TDW 1534 - Niceville : It Really DOES Exist !

0:22 welcome everyone Adam mutha whoo here

0:22 there's a saying do not forget your

0:25 roots and I am a firm believer in that

0:28 expression and that leads me here my

0:31 father was a preacher we moved around a

0:33 lot but I have a few key places in my

0:36 life

0:36 around the US of A that I hold very

0:40 close to my heart

0:41 in fact it's a good thing I'm wearing

0:42 these glasses because as soon as I

0:44 pulled into town I started to tear up a

0:47 little bit with the memories ah nice

0:50 fill Florida it's my second channel

0:55 daily vlog channel it's the daily whoo

0:58 are those petunias Niceville a nice town

1:05 with nice folks and they invite you to

1:08 have a nice time the population of

1:10 Niceville now I think is around 12,000

1:12 people I lived here in 1984 to 1988 1989

1:16 ish and it was considerably less than

1:19 that still a small town but it was

1:21 really a small town back then the trusty

1:24 old McDonald's is still here iced coffee

1:28 let's woo this the center section is

1:31 very familiar and that subway over there

1:34 used to be a convenience store and if

1:36 you take a left here and drive down that

1:39 road that was where I live my bicycle

1:42 went down this way more times than can

1:44 be counted when I was young this little

1:47 teeny Hill seems so incredibly steep

1:52 looking at it now

1:54 I was making a mountain out of a

1:57 molehill my old stomping grounds hudson

2:00 circle oh man this road was basically a

2:03 horseshoe you could enter on two

2:05 different areas but it would end up at

2:07 the same road where that crazy small

2:09 hill was there it is the home that my

2:13 family lived and right there right here

2:21 in this little grassy area my friends

2:25 and I used to play baseball this house

2:27 had not been built yet so the field was

2:29 a lot more empty but our home plate was

2:32 right on the other side of this tree I

2:34 guess you could say this was my Sandlot

2:37 pitcher would stand right here throw the

2:40 baseball there first base here second

2:44 third where that tree is and back home

2:48 and as we went farther into what was the

2:50 outfield all of this is new this was a

2:52 lot more wooded area and I will never

2:54 forget because as a child I found my

2:58 first dirty magazine in those woods

3:01 that's something you never forget right

3:04 we built a fort right along the edge of

3:06 this nasty sewage drain they used to

3:09 continue on that way and ride in there

3:11 we built like a little makeshift fort

3:13 treehouse that was kind of our home away

3:15 from home and once you exit out of the

3:17 field you would dump onto Scotch Street

3:19 and straight ahead was my childhood home

3:23 and I used to play football with my

3:25 friends all in this road right here

3:28 football on concrete ah to be young

3:31 again

3:32 one of the worst bike racks I ever got

3:33 into was right here at this fire hydrant

3:36 I turned this corner instead of going

3:38 off the curb I smashed into that fire

3:41 hydrant at very high speeds it was

3:44 painful it's a very unusual feeling to

3:46 be standing at where you used to live

3:48 memories that abound looking at this

3:51 home really make some flood back into my

3:55 head good times there the first time I

3:57 ever watch Back to the Future was in

4:00 that house 1985 on VHS

4:25 I really wanted to be a professional

4:25 baseball player in those days isn't life

4:28 funny I don't know funny is the worry

4:31 but life is very interesting oh man look

4:36 at this years ago this gas station it

4:39 was called something else it was

4:40 basically a mom-and-pop convenience

4:42 store and in the corner they have video

4:44 games and my family did not have a lot

4:47 of money so I would come up here I'd

4:48 walk up to the store and stand and watch

4:52 other people play video games in the

4:54 corner of the store I wonder if the same

4:57 electrical outlet that that coolers

4:58 plugged into is where the video games

5:00 are plugged into probably here's nothing

5:04 more exciting than telling a cashier

5:06 hope your memories and them not giving

5:09 two craps whatsoever I'm now gonna let

5:13 you in on something very personal in my

5:15 life my very first kiss happened in that

5:19 house and I use that term very loosely I

5:22 was probably around 12 years old a girl

5:23 that I went to school with her sister

5:25 was having a birthday party and inside

5:27 there they played this game where you

5:29 take a piece of string and lifesavers

5:31 and you put the string around the other

5:34 person's tongue or their teeth or

5:35 something I don't remember how it worked

5:36 but then you pull each other close and

5:39 my lips touched hers it was very

5:42 innocent

5:43 and it was years later that my second

5:45 kiss happened but that was where the

5:47 first one was pretty historic you can

5:50 see in my side mirror says rocky Bayou

5:53 Christian school this is where I was

5:55 educated in fourth fifth sixth and

5:57 seventh grade and it was the last school

6:00 I ever went to because after that I was

6:03 home-schooled and it took my GED when I

6:05 was 17 years old and they have gotten

6:06 new school buses since I went here they

6:08 used to have vans similar to the one I'm

6:11 driving now my 7th grade classroom was

6:13 right inside that door pretty crazy and

6:17 when I went here this gym had just been

6:20 built and look at this on the front of

6:24 the bus says San Diego now when I went

6:28 here we never took trips to California

6:32 oh my gosh now that brings back some

6:36 serious memories Wow the good old days I

6:43 spent an incredible amount of time in

6:46 this building right here hard to believe

6:50 that was 30 years ago

6:52 where's the time guy next stop a very

6:55 monumental piece of history one of my

6:59 best friends lived across town a little

7:00 bit at his house he introduced me to

7:03 something that I've never forgotten not

7:06 cigarettes not alcohol not drugs but

