This was a fantastic trip! I walk with a 95 year old man every morning and he absolutely loves to share his stories and experiences from when he lived there as a kid. As soon as you showed the sugar cane corporation, I had to rewind and get pictures to show him tomorrow. His mom worked there way back in the day! Too cool! Thanks for the trip. I was able to put a picture to a lot of what he has shared with me. He told me all about the devastating hurricane and how many bodies were being found months after and some skeletal remains years later. I’ll have to share with him the monument for the mass grave. Very cool experience you had there and your moment of silence was awesome. We are kindred spirits! 😬 Thanks for sharing, Tampa Jay!
Happy Labor Day. Love the attractions Lake Okeechobee and Pahokee with the added bonus of the abandoned movie theater and haunted ceremony for spooky season.👻
Thanks for taking me along Tampa Jay. I'm a native Floridian and have never been that far south. Mel Tillis was born in Tampa but his family moved to Pahokee when he was young. Thanks for the moment of silence at that mass grave of those hurricane victims such a tragedy. 🌀🙏💔Those poor folks God rest their souls had little to no warning like we do today.
Jay, your love of History and the Past is always to be commended. Also, your Respect for those that have come before us and their experiences is so very rare these days. Your care and compassion for the tragedies they endured truly shows your Humanity-also something that can be very lacking in our society today. Thank you always for bringing us along on your travels. Stay safe, my friend, and best of luck and look forward to your further Adventures! 👋
I'm a huge fan of things like this. I live in San Antonio, TX, and love learning the history of buildings. Really makes you wish you could see these places in their heyday!!!!!
Can’t get enough of these videos!!! I don’t know how you don’t have a MaZillion followers! You have become my absolute favorite TH-camr on remote places in Florida.
This is a great look at Lake Okeechobee and Pahokee with the old abandoned movie theater and haunted cemetery, this is a really nice area of Florida to explore especially in places that are both abandoned and haunted especially at night, have a great Labor Day and Thank You Tampa Jay.👻🏚🪦🇺🇲
Tampa Jay does some of the best most entertaining videos on You Tube. So much fun to see all these back areas of Florida, also love his Con Coverage and just plain old flea markets, too much fun. I am older and do not get to travel much anymore, these are my savior for fun times. Thanks so much
Thanks, Jay :) I really appreciate the variety of vids that you share with us. It is also amazing just how many buildings and places are abandoned. Plus the super spike of the ghost meter was something to wonder about. Have a great one
Love, Love these exploring videos with you, my friend! Thank you for taking us along. Okay, the Ghost meter going crazy freaked me out!! 👻 Be safe, heading home, and dealing with the frog. 🐸 Poor Cris. Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏
Daddy was born n raised in Pahokee. Born in 1910 played for the Pahokee Blue Devils baseball and basketball team. He was there for the 1928 Hurricane , wiped out the town. Thx for sharing. Yes that was the old PHS.
You’d be amazed at the rich history of Canal Point and what all those abandon and no longer standing buildings entailed! This is my hometown and a vast majority of the building my family’s many many years ago. Once upon a time it was heaven on Earth for a lot of people.
I dont know why but I love old theaters. Nice nostalgia of yesteryear, seeing what people did for fun. Kind of strange, how popular and populated Florida is that it has so many abandoned places. Where did everyone go? What happened to the town that it "dried" up? Great video, Jay!
I have driven that route every weekend for many years to visit my son and never stopped to see anything other than the public bathrooms at the park. fabulous video
Hope you guys have a great labor day.. you made my day with a roadside oddities and history video. Too bad when don't know some of tye stories of why or what happened to have some of the stores closed. Sad to see homeless people even in a little old-time town. I had almost forgotten about Mel tiles. Thanks for the awesome video Jay. These are my favorite ones.. much love.
Hey Tampa Jay !! Thanks for another cool video !!! My Uncle Mac used to work for the state and managed Okee-Tanti Campground back in the early 80's. Not sure how close it is to where you were, I think it was on the north shore area if I remember correctly.
Born and raised in the Sunshine State and have never visited half the places you visit/explore! Always enjoy your channel and want to hit some places you've visited. Maybe check out the historic Kapok Tree restaurant and gardens in Davie, Fl. Was a popular location be back in the day. Its been closed for years, but the original building, statues and probably overgrown gardens are supposedly still there. Have fun and stay safe out there!
