of work from the actual fair itself. Rumer is that because of the shady things that happened during the 1893 World's fair (Like all the kidnappings, H. H. Holmes, and his famous murder castle), the tapestries are said to be haunted.
Ooooh!
Return to Oz was my favorite movie as a child! I was never scared of it and loved it because it was darker!
The making of that movie was horrendous not just for JG, but also for many others involved. It's still one of my all time favorite classic films though.
It’s a classic and it’s odd most iconic things and people have a really horrible back story behind them
I've never heard anything about the problems during filming. What was so bad?
@@iusedtoliveinmymothergary9827 Judy garland was fed drugs so she can keep going nonstop and she was raped numerous times by cast mates
@@iusedtoliveinmymothergary9827 and the scarecrows makeup as toxic lions was extremely hot and tin mans was extremely heavy
@@jerrygordon29 Well that's disgustingly messed up. That's been happening in Hollywood since the begining we have learned.
All time favorite movie.
I'm curious. Did any of the Totos you came across bless the rains down in Africa?
This comment is extremely underrated
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You magnificent bastard, I wish I thought of that.
That songs changes my mood more than the movie lol
Wamego looks like a nice town. You can't beat a wizard of oz themed Mexican restaurant.
Towns providing unpainted “ icons” and letting artists paint them is a very popular tourism tactic. Many towns have horse, cows, it’s, sheep, etc statues scattered around town
Yep. We have horses in Lexington KY
Well since you can’t “like” a video more than once… I to have a soft spot for Return to Oz. Fun Fact: Jack Pumpkin head gave Tim Burton inspiration to create Jack Skellington The Pumpkin King.
I much prefer Return to Oz to the original.
@@GeorgiaGeorgette The original was made in 1910.
Do you mean the animated movie of the 70s starring Liza Minnelli? I agree that it is somewhat better than the original, but it is difficult to train the green elephants of Mombi.
Saying I LOVE the Wizard of Oz is an understatement, I never tire of this movie, it will never seem dated and will be loved for centuries….it’s so much more than a movie. Love this museum as well very unique 🌈
I watch it when I'm feeling blue and it perks me right up.
The whole movie is shot incredibly beautifully. Is it weird I think some of the sepia scenes are the most beautiful?
I love the troll version of the Wizard of Oz. I told your girlfriend on her channel, that I love troll dolls. They were very popular in the very early 1960's. I wanted one so badly back then. My late mother told me if she had known that I wanted one that badly, she'd have gotten me one. I'm now 69 years old.
My number 1 favorite movie. They found the dress that Judy wore.
Thankyou
All though the movie is quite cursed, and Judy garland, and buddy ebsen were treated absolutely terrible, it has always been my favorite film.
Thank you so much for this!!! I'm a fan of the Wizard of oz from Switzerland and I don't think I would have ever made it to Kansas to see that Museum. GREAT WORK❤️🙏❤️👍
I hope carpetbagger can do Disney land in France
Debbie Reanolds had a pair of real ruby slippers. Oz was the one movie I watched each year near Christmas when I lived in KS.
I love how this town has embraced The Wizard of Oz. The museum is fantastic. Never had seen a Wizard of Oz museum before. We had the whole series of the Wizard books growing up. Don’t know what happened to them. Thank you for sharing the museum and parts of the town with us.
looks like a great little museum. most folk probably already know, but this and 'gone with the wind' were released in 1939 -- both directed by victor fleming!
& George Cukor also worked on both films as well.
@@juliusmaloney yeah, he was replaced as director on GWTW. he didn't shoot any scenes for WoO, but was a 'creative advisor,' so i'm not sure how much input he had in that capacity. still, he certainly can be linked to it and i'm sure film historians can point to his influence.
The Winkies are chanting "Oh, we love the old one."
