Ghost town of Thalia, Tx

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Ghost town of Thalia, Tx

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6 жыл бұрын

Exploring the abandoned town of Thalia, TX. The Great Depression and drought caused this little town to go under. By 1943 the high school closed and by 1960 the post office closed. Now mostly decaying buildings remain.

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@donaldbingham8990 3 жыл бұрын

My wife was born in Thalia in 1944. Her parents and grandparents are buried there along with one of her brothers. Her father died in 1953 and the family moved to Vernon. We lived in Austin for 30 years and moved to Rockport, TX in 2013. My wife died here 4 1/2 months ago. You don't hear about Thalia much (ever.) I am glad you posted this.

@drivewaytv4400 3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss

@valerief1231 3 жыл бұрын

I know I’m 3 years late to the party. But my small town Texan side can’t let it go without being said. “They see ya” all of them saw you, and those cars driving buy you at first, the drivers called their spouses, friends, mama n’ daddy, and they drove past ya too, looked out the winder at ya, and old man McGary was watching you from his tractor. 🌾 🚜

@Austin8thGenTexan 3 жыл бұрын

My first view of Thalia. My great grandfather is buried there - he died in the 1918 Flu pandemic at age 34. He left my great grandmother with 4 kids to raise - no government or family help... 🌷🌷🌷

@Austin8thGenTexan 3 жыл бұрын

@Yard Sale Dale Lie like a rug. 💫 🐥 💫

@dontall71 3 жыл бұрын

The interstate highways killed a lot of these towns. Kids grow up and move away to find what they believe is a better life.

@Level_No_Curve 3 жыл бұрын

Shit id love to move here

@gideoncervan9915 3 жыл бұрын

Mechanical Farming and large corporate farms really killed these towns, corporations moved in bought 500-600 families farms and made the job pool disappear for 5-10k people.

@carpediem6568 3 жыл бұрын

I love the old buildings. Each has a personality. Their architecture and signs tell a story that we will never get to know, melancholic.

@Dr_Mike_US 4 жыл бұрын

I like places without people. This is such a nice place. I can take enough sleep and rest. I'll build my house and will start my business right in the middle of this town. Such a nice cool place. Silence is what I need.

@jamesdunn9714 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you don't need customers.

@stevehairston9940 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdunn9714 😂 that's what I came here to say.

@billl1127 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevehairston9940 Same here.

@dinabarzilai9317 2 жыл бұрын

@@jamesdunn9714 haha

@natho6235 2 жыл бұрын

Can't have a business without customers

@leehammonds1891 6 жыл бұрын

I live about 3 miles from Thalia. I was born in 80' and when I was a kid there was a little store by the gas pumps my dad and grandpa would take us to. Larry McMurtry wrote 3 books based on Thalia. Horesman Bypass, The last picture show, and Leaving Cheyenne.

@drivewaytv4400 6 жыл бұрын

Lee Hammonds I knew the last picture show had Thalia in it. Wish I would have known more about the town before I drove through

@leehammonds1891 6 жыл бұрын

If you're ever thru again, let me know. I'll pass along my limited knowledge.

@rayfarris5000 4 жыл бұрын

and "Texasville"

@davidmcnair1455 3 жыл бұрын

HORSEMAN PASS BY.

@rickrichter9445 3 жыл бұрын

Archer City, not Thalia.

@marksmith6634 3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the small towns died in the late 70s, due to the grain embargo signed by president Jimmy Carter, also when the railroad stopped running, the towns died. We should never use food as a weapon, there still towns that never recovered from the grain embargo.

@miguelcarter1949 3 жыл бұрын

Never knew that thanks for sharing I attributed it to Clinton’s NAFTA

@gmathis4829 3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that part of the War on Communism/Cold War....starve Cuba and get them to overthrow the Castro Regime?

@marksmith6634 3 жыл бұрын

@@gmathis4829 Parttly, Russia!

@gmathis4829 3 жыл бұрын

@@marksmith6634 Jimmy got blamed for a lot of stuff.

