"AWAY IN WISCONSIN" 1960s TRAVEL TOUR OF WISCONSIN RACINE, MADISON, MILWAUKEE 11504

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  • Опубликовано: 9 июл 2019
  • Viewers are treated to tour of Wisconsin in this episode of Jack Douglas’ America! Douglas opens the episode, “Away In Wisconsin,” addressing the audience. A quick montage of shots show viewers a river, rolling hills of dairy land farms, Winnebago Indians performing a traditional dance, and a descendants of Swiss immigrants. A badger runs around its enclosure at the Milwaukee Zoo (01:23). At the city of Racine (01:51), viewers see modern architecture on display in the city’s buildings, included some designed by Frank Lloyd Wright like the Johnson Wax Building. The episode then shows the capital building in Madison (02:07), Milwaukee, and the famous Milwaukee County War Memorial Center designed by Eero Saarinen (02:30). The glass domes of the Horticulture Conservatory in Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park dominate the horizon (03:10). Inside the “Show House” dome (now called the “Show Dome”), viewers see summer flower gardens on display. People relax on a sandy beach of Lake Michigan at Terry Andrae State Park in Sheboygan (04:08). The city of Green Bay sits on the Fox River as it meets Lake Michigan (04:40). The quiet park that is home to Nicolet Memorial (04:57) is just outside Green Bay. Members of the Green Bay Packers train next to the stadium as local citizens watch the practice (05:25). Near Baileys Harbor is small Scandinavian wooden chapel (06:06). In Little Norway (06:32), located in Blue Mounds, viewers see a living museum of Norwegian culture. A young woman in traditional Norwegian costume shows off beaded work (07:27), wooden wedding spoons, a wooden lock jewel box, and an ale bowl. A small model of a Viking ship is also on display. Little Norway also features a small storage house called a Stabbur house, a log cabin used by women who herd cattle (09:19), and a garden gnome. The next stop is at the Alpine Café in New Glarus, WI (09:55). Large rocks sit on the roofs of the Swiss buildings at New Glarus. Men and women play music in a parade celebrating their Swiss heritage; a swiss flag thrower performs in the parade. A music group plays a traditional song for the audience (11:18). At Greenbush, WI is the Old Wade House State Park; the episode shows the old house and inn (12:25). Inside the restored building is a hutch chair, an old pitcher, and two women showing how the Wade family retreived water from a well inside the kitchen. The episode also shows old bedroom furniture and other antique furniture on display at the Wade House. At White Birch Lake, two men walk down to their fishing boat (13:58); they catch a 26-lb musky. Next, the film goes to Craft Mart near Sister Bay, WI. Here, a woman weaves fabrics on an old weaving loom. The next stop is at Circus World Museum in Baraboo, WI. People walk across a bridge to see the carnival exhibits (15:02); visitors see the operations of loading circus cars on and off of train cars. The episode shows a France Bandwagon and an old chain-driven MAC truck from the 1920s that was used by the Bailey Brothers. Elephants perform a brief show for the audience (16:43). Near Hayward, Chippewa harvest wild rice from their canoe (17:05). At History Land, two lumberjacks demonstrate sawing logs. A man throws a hatchet at a target (18:10), and two other men compete in a log roll on the water. Also on the water, men engage in a game of canoe jousting. Next, viewers are taken to Fort Dells in the Wisconsin Dells (19:20). Visitors walk on a hanging bride, take a ride in a stage coach, and are delighted when their train is held up by the outlaw Black Bart. Chief Edward Cloud of the Winnebago tribe plays a drum while his four sons perform a traditional dance (20:08). Passenger boats take people on a tour through the upper dells (20:37), passing Witches Gulch, and motoring through narrow waterways. A Duck boat drives down a dirt road (21:37), then splashes into the Wisconsin River, taking visitors on a ride through the Wisconsin Dells. There is a scenic shot of Wisconsin’s rolling landscape. The film concludes back at New Glarus (22:45), where three men play a song on the large ornate wooden alpine horns.
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Комментарии • 508

  • @tealnoise
    @tealnoise 2 года назад +182

    People say Wisconsin isn't as nice as it used to be. It actually still is, I would travel around WI with my family a lot. Still many beautiful places to visit. I will always love my home, Wisconsin.

    • @countrygirl4422
      @countrygirl4422 2 года назад +14

      You obviously don't live in the Capital of Wisconsin.

    • @cjdfv
      @cjdfv 2 года назад

      I feel mostly the same about Michigan.

    • @spookgook4903
      @spookgook4903 2 года назад +29

      Just Milwaukee and Madison are getting shittier with their democratic leaders.

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 года назад +10

      @@stonerbearlyrics8143 there are meth and heroin addicts throughout the country. Wisconsin's not alone. Does it matter if Democratic or Republican.

    • @memeteam7030
      @memeteam7030 2 года назад +1

      Alert information is cap! Yeah real Wisconsinite would not say this!

  • @Mitch-rd9gs
    @Mitch-rd9gs 2 года назад +39

    The amount of pride I have for my home state is amazing. Being stationed overseas for 2 years has only made me realize how much I miss home.

    • @johnnymaximum3828
      @johnnymaximum3828 2 года назад

      over throwing a democracy or stalling a dicatorship?

