Abandoned Utah Homestead

Rockhopper here. Let's check out what's inside what appears to be an abandoned homestead. Let's have a look inside this building. Yeah, let's check this out. We'll go on in. Looks like there's a door back here. Yeah, that'll get us in. What do we have? Well, there's a refrigerator there. So somebody was living here not too long and looks like the only thing that lives in here now are the pack rats. Big old mirror right there. And let's go on in back here. Check out this wallpaper here. All right. Oh goodness, what is this? Oh, it looks like this is either a low budget or a redneck shower. It's a hula hoop with a shower curtain and the catch basin down below is a kiddie pool, a plastic kiddie pool. Oh, that's funny. Yeah, now that's, you know, I got to give this thing major points for creativity. Oh yeah. And there's just the usual assorted clothes and junk that you tend to find in these old places. And that was their closet right there. I still got a, uh, I got something hanging in there. Nothing in it though. Yeah, I guess this was another closet over here. And you got, uh, looks like swallows nesting up in here now. So that's the only thing living here. Okay, so what's back here? An old couch. Looks to be maybe from the 1960s judging by the pattern. Now you got some wallpaper on there. We'll go around and check that out. Just a sec. I'd say this wallpaper is probably from the, hmm, I don't know, 1940s maybe. I'm guessing. Maybe 1930s even. I don't think you're going to want to sit at that table and sit in that chair right there. Here's a look at what must have been their living room. Family Circle Magazine, only 99 cents. And, uh, let's see, it says from August 1987 there. Uh, Sunset Magazine, November 1987. Okay, so somebody may have lived in here up through the 80s. This looks like it's maybe, maybe it was a dining room, I'm not really sure. Could have been a living room. Yeah, you need to put that vacuum to work and clean this place up a bit. So this was obviously the kitchen here. And you had, uh, you have a chimney there, so they had some kind of wood stove or something going on there. And another kind of wallpaper there. I'm thinking this place is actually fairly old. Utico? Utico, yeah, I think that, judging by that, uh, logo there, I think Utico became Amoco. This might be our telltale sign of how old this place is, because I'm seeing a picture on there, that drawing. That looks old. I'm thinking, I don't know, maybe 1950s or something? Maybe a little bit older than that. If we can find a date on here, it's Saturday Evening Post. Now we can date this thing. Oh, there we go. July 25th, 1942. Okay, so this is World War II era, this magazine right here. 1942, wow, this is, uh, pretty old indeed. Ah, the old ads. Yeah, that's pretty cool. I like looking through old magazines and books and things. I'm just kind of trying to get a feel for how life was back in the day. Do you guys ever do that kind of thing, or do you enjoy that kind of thing? You know, finding old newspapers or magazines and trying to piece together, you know, how it must have been life back in those days. Speaking of World War II, here's an article on it. You've got the planes up here. Planes are always at the ready. And, uh, something about, uh, United Nations and, uh, Bermuda and whatnot. Army and Navy. Yeah, that was, uh, that was quite a time. World War II era. I remember my grandmother telling me stories about it and how they had to ration things, like food. New special ever-ready flashlight for civilian wartime use. His war by something crap rubber and what? Crap rubber? That doesn't sound like something they'd say in World War II era. Oh, scrap rubber. Someone left their shoes. Do we dare peek inside the fridge? I mean, who knows what we could find in there. It might be kind of gruesome, kind of nasty. All right, well, what's in there? Oh, well, there's nothing dead in here. Just some soy sauce. Okay, so we've left the main house there, or what appears to be the main house, and we're going to head on into the garage here, or what looks to be like it must have been the garage at one time. And somebody's boots are still hanging there. I wonder how many years they've just been hanging right there. Look at all this. This is coal. Chunks. Chunks of coal. So they must have been burning that stuff in their stoves to heat the place, or cook, or whatever they were doing. Let's have a look at the dunny mite. That's how they say it down under anyway, down in Australia and New Zealand. You know, over in England, they say the