Ranger Texas no Longer Roars, but the Brick is Still Beautiful a Century Later 

Very cool old town with so much history. Beautiful sections of the Bankhead Highway still exist there, along with a bridge dated 1923.

I found this Texas history website this morning, and I see the story about Ranger!! I was born there in 1943 at the Westside? Hospital. This is so wonderful to find ! The memorie's are flooding my old brain! I was last there in 1992 and noticed the empty and damaged buildings! I managed to make contact with some family members I had not seen in forty years! I spent many summers there staying in the Terrell Bldg. She had moved there from the Gohlsen Hotel. building. I have a lot of history with Ranger, Thurber, Strawn, Mingus, Graham. Sooo many beautiful memories flooding my heart and head now. Thank you for this history ❤

I was born in Ranger. At the time my parents lived in Eastland. There was no hospital there. The hospital was in Ranger. It was high on a hill visible for years from the highway. Long gone now. Thanks for this video.

If you stop and think about. Every town with a brick road has a little part of ranger history in it. Great vid as always

Looks like my kind of place...

Been here many times over the last 45 years great video

I love your Texas small town tours. Ranger is very cool-looking.

One thing I love about my trips traveling back and forth across Texas is making my way to all these old small towns as I tend to avoid big cities. Something about small towns makes my imagination take flight as I filter imaginary people into these once booming towns. Glad there are others who appreciate these almost forgotten places and thank you for making these wonderful videos.

We used to hunt in "Thurber" just down the road.... The old locals say it was a huge town with the brick factory that made all those bricks...but it dried up when they struck oil 8n Ranger.... All that history still hangs on the wall at the Smokehouse restaurant..... Nice video here...

Thank you for this interesting and entertaining video about Ranger Texas.

Music and narration are stellar! Great share. Thanks!!

Great video! Thanks for sharing friend. Have a beautiful day 🌷

Thanks again for another nice video!

great narration and what a professional documentary ! 10 out if 10. 💖 👍 👌 👊 🇬🇧

Grew up running around that town and county with my Uncle, who was a trapper. Great place. I now live in Cisco.

I really like Ranger and I have made a repoduction of the game room sign!

We just discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and absolutely love it. We are always excited to see places in Texas that we haven't been to yet, and revisit those we have. Your choices for music are great too!

All these towns look so much alike.. they must have had a plan book they went by when establishing these places... so weird that they would do that..to me anyways. This is my home area ♡ raised in Young county ♡ thanks for sharing!

I was born and raised in Ranger. It’s so horrible about the fire last year. I haven’t been back in 20 years. I appreciate this video. You should go back and document the damage.

I remember when those buildings were still standing when I was a child, so sad to see

Love ur videos, I generally don't comment..but Thank You. Great Music

Great video. It’s sad every trip I take through there.

I really enjoying your videos, especially the ones about the small towns. Keep them coming.

Delightful to see no Gang Signs marked all over the buildings. It must have been a great place to live back then.

Great videos. Keep 'em coming!

Any chance of visiting towns like Marfa, Breckenridge, Bandera, etc?

I ended up in Ranger on 8/4/24. I like to explore and take pictures and Dairy Queen seemed like a good place to stop for a break on my Sunday drive to nowhere. I spent 3 hours walking around the downtown area taking pictures. Ran into an elderly man and his 4 cats selling antiques and we had a long talk about the town. I've been to a lot of abandoned houses/businesses/schools, but never a town. If any locals would like to talk about how life is/was in Ranger, please shoot me a message.

I currently live here. I moved here from ft lauderdale Florida.. quite a culture shock.

The Open Range Restaurant you pictured used to be a brothel in the middle 1900's. My cousin owns the building and remnants of the 'operation' are still found there.

As more and more white collars are able to work 'anywhere' places with the basics like good food, entertainment and activity will thrive once more!

Very cool

Town I live in is 409 population now but durring the 1920 time it was over 2000 population . Unfortunately someone bought some of the older brick building and took the brick . Although it is good brick

My maternal grandparents lived in Ranger until 1982, three doors down from the Methodist church on East Elm Street. I can see their house at 4:26 in this video. I used to visit them a lot in the 1950s and 1960s, and I especially remember going to the Frigid Queen for hamburgers and milkshakes. I found the abandoned Gholson Hotel especially spooky as a child - even the name is spooky.

Since they redid Ranger Hill, it's nothing like it used to be

I lived there in the late 70s. It wasn't booming then either.

Thurber brick. I need one for s suvienor

My wife and I been there my wife sister used live there long time I know older towns

Brick streets look to be in good condition.

I grew up in ranger

What's the music track?

These videos are so interesting yet so depressing at the same time 🤔

My sister & brother in law lives in Ranger

I was born in ranger in 1984

Is this the signs of a nation in decline??