I remember being a poor kid in Michigan, every Thanksgiving, and Christmas the Odd fellows brought us a big box of food. Thanks to those fine Gentlemen.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your story

There is an abandoned Free Mason lodge above the old Farmer PEET meat market in Chesaning, MI. I only know because my uncle was helping a community manager restore the bottom half of the building into a community center. 140 N. Saginaw St, you can see there is a door that leads up to the top level. They removed the Free Mason insignia on the door but there is a stone about it with their writings. We explored the inside, there was a ceremony room, rooms with long closets for their robes, a dining room that converted to a basketball court, and a kitchen. There was a locked room in the attic, my uncle tried getting me to go but I was too spooked. 😆

@Mattybot3000

Ай бұрын

The door is on the right side of the old PEET meat market, now called PEET Community Center.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@danhillman4523

Ай бұрын

@@Mattybot3000 Farmer Peet's? IDK. The spelling is correct.

I grew up 6 miles from there. My step mother was born and raised a mile out of town. Not really a ghost town just a little town where most of the businesses closed up after the big box stores opened up.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your reply.

My family is from the area and my grandparents owned the grocery store for over 20yrs. It was named "MAHAR'S." They were both involved in the IOOF.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

We passed the road going into Pompeii hundreds of times when we went to visit my grandpa. I always wanted to learn more about it so thank you!

@popofzero

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, and the comment. 😃

New sub here..originally from Flint Mi, now a resident of Gladwin Mi. I love learning about my state so ty for the video! Keep up the good work! ❤

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your sub and comments it means a lot to us!

@nicholassharp3799

Ай бұрын

From Clare, got friends in Gladwin and its not a bad place, can't do Flint though, to many bad memories hanging out there as a late teen.

@DeidraMorrissey52980

Ай бұрын

Pfft..don't we all?..lol

I was a realtor for a while and tried to sell a house there once. As you can imagine, it didn't sell. We did several open houses during which my partner and I read and napped without a single visitor.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@Arthurian.

Ай бұрын

​@@popofzeroyour response is so lame dude

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Sorry you feel that way

@Arthurian.

Ай бұрын

@@popofzero just this one, otherwise your video is cool

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thank you

The railroad still goes through pompeii but it hasn't been the grand trunk in decades. It is now the great lake central and it services the grain elevators in middleton.

@popofzero

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your reply

@trainencounters586

Ай бұрын

And the Grand Trunk Western itself is now gone; Canadian National absorbed it.

The corrected pronunciation of Pompeiī is the actual Latin pronunciation, Pom-pee-eye. Good for her.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

If you watch and listen to the whole video, it is pronounced correctly.

If you're interested in visiting other ghost towns in Michigan, you might want to take a ride up to the Thumb on the eastern part of the lower peninsula - they've got several towns that have populations of 100 or less - and some of them have great backstories. For example, Pinnebog (pronounced "pin-uh-bawg" - or as some old timers say, "pin-eh-Pog").The name is (I believe) Ojibwa and it was once a logging town. Or visit Huron City (a former Chautauqua-type community on the northeastern shore of Lake Huron with a very rich history) ; or Parisville (the first Polish-American farming settlement the US). Grindstone City is also quite interesting historically - it was a "quarry town" that still features several buildings made of the local limestone from which it takes its name. True ghost towns in the Thumb - that is, towns that used to be, but are no longer - would include Port Crescent (an old lumber port near present-day Port Austin). Most of Port Crescent's remaining buildings were moved to Port Austin in the early 20th century when the State decided to use the land for a park, but the graveyard is still intact as is the old sawmill chimney which is located in Port Crescent State Park - the beach is fabulous! And then there's the old Ora Labora site (which was a religious community - the name means "Pray and Work") located near the little town of Bay Port, where they manufactured some of the original brick that you can still see in the the older 19th century buildings that dot the farmland of the Thumb. I could go on, because this just scratches the surface. Finally, outside the Thumb, let me suggest Hell, Michigan - you can always go to Hell for fun and have a drink at the Dam Site Inn. Keep up the good work. Michigan always has good stories to tell.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment 👍

