TDW 1550 - Why Is This Area Off Limits ?

0:31 e that's McCartney with a

0:34 mustache welcome everyone Adam the woo

0:37 here it's my second channel daily Vlog

0:40 channel it's the daily

0:43 woo you cannot go that way there is a

0:46 barricade you can go this way this road

0:49 is always interesting to me because that

0:50 side of the road is never used and it

0:53 hasn't been for years I'm meeting a

0:55 friend here shortly and we're going to

0:56 go on some serious ADV what the heck

1:00 look at the front of this Walmart they

1:01 have fested it with blue that wasn't the

1:04 most accurate description Walmart's

1:06 color has always been blue but the front

1:07 of that building looked a little

1:09 different than normal right check this

1:11 guy out there's another one way up here

1:14 too all I need is some tasty buds a cool

1:17 way some cool way I screwed it up I

1:19 screwed it up all I need are some was it

1:23 was it Tunes I don't know we messed it

1:26 up all I need are some tasty waves a

1:29 cool but does and I'm fine right here on

1:32 the corner of fosa Gardens Boulevard

1:36 right over there used to stand a huge

1:38 sign used to say Splendid China right

1:41 over here on the right was where the

1:43 property was and the only thing that is

1:45 left are a few remnants of the walls and

1:49 the road but everything from the sky

1:52 looks like everything has been torn down

1:54 the buildings the attractions even the

1:56 rock formations and all the little

1:58 gazebos and things they had built

2:00 Miniatures of all of it's gone and the

2:02 rumor is this is going to be a Jimmy

2:04 Buffett Resort

2:06 attraction covering this whole area so

2:09 this whole area is going to grow

2:10 considerably right now it's pretty much

2:12 nothing just construction I kind of

2:14 wonder if they're going to leave these

2:15 walls up just maybe as like a little

2:18 momento to Splendid China a little theme

2:21 park history in Central Florida that no

2:23 longer exists if you look closely there

2:25 is a man on top of that airplane in

2:28 recent years they built this crazy

2:31 looking spaceship looking building off

2:35 the side of I4 what the heck is that

2:37 we're now in downtown

2:38 Lakeland and we're on our way to a

2:41 familiar spot the Southgate Shopping

2:43 Center an interesting fact is the very

2:45 first filming location video I ever did

2:48 in the history of any of my YouTube

2:49 channels was Edward Scissor Hands and

2:52 the interesting thing it also is that

2:55 Micah is probably the biggest fan of

2:59 that movie movie I've ever met and look

3:01 how empty this is there's a Publix's

3:03 over there in an Office Depot that has

3:06 some customers but the whole rest of the

3:08 parking lot all of this is completely

3:12 empty I can't believe there's like no

3:14 one out here look how empty this is and

3:16 Johnny Depp was standing right where

3:17 you're

3:18 standing just like that with his little

3:20 like crazy hands of blades every few

3:23 years or so I will pass by this location

3:26 to check to

3:28 see it's locked and if you look in the

3:30 back here this used to be a wine shop

3:32 but in the movie it was the salon and

3:35 that's the back room where Edward was

3:37 being seduced and I think the story on

3:39 this is Tim Burton heard of this place

3:41 and he liked the sign so much that he

3:44 decided they were going to film here

3:45 because strip malls were very popular

3:48 during the era that the movie was based

3:49 in and what better thing to have on

3:52 screen than this epic sign it's very Tim

3:56 Burton esque this is something that you

3:57 can expect to see in a Tim Burton movie

4:00 so when he saw it he said oh heck yeah

4:02 we're filming

4:04 there Adam the

4:07 woo oh there's a bee right there too

4:10 look at that crazy bee just hanging on

4:12 for dear life someone has drawn a man

4:14 with a beard and another guy with a

4:18 baseball cap on the back of that

4:20 truck little mobile

4:24 artwork look at this happy guy we're

4:26 going to get some lunch at Sunny's

4:30 just got to find something on the menu

4:31 that looks looks o definitely going to

4:34 get some sweet tea corn poppers I've

4:36 never had one of those corn corn nuggets

4:39 call corn nuggets and I got fried okra

4:41 with ranch dressing so we got double the

4:45 appetizers we are now in Barto

4:48 Florida I'm going to stop by somewhere I

4:50 haven't been in a few years right up the

4:52 road here and there it is look at

4:56 that my girl I got the pin right there

4:59 there look how grown over the back is

5:02 used to be a bed and breakfast and then

5:06 the property was sold I think someone

5:08 has bought it basically as a home now I

5:10 parked my van in the same spot that jam

5:12 Lee Curtis parked her

