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Finding The Best Small Town Relics of Southern Arkansas - Road Trip Day Five / 9 States In 9 Days
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2020
- Day 5 of my cross country road trip thru the backroads and small towns of America . Arkansas is full of amazing nostalgic relics .
Day 1 Florida
• The Non Tourist and Em...
Day 2 Alabama
• Forgotten Small Towns ...
Day 3 Mississippi
• Extreme Backroads & Hi...
Day 4 Louisiana
• The Empty Towns & Vill...
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Focusing on places I’ve never been as well as towns with very little population this series . Also staying clear of any sort of museums or attractions of any type that can easy be searched on an internet web site . Just attempting to stay off the grid while obviously uploading daily .
Man, I keep following these. I also keep watching outside of my work window. I'm in Oklahoma, small town. Panama, OK. I know you're SxE, I work at a dispensary, but we can talk about Earth Crisis, or Strife. Or Chain of Strength! Anyway, I hope you have the safest travels, if you end up in Panama, Oklahoma area, hopefully our paths cross.
Love these kind of videos..just plain America. Keep up the great work.. for those of us who don't get the opportunity to travel like this it really opens the world up to us thank you.
@TheDailyWoo one of my favorite parts about this adventure are the sounds of nature. Makes me feel like im watching a Ken Burns film. Thanks Adam!
With your track record ,NO DONT GO CLIMBING any thing!,unless you have HARNESSES & ROPES,😧.
I was born and raised in Smackover Arkansas. My dad was the chief of police for 26 years and my 1st cousin was the pharmacist who owned Bruce Drugs on to your back when you were looking at the Murals. 😍😍😍
It always amazes me looking at those empty Main Streets...I imagine when all the shops were open and the streets were bustling before Walmarts and major highways.
Odd that you would mention Walmart. Arkansas is ground zero...
@Liger Angry And people leave.
every1body is heading to the bi cities to live
This trip in particular, is really driving home the reality for me about the disconnect there is between Washington and these communities. I wasn't oblivious that these small towns were struggling, but to see abandoned main streets one after the other; nearly every town - its disheartening. There's a few dozen people keeping these towns alive and they deserve to have something to be proud of. With so much money being spent on things that seem intangible, it's not unrealistic to think that money could transform some of these small towns into destinations, at least restore a way of life that was self-sustaining. Thank you Adam for giving them a deserved spotlight!
Ron Marrs Well said, sir!!!! Everyone should be seeing this. Sadly I dont think many are capable of comprehending the reality of it all. That would take time and honesty....
@@jimsullivan3481 - thank you for the kind words and reply! Maybe when the oceans start swallowing the coasts, these towns will have a rebirth...
@@citiesofthedead8653 Please don't say that. I live on the West Coast and we have small towns here, too. All of America has something of worth to it.
It's tough... I grew up in a town of 300 people which now has probably below 200. It was struggling in the 80s and struggling even harder today. These towns used to provide support services for its people plus the rural inhabitants around it (farmers and such). Nowdays it's nothing for people to drive 45-60 minutes to the nearest "big town" with Walmart or Target, much less order from Amazon, and the support services these towns once offered are no longer needed... they might be desired but the economies of scale aren't there and people, as much as they say they want a little grocery store or auto shop or bakery, will drive the 45 minutes to the big town for cheaper prices, because in truth they don't have a lot of money either and they need the savings to get by.
@@citiesofthedead8653 That's kind of harsh isn't it?
the back roads of America thanks again Adam
Democrats ruin everything they touch
Me Too Love His Back Roads Of America .. Relaxing To Watch
@@YourTubeVideoss Yes they are , thanks for all you do
I've loved these videos for years now, but this series has been one of my favorites.
Your videos make me appreciate my own community, and inspire me to travel to smaller towns.
Crazy, my dad was raised in a house across the street from that large white house at 4:01......Parkdale Arkansas.
Fog like that makes nice ambiance for cemeteries as well. Loved that old two story house with the porches on both levels. Amazing to see what you're finding on these back roads.
This is great. I love watching the road less traveled. Seeing the vintage areas and items.
Adam has answered some prayers by not visiting that annoying theme park , he is a great human being , thank you for these roadtrip 👍 vlogs !
Being from Arkansas, I forget most people didn’t grow up in areas like this. That’s just how most of Arkansas outside of a handful of cities is. Good video!!
Farming & ranching?
jim foley lol no I meant desolate nothingness. I love where I’m from but it’s a whole lot of nothing for the most part.
Too Hundred how about the people?