I worked at the Bryant Sugar House owned by US Sugar back in the 90’s. My Dad retired from there. It was the largest Sugar Mill on the east coast of the Lake. They also have their own railroad from those fields that now take the sugar cane all the way around to the Town of Clewiston for processing. Mel Tillis was raised in Pahokee for a period in his life.
I love these roadside videos. Living on the west coast, I've never been to Lake Okechobee, but have always been curious about it as it's such a large, natural lake. I didn't even know about the sugar cane. And that sad flood in the 1920s- wow. Thanks so much. 🥰
Happy Labor Day Very nicely done. My dislike of Interstates had me roll through there yesterday, on my way back too the Bay returning from Miami. It certainly is beautiful country.
I’m shocked no one bothered you while recording the sugar fields/plant. The sugar companies and Mosaic watch everything, usually 2-3 vehicles will pull up and start asking you questions.
So sad. Forgotten historic tragedies so many lives lost, without enough time for proper independent burials. Florida does have many active haunted locations. Should use more evp equipment while exploring. There is a few places I’d like to revisit including a specific room at Le Meridian. The closet connects to the Ybor tunnels my family helped create long ago.
Nice! Love Roadside Attractions videos. Gonna start doing some for Utah soon, but I'm currently working on a "Rest Stops of North America" series...already started filming some. Nothing in that series posted yet.
That pink building is named the prince theater originally built in 1931 closed in the mid-1980s there are pictures and information available on the website Cinema Treasures
I've seen one of those signs that lists the churches, but it was many years ago. Wish I could remember the town. I keep thinking Wauchula. Could be wrong. Hope all turned out well with the frog issue.
The Prince Theatre was closed in the mid-1960’s and was taken over by the city in 1976. Following repairs it was reopened in 1980 and operated a few more years. The vacant building was damaged by a storm in 2008. The building remains vacant today. It was originally opened in 1941
Bogavelia is actually Bougainvillea, pronounced boo·guhn·vi·lee·uh lol...not picking on you - you obviously enjoy learning stuff so just adding to your knowledge! Now try to say it 5 times fast lol...love your videos!
Prince theatre opened in1931 and closed in the 60s. It reopened in 1980 for a few years. Muck restaurant is shown as temporarily closed on Google maps. Last review was 9 months ago
Pa-Ho-key is how to pronounce. Where the abandoned picnic tables were in Port Myakka there used to be an old general store on the corner across from the picnic tables. I believe they closed in early 90s or late 80s. I have a story about that bridge there’s an apparition that appears on it. That old ran down convenient store you saw Canal Point… I was always told Burt Reynolds stopped there in the movie cannonball run. I live in Belle Glade it’s sad we live in a beautiful place that could have so much potential. There abandoned Burger King in Pahokee was a Chinese place after BK closed in early 2000’s. I could go on & on but I will stop 😂 also Mel Tillis is from Pahokee…the gas station on the corner across from the grocery store is where he worked when he was a teenager. If you ever come back to this area message, we would be more than happy to tell you the history and take you to places that you haven’t seen .
Unfortunately the lake is HIGHLY polluted from the sugar industry & responsible for toxic releases into primarily the FT. Myers area. This area has a very dark history. 😢
The white fenced off buildings by the railroad tracks was a citrus processing plant that would put the fruit on trains. I've eaten at that burger King. 😂
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Happy Labor Day! Thanks for watching. instagram.com/tampajay
Happy Labor Day!
@@TampaJay happy labor day
"This isn't the History Channel" -- you're right. It's better. No BS, just exploring.
thanks man just always having fun. Grateful for you and your comment.!
Ancient aliens is not history...RIP THC
This was a fantastic trip! I walk with a 95 year old man every morning and he absolutely loves to share his stories and experiences from when he lived there as a kid. As soon as you showed the sugar cane corporation, I had to rewind and get pictures to show him tomorrow. His mom worked there way back in the day! Too cool! Thanks for the trip. I was able to put a picture to a lot of what he has shared with me. He told me all about the devastating hurricane and how many bodies were being found months after and some skeletal remains years later. I’ll have to share with him the monument for the mass grave. Very cool experience you had there and your moment of silence was awesome. We are kindred spirits! 😬 Thanks for sharing, Tampa Jay!
And there is so much history in our elderly if we would just stop and listen to them you are blessed to have such a sweet friend
I love the Florida Roadside Attractions!!