    • @l7537
      @l7537 2 года назад +1

      Same. I couldn’t imagine growing up and living in any other state

  • @embracethesuck1041
    @embracethesuck1041 2 года назад +99

    The ducks are one of the few surviving attractions today. Now the Dells is mostly tacky waterparks.

  • @TheBookofRai
    @TheBookofRai 2 года назад +37

    This video made Wisconsin seem mysterious.

    • @jlmurphy6530
      @jlmurphy6530 2 года назад +1

      It is. I grew up there. It has a film noir quality about it.

    • @RT-dm4bi
      @RT-dm4bi Год назад

      Its so intresting to see how many of these facts have changed overtime. Like that madison was once a small city and that the woods took up 50% of our state. Bizzare

  • @heyitsmichael6256
    @heyitsmichael6256 2 года назад +31

    I am 91 yrs. old and have traveled much of the U.S. and the milage show's on my face. But this travel documentary is the shit y'all.

  • @koolaidacidkilla179
    @koolaidacidkilla179 2 года назад +13

    Born
    Raised
    And I'll never leave.
    I love Wisconsin!

  • @c-dublife
    @c-dublife 2 года назад +118

    Wisconsin has 15000 lakes. more than Minnesota. we are just humble.

    • @julianklatte6221
      @julianklatte6221 2 года назад +10

      But y’all can’t ever go without talking about cheese curds lol 😂 just kidding

    • @jayswipedyohead6490
      @jayswipedyohead6490 2 года назад +3

      @@julianklatte6221 bro I’m from here Nd I’ve never even had a cheese curd

    • @Angel-xk3uq
      @Angel-xk3uq 2 года назад +5

      @@jayswipedyohead6490 You are missing out. Fried cheese curds is one of my favorite appetizers. I am not even from WI and I know that much. You sure definitely give the fried one a shot when you get the chance!

    • @olegty4007
      @olegty4007 2 года назад +10

      On behalf of Minnesota, Wisconsin measures lakes wrong.

    • @Woodey79
      @Woodey79 2 года назад +12

      yes, the measurement is different for Minnesota and Wisconsin. If Minnesota Measure their lakes like Wisconsin does, they would have over 25,000.

  • @thomaspham9077
    @thomaspham9077 2 года назад +11

    It’s so weird to see Milwaukee without the Art Museum 🥺

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 2 года назад +63

    In my opinion, the best part of Wisconsin is the part this film left out: the Lake Superior shoreline along nearly all of the state’s northern border, to include the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, which can be accessed at Bayfield, WI. There are so many beautiful places to vacation along that coast, and my husband and I feel Lake Superior is by far the “superior” Great Lake, even though we’ve lived in a city next to Lake Michigan for 25 years. Probably bc we were born and raised in Superior, a lovely city across the St. Louis Bay from Duluth, Minnesota.

    • @lil_lyrix
      @lil_lyrix 2 года назад +2

      They probably didn’t include it cause that lake belongs to Michigan

    • @theodoreiaccino7762
      @theodoreiaccino7762 2 года назад +2

      I am fortunate enough to have a friend with a house on Madeline Island. I am from Chicago, but have always maintained that the Apostle islands are America's best kept secret.

    • @JeffreyDahmenator
      @JeffreyDahmenator 2 года назад +2

      Superior is not a lovely city

    • @randomstuffilookup2384
      @randomstuffilookup2384 2 года назад +2

      I’ve lived up in this area for 3 years now and it sucks so bad up here. Nature is the only good thing.

    • @chickennugget6233
      @chickennugget6233 2 года назад +1

      It will all be ruined when line 3 breaks...

  • @flower691
    @flower691 2 года назад +20

    if only the world was still like this 😥 why was i born in the 90's? if only i could have lived these times 😞 i love my wisconsin, but seeing this makes me kinda sad... it feels like the heritage is just gone now.

    • @marttram2183
      @marttram2183 2 года назад

      Turning 27 in 2 days (golden bday!)
      But yeah I'm with you there lol

    • @SkateAndCreate81
      @SkateAndCreate81 2 года назад +3

      I was born in 2000 I always wished I could’ve lived back then. I hate this generation I would’ve thrived back then

    • @marcoaraiza9381
      @marcoaraiza9381 2 года назад +4

      Segregation

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 2 года назад +2

      It's a glorified film, you know that, right? :)

    • @flower691
      @flower691 2 года назад +1

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 so? isn't that kind of obvious? its still way different/better than current times.

  • @skjaldulfr
    @skjaldulfr 2 года назад +8

    Now I want a Fallout game set in retro Wisconsin.

    • @RomanKlein414
      @RomanKlein414 2 года назад

      Funny thing is if they made that the story would be why is there no mutants oh wait 2 headed cows but no one is looting or being crazy there just shooting anything that moves funny and drinking A LOT of beer

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines 4 года назад +93

    My Grandmother was born and raised in Milwaukee. It's so beautiful. I love the Public Museum.

    • @star_gazer2967
      @star_gazer2967 3 года назад +3

      I love *LOVE* the Milwaukee museum! Have visited it all throughout my life! I live in Madison ♡⚘

    • @bcshelby4926
      @bcshelby4926 3 года назад +2

      @@star_gazer2967 ...the Museum the Central Library were my usual hangouts in downtown when I was gowning up there.

    • @star_gazer2967
      @star_gazer2967 3 года назад

      @@bcshelby4926... How cool!