@rivjoy

2 ай бұрын

There was a series of books written in late 60's- early 70's called The Ghost Towns of Michigan. Michigan seems to be home for a huge number of ghost towns. Defining ghost towns as towns that existed and are no longer or somewhat abandoned. In northern lower MI lumbering towns were abandoned after the trees were all cut, or burned down then not rebuilt. The UP had mining towns, mines close towns disappear. Another common way towns disappear is the railroad ignores them and goes through a town a few miles away, without the railroad people and business leave. There is another type of ghost town that isn't talked about much and that is the shanty town that would spring up on the outskirts of cities. With higher income jobs and the invention of the bulldozer these disappeared in the early 20th. century.

@rivjoy

2 ай бұрын

When I was a child in the 60s my dad took us out to Grindstone city. At that time the ground was littered with grind stones of every size, I don't know if they were rejects or just unsold. I don't believe there are any remaining now.

@nickfay2359

2 ай бұрын

Fayette is another..I've been there

@lindaroyal8161

Ай бұрын

​@@rivjoy- I went there as a kid also, with my grandparents. I remember all the grind stones. I actually have one, it didn't come from Michigan, found it at an unauthorized dumping place, rural area of Tampa, still have.

Interesting about the IOOF lodge - a lot of fraternal organization lodge houses I have seen were above grocery stores

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Good point, thanks for watching

@TCW838

29 күн бұрын

In the western US, many fraternal organizations built 2 story lodges as well. Often, the ground floor would be used as a one room school that could convert on weekends to have dances or other town social events while the 2nd floor held the lodge.

@popofzero

29 күн бұрын

@@TCW838 thanks we are working on getting out west.

"they didnt have spell check back then", love this

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for reply

I live in middleton and before we bought our house there was no houses for sale at the time but after we bought out a cpl went up for sale and sold. Interesting to see the video as i have passed through pompeii more times than i can even remember.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting

I own an old IOOF building in downtown Perry, the main hall still had a stage, hidden door locks and a peep hole. There was a second smaller hall also for the order of the Eastern Stars.

@popofzero

12 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍

Interesting channel, just found it today. I was born and grew up in Michigan, Rochester. Left in the amearly 80's for Florida. But Michigan is my home state and proud of it.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment!

I can't tell you how many times I've traveled 127, well before they created the highway between Ithaca and Lansing, and had zero clue this place existed. Wild. Good content.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks, we appreciate your kind words! ❤️

Thanks for this! Every summer I come back from CA to stay at the cottage my grampa built near 127 and Snowbowl Road (a few miles south of Houghton Lake). We drive right past this place. Definitely going to visit next time!

@popofzero

3 күн бұрын

You're welcome, and thanks for watching!

I’m glad you got the pronunciation correct in the end! I was about to stroke out hearing it said the wrong way. Pom-pee-eye…. Not Pom-pay

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, especially to the end. 😃

ive known of this place for a while but never planned to visit. but one of the shots in the first min of the video i have been there. turns out i drove through it many times and its alot closer to where i live than i thought.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment 👍

Cool video. I always wondered the history of that place.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Neat and informative video! New sub here❤

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks, and welcome! ❤️

I’m legit only a few minutes from this town I’m gonna have to check it out!!!! Thank you!!!!

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

You're welcome.

Loved the video. We live in a ghost town in NE Michigan where the railroad used to end. 😄

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks, we have more ghost town videos on our page

My great grandparents lived nearby. Locals pronounced the town name as “POM-pea-eye”. The railroad was nicknamed “the try-weekly”. Because if it did get there one week, it might try to return the next week. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the story

@FirstLast-qf1df

Ай бұрын

Thank you to the speaker for not using the local pronunciation.

Elderly Instruments in Old Town Lansing is an old IOOF building.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

New sub to yr channel.. Michigander here myself. Love learning more of my state

@popofzero

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub! We will do the same! We are looking forward to seeing your content.

