When I first became a Christian back in 1982, I was just out of basic training in the Air Force. Not knowing any better, I tithed my pay to the PTL club. That was my introduction to non biblical Christianity. I’ve learned alot since then. I still follow Jesus, I just no longer follow men that are lovers of self.
This was a blast. Connie and I had a fantastic time. Look forward to another adventure with Adam down the road. Connie and I love you brother. Safe travels. 🙂💓
I walked through that mall building during the height of the theme park's powers. It was bustling. I was nine. The ceiling was designed to imitate an open air setting where when you looked up, you saw blue sky and whispy white clouds. I cannot express the type of emotions this brings up.
I want to thank you for your videos. I have an incredibly stressful job. Your videos are a form of therapy for me. You help me escape to neat and cool places. It is very calming (and much healthier for me than using substances or whatnot to calm down) Thank you. Please keep it up. You are my daily escape from the stresses of the real world.
We love you Adam and have been following you for years. This one is close to my heart. As a child we had a timeshare here. My grandparents ran one of the campgrounds and my brother worked at the hotel. This all brings back memories for me. I met Kim Fields from facts of life at the water park and my dad took our pic together. We now live in Florida and go to Disney all the time.hoping to run into you one day. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great work! I have seen the passion at many many times. Thanks for the memories!
“Whatever happened to Randolf Scott” is a famous Statler Brothers song - and now we know! Thanks Adam! I always wanted to visit Heritage USA, often called ‘the Christian Disneyland’ at the time. Never made it but love seeing the relics.
I think it's pretty cool how you are visiting with your other Vlog friends and bringing us along and checking out the things they do even if we aren't familiar with their channels. Thanks Adam
Wow.....what a blast to the past. I worked at the restaurant in the Grand Hotel in the summer of 1985 when PTL was in its heyday. It really was quite something in its day. While I can no longer get behind why PTL ever existed, it was pretty spectacular. Thanks for the video!! 🙂
My Mom had a colon cancer operation in in 1996 and the PTL Show was something that gave her great comfort. Mom was a big fan of Jim Bakker. To this day I have a warm spot in my heart for Jim and Tammy Faye. Mom's been gone since 2004 but I still have a warm fuzzy thinking of PTL Club and Jim and Tammy.
Love meeting new vloggers. Especially those who share your vlogging style. I remember driving 3 hours to Heritage during Christmas in the 80's just to see the lights and walk through Main Street. It was the first animated ceiling I ever saw. It had blue sky with moving puffy white clouds. They had a drive through area decorated in Christmas and Christian themed scenes. It was bumper to bumper along a winding wooded road. There were thousands of people there that night.
I rode a bus around that same distance to see the lights as a child, too! I remember my grandfather being mad we went because he saw right through Jim Bakker and didn’t want one penny of family money supporting him😅!
I remember seeing the Heritage sign as we waited in line for the Christmas lights… as a child walking into the indoor town and seeing the clouds on the ceiling was amazing to me I’d never seen anything like it… I also went to the waterpark that used to be there… the slide Falwell went down was almost a straight drop! I was terrified 😂 wish I would’ve ran into you when you were filming this I live right in the shadow of PTL
Hey Adam, I now live in Fort Mill very close to Heritage USA. Growing up, I always wanted to go to Heritage USA, especially the water park, but I would always end up at Carowinds. My grandmother donated to their building fund and got a brick with her name on it. We were big PTL fans. I thank you Adam for taking us along. Great video!
I'm so glad you have a different twist to your vlogs. A viewer can only take so many theme park videos. I live in CA and so glad to see other parts of the country.
@@TheDailyWoo it really is! When I was in Germany (around 2004), me and some friends visited a Nuclear Power Plant that was never fully completed, and was turned into an amusement park. I believe I posted a few pics of it on my Instagram. Can’t remember though.
The movie "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" does not go into her later life but her last interview with Larry King on CNN was both heartbreaking, due to her health, and heartwarming, due to her faith. Through everything she remained a true Christian and kind until the end which occurred just a few weeks after that interview. It's on TH-cam.
Camped out there one summer construction of the New airport terminals (the whole place was built new, the old stuff was on the other side of the airport) I remember the beautiful "Disney Like" mall with the ceiling when it was projected with moving clouds and different colors during the day and night. The transportation system was very convenient. Now I am going to say, that gigantic water slide was probably the most terrifying thing I ever have done, has to be next to jumping out of an airplane :) It was a fun and safe place for families back in those days and Christmas Lights were fantastic in the season ! We actually stayed one weekend in one of the time shares in the tower, it was partially open. It was the first time I had ever seen a television housed in a nice piece of furniture.
I did enjoy the vlog you did with Tony and Scott back in Feb.I have always been fascinated with the P.T.L club and Heritage USA!! I pretty much think that they were going for a Christian Disney theme park!! Loving this vlog!! Watched the show!! Glad some of the buildings are being used!! Happy Sunday to y'all!! Yummy food too!