Happy Labor Day. Love the attractions Lake Okeechobee and Pahokee with the added bonus of the abandoned movie theater and haunted ceremony for spooky season.👻
It is peinounced " pa- Hoe- key" it was the home of Mel Tillis. Great job of content.
Thanks for taking me along Tampa Jay. I'm a native Floridian and have never been that far south. Mel Tillis was born in Tampa but his family moved to Pahokee when he was young. Thanks for the moment of silence at that mass grave of those hurricane victims such a tragedy. 🌀🙏💔Those poor folks God rest their souls had little to no warning like we do today.
You don't see too Manny people exploring the history of Florida it's a great state and I'm proud to be a Floridian thanks for the vid 👏✌️
Jay, your love of History and the Past is always to be commended. Also, your Respect for those that have come before us and their experiences is so very rare these days. Your care and compassion for the tragedies they endured truly shows your Humanity-also something that can be very lacking in our society today.
Thank you always for bringing us along on your travels.
Stay safe, my friend, and best of luck and look forward to your further Adventures! 👋
thanks for the amazing comment appreciate you so much!!
@@TampaJay
You’re very welcome!
I'm a huge fan of things like this. I live in San Antonio, TX, and love learning the history of buildings. Really makes you wish you could see these places in their heyday!!!!!
Tampa Jay, i love your videos!!!!! I get to explore my home state of Florida through your eyes, its really amazing!!!! Thank you!!!!
Can’t get enough of these videos!!!
I don’t know how you don’t have a MaZillion followers!
You have become my absolute favorite TH-camr on remote places in Florida.
Thanks Jay for a new and interesting "Roadside." Look forward to more soon!
You are one sweet man to respect those Graves 1928 hurricane victims
thank you just felt like the right thing to do
This is a great look at Lake Okeechobee and Pahokee with the old
abandoned movie theater and haunted cemetery, this is a really nice
area of Florida to explore especially in places that are both abandoned
and haunted especially at night, have a great Labor Day and Thank You
Tampa Jay.👻🏚🪦🇺🇲
Tampa Jay does some of the best most entertaining videos on You Tube. So much fun to see all these back areas of Florida, also love his Con Coverage and just plain old flea markets, too much fun. I am older and do not get to travel much anymore, these are my savior for fun times. Thanks so much
@@chrisdurant1103 thank you so much. I’m happy I can always mix it up just showing the stuff I like.
@@TampaJay Your one of the best
Love this video of the Lake Okeechobee area and there farming towns and main streets!
Love it Jay. Cool stuff!!!
Thanks, Jay :) I really appreciate the variety of vids that you share with us. It is also amazing just how many buildings and places are abandoned. Plus the super spike of the ghost meter was something to wonder about. Have a great one
Love, Love these exploring videos with you, my friend!
Thank you for taking us along.
Okay, the Ghost meter going crazy freaked me out!! 👻
Be safe, heading home, and dealing with the frog. 🐸 Poor Cris.
Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏
Daddy was born n raised in Pahokee. Born in 1910 played for the Pahokee Blue Devils baseball and basketball team. He was there for the 1928 Hurricane , wiped out the town. Thx for sharing. Yes that was the old PHS.
So beautiful. Thanks for taking us with you.
Will always love these episodes, much ahead, Tampa Jay, much ahead!😊
thank you!!
Florida is beautiful
You’d be amazed at the rich history of Canal Point and what all those abandon and no longer standing buildings entailed! This is my hometown and a vast majority of the building my family’s many many years ago. Once upon a time it was heaven on Earth for a lot of people.
I dont know why but I love old theaters. Nice nostalgia of yesteryear, seeing what people did for fun. Kind of strange, how popular and populated Florida is that it has so many abandoned places. Where did everyone go? What happened to the town that it "dried" up? Great video, Jay!
Afternoon Tampa Jay! Back in 1930-31 my father worked on the leaves around the lake .
This looks very interesting
“… and maybe some whoppers”.
You crack me up. 😂💜
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I have driven that route every weekend for many years to visit my son and never stopped to see anything other than the public bathrooms at the park. fabulous video
thank you I’m so so happy I can get you out of the truck vicariously
That was an amazing video/vlog, I love learning the history of places! I do believe someone was trying to contact you in that cemetery!