    • @SUNNYLEO24
      @SUNNYLEO24 2 года назад +1

      Where are you from

    • @Shanecho414
      @Shanecho414 2 года назад +2

      @@SUNNYLEO24 not Milwaukee with those kinda comments lol

  • @tomshaw6373
    @tomshaw6373 2 года назад +17

    My grandparents lived in Milwaukee when I was growing up. We vacationed in Door County for over a decade. I met my future wife there when we were kids in the mid 70s. She's from Milwaukee. In 2023, we are moving to Madison. I've always dreamed of living there since I was a kid. It's a beautiful state.

    • @samknox8502
      @samknox8502 2 года назад +1

      I currently live in Madison, you’re going to absolutely love it this city is better than ever!

    • @tomshaw6373
      @tomshaw6373 2 года назад

      @@samknox8502 Well, that’s an endorsement I am very encouraged by.

  • @jimsimmons5627
    @jimsimmons5627 2 года назад +14

    I can’t believe they didn’t talk about Minocqua in the Northwoods that’s what everybody likes to visit

    • @Seankamrath
      @Seankamrath 2 года назад +1

      That's where I worked for years doing flooring. Super gorgeous up there. Lived in tomahawk for about 23 years.

    • @MrMajikman1
      @MrMajikman1 2 года назад +1

      @@Seankamrath I have relatives in Rhinelander, and Three Lakes....beautiful snowmobile trails up north, especially in the Nicolet Forest!

  • @juanramos6573
    @juanramos6573 10 месяцев назад +1

    Born in Milwaukee 1951. Went to Dells quite often. Still have old pics from the 50"s.

  • @United_HVAC_and_Fans
    @United_HVAC_and_Fans 2 года назад +30

    This is just historical! Very well persevered the quality is amazing!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 года назад

      Glad you enjoyed it! Consider becoming a member ruclips.net/video/ODBW3pVahUE/видео.html

  • @SPotter1973
    @SPotter1973 2 года назад +5

    Tommy Bartlett Skii show and the Pow Wow in the river. Best summers EVER!! Rock climbing and sneaking into Witches Calderon.

  • @neilschmid4991
    @neilschmid4991 2 года назад +28

    Being of Norwegian decent use to love going to little Norway, so beautiful but it's been closed now quite awhile and miss visiting.

    • @ShannonHarper
      @ShannonHarper 2 года назад +2

      I didn’t realize it closed, I’m super sad

  • @knighttuttruptuttrup8518
    @knighttuttruptuttrup8518 3 года назад +28

    Summer trips to Wisconsin with Dad, good times! Skiing in the winter, great fun.

  • @Playsinvain
    @Playsinvain 2 года назад +1

    What an ending. Those horns of one pine tree are heart beating

  • @spritz19
    @spritz19 2 года назад +14

    The fact that they didn't mention Devil's Lake is a sin

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      My niece was in an article some years back for spotting cougar tracks there. The DNR confirmed them.

  • @jeffirish9698
    @jeffirish9698 2 года назад +7

    This is wonderful. Growing up in the 60's we watched a lot of these in the classroom.

  • @caturdaynite7217
    @caturdaynite7217 2 года назад +13

    Lots of old people complaining about the way things used to be. Pretty damn sad if you ask me. It's still a beautiful state. Lots to see and do, come on up and spend your money. Our towns, large and small, appreciate your business.

    • @Plastic_Elegg
      @Plastic_Elegg 2 года назад +12

      Here's an idea for a drinking game: Take a shot every time you see a comment from some racist boomer with a comment that all-but says "This state was nicer before black people."
      Yeah I grew up in Wisconsin and have no clue what these racist old coots are on about. The place hasn't "gone downhill" just because you saw a Muslim person on State St, grandma. The state isn't "falling apart" just because a black family went to a waterpark.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +2

      @@Plastic_Elegg - No, it's falling apart because the education system in Milwaukee sucks (standardized test scores on the web will bear that out), children are having babies, and the good employers (A.O. Smith, Tower Automotive, et al) no longer manufacture there. There's no place a minimally-educated person can make a decent buck in the city, or at least not enough to soak up the supply. All the jobs moved out to Waukesha and other points. And I've seen the stats in Milwaukee - ALL races and both sexes don't do well up to state averages in the aggregate. It will be interesting the results of education pre- and post-Covid. I've said for a long time that public education needs to be shaken up. Well, it has been now.

    • @dylanb4494
      @dylanb4494 2 года назад

      @@Plastic_Elegg im going to ignore the murder mil and roving gangs of se xu al assaulters and drug dealers and pretend that people are mad at dark ones for existing. I PRAY youre culturally enriched next.

    • @bluebee5266
      @bluebee5266 2 года назад

      @@Plastic_Elegg You indeed have no clue. You think you know better than people who have actually seen something that you haven't.

  • @Rahul-op3ry
    @Rahul-op3ry 4 года назад +41

    Oh god, Wisconsin was so beautiful..😘😘

  • @rockermarco
    @rockermarco 2 года назад +10

    Beautiful country, brutal winters.

    • @MrMajikman1
      @MrMajikman1 2 года назад +4

      Perfectly made for snowmobiling!

    • @tomshaw6373
      @tomshaw6373 2 года назад +1

      Free ice for hockey!

  • @track1219
    @track1219 2 года назад +8

    Grew up in Racine, great memories of summer vacations in Door County!