StratKruzer the people are heavily dependent on which part of Arkansas you are in from my experience. Little Rock is completely different from Fayetteville, and where Adam is in this video is a completely different world from Fayetteville. That’s kind of what makes Arkansas so cool, a bunch of different types of people in one state.
Too Hundred I understand, but what about the people where you come from?
With the Bay Area in CA getting so crazy crowded it is refreshing to see a quieter & more peaceful places. What an amazing road trip. :)
Nothing like quiet, peaceful middle sized towns of around 50.000 people.
Scummy Bumington I cant wait to leave the Bay Area this summer. I hate it here! I’m going to Arizona. I wish I could do a small town but finding work would be an issue. Good bye San Francisco !!!
@@the925lady - God will help you.
Adam, the "train" you saw in Lewisville AR, was a Ballast tamper. used to tamp the loose rail ballast back under the cross ties. Great video!
I love hearing the birds. Living in California and being from Mississippi, I haven’t heard some of those bird calls in years. Somehow, comforting...
that bird sounded like a pluver bird
Can just imagine these places when they were at their height, full of people etc . Now they are just wasting away. What a shame!!!
Not just wasting away, some seem almost emptied out. Where are the people? I see lots of American flags everywhere. Our rural area in MI suffering a similar fate, slowly.
@@williebeamish5879 people are moving out of the country and into large cities - just look at the stratospheric rise in population in places like Phoenix and Portland.
@@peterstean2138 Oh, I am well aware of that. Been happening since the 80's but accelerating recently. No jobs, ones that do exist are part time and/or low wage service industry. Unless you work for the government.
Gotta think that in their heyday, these little towns were bustling with activity, but in the wake of the automobile boom in the 40s & 50s, and the construction of thoroughfares and highways that bypassed these communities, a whole chapter of American history was forever lost.
@@TomBarradas Definitely, why I appreciate Urbex folks so much. They're documenting a bit of history that will be gone fairly soon. These tours from my living room are great! At my age I don't get out much anymore.
Just wanted to say that I'm enjoying your series immensely! I grew up in the South a long time ago (late 40' and 50's) and your series has brought back many memories. Mostly good, some not so good. I can picture these now-dead towns packed with people on Saturdays, then full of church going folks on Sunday morning worshiping God and Robert E. Lee. Good times I tell you and as I approach my end I'm missing it more and more. Maybe I'll go back.
I'm from Waldo. I wish I could have met you. You do some amazing videos. Love you! God bless you always.
I'll bet that sign at 11:11 once said "Mother's Best Flour." I was born and raised not far from there and practically everybody used Mother's Best Flour.
A person could do alot of Thinking about life traveling through these back roads.......
You have a fine eye Adam, every shot is framed just perfect!
Thanks so much
@@TheDailyWoo
Adam, thank you so much for doing this TRUE AMERICANA SOUTHERN TOUR.
I've been a truck driver for close to 30 yrs now & this is the main reason I love driving a truck...getting off the interstates & getting to see Rural Forgotten America.
I've been thru most of the small town you've shown in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, & Texas.
I grew up in Gordon Alabama...about 20 miles south of Dothan Alabama and about 15 miles from Cottonwood Alabama.
I now live in Satsuma Alabama...about 20 miles north of Mobile Alabama, right off of I-65 & about 30 miles from Atmore Alabama.
Thanks for your GREAT videos I watch often.
Much love from Satsuma Alabama.
SO true. Great stuff
@@TheDailyWoo hey..am coming to America sometime soon..any chance u showing me around for a week in these small towns..new time sub.thnx🇦🇺
Opening to all these videos are so nostalgic. I love these traveling vlogs so Much.
Many Arkansas towns got their names from French derivatives. Smackover was how the English pronounced “Sumac Couvert” (covered in Sumac).
so clean ..no weeds ..no trash..and we see they are Patriots..God And Country...
@Purple Mountain Tsampa who mows the weeds ???...
I always love seeing Arkansas in videos I was born here raised here live here and will die here id never move
Been enjoying this road trip across country on the back roads of America with their small towns and can picture how they must have been in their heyday.
So eerie to see these towns like that. Nothing that sad but Australia has similar issues when freeways bypass towns. Love following this series.
I do like how your using an atlas instead of google maps
Electronics are convenient, but unreliable. Best to use both.
I'm living my dream of exploring little towns through your videos. Thank You Adam!
Makes me wanna get in the car and drive.
