Everybody should live how they want. I left the big cities and live in a rural ghost town in Texas like this. Frugal simple living and a modest retirement. I enjoy the slow pace, quiet, and tranquility. We enjoy gardening and raising chickens for fresh eggs. I built a recording studio behind the house and have weekly songwriting sessions with other songwriters that live in other nearby small towns like this. With high speed internet, most everything can be accomplished remotely, It not too far to drive to a bigger city occasionally. Love cooking our own meals at a fraction of restaurant prices. We can still hook up the camper and travel around the USA then come back home to our secluded homestead. I personally think the urbanization of the USA is now becoming more of a problem for the city dwellers than us. Marfa, TX is a good example.
It would be great if people could live how they want without comments like this...." I personally think the urbanization of the USA is now becoming more of a problem for the city dwellers than us". ALWAYS has to be "Us vs Them" doesn't it? It isn't enough to live how you want, you have to bash how the other's live and sit around watching anything negative that happens to them so you can rejoice in it. Which of course invigorates content creators into making more negative content just to get follows. Then the push-back comes and city people make content about derelict hovels and ignorance and bigotry that goes on in place where you folks live..... NO ONE can just be happy where they are and shut up like we used to when we like all the states for different reasons. And enjoyed both the city and they rural areas for different reasons.....Nope. Always have to attack people who made other choices.
I was born in Cordell in 1960, moved away at the age of 7, then returned to attend school at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. My grandparents owned and operated a dairy farm about 9 miles east of Cordell, just north of a tiny place called Cloud Chief. Their farm was actually bisected by the Washita river (which is pronounced WASH-i-tah, incidentally, not wash-EE-tuh). Thank you for the lovely trip down memory lane.
I’ve always pronounced Washita like you do. Where I come from in Idaho there is a rich Native American culture and we try to be true to their language. Wish more ppl would pay attention to those differences in the NA language and English and give respect to Native languages that they deserve.
There are lots of old Army Air force bases in Texas. Lots of armadillo in Texas too. Texas Armadillos prefer old Texas air bases because everything is ship shape for armored rodents like armordillos. 😅. In Texas we sometimes call them night time highway speed bumps and hitting one can louse of your vehicular. 😊
I’m from Oklahoma and now live in Los Angeles. I found your videos of rural Oklahoma extremely interesting and enjoyable to watch. Really helps to remind us that the world does not revolve around us in big cities. There is a lot of life all over. Thanks for sharing these. It was a great excursion down memory lane.
You have my sympathy. If you need evacuation from California; give this native Californian a text. I'll come help liberate you from the Socialist Soviet Republic of California.
Burns Flatt space port is the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base closed in 1969. The housing is enlisted housing from that era. It has excellemt hanger construction, and a 13,000 ft. runway.
Yes I know about the base, I was stationed there for four years before it closed. Some of those houses were never occupied by military. Best runway at the time in the AF. Where I met my wife of 58 years .
About 90 other Airmen and I were sent to Clinton Sherman AFB to prepare to reopen it in 74. It was SAC with B-52s armed with Nuclear weapons, the same as before. The AF strategy in the 50s was to spread the B 52s around the country instead of having a couple of considerable bases if the USSR attacked using missiles. The US always had loaded B-52s near the Arctic Circle as a deterrent for the USSR. There would be a group at the Circle, a group flying back to their homeport, and a group flying North. .
I remember Operation Chrome Dome from my SAC days. Flying loaded nukes constantly but when we kept having crashes and losing bombs, 8th Airforce was disbanded, and when 2nd AF took over we stopped flying nukes . That happened in 1969 and 70. @@mdnealy4097 Whatever happened to Clinton AFB when you were there? Just curious.
We live in Clinton and know all these places very well. You are probably the first travel vlogger who has ever called Clinton "lovely"... So thanks. Although we were sweating it when after downtown you immediately went to the worst parts of town and drove around. (Cotton Gin area and the area we call "The Flats). The numbers are wacky here because we have a lot of rich farmers as well as poor people who have very little.
we used to live in Pampa and Amarillo Texas, from NW Arkansas originally,and we have come and gone through these Oklahoma towns many times through the years! On hiway 66,33,I-40,Turner Turnpike, and others! We used to go through Cordell, Clinton. I-40 really killed towns ! I hated to see that,loved going through them!
Your last city, Elk City is the birth place of Jim Webb. For those of us old enough to remember/enjoy these popular songs by Glen Campbell..."By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman," 21 year old Webb wrote those songs. He also wrote "McArthur Park" a song about someone leaving their "cake out in the rain too long." Anyway, a shout out to Elk City, a town as tough as a $5 steak!😁
Thanks . Shame about but common all over America. Decline Manufacturing Sold OUT Reagan & Clinton GAVE everything to CHINA remember most favoured nation in 1995 . Bad bad bad .
Played it at graduation in high school three out of four years in the band, graduated on the fourth round, but had to play it up till that night,, in class, dont know why they chose that song, but they liked it a LOT!
My Daddy was stationed at Clinton Sherman Air Force base in Burns Flat. Those duplexes are old military housing. You took me on a trip down memory lane. Thanks.
Love the videos. Regarding your comment about the housing styles in Burns Flat all being the same; Those were typical of Air Force enlisted housing of the era. If memory serves correctly I recall the base may have been called Clinton-Sherman AFB. This base was also designated as an alternate/emergency landing runway for the Space Shuttle program. I noticed in one of your other vids on rural Oklahoma that the peak population of many of the rural towns was around 1980. This coincides with the end of an oil boom (late 70's) in the state. The jobs went away, so did the younger people and anyone else not associated with a farm or agriculture. Only so many can inherit the farms, the rest must move to find work. Please keep the vids coming.
Alot of people laugh when you tell them Burns Flat used to be an alternative space shuttle place but it's true. That housing was all sold off to people for a fairly low price if I remember correctly
Maybe an interesting side note to Burns Flat. Then President Jimmy Carter landed in burns flat and had one of his town hall meetings back in the late 1970’s. I don’t remember exactly what year.
I lived in Cordell as a child in the mid fifties. It was cold in the winter with dust storms due to drought, which obliterated the sun. A pleasant place to live but I was happy when we moved to southeast Oklahoma. I remember the Mennonite farmers coming to town to shop. In those days they painted the chrome over on their vehicles.