Heritage USA reopened in the 90s for a few years. A new Minister reopened the park for a few years in the 90s. It was called New Heritage USA and Raddison Hotels owned the Heritage Conference center. The castle was an arcade and there was a mote with a go cart track. I got to experience the park in the 90’s and it was incredible. After it closed for good, we walked through all the buildings when it was completely abandon. It was eerie.
Great episode. I'm going to take my dad over there. My folks bought the timeshare at that hotel they never finished. Apparently, they oversold it and that's one of the main things that got Bakker into legal trouble.
Even I could count how many rooms and how many “partners” were contributing $1000 for lifetime membership. Never paid much attention to the goings on at Heritage. And then the Jessica Hahn story exploded. And when the “Charlotte News Observer “,and all of a sudden everyone was talking about the thievery that had been going on. And the ministery owned a $2 million apartment in Trump Tower. Can someone explain to me how the cause of Christ is furthered by owning the apartment at Trump Tower???
Thanks so much for this Adam! I visited hHritage, USA in 1986 (during a Southeast drought... could barely get ice cubes from the ice maker in the Heritage Grand Hotel!). BTW: the Goshen Store on Main Street is pronounced "GO-shin", which was the area in ancient Egypt where the Hebrew slaves lived, and is where we get the term "Land of Goshen"
More precisely, Goshen is the Nile Delta region of Egypt. Unlike most of Egypt, Goshen was fertile and there was a lot of agriculture there. According to the Jewish Haggadah, Israelite slaves were put to work on building two cities there: Raamses and Pithom.
Adam, really enjoyed your vlog! I used to have a copy of Jim and Tammy's book but, I regret I sold it in one of my yard sales. I loved watching The PTL Club when my Daddy bought his brother Albert's satellite 📡 back in the early 80's. I wish Heritage USA was still around! Looking forward to your next vlog! Adam, I shared this on my community tab.
I thought you had just been there this year. Thanks for your friends giving a more accurate/extensive look. Thanks for the video! Oh, it still cracks me up to hear of things left from the 1980s as "relics," I guess I am one since I graduated from college in 1981!
Adam, thanks for this video. As a pastor myself, I am always fascinated by history like this. Will probably watch the Tammy Faye doc very soon. Hope to meet you sometime at one of the FL parks!
Wow! I followed Jim and Tammy Bakker from when they were at CBN. Then in 1973 they got together with Paul and Jan Crouch to form TBN. I found their new TV station. A very snowy Channel 46! Later they would buy channel 40. After a disagreement Jim was shown the door at TBN. He went back to Charlotte to start the PTL Network. Tammy visited the area when everything was in disarray. The Barn Church had so many holes in the roof. Good to see they restored it. A year or two ago Jim Bakker went there for the first time since 1987 and recorded his current show from what was Heritage USA. His new adventure is in Branson MO. He's now peddling emergency food products. I never went there, but my aunt and uncle did driving a motor home across the country.
I have my mom's album record from the early 1980s I'm 46, he has a white piano and a white suit on for the studio shot of the front cover of the album his hair was black, he Jewish but his name sounds Italian lol . Memories of that album.
I believe Jim and Tammy started out with a good heart for God, then money corrupted them. I have read Tammy's books, and believe she was sincere in asking forgiveness. Jim is still fleecing people. It is sad it was not saved for the Christian world. It was a place to go to be with like minded people. Thank you for showing what is left of a once wonderful place.
Duck Donuts started in Duck, NC at the Outer Banks. Heritage USA was the third most popular theme park in the 1980's behind Disney World and Disney Land.
Another great video, Adam. By the way, there is another Bakker location seldom visited you might be interested in. It’s the location of Jim and Tammy’s former home in South Carolina. The home has since burned down, but I find it really interesting to be on the site where so much happened in terms of the Bakkers’ personal lives. The site of the former Bakker home is 8022 Kitridge Bay Rd in Tega Cay Ft. Mill. Obviously, no one lives there now since the home is gone, so I don’t mind sharing the address. And, to my knowledge, another home has not been built on the site either. If you ever get back to SC, it might be an interesting adventure to walk in the Bakkers’ footsteps, and take a stroll down that little road and see where the house stood. It’s just a sloped dead-end road, but a very very pretty area. The neighborhood is called “Windjammer” because the builder was trying to go for a Polynesian theme back when the neighborhood was being developed in the mid 1970’s. The Bakkers moved into the home around 1978. It had initially belonged to a doctor and his wife, and if I’m not wrong, was somewhere around 3500 sq ft in size. By the time the Bakkers packed up and left in 1987, the home had grown to a whopping 14,000 sq ft, if I’m not mistaken. Just some little trivia I found interesting.