@gmathis4829 3 жыл бұрын

@@marksmith6634 yup. All the above.

@dianewilson5516 2 жыл бұрын

Darn, that high school closed before my mother went to high school. She graduated from Roosevelt High in Fresno California in 1949!

@iaincaillte3356 3 жыл бұрын

These little towns were once centers of an active farming economy. Then machines replaced farmworkers and mega-farms replaced family farms. You don't need towns for machines and absentee owners. Is this good for our country? I don't have the answer. But the people who live out here become more and more isolated from the rest of us and maybe more and more desperate.

@keepitforreally4501 2 жыл бұрын

Relaxing and enjoying like a field trip from my living room thank you so much😎 I am in San Antonio Texas on July 12, 2022 at 11:37 Am You should go to where the first H-E-B grocery store was born🌹😎

@tubbers20 Жыл бұрын

Love watching these videos. There's a great book called 'From Uncertain To Blue' by photographer Keith Carter and he photographed all kinds of small towns in Texas.

@eloisamacal6325 5 жыл бұрын

In my opinion why not give it to the homeless. They could bring it back to life. It looks nice to me.

@plushman3685 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Drug addicts and mentally ill people with no jobs, they could entirely turn the place around

@dsdave07 4 жыл бұрын

Don't you wonder why they're homeless?

@paulperry9861 4 жыл бұрын

Not every homeless person is mentally ill or on drugs some of them are just down on their luck or choose to live that way cause its easier for them. Talk about being judgy, I've been homeless quiet a few times im not on drugs nor am i mentally ill. People have homes and pop pills for whatever they have and those are drugs and there people who's mentally ill who get disability checks that dont work.

@gmc9753 3 жыл бұрын

And how is a homeless person without a job supposed to repair a run-down house if you just give it to them? And what about utilities? And how are they going to eat? They don't have a car and there's probably no grocery store in that tiny town.

@zodinthara7925 3 жыл бұрын

Oo how i love to visit american small towns. Its my dream. So charming

@eamonnmckeown6770 3 жыл бұрын

that Winnebago Brave would be a cool project.

@genekelly8467 3 жыл бұрын

The power utility still maintains the electric lines..so some people still live here

@Dr_Mike_US 4 жыл бұрын

7:20 am a Civil Engineer. I'll try my best to run this town. I'll be the Sheriff.

@freetobememe4358 4 жыл бұрын

Honey those donkeys aren’t scared. You are cracking me up. Texas is HOT!

@antonfarquar8799 3 жыл бұрын

restore the high school - would make a very nice residence or meeting place.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 3 жыл бұрын

For who? The town is deserted.

@BirdDogey1 3 жыл бұрын

Towns become shadows of their past for economic reasons. Manufacturing moves overseas, family farms get pushed out by corporate farming etc...The children grow up and seek opportunity elsewhere. The less curious ones stay and marry other non curious people. Residents in these towns do without substantial amenities. Healthcare is non existent. Groceries are limited absent a long drive and dry ice to keep it cold getting home. The education system is generally substandard. Dining might be roller dogs at a gas station and maybe a DQ hanging on. It then becomes difficult to lure an employer because there isn't a sufficient job pool from which to pull candidates.

@Dr_Mike_US 4 жыл бұрын

0:43 am happy that the US has got such beautiful abandoned deserted ghost towns coz am not from the US but when I get to the US then I'll build a very beautiful big house in the middle of the town. And maybe I'll turn this school into my house coz this is in good condition. The US is always in my ❤ & will be forever till death and even after death. I'll stand with the US no matter what happens.

@ndlz1 3 жыл бұрын

Vanishing America.

@ramal3169 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could find out who owns some of those buildings. I'd try to fix some up

@golden.lights.twinkle2329 3 жыл бұрын

Why?

@donnydizzle2781 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome you just try and picture kids walking to the school, outside hanging out etc. . .

