Back in 2008 we were staying at a B&B in nearby Luther and the lady there mentioned Fallis so we went to check it out. I remember going in what seemed like an abandoned community center that was trashed and there was a Beatles Let it Be album in the mess. When I got home and looked up Fallis on youtube and there was a ghost town video featured about it and lo & behold there was a the same album on the floor in the footage
I grew up in Ingalls, and I can say though our town is pretty much gone, the community spirit is still very much alive. My family has lived out here for over 40 years, my dad grew up here, and we've gotten the chance to know and love so many of the original residents of what we call the "second Ingalls" when it had its later boom from the 1920s to about the 1960s. One thing that I love the most about our town is seeing the interest in the town continue and grow over the past 20 years. A few interesting facts about the town: one of the original town's doctors' home is still standing on Oak Street (second house on left, painted yellow, obviously remodeled), as well as a former merchant's home across the street. There was once a Ford motor factory in Ingalls covering the entire block between First (19th), Second, Main, and Walnut streets. And finally, if you travel up to the Ingalls Cemetery and turn right on Council Creek Road, immediately on your left is a storm cellar used by oil field workers when the Magnolia Oil Co. ran operations at Ingalls. I hope to someday open some sort of visitors' center in town, but that's just a pipe dream right now. But for now, I really appreciate everyone giving our town the boost on the internet it should have, and for keeping the history alive!
I want to thank you for providing facts about these cool old towns without trying to over-sensationalize or adding random pictures of the old west like so many of the youtube videos do. I had ancestors who lived and died in Ingalls. I have always been fascinated with the town. I haven't talked to the owners, but there is a storm cellar behind that white house (to the north of the "old hotel") that looks like a converted dug out. It is my understanding that in the esrly days of the town, most people lived in dugouts. Furthermore, when people were able to build a home, it was common to build over the dugout and use it as a basement. There is an old house on Perkins road in Stillwater like that.
Shamrock Tale: Several years ago, my wife's cousin (who had been raised in Shamrock) took my wife and I on a tour of Shamrock. A road ran north out of Shamrock, and when we reached a creek we stopped. She said that in the old days, all the saloons and brothels were located on that spot. You could not tell that anything had ever been there.
@@TravelwithaWiseguythe rock place that is just the frame was the service station and feed store. Was also a cafe and a car lot. Grandma said a storm took it out long ago. She was born in 1921 and went to elementary in a one room School in oak Grove and high school in Cushing in the 'big building'
Great video as always. I have to imagine that in a few decades, once the Ogallala Aquifer is exhausted, you will be exploring many more ghosts towns than before...
Great job as always You know they say built it and they will come and I guess if you take it away they will leave. Loved those old photos with the town full of parked vintage cars
The gunfight at Ingalls was more deadly than the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. By the time it was all over, nine people had been killed or wounded including three deputies who died as a result of the gunfight. Three outlaws were wounded and escaped, and another was captured. There were also numerous animals and horses killed. It was one of the deadliest shoot outs in the old west. And as a side note, Bat Masterson’s brother, Jim, was a deputy that was involved in the raid. He was not injured. Within a couple of years, all of the outlaws were captured, and or killed… Most by US Marshall’s or their deputies.
Well.. Ingersoll actually had two railroads going to it.... the first that you mentioned... was running North to South... So the fact it had two railroads, is what made Ingersoll so "interesting" back in the day. The Rock Island... originally went through it as well.. going to Alva Ok. It was abandon when the Rock went bankrupt in 1981 or so...
Thank you for the info! The railroads were so important to these towns and having two had to make it even more important like you mentioned. Appreciate it!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I believe it is the brick tile elevator that is on the historic register because of it being a rarer structure that was built in the transition period between wood and concrete elevators. Shame it couldn't be repaired and stabilized since it has historic significance in the development of the grain handling industry.
When I did my video Kansas ghost towns Part 9, I actually stayed in Meade and went down to the Dalton gang hideout. Didn’t make a video of it, but it was cool to see!
No, I’ve found that most people who watch my videos aren’t interested in the track stuff. I had thought about starting a separate channel for things other than old towns, abandoned places, etc. However, next week’s video will have a track and field theme - just not Wichita State. Thanks for asking and always appreciate the support!