We visited this last Sunday because I saw you make this video. I waited to watch it until after we visited it. It was really cool
So glad you made it to what I call my happy place. Hope you saw all the hidden items
I live in Queens, NY. Sometime in the 1980's, I was walking through Penn Station. I noticed someone using a pay phone. The women using the pay phone, was Margaret Hamilton! During her career, besides playing the Wicked Witch, she also appeared on Maxwell House commercials as Cora. When, I met her at Penn station, I got her autograph!
I actually have a Wicked Witch of the West doll. I got it when I was younger and I still have it to this day.
my ex has a set of old madam alexander dolls, in the box and all that. too bad they're not worth anything, lol.
@@manlymcstud8588 look on ebay and see what they are going for? Even old 1950s Lunch box is pricey! A Beverly Hillbillies lunch box is going for more then $1,000 check out ebay!🌈... Lol 😂
@@bettyschneider5268 i did look on ebay before posting my comment, they're just not going for that much. sure, lunch boxes are expensive depending on desirability, condition, and how complete it is. just these older mme alexander dolls just aren't going for that much. i could get more for a vintage 'star wars' action figure gun by itself.
@@manlymcstud8588 Oh sorry! 😔 Well good luck on whatever you do! 💒⛪⛪⛪🌈
@@bettyschneider5268 thanks, you, too. :)
some collectibles have been able to make a small comeback in recent years, but after the bottom fell out things like precious moments it never gained back what it once was.
Love the Wizard of Oz movie. Surprising that it still stands up. That is a very cool museum and enjoyed the yellow brick road. Keep Safe❤Keep Well ❤
Oz the great and powerful is so underrated
Return to Oz was ahead of it time. One of my favorite movies
RtO was a product of its time, namely the great Fantasy Film Renaissance of the 1980's.
I am 30 years old and those flying monkeys and the witch melting still scare the shit out of me every time I watch it. Not to the mention the fact of the witch riding the bicycle scene..... I love the movie but those parts gave me nightmares for the longest time as a kid. I also remember my cousin gave me one of her snowglobes from her collection when I was 5 that was a unicorn with a rainbow and it played "Somewhere Over the Rainbow whenever you turned it upside down. Heck I even dressed up as Dorothy for Halloween when I was 12.
I just randomly came across this video. Coincidentally I live in Wamego! Looks like you had a good time and its always nice to see people taking interest in our little town. Safe travels!
Miss Gulch
A K.A: the original Karen
I believe Miss Gooch is from Auntie Mame
@@cindyvargas9277 The character of Miss Gulch is from The Wizard of Oz. There is a Miss Gooch in Auntie Mame though.
every year on thanksgiving the wizard of oz is played on cable TV. it’s a family tradition to watch it with my dad
Try to go to Lucas Kansas. It's in western Kansas. It's got a really cool place called the Garden of Eden which is a large collection of statues an old civil war vet built around his house. It's really cool and has odd history. Lucas also has the Grassroots Art Center which also has interesting stuff.
He posted a video about The Garden of Eden, haven't watched it yet! It uploaded Monday 7/26 😊
Will always love the wizard of OZ
Drove from CA to PA when we moved to the East Coast, stopped in Kansas and went to this museum. Kansas was one of my favorite states on the drive, it really surprised me. Lots of awesome and well maintained museums, and the most courteous drivers of all my travels!
I loved the Museum when we went last year. I must have stood in front of the "Return to Oz" display for like 10 mins. Favorite Movie of all time!
Hahahahahaha omg the look on Jacob's face, while in the tornado simulator!😂🤣 Great video, Bagger!
Beautiful artwork on the yellow brick road trail
I've always loved The Wizard of Oz, that museum is amazing!
The wicked witch was on the Mr, Rogers neighborhood. If i can remember right, she shared the witch costume with Fred Rogers. And of course with the children.
We were there not to long ago!!! Such a neat little town! ❤️
Thanks as someone who lives in this town it’s pretty cool
Good thing there's no compressed air in the movie.