@AsiaBlessed26

2 ай бұрын

Same.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and subscribing.

@mitchalderman1776

Ай бұрын

Michigan is a corporation nothing else

Also, maybe a better description of a ghost town (for individuals upset at the terminology you used) is a town whose economic activity that supported it (usually industrial or agricultural) has failed or ended for any reason and resulted in a substantial loss of residency.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thank you

The numbers of ghost towns now evaporated in time is phenomenal... lived in one such. A town moved some three times due to fire and railroad... The narrow rail still exists beneath the sod among Native American artifacts. As if they resided together... Though later massacred in 1914. As of recent history came across a city and or town totally abandon in my travels in modern time. A victim of Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. As a child of the 1950's I remember these still flourishing... to the Mason and Odd Fellow Lodge being center of town. Today little remain but empty buildings and few holdouts. To some as one of two I resided which no longer exist except name on a map, nothing is there though were some ancient buildings few years ago.

@popofzero

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Has anyone read, " Ghost towns of Michigan ", by Larry Wakefield? He tells of numerous towns, many of which were built up centered around the logging industry but when the logging died, so did the town and people moved on. Interesting reading.

@popofzero

21 күн бұрын

Thanks for the information.

The downtown Buffalo wild wings is in a building that has oddfellows on facade in detroit,same exact color brick

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

That's weird, that fir the comment.

Nice job. From a fellow Michigander.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment, we have more videos on Michigan topics over at our page.

People live next to Pompeii, like within a block…

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

I live in Michigan; thanks for the vidro 📹. Wish there was more to it, though.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and the comment.

I lived in Pompeii for 3 years. Went to fulton schools. Did not know any of this.

@popofzero

19 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

The railroad was called the Grand Trunk Railroad? Now a rock group from the seventies makes sense...Grand Funk Railroad! It only took about fifty years. 😏

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Good band, they're from our hometown.

@user-jn9gv9ve6e

Ай бұрын

if you go to flint( i believe it is on fenton rd) there is an overpass that says grand trunk railroad. i was raised there and went under that overpass hundreds of times. i don't know if it is still there. that's where they got the name for the band since they are all from around flint.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

You are correct, and if you look, the bands names are on the bridge also.

@user-jn9gv9ve6e

Ай бұрын

@@popofzero mark farner lived down davison rd from me. i went to school with his sister (sue). when i was in 11th grade don brewer lived across the street from me in knollwood apartments.

I've been through there a million times and never knew anything about this town. It would be interesting to know why there are 3 little towns so close together, Pompeii, Perinton and Middleton

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

We can look into them.

@danperry3116

Ай бұрын

Railroad went through there to service the grain elevators which in turn serviced the farmers back when these little villages were formed people didn't drive to the bigger towns. 5 miles was a long way with a horse cart or later a model T Ford. I'm 71 and I went to a one room school not too many miles north of Middleton in a berg called Houserville .it consisted of the school house, a general store, and the grange hall. A mile south of there at the corner of Washington road and Ely highway was the berg called Eugene it consisted of a blacksmith shop and a general store. The store at Eugene is now a home and the schoolhouse at houserville has been converted to a home the store was closed around 1965 and torn down shortly after, the grange hall is still standing but the roof is in bad shape so it probably won't last.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for that.

I'm coming to Michigan soon. I might go out and check this out.

@popofzero

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

I live near here and I didn’t even know some of this history.

@TrevWire

Ай бұрын

Pom-pea-eye.

@popofzero

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

Very interesting but I couldn't take the repetitive music, it was like being on hold!....HELP!

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. You're not on hold anymore. 😀

I lived in Baldwin and as a kid their were a bunch of abandoned houses in the woods.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment.

@electricfetus100

27 күн бұрын

I got dupped into some property in Idlewild

@popofzero

26 күн бұрын

Thanks for your story

Keep up the creative content brother

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, but it's a couple of people that help.

