TDW 1656 - Childhood Home of Janis Joplin

0:17 it's so early the sun's not even up yet

0:17 6:16 a.m. last night I parked in this

0:20 random parking lot I worked out pretty

0:22 well very quiet welcome everyone Adam

0:25 the woo here I usually wake up around

0:27 this time frame every day I have an

0:29 internal alarm clock I guess you could

0:31 call it I don't set an alarm I just wake

0:35 up it's my second channel daily Vlog

0:37 channel it's time for coffee the daily

0:41 woo this also gives me the chance to tap

0:43 into a little Wi-Fi and get some work

0:45 done before the sun comes up I do a few

0:48 things like change the default picture

0:50 and make the most current video the one

0:52 that's on display and also leave some

0:54 comments on some videos most McDonald's

0:58 have remodeled and they have removed D

1:00 all of their power outlets they don't

1:02 want you hanging out too long and with

1:03 that the sun is now rising and where I

1:06 slept last night was right next to that

1:10 building just a tad bit of morning fog

1:12 but as the day progresses the sun I'm

1:14 sure will burn all that away but before

1:17 that happens I think maybe I should fly

1:19 the Drone up in the air and just get a

1:21 few shots of the morning Ambiance a

1:24 little bit of the fog a little bit of

1:26 the Louisiana swamps and the trees and

1:29 the skyline fine and the clouds you know

1:32 just a little bit of everything just as

1:33 the day begins you know it's a good

1:36 start to the day when the de on the

1:38 ground completely soaks your shoes that

1:41 straight ahead there is the one and only

1:43 Lake

1:50 Charles not too many people out on the

1:50 beach this morning though and just a few

1:52 feet off the shore line happens to be a

1:57 gator Pond they have put up this

1:59 protective netting for all the beach

2:01 goers but wedge between here and the

2:05 freeway are real

2:08 live alligators in fact there's a couple

2:11 of them just huddled together there

2:13 little teeny ones sometimes it's very

2:16 difficult to tell what is a crocodile

2:18 and what is a stick you know the funny

2:20 thing big the foot does not believe in

2:23 alligators he thinks it's something

2:25 that's been fabricated through CGI and

2:29 photographic trickery there it is that

2:31 place that Fred Schneider sang about The

2:34 Love Shack it's not the only one out

2:37 there but every time I see one I have to

2:39 acknowledge it we're going up up up I'm

2:43 the king of the

2:45 world looks like New Jersey off in the

2:48 distance it's not but looks like it I

2:50 honestly think they need a bigger sign

2:52 here though just my two cents I know my

2:54 opinion doesn't matter but should take

2:56 it up with the city council if you are

2:58 interested in eating a donut that is

3:00 filled with sulfur well I hate to

3:03 disappoint you because this place does

3:05 not sell those this is the name of the

3:19 town that is a very colorful set of

3:19 pipes was not expecting to see that out

3:23 here in the middle of nowhere a

3:25 weathered mural of the American flag on

3:27 the side of this U-Haul rentals building

3:30 at one point it was a gas station you

3:32 could see where the gas pumps used to be

3:35 and then I'm guessing it became a vacuum

3:37 cleaner place Kirby Vacuums Hoover brand

3:42 is that what that says at one point it

3:43 was even popular enough to have five

3:45 different vending machines for the local

3:47 paper the Baymont

3:50 Enterprise or maybe it's bont Enterprise

3:54 and right here across the railroad track

3:55 is this huge grain elevator called the

3:59 Venton Co-op dryer

4:16 Incorporated it doesn't look like it's

4:16 been used or operational in quite some

4:30 time in fact

4:30 looks to be as if there was a

4:32 fire that tore through here kind of

4:35 curious what's behind this

4:39 door a stairwell that leads to the top

4:43 sealed up pretty good in fact someone

4:45 has welded and shut but it is accessible

4:47 to walk through the very middle of this

4:52 massive

4:58 structure prior to the door being sealed

4:58 off it looks like some people got up

5:00 there and spray pained their names I'm

5:02 going to take the Drone up in the air

5:03 that's kind of what the Majestic was

5:05 created for to get a bird's eye view of

5:08 places like this Majestic structures

5:11 that you can't normally see when it has

5:13 been sealed off to the general public we

5:15 can get a clouds eye view do clouds have

5:19 eyes if they did they would be looking

5:21 at this by Crossing this Waterway we are

5:25 now leaving Louisiana and entering the

5:29 great state

5:30 of Texas Hitchcock would be

5:41 proud Texas is a big state and I have

5:41 some very big plans for the I almost

5:44 fell just

5:50 a pretty exciting got myself a little

5:50 road map of all the nooks and crannies

5:52 of this wonderful State and the Don't

5:55 Mess with Texas logo I always thought

5:58 that meant don't mess with anyone from

6:01 Texas but in reality it was a campaign

6:04 started 30 years ago to keep littering

6:08 down to a minimum I don't know if I've

6:10 ever seen street lights like that before

6:14 they look like dinosaur next look off on

6:16 the distance there that bridge is insane

6:21 that thing is no joke we have a detour

6:25 here I think we're going over the other

6:26 Bridge it's got a huge tarp over it and

6:29 doing some work on it right now and I am

6:32 very very high up in the air right

6:44 now this Courtyard has a very tall

6:44 Virgin Mary Standing On Top of Earth

6:48 probably about 20 25 ft tall I'd say and

6:52 at the base of the statue are some

6:56 flowers and candles also depicted are