“Except for what they did to Judy Garland behind the scenes”
Me: “🗣 HELL YEA!! “
They did my girl so wrong 😢
Every single actor was treated terribly during the Wizard of Oz production not just Judy. The actress who played the wicked witch developed alzhiemer's due to the toxic green cooper paint used on her body, she also was severally burned on set due to a pyrotechnics error. EmpLemon on youtube made a really informative video on this topic.
@@HulksterHogan that sucks. But however off set, the actress of the wicked witch was really nice to judy and other members
@@HulksterHogan Exactly! And the munchkins were treated worst of all
Judy seemed so kind and almost innocent. She was just sent to the wolves by everyone who should have been protecting her. Bless her, I hope she is at total peace, wherever she may be.
No, they didn't. There are so many exaggerations and outright lies that I sometimes feel ill.
The funny thing is, the Wizard of Oz Museum doesnt even have Dorothy's dress that she wore in the 1939 movie. If you want to see her actual dress it's in Seattle at the museum of pop culture. I recomend going there when you have the opportunity YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED
There's a tiny oz museum in Chittenango, NY where the author was born and raised
Great video . I love the Wizard of Oz thanks Jacob.
So jealous of this one Jacob! And a few days before my birthday! The Wizard of Oz is my all-time favorite movie, and I can't fully express what it means to me. You are correct that there are takeaways for children and adults. And you commented on one of the most important themes to my adult life when you said the characters exhibit brains, heart and courage despite thinking they lack them. We are always our worst critics, and yet are capable of so much more than we think.
P.S.-if you're looking for a good read, Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts is a fictionalized depiction of L. Frank Baum's wife from the time she meets him to the time she is widowed and acting as a consultant on the film.
That museum is crazy
If it werent for the carpetbagger would see none of these places, thank you soooo much carpetbagger
"... I'm not gonna get jump-scared in the Oz Museum, am I?" Haha! I was wondering that, myself!
Was there at the Museum in Sept 2021. Very nice.
You should ask Crocs to make you a pair of ruby slippers. :)
Or silver!
Yes .very disturbing behind the scenes .i am sorry i ever looked into it . now to the museum .. thank u for the virtual tour and narration . A few days ago i heard they found judy garlends dress . And her stolen red slippers were returned . Strange circumstances now a museum opens about oz .
its been there for years, i live an hour away
So many lies are told about the production of the movie. Yes, there was discomfort, yes, there were accidents, but apart from that, it was just business as usual.
Now I don’t know if I’ve watched it, but The Wiz with Michael Jackson is also my favorite different version of The Wizard of Oz!
The guards chanted..." all we owe we owe her "
What a classic 👌👏
I Love Your Channel! This was a Great tour! That pink show boat was one of my Favorite toys! My uncle brought it home for me when I was around 7, he worked at a Goodwill Store.
Keep up the Great Content! So many cool things out there!
My favorite movie of all time!
Oh wow. Awesome tour. Love this movie. My favorite character is Miss Gulch/wicked witch of the west.
Thank you for mentioning Judy's suffering as not many people remember how badly she was treated
That's because she wasn't, not by anyone involved in the making of "Wizard."
What a wonderful museum! This is the first movie I remember watching on TV as a little kid and I remember hiding under the afghan because the wicked witch terrified me. I still love it. I agree, the special effects were so good, the tornado is amazing. The colors are gorgeous. I still remember the special show Angela Lansbury did once about the making of the movie that aired before the movie. It was very good.
This place is pretty cool. I have a TON of wizard of Oz memorable and a prop piece
Wife and I visited this in 2016, looks like they added a few things.
as a kid I always thought those soilder said OReos lol
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me too . haha ...
I remember watching Oz the great and powerful at a drive in movie, unfortunately, that was the only time I had ever seen it.
You're adorable! I love all of your videos!
I love seeing Wizard of Oz as a kid. When I was 12, on my first year of 7th grade in Allison Academy, I was Dorothy Gale for Halloween.
About Dorothy's shoes: a few years ago there was an episode of Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates (Season 5 Episode 6 if I'm right), where Josh gets some new information and probably reveals the true location of the original slippers.