DO IT! If you can, just do it! Next trip I take will be video recorded. I went from Pittsburgh to Atlantic Beach NC to Thermal NC then on to Yellowstone then off to Kuna Idaho then I visited the Prineville Oregon area and finished the trip with a visit to Glass mountain Oregon. I have no records of the trip except for the amazing beautiful memories. Just do it, it will change you for the better!
I worked for Pepsi for over thirty years. I remember seeing vintage machines like the one in the video quite often in my early days. They actually work better than the junk they make nowadays.
Beautiful sunrise. Thanks for taking us along on your adventures. I love your Star Wars shirt!
I enjoy your unorthodox use of words, such as "it ekes up". Don't stop!
Am I the only one watching these twice?! Thanks Adam and keep on truckin'!!
Hey Adam, loving this new road trip x 💜
Really enjoying this longer shots with all the really good audio..birds, trains and such just a soothing and very relaxing way to appreciate old school American history! 😎 love the signage that was once there u can't see til ya slow down and look..way cool Woo
I'm from Arkansas born and raised . Still here,love the content
I am indian girl working and living in the UAE have a dream of visiting the US all my life! I love these videos and ur extremely lucky to visit these places. I love the country side, the fog, small towns and most importantly the rains. States which rains the most; ah!! Take me there😉 wish my dream come soon....... regards from Dubai🇦🇪
Bleh bleh bleh
If you love fog and moist air, visit the coastal area of the Pacific Northwest. San Francisco is known for it's frequent fog.
I love when you go to Arkansas!!!
One Edward Hopper painting after another. Especially liked the Lester Higgs Dept Store shot. Great job again!
OMG, last evening I was watching the Louisiana video and thought the same thing! One desolate, old-timey scene after another of lost or dying rural America. Years ago I received a coffee table book of Hopper's for Christmas which remains one of my all time favorites.
Peace is priceless. People say it would be boring but I really would love to live in a town like Mayberry.
Wow!!! Pepsi machine brings back so memories, thanks for the ride 👍🏼
Loads of oil rigs all around Smackover plus an oil refinery right on the edge of town. Texas Tea ;)
Loving old American culture even though I live in Europe,keep it up Adamthewoo travel vlog legend!!!!
I love that you did this and left out the main stream ... the ones looking for attractions! A lot of us live like this. with our towns losing what had been. History amazes me. it wasnt like today. Thank you for this!!! I was getting tired of today!!!
Beautiful sunrise! 🌞
There's something so magical about the bygone days of Yesteryear.
Love the old abandoned plantation homes.
Loved seeing the old plantation house. Looks like it would not take much.
Arkansas is amazing backroads!!! I miss the brick State markers they used to have between the States. Was great you found one in Louisiana!
I have no clue why assholes would give this thumbs down. It shows how they are all bells and whistles, chasing shiny lights and the reason most of Americana and the history of America is removed from the landscape. Thank you for documenting this! I love the time you leave to reflect on each shot. Glad you have no background music creating thought or directing emotion. I love how it is organic and I LOVE the sounds of yesteryear, from birds calling to feet walking on gravel. WONDERFULLY DONE. Makes the road shots so much more interesting hearing the rubber meet the road.
Here in Missouri we have ropes over water with ribbons hanging on it to check water levels from the bridge, great for monitoring levels, if really low below the ribbon after rain gives warning to flash flooding or where on the ribbon the water hits is how bad the flooding they should prepare for.
I love the quiet and solitude of the backroads and rural America... We don't have to put up with "citidiots" (Urban dictionary wouldn't accept it as a word for city idiots because it was a RURAL word)
Glad you found Waldo.... geez what would the world be if you hadn't found him hahaha
AWESOMELY AMAZING you are documenting all of the painted signs.... THANK YOU
Hey I grew up on those 50 cent machines lol At church we had a old coke ice box that let us get the small bottles for a nickle. I still stroke out seeing people paying nearly $2 for a drink that has carbonation and blows you up in size lol and think they are so great to drink all the time lol poor kidneys hahaha
Again THANK YOU FOR THE JOURNEY and MEMORIES reborn!!!
A little sad to see all the abandoned buildings and towns. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Really enjoying this series of small forgotten towns and backroads. These are some of the most interesting videos currently on the whole of TH-cam. The huge amount of research that you must be putting into these vlogs is really appreciated.
Adam thanks for these relaxing videos ,I’ve been rewatching the tour of the southern states ,to calm me after surgery I had I cracked my lower tibia left leg my first surgery in my life 49 years young PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE Matt Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 🤙. April 3,2020
I’m 8 miles south of Smackover, in El Dorado. Enjoyed this one. I’ve been in most of these places.
