Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Town & Battlefield Of Lake Okeechobee
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- On this episode of Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places we explore the relics & forgotten history of the Town of Okeechobee. A stop at Yeehaw Junction, and a ton of history and abandoned places on Highway 441 all the way to Lake okeechobee, and the Okeechobee battlefield from the Seminole War! Also, Tacos! Much Ahead!
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The Seminole tribe started in Gilchrist and Dixie and Levy Counties. The Calusa tribes from Florida and the Creek tribes from Georgia merged renamed the tribe Seminole. There was a big encampment in Dixie County just across the Suwannee River where the Suwannee Gables motel is today. The Seminole tribe territory was from Tallahassee south . Andrew Jackson came in and drove them to Micanopy area then south to Okeechobee and eventually into the Everglades. On Horseshoe Beach highway in Dixie County theres a smal park on the eastside of the road with a small freshwater sink. It's called Jackson's Waterhole. Its where Jackson and his troops camped before the raid on the Seminole's. Thanks for your video brinking back the history of Florida.
The Suwannee gambles, great reference. Just made my day thinking about that place. I did the pest control there for a couple of years 2008-2010.
I spent the first 30 years of my life in Okeechobee. Every road leading into town you knew you were there when you smelled manure from the dairies. Lots of memories and stories of living there.
When I hear "Lake Okeechobee" I am reminded of the song "Seminole Wind" ...so much history.
Me too I almost said that! Great song
Have to love a video that features Yeehaw Junction and Lake Okeechobee.
Tampa Jay, you and Cris are like rays of sunshine and a breath of fresh air in this world. Love you both, Sarah in Blackpool.
I love, love your abandoned places videos! ❤
Thank you for taking us along. Those tacos 🌮 looked delicious, by the way.
Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏
I'm sorry hon, I had to watch your awesome video in 2 sittings. Just not feeling well today.
I wanted to address the Indian section of this video...
The white man did the Indians so very wrong. It makes me sick to know that my/our ancestors could be so cruel. 😢
Thank you for reading those plaques and telling of what was done to the Seminole people.
Stay safe, and God bless 🙏
I saw the first Star Wars in the old Brahma Theater. It was only one screen at the time. I was 6.
They added 2 and 3 in the 80’s. I saw every 80’s classic movie in that theater!!!!!
I stopped by the Desert Inn a few years ago on a road trip, and I’m glad I got to see it before the accident happened. I’m impressed by how much remains and surprised nothing has been done with it yet. It’s sad to see it in that state.
Okeechobee looks like a cool town. I wish I would have known it had so much interesting stuff when I was in the area, I would have checked it out. I guess I’ll have to do a return visit.
Enjoyed the video and I’m glad to hear about the history which I didn’t know before.
Have a great Sunday, TJ. I love exploring things like the old motel
Adam the woo did a vlog on the first place and gave a tour of his room. Sad to see it like this now. Thanks for showing this TJ!
Thanks Tampa Jay for the informative vlog…..enjoyed it! 🙏🏽❤️🌴
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I enjoy seeing all of the old attractions. This was where my Mom and I would go. Cousin and Aunty time❤
Thank you
Another awesome! video Jay love it when you do your roadside attractions thanks! for sharing be safe out there.
Jay, I think in my research, The Seminoles ARE the original Cowboys. Also as someone who regularly explores, Big Cypress? There are interesting trails... Another thing? Moore Haven.. The Altoona Indian Mounds.. Can't vouch for its condition, but that is another interesting place to visit. Want to see a great Wildlife Management and working cattle ranch? Look up "Dinner Island Ranch" Now I want Tacos and I just had dinner!!! Great video as always!!!!
Thank you my friend
it is sad how people worldwide have treated other people for all of human history. The best thing that those of us that are here now is to do better.
wow what a tour you gave us. I love history. Again good work and good video.
The Joshua Tree looking things are “Spanish Bayonet”
Have a blessed day 🙏 and week happy 4 July always feel blessed watching you and Cris and girl videos your awesome sauce again thank you
Hi Tampa Jay hope you and Chris the girl 👧 are having a great Sunday I've just watched your video 📹 I always love ❤️ watching your videos your the best never stop doing your videos Tampa Jay love from Michelle over here in Nottingham in England 🇬🇧 ❤️ 💙 😊😅😂❤❤❤
4:41pm it's a sign Jay!!!!❤
Jay thanks so much for looking around Okeechobee. That is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time.
I lived in Okeechobee from 1996 to 2001. The freshman campus is not a college, it's where the kids in 9th grade go, the main high school is 10th through 12th.