Moved to Cordell last year from a suburb of Portland, Oregon. I love it here. Things make sense. We have a lot of wildlife locally. I am pleased to see that you caught some of it on camera. One thing that I would like to note is that I don't consider this town to be barely hanging on. You seem to say that about a lot of rural areas. In my view, many of our large US cities is what are hanging by a thread over the pit.
Red as a rose. I am part of the blue state conservative exodus. I suspect there will be more of us. Don't worry; I don't think liberals wind up in Western Oklahoma intentionally.
My mother comes from western Oklahoma. Harmon County. Born 1929 dust bowl years left 1939. To ARIZONA. My dad born Eufaula Oklahoma. Left 1937 to AZ. Thank you Joe for this video.
How delightful for the first thing you see in Cordell to be a possom-on-the-half-shell! They are such useful little things. They keep my yard cleared of grubs. Seeing the neighborhoods is always fun. From the stately to the dumps, it's always entertaining! I like Nicole's views of things too. I can hear me saying what she says! Your food looked delicious!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTripI live in Tulsa. Didn't know Armadillos were here,or in Oklahoma til we lived here awhile! They visit my yard at night I guess, don't see them but see where they have dug for grubs!
Joe & Nic, the spaceport used to be Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base. I was a toddler when my dad was stationed there and stayed until kindergarten. My grandparents - also in the Air Force - were also stationed there. During our 4 years there, our family went through some very good and very bad times. In 4 short years! The duplexes you drove past were base housing for the enlisted folks, that was base housing architecture during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It looked like you drove right past the duplex where my grandparents lived and I believe you would have had to pass my parent's to get to the spaceport! Thanks for bringing back some very old memories. I check in on your videos from time to time - especially those from Oklahoma and Kansas. The two of you look very down to earth and unpretentious. That makes watching your videos very enjoyable! Keep up the great work.
Have you visited Tipton Oklahoma? Sept. 2022 population 713. One gas station, post office, city Hall, car wash, children's home, 2 churches. Nature is reclaiming a lot of the town. There is a Dollar General being built. 21 miles to Walmart. 14 miles to local grocery store
I live In Colbert, Oklahoma, back in the 80’s my husband worked in Cordel and Burns Flat on an oil field.. used to pull a travel trailer and live there and come home every two weeks. Nice to go down memory lane.
Those duplexes reminded me of base housing for military families? Maybe that being a "space" town it was once set up as a military base. The town probably has an interesting history.
Spent many days rehabbing those old military duplex quarters just like the ones shown in the video. As far as the chairs on the porch you have to have somewhere comfy to sleep when your locked out for the evening lol.
I can't believe I haven't made it to Cordell! It looks so nice! I appreciate you noting the New Deal architecture and mural of the post office. (Could have been a "Swift Fox" common to Oklahoma) The base housing in Keesler AFB Biloxi, MS looked just like those houses in Burns Flat! Super cool filling station in Corn! Thanks for showing Elk City and Clinton! Nice towns, Have a great week Joe and Nic!
I think the armadillo is a good omen for your travels! Cordell has a gorgeous courthouse and homes. I also love the murals in this video! Fox sighting acquired! Re Elk City Never seen a Dollar General incorporated downtown. I love the brick roads. Enjoyed the house tour! The butterfly was another good omen for your travels 🦋 Thank you for a great video !
My mother grew up in Washita County; Cordell, Lake Valley, Burns Flat, Cloud Chief. She took us kids there a lot in the 60's. Your video brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing.
At 15:33 I would hazard a guess that you're looking at what was the military housing built for people who worked on the Air Force base when it was active.
Its ok Nicole, I watch a lot of true crime shows too !! in fact, I often see some of these towns- on those shows !! Thanks for the cats ! BTW- LOVE the brick roads ! how sensible, last ages. Love all the tree lined streets.
The WPA Works Projects Administration was key behind the situation where artists and craftsmen made what would have been average appearing spaces "unique" to an area. Plus art and decorative details are always appreciated in an interior of a structure. 😊
If I had Sir Paul McCartney's money, I'd love to tour what's left of Route 66, winding from Chicago all the way to L.A. (as he did several years ago). There's a "historical marker" in Arcadia, OK, where he stopped to ask a resident if he was still on the correct path. If I recall correctly, he spent quality time with the neighbors before laboring on, so they commemorated the visit with a sign. I'm digging the photo opportunities all over the place!
25:57 its looks like a yard locomotive ,small and strong machines for pull wagons in these industry places :) Anyway,all of these cities really pretty ,thanks for it Joe :)
To me it looks like early EMD GP series of locos. This one being striped almost to the bone. But if you look carefully there is some sort of tarp being stretched over where the prime mover is. GP stands for General Purpose Locomotives by EMD. It could also be some of the GE U boats
@@baassbooster EMD stands for Electro Motive Division of General Electric. Damn that is from some rusty brain cells. I grew up a few miles from the plant.
Probably a GP7 or GP9 if I had to guess. It also looks like it hasn't seen service for a while and is being used for scrap. Edit I found the locomotive. It used to be FarmRail 8253, a GP10 that switched in Clinton. Also it was use in 2020.
My husband and I would love if you would check out Sentinel and Hobart in western Oklahoma. Sentinel is an amazing town and perfect for building a family in and both towns have some pretty neat history and buildings and houses. Back in the day these towns was really booming. Have y’all gone through Guthrie Oklahoma? It was the original home of the state capital. We are really enjoying your videos we have been watching on his account. Keep up the good work. Oh btw they have a super cute and nice bed and breakfast in Hobart with a neat history with the building.
For me as a European its both fascinating and a bit mysterious that literally nobody is roaming the streets. No elderly, no kids, not one. And where are all the „basketball baskets“? Where, do you think, should the next olympic gold medal come from?? ;) Btw, subscribed. Good luck for you and „the wife“ and please keep up the series for a good while still. One more year, from what I understood? Greetings from Germany and cheers, 🇩🇪🍻.
It's probably a Sunday, everyone is at church, most businesses are closed. As to the basketball query, Detroit or similar. Plus this is downtown, most people will have a hoop on the front of their garage if someone in the family is interested. Most schools, if they have a team, will have a court for the students.