  • @seasonofthewatchers1010
    @seasonofthewatchers1010 3 года назад +50

    The big cities in WI used to be so decent, clean, & civilized. What a filthy shame.

    • @Plastic_Elegg
      @Plastic_Elegg 2 года назад +6

      They still are?

    • @forgetnumberone3335
      @forgetnumberone3335 2 года назад +9

      @@Plastic_Elegg racine still decent, clean, and civilized?

    • @johnnash297
      @johnnash297 2 года назад +14

      The small towns and rural farmland used to be decent opened minded welcoming & civilized.

    • @GoodSirMori
      @GoodSirMori 2 года назад +1

      I'm from Burlingon/Lake Geneva, it held up well

    • @bertb5992
      @bertb5992 2 года назад

      @@johnnash297 why the hate, see something you don't like? Can't stand an opposing viewpoint? Move to California already.

  • @dr.plutonus1496
    @dr.plutonus1496 2 года назад +8

    Visited Wisconsin on our summer holiday in 2008 when our children were small. So many good memories: Door County, Sturgeon Bay, a fish boil at Mill Supper Club (where a British family were given a very warm welcome even though my children didn't like the root beer!). Loved Milwaukee too, especially the Betty Brin Children's Museum. Happy days 😁

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      I hear the Brits generally think root beer tastes like medicine, so I want to know what medicine you have that tastes like root beer. Ours is usually flavored with a God-awful cherry flavor. And I'd love to get an Irn Bru that the wife's Scots friends keep going on about.
      The Betty Brin Museum was built on the footprint of the old Chicago & North Western RR station. The Summerfest Grounds just south of there were alternately a Nike Missile site and an airport. The northeastern side now hosts the Discovery World Museum and the state's newest state park.

    • @dr.plutonus1496
      @dr.plutonus1496 2 года назад +2

      @@jdcunnington In the UK we used to have an ointment called Germolene that you rubbed on your chest when you had a heavy cold. Root beer smells exactly like Germolene! 🤧

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 2 года назад

      Glad you enjoyed Door County! My extended family vacations up there every summer.

  • @SounDiZLife
    @SounDiZLife 2 года назад +7

    I've lived in Wisconsin my whole life and I will never leave, for those who don't live here please stay away, LOL I put my life on it this is the best state in the states!!!!

  • @travelstagram6198
    @travelstagram6198 4 года назад +4

    Amazing video!! Thank you for sharing it ✈️

  • @Fantom76Keyz
    @Fantom76Keyz 2 года назад +5

    Thank you for uploading this Gem .

  • @bigtub1101
    @bigtub1101 2 года назад +14

    I love videos like this! Historical videos are always so interesting

  • @501764727
    @501764727 3 года назад +10

    Amazing Gem of a find..... Nice Upload!!

  • @mikeodell9688
    @mikeodell9688 2 года назад +4

    Part of my childhood in this video.

  • @staceycalder3233
    @staceycalder3233 3 года назад +16

    I grew up in Racine Wisconsin but things are going down hill there not a lot of fun free things to do.lot of snow each winter

    • @RJT80
      @RJT80 2 года назад +3

      It's such a beautiful lake city (small city) but yes, it has a few thousand jerks that ruin it for everyone else. Such is the case in many parts of the US. I grew up in Chicago and never heard as much gunfire as I heard living in Racine. Although during the pandemic it unexpectedly went way down. I cant explain that. But now even Madison has an urban gun violence problem. It spread all the way up from Chicago 30 years ago and has just become a cancer on a once very prosperous and civilized area.

    • @jeaniemarczniec7755
      @jeaniemarczniec7755 2 года назад +3

      It is bad there, I would not waste my time going back there.

    • @staceycalder3233
      @staceycalder3233 2 года назад

      @@jeaniemarczniec7755 I moved from Racine Wisconsin a little over a year ago

    • @davitronresidentevilking1181
      @davitronresidentevilking1181 2 года назад +1

      @@staceycalder3233 I live in Racine lol

    • @staceycalder3233
      @staceycalder3233 2 года назад

      @@davitronresidentevilking1181 I moved a year ago

  • @vonspitz3017
    @vonspitz3017 2 года назад +3

    So cool watching a video from the 60s about towns that I'm familiar with

  • @Og-Judy
    @Og-Judy 2 года назад +8

    I saw this stuff in the 60s. I live in Wisconsin!

  • @joe-e-geo
    @joe-e-geo 2 года назад +5

    Wow. In the early 70's my family took a 6-week camping vacation circling the country from Jersey to Cali and back again. So many tourist spots in so many states so much like these - all unique in their own ways.

    • @muuutch
      @muuutch 2 года назад

      What a beautiful memory.

  • @kennethjohnson6319
    @kennethjohnson6319 2 года назад +9

    I was born in wi i used to go to the Mitchell Park domes and the zoo we use to take drives in the country especially in the fall a.nd the german architecture history and culture we use to go to the Milwaukee Auditorium
    and Milwaukee Arena to watch wrestling the Crusher Bruiser vashons blackjacks Etc when wrestling was great in Milwaukee

    • @Atlas-wq9vo
      @Atlas-wq9vo 2 года назад +2

      Crusher fest is a great addition to Wisconsin

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +1

      The Arena is still in use. The UW Panthers play there now along with the IHL Milwaukee Admirals hockey team. The Domes just got a rebuilding as the concrete was starting to crumble, and a lot of the old iron front buildings are preserved downtown.