6:59 all the different stages of Jesus and

7:02 the crucifixion leading all the way up

7:06 to the resurrection there on the hill

7:10 this next spot is pretty interesting it

7:12 is supposedly according to the internet

7:14 the only conch shell wall anywhere in

7:17 the United States created by a man named

7:19 dionicio Rodriguez in the year

7:23 1929 I can safely say I've never seen

7:26 anything like this before in my life

7:29 these are shells and you can see the

7:32 date stamp there he also made a couple

7:34 other notable structures not involving

7:37 shells one in Arkansas and one in

7:40 Memphis Tennessee you can see the

7:41 electrical box just mounted right there

7:44 inside the entryway which leads to a now

7:49 abandoned Apartment Complex the name of

7:51 this little town is Port Arthur Texas I

7:54 think their water tower supposed to be a

7:57 golf ball Maybe possibly could be

8:00 curious to see what's inside the Museum

8:03 of the Gulf Coast this camera is called

8:05 a

8:06 Corona panoramic view that's that's old

8:10 school imagine vlogging on one of those

8:13 that's a top section of a li house and

8:16 you can walk around the sides of it just

8:19 like a Lighthouse Keeper just like

8:21 Mickey Rooney would have done Jan's

8:23 Joplin was born in this small town of

8:26 Port Arthur Texas and they have a

8:28 replica of that famous Porsche seen in

8:32 that photo and this little monument that

8:35 they have dedicated to her here is a

8:37 note she gave her mom for her mother's

8:39 birthday an award she received in junior

8:41 high school and check this out that's

8:44 her right there in the yearbook and she

8:47 Drew this photo of one of her friends

8:49 when he received his draft notice and

8:52 look in the corner she signed it Janice

8:55 they have a guitar mounted to the

8:57 ceiling just spinning around almost like

9:00 the world's coolest ceiling

9:13 fan it's too heavy to play but imagine

9:13 the music you can make with that thing

9:15 right here along Proctor Street at

9:18 4048 used to stay in the house that the

9:22 Joplin lived in when Janice was born the

9:25 picket fence Still Remains a sign if you

9:28 will of simpler times and you can almost

9:31 imagine a very excited mother leaving

9:34 the homestead going down to the local

9:36 hospital and giving birth to a music

9:39 legend the family lived here for about

9:41 four or 5 years before moving on to

9:44 another residence and this was the

9:47 entryway to their

9:50 home it's amazing to think that it was

9:53 right here I'm always fascinated by

9:55 history and old photos here is her

9:57 playing in a tree and I do believe this

10:01 is the tree now grown many decades later

10:05 and the house would be there to the left

10:08 what do you think is that it just before

10:11 her fifth birthday her family moved down

10:14 here onto Lombardi Street and she lived

10:16 here until she graduated high school and

10:19 people have placed beads in remembrance

10:22 of her right along the pole pretty

10:24 amazing to think that she was just

10:26 hanging out there on the porch

10:29 I wonder which one of the rooms was hers

10:33 the guy that owns the house is doing a

10:34 little bit of yard work and I asked him

10:36 how many people come by he says about

10:38 once a day someone will stop by take a

10:40 picture in front of the house at the

10:42 college here in town she had a friend

10:44 who was a DJ and she was known to hang

10:46 out very often inside the studio and I'm

10:49 sure from time to time she recommended

10:51 things for her friend to play over the

10:53 air the radio station is gone but there

10:55 is a remnant of what once existed

10:59 right there it wasn't long after walking

11:01 these exact sidewalks that she went on

11:04 to short live Fame before dying at the

11:07 age of 27 joining the 27 Club as some

11:09 would call it Jimmy Hendricks Kurt

11:11 Cobain Jim Morrison among others and

11:15 Janice Chopin heading into Port NES now

11:18 the next town

11:19 over this is Oak Bluff Memorial Park

11:23 Somewhere in the cemetery is the final

11:25 resting place of Tex Ritter there's not

11:27 a lot of information about a pinpointed

11:30 exact spot on the

11:32 internet but I'm going to find it after

11:34 wandering around for a while and walking

11:37 a pretty decent distance from where my

11:39 RV is off there I have matched up one

11:42 photo I found online of this little

11:45 Memorial monument and I have found Texas

11:48 grave major respect goes out to this guy

11:52 not only in the Country Music Hall of

11:54 Fame but also the voice of Big Al

11:57 country bear jeree at Disney and most

12:01 importantly to me the dad the father if

12:05 it was not for this man one of my heroes

12:08 and my Idols Mr John Ritter would have

12:11 never been brought into the

12:14 world rest in peace text John was an

12:17 adult when his father passed away so I

12:20 can only assume that he was here in 1974

12:23 the year I was born standing over his

12:26 father's grave looking at the same

12:28 headstone stone that I just looked at

12:31 and now John has passed on and I have

12:33 visited his grave on multiple occasions

12:37 Burbank Hollywood area every time I

12:39 would drive past there I would have to

12:41 go by and say hello to John and now I am

12:44 here paying my respects to his father

12:47 just like he did when he was

12:50 alive very interesting to think about

12:53 there

12:55 was blood on the saddle

12:59 and blood all

13:02 around and a great big

13:08 pudle of Blood on the

13:16 ground

13:16 Vlog over

TDW 1656 - Childhood Home of Janis Joplin

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