An awesome video, as always, so many interesting towns (and lots of different wildlife, and one cat !!). I loved the old Motor Hotel in Clinton, a wonderful era. Thank you both so much.😊
I'm back. I just wanted to mention that this tour was a lot of fun and you are so informative. I appreciate your doing research before you hit the town. Those motel signs were wonderful...especially the one that was in the front yard of a now converted home. I'm glad they left the sign up. And those were foxes. Coyotes look much more like medium sized dogs. Foxes have that slender body and bushy tail. I'm in the next state west, New Mexico and I do a lot of camping and seeing critters of all kinds, but I've never seen an armadillo. Great start to the show. All the best to you and your family. Keep it up.
Awesome road trip with you guys. Joe- luv your interaction with armadillo, horse, cows, butterfly, dog & cats. And as always the stats/architecture that you share with us about each town.Thanks from the bottom of my heart for doing these vids. If I ever won the lottery that Route 66 would be top of my bucket list. So nice when Nic joined the vid at Elk City-you're a delight & u liking true crime movies/books means you have an investigative mind-no shame there. Awesome Vid ! Luv watching them.
I watched your video and when u got to the residential area in burns flat. That use to be the air force base housing. My dad was an SP in air force and we lived there on base. Great memories thanks for sharing.
Displaced Okie here. Made my day to see this in my RUclips feed. Made me a tad bit homesick, though. I'm originally from Muskogee, now in Michigan. My husband (Michigan born and bred) and I have decided to move to(in my case, back to) Oklahoma by this time next year.
Your videos are excellent. Great info and data, intriguing locations and delivered with an architectural interest making it really informative. Thank you!!
That brick house in Cordell for sale is $299,900 comes with .29 acres that is a great buy beautiful home very historically preserved.Once again great video thanks so much god bless safe travels
Cool ride along. That rain came along. Good to see Nicky, She says "We have to find a cat" and then you did, They must be doing a lot of farming in those areas. Thanks again for the hard work. Enjoyed it.
Thank you for your wonderful video of Washita County, Oklahoma! My mother was born in Washita County, in 1915. Her family migrated to California in 1934. I visited Washita County in 1984. Thank you for your videos!
We used to go to our relatives in Altus and Martha in the late 50's...I remember always stopping in Clinton to get Chocolate Malts....I think it was a Tastee Freeze.
OZ// How amazing- the Armadillo !! thanks for catching that !! You just uploaded 2mins ago, it says- I,m getting good at knowing when you have one coming !! Thanks Joey. Hi to Nicole.
Yes that was a fox. Fun facts: Armadillos are almost blind. You don’t have to build a very big fence to keep them out. Put up a 12” board and they just keep nosing it all the way to the end. They are very destructive to the ground. They can jump straight up about 3 ft if spooked and can run away faster than you would ever dream those little feet could go.
Lived in Burns Flat from 1980 till 1985. working in the oilfield for a the Western Company in Clinton. When you encountered the fox, it would have been coming out of my old backyard. Back then, every house was full and Halliburton had a service yard that had at least 200 vehicles and a bunch of employees. It was on the left when you made your turn to the spaceport. Had to move back to Texas when the oilpatch collapsed in '85. Love your videos and keep up the good work.
An armadillo wow! Cool! We don’t have them here…much more exciting than a cat 🐈⬛ but don’t take that the wrong way, we still appreciate the cats 🐱😊 Good Job 👏🏻 ❤your work
Hi Joe, hi Nic, I'm still enjoying your videos, it is amazing how many places you visit and the different prices of homes. Stay safe and keep trucking. From the State of Michigan...God Bless.
Clinton Oklahoma has the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian clinic to. It used to be a hospital. Clinton is pretty big on medical stuff for Western Oklahoma.
The duplex housing in Burns Flats is the former base housing for Sherman-Clinton AFB. You will see this at a lot of closed military installations, where the base housing is converted into civilian homes.
Joe & Nic, glad the Movie Theater Run'n. A Lot Of Earthquakes Due to The Frack'n Done in the State. I Don't Think Will Ever Land From Space There In My Life Time. Safe travels. always, Tommy🤠
I love these small oklahoma towns! I lived in Northern Okla. my teenage years, I miss it a lot. And the people are very friendly. You make a friend here, and they're friends for life.
I have watched many of Joe's videos and enjoy seeing towns that I will probably never go to. He gives great information of the statistics and how the town is doing in regard to population gains or loss. However, I really wish that he may one day stop and have a conversation with some of the residents. How did they come to live in such a town, and how do they feel about their town slowly dying. Perhaps a discussion with the mayor. Still, always an interesting video much foreign to a city dweller like myself.
28:24 "Country music superstar Toby Keith was born here." That may be, but Moore, OK seems to take all the credit. I used to see his large bill-board off I-35 while driving through Moore and I had assumed he was from there. I guess he didn't stay in Clinton too long.
The view of the locomotive you recorded appears to be an ALCO locomotive just judging by the forward appearence. I am a retired Locomotive Engineer and worked for the BNSF railroad and two of it's predecessor lines; the Burlington Nothern and the FRISCO railroads. I began my career at Enid, Ok. I have made many trips by rail to Clinton both as a brakeman and after 1980 as a Locomotive Engineer. I only knew of the ALCO engines from senior brakemen, Conductors and Engineers, but never operated any. The FRISCO Ry. abandoned the line from Enid to Davidson Oklahoma in the mid 80s but the line originally ran all the way to Vernon, Texas. The Red River bridge burned out in 1958 and was rebuilt only to be destroyed again a short time later. I made only one trip to Davidson where the line was stubbed after the bridge was lost the second time. I don't believe that railroad was ever sold but it's operation was granted to a Short Line Operator called FARMRAIL. I think that there was a management office for that line located in the FRISCO depot there in Clinton. FARMRAIL operated almost exclusively with those old ALCO engines that had been reconditioned and put in service for short line operations. I don't know whether FARMRAIL is still in operation or not. I think I recall seeing freight cars around there so, I'm guessing their still operating. I have two guesses about that engine you filmed. It was either being rebuilt or it was being used for parts. On an aside, you recorded and called attention to the Glancy Motel on old 66. That is where FRISCO crews that included me, on many occasions, would stay for rest. Usually, we would not spend more than eight or ten hours there. Which was determined by the Federal Hours of Service Law. We dined in a restauraunt right next door west of the Glancy. I don't recall the name, but I did notice that it wasn't there anymore. Thanks for sharing this. It brought back a lot of memories of my railroading career working on the Clinton-Snyder Subdivision.