  • @briansbikes9469
    @briansbikes9469 2 года назад +6

    I love it here…

  • @coreycoyle9548
    @coreycoyle9548 2 года назад +7

    Awesome Video!!!!! of My State Wisconsin. The New Glarus part says the Swiss Cheese Queen it is a float for Cheese Days in nearby City of Monroe not the Swiss Cheese Queen. Two of those Women singing knew My grandmother who was from Green County. Anyway This is a Very Great Vintage Video F+L, Corey

  • @jeffmrochinski
    @jeffmrochinski Год назад +1

    This is absolutely fantastic. I live in downtown Milwaukee and love it. What a great state. I've traveled to many states and European countries, but I'm so happy to call WI home.

  • @stevensolway1054
    @stevensolway1054 2 года назад +8

    Go Packers!! Yet, Green Bay also has the NATIONAL RAILROAD MUSEUM since 1956, with 11 historic steam locomotives from all around 🇺🇸AMERICA, and it's the "SHRINE TO THE AGE OF STEAM", when the Railroads built up U.S.A. from 1829 to 1960.

    • @sscctt
      @sscctt 2 года назад

      Nice

  • @TWLML420
    @TWLML420 2 года назад +3

    Born and raised in Superior, Wi. I'm of Swiss/German decent. Wisconsin is pretty Awesome!

  • @17primemover
    @17primemover 3 месяца назад +1

    When I was a little kids, I thought Wisconsin Dells was the coolest place ever, especially Fort Dells

  • @davidwells2515
    @davidwells2515 2 года назад +6

    Lived between Chicago and Milwaukee in Wisconsin for 30 years, it’s still a nice place to live depending on the neighborhood

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +2

      My hometown went to Hell in a handbasket because of Chicago.

  • @kod333_3
    @kod333_3 2 года назад

    Im going to the Mitchell Park domes for a work party and its so cool to see it in the 60s

  • @dazeworld8236
    @dazeworld8236 2 года назад +9

    I live in Milwaukee and I’ve been here 17 years and I hate it

  • @rivamarsh
    @rivamarsh 11 месяцев назад

    Fort Dells was classic! I wish it was still there 😢

  • @kickthesky
    @kickthesky 3 года назад +44

    I remember being terrified of Black Bart when I was a kid. Our state has changed so much over the years, mostly for the worst.

    • @JulianGem
      @JulianGem 2 года назад

      As in Bartholomew Roberts?

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 года назад

      @@JulianGem perhaps Charles E Boles?

    • @JulianGem
      @JulianGem 2 года назад

      @@ryn-pg9wb ah, right!

  • @markberman8958
    @markberman8958 2 года назад +4

    This is so cool! Thanks for taking all the time and effort to get these uploaded! Just awesome!

  • @The_SEWI_Railfanner
    @The_SEWI_Railfanner 2 года назад +5

    I lived in Wisconsin for 10 years and I haven't moved out of Wisconsin

  • @helios1912
    @helios1912 2 года назад +2

    Wow Dad, we can take our "59 Ford Ranch Wagon anywhere...thanks for the post

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l 3 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing

  • @elizabethpeterson1644
    @elizabethpeterson1644 11 месяцев назад

    I do lived in Wisconsin. I lived in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. There is some places that I have been in when I was a kid.

  • @Tadesan
    @Tadesan 2 года назад +10

    This is for those FIBs…

    • @WN_Byers
      @WN_Byers 2 года назад +5

      I moved from Wisconsin to Colorado 11 years ago, and still say FIB when I see one of their license plates. 414 ever 🤣🤙

    • @TheMW2informer
      @TheMW2informer 2 года назад +1

      I call em flatlanders too

  • @johng.9877
    @johng.9877 2 года назад +5

    This state was nice all the way up to the 80's where it started to change, rapidly. By the mid 90's almost everything that made WI south of westfield unrecognizable. Cultural influence removed in the goal of diversity. Cities changed drastically and became dirty and crime ridden, this accelerated into the 20's. The southern part of the state is not even a shell of my childhood, and Northern WI has been transformed to a tourist haven where all small city charm has been replaced with modern coffee shops an boutiques

    • @NyxSerenity
      @NyxSerenity 2 года назад +1

      I wish I could have seen the old version of Wisconsin. Now southern Wisconsin doesn't have many woodlands and crime has gotten higher. Thankfully I live in a town that still has its old buildings and lots of history, but not many people care about that anymore

    • @Cook-hb2nf
      @Cook-hb2nf Год назад

      This makes me sad to read 😥

  • @theshib277
    @theshib277 2 года назад +1

    Cathartic ending

  • @AuRowe
    @AuRowe 2 года назад

    Amazing

  • @shinyoneincarnate5565
    @shinyoneincarnate5565 2 года назад +11

    My family lived in Northern Wisconsin, then Milwaukee from 1900 to 2000.
    No one locked their building doors. All gates were left unlocked. We left our car keys in our unlocked cars.
    The grass was green. The farms were bountiful. Farmers markets were plentiful.
    All political parties were welcome. If you proved your worth, you got re-elected. If you were not for the people & business, you were not re-elected.
    It was beautiful in the spring, summer , fall. Winter was there for the kids to play in the white snow.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 года назад +1

      "We left our car keys in our unlocked cars" stfu lol bs

    • @merricat3025
      @merricat3025 2 года назад

      @@FATMAN162x I don't leave my keys in my car but I could.

