TDW 1716 - No Trespassing Involved !

0:03 welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:03 coming to you from Birmingham Alabama

0:05 leaving

0:12 Mar Straight Ahead downtown Birmingham

0:12 and I am

0:13 currently riding in not an RV wow this

0:17 is a little bit smaller than Large Marge

0:19 today I'm going to be hanging out with

0:20 my friend Gary he's driving me around

0:22 and he has a little air freshener too

0:24 this is not that's not that's not big

0:26 the foot you have a name for your air

0:28 freshener cover the canyon copper the

0:37 canyon oh copper the canyon I think I

0:37 like big the F better just just my I'm

0:39 biased oh dang what the heck are

0:42 these what are these I just came in here

0:46 for some coffee and just looked at some

0:48 kind of like Pig ear or something never

0:50 had this particular brand before vintage

0:52 house it's a good name for it because it

0:54 tastes like it's an antique right next

0:56 to the cemetery check out that American

0:57 flag it's like completely dreaded at the

1:00 end of this dead end Street in this

1:02 residential

1:04 neighborhood looks to be some artwork in

1:06 this yard wow this house is highly

1:11 decorated with

1:13 lots lots of signs

1:16 and all kind of stuff behind that fence

1:21 it's located at the back end of this

1:24 Cemetery this particular sign says keep

1:27 out and the gate is closed

1:30 but just look how much

1:32 stuff is in this yard there's a camper

1:35 parked here saying God Bless America and

1:38 it's in y face

1:42 catering and up in

1:44 this

1:46 planter is Barbie and Ken quite a few

1:49 mannequins have been used for the

1:56 displays including down

1:56 here the head of Jack Skellington

2:05 a lot of police vehicles and Bible

2:05 verses that are quoted as well

2:08 definitely a lot of time and

2:10 effort went into this

2:17 place and I'm wondering if the gentleman

2:17 that created all this

2:18 lives inside that house it is locked up

2:23 with

2:34 faces some toilet

2:34 seats and I'm noticing this gate does

2:38 not have a lock on it and you've lived

2:41 in Birmingham your whole life right and

2:42 you never knew about this place no now

2:46 in your opinion the gates unlocked it

2:48 says no children without parents we're

2:51 not children in your opinion do you

2:54 think we should go in and look around

3:06 in we're going to take a look

3:06 around okay now I'm seeing that that

3:09 says private property so maybe we

3:11 shouldn't maybe we're

3:13 not maybe we're not allowed to go in

3:16 here I think the best option is probably

3:18 not to go walking around bad inflence

3:21 this is this is probably not a great

3:24 idea to be wandering around in there you

3:26 can still get a pretty good view from

3:27 behind the fence he's Incorporated some

3:31 bowling

3:32 balls into the artwork and it looks like

3:36 some old road signs he's pulled a

3:38 lettering off to spell

3:40 out his message he has a little

3:43 dedication to Rosa Parks and the date

3:46 December 1st 1955 from

3:51 Montgomery wow there is

3:54 just an

3:56 incredible amount of stuff to look at in

3:58 here I'm thinking at one point or when

4:00 it is open that's the front entrance and

4:03 as you walk in the sign right there

4:06 States African village

4:08 America I think that's or was the main

4:13 entrance and now I'm really starting to

4:15 notice the plethora of keep out sign so

4:18 just going to keep our distance and stay

4:21 stay on the outside of the fence and

4:22 it's not just on that side of the road

4:25 it's also on one of the homes on the

4:26 other side as well it's hard to wrap

4:28 your head around how much time was

4:31 spent on this

4:42 incredible what I want to know is you've

4:42 lived here your whole life and you never

4:43 knew about this place is crazy I don't

4:46 know what's more amazing what's behind

4:48 the

4:49 fence or what's in front of the fence on

4:52 this side broken up busted Graves

4:57 look look how dilapidated

5:00 and caved

5:01 in all these graves are man first

5:05 impression when you see something like

5:06 this is you know it's a little bit

5:08 creepy but at the same time it's it's

5:11 very sad it makes me very sad to

5:14 see graves in this

5:17 shape my goodness most of these are from

5:19 the early

5:21 1900s but still you rarely

5:24 see you rarely see

5:27 headstones and resting places is in this

5:30 sort of shape this is around the

5:32 backside and you can see they've used

5:35 old restaurant signage to construct some

5:39 of the the pieces through here all along

5:43 the wooden

5:46 fence billboard

5:48 lettering that has been laid across it

5:51 and over here on this street