Excellent video it reminded of a road trip I did a few years ago from Denver down to Louisiana. I actually stayed overnight in Elk City the hotel proprieter astounded when I told him I'd walked a few hundred yards to a restaurant. The absence of people on the streets is an interesting contrast to Europe. Here in my part of the UK we had an invasion of mormon "missionaries" the police were called out many times to prevent harrassment of pedestrians and householders by them.
take it from someone who has lived in small OKlahoma towns, this is LARGE compared to hundreds of other small towns. . . . . what you really have to look at is the enrollment (and history) of the local school. Cordell is active and competitive in many areas on their campus.
What's better than a cat sighting? Seeing armadillos and foxes! (Speaking of armadillos, any fans of Tarkus here? 🙂) As someone suggested about the homes in Burns Flat, I think they are military housing, with maybe a touch of ranch style, considering the prairie locale. Clinton and Elk City both have Rt 66 museums worth visiting, but I have to give Elk City the edge as it's part of a complex with tons of really cool stuff on display. Until next time, happy trails!
@yawndave my late wife and I loved ELP, saw them in concert many times back in the 70s,3 nights in row in Glasgow, early 72, my son Greg named after Mr Lake, RIP Greg and Keith…
@@aldo5428 Hey, glad to see another classic prog fan here! I only saw ELP once, in San Francisco in '73. The end of Brain Salad Surgery with the quadrophonic sound swirling around and around was mind-blowing!
Being from the UK, cannot get used to seeing so few people around when you drive down town. We were in Providence, in 2000, touring round and was struck then as to how few people are out and about, during the day. Had an old friend, sadly not with us anymore, who trained at No3 British Flying Training School, in Miami, Oklahoma.
It's pretty harsh in western Oklahoma. Brutal hit summers. Very windy winters with ice so most people are in their trucks drinking beer and looking for something to do.
My husband was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma,but moved to the east coast at 6 months old. I’d love tip-off someday visit the state and Muskogee in particular.
I grew up in Okeene, Ok., a little North of where you are. You should tour that town. Lots of history, and there's another community/small town west of Okeene, called "Homestead, Ok." That's where we lived, and I had some really great memories there. Okeene's mascot is the "Whippet", which looks like a small grayhound .
![I.N "HALLUCINATION" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n5B5q1Hwt_U/mqdefault.jpg)
Everybody should live how they want. I left the big cities and live in a rural ghost town in Texas like this. Frugal simple living and a modest retirement. I enjoy the slow pace, quiet, and tranquility. We enjoy gardening and raising chickens for fresh eggs. I built a recording studio behind the house and have weekly songwriting sessions with other songwriters that live in other nearby small towns like this. With high speed internet, most everything can be accomplished remotely, It not too far to drive to a bigger city occasionally. Love cooking our own meals at a fraction of restaurant prices. We can still hook up the camper and travel around the USA then come back home to our secluded homestead. I personally think the urbanization of the USA is now becoming more of a problem for the city dwellers than us. Marfa, TX is a good example.
It would be great if people could live how they want without comments like this...." I personally think the urbanization of the USA is now becoming more of a problem for the city dwellers than us". ALWAYS has to be "Us vs Them" doesn't it? It isn't enough to live how you want, you have to bash how the other's live and sit around watching anything negative that happens to them so you can rejoice in it. Which of course invigorates content creators into making more negative content just to get follows. Then the push-back comes and city people make content about derelict hovels and ignorance and bigotry that goes on in place where you folks live..... NO ONE can just be happy where they are and shut up like we used to when we like all the states for different reasons. And enjoyed both the city and they rural areas for different reasons.....Nope. Always have to attack people who made other choices.
I was born in Cordell in 1960, moved away at the age of 7, then returned to attend school at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. My grandparents owned and operated a dairy farm about 9 miles east of Cordell, just north of a tiny place called Cloud Chief. Their farm was actually bisected by the Washita river (which is pronounced WASH-i-tah, incidentally, not wash-EE-tuh). Thank you for the lovely trip down memory lane.
Cloud chief was the original county seat of washita county.
An acquaintance of mine had family in Cloud Chief. Sounds like a gasoline type for Texaco.
SWOSU good school
I’ve always pronounced Washita like you do. Where I come from in Idaho there is a rich Native American culture and we try to be true to their language. Wish more ppl would pay attention to those differences in the NA language and English and give respect to Native languages that they deserve.
All those houses in Burns Flat (spaceport) looked exactly like enlisted military housing.
That’s what I was thinking. I think it used to be an Air Force base
Yes I live here. It’s a old military base
There are lots of old Army Air force bases in Texas. Lots of armadillo in Texas too. Texas Armadillos prefer old Texas air bases because everything is ship shape for armored rodents like armordillos. 😅. In Texas we sometimes call them night time highway speed bumps and hitting one can louse of your vehicular. 😊
Looks like military housing to me.
Yes, it was Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base.
I’m from Oklahoma and now live in Los Angeles. I found your videos of rural Oklahoma extremely interesting and enjoyable to watch. Really helps to remind us that the world does not revolve around us in big cities. There is a lot of life all over. Thanks for sharing these. It was a great excursion down memory lane.
"alot of life".... Where's the life? These towns are dead!
You have my sympathy. If you need evacuation from California; give this native Californian a text. I'll come help liberate you from the Socialist Soviet Republic of California.
I lived and worked in Enid OK (1991-1992). I enjoyed my work and time then. Now I retired in Michigan. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Burns Flatt space port is the former Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base closed in 1969. The housing is enlisted housing from that era. It has excellemt hanger construction, and a 13,000 ft. runway.
I thought the homes looked regimented and reminded me of military base housing?
I was stationed at Clinton Sherman from 1961 to 1965. It was a SAC base. We had the B52s and KC135s loaded and ready to go
Yes I know about the base, I was stationed there for four years before it closed. Some of those houses were never occupied by military. Best runway at the time in the AF. Where I met my wife of 58 years .
About 90 other Airmen and I were sent to Clinton Sherman AFB to prepare to reopen it in 74. It was SAC with B-52s armed with Nuclear weapons, the same as before. The AF strategy in the 50s was to spread the B 52s around the country instead of having a couple of considerable bases if the USSR attacked using missiles.