    • @dylanb4494
      @dylanb4494 2 года назад +2

      @@FATMAN162x its true. Its amazing what a high trust homogenous society was like. When you didnt have to worry about being culturally enriched at any given moment.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 года назад

      @@dylanb4494 only reason I said anything is cuz I’m from Milwaukee, which is Wisconsins worst lol but I’m only 25 I guess. But from the 90’s on ur just lying

    • @elizabethfrohn-hengst296
      @elizabethfrohn-hengst296 2 года назад

      I dont lock my house or car never had a problem

  • @X_explorer
    @X_explorer 4 года назад +2

    Good movie!

  • @davidbaysinger3381
    @davidbaysinger3381 4 года назад +38

    What oh what has happened to our beautiful country...?

    • @20alphabet
      @20alphabet 4 года назад +24

      The wrong people are making
      the decisions for the rest of us.

    • @tcmmxgo
      @tcmmxgo 3 года назад +5

      @Bill Barnews no not Africans, it's more of the people who don't think everyone is equal

    • @laylajohnikin2279
      @laylajohnikin2279 3 года назад +6

      @Bill Barnews how about we don't blame certain races for the problems of our stupid/uneducated government and president.

    • @laylajohnikin2279
      @laylajohnikin2279 3 года назад +2

      @Bill Barnews but does that justify your ignorant comment?

    • @wifighostcruiser9665
      @wifighostcruiser9665 3 года назад +14

      Our beautiful country went to hell, people think rap is music, they think there are more than 2 genders and that the words family and normal and decency are swear words.
      God warned us about this and it looks like the time is about here

  • @nightfire734
    @nightfire734 2 года назад +1

    I feel like I was recommended this from all the RLM I watch.

  • @OllieOxyn
    @OllieOxyn 2 года назад +2

    Weird not seeing the calatrava! And I had no idea the domes have been around for so long!

  • @raestalgia
    @raestalgia 2 года назад +2

    As a former Wisconsinite, there's a couple things I like to point out that either this video missed, or just some stuff I like to add stuff from my own experiences from living in Wisconsin.
    1. You talk about the unique architectures, and the buildings there, but you failed to mention the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, or the House On The Rock.
    2. You talk about the Dells, but you failed to mention about the Tommy Bartlett Water Show which is probably the most popular attraction to the park, right next to the Duck rides.
    3. You talk about the popular Swedish/Norwegian attractions there, but you failed to mention one of the most popular Swedish restaurants in Wisconsin. Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant with the goats on the roof.
    4. And as an added tip. 4:13-When you go to Andrae Park, make sure you are wearing swim shoes, or any kind foot protection when you are walking on the sand dunes, and/or you are going into the lake because even though the sand is very soft, it is also EXTREMELY hot, especially during the summer time. Also, just as the sand is extremely hot, the water is EXTREMELY cold. Lake Michigan is like about 40 degrees in the summer time. Yeah, it's like walking from into an oven to right into the freezer real quick. Along with that, the sand makes it very easy for sticks, twigs, and rocks to hide, so you have to be careful on where you step, or otherwise you can get a stick jabbing right into the bottom of your foot. Oh, and one more thing. When you go swimming into Lake Michigan make sure you are swimming relatively close to the beach because the currents are strong out there. One of our camp councilors told us a kid swam way out into the lake, and the currents pulled him under, and he'd drowned, so yeah.

    • @ottffssentet
      @ottffssentet Год назад

      1) The Natural Gas Co building with large glass, color-changing flame that forecasts changing weather conditions. And descriptive poem.

    • @ottffssentet
      @ottffssentet Год назад

      P.S. House On The Rock might be newer than this film. :)

  • @melmoon8412
    @melmoon8412 2 года назад

    Ayeeee I love very close to New Glarus! So cool

  • @jdcunnington
    @jdcunnington 2 года назад +1

    The Nicolet Memorial is actually more east of the city at the base of the Door Peninsula.
    The small chapel is actually closer to Jacksonport on the east side of the peninsula.
    The shame is Fort Dells is now a McDonalds, but in the Dells, the Ducks (DUKWs) still run.
    I'm thinking that last panoramic shot might be from Shot Tower State Park, overlooking the Wisconsin River in the distance. Or perhaps Devil's Lake.

    • @vidcas1711
      @vidcas1711 2 года назад

      Was about to comment, it’s to the northeast of the city, but it’s indeed near Hwy 57. They also didn’t mention Wequiock Falls that’s nearby.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      @@vidcas1711 - Yes, I'd forgotten about Wequiock Falls.

  • @ocruadlaoic
    @ocruadlaoic 2 года назад +8

    Sconny was lit in the 60's 😂

  • @matthewvandenbranden1307
    @matthewvandenbranden1307 2 года назад

    Born in Racine 1979 now I call Milwaukee home ♡

  • @emaugustBRDLC
    @emaugustBRDLC 2 года назад +5

    Let's get a canoe jousting league going. Or a tournament at least.