5:54 corner looks like he's also placed a

5:57 bunch of signs at this main thoroughfare

6:00 intersection about a mile down the road

6:03 from the house what the heck is

6:07 that this Fountain has we got to find a

6:10 place to park I got to get out I got I

6:12 got to check this out doc right in front

6:14 of this Methodist Church is a

6:17 fountain and in the fountain are some

6:19 animals being taught

6:22 by a goat headed

6:31 man interesting it has been titled the

6:31 Storyteller but it really doesn't answer

6:34 the question of why there is a creature

6:38 of the goat head

6:41 persuasion in the Town

6:44 Square you have any idea why it's here

6:48 you being a local and a resident of this

6:51 neck of the woods for so long yeah me I

6:53 have no idea that's the official answer

6:56 why is there a goat-headed man you got

6:59 me

7:00 I have no idea whatever the reason I

7:03 think we can both agree it's not

7:04 something you normally see every day

7:07 there's also an American flag with the

7:10 peace sign embedded in it check out that

7:14 train right

7:15 there on the opposite side of the

7:18 railroad tracks it's on its own personal

7:22 railroad track it's not operational

7:24 anymore I can't let you in know what I'm

7:27 saying cuz they they talk crazy with me

7:29 I really don't care it don't make no

7:31 difference to open it up all day really

7:32 want to check out that place called SLO

7:34 furnace we were told to come back a

7:37 little bit later going to get a bite to

7:39 eat at this little diner called

7:42 Dreamland they got some really cool neon

7:45 in

7:47 here uh-oh well that's

7:50 disappointing that is really

7:52 disappointing I got myself some sweet

7:54 tea and looking at the menu it's all

7:57 barbecue I have not had barbecue since

7:59 Texas so I think I'm going to go with

8:01 some P

8:04 pork oh

8:06 man look at all that goodness all right

8:08 this is what we're dealing with P pork

8:11 potato salad baked beans and overload of

8:16 bread the barbecue sauce is actually

8:19 warmed up it's actually like it's

8:21 actually warm barbecue sauce and you

8:23 opted for a side of okra and just to let

8:27 you know I'm going to have to I'm going

8:28 to have to borrow a couple of those okra

8:31 pieces because that looks oh what what

8:33 kind of sauce is on the okra ooo that

8:36 place huge thumbs up awesome we're now

8:39 arriving at SLO furnace it's open to the

8:43 public this massive old

8:47 factory you can walk around in there

9:14 boilers made in Chattanooga

9:14 Tennessee but located in Alabama we're

9:16 going to go down into the darkness now

9:20 it's not incredibly dark cuz there is a

9:22 light

9:23 here watch your head according to that

9:26 sign it's very very low

9:31 going into the tunnel we're now in the

9:34 tunnels underneath the furnaces

9:38 themselves good thing they have lighting

9:40 down here because this would be

9:42 incredibly creepy if it wasn't

9:45 illuminated one would even say that

9:48 maybe the chuds could be found down here

10:00 chuds very damp

10:00 and

10:01 moist here in the nether

10:04 regions oh my goodness look the Slime is

10:08 it's like green slime the walls are

10:11 leaking and you can hear the

10:14 train directly above us and there is a

10:18 piece of heavy

10:20 machinery just left to rot down

10:25 here have you ever SE seen that movie

10:27 about the chuds

10:29 CHS have you ever seen the movie about

10:31 the chugs no it's

10:42 terrifying we were just walking through

10:42 there it seriously is like something out

10:44 of a horror film the water

10:47 dripping the train going

10:49 by all of the

10:56 elements

10:58 oo it is pretty cool they let you just

11:00 wander around in here no

11:03 trespassing involved in fact don't quote

11:07 me on this but I believe this is a

11:10 national

11:11 landmark I think that's what the sign

11:13 out front said inside this room is what

11:16 is referred to as the blowing

11:19 engine you can see all the bells and

11:22 whistles

11:23 here to make it

11:26 operational and I was just noticing

11:29 there is a pulley directly above that

11:32 one holding it in

11:35 place right there this thing is very

11:40 heavy it reminds me of the ending scene

11:43 in the Sylvester Salone movie Cobra when

11:45 he takes the bad guy and he hangs him on

11:48 that hook did you ever see that movie

11:50 don't hang

11:52 yeah what were you doing I don't know in

11:55 1881 this was founded by James Withers

12:00 Sloss and his name is forever etched in

12:05 the water

12:07 tower right up there do you think in

12:09 this day and age someone would name

12:12 their son

12:13 Withers that was his legitimate middle

12:16 name I've never met anybody named