The US always had loaded B-52s near the Arctic Circle as a deterrent for the USSR. There would be a group at the Circle, a group flying back to their homeport, and a group flying North.
.
I remember Operation Chrome Dome from my SAC days. Flying loaded nukes constantly but when we kept having crashes and losing bombs, 8th Airforce was disbanded, and when 2nd AF took over we stopped flying nukes . That happened in 1969 and 70. @@mdnealy4097 Whatever happened to Clinton AFB when you were there? Just curious.
The horse you show in Bessie is mine. Her name is Penelope. You are correct she is a beautiful girl ❤️
@@RachelDickerson-ul1qe 😀❤️❤️
I ❤ your horsey 🐴
We live in Clinton and know all these places very well. You are probably the first travel vlogger who has ever called Clinton "lovely"... So thanks. Although we were sweating it when after downtown you immediately went to the worst parts of town and drove around. (Cotton Gin area and the area we call "The Flats). The numbers are wacky here because we have a lot of rich farmers as well as poor people who have very little.
That's what I thought too when I heard those lopsided numbers...coming from MN I thought there must be a bunch of rich farmers here.
I went thru Clinton in 1972, ate at Pop Hicks.
How long have yall lived in clinton?
Lol. Yeah Clinton dosnt really get described as lovely very often.
we used to live in Pampa and Amarillo Texas, from NW Arkansas originally,and we have come and gone through these Oklahoma towns many times through the years! On hiway 66,33,I-40,Turner Turnpike, and others! We used to go through Cordell, Clinton. I-40 really killed towns ! I hated to see that,loved going through them!
Your last city, Elk City is the birth place of Jim Webb. For those of us old enough to remember/enjoy these popular songs by Glen Campbell..."By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Galveston," "Wichita Lineman," 21 year old Webb wrote those songs. He also wrote "McArthur Park" a song about someone leaving their "cake out in the rain too long." Anyway, a shout out to Elk City, a town as tough as a $5 steak!😁
Thanks . Shame about but common all over America.
Decline
Manufacturing Sold OUT
Reagan & Clinton GAVE everything to CHINA remember most favoured nation in 1995 .
Bad bad bad .
I don't think that i can take it, cause it took to long to make it, and they'll never make that recipe again!!!
Played it at graduation in high school three out of four years in the band, graduated on the fourth round, but had to play it up till that night,, in class, dont know why they chose that song, but they liked it a LOT!
@@ronaldhuff635 >Oh No!
I wish someone could explain that song to me- still doesn’t make sense! 😅
My Daddy was stationed at Clinton Sherman Air Force base in Burns Flat. Those duplexes are old military housing. You took me on a trip down memory lane. Thanks.
That'll be 25 bucks American for a trip down memory lane...now FORK IT OVER!...DONT BE A CHEAPSKATE!😫
Yay another Burns flat denizen! Roy Rogers elementary School in the 60s was awesome!
Dad and family were stationed here in 67 & 68, Clinton Sherman AFB was a B52 SAC Base...Yup, the Memories
Love the videos. Regarding your comment about the housing styles in Burns Flat all being the same; Those were typical of Air Force enlisted housing of the era. If memory serves correctly I recall the base may have been called Clinton-Sherman AFB.
This base was also designated as an alternate/emergency landing runway for the Space Shuttle program.
I noticed in one of your other vids on rural Oklahoma that the peak population of many of the rural towns was around 1980. This coincides with the end of an oil boom (late 70's) in the state. The jobs went away, so did the younger people and anyone else not associated with a farm or agriculture. Only so many can inherit the farms, the rest must move to find work.
Please keep the vids coming.
I was literally yelling at the TV "THAT'S BASE HOUSING!!!!" Haha I had to find the video on my phone just to comment or see if anyone else had...
Alot of people laugh when you tell them Burns Flat used to be an alternative space shuttle place but it's true. That housing was all sold off to people for a fairly low price if I remember correctly
@@stephaniedking6594 I believe you are correct. I was told the same thing back in the early 80's.
My family's from Bessie!! The county is pronounced Wash-i-ta
Thanks for driving through
Maybe an interesting side note to Burns Flat. Then President Jimmy Carter landed in burns flat and had one of his town hall meetings back in the late 1970’s. I don’t remember exactly what year.
An armadillo counts for more than a cat. Well spotted. Another interesting video, as ever.
Thank you for showing us these parts of America
Agree !
Thanks for not killing us Sammy!
I lived in Cordell as a child in the mid fifties. It was cold in the winter with dust storms due to drought, which obliterated the sun. A pleasant place to live but I was happy when we moved to southeast Oklahoma. I remember the Mennonite farmers coming to town to shop. In those days they painted the chrome over on their vehicles.
Now the maps call it New Cordell. Clinton appears to be where everything in that area is.
I was born in Cordell
My dad grew up there as well. I was raised in Clinton. Good ol' Oklahoma. 😂
Paint brush your car well maybe they'll be a new trend that would be funny with today's people sounds about right make it a rainbow 🌈 lmao
Why did they paint over the Chrome 🤔🦧 Just curious??😄
Thank you for covering this It's very important for our rural towns
Moved to Cordell last year from a suburb of Portland, Oregon. I love it here. Things make sense. We have a lot of wildlife locally. I am pleased to see that you caught some of it on camera. One thing that I would like to note is that I don't consider this town to be barely hanging on. You seem to say that about a lot of rural areas. In my view, many of our large US cities is what are hanging by a thread over the pit.
Amen Elizebeth. Spot on.
Welcome to oklahoma. Glad you're here, but don't bring any of those Portland politics with you, unless they're RED. Remember why you LEFT your state.
Red as a rose. I am part of the blue state conservative exodus. I suspect there will be more of us. Don't worry; I don't think liberals wind up in Western Oklahoma intentionally.
Lucky you. I dream of moving from Southern California to a small Midwest town
@@smokin70chevelle preach 🙌
My mother comes from western Oklahoma. Harmon County. Born 1929 dust bowl years left 1939. To ARIZONA. My dad born Eufaula Oklahoma. Left 1937 to AZ. Thank you Joe for this video.
Cordell is a nice well-maintained town.
yes it is.