  • @garyhazlett1283
    @garyhazlett1283 2 года назад +4

    im from milwaukee and its the best place to live when all hell brakes loose in the world

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 года назад +4

      Worst*

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +4

      Yeah...no. I had 5 George Floyd protests go right by my old residence (rented). One was at 1:30 AM and another at 3 AM. After the third one, they were thinly attended and mostly an inconvenience as the demonstrators hogged both lanes of North Avenue.
      I'm now about 12 miles west of the county line in a quiet place where on an average weekend absolutely nothing happens.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 2 года назад

      Never trust a city with it's own nasty smell. Same for Indiana.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I was thinking of Gary. Went through there in 1976 going to Indy for the race. It was...fragrant.

    • @FATMAN162x
      @FATMAN162x 2 года назад

      @@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 weed doesn’t smell nasty

  • @kenaidog6974
    @kenaidog6974 2 года назад +1

    Grew up there. Great place to be a kid.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 года назад

      Same here..wouldn't have it any other way!

  • @Iconoclasher
    @Iconoclasher Год назад

    I used to watch this TV show when it started in 1963. Ran on Sunday nights I think. It's strange there's practically no reference to it anywhere except a few RUclips videos. Not even listed in the IMDB.

  • @jt624
    @jt624 2 года назад +5

    Not a SINGLE clip of the frozen winter hell that we endure every winter for 5 months? Alcoholic ice fishing? I can't wait to leave.

  • @mvirdi333fromUNITEDSTATES
    @mvirdi333fromUNITEDSTATES 2 года назад

    God Bless Great USA 🇺🇸. Wisconsin is one of The Best State of Great America 🙏

  • @cjdfv
    @cjdfv 2 года назад +9

    I imagine Norm MacDonald narrating this to make it funny. RIP

    • @JohtoJabroni
      @JohtoJabroni 2 года назад

      Immediate comedic shift. Thank you.

    • @daBEAGLE1017
      @daBEAGLE1017 2 года назад

      RIP to the ole chunk of coal.

  • @Acrowe
    @Acrowe 2 года назад

    OMG! Rifftrax has GOT to redo this!

  • @dinklehimerschlitz9111
    @dinklehimerschlitz9111 2 года назад +1

    I love Wisconsin and wouldn't be from anywhere else.

  • @ClayChapman0
    @ClayChapman0 2 года назад +2

    60 years later and I swear that same dog is still doing that jump in the dells

    • @charlespatrick8650
      @charlespatrick8650 2 года назад

      my dad took 8mm film of that around the time of this doc, always felt screwed that I never got to go (was about 10 years before I was born), and my parents were done with doing things like the Dells by the '70s/'80s, best travel-like thing I got to do when I was a kid was a day at Great America in Gurnee

  • @kahmarigreen5392
    @kahmarigreen5392 2 года назад

    I love Milwaukee 😩

  • @eascec8374
    @eascec8374 2 года назад +1

    The Milwaukee County Zoo opened on May 15, 1961, so this is definitely from 1960.

  • @CJinsoo
    @CJinsoo 2 года назад +2

    At 18:59 first time I have seen canoe jousting, cool.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 года назад

      We did that at summer camp! That was a lot of fun!

  • @randomstuffilookup2384
    @randomstuffilookup2384 2 года назад +2

    Need to see some canoe jousting come back

  • @gwerphinc6033
    @gwerphinc6033 2 года назад

    21:00 I enjoy paddling this spot whenever I can.

  • @andaimhineach4131
    @andaimhineach4131 4 года назад +5

    Man I love this. Anyone know what year it was done? 1965 or so, perhaps? Or earlier?

    • @CJinsoo
      @CJinsoo 2 года назад +5

      I am guessing 1963 because in the first few minutes when they visit green Bay they state the Packers are the first team to win NFL championship 2 years in a row, which should be referencing the 1961, 1962 championship seasons and when “Title town’ started.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +4

      The cheese queen in the New Glarus parade advertises a fair on Sept 18-19, 1965, so a good bet it's from earlier that year.

    • @CJinsoo
      @CJinsoo 2 года назад

      @@jdcunnington that’s even better than my speculation.

  • @HalkerVeil
    @HalkerVeil 2 года назад +1

    I wonder how much of this still exists there.

  • @rwinkler7511
    @rwinkler7511 2 года назад +2

    15:11 that steam calliope I'm dying🤣

  • @HansZuerner918
    @HansZuerner918 2 года назад +3

    To bad its not then anymore 😔

  • @cappysdad383
    @cappysdad383 2 года назад

    Have visited Wisconsin a few times and on a whim decided to to take a look at this old video. To my surprise I was brought back to the good old days of travel shows that were about getting worthwhile travel information out. I occasionally watch travel shows but feel they transfer little useful information as they concentrate too much on getting the host in front of the camera instead of the area they are visiting. There is even one where it's the host and kids, like watching someone else's mediocre home vacation video's! Nice to see a travel show where it is moderated behind camera and the travel location is the subject not the vain host/moderator.

  • @scotthruska4906
    @scotthruska4906 2 года назад +1

    I’m of bohemian descents along with French Canadian.
    From Marinette/ MENEKAUNEE… WI.

    • @iancostigan5047
      @iancostigan5047 2 года назад

      My family is from Marinette. I love that place. My dad use to take us across the railroad bridge on the Menomonie to bum island in Marinette was always fun.

  • @kmking1986
    @kmking1986 2 года назад +8

    We are the badger state because of badger mining. Not because of the animal badger mining is digging straight holes into a mountain

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +2

      A historical marker out near Cuba City says it's because of the lead miners, who were nicknamed "badgers" for tunneling into the hillsides.

