TDW 1649 - The City Obsessed With An Insect

0:05 good morning Dothan good to see you it's

0:05 a very overcast 55 degrees and I need

0:09 coffee

0:10 are you ready for this are you ready for

0:13 this

0:32 that's a really big peanut oh yes Dunkin

0:32 Donuts but I can no longer go through

0:35 drive-thru so gotta go inside

0:37 welcome everyone out of the whoo here

0:39 you know what the greatest thing about

0:40 having an RV or back when it's up to my

0:42 van is if you stay at a hotel you don't

0:45 want to check out early because you paid

0:46 for the hotel but you're sleeping at a

0:49 parking lot or off-the-beaten-path you

0:51 wake up early and you get that worm or

0:54 that coffee

1:00 hot it's my second channel daily War

1:00 Channel my tongue is cozy it's the daily

1:05 whoo as the traffic goes by they have

1:09 the ability to honk first night sir the

1:13 pig says right there on the side honk

1:16 for him this is the monument to a pig

1:20 that's for you buddy that's right come

1:24 on come on here's a pretty cool mural

1:27 there Wow and also one recognizing the

1:30 steamboat era 1800s and 1925 come on

1:35 Bennett that's right you don't need a

1:37 gun Bennett you don't need the guy in

1:39 come on in my travels I always stumble

1:42 upon things that are designated the

1:43 world's tallest the world's largest the

1:45 world's longest something well right

1:47 here in Dothan is the world's smallest

1:50 city block designated by Guinness Book

1:54 of World Record right on the corner of

1:55 college and apple tree they just passed

2:00 it they didn't even see it it's so small

2:02 it went unnoticed it's even been given

2:05 its own granite marker signifying this

2:08 event no that's not a gravestone that's

2:12 a historical significant marker wonder

2:14 how much it would be to purchase that

2:16 entire city block put some condos up

2:18 gentrify it get rid of lot of the

2:20 riffraff you know make it a better place

2:22 some people's American dream is to own

2:25 an entire city block and here they make

2:28 it almost feasible

2:42 that's pretty cool a truck is just

2:42 sitting on the railroad tracks

2:44 they insert some sort of mechanism on

2:48 the tires to make it drivable to do

2:51 maintenance on the railroad should buy a

2:52 conversion kit for Large Marge

2:54 take her on the open rails what if there

2:57 was one really hungry cow that could eat

3:00 all those hay bales in one sitting

3:03 you have to have a really big belly at

3:06 first I noticed the coca-cola sign mural

3:09 on the front and then I see that it says

3:13 bowling company was that an old bowling

3:15 alley and maybe that says Dowling oh I

3:18 think it says Dowling my favorite kind

3:21 of old town oh look at that coca-cola

3:23 alert this says dead end yeah

3:27 I'm going this way anyway not the

3:30 greatest road conditions and yet they

3:32 were right it is a dead end that's a

3:34 very muddy river it almost looks like

3:38 chocolate milk augustus Gloop would have

3:43 a field day and that thing right down

3:47 here is the location of the hanging of

3:51 bill sceeto near this site on December

3:58 3rd 1864 bill sceeto a Methodist

4:01 minister was hanged by Newton Home

4:03 Guards who thought he was a traitor to

4:07 the Confederacy way before this new

4:09 bridge was put in place there used to be

4:11 an old bridge and next to it was a tree

4:13 right in here along the waterway there

4:16 and he was so tall they had to dig a

4:18 hole in order for the hanging to work

4:22 correctly according to some people later

4:24 it was found out that those accusations

4:27 were not based in truth and some say his

4:30 ghost still haunts this bridge lots of

4:33 these military helicopters around here

4:35 that is the boll weevil in and while

4:38 that is an unusual name it really is not

4:41 that unusual for the town of enterprise

4:43 you can see the water tower way down

4:47 there no other place holds a candle to

4:50 honoring the

4:52 other than here in Alabama in fact right

4:55 smack downtown is a statue of a woman

4:59 holding a boll weevil and right up at

5:02 the top of the ural here on the side of

5:04 this building is that infamous creature

5:08 himself placed here on December 11th

5:12 1919 and profound appreciation and what

5:17 it is done is The Herald of prosperity

5:20 as the story goes the main crop in town

5:23 was cotton and that little bugger

5:24 destroyed all of the crops forcing the

5:28 town to diversify and to other avenues

5:31 and now they took that bad thing made it

5:34 a good thing and are now holding that

5:37 thing on a pedestal when holy crap that

5:41 thing scary right

5:44 it does look very majestic there in

5:46 front of the Sun I've never seen a

5:49 fountain smack dab in the middle of an

5:53 intersection before wonder if anyone's

5:55 ever smashed into it tried to take it

5:58 out try to eliminate it erased from

6:03 existence how's it going

6:12 this is your hometown offer you're from

6:12 Florida okay

6:13 you live here where the boll weevil is

6:22 okay I was just checking out the boll

6:22 weevil statue alright so you moved from

6:26 Florida up here to live with the boll

6:28 weevil alright nice talking to you

6:32 alright have a good one