@bartenderzzz 3 жыл бұрын

Imagine running out of gas in the middle of the night around there?

@williamkeith8944 3 жыл бұрын

You'd be OK, people would stop and help you, if the Texas Dept of Public Safety didn't come across you first.

@georgemarinez7650 2 жыл бұрын

I drive a 18 and have driven thru there many times at all hours of nite and always wonder but have never seen nothing

@steviepigford1912 3 жыл бұрын

Quite place I could use it. North Carolina rural towns are becoming way to much

@mjazzguitar 3 жыл бұрын

Way too much what?

@mistervacation23 3 жыл бұрын

Night after Night, it's about two nights in a row

@richardhaas39 3 жыл бұрын

This is like southern Spain during siesta. There are people out before and after but not during, too hot.

@jboreal7982 3 жыл бұрын

I'm getting Algo'd to the moon with "Ghost Towns in Texas" stuff because I opened one video. So, with like a 1000 bucks could I buy like a millions acres?

@drivewaytv4400 3 жыл бұрын

Possibly

@williamkeith8944 3 жыл бұрын

@@drivewaytv4400 no

@billl1127 3 жыл бұрын

No, but I can sell you a bridge if you're interested.

@74Spirit1 4 жыл бұрын

The name Larry McMurtry used to write the Duane Jackson series.

@desireegrisham3892 3 жыл бұрын

Duane Moore

@Dr_Mike_US 3 жыл бұрын

7:44 In my language "Thalia" means clapping...👏👏👏

@cynthiablagg3690 3 жыл бұрын

All the smart people are inside their house cuz it's hot outside but they know you're there.

@ToyoteroMundial 2 жыл бұрын

The mexican singer "Thalia" should buy that town.

@thalia4542 7 ай бұрын

imma buy it

@gmathis4829 3 жыл бұрын

That's either a Grain Elevator or a Feed Mill.......not "a Silo"...

@ToyoteroMundial 2 жыл бұрын

Any updates in 2022?

@rshutterbug47 Жыл бұрын

Ya Thats Kinda Creepy, & The Unknown Can Get Your Mind Thinking of NOT SO GOOD OF THINGS BUT YOUR VIDEO WAS GOOD 🙄😐👍👍👍

@mjazzguitar 3 жыл бұрын

People pay for the old gas station signs, etc. That picker show calls it 'petroliana'.

@joeurbanovsky6545 3 жыл бұрын

How doe,s a person call your office I do enjoy your show would like to know more .my name is Joe.

@oldschooldjernie 3 жыл бұрын

what a hell hole

@DevilTX66 4 жыл бұрын

Nobody does any research before they go exploring. Geez at least act like you know what is going on.

@williamkeith8944 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a little research on how offensive your avatar is.

@fpt3000 3 жыл бұрын

🖕🏽U

@DevilTX66 3 жыл бұрын

@@williamkeith8944 Yeah ok. Your Beta Male is showing. Scared of a flag. An inanimate object. That makes me laugh. How does an inanimate thing OFFEND you? You think it stands for Slavery? That is another laugh. As the pic says if that offends you then you need a history lesson. Southern pride boy. Explain to me how so many black people in the south fly the stars and bars and are not offended. I know I know someone has put the lies in your little brain. Just think if the shit ever hit the fan you’re going to wish you were friends with someone that is proud to fly that flag. Right now if a flag offends you what do you think our enemies are going to do? You will be bitch boy #1. That vision makes me laugh too. You better grow a pair.

@davidcantwell2489 3 жыл бұрын

@@DevilTX66 If you were truly proud of your Southern Heritage you wouldn't be flying the Battle Flag, you would be flying the stars and bars.

@DevilTX66 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidcantwell2489 Haha How long have you known me? I have both flags. Along with the American flag and my Texas flag. Oh I also have the Texas Come and get it flag and the Gasden flag. Just because I am not showing it don’t mean I ain’t got one. I am proud of my heritage. Both Southern and Native American. Basically I am offended that you are offended. 😂😂😂😂