loo. And, uh, your basic one-seater. Here in America, we call this an outhouse. Let's have a look inside this place. All right, let's go in the door. Man, that wood looks super old, doesn't it? You got your couch here. What was a heater? Stove? There. Old electrical box there. And pretty old looking outlet there. And what do we have? You got your couch. Some old sign that they were using as a bed. They constructed a frame, put an old sign that says something about air-conditioned. Panguitch. And that's in Utah, where I am right now. An old cabinet there of some kind. What do we have back here? Oh my, we have a big ceramic tub. How heavy is this thing? Oh man, that thing is solid. That is, wow, that is solid metal, built like a tank, coated in ceramic. You got some other metal cabinet back there. And what was the closet in here? Hey, wow, check this out. There's some old newspapers on here. Uh, let me break the flashlight out, see if we can kind of highlight this a little better. Hold on. Oh, this is pretty wild. Check this out. Oh, down there in the corner it says July 18, 1942. Yeah, I think that says 42 on there. Okay, so this is, this place was probably built maybe around 1941 or so, 42. Um, yeah, well, look at the prices on this stuff. This is, this is pretty interesting. Salad dressing, 25 cents. Grapefruit juice, 18 cents. Butter, 44 cents a pound. Uh, and there's, wow, what? Bacon, 14 cents for a half pound package. You gotta be kidding me. Oh, I bet, I bet we all wish we could get bacon for that cheap now, huh? Yeah, no doubt about that, right? Bacon. Look at all this stuff up here. This is, this is cool. I like looking through the old prices and things and the old articles. Okay, well, that's, that is interesting and that, that kid looks pretty happy. You know why that kid is so happy? Because he's eating lots of bacon and it only costs 14 cents for a half pound. Now, check that out. Check out the hairdo and, you know, the styles back then. It's pretty interesting when I, I always think it's interesting when I find these old newspapers that were, often used as insulation in these old places. Yeah, July 20th, 1942 has been confirmed. It is a 1942 newspaper. This is kind of interesting. What does that say? Oh, more papers over here. Wow. Okay, cool. World War II. Look at that. Look at that. See that old poster in the background? I want you with Uncle Sam. Famous poster. World War II. Yep. Something about a congressman there. Does that look like a congressman or these guys look like mafia bosses? I don't know. You make the call. You know, maybe it's kind of one and the same really. Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Somebody up there seeks post. I'm not sure what snow drift is, but I think maybe it's lard. Anyway, you can get a three pound can for only 73 cents back then. Here in the classified ads, I'm just reading some of this, you can have a six, let's say six bedroom, six room, sorry, six room modular home for $4,200. You can buy it. Three bedrooms. Nowadays, you can just about pay the rent with $4,200. One last place to check out. Let's go on in. So what was this place? Maybe another house? That wallpaper is really peeling off of there. This could have been a shop, I think. Must have been shop or yeah, machine shop. Yeah, just looking around. I don't think anybody ever lived in here. You got your barrels back here. Who knows what was in those? Maybe some oil or some kind of chemical. An odd smell in here. Don't think I want to hang out in here too long. Who knows what that powder down there could be? I think we better get out of here. DDT or something back there, you know? Yeah, it smells weird. All right, so just a very quick look around here. And I think that'll pretty much do it for this place. Wallpaper's peeling off of here. Up on the ceiling. Let's have a look inside this thing for just a sec. Yeah, it looks like this was where they stored grain. Yeah, quite a bit of it in here. Just a mini silo, I guess. Looks like that grain is about a foot deep, maybe more. It's a lot of grass seed, I suppose, or some kind of seeds. This place had electricity. Hey there, little buddy. Want your head scratched? Yeah, have a sniff. How you doing, bud? Yeah, come here. Oh, you like that, huh? Oh, I think you do like that. Yeah, have a behind the ear there. Oh, you're leaning into that. Yeah. Oh, you definitely like this. I hope you enjoyed exploring this old abandoned homestead with me. Don't forget to give me a like on the video, share, and subscribe. Until next time, this is Rockhabber, I'll see ya.