6:34 it has happened in fact in 1998 two

6:36 teenagers destroyed the monument and the

6:39 old one supposedly is that the museum

6:42 located inside the old railroad station

6:45 hopefully it's open today and it's not

6:52 from what it looks like it's also the

6:54 town seal on the trash cans it looks

6:58 like at one point the railroad came

6:59 right here across the road you can still

7:01 see the indentations of the track this

7:04 relic just chilling there against the

7:07 side of the wall it's an old movie

7:09 theater saw in college cinema

7:20 doesn't get much more small-town than

7:20 this the grocery outlets that my friends

7:24 is not a super center she's holding a

7:27 doughnut here instead of the bug I guess

7:30 doughnuts take precedence the more I

7:39 think about it it would be pretty

7:41 interesting to see one of those

7:44 creatures chowing down on a glazed

7:47 doughnut I'm gonna get some lunch in

7:49 this place called cuts restaurant has

7:51 that old-school diner feel to it it's

7:54 like school cafeteria style but add in a

7:57 little buffet I think I'm gonna get

7:59 fried chicken photos of Don Knotts on

8:02 the wall some sort of seasoning it's

8:04 like in a jar just like vegetables some

8:08 pepper in there other assorted goodness

8:10 this elementary school used to be the

8:12 high school and on March 1st 2007 a

8:15 horrible tornado came through and

8:19 wreaked a lot of devastation in fact a

8:23 number of students were killed the

8:26 restaurant I just ate at had a little

8:28 memorial on the wall to them I want to

8:31 check out what the property looks like

8:34 today there's a news photo of this

8:37 parking lot full of cars and a lot of

8:39 the cars were thrown over into that

8:41 football field right over the hill

8:44 pretty crazy that a tornado is that

8:48 powerful we could just pick a car up and

8:50 launch it down onto a football field

8:54 from what I can tell the top of this

8:55 hill is where the old school was and

8:58 they have bulldozed it but this angle

9:00 here is where George Bush showed up to

9:04 survey the damage he walk down those

9:07 stairs there was lots of crash cars

9:10 right here at the bottom of this hill

9:14 this fence was knocked down and there

9:16 was a full-size vehicle on its back

9:19 laying right there on the sidewalk

9:23 Wow it's incredible don't be alarmed

9:33 because that's just the nude siren but

9:37 that's the same tornado siren that went

9:41 off that day

9:52 kind of a weird feeling here about

9:52 there's the NBC storm Ranger I've never

9:57 seen one of those before

9:59 that's a real-life storm chaser are the

10:01 glory days of video rental businesses

10:04 movie gallery Bow Wow Wow another one

10:09 bites the dust on the side of the road

10:11 you see lots of cows chickens donkeys

10:15 and horses but these are sheep hello

10:23 sheep that there on the sign is doc

10:25 can't you tell our Foods good yes he's

10:30 duck he has a country store man this

10:33 place looks awesome and next door to it

10:35 is booth farms hello there

10:40 cow oh it's not real it's a statue I

10:45 thought you were just being perfectly

10:47 still oh my gosh look at these cute

10:49 little guys that's a zebra right there

10:52 is that skunk southern belle brand pure

10:57 lard dang there's another one that's the

11:01 third one today Oh video warehouse

11:04 you've also gone away

11:06 pound pound pile another one bites the

11:09 dust stop it says the speed limits 85

11:12 through this residential area yeah I

11:17 think it is there's a bunch of portable

11:20 houses over there themed all differently

11:23 what about those are used for currently

11:25 in Andalusia Alabama what is commonly

11:29 known as the white shirt capital of the

11:34 world because the textile mill here

11:36 pushes these things out by the boatload

11:40 these are his legs he's running he's

11:43 running

11:44 he promised me oh there's that place

11:49 time for a fill-up currently

11:52 less than a quarter of a tank here goes

11:56 it's pumping go go go go Oh I don't know

12:03 why I'm chanting like that it's gonna go

12:04 whether I do it or not this particular

12:06 gas station stopped the sale at $75

12:09 probably for safety reasons when it

12:12 comes to credit cards whoa

12:16 no it filled it up oh heck yeah

12:20 two dollars six cents a gallon in this

12:22 neck of the woods

12:37 it's an old abandoned gas station here

12:37 and in front of it this piece of heavy

12:40 machinery and as you continue on even

12:46 farther

12:57 it's an old tow truck also on the

12:57 property is like a meld between Doc

13:01 Brown's vehicle and a first incarnation

13:04 of what looks to be an RV just rusting

13:09 away right there next to the woods

13:18 the name of this waterway is murder

13:18 Creek you can't make this stuff up and

13:22 you know what that is backwards come and

13:27 play with us Danny Redrum Redrum one day

13:32 you didn't let me finish my sentence I

13:35 said I'm not gonna hurt you I'm only

13:40 gonna send this chicken after you just a

13:45 little shining humor here folks and with

13:48 that it's time to say blog I'll see you

13:52 tomorrow

13:52 over

TDW 1649 - The City Obsessed With An Insect

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