I've seen some movies in that theater as well, don't remember which ones though, and eaten at that Taco Bell. Good times.
Keep em comin tampa Jay!
The restaurant/ bar was open and closed off and on, used to stop in there on the bike and they had the best cheeseburgers. Whoever owned it at the time gave me a tour of the upstairs one time, it looked like it had never been touched since back in the day, kinda creepy and did look like it was a brothel from a western movie. Too bad that asshole in the semi wiped it out, you’ll never be able to replace something like that. Nice video👍🏻
It was bad enough that millions of Native Americans were moved from their lands and put on reservations, but then many were taken from their reservations and put into what was called Indian Boarding Schools. There the boy's long hair was cut, given Christian names, and forbidden to speak or write their native language or have anything to do with their culture. I interviewed a Native American lady today whose parents were in one of those schools and she herself attended one for a couple of years. Sadly, some of those were abused and lost their lives and were buried on site with no markers. Never again...
Appreciate you showing us around! Too bad Big Tasty's Diner was closed - next time 😁
Love this video tampa jay.
Great video! Love it. Happy 4th to you and Chris “The Girl “
Drinking game : every time Tampa Jay says Okeechobee take a drink.
Thanks Jay, as always for another great Vid :) Keep it up
Loved stopping there for YEARS .. neat spot. The spiders, bugs, etc that were on fishing line and controlled by the barkeepers were a HOOT .. when dropped by unsuspecting patrons. Even a Indian sitting by the rest rooms. Do miss it ! So sad !! 💔
I saw spies like us in that theater.....used to spend my summers a couple blocks away at my grandparents.....
Enjoy your Okeechobee trip, I lived in. Ft. Pierce, Florida
1974 - 1984. So love all your trips. Keep up the good job.
Mornin Jay!!
Great video 😊
Good morning Tampa Jay
Awe! My hometown. ❤️
Thanks so much!!! Wow that was interesting!!! What a cute town!!! I love this video!!! Thanks so very much!!! And the Rays won a game!!! What more could you ask for!!! Thanks again!!!!
Great video as usual, very well done. Thanks for posting it.
I know Jackass junction very well Hwy 60 runs from Clearwater to Vero beach, I used to canoe up the Peace river back in the day and it was like going back in time a few million years to Jurassic park no one was anywhere in sight and I loved it, love swamp cabbage as well, Nice video Jay !!
Bramahan Theater hasn’t been closed very long. I saw Toy Story 4 there just a few years ago. I grew up, born and raised in Ft. Pierce, it’s about 30 minutes east of Okeechobee, right in the ocean, but I’ve been to Okeechobee MANY times. I have an uncle who lives there currently
Excellent video in so many ways!! The music was really a nice addition, perfect. Full of info. Thank you Tampa Jay and stay safe.
Love the history info you give .
Great video. Love the history behind your travels.
Thanks for the tour, sharing the history and the murals.
Thank you!
Thanks awesome places I enjoyed watching and seeing all these places keep up the great work see you next time 👍
Hi Tampa Jay...Have you ever taken the Tampa Mafia Tour?...It's a bus tour 😁👍
Great video! Very interesting!!
Nice! I saw that motel and restaurant on Tim J Means Business' TH-cam channel. He explored it, and it was creepy. Thanks for sharing!😊
Another great location video of Florida in a time capsule. you aren’t getting any readings in that cemetery because the ghosts know they are dead in that area lol
Great video 👍 Tampa J Love the content
Outstanding , as I like to ride my motorcycle through there . Im suprise of that Sinclair gas station that nobody stold them gas pumps . worth money today .
Truly enjoy these videos! So interesting the history I really appreciate the time and respect you put into all your videos, thank you 🤗🦩
Very interesting video,
Great Series! Always story in every place well done ➡️
Thank you glad to hear. Appreciate you.
Pretty cool town to be honest!
got same cattle entrance in wildwood florida to brownwood the villages on 44, right past russell stovers candy east side of 301
I love how they have preserved that era of their town with the murals. My dad worked at a little Sinclair station like this in Bartow 60 years ago. Raulerson isn't pronounced like Royal but like Raw. Good try though. My maternal GGG Grandmother was a Raulerson married to an Albritton. Sad the Chandler site isn't kept up better considering it's a historical site. Enjoy your videos.
I really enjoy these videos
I really enjoy having you here thank you so much
Nice touch with the music ....both intro & outro
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Great episode as always Jay…
I had an idea for one of your upcoming roadside attractions… just a suggestion, but how about you take us with you to a cool abandoned place.. meaning - do a live episode where we’re with you checking out all the cool stuff that’s been left behind.. just a thought. Keep up the great work!