That's always been a pretty cool bit of history. Thanks TJ
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Hope you guys have a great labor day.. you made my day with a roadside oddities and history video. Too bad when don't know some of tye stories of why or what happened to have some of the stores closed. Sad to see homeless people even in a little old-time town. I had almost forgotten about Mel tiles. Thanks for the awesome video Jay. These are my favorite ones.. much love.
Pronounced BOOGAN VEE YA=bougainvillea. ha ha great video
that’s what i thought i said haha i’ll never get it right. thanks for watching :)
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You should bring that reader to the Tampa theater and sit in that seat. You know the seat. I dare you! Lol!
idk what your talking about but I wanna see it
Just catching up with this being in England it makes my day
Always enjoy your roadside abandoned attractions Say hi to Christa !!
That's fire u really came thru Pahokee
Thanks for taking us on a peaceful journey and sharing the history along the way 😊
I just watched Cris the Girl’s video and she was shaking bad 🐸 😢
Just discovered your channel. Will be following. BTW that Brahma bull was actually a Hereford.
Hey Tampa Jay !! Thanks for another cool video !!! My Uncle Mac used to work for the state and managed Okee-Tanti Campground back in the early 80's. Not sure how close it is to where you were, I think it was on the north shore area if I remember correctly.
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I landed from Cali to Lake Okeechobee and now I’m in Orange Park. Over two years in Florida It’s so beautiful!
Hi Jay....hope to see you at Fan Boy Expo....take care bud
13:50 This is Pahokee High School, built in 1928 and abandoned in 1998 after the new school building was completed directly behind it.
thank you!
Clewiston is the jewel of the lake. And it has a historic haunted inn, I stayed there, very nice. No ghosts seen. Clewiston Inn built in 1938.
The mysterious moment with the ghost meter!
Born and raised in the Sunshine State and have never visited half the places you visit/explore! Always enjoy your channel and want to hit some places you've visited. Maybe check out the historic Kapok Tree restaurant and gardens in Davie, Fl. Was a popular location be back in the day. Its been closed for years, but the original building, statues and probably overgrown gardens are supposedly still there. Have fun and stay safe out there!
I’d love to explore everything abandoned Fl.
Welcome back Jay !! Keep these going will check baçk after your haunts
Love your work! Thanks for bringing us along. ❤
thank you appreciate you coming along
You're lucky to be able to travel wish I could
No, not an abandoned Taco Bell 😭 RIP. I love this series! Keep it up
Cheers mate , nice and interesting. Keep em coming. Flamingooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos
Cheers, Brian! i hope all is well with you !
Thanks those places were awesome I enjoyed seeing other states
I worked at the Bryant Sugar House owned by US Sugar back in the 90’s. My Dad retired from there. It was the largest Sugar Mill on the east coast of the Lake. They also have their own railroad from those fields that now take the sugar cane all the way around to the Town of Clewiston for processing.
Mel Tillis was raised in Pahokee for a period in his life.
Wow that is a HUGE LAKE I had no idea it was huge like that. Love your adventures ❤
gigantic, you can see it from Outer space my friend. Thank you for watching.
Great video TJ 👍
I love your content,always fuN!!
I love these roadside videos. Living on the west coast, I've never been to Lake Okechobee, but have always been curious about it as it's such a large, natural lake. I didn't even know about the sugar cane. And that sad flood in the 1920s- wow. Thanks so much. 🥰
thank you happy to hear you enjoy them
I will.say you are works my your butt off trying to make a go of this. TH-cam career. Kudos young man. Keep going
Thanks Jay. Hope Chris survived the frog attack!!
thank you ! there’s a full update in her next video. She caught it on camera.
Great series! So cool every place has story
thank you !!
@@TampaJay knocking it out if the park
Awesome work
HLD Jay and Cris!!!! Hope the frog removal went okay?
Happy Labor Day
Very nicely done. My dislike of Interstates had me roll through there yesterday, on my way back too the Bay returning from Miami. It certainly is beautiful country.
Wow! Maybe a malfunction on the machine, but that was a freaky spike.
I’m shocked no one bothered you while recording the sugar fields/plant. The sugar companies and Mosaic watch everything, usually 2-3 vehicles will pull up and start asking you questions.
Maybe that was just a random strand of wild cane.