They were in a case on her dresser
Absolutely fascinating!!! Thank you for taking me to places ill never see! Appreciate all you do!!!
Thank you so much for making this video I really enjoyed it I am a true big fan of The Wizard of Oz I enjoyed it very much thank you
Met Margaret Hamilton in NY, heard her laugh in the ladies room, what a treat🥰
It’s crazy that Dorothy in return to oz is the gothest witch in the Craft!!
No, that's just acting.
thanks 4 the tour.
I had the fortunate experience to meet Margaret Hamilton at Marco Beach Resort in Florida back in 1973 at the pool there. I was going on 7 and my mom introduced me to her. Great video Jacob. 👍🙂
As a native from the town
Wa (as in WASHINGTON)
me (the opposite of you)
go (what I do at a green light)
WA-ME-GO
Named after a Pottowattamie Indian Chief who welcomed the Kansas Pacific Railroad (soon Union Pacific) who was instrumental in the founding of the town in 1866.
I love that you went here!! One of my most favorite movies!!!
I went to Oz at Beech Mountain back when it was open. I remember going through Dorothy's house before the tornado and watching a movie in the back of the house that was similar to the scene in the movie where the house was flying in through the air and wicked witch flys by. I remember the yellow brick road and seeing a wicked witch dancing around. As a small child I remember being terrified while I was there. Got the book about this and was looking for pictures of us but didn't see any.
The flying monkeys on the exterior are a new addition since my visit in 2018. Love it!
I loved the Wizard of Oz as a kid. I watched the video so much, I broke the tape! And, I would so wear the ruby slippers 🥰
I’ve been to Kansas before but had no idea there was a Wizard of Oz museum. I’ll have to check it out someday
I was also fascinated by Kansas in the wizard of oz as a child. I grew up in Vermont, surrounded by mountains, so at Six years of age I never knew that the land could be so FLAT! I had also never had heard of a tornado…my grandmother, who had bought the video tape for me and my cousins and was exited to show it to us, was forced to do her best to explain BOTH to me in the span of fifteen minutes. Lol. She explained the flat lands of central US quite well, but I was just not able to fathom Tornadoes yet.
I wished I would’ve now you were going to be in Wamego Kansas I live about 15 miles away from there. And believe it or not I’ve never been to the Oz museum
"and your little dog, too!" On every corner in town, with a diff't paint-job. Right on.
Great video love it.
I really enjoy coming home from work, getting food and putting on your videos. Great stuff!
This was so awesome 😊 thank you ☺️
I’ve been a fan of the Judy Garland version of the movie since I can remember even having memories- but it’s my wife’s all-time favorite movie. I can’t say that I blame her- while it may not have the same effect on me as it did back then, it still gives me a serious jolt of nostalgia , but more importantly a sense of wonder that really can make me feel like a kid again. I never had any kids (I inherited some great ones when she and I got married, but they were already grown, so past the age that I could have introduced them to OZ, and not yet to the age where they would appreciate it all over again)- but if I had, I really would have enjoyed making this movie a yearly tradition, like it was when I was growing up. Thanks for sharing this tour with all of us- I’m going to forward it to my wife, as I’m sure she’ll enjoy it too. Have a great weekend!
Seems like a pretty cool place. I (Steve) have never watched the Wizard of Oz movie all the way thru in one sitting but my wife has. We'll have to do that now. Thanks for sharing 😊
I never really liked the movie
The parts I watched we're blah 🤣. So I'm really not sure I'd really like it
@@CryBlueofZ I’ll alert the media.
@@RichardHandal301 PHANTOM OF THE OPERA IS BETTER!!
@@CryBlueofZ Why are you here?
Wizard of oz my all time favourite movies ever if I ever get to go to America that OZ museum is on my list of places to go
Used to go here a lot as a kid! Kansas born and raised I’m glad you got to go check this out!
If you like the Wizard of Oz you should go to Casanova NY where Baum was born and wrote the book. The whole town is Oz themed and, has an Oz festival once a year but, I forget when it is.