How delightful for the first thing you see in Cordell to be a possom-on-the-half-shell! They are such useful little things. They keep my yard cleared of grubs. Seeing the neighborhoods is always fun. From the stately to the dumps, it's always entertaining! I like Nicole's views of things too. I can hear me saying what she says! Your food looked delicious!
Love their videos but always stop at the mukbang eating parts - gives me the creeps watching people eat or watching eating videos. That's just me...
It's the first live armadillo I have ever seen outside a zoo. I was excited. :)
Omg I envy you so much! I love armadillos so much, they look SO cute!! But I never have even seen one in "person" bc they don't live in Europe ☹
I am Australian every house here has a fence a clothesline and a garden why no gardens ?
@@JoeandNicsRoadTripI live in Tulsa. Didn't know Armadillos were here,or in Oklahoma til we lived here awhile! They visit my yard at night I guess, don't see them but see where they have dug for grubs!
Joe & Nic, the spaceport used to be Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base. I was a toddler when my dad was stationed there and stayed until kindergarten. My grandparents - also in the Air Force - were also stationed there. During our 4 years there, our family went through some very good and very bad times. In 4 short years! The duplexes you drove past were base housing for the enlisted folks, that was base housing architecture during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It looked like you drove right past the duplex where my grandparents lived and I believe you would have had to pass my parent's to get to the spaceport! Thanks for bringing back some very old memories. I check in on your videos from time to time - especially those from Oklahoma and Kansas. The two of you look very down to earth and unpretentious. That makes watching your videos very enjoyable! Keep up the great work.
Have you visited Tipton Oklahoma? Sept. 2022 population 713. One gas station, post office, city Hall, car wash, children's home, 2 churches. Nature is reclaiming a lot of the town. There is a Dollar General being built. 21 miles to Walmart. 14 miles to local grocery store
I live In Colbert, Oklahoma, back in the 80’s my husband worked in Cordel and Burns Flat on an oil field.. used to pull a travel trailer and live there and come home every two weeks. Nice to go down memory lane.
@So. Tex that’s cool! I graduated in 1982.
Keep these great videos coming!! Thank you!!
I'm from Ardmore Oklahoma the county seat of Carter County
which is down near the Red River Thanks.🇺🇲🤠🇺🇲
Those duplexes reminded me of base housing for military families? Maybe that being a "space" town it was once set up as a military base. The town probably has an interesting history.
he housing was called Wherry Housing for Sherman Air Force Base which closed in 1969 I believe.
Spent many days rehabbing those old military duplex quarters just like the ones shown in the video. As far as the chairs on the porch you have to have somewhere comfy to sleep when your locked out for the evening lol.
Me and my dad laid carpet in about a hundred of those houses in the 80s and 90s.
The reason that property value in Canute is high is because of acreage. Homes in Canute average about 5 acres in land.
I'm watching from Palau way back into Western Pacific Islands. I love your videos
I can't believe I haven't made it to Cordell! It looks so nice! I appreciate you noting the New Deal architecture and mural of the post office. (Could have been a "Swift Fox" common to Oklahoma) The base housing in Keesler AFB Biloxi, MS looked just like those houses in Burns Flat! Super cool filling station in Corn! Thanks for showing Elk City and Clinton! Nice towns, Have a great week Joe and Nic!
I like Cordell too.
I think the armadillo is a good omen for your travels! Cordell has a gorgeous courthouse and homes. I also love the murals in this video! Fox sighting acquired! Re Elk City Never seen a Dollar General incorporated downtown. I love the brick roads. Enjoyed the house tour! The butterfly was another good omen for your travels 🦋
Thank you for a great video !
Thanks, Alexandra!!
I visited Oklahoma in 1989. Enid, Ponca City, Stillwater. Visited Marland Mansion, Pawnee Bill mansion saw oil wells etc
I like your camera work! The Fire Dept shots always grab my attention. Thanks
My mother grew up in Washita County; Cordell, Lake Valley, Burns Flat, Cloud Chief. She took us kids there a lot in the 60's.
Your video brings back a lot of memories. Thank you for sharing.
At 15:33 I would hazard a guess that you're looking at what was the military housing built for people who worked on the Air Force base when it was active.
Excellent guess!
Its ok Nicole, I watch a lot of true crime shows too !! in fact, I often see some of these towns- on those shows !! Thanks for the cats ! BTW- LOVE the brick roads ! how sensible, last ages. Love all the tree lined streets.
I always look forward to your videos!
Another interesting video. Thank you both for sharing your time and perspectives on your travels. Always enjoyable!! 😊
The WPA Works Projects Administration was key behind the situation where artists and craftsmen made what would have been average appearing spaces "unique" to an area. Plus art and decorative details are always appreciated in an interior of a structure. 😊
If I had Sir Paul McCartney's money, I'd love to tour what's left of Route 66, winding from Chicago all the way to L.A. (as he did several years ago). There's a "historical marker" in Arcadia, OK, where he stopped to ask a resident if he was still on the correct path. If I recall correctly, he spent quality time with the neighbors before laboring on, so they commemorated the visit with a sign.
I'm digging the photo opportunities all over the place!
25:57 its looks like a yard locomotive ,small and strong machines for pull wagons in these industry places :)
Anyway,all of these cities really pretty ,thanks for it Joe :)
Yes that is what's called a Switching Locomotive or more commonly called a Switcher.
To me it looks like early EMD GP series of locos. This one being striped almost to the bone. But if you look carefully there is some sort of tarp being stretched over where the prime mover is. GP stands for General Purpose Locomotives by EMD. It could also be some of the GE U boats
@@baassbooster EMD stands for Electro Motive Division of General Electric. Damn that is from some rusty brain cells. I grew up a few miles from the plant.
Farmrail uses a lot of older engines. Working all over western Oklahoma
Probably a GP7 or GP9 if I had to guess. It also looks like it hasn't seen service for a while and is being used for scrap.
Edit I found the locomotive. It used to be FarmRail 8253, a GP10 that switched in Clinton. Also it was use in 2020.
As a person that drives to different towns across the country, Oklahoma rural Side was fascinating
2% black is way too high
My husband and I would love if you would check out Sentinel and Hobart in western Oklahoma. Sentinel is an amazing town and perfect for building a family in and both towns have some pretty neat history and buildings and houses. Back in the day these towns was really booming.
Have y’all gone through Guthrie Oklahoma? It was the original home of the state capital.