What do the young adults do for fun. Such as movies how many mintues from town?
I live about an hour and a half from El Dorado....great town! My Mom was born in Norphlet, in a tent, in the oil boom, 1925....but raised in Smackover, until she was 17! We go there often....great town, and people....she had great memories of Smackover and El Dorado....my Uncle lived in El Dorado for many many years....the Bush family!
Right up the road in Rison. Been to Smackover many friday nights back in high school.
@@pennymarmar Around here we would gather out by the river or in a cow pasture and have a bon fire. Go mud riding or hunting/fishing.
@@pennymarmar There isn't a whole lot to do in El Dorado. Quoting a classmate who still lives here, we have a movie theater and a couple of ok bars. Some of the restaurants are legit and we do have performances at the Murphy Arts District here and there, but overall, people my age go out of town to have fun. In fact, many of those I hung out with in high school don't live here anymore.
Beautiful weather for a road trip. Thank you for starting my day with positive and calm videos.
Dear Mr. Woo, My wife and I love these types of videos you put out i.e. those which show the backlands and villages which have fallen into desolation. We dont really get into the videos of popular attractions and which contain crowds of people and new and "glorious" manifestations of the creativity of modern man. Please keep the videos coming as we appreciate seeing the isolation, desolation and remote tranquility of the roads not all of us dare to travel!
Love the freight train footage ,please keep the trains coming ,that's Americana .
I'm so happy you found Waldo !!! I can now rest in peace, hehe !!!
There was a book called “ Blue Highways” about a guy who drove around the USA in a circle taking only the blue lines or roads on the map.
By William LeastHeat Moon. I read it many years ago.
@@kayp.7757 me to. did you read The River Why? For some reason those books are similar, in terms of enjoyment, to me.
@@VickieCarla No, I haven't read that one; would probably like it. Blue Highways was a best seller, as I remember.
I have that book too, somewhere among the small library that is my decades old book collection. I liked the book but wish the author hadn't described what weird and disgusting things people in some places ate. Lost my appetite there for a while as I don't have a strong stomach for such things.
Great video! Loved the murals and total lack of graffiti
i'm Scottish and i love seeing Americas history like this,thanks for the videos
i to live a stones throw away from Micanopy Florida,it to is an old town,with lots of antique stores to boot!
The days have been so nice waking to these vlogs. Thank You
Very skilled film-making that gives us the true feel of small-town America - and a genial host. I love this channel. Thanks, Adam.
Thank you for going to Hermitage I live there, it's a small peaceful town.
I'm from Waldo and was on the FFA Forestry team in high school. Hermitage was always our biggest rival and it was usually either us or y'all that won most of the competitions in our district. I still remember Mr. Moore, Hermitage Agriculture instructor. Good times
This is like the old school Daily Woo. Love these.
I live like 30 mins from Smackover and my wife mother lives in Hermitage. It sad in the 80s most of the business was open. Factory jobs dried up and Wal Mart came in killed all of the main Streets it started around the early 90s the main Street started drying up. KInda like malls are today
I'm from Rison and can remember all these small town main streets still kicking back in the 80s. The smaller wal-marts weren't that bad, it was about the time they all turned into supercenters our main streets died off.
30,40 years ago it was Walmart that killed the small, nearby, independent businesses. In recent years Jeff Bezos has become a villain, however he has kept public and private delivery services not only in business but at times expanding to accommodate the massive numbers of items sent to homes now.
Thank you for showing how peaceful and beautiful our state is. We truly do keep out the crazies! The way we figure it, if you can't act like a decent human being then move the hell on outta here. Glad to have had you Adam!!!
I live in Arkansas and this is what I like about it. A wide diversity of the state, you got cities and then you got these tiny towns.
I’m loving this series! I imagine traveling can wear you out but hope I can see more!!
Morning Adam, have a great day and safe travels!
Loved this video! You captured so many beautiful shots...very well done!
I love the opening dialogue and I answer "I shall" every time 😁
I was in smackover today fixing a banner... should have went yesterday. Love your trip across America
Adam, really enjoyed your awesome video in Arkansas! Love seeing places like these! Wish your videos were a little longer. Looking forward to your next one.
This edition is simply awesome. I want to live in every place. If just for a short time.
I really like your old forgotten town series. I think you're onto something...
Welcome to the great state of Arkansas. Jump up to Russellville next time. Have lunch at the Old South. 🇺🇸
It's still there? BEST fried chicken ever!!!!