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 года назад

      gotta love galena

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      @@ryn-pg9wb - The town or the lead ore?

    • @ryn-pg9wb
      @ryn-pg9wb 2 года назад +1

      @@jdcunnington The ore! As far as I've heard, that's what the men were mining for when they earned the nickname "badgers".

  • @chriscross6045
    @chriscross6045 2 года назад +1

    "This German Shepherd makes the 12 foot jump ..." Ummm, I think we should be talking about the fact that if the distance is correct, that dog is almost 10 ft long.

  • @parkfor3906
    @parkfor3906 2 года назад +3

    Plenty to love about living in WI, but, too cold, too much of the year.

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +1

      It keeps the mosquitoes down and the cockroaches away.

    • @jimmyroocoh8696
      @jimmyroocoh8696 2 года назад

      @@jdcunnington Ya get used to the cold! I ride a motorcycle in the middle of winter here! Talk about freezing the 'ol "nether regions"!

    • @Miguel-ve1lh
      @Miguel-ve1lh 2 года назад

      @@jdcunnington 🙌👏👏👏👏👏🫶 🪳 🦟🚫🚫🚫🚫🗣🗣🗣

    • @Miguel-ve1lh
      @Miguel-ve1lh 2 года назад

      @@jdcunnington seriously! 🪳 i lived in Texas for about three months last year and those roaches were something els!!!, so i packed up my things and came back home 🧀
      It’s nice to actually feel spring this time around 🍃
      Rather than full blazing heat 🥵

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад

      @@Miguel-ve1lh - I remember seeing one in the barracks at Lackland AFB back in '84. 2.5 to 3 inches long. Yikes! A friend who grew up in Melbourne, FL told about how they had back his chihuahua puppy into a corner the first night they had him.

  • @countrygirl4422
    @countrygirl4422 2 года назад +8

    Wisconsin especially Madison used to be a great place to live. It's sad to see what's happening to the place I was born and raised. Over the summer I got out of my car on E. Washington Ave. and almost stepped on a needle.

    • @brosefmcman8264
      @brosefmcman8264 2 года назад +2

      Obama’s America

    • @jdcunnington
      @jdcunnington 2 года назад +1

      The big cities suck. I escaped Milwaukee for rural Waukesha County. Much better quality of life. I still work in the city, so I have a continual basis for comparison.

    • @k.lynngearing9770
      @k.lynngearing9770 2 года назад +2

      Unhinged leftist socialist goons rule the day in urban Madison. Business owners other professionals beware. Voting or expressing political opinion contrary to big government control may jeopardize your business. No joke!

    • @JeffreyDahmenator
      @JeffreyDahmenator 2 года назад

      K. Lynn Gearing Madison is the only area in WI doing well, economically, so the goons must be doing something right.

    • @BenJamin-pd4mp
      @BenJamin-pd4mp 2 года назад

      Yeah it's disgusting nothing but needles and poop all over the place I thought I was gonna get aids just walking down state street took a long cold shower when I got home I just felt so dirty

  • @lastotallyawesomebleach204
    @lastotallyawesomebleach204 Год назад

    I wish I could've experienced the dells during those times, that place really sucks now.

  • @Bendoofus
    @Bendoofus 2 года назад +19

    Ahhh...the sights and sounds of riots in Kenosha in the summer. And don't forget the drive-by shootings in Milwaukee. Good family fun! See you at Walgreens.

    • @123kdailey
      @123kdailey 2 года назад +7

      Acting like there weren’t riots all over in the 60s…I wonder who you still want to be president lmao smh

    • @UnkleAce
      @UnkleAce 2 года назад +2

      @@123kdailey Stop! Please your embarrassing yourself with your riots to president argument. It’s funny and redundant at the same time

    • @TheMW2informer
      @TheMW2informer 2 года назад +2

      If you live in the country you have zero issues like that.

    • @123kdailey
      @123kdailey 2 года назад +1

      @@UnkleAce what’s embarrassing is still having people like you to stick up for people like him. Straight up you are what’s wrong with this country

    • @UnkleAce
      @UnkleAce 2 года назад

      @@123kdailey your welcome 👍

  • @redguy4839
    @redguy4839 3 года назад +3

    I live in Wisconsin Forest County Crandon

    • @shanelarock1290
      @shanelarock1290 3 года назад

      lol my grandfather grew up there

    • @shanelarock1290
      @shanelarock1290 3 года назад

      lol my grandfather grew up there

    • @jdsalinger73
      @jdsalinger73 2 года назад

      nice avatar. I see you are awake. P.S. I lived in Wausau and Mosinee 2003-2008. It was kind of a city that was boring, but lots of beauty in the out doors.
      Now live in KC and miss WI a lot.

  • @THATGuy5654
    @THATGuy5654 2 года назад

    Here's Madison. Cute. Racine has some Frank Lloyd Wright buildings. Here's Milwaukee. It's got a cool building, too. I think Sheboygan is a beach? Whatever. Now let's spend a good long time talking about this Scandinavian village no one will know exists in 2021!

  • @Playsinvain
    @Playsinvain 2 года назад

    The gathering of the waters

  • @tten2787
    @tten2787 Год назад

    I’m very confused how they choose the places in this film - the drift less area around LaCrosse didn’t make the cut? Apostle Islands?