I think it’s wonderful they have kept a small remnant of the PTL legacy. One thing that fascinates me about PTL and the Bakkers is how relatively quick Heritage USA was built, and then contrast that to how quickly the empire fell. The Bakker home in nearby Tega Cay (the Windjammer neighborhood) seemed to grow right along with the Bakker empire. I did some research last year on the Bakkers’ home last year. Jim’s church purchased it for the Bakkers, I believe, sometime in 1978 from a doctor and his wife. At the time the Bakkers moved in it was around 3500 sq ft, and over the course of 8 years grew to a whopping 15,000+ sq ft. The reason I bring it up is because @19:44 your video shows a picture of Dino with Jim and Tammy, and the trio happen to be sitting inside one of the *many* additions the Bakkers made to the house in that time. If you look at the aerial view of the house, you can clearly see this addition. It would seem that, as the ministry grew, so did the Tega Cay house - and that’s not even mentioning all the other homes the Bakkers purchased in those days: one in Florida, one in California (possibly two), the Tega Cay house (Ft. Mill), and then one in the Smokey Mountains. There could have been more, but I can’t find data to substantiate that. I’m fascinated with their home in Ft. Mill, can you tell? 😂 . I would love to recreate the home in CAD and do a virtual walkthrough. Tammy Fay drove a cotillion white 1985 Cadillac Seville to the studio everyday, and if memory serves, the studio was located at the rear end of the Barn Auditorium. Seems like there was another studio where they recorded, but I can’t remember. Sorry for the ramble. I can’t remember too accurately about the specifics, but I know the stats I listed on the house are within ballpark.
Nice! I've always been curious about this place. I remember hearing a lot about it as a kid growing up in the 80s but never vidited. Its cool seeing vlogs from here and seeing the changes to the former Heritage USA property over the years.
I am so happy when you do these types of videos it gives me so much joy and I'm believing most others do as well Adam I'm not here to preach to you but I commend you for doing stuff that's anything related to Christian wise or Christianity It takes a lot for a person to want to do those types of videos when I'm just gonna say it You mainly do 180° type of videos I hope and praying you never ever stop making these types of videos because you will be blessed by people places and things but more importantly GOD
Well with his dad being a Preacher and having grown up in that environment he is probably familiar with and drawn to those types of things. My uncle is a preacher as well and his son is a dr of seminary which means he's Dr Rev before his name. doesn't mean much to me he's still the cousin that lit the rabbit pen on fire with me in it when we were kids hahaha but just saying he too is drawn to religious things even not of his religion but it makes them curious more than most would be, I think. So I'm sure Adam will keep doing these types of things as well as others. these dont interest me as much esp this one as I know what the bakkers were and did as i was around then but hey its cool to see the buildings,.
Oh yes I remember when you were there the last time and I must say it was nice being back also I loved all the fun facts you shared along with the many thing you filmed it truly was interesting now with that being said peace ☮️ love ❤️ and happiness to you Adam and I’ll see you on the next vlog adventure wherever it takes you peace ☮️ out ✌️
Just attended a marriage conference located inside The Main Street Little Theater and it was my first time ever being in that Hotel, Main Street area. I was pretty blown away at how neat and Disney-esque that area is. 😊
They seem like a really nice couple. Adam, you’re awesome. Keep up the great work. Randolph’s house is beautiful. I aspire to something about a third of that house.
@TheDailyWoo - Jimmy Bakker is still in business and has a 2.0 version of this place built down in Blue Eye, MO (opposite of Branson, MO off Table Rock Lake.) It has the condos, cabins, and indoor Main St. with shops and attractions too. This sect may be (almost) forgotten, but they're not dead.
Wow! Really interesting video, Adam. I knew the Bakkers had a bunch of that stuff in Charlotte and surrounding areas. I never knew there was an amusement park. I remember some of the PTL shows back in the day as a kid. I'm a believer, but I never really got into those shows. However, it is interesting to see the history of everything there.
Trying to remember if Scott on Tape was with you when you went the earlier part of this year? Really enjoy when you are road tripping through back where I come from? Plus Todd & Connie talk like I do. 💜
My friend Aviyah’s Torah-keeping congregation used to meet in The Upper Room. After Covid they started meeting at the pastor’s cabin home also on property until he and his wife moved. Beautiful area.
This episode was one of your best ever! Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating look at the PTL properties. I'm a student of people and it makes me wonder about the categories of tourists who visit this location and who visited it when it was open and thriving! How much has to do with the PTL "heritage" and those who followed that distinct type of Christianity OR was this a tourist type who came simply because the PTL Club was part of popular culture. I found your Disney comparison very interesting too. The marketing behind Jim and Tammy is very Disney-esque. There's a kind of weird brilliance to it all.... Not sure how I feel about it all.
This was so very interesting! I never knew all the details about the PTL Club, just all the backlash from the scandal. I was also so excited to see you had some Duck Donuts! The one with bacon is sooo yummy! 😋😋
Great and interesting video, learned things I didn’t know about that place. Nice couple too. Enjoy your stuff Adam👍🏻 I’m gonna check out that movie u mentioned.