LadyDragonsblood Oh yes. Still going strong and very popular still.
Home of legendary glen Campbell.
Go Wonderboys!
I like old south, but if I'm in Russellville I'm going to Stoby's.
Being a CA native, it blows my mind to see all of these small town just totally abandoned. Hopefully one day folks could return. Beautiful images.
those small towns not abandoned, by any stretch of the imagination....I live near one in a different part of Arkansas. The state's by-ways are full of rural folk well aways from the interstates and county highways who love a quieter pace of life (think of it this way...where you would walk down the block to visit a neighbor. We would drive a couple of miles or more down the road to visit our nearest next door neighbor...that's what it means to live out in the countryside). what has passed on, sadly, is the need for small town businesses. Large chain stores in nearby urban centers, with their cheaper prices, have driven many a small family owned shop out of business. What you see in the video, is the bare bones of a town...shuttered stores, and old buildings that no longer serve the needs of the community other than as a reminder of former times. At best, there is at least a fuel service station, or small mom n' pop café in a town....at worst, just a post office in the center of a once thriving town, and the only thing holding those towns together is the local churches, or asking how ya mom is doing while fetching the afternoon mail at the post office. That's still their towns...they just don't live in the middle of it.
poony1 no jobs in those towns. The interstate and highways bypassed these towns and the big chain stores being nearby killed these towns.
Keevan Sixx yes and the highways bypassed these towns is what killed them,
Looks like my KINDA TRIP. 👍
These are the type of Videos I like best! Thanks for taking us to these places.
HAMBURG , ARKANSAS home of SCOTTIE PIPPEN!!! SHOUT OUT 2 FOUNTAIN HILL!!!
Everywhere looks like Radiator Springs from Cars! It's a road trip I'd love to do... it's a long way from the UK.
Born and raised in McGehee AR, in the southeast part of Arkansas, appreciate it good history. The Lord bless you.
Wow bet those old buildings and houses.. have plenty of stories to tell.. Great vid!
Love this. Keep up with the content.
It makes me sad seeing all of these buildings going to rot and ruin
we realize our own impermanence
Some of the buildings appear to be still in use but only look abandoned. I have a feeling that most of the residents still remaining are using online purchasing since the post offices seem to be still in use. And there's usually some major store like Walmart around somewhere that's not shown.
Are you in Texarkana today?
LE REDDIT COMMANDER We have two in Russellville and one in Dardanelle , draws in people like flies. Would rather have half the people around.
the chem trails in the sky to block the sun is just as horrible
This video meant more to me than you'll ever know. I grew up really close to Hermitage. In fact, i played high school football and baseball there. While I've since moved north a couple of hours in Little Rock, I'll always have fond memories of these old small towns. Life was a lot easier back then. Folks knew and trusted one another and everyone took care of their neighbor. As a kid, i couldn't wait to grow up and move away....now as an adult, i wish i could go back.
What year big Lou I also played there ?
I am waiting for the day you are on one of those backwood roads and see Big Foot!!
I'll tell you what a sad thing some of them beautiful old southern homes just setting going to waste I really wish things like that wouldn't happen some of them homes or just landmarks
I live in Bryant, AR.......you can drive all over the state and find tons of small towns like that! Glad to see you were in our neck of the woods(literally) haha
Hey their from conway
This is my old home state, great to see her again! My favorite is when you talk to the cows!
Hey Adam the woo it is good to see you again back on the road be so careful
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sold us out to china
Scummy Bumington not hard to grasp at all, in fact totally obvious
Watch my kenfolk going through those back roads, they don't take kindly to strangers.
If you hear dueling banjos bail.
Squeal like a pig....
The painted faded ads on the the walls are great ,especially the Coke ads ,some are done by real good artists,and some are not ,but they're all neat. Some of the town squares have a kinda' haunted Mayberry vibe , & the woods have a Evil Dead or a Deliverance feel, (be careful Adam) . It's all actully awesome scenery ,good job man. Bob.G
So many neat old places, I will be watching this over and over, thanks for the tour
You need to go to the diamond field in Southern Arkansas.
Great idea.
been there
@@davidmckibbin4440 he was talking to Adam.
That would be "Crater of Diamonds State Park"
Murfreesboro Arkansa! So much fun!
Are you ever going to see and interview locals?
I like the theme park movies but your best work is the adventure movies. Love it.
THESE VIDEOS ARE SO GREAT! Pure America! WOO the WOO!
No love for Magnolia? You missed out on some killer murals, Woo!
He also missed the ones in Camden.