7:10 this it was right inside that home that

7:14 I first tried the nectar of goodness in

7:17 the mid-1980s Cheers

7:31 sorry I also broke my arm in that yard

7:31 playing football that wasn't such a

7:34 great memory you got to wonder if the

7:35 city of Niceville got permission to use

7:37 that or if they just said heck it we're

7:40 using it anyway this sushi bar was not

7:44 always a sushi bar it used to be

7:46 McDonald's back in those days for me

7:48 eating at McDonald's was a rare treat a

7:50 friend of mine had a ten dollar gift

7:52 card we rode our bikes all the way down

7:55 here and got a couple Big Macs we were

7:57 the kings of men but I disobeyed my

8:00 father they left the house without

8:02 permission and my excitement of being

8:04 out on the town came to a crashing halt

8:07 from a distance I saw my father

8:08 following us in the car so he took some

8:10 of these back roads on our bikes and I

8:12 found the secret hiding spot where he

8:14 would never find any place to our bikes

8:16 and ourselves right here under this

8:18 stairwell he would never find us here

8:20 and then we peeked out and his car was

8:24 parked right there staring at us he had

8:26 found us and this is the reason my

8:33 family originally moved to this town

8:35 Niceville

8:37 Christian Church I spent pretty much

8:42 every Sunday morning Sunday night and

8:45 every Wednesday night inside that

8:47 building and one thing that will always

8:49 permanently be etched in my mind is the

8:52 circular driveway leading to the front

8:54 door and while we were living here the

8:56 church congregation had this crazy idea

8:58 to try to dig up and find the old time

9:01 capsule somewhere on the property that

9:04 was placed here 20 years prior so the

9:07 whole congregation was out here digging

9:09 around rooting around trying to find

9:11 this time capsule and no one ever found

9:13 it in fact probably to this day it is

9:16 somewhere on the property under the

9:19 ground whatever happened to that time

9:21 capsule no one will ever know straight

9:24 ahead in this strip mall is it all movie

9:26 theater

9:28 I think it's closed now but in 1988 it

9:31 was open and I saw big top peewee right

9:34 inside there judging by the signs on the

9:39 wall hasn't been closed

9:40 incredibly too long you can still see

9:43 some remnants in there though our

9:47 memories and while we're on the topic of

9:49 movies the mid 80s was the pivotal point

9:51 when it came to home entertainment the

9:54 VHS came onto the scene and the very

9:57 first VHS my family ever purchased was

9:59 inside a dollar store that is right

10:02 there where that bells outlet is now and

10:04 to be honest with you I don't even

10:05 remember what the title of the film was

10:07 we watched it one time it was an old

10:09 black-and-white murder mystery movie but

10:11 this opened up the floodgates the

10:13 possibilities of owning something and

10:15 watching it on repeat over and over and

10:18 over and over so movies that I came to

10:21 love I came to memorize because of the

10:25 VHS now most people might not remember

10:27 this but you used to have to rent VCRs

10:30 from video rental places and if you

10:32 bought a new VHS I'm not even kidding

10:34 the retail price was 89 99 unless you

10:39 got like a cheapy at a dollar store or

10:40 body used for real almost a hundred

10:43 dollars I'm not even kidding this

10:46 building here that's now a goodwill used

10:48 to be a place called Bay lighting and

10:50 while my dad was working at the church

10:52 he also worked at this place and one day

10:54 while he was in his office around the

10:56 back the entire building burned down now

10:59 him and the other employees escaped

11:01 unscathed and they rebuilt the building

11:03 by the way I'm standing next to a fire

11:05 exit and to be honest I really can't

11:07 remember what it used to look like maybe

11:08 his office was in there maybe it was

11:10 back there a lot has changed a little

11:13 reminiscing and I scored a couple good

11:15 CDs oh yeah can't forget that one boom

11:36 in 1988 on that very football field

11:36 something amazing happened I sat on that

11:39 hillside in a very overly sold-out game

11:42 and watched this highschool this unknown

11:46 Niceville high win the state

11:48 championship in football it was a pretty

11:50 cool moment not only for my childhood

11:52 but for the town since then they haven't

11:54 won another and it was cold that night

11:56 too you think of Florida you think of

11:58 heat not that night it was chilly and

12:00 since we're on school property what you

12:02 tuber went to school here wasn't me I

12:05 didn't go to school here what you tuber

12:07 graduated from Niceville high Colombo

12:10 liked research skills to it today has

12:12 definitely reminded me that time waits

12:15 for no one

12:16 and will continue on whether you like it

12:19 or not it's crazy looking back on things

12:23 around town then it was so long ago

12:26 three decades ago

12:32 since I've been here it's amazing to me

12:32 how fast time just carries on and you

12:40 have to go out and do what you want to

12:42 do because as cliche as it is you only

12:49 go around this crazy circle one time

12:51 it's good to come back and reminisce

12:54 it's also good to push forward and move

12:57 forward and do the things you want to do

13:00 and then go back and look at what you

13:03 used to do see how much you have

13:05 progressed and evolved and pushed

13:10 forward if you want to see the

13:14 continuation of this vlog you have to go

13:17 back a little ways to the daily whoo day

13:20 one four six six just go to the youtube

13:23 search bar and type in TDW one four six

13:26 six after here at Niceville my family

13:29 moved to Eufaula Oklahoma and after I

13:32 left California on this road trip across

13:34 country

13:35 I stopped often you follow vlogging over

TDW 1534 - Niceville : It Really DOES Exist !

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