We are really enjoying your videos we have been watching on his account. Keep up the good work.
Oh btw they have a super cute and nice bed and breakfast in Hobart with a neat history with the building.
I have put them on my list. :)
For me as a European its both fascinating and a bit mysterious that literally nobody is roaming the streets. No elderly, no kids, not one. And where are all the „basketball baskets“? Where, do you think, should the next olympic gold medal come from?? ;)
Btw, subscribed. Good luck for you and „the wife“ and please keep up the series for a good while still. One more year, from what I understood? Greetings from Germany and cheers, 🇩🇪🍻.
It's probably a Sunday, everyone is at church, most businesses are closed. As to the basketball query, Detroit or similar. Plus this is downtown, most people will have a hoop on the front of their garage if someone in the family is interested. Most schools, if they have a team, will have a court for the students.
Cool little towns for sure. Interesting to see how the rest of the states live too. Have a great day and safe travels
Thanks 👍
An awesome video, as always, so many interesting towns (and lots of different wildlife, and one cat !!). I loved the old Motor Hotel in Clinton, a wonderful era. Thank you both so much.😊
Thank you very much!
I'm back. I just wanted to mention that this tour was a lot of fun and you are so informative. I appreciate your doing research before you hit the town. Those motel signs were wonderful...especially the one that was in the front yard of a now converted home. I'm glad they left the sign up. And those were foxes. Coyotes look much more like medium sized dogs. Foxes have that slender body and bushy tail. I'm in the next state west, New Mexico and I do a lot of camping and seeing critters of all kinds, but I've never seen an armadillo. Great start to the show. All the best to you and your family. Keep it up.
Awesome road trip with you guys. Joe- luv your interaction with armadillo, horse, cows, butterfly, dog & cats. And as always the stats/architecture that you share with us about each town.Thanks from the bottom of my heart for doing these vids. If I ever won the lottery that Route 66 would be top of my bucket list. So nice when Nic joined the vid at Elk City-you're a delight & u liking true crime movies/books means you have an investigative mind-no shame there. Awesome Vid ! Luv watching them.
I agree 100%. I especially appreciate Joe's interest and respect for the animals.
I watched your video and when u got to the residential area in burns flat. That use to be the air force base housing. My dad was an SP in air force and we lived there on base. Great memories thanks for sharing.
Displaced Okie here. Made my day to see this in my RUclips feed. Made me a tad bit homesick, though. I'm originally from Muskogee, now in Michigan. My husband (Michigan born and bred) and I have decided to move to(in my case, back to) Oklahoma by this time next year.
Your videos are excellent. Great info and data, intriguing locations and delivered with an architectural interest making it really informative. Thank you!!
I liked that Western City they made up on Rt. # 66 with old stuff in Elk City........ safe travels....👍👍..
That brick house in Cordell for sale is $299,900 comes with .29 acres that is a great buy beautiful home very historically preserved.Once again great video thanks so much god bless safe travels
Good job brother, thanks for explaining why the town of Korn became the town of Corn.
Cool ride along. That rain came along. Good to see Nicky, She says "We have to find a cat" and then you did, They must be doing a lot of farming in those areas. Thanks again for the hard work. Enjoyed it.
Thank you for your wonderful video of Washita County, Oklahoma! My mother was born in Washita County, in 1915. Her family migrated to California in 1934. I visited Washita County in 1984. Thank you for your videos!
The neighborhood at timestamp of 15:43 was the offbase housing units for the AFB there
✅
We used to go to our relatives in Altus and Martha in the late 50's...I remember always stopping in Clinton to get Chocolate Malts....I think it was a Tastee Freeze.
Yes!
Love your content. I like how you go through the incomes and poverty levels. You do your homework. Great stuff.
Thank you, Tim!
Great to see you back in Oklahoma 👍
Very diverse towns, very flat land. Enjoyed it all! Thank you.
This Video Was Everything Thanks For Taking Us Along U wrap up all those small down into one video what am amazing job Thanks
OZ// How amazing- the Armadillo !! thanks for catching that !! You just uploaded 2mins ago, it says- I,m getting good at knowing when you have one coming !! Thanks Joey. Hi to Nicole.
Sweet! Just what I needed on this Sunday.
Yes that was a fox. Fun facts: Armadillos are almost blind. You don’t have to build a very big fence to keep them out. Put up a 12” board and they just keep nosing it all the way to the end. They are very destructive to the ground. They can jump straight up about 3 ft if spooked and can run away faster than you would ever dream those little feet could go.
I didn't know any of that! :)
How about this: nine banded armadillo always gives birth to identical quadruplets!
@@MrBbri415 No wonder there are so many of them. 😂
You should come to Chickasha, Oklahoma during the Festival of Light!
As always , very interesting video Nic & Joe.Greetings from Australia.
All those duplexes near the spaceport look very much like the housing on the military bases I grew up on in the 50's and 60's.
The town consists basically of one street, the highway that runs through it. The rest of it was Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base.
Lived in Burns Flat from 1980 till 1985. working in the oilfield for a the Western Company in Clinton. When you encountered the fox, it would have been coming out of my old backyard. Back then, every house was full and Halliburton had a service yard that had at least 200 vehicles and a bunch of employees. It was on the left when you made your turn to the spaceport. Had to move back to Texas when the oilpatch collapsed in '85. Love your videos and keep up the good work.
An armadillo wow! Cool! We don’t have them here…much more exciting than a cat 🐈⬛ but don’t take that the wrong way, we still appreciate the cats 🐱😊 Good Job 👏🏻 ❤your work
Is this lord spartuse. He finds a cat in each town.?
Hi Joe, hi Nic, I'm still enjoying your videos, it is amazing how many places you visit and the different prices of homes. Stay safe and keep trucking. From the State of Michigan...God Bless.
Clinton Oklahoma has the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian clinic to.
It used to be a hospital. Clinton is pretty big on medical stuff for Western Oklahoma.
I've been to that theater! Lived just to the west of Corssell, in Dill City in the early 80's during the oil boom.
So did I!
I saw Star Wars there
The duplex housing in Burns Flats is the former base housing for Sherman-Clinton AFB. You will see this at a lot of closed military installations, where the base housing is converted into civilian homes.
Coffee and your show. Great combo.
It's really sweet of you to bring your daughter with you.