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. We work hard on these videos

As someone who grew up there i just want to say It's pronounced pom pea eye

@2Old2Care

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! That was driving me nuts😂

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Watch and listen to the whole video, it's pronounced correctly later on in the video.

@user-yf1xy2od1t

Ай бұрын

grew up in perrinton !!! back in 60,s-80,s !!!

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for your reply! 👍

@ZeroRugrats67

Ай бұрын

My ex bro and sis in law lived there. It’s a quiet little place.

I usually don't complain but the music is so ominous I just can't even listen to the video it's scaring the crap out of me

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Sorry, but I guess the music did its job.

The music on the background is a hand pan

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

😊

no they call it pom pe i around here. my dads family lived there back in the day

@popofzero

10 ай бұрын

Again, watch the whole video.

I’m from Michigan and have never heard it pronounced pom-pee-eye. Doesn’t make it not so just news to me.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

I was hoping this was about the building in the thumbnail

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

A follower made that for us

Just a mail stop. Indiana is full of places just like this

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for not dropping off bills and the comment.

@johnthiel7422

2 ай бұрын

@PopofZero isn't it amazing that some of these places are still here, with all of the corporate farms that now exist. My mother lived in one just like the video. All it had was a store and post office. Talk about your nightlife... or lack of it!

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Nightlife was a party in the corn field

I've lived in Michigan my whole life and everyone I know always pronounced it Pom Pea eye. But I've never asked anyone that lives there though so I could be wrong. Never mind, As I was writing this the credits where done rolling and I heard your correction.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

If the town worked it right History could be a draw for it. Fix up what buildings are left and have a tour going through each one. And of course play up each building is haunted. (even if they're not!)

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@stonemanclan3781

24 күн бұрын

I live here and there's nothing special to come here and see. It's boring and out of the way that's why the town died in the 1st place. It wasn't because the train stopped running State road still was the main road at the time for automobiles and horses.

Pom Pee Eye....got it, local woman! Right in the eye!

@popofzero

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching. 😃

Where is this city located at in Michigan at ... ok 😢sad to know that this city is know more.

@popofzero

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply, it is north of Lansing.

@Letsgotojail

7 ай бұрын

It's still there.

@popofzero

7 ай бұрын

@backwoodshillbilly3971 Yes, it is, and thanks for watching.

@glenmiller452

Ай бұрын

It is in Gratiot County. Couple miles north of M57. If I remember correctly.

As a local, we actually pronounce it as it’s spelled. Which is wrong but we do it anyways. 🤣pom-pee-I

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks, we pronounced it correctly later in the video.

@jodyrewa688

Ай бұрын

I came here for this comment 👍🏼

I have family that live in Pompeii and Ithaca

@popofzero

27 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

me who lives a mile away from pompeii🤨

@popofzero

25 күн бұрын

Thank you for the reply

Definitely don’t speed through this town. Gratiot county sheriff’s love to hang out in this area looking for speeding and drunk drivers. YOUVE BEEN WARNED

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip and reply

I think most people stop watching once they hear the "old" pronunciation so they don't catch on that you explain the different pronunciation later in the video.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks.

Can you do a video of Painesdale, MI in the U.P.?

@popofzero

8 ай бұрын

We will look into it. Thanks for the reply.

I want to live there

@popofzero

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, I'm sure there are places around there you could live at.

not pronounced like town in italy. pronounced like pomp p eye.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Watch again the 6 25 mark we pronounced it correctly

Id love to live in a ghost town of pop 0. I would vote myself as mayor, comptroller. Hoa president etc then do what i liked with the paperwork to back it up.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

We would vote for you! 😃

It was where we went to break most rules!

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

Sounds a lot like today. Ones worth is based on material gain that is left behind. So I made it a point to have what I need that is of no value for anyone to fight over when my spirit leaves

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

My grandmother grew up there, and yes it’s pronounced ee i

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

We referred to the proper name later in the video

The town is pronounced pomp e I not as you are saying it.by husband owned a gas station there for many years. Its gone now.

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Watch the whole video. It is pronounced correctly later.