I went to work at PTL in April of 1976 as a security guard.. When I first interviewed they were still broadcasting from the furniture store on Independence Boulevard. But when hired they were broadcasting from Heritage Village. After threats were made toward Jim and his family I became Jim's personal Aid (Body Guard) I had left a police dept in Alabama to take the security job so they felt that I was qualified . I kept Jim's car with me and I would pick him up in the mornings and Tammie would come along later. I took Tammy Sue to school the first day she went to 1st grade.. I would take Tammy shopping when Jim was on the grounds so other security was there if needed. I spent endless hours with just myself and Jim and I am here to say that His and Tammy's hearts were in the right place at the beginning and they both were very sincere.. I have been in contact with Jim thru the years a few times and still support his original plan to bring anyone to Christ.. If any other employees that were there during this time and remember me I would I would love to hear from you..
This was a great episode Adam. I lived in Charlotte in the mid 2000’s and met Tammy several times. She was extremely nice and kind to me. I’ve also met her son Jay who is a really cool guy. There is a documentary about him called one punk under god if you want to check it out .
I grew up in Charlotte in the 80s we always went to visit PTL when people came to town. The water park was a lot of fun. I do remember the moving clouds in the ceiling. I would still run into Tammy Sue in the mid 90s.
Thanks for visiting SC/NC ….Duck Donuts are awesome! Come back for WinterFest @ Carowinds ❄️☃️ lots of other awesome Indy coffee spots BTWs in Charlotte ☕️
How funny, I just watched the Tammy Faye Bakker movie that came out last year so this is fresh on my mind. Man were they weird. I'm lovin all your videos lately, thank you.
I remember watching the PTL TV shows where they promoted the building of this theme park when I was on maternity leave back in the 80's. It was a great premise with great promise that was woefully unfulfilled.
Yay!! So exciting that you’re in the CLT!!! My home. Well I’m in Mooresville, the lake Norman area. You should check out Pinky’s on Morehead next time you eat!!!!
When I first became a Christian back in 1982, I was just out of basic training in the Air Force. Not knowing any better, I tithed my pay to the PTL club. That was my introduction to non biblical Christianity. I’ve learned alot since then. I still follow Jesus, I just no longer follow men that are lovers of self.
what were you before you were Christian? Muslim? Hindu?
Support your local church. My church paid my rent.
This was a blast. Connie and I had a fantastic time. Look forward to another adventure with Adam down the road. Connie and I love you brother. Safe travels. 🙂💓
I walked through that mall building during the height of the theme park's powers. It was bustling. I was nine. The ceiling was designed to imitate an open air setting where when you looked up, you saw blue sky and whispy white clouds. I cannot express the type of emotions this brings up.
It’s amazing that in the early 1980s Heritage USA was the third most visited “theme park” in the world. Fascinating.
Was a kid nearby during those times, we called PTL “Pass The Loot”
I want to thank you for your videos. I have an incredibly stressful job. Your videos are a form of therapy for me. You help me escape to neat and cool places. It is very calming (and much healthier for me than using substances or whatnot to calm
down) Thank you. Please keep it up. You are my daily escape from the stresses of the real world.
We love you Adam and have been following you for years. This one is close to my heart. As a child we had a timeshare here. My grandparents ran one of the campgrounds and my brother worked at the hotel. This all brings back memories for me. I met Kim Fields from facts of life at the water park and my dad took our pic together. We now live in Florida and go to Disney all the time.hoping to run into you one day. You are such an inspiration. Keep up the great work! I have seen the passion at many many times. Thanks for the memories!
“Whatever happened to Randolf Scott” is a famous Statler Brothers song - and now we know! Thanks Adam! I always wanted to visit Heritage USA, often called ‘the Christian Disneyland’ at the time. Never made it but love seeing the relics.
Statler Brothers was my childhood. My dad had their greatest hits on 8 track and each road trip we took, that tape was the only thing we listened to.
@@travel_the_smokies You were raised right! My parents did much the same thing which is why I know the Statler Brothers!
Never heard that one, I'll have to look it up..I'm a big fan of the Statlers.
I was remembering that too, as soon as he was mentioned.
I think it's pretty cool how you are visiting with your other Vlog friends and bringing us along and checking out the things they do even if we aren't familiar with their channels. Thanks Adam
I really love how he does that, this was how I discovered people like carpetbagger and Tim tracker back in the day.
This is where all the crime took place. 🤣
@@bradforward850 What crime? Rent a Car companies do it every day.
Wow.....what a blast to the past. I worked at the restaurant in the Grand Hotel in the summer of 1985 when PTL was in its heyday. It really was quite something in its day. While I can no longer get behind why PTL ever existed, it was pretty spectacular. Thanks for the video!! 🙂
Now this was a good one! Great job! So cool to see Heritage USA & Heritage Village.
My Mom had a colon cancer operation in in 1996 and the PTL Show was something that gave her great comfort. Mom was a big fan of Jim Bakker. To this day I have a warm spot in my heart for Jim and Tammy Faye. Mom's been gone since 2004 but I still have a warm fuzzy thinking of PTL Club and Jim and Tammy.
Hope they didnt defraud your mom out of money like they did everyone else. Jim and Tammy were frauds. Jim went to prison for it.