Prince Theater was the name of the cinema. It's from the 1930s. Really interesting read
So sad. Forgotten historic tragedies so many lives lost, without enough time for proper independent burials. Florida does have many active haunted locations. Should use more evp equipment while exploring. There is a few places I’d like to revisit including a specific room at Le Meridian. The closet connects to the Ybor tunnels my family helped create long ago.
dude you've got to be very careful in that area ,it's very dangerous in that little town
Nice! Love Roadside Attractions videos. Gonna start doing some for Utah soon, but I'm currently working on a "Rest Stops of North America" series...already started filming some. Nothing in that series posted yet.
That pink building is named the prince theater originally built in 1931 closed in the mid-1980s there are pictures and information available on the website Cinema Treasures
Website Cinema Treasures is the most popular site for the history of movie theaters around the world.
I've seen one of those signs that lists the churches, but it was many years ago. Wish I could remember the town. I keep thinking Wauchula. Could be wrong. Hope all turned out well with the frog issue.
Wauchula would make plenty of sense to me. Thank you so much for watching.
"My shoe done fell off Gilbert" 😂
you caught it. Classic.
@@TampaJay .... absolutely! 👍
@@lastFLnative thanks for watching :-)
@@TampaJay ... 👍
The Prince Theatre was closed in the mid-1960’s and was taken over by the city in 1976. Following repairs it was reopened in 1980 and operated a few more years. The vacant building was damaged by a storm in 2008. The building remains vacant today. It was originally opened in 1941
The pink theater is The Prince. Opened in 1931.
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@@TampaJay happy Halloween can’t wait to see beetle juice beetle juice this coming weekend then back to work on Monday September 9th
You should visit downtown Cedar Key!
it’s been on my list thank you 😊
Bogavelia is actually Bougainvillea, pronounced boo·guhn·vi·lee·uh lol...not picking on you - you obviously enjoy learning stuff so just adding to your knowledge! Now try to say it 5 times fast lol...love your videos!
Man. You would love the midwest. The entire place is rotting to the core. St. Louis. Kansas city. Thats just missouri. Its everywhere out here
I noticed that the last few times I was in St. Louis pretty crazy lots of abandoned buildings
Prince theatre opened in1931 and closed in the 60s. It reopened in 1980 for a few years. Muck restaurant is shown as temporarily closed on Google maps. Last review was 9 months ago
thank you for watching and commenting and giving the history. I was wondering what the name of it was. Appreciate you.
Go to Pensacola Beach and do the pelican hunt see if you can find them all
mel tillis was born in Tampa, Raised in Pahookie, and died in Ocala.
Have you done any videos on "The Compound" in Palm Bay,Florida?
Pump house destroying the everglades
Pa-Ho-key is how to pronounce. Where the abandoned picnic tables were in Port Myakka there used to be an old general store on the corner across from the picnic tables. I believe they closed in early 90s or late 80s.
I have a story about that bridge there’s an apparition that appears on it.
That old ran down convenient store you saw Canal Point… I was always told Burt Reynolds stopped there in the movie cannonball run. I live in Belle Glade it’s sad we live in a beautiful place that could have so much potential. There abandoned Burger King in Pahokee was a Chinese place after BK closed in early 2000’s. I could go on & on but I will stop 😂 also Mel Tillis is from Pahokee…the gas station on the corner across from the grocery store is where he worked when he was a teenager.
If you ever come back to this area message, we would be more than happy to tell you the history and take you to places that you haven’t seen .
Max said hi to you
My Grandparents buried in Port Mayaca
Website for Muck Tavern says temporarily closed
Hey TJ. Have you ever been to the haunted Sulphur Springs Tower?
oh yes, many of times however, I’ve never been up in it. Very spooky history.
Mel Tillis we born in Pahokee, FL.
there is a weight limit at all the sky dive places because of the tandem rule having to go up with an instructor the first time
Not a Brahma cow. Nice swing Jay but a miss none the less.
Pahokee is dirt poor. Nothing there job wise. Lot of little towns like this across country. This place is a developers dream.
i’ve seen poor places overseas. This is one of the poorest rural towns I’ve seen in America.
Unfortunately the lake is HIGHLY polluted from the sugar industry & responsible for toxic releases into primarily the FT. Myers area. This area has a very dark history. 😢
2008 was the the last time the theater was open. A storm did it in!
thank you a very, very long time ago. Thanks for watching.
The white fenced off buildings by the railroad tracks was a citrus processing plant that would put the fruit on trains. I've eaten at that burger King. 😂