I’ve been to Fallis in 2019. Glad to see the old Land Cruiser in 4:17 still stands there😂 And it looks like nothing was ever changed inside that church. There’re some of abandoned houses hidden behind woods which makes it kind of creepy.
I really enjoyed my visit to Fallis! A lot more than meets the eye for sure. I saw some of those buildings in the woods too. It was hard to get video that was able to show it, so I didn’t include it in the video. Had a nice chat with the “mayor” of town 😊
Correction-the picture in the Ingalls section of the video is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and gang. Wikipedia has a picture of Bill Doolin, he has a few holes in him. My grandfather lived in Shamrock, Ok at some point. I do not know when. All I can say is it was before 1923 and not in 1917. He married and purchased land in central Oklahoma(where I grew up) in 1923/1924 and lived there until he died in 1971. We still own the land. I have a receipt from him buying a razor in Asher, Oklahoma in 1917, so he lived in Asher at that time.
My grandparents lived there and had 2 different grocery stores. I have pictures of them. Plus my family standing on their porch, and with there car. Some of there children were born there, including my Mom
I have family buried there in the cemetery. I have always wanted to see the museum. For 30 years and ive never been able to know who to ask with the keys. Ill pay! I wont photograph just please let me see!
Good question. I’ve emailed with some Census people and it’s definitely not an exact science. Sometimes they estimate based on lack of response from people filling out the Census. It’s more noticeable when it’s wrong when there are only 20 people in a town compared to 100,000.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I love that rock sign outside of Fallis. That is way more complex than just putting up a sign and painting "welcome to falls." Somebody had to find the right rocks, transport them and then painstakingly measure out and plan where every rock needs to go. That doesn't go unnoticed with me. It's unique for such a small town, too, that somebody took that much care to plan and do that.
That’s a very cool sign indeed! It looks like the grass has grown over it a bit, so probably hadn’t been taken care of lately. But I do love those homemade touches!
I wonder how you just move a town, even a few miles that must be quite the undertaking. Do they just leave the old buildings and build new ones? Do they move the buildings? That must take a lot of money
I’ve heard both actually. Sometimes they just up and move entire buildings - and even towns - to a new location. And sometimes they just abandon it and build new.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I don't know how much of an avid Simpsons watcher you are but that reminds me of the episode when Springfield had to get moved because Homer was that bad of a sanitation commissioner. Every single building was on the back of trucks exactly as you would see it as if the buildings were laid down and you see Homer leaving his house and hopping trucks to go to Moe's. It was a funny scene.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Did you hear about the Johnny Cash water tower in Arkansas? Apparently somebody shot the Cash silhouette in the right spot to make water spew out of the water tower in the area around his waist between his legs.
I went to Ingalls to see the replica hotel and the folks that live behind it let their dogs out on me, had to hop back in the car. Drove back to Stillwater, hit Canes and went home. 🤣🍗
@@denisegrays5936 you know you could have stayed on State Hiway 51 west and went to Yale and gone into Jim Thorpe's retirement home/museum. Now as a person that grew up in Payne County you should have went to Shortcakes dinner.
Back in 2008 we were staying at a B&B in nearby Luther and the lady there mentioned Fallis so we went to check it out. I remember going in what seemed like an abandoned community center that was trashed and there was a Beatles Let it Be album in the mess. When I got home and looked up Fallis on youtube and there was a ghost town video featured about it and lo & behold there was a the same album on the floor in the footage
I painted that Shamrock building Green in the late 70s….The sidewalks go for a mile east of there.
I grew up in Ingalls, and I can say though our town is pretty much gone, the community spirit is still very much alive. My family has lived out here for over 40 years, my dad grew up here, and we've gotten the chance to know and love so many of the original residents of what we call the "second Ingalls" when it had its later boom from the 1920s to about the 1960s. One thing that I love the most about our town is seeing the interest in the town continue and grow over the past 20 years. A few interesting facts about the town: one of the original town's doctors' home is still standing on Oak Street (second house on left, painted yellow, obviously remodeled), as well as a former merchant's home across the street. There was once a Ford motor factory in Ingalls covering the entire block between First (19th), Second, Main, and Walnut streets. And finally, if you travel up to the Ingalls Cemetery and turn right on Council Creek Road, immediately on your left is a storm cellar used by oil field workers when the Magnolia Oil Co. ran operations at Ingalls. I hope to someday open some sort of visitors' center in town, but that's just a pipe dream right now. But for now, I really appreciate everyone giving our town the boost on the internet it should have, and for keeping the history alive!