12:18 Withers there's a gargantuan

12:21 wrench left down

12:23 here look at these look at these massive

12:27 Wheels

12:29 scaffolding up there you can just see

12:31 how much dust has

12:33 accumulated all

12:54 there you have to imagine how many

12:54 people were working down here at one

12:56 time if you turn this hard enough you

12:58 can see

12:59 the chain start to move it's very

13:02 difficult but it is moving barely it's

13:04 an old Coca-Cola sign right there out in

13:07 front of the Vulcan mini Mar and up the

13:12 hill is the Vulcan himself not Spock but

13:17 another Vulcan I see him I see him up

13:21 there in the

13:23 trees that's him dang look at the size

13:26 of that

13:27 guy you know if you you asked someone

13:29 who was afraid of heights if they want

13:31 to go to the top of this you know what

13:32 their answer would be I am afraid of

13:34 heights you are yeah then you would say

13:38 are you out of your Vulcan mind yeah are

13:41 you out of your Vulcan mind yeah it's a

13:43 little Star Trek joke the Vulcan was

13:45 created to represent the industrial

13:47 might of the

13:49 Birmingham district and there is a

13:51 little miniature Vulcan here that's what

13:55 he looks like at the tippy top of that

13:58 Tower

14:00 and that's the size of his foot that's

14:01 the actual size of his foot that's a

14:06 that's a gargantuan sandal and I can

14:08 touch a piece of core drilled

14:11 concrete taken from the Vulcan that

14:14 right there is part of the Vulcan that's

14:17 that's a piece of the Vulcan prior to

14:20 him holding this metal spear he used to

14:24 hold the circular object and now inside

14:29 the little museum is that

14:31 circular object here on display all lit

14:34 up with neon it even looks like at one

14:36 point he wasn't hoisted up in the air he

14:38 was on the ground and you could just

14:40 kind of Mill Mill around him a little

14:42 bit it's a pretty amazing view of the

14:44 city from up here but we're going to go

14:48 up there to the top are you stoked gee

14:53 thanks are you stoked there comes the

14:55 elevator that's our ride to the top

14:58 don't look straight there whatever you

14:59 do don't look down don't look down we're

15:02 going it's all in your mind just pretend

15:05 that we're on the ground just pretend

15:07 that we're on the ground look look at

15:08 this we're up in the air we're not on

15:10 the ground how are you feeling right now

15:11 we're not on the ground how are you

15:13 feeling right now as we not on the

15:14 ground I see you're doing all right

15:16 you're smiling you're having a good time

15:18 good time so just keep telling yourself

15:20 that just keep telling yourself that

15:22 nothing is wrong great

15:24 times oh yeah we're almost at the top

15:30 see he's

15:32 excited if he can do it you can do it if

15:36 he can do it you can do it oh wow now

15:37 that I'm up here I totally get it it is

15:40 slightly frightening you realize that

15:42 we're right on the edge of

15:44 something kind of unsafe there is

15:47 there's a railing here but there is

15:49 nothing stopping us from looking over

15:53 straight

15:55 down there you go Birmingham what are

15:58 you what are the local call it here Beam

16:00 Beam you better behave in beam so when

16:04 nightfalls what happens then get crazy

16:07 does it out there is that where the V is

16:09 that where kefir Southerland comes out

16:11 the vampires come out the lost

16:14 boys there people down there they're

16:16 wondering they're wondering why I'm

16:18 yelling and honestly I'm kind of

16:20 wondering myself this is around

16:21 literally the backside where you can

16:24 see his backside if you look way down

16:28 there you can see see a map on the

16:30 ground and where that star is is where

16:33 I'm standing currently at Vulcan Park

16:37 you can see sloth furnace where we just

16:39 were a little while ago off on the

16:42 horizon right about there in the middle

16:45 of the

16:46 screen and then as you pan

16:48 out and Veer to the left a little bit

16:51 you get the heart of

16:59 downtown pretty cool up here

16:59 there's

17:01 another some other sort of factory off

17:05 in the distance old

17:08 beam I don't they really they really

17:10 don't call it that right no one really

17:12 calls it beam beam in the do the locals

17:15 really call it Beam Beam burningham the

17:18 ham the ham the big salty ham the big

17:21 salt I'm going to start calling it that

17:24 you're a beautiful town you big salty

17:27 ham

17:29 that's a good that's a good way to end

17:33 Vlog

17:35 Vlog over

TDW 1716 - No Trespassing Involved !

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