Exploring El Campo, TX: A Hidden Gem in Small-Town America! 

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Lived in El Campo TX home of the fighting Ricebirds!!

Glad you visited this town.... I always had the impression it was smaller. Very nice buildings, they do keep this town picked up and clean in their alleys.

I worked for 21 years in the advertising department, at the Western Auto HQ, In downtown KCMO.

I was born and raised in El Campo. That building was a bank that you talked about . I love my hometown .

Another great video! Thanks for taking us along to El Campo.

☺️ I get excited to watch when you post a new one. Thanks 😊

Raised in EC! Moved to Overton, Tx(home of the smiley face barn) in 1991! I enjoyed this and teared up a couple of times to see my hometown!

One thing for sure, El Campo has taken good care of the old, architecture.

Excellent video. Traveled thru El Campo many times but never stopped. My first bike as a kid was from Western Auto 😅

the chamber of commerce building was the old fire station long time ago

The first time I saw windmills like this was, several years ago in southwest Illinois, it was my, “Don Quixote” moment, lol.

Super awesome again. This is the best Texas documentation I’ve seen.

That green corner house is huge, but needs some trees in front and side.

our siren goes off every day at 12 and 1

Talk about some excellent old downtown preserved areas if you were ever making a film set in the 50's-60's and it was necessary to shoot some alleyway scenes, etc.

Go to west Texas and see lots of wind mills!

This was a great video. I believe Prosperity Bank was started in El Campo.

Carthage TX. Timpson Tx. Joaquin TX. Garrison TX. Tenaha TX. home of Tex Ritter. Logan Sport Lousisana. I could tell you where all the patrol cars at location in Texas and Louisiana.

That old library was the original old jail in town first. You didn't read it all lol.

My job takes me to several small towns in the San Antonio area. Every time I pass a post office I think of you

When you are up near Lubbock the windmill farms up there are pretty big.

I live in El campo

Old downtown buildings,were all successful businesses at one time. The businesses are on the opposite side of town now.

It's been several weeks since you've posted anything... did you stop making videos?

Above a bunch of them older building down town are apartments

Mechanic St is the main st going through town

the new library is down by the catholic church you was at

There is not much in El Campo. Blink and miss it.

I love the accurate views but damn does Texas look like an unpleasant place to live

I live in El Campo its not like it was back in the day but i love it here

Thank you, Mayor, for boots on the ground, in those small towns.

Some small towns used to run their emergency sirens at specific times to test them. At one time, Humble used to blow theirs every Friday at noon.

This is my town, Born and raised. Thank you all for the nice comments. Most folks here, like me, are proud natives. Originally known as the “prairie switch” because of the use of the railroad to move cattle off the lands. Nick named “Pearl-of-the-Prairie” because as the cattle drivers were pushing through at night the could se the lights of the town flickering in the distance like pearls. The sirens you heard are fairly normal. Blows once at 1pm and once at 6pm. When it blows 5 short burst like you heard, there’s been either a fire call or medical call. Sure wish you could have bumped into a local and gotten and VIP tour. Are history is rich in agriculture l, especially rice and cotton. The large grain tanks you see are know as silos. The first set is Rice Farmers CO-OP. The others across the track are 9 Point/TWI and some of those are being torn down because of safety issues. I could go on, but if you would like more info, I would be glad to share what I can.

I am so glad you are interested in the history. I was born/raised in Southern California, I moved to Tyler, Texas in 2008. I have only recently begun to learn about the early history here. Unfortunately, they are currently removing an entire block downtown, in order to build a new courthouse. The block they are removing, the oldest buildings date to the 1870's and 1880's. There were wood structures in place there, from around the 1850's. To the side and behind these oldest buildings, they also demolished the buildings that were built by African American businesspeople at the turn of the century. One of those was lovingly named 'The People's Pharmacy'. The city has the whole area fenced off. They are not allowing for any archeology to take place. Some are saying that they welcome the removal of the historic buildings, because they represent a sad era of time for so many in our once small town. I sure understand, I can see their point of view. But as someone who is now 61 yrs. old, my heart just hurts to see the complete destruction of a small, original block that was first platted in the 1840's. When it is gone, it is gone forever.

I've always wondered if I could ever live in a small town - I'm so used to the big city, and all of the places in Houston. Those buildings do make it seem like you're going back in time - you're right about that.

Sorry you crashed your drone. Thanks for doing this interesting video. I love the way buildings are preserved there. I love you. Stay cool.

Western auto closed down its now a auction place

I truly wish you the best in school and in life, so I don't want you to misunderstand what I'm about to type: WhOO! You were sooOOo close to exposing my favorite all-time peaceful, friendly city of fishing. The heavens are shining down on ME favorably cause I'm not ready to share. 😁Yup...I'm one selfish bassTURD.🤣🤣 Good luck and please keep this channel rolling.

You got to visit Ganado Texas

Wind farms are all over the state, the Panhandle, Corpus, West Texas, South Texas, etc...Very controversial subject, especially up in the Panhandle. That said, as a photographer, they make for a great subject. I believe that Texas has the highest number of Wind Turbines in the US. 11:41 That, Siren, it might be Sirenhead…watch your back…😂

You need to check out the wings farms in west texas. They are huge!

My wife told me u were in el campo,I wish I could have meet u,we watch your videos fish& trips, Palacios tx is about 35mins away, is were I make my videos

0:57 wow my husband and i watch your fishing channel!! We live in El Campo!!

Great vid buddy! Head to Goliad!

What day of the week and about time were you there? Just curious there doesn’t seem to be very many people out.

it caught fire last summer and we were without power and that area was evacuated because it was spreading the fire started by a lawnmower spark i believe it was a old cotton gin but im not sure

We got hit pretty bad by Beryl and still cleaning up and repairing damages