@SwiftyMcVeigh851

Ай бұрын

6:20

@SwiftyMcVeigh851

Ай бұрын

​@@popofzero this is what happens when people watch 2 minutes and drop a comment. Thank you, very interesting.

would have been nice to hear the vid.....

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Everything thing is good on our end.

It’s not pronounced like the destroyed city. It’s Pom-pee-eye. I wish I was kidding.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Did you watch the whole video?

Or Planet P!

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Thanks

better research better it is not a ghost town.

@popofzero

10 ай бұрын

Please watch the whole video. We explained it in the beginning.

Ghost town 😂 cmon bro I’ve been here 21 years and it’s no where near a ghost town 😂 have you even visited the small town?

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. We did explain the definition of a ghost town at the 25 second mark. Also, We filmed all the Pompeii footage ourselves.

@jamespeterson2128

Жыл бұрын

What Pop of zero said. You should watch before you react.

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching James

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

It's pronounced pompy-eye. Not like the historical ruins

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

We pronounced it correctly later in the video.

🌴🫛 👁️

@popofzero

2 ай бұрын

Nice!

Local lady just can’t pronounce her own town lol

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

It is pronounced POM PEE EYE

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

It is pronounced correctly at the 6 minute 25 second mark of the video.

@jessicahood7079

6 ай бұрын

I know right I knew a girl there satonka sue rip love funny how people get it wrong

@BarryAdams777

4 ай бұрын

LOL!!! Never gets old how some pronounce words & names from a language or dialect they’re unfamiliar with.

@popofzero

4 ай бұрын

@BarryAdams777, please watch the video again. When you do, you will hear that we did pronounce it correctly.

@rasnyder83

4 ай бұрын

@@popofzerobetter late than never 😂

Nothing odd about it... lbr

@popofzero

28 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

It is pronounced Pom-pee-i. You are driving me nuts with this mispronunciations!!

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Listen to the whole video.

Pom-pee-eye

@popofzero

8 күн бұрын

Watch the whole video b4 you comment.

Wow.... It's obvious you didn't speak to anyone that knows much about the town because you didn't pronounce it right. Also that was an Odd Fellow and Rebekah hall.

@rebeccaterry6361

Жыл бұрын

I didn't watch the whole thing before commenting. But I am pretty sure you had the wrong building for the hospital.

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. In the scene we were talking about the hospital, we didn't say the building was the hospital. Sorry for the confusion.

Pronouncing it wrong

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Watch the whole video

The local woman is wrong. Pompeii is already a word, and it's pronounced PomPAY. You don't get to change the pronunciation of word that's been around for thousands of years just because you say so. It's. Pompeii- deal with it.

@popofzero

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

You're creepy music is way too loud hard to hear you

@popofzero

20 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, we will look into it.

Your near Lansing… gross overpopulated flat farmland. Boring dead brown landscape for most the year. I apologize for anyone who cant escape the armpit of America

@popofzero

5 ай бұрын

We are sorry that you feel that way. We believe Michigan is awesome.

@joh466

5 ай бұрын

It can be gorgeous certain times of year just too many people in the lower half for me personally

@user-bg2oi4bz3p

5 ай бұрын

Detroit would be a good place for you at night.

@joh466

5 ай бұрын

@@user-bg2oi4bz3p why do you say that? Think I’d be scared of some hoodlums that couldn’t aim too save their own life 😂 I hope that’s not where your goin with this

@user-bg2oi4bz3p

5 ай бұрын

@@joh466 You would not last an hour; no survival instinct.

groovy bit. lots of dinky towns up there in north michigan, if two roads crossed they named it. In the winter in can get real creepy up there if you live in the city! You drive for a LONG time and not see another car. There are spots in newaygo area that just disappear to civilization after it snows. Traverse city for valentines is a great trip. Loads of deals on penthouses when its all frozen up there!

@popofzero

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

. Unwanted, and faded out, just like me . gb* ~ hard life (MULDEW) .

@popofzero

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply, head up things will get better. 🙏