Love meeting new vloggers. Especially those who share your vlogging style. I remember driving 3 hours to Heritage during Christmas in the 80's just to see the lights and walk through Main Street. It was the first animated ceiling I ever saw. It had blue sky with moving puffy white clouds. They had a drive through area decorated in Christmas and Christian themed scenes. It was bumper to bumper along a winding wooded road. There were thousands of people there that night.
I rode a bus around that same distance to see the lights as a child, too! I remember my grandfather being mad we went because he saw right through Jim Bakker and didn’t want one penny of family money supporting him😅!
I remember seeing the Heritage sign as we waited in line for the Christmas lights… as a child walking into the indoor town and seeing the clouds on the ceiling was amazing to me I’d never seen anything like it… I also went to the waterpark that used to be there… the slide Falwell went down was almost a straight drop! I was terrified 😂 wish I would’ve ran into you when you were filming this I live right in the shadow of PTL
Hey Adam, I now live in Fort Mill very close to Heritage USA. Growing up, I always wanted to go to Heritage USA, especially the water park, but I would always end up at Carowinds. My grandmother donated to their building fund and got a brick with her name on it. We were big PTL fans. I thank you Adam for taking us along. Great video!
I'm so glad you have a different twist to your vlogs. A viewer can only take so many theme park videos. I live in CA and so glad to see other parts of the country.
That little mall is one of the coolest things I've seen. I absolutely love it.
I used to be OBSESSED with this theme park! So interested in it’s history!
I still kinda am. I’ve always been fascinated by the park and the history of the Bakkers. It’s all so facinatingly odd
@@TheDailyWoo it really is! When I was in Germany (around 2004), me and some friends visited a Nuclear Power Plant that was never fully completed, and was turned into an amusement park. I believe I posted a few pics of it on my Instagram. Can’t remember though.
It’s a sad part of Americana. I remember it well. My mom loved the Bakkers.
Jim Baker was the king of snake oil salesman. And ole Tammy Faye could shed the fake tears at the snap of the finger.
Great vlog, absolutely fascinating.
The movie "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" does not go into her later life but her last interview with Larry King on CNN was both heartbreaking, due to her health, and heartwarming, due to her faith. Through everything she remained a true Christian and kind until the end which occurred just a few weeks after that interview. It's on TH-cam.
I think she passed the very next day if I remember correctly.
@@punchline43 She did. I remember that interview like it was yesterday.
Camped out there one summer construction of the New airport terminals (the whole place was built new, the old stuff was on the other side of the airport) I remember the beautiful "Disney Like" mall with the ceiling when it was projected with moving clouds and different colors during the day and night. The transportation system was very convenient. Now I am going to say, that gigantic water slide was probably the most terrifying thing I ever have done, has to be next to jumping out of an airplane :) It was a fun and safe place for families back in those days and Christmas Lights were fantastic in the season ! We actually stayed one weekend in one of the time shares in the tower, it was partially open. It was the first time I had ever seen a television housed in a nice piece of furniture.
Wow that’s amazing you were able to go while open !
Never knew the tower was ever partially open ?
Thanks Adam for sending down the Heritage USA rabbit hole. So much about it to see. Great video
That was amazing. You never would have known what that one time enterprise was all about and how massive it was. Thanks to all for sharing.
This is very interesting. Thank you Adam for taking us along. 😊💕
I love the history of this place! I saw the last video of the place. Thank you for all the great history Adam
I did enjoy the vlog you did with Tony and Scott back in Feb.I have always been fascinated with the P.T.L club and Heritage USA!! I pretty much think that they were going for a Christian Disney theme park!! Loving this vlog!! Watched the show!! Glad some of the buildings are being used!! Happy Sunday to y'all!! Yummy food too!
You give us a birds-eye view of the most interesting places - so well-done! The movie you mentioned is now on my bucket list!
The movie is really good. Tammy Faye was not a bad person.
Heritage USA reopened in the 90s for a few years. A new Minister reopened the park for a few years in the 90s. It was called New Heritage USA and Raddison Hotels owned the Heritage Conference center. The castle was an arcade and there was a mote with a go cart track. I got to experience the park in the 90’s and it was incredible. After it closed for good, we walked through all the buildings when it was completely abandon. It was eerie.
Alright! Loved this tour. ❤😇👍😎🙏
Great episode. I'm going to take my dad over there. My folks bought the timeshare at that hotel they never finished. Apparently, they oversold it and that's one of the main things that got Bakker into legal trouble.
Even I could count how many rooms and how many “partners” were contributing $1000 for lifetime membership. Never paid much attention to the goings on at Heritage. And then the Jessica Hahn story exploded. And when the “Charlotte News Observer “,and all of a sudden everyone was talking about the thievery that had been going on.
And the ministery owned a $2 million apartment in Trump Tower. Can someone explain to me how the cause of Christ is furthered by owning the apartment at Trump Tower???
And I would bet your dad never got his deposit back, either. I am sorry about that.