Very awesome! Glad to hear you’re so in touch with the history of the town! Would be a great project for a visitor center. Hope you can pull it off!
I want to thank you for providing facts about these cool old towns without trying to over-sensationalize or adding random pictures of the old west like so many of the youtube videos do.
I had ancestors who lived and died in Ingalls. I have always been fascinated with the town.
I haven't talked to the owners, but there is a storm cellar behind that white house (to the north of the "old hotel") that looks like a converted dug out. It is my understanding that in the esrly days of the town, most people lived in dugouts. Furthermore, when people were able to build a home, it was common to build over the dugout and use it as a basement. There is an old house on Perkins road in Stillwater like that.
Thanks! Very nice of you to say. Thanks for the additional info too!
Cool t-shirt and great video.
Thanks! Picked up that shirt on Route 66 a couple years ago 😊
Shamrock Tale: Several years ago, my wife's cousin (who had been raised in Shamrock) took my wife and I on a tour of Shamrock. A road ran north out of Shamrock, and when we reached a creek we stopped. She said that in the old days, all the saloons and brothels were located on that spot. You could not tell that anything had ever been there.
Interesting! Unfortunately this kind of story is becoming more and more commonplace around the country. 😞
It would be interesting to bring a metal detector there
@@TravelwithaWiseguythe rock place that is just the frame was the service station and feed store. Was also a cafe and a car lot. Grandma said a storm took it out long ago. She was born in 1921 and went to elementary in a one room School in oak Grove and high school in Cushing in the 'big building'
Love learning about these towns and seeing their remnants.
My favorite part about visiting!
Great video as always.
I have to imagine that in a few decades, once the Ogallala Aquifer is exhausted, you will be exploring many more ghosts towns than before...
Thanks! Unfortunately you are probably correct! Appreciate you watching!
Love your work, thank you.
Thank you very much! I appreciate it!
Excellent footage! Love your videos, thank you!
Awesome! Thanks so much!
Great job as always
You know they say built it and they will come and I guess if you take it away they will leave.
Loved those old photos with the town full of parked vintage cars
Thank you! And you’re definitely correct! Those old photos and vintage cars are always awesome to check out. 😊
The gunfight at Ingalls was more deadly than the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. By the time it was all over, nine people had been killed or wounded including three deputies who died as a result of the gunfight. Three outlaws were wounded and escaped, and another was captured. There were also numerous animals and horses killed. It was one of the deadliest shoot outs in the old west.
And as a side note, Bat Masterson’s brother, Jim, was a deputy that was involved in the raid. He was not injured.
Within a couple of years, all of the outlaws were captured, and or killed… Most by US Marshall’s or their deputies.
Wild times in Ingalls! Glad they still have some historical places to visit there!
Well.. Ingersoll actually had two railroads going to it.... the first that you mentioned... was running North to South...
So the fact it had two railroads, is what made Ingersoll so "interesting" back in the day. The Rock Island... originally went through it as well.. going to Alva Ok. It was abandon when the Rock went bankrupt in 1981 or so...
Thank you for the info! The railroads were so important to these towns and having two had to make it even more important like you mentioned. Appreciate it!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I believe it is the brick tile elevator that is on the historic register because of it being a rarer structure that was built in the transition period between wood and concrete elevators. Shame it couldn't be repaired and stabilized since it has historic significance in the development of the grain handling industry.
The Dalton gang hideout is near Mead Kansas.. I love hearing the history of outlaws and the old west❤️
When I did my video Kansas ghost towns Part 9, I actually stayed in Meade and went down to the Dalton gang hideout. Didn’t make a video of it, but it was cool to see!
No WSU track videos this year? Your videos have great content, editing, and music. You do a great job.
No, I’ve found that most people who watch my videos aren’t interested in the track stuff. I had thought about starting a separate channel for things other than old towns, abandoned places, etc. However, next week’s video will have a track and field theme - just not Wichita State. Thanks for asking and always appreciate the support!
I’ve been to Fallis in 2019. Glad to see the old Land Cruiser in 4:17 still stands there😂 And it looks like nothing was ever changed inside that church. There’re some of abandoned houses hidden behind woods which makes it kind of creepy.