Joe & Nic, glad the Movie Theater Run'n. A Lot Of Earthquakes Due to The Frack'n Done in the State. I Don't Think Will Ever Land From Space There In My Life Time. Safe travels. always, Tommy🤠
I love watching your videos, I live in OKC. Tyfs ❤️
I love these small oklahoma towns! I lived in Northern Okla. my teenage years, I miss it a lot. And the people are very friendly. You make a friend here, and they're friends for life.
I have watched many of Joe's videos and enjoy seeing towns that I will probably never go to. He gives great information of the statistics and how the town is doing in regard to population gains or loss. However, I really wish that he may one day stop and have a conversation with some of the residents.
How did they come to live in such a town, and how do they feel about their town slowly dying. Perhaps a discussion with the mayor.
Still, always an interesting video much foreign to a city dweller like myself.
Get your kicks on Route 66. Loved seeing all the wildlife. Nicole, I also like true crime stories
Cordell...Beautiful Courthouse. Our weenier dog was born there. Frankie Relish. Looking for her husband, Oscar Mayer The Second! Love Your Videos!
It surely was a fox . Thanks for another infomative journey through the towns of Oklahoma. 🚙👍
It's a great ride hello from the Czech Republic
Thank you for this!! Living in Tulsa I have not seen most of these towns.
28:24 "Country music superstar Toby Keith was born here." That may be, but Moore, OK seems to take all the credit. I used to see his large bill-board off I-35 while driving through Moore and I had assumed he was from there. I guess he didn't stay in Clinton too long.
Yeah, he moved to Moore when he was young.
Hey Nicole, it’s good to hear you talk and laugh while riding around with you husband!😊
Armadillos usually charge right at you when confronted. You lucked out and met a nice armadillo.
I think it would be interesting if you could show which properties were still operating when you visit the down town areas.
Motels aren’t Hotels
Loving all the wildlife and nature in this one!
The view of the locomotive you recorded appears to be an ALCO locomotive just judging by the forward appearence. I am a retired Locomotive Engineer and worked for the BNSF railroad and two of it's predecessor lines; the Burlington Nothern and the FRISCO railroads. I began my career at Enid, Ok. I have made many trips by rail to Clinton both as a brakeman and after 1980 as a Locomotive Engineer. I only knew of the ALCO engines from senior brakemen, Conductors and Engineers, but never operated any. The FRISCO Ry. abandoned the line from Enid to Davidson Oklahoma in the mid 80s but the line originally ran all the way to Vernon, Texas. The Red River bridge burned out in 1958 and was rebuilt only to be destroyed again a short time later. I made only one trip to Davidson where the line was stubbed after the bridge was lost the second time.
I don't believe that railroad was ever sold but it's operation was granted to a Short Line Operator called FARMRAIL. I think that there was a management office for that line located in the FRISCO depot there in Clinton. FARMRAIL operated almost exclusively with those old ALCO engines that had been reconditioned and put in service for short line operations. I don't know whether FARMRAIL is still in operation or not. I think I recall seeing freight cars around there so, I'm guessing their still operating. I have two guesses about that engine you filmed. It was either being rebuilt or it was being used for parts.
On an aside, you recorded and called attention to the Glancy Motel on old 66. That is where FRISCO crews that included me, on many occasions, would stay for rest. Usually, we would not spend more than eight or ten hours there. Which was determined by the Federal Hours of Service Law. We dined in a restauraunt right next door west of the Glancy. I don't recall the name, but I did notice that it wasn't there anymore.
Thanks for sharing this. It brought back a lot of memories of my railroading career working on the Clinton-Snyder Subdivision.
Amazing.
In Burns Flat, the "prairie architecture" and so many houses that look alike, that is because it is former military housing.
So cool to see this video Joe. I have friends who live in Bessie, Cordell and Clinton...
Excellent video it reminded of a road trip I did a few years ago from Denver down to Louisiana. I actually stayed overnight in Elk City the hotel proprieter astounded when I told him I'd walked a few hundred yards to a restaurant. The absence of people on the streets is an interesting contrast to Europe. Here in my part of the UK we had an invasion of mormon "missionaries" the police were called out many times to prevent harrassment of pedestrians and householders by them.
I absolutely love the work you’re doing here. Great stuff.
I grew up in Canute! All of the other towns I’ve been to also! Life in Mountain View now. Close to Clinton area.
take it from someone who has lived in small OKlahoma towns, this is LARGE compared to hundreds of other small towns. . . . . what you really have to look at is the enrollment (and history) of the local school. Cordell is active and competitive in many areas on their campus.
What's better than a cat sighting? Seeing armadillos and foxes! (Speaking of armadillos, any fans of Tarkus here? 🙂) As someone suggested about the homes in Burns Flat, I think they are military housing, with maybe a touch of ranch style, considering the prairie locale. Clinton and Elk City both have Rt 66 museums worth visiting, but I have to give Elk City the edge as it's part of a complex with tons of really cool stuff on display. Until next time, happy trails!
@yawndave my late wife and I loved ELP, saw them in concert many times back in the 70s,3 nights in row in Glasgow, early 72, my son Greg named after Mr Lake, RIP Greg and Keith…
@@aldo5428 Hey, glad to see another classic prog fan here! I only saw ELP once, in San Francisco in '73. The end of Brain Salad Surgery with the quadrophonic sound swirling around and around was mind-blowing!
@@Yawndave hey Dave, yeah happy days if only we could go back, simpler times and probably the heyday of these small American towns…
Being from the UK, cannot get used to seeing so few people around when you drive down town. We were in Providence, in 2000, touring round and was struck then as to how few people are out and about, during the day. Had an old friend, sadly not with us anymore, who trained at No3 British Flying Training School, in Miami, Oklahoma.
It's pretty harsh in western Oklahoma. Brutal hit summers. Very windy winters with ice so most people are in their trucks drinking beer and looking for something to do.
My husband was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma,but moved to the east coast at 6 months old. I’d love tip-off someday visit the state and Muskogee in particular.
Was looking forward to the next leg of the tour!
The uniform style residential housing in Burns Flat was probably military housing.
I grew up in Okeene, Ok., a little North of where you are. You should tour that town. Lots of history, and there's another community/small town west of Okeene, called "Homestead, Ok." That's where we lived, and I had some really great memories there. Okeene's mascot is the "Whippet", which looks like a small grayhound .