Thanks so much for this Adam! I visited hHritage, USA in 1986 (during a Southeast drought... could barely get ice cubes from the ice maker in the Heritage Grand Hotel!). BTW: the Goshen Store on Main Street is pronounced "GO-shin", which was the area in ancient Egypt where the Hebrew slaves lived, and is where we get the term "Land of Goshen"
True, but the Hebrew pronunciation is Go-Shen, just like its written.
I have Mennonite cousins who teach at Goshen College in Indiana. I was gonna comment but you beat me to it. Goshen College was started in 1894.
More precisely, Goshen is the Nile Delta region of Egypt. Unlike most of Egypt, Goshen was fertile and there was a lot of agriculture there. According to the Jewish Haggadah, Israelite slaves were put to work on building two cities there: Raamses and Pithom.
Thank you for this! I’ve been fascinated with this place since it’s hey day back when I was kid.
Adam, really enjoyed your vlog! I used to have a copy of Jim and Tammy's book but, I regret I sold it in one of my yard sales. I loved watching The PTL Club when my Daddy bought his brother Albert's satellite 📡 back in the early 80's. I wish Heritage USA was still around! Looking forward to your next vlog! Adam, I shared this on my community tab.
Adam you and Todd and Connie did a great job on the team up liked seeing both vids
I live near here. It's awesome seeing familiar places!
I thought you had just been there this year. Thanks for your friends giving a more accurate/extensive look. Thanks for the video! Oh, it still cracks me up to hear of things left from the 1980s as "relics," I guess I am one since I graduated from college in 1981!
When I went to Dollywood I called it “Christian Disneyland” but Heritage USA is another level. I never heard of it. Good exploring! ❤
Love Dollywood
Wow!!! My family visited and stayed at the hotel during our Christmas break in 1987. There was a live taping in the hotel.
Adam, thanks for this video. As a pastor myself, I am always fascinated by history like this. Will probably watch the Tammy Faye doc very soon. Hope to meet you sometime at one of the FL parks!
Wow! I followed Jim and Tammy Bakker from when they were at CBN. Then in 1973 they got together with Paul and Jan Crouch to form TBN. I found their new TV station. A very snowy Channel 46! Later they would buy channel 40. After a disagreement Jim was shown the door at TBN. He went back to Charlotte to start the PTL Network. Tammy visited the area when everything was in disarray. The Barn Church had so many holes in the roof. Good to see they restored it.
A year or two ago Jim Bakker went there for the first time since 1987 and recorded his current show from what was Heritage USA. His new adventure is in Branson MO. He's now peddling emergency food products.
I never went there, but my aunt and uncle did driving a motor home across the country.
Excellent video. Years ago I remember seeing a Heritage USA Christmas special on television. They had a lot of lights and decorations.
Dino put out some great albums. He's got a wonderful voice. I have one of his cassettes.
I have my mom's album record from the early 1980s I'm 46, he has a white piano and a white suit on for the studio shot of the front cover of the album his hair was black, he Jewish but his name sounds Italian lol . Memories of that album.
I believe Jim and Tammy started out with a good heart for God, then money corrupted them. I have read Tammy's books, and believe she was sincere in asking forgiveness. Jim is still fleecing people. It is sad it was not saved for the Christian world. It was a place to go to be with like minded people. Thank you for showing what is left of a once wonderful place.
This was such an interesting vlog. Thanks Adam. I’m now watching the eyes of Tammy Faye. So fascinating.
Very fun and informative! Well done.
Duck Donuts started in Duck, NC at the Outer Banks. Heritage USA was the third most popular theme park in the 1980's behind Disney World and Disney Land.
Missed about everything for a week but happy to make it to see this vlog this morning. Thanks for sharing the fun.
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The Heritage USA video earlier in the year with Scott was on of my favs this year !!
Another great video, Adam. By the way, there is another Bakker location seldom visited you might be interested in. It’s the location of Jim and Tammy’s former home in South Carolina. The home has since burned down, but I find it really interesting to be on the site where so much happened in terms of the Bakkers’ personal lives. The site of the former Bakker home is 8022 Kitridge Bay Rd in Tega Cay Ft. Mill. Obviously, no one lives there now since the home is gone, so I don’t mind sharing the address. And, to my knowledge, another home has not been built on the site either. If you ever get back to SC, it might be an interesting adventure to walk in the Bakkers’ footsteps, and take a stroll down that little road and see where the house stood. It’s just a sloped dead-end road, but a very very pretty area. The neighborhood is called “Windjammer” because the builder was trying to go for a Polynesian theme back when the neighborhood was being developed in the mid 1970’s. The Bakkers moved into the home around 1978. It had initially belonged to a doctor and his wife, and if I’m not wrong, was somewhere around 3500 sq ft in size. By the time the Bakkers packed up and left in 1987, the home had grown to a whopping 14,000 sq ft, if I’m not mistaken. Just some little trivia I found interesting.
Loved this vlog. Very interesting. Makes me want to research the Bakkers.
I think it’s wonderful they have kept a small remnant of the PTL legacy.