I really enjoyed my visit to Fallis! A lot more than meets the eye for sure. I saw some of those buildings in the woods too. It was hard to get video that was able to show it, so I didn’t include it in the video. Had a nice chat with the “mayor” of town 😊
Correction-the picture in the Ingalls section of the video is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid and gang. Wikipedia has a picture of Bill Doolin, he has a few holes in him. My grandfather lived in Shamrock, Ok at some point. I do not know when. All I can say is it was before 1923 and not in 1917. He married and purchased land in central Oklahoma(where I grew up) in 1923/1924 and lived there until he died in 1971. We still own the land. I have a receipt from him buying a razor in Asher, Oklahoma in 1917, so he lived in Asher at that time.
Thank you!
My grandparents lived there and had 2 different grocery stores. I have pictures of them. Plus my family standing on their porch, and with there car. Some of there children were born there, including my Mom
They lived in Skeede
In panhandle you miss Slapout!
I stopped in Slapout in my Western Oklahoma video in 2020. Interviewed a man about how it got the name 😊
I have family buried there in the cemetery. I have always wanted to see the museum. For 30 years and ive never been able to know who to ask with the keys. Ill pay! I wont photograph just please let me see!
Try checking out Colony OK. A Famous Indian Treaty Site.
Thanks!
I think that guy in Fallis on the lawnmower IS the town
You are correct! 😂😂
I taught school in Shamrock in 1984
Awesome! I had a nice conversation with a man who told me all about the history of the town when I was there. Nice place!
I miss all the trees.. red dirt.. & green grass 😭😭😭
Definitely a beautiful area!!
Dry & brown here most of the time 😔 not what I was used too.. 🌳🌳🌳
Fallis: I wonder where the census is getting all of these extra people in these towns when the locals say the population is way less than counted
Good question. I’ve emailed with some Census people and it’s definitely not an exact science. Sometimes they estimate based on lack of response from people filling out the Census. It’s more noticeable when it’s wrong when there are only 20 people in a town compared to 100,000.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I love that rock sign outside of Fallis. That is way more complex than just putting up a sign and painting "welcome to falls." Somebody had to find the right rocks, transport them and then painstakingly measure out and plan where every rock needs to go. That doesn't go unnoticed with me. It's unique for such a small town, too, that somebody took that much care to plan and do that.
That’s a very cool sign indeed! It looks like the grass has grown over it a bit, so probably hadn’t been taken care of lately. But I do love those homemade touches!
While in Ingalls, explain what you mean by "replica buildings".
They are imitations of former buildings.
I wonder how you just move a town, even a few miles that must be quite the undertaking. Do they just leave the old buildings and build new ones? Do they move the buildings? That must take a lot of money
I’ve heard both actually. Sometimes they just up and move entire buildings - and even towns - to a new location. And sometimes they just abandon it and build new.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I don't know how much of an avid Simpsons watcher you are but that reminds me of the episode when Springfield had to get moved because Homer was that bad of a sanitation commissioner. Every single building was on the back of trucks exactly as you would see it as if the buildings were laid down and you see Homer leaving his house and hopping trucks to go to Moe's. It was a funny scene.
😂😂 I used to watch the old episodes, but not as much lately. Sounds hilarious haha!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Did you hear about the Johnny Cash water tower in Arkansas? Apparently somebody shot the Cash silhouette in the right spot to make water spew out of the water tower in the area around his waist between his legs.
@@travis303 ha! I've never heard of that. Would love to see it :)
I went to Ingalls to see the replica hotel and the folks that live behind it let their dogs out on me, had to hop back in the car. Drove back to Stillwater, hit Canes and went home. 🤣🍗
Oh my that wasn’t nice! Although the Canes part was probably pretty good 😂😂
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Delicious! I love Canes! I also went to OSU botanical garden but I wasn't impressed.
@@denisegrays5936 you know you could have stayed on State Hiway 51 west and went to Yale and gone into Jim Thorpe's retirement home/museum. Now as a person that grew up in Payne County you should have went to Shortcakes dinner.
@@richardmckinney4963 Maybe next time!
@@denisegrays5936 If you go Yale don't forget to go to the Dairy Hut across the street from Jim Thorpe home.
Its pronounced Fallis like FA-liss
I drove to Shamrock. There wasn't anything there.