Anyone ever been to Miramar? I lived there for 3 months
Good video keep it up ❤
Thank you
Markhzm Brothers packing house was directly across from the string of older buildings on Park Street and ran almost the entire length of the park.
Just curious, why is Florida filled with abandoned places? I’d love to live there but it seems depressing
Loved this video, as always! Tampa Jay, have you ever heard the song “Seminole Wind” by John Anderson? If not, you should give it a listen. Your video reminded me of that song…😢
Spot ON. The sad truth of our state 😢
Before 275 ext...you had to pass through yeehaw junction to travel to south florida
Hey Jay, Raulerson is pronounced more like "Raw-ler-son". Love the video!!!!
Not positive but I think those Joshua trees are actually called bayonets. I'm a subscriber and I love your videos!
Jmmy 😮😅😅
For your information Seminoles are NOT native to Florida. They are from Georgia and Alabama. They migrated down to Florida AFTER the Spanish left.
I’m familiar with that history, thank you.
Good one TJ, Have you done one on Saint Cloud FL. and Grand Army of the Republic aka GAR.
One if not the only original GAR building stall standing is in town.
Disston Sugar Mill ruins (1888) and the remains of the Sugar Belt Railway.
Elvis Presley stayed at the hotel Desert inn. Back in the day!
Had an aunt that made swamp cabbage ..but it kills the tree..after retrieving the cabbage the tree is gone.
Let’s break it down, JayJay… Raulerson= Raw-lurr-sun. Not Rural-sun. You’re welcome.
You should check out Dade battlefield here in Bushnell Florida Sumter county. Play battlefield is another site of the Seminole wa
Chief Osceola was born a Creek His Mother was Polly Coppinger and William Powell , His White name was William (Billy ) Powell/ His Granddaddy was James Powell. Who was my 4th or th Great Grandfather.
Hmmm, what kind of hippie products did you buy at the hippie shop?
Lake O is the second largest freshwater lake fully in the United States.
Taaaaaaanks and helicooooooooooopters, and abandoned gaaaaaaaaaaas stations
BTW, you missed a few really cool places on your route. You missed the Raulerson cemetery which has a historical marker.
And a few other areas of interest. If you ever plan to go back to the area, hit me up and I’ll give you some pointers on some really cool places to visit.
The 3 in the theatre name most likely means they have 3 screens.
Wasn't that chief mentioned in a old southern rock song?
I kept thinking of Seminole Wind by John Anderson.
A lot of ghosts come out at night
The origional name for Yeehaw Junction was Jackass Crossing? Lol!
Jackass junction
Was that a brown Jesus on the glass...in Florida!?
Love watching your videos, Jay but please don’t listen to rumors.
As a history buff, I’m a stickler for facts.
The Desert Inn was never known as a brothel, that was just something started as a rumor that escalated.
It is said that sometimes men would go upstairs with waitresses that they became affectionate with, and engage in relations,
but it was never a brothel.
Many of the artifacts have been removed by the Osceola county historical Society. A lot of items have also been stolen, and as you recorded vandalized.
The building is no longer owned by the historical society. But it will not be rebuilt.
The historical marker was stolen about a year after the truck destroyed this historic site. Please don’t take this as criticism love following you you remind me of a young version of The Woo.
Such a waste of medical supplies and buildings!
New subscriber here - dude is good looking!
You should have taken her home a new plant baby? Or would that be stealing? How are they even alive in Florida heat not being watered? Well God is watering them lately!
great i have worked there 1 day saw town but missed history it is such a shame what we as american did to the seminole indians one of the good or best videos i live in fla tampa area thanks again
How are these "attractions"?
The title of the ongoing series. But if you want to be technical, I did show an attraction inside this episode.
There are so many buildings that can be made into a homeless shelter. What a waste. I’d love to own that.
Abandoned places and properties probably full of roaches and ants and all kind of junk!!
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Love watching your videos, Jay but please don’t listen to rumors.
As a history buff, I’m a stickler for facts.
The Desert Inn was never known as a brothel, that was just something started as a rumor that escalated.
It is said that sometimes men would go upstairs with waitresses that they became affectionate with, and engage in relations,
but it was never a brothel.
Many of the artifacts have been removed by the Osceola county historical Society. A lot of items have also been stolen, and as you recorded vandalized.
The building is no longer owned by the historical society. But it will not be rebuilt.
The historical marker was stolen about a year after the truck destroyed this historic site. Please don’t take this as criticism love following you you remind me of a young version of The Woo.