One thing that fascinates me about PTL and the Bakkers is how relatively quick Heritage USA was built, and then contrast that to how quickly the empire fell.
The Bakker home in nearby Tega Cay (the Windjammer neighborhood) seemed to grow right along with the Bakker empire. I did some research last year on the Bakkers’ home last year. Jim’s church purchased it for the Bakkers, I believe, sometime in 1978 from a doctor and his wife. At the time the Bakkers moved in it was around 3500 sq ft, and over the course of 8 years grew to a whopping 15,000+ sq ft. The reason I bring it up is because @19:44 your video shows a picture of Dino with Jim and Tammy, and the trio happen to be sitting inside one of the *many* additions the Bakkers made to the house in that time. If you look at the aerial view of the house, you can clearly see this addition. It would seem that, as the ministry grew, so did the Tega Cay house - and that’s not even mentioning all the other homes the Bakkers purchased in those days: one in Florida, one in California (possibly two), the Tega Cay house (Ft. Mill), and then one in the Smokey Mountains. There could have been more, but I can’t find data to substantiate that. I’m fascinated with their home in Ft. Mill, can you tell? 😂 . I would love to recreate the home in CAD and do a virtual walkthrough.
Tammy Fay drove a cotillion white 1985 Cadillac Seville to the studio everyday, and if memory serves, the studio was located at the rear end of the Barn Auditorium. Seems like there was another studio where they recorded, but I can’t remember. Sorry for the ramble. I can’t remember too accurately about the specifics, but I know the stats I listed on the house are within ballpark.
Thanks for going back with Todd and showing the other
things that were new to you.👍🏻👍🏻
Nice! I've always been curious about this place. I remember hearing a lot about it as a kid growing up in the 80s but never vidited. Its cool seeing vlogs from here and seeing the changes to the former Heritage USA property over the years.
This Was SO AWESOME Adam ,Thank You
I am so happy when you do these types of videos it gives me so much joy and I'm believing most others do as well Adam I'm not here to preach to you but I commend you for doing stuff that's anything related to Christian wise or Christianity It takes a lot for a person to want to do those types of videos when I'm just gonna say it You mainly do 180° type of videos I hope and praying you never ever stop making these types of videos because you will be blessed by people places and things but more importantly GOD
Well with his dad being a Preacher and having grown up in that environment he is probably familiar with and drawn to those types of things. My uncle is a preacher as well and his son is a dr of seminary which means he's Dr Rev before his name. doesn't mean much to me he's still the cousin that lit the rabbit pen on fire with me in it when we were kids hahaha but just saying he too is drawn to religious things even not of his religion but it makes them curious more than most would be, I think. So I'm sure Adam will keep doing these types of things as well as others. these dont interest me as much esp this one as I know what the bakkers were and did as i was around then but hey its cool to see the buildings,.
Very cool hearing about Cary Grant and Randolph Scott
I lived in Regent Park when a lot of the Heritage USA was still intact and we got to explore the stadium, mall, castle, etc
Oh my word Dino! I am pretty sure my mom had some of his albums.
Thanks for sending me down the PTL rabbit hole 🤣. Haven't thought about this stuff since I was a kid
So beautiful with the lights and yes the movie is very very good
That was very interesting. Thank you Adam !!!
Wow I remember going there when I was in elementary school! The Bakers lived in my grandparents community in Tega Kay! Feels like just yesterday!
Oh yes I remember when you were there the last time and I must say it was nice being back also I loved all the fun facts you shared along with the many thing you filmed it truly was interesting now with that being said peace ☮️ love ❤️ and happiness to you Adam and I’ll see you on the next vlog adventure wherever it takes you peace ☮️ out ✌️
Just attended a marriage conference located inside The Main Street Little Theater and it was my first time ever being in that Hotel, Main Street area. I was pretty blown away at how neat and Disney-esque that area is. 😊
I live in Rock Hill, Sc right down the road from there! That used to be such an amazing place!
Used to to work on the landscape at the scott home, keep up the great work,
They seem like a really nice couple.
Adam, you’re awesome. Keep up the great work.
Randolph’s house is beautiful. I aspire to something about a third of that house.
My Mom has one of the Susie Moppet dolls. I remember her watching PTL at the height of their shows.
@TheDailyWoo - Jimmy Bakker is still in business and has a 2.0 version of this place built down in Blue Eye, MO (opposite of Branson, MO off Table Rock Lake.) It has the condos, cabins, and indoor Main St. with shops and attractions too. This sect may be (almost) forgotten, but they're not dead.
Good answer -- this bunch is indeed a "sect" or a "cult:. Ugh.
Wow! Really interesting video, Adam. I knew the Bakkers had a bunch of that stuff in Charlotte and surrounding areas. I never knew there was an amusement park. I remember some of the PTL shows back in the day as a kid. I'm a believer, but I never really got into those shows. However, it is interesting to see the history of everything there.
Another great tour. Thanks for taking us along with you.
Steve and Sandee
No problem thanks for watching
Trying to remember if Scott on Tape was with you when you went the earlier part of this year?
Really enjoy when you are road tripping through back where I come from? Plus Todd & Connie talk like I do. 💜
I remember as a teenager, seeing Jim and Tammy at the Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon, VA.
Got me a hot cup of joe and a new Adam the woo video you know it's going to be a good day
Heck yes !
My friend Aviyah’s Torah-keeping congregation used to meet in The Upper Room. After Covid they started meeting at the pastor’s cabin home also on property until he and his wife moved. Beautiful area.
It really is . I was so happy to finally get inside the Upper Room
fascinated by this place!
This episode was one of your best ever! Thank you so much for sharing this fascinating look at the PTL properties. I'm a student of people and it makes me wonder about the categories of tourists who visit this location and who visited it when it was open and thriving! How much has to do with the PTL "heritage" and those who followed that distinct type of Christianity OR was this a tourist type who came simply because the PTL Club was part of popular culture. I found your Disney comparison very interesting too. The marketing behind Jim and Tammy is very Disney-esque. There's a kind of weird brilliance to it all.... Not sure how I feel about it all.
Learned some new information. Interesting. Thank you.
Cool, I saw Christmas Lights there in the mid 1980's 😀
hello Adam and guests , very interesting video , really well done and thank you guys 😊
This was so very interesting! I never knew all the details about the PTL Club, just all the backlash from the scandal. I was also so excited to see you had some Duck Donuts! The one with bacon is sooo yummy! 😋😋
The welcome sign building is like a building from a corporate campus they would use for a self service medical clinic
Great and interesting video, learned things I didn’t know about that place. Nice couple too. Enjoy your stuff Adam👍🏻 I’m gonna check out that movie u mentioned.
I went to work at PTL in April of 1976 as a security guard.. When I first interviewed they were still broadcasting from the furniture store on Independence Boulevard. But when hired they were broadcasting from Heritage Village. After threats were made toward Jim and his family I became Jim's personal Aid (Body Guard) I had left a police dept in Alabama to take the security job so they felt that I was qualified . I kept Jim's car with me and I would pick him up in the mornings and Tammie would come along later. I took Tammy Sue to school the first day she went to 1st grade.. I would take Tammy shopping when Jim was on the grounds so other security was there if needed. I spent endless hours with just myself and Jim and I am here to say that His and Tammy's hearts were in the right place at the beginning and they both were very sincere.. I have been in contact with Jim thru the years a few times and still support his original plan to bring anyone to Christ.. If any other employees that were there during this time and remember me I would I would love to hear from you..
This was a great episode Adam. I lived in Charlotte in the mid 2000’s and met Tammy several times. She was extremely nice and kind to me. I’ve also met her son Jay who is a really cool guy. There is a documentary about him called one punk under god if you want to check it out .
Oh wow this was great tour .thanks .👍🏼♥️👍🏼♥️👍🏼
Adam did you say donuts? Great having other channels in your stream. Adam always educating us. Thank You. Safe and Happy travels.
Fascinating history behind “so called” Christians bilking many religious people for their own greedy gain. Thanks for the tour, Adam! 😊
Its what the Christians do best.
Amazing video , I remember this so well. Jim Bakker reestablished the PTL ministry in Missouri, returned to television. Unbelievable.
So incredible! Thanks for sharing this iconic bit of American history!
Goshen is (or was) a town where the Israelites lived before they journeyed to the Promised Land. Loved the history of the place
good night Adam I hope that you rest good tonight stay safe tomorrow........
Good morning ☕️ Happy Sunday. Great vlog Adam. Glad we joined the 3 of you. How was the doughnuts. They looked delicious. 😋
Hi everyone!!! Already subscribed with Tod. Had Christmas dinner with them last year. Have a blessed day 👍😋❤ love eating at chatty chathy’s
What is Todd's channel name?
I grew up in Charlotte in the 80s we always went to visit PTL when people came to town. The water park was a lot of fun. I do remember the moving clouds in the ceiling. I would still run into Tammy Sue in the mid 90s.
Thanks for visiting SC/NC ….Duck Donuts are awesome! Come back for WinterFest @ Carowinds ❄️☃️ lots of other awesome Indy coffee spots BTWs in Charlotte ☕️
Also, you should check out the Eyes of Tammy Faye (played by Jessica Chastain), which came out last year…
I think Morningstar meets there now. I would love to attend one of their conferences!
How funny, I just watched the Tammy Faye Bakker movie that came out last year so this is fresh on my mind. Man were they weird. I'm lovin all your videos lately, thank you.
It’s a great movie . The whole this is fascinating to me
Great video Adam, I bet your dad could tell you where the name Goshen came from at that store as In the "land of Goshen"
Thank you for the tour & history 👍
I remember watching the PTL TV shows where they promoted the building of this theme park when I was on maternity leave back in the 80's. It was a great premise with great promise that was woefully unfulfilled.
Yay!! So exciting that you’re in the CLT!!! My home. Well I’m in Mooresville, the lake Norman area. You should check out Pinky’s on Morehead next time you eat!!!!