5:15 RV and you can see right up here there

5:18 are a lot of no trespassing signs in the

5:21 yard and up on the porch now clearly

5:24 stating not open to public you used to

5:27 be allowed to go sit on the porch

5:30 but whoever now owns the property will

5:33 not allow you to do that I guess that

5:35 must be their car right

5:37 there so no longer no longer accessible

5:40 right up there in that top window would

5:43 have been the room of V sulan fuss the

5:46 Gazebo is completely covered in Kudzu

5:49 and you can't even walk down the

5:51 sidewalk it's so overgrown now this tree

5:54 over the road has this dangling Vine

5:58 that basically stretches all the way

6:00 down into the middle of the road it's

6:03 like Jack in the beant stock style or

6:05 something you going to climb the top of

6:06 it I'm going to try I don't think it'll

6:08 hold my weight what did what was the

6:10 Jack in the bean stock he had jelly

6:11 beans right it was a magic bean and he

6:13 it fell in the crack and then it

6:15 sprouted something like this and he

6:17 climbed up past the clouds and there

6:19 lived the Fifi foam giant there's an old

6:22 drugstore right here off the side of the

6:24 road and from what it looks like

6:26 everything is still inside hey look

6:28 these screws

6:30 must be tightened and if you look in

6:32 there look at that old clock on the wall

6:35 and old fax machine down here they

6:38 removed the products but a lot of the

6:40 electronics are still in there featuring

6:42 diabetes shop check it out the old

6:45 Cypress Garden sign is still right there

6:48 on the street corner this whole area

6:49 here used to be Circus World and then

6:52 later became boardwalk in baseball it's

6:56 where the Kansas City Royals used to

6:58 have their spring training

7:00 facility and it's pretty much been

7:03 non-existent for

7:05 years the roads are still here but

7:08 that's about it there are no buildings

7:10 no nothing just roads where we're going

7:13 we don't need roads but you have a lot

7:15 of them check out the street sign Royals

7:19 way even though there really is no

7:22 traffic out here they're still titled

7:25 after the former baseball team that used

7:27 to be here let me rephrase that the team

7:28 still exists

7:30 they just don't practice on the spot any

7:32 there's a few signs on the property

7:33 saying restricted area even though

7:35 anyone can just drive up in here I guess

7:38 technically they do not want people

7:39 wandering around and the interesting

7:41 thing about this when there used to be

7:43 roller coasters and rides out here

7:45 Michael Jackson actually rented the

7:47 property for a night and if you do your

7:50 Columbo likee research online you can

7:52 find

7:53 photos of the king of pop out here

7:56 riding the coasters on this very

7:58 property that is now completely Barren

8:01 empty and

8:12 abandoned wait a

8:12 second is that bird DG in typical

8:15 Florida fashion it just was not raining

8:18 and now we're about to enter a

8:21 thunderstorm so it's starting to slowly

8:23 sprinkle and we're going deeper and

8:26 deeper into the depths of H2O

8:30 goodness as it hydrates the Earth fing

8:34 from the

8:36 sky man that was kind of

8:39 cool the

8:47 storm it's gotten dark out Nightfall is

8:47 starting to rear its ugly head if you

8:51 turn left on New York Avenue from

8:54 Highway 192 in St Cloud you will enter

8:57 the downtown area

9:00 and I am driving by here to end the

9:03 Vlog for one purpose there was a movie

9:06 that was filmed here in

9:08 1964 by the name of 2,000 maniacs and

9:12 the director of that film was known as

9:15 The Godfather of Gore hersel Gordon

9:19 Lewis I had the privilege of meeting him

9:21 on one occasion and was able to show

9:23 screenshots of some of the filming

9:25 locations from the movie that I hunted

9:27 down right here on this very Road and on

9:30 other occasions I was able to have a

9:33 conversation with him through email and

9:35 I tried even organizing a 2,000 Maniacs

9:39 screening at the small movie theater

9:42 which is at the end of the road and to

9:44 the right I'm standing here now because

9:47 he has passed away and I want to pay my

9:49 respects to The Godfather of Gore a man

9:53 who a lot of other directors looked up

9:56 to they used him as inspiration one

9:58 person in particular Toby Hooper who you

10:00 might know from the original 1974 Texas

10:04 Chainsaw Massacre that was created 10

10:06 years after 2,000 Maniacs was filmed

10:10 right on this very Street and because of

10:11 him in that movie dan Bell who does

10:14 videos on YouTube a lot of really cool

10:16 abandoned places him and I became

10:18 friends because Dan drove out here to

10:22 check out the filming locations so I

10:24 gave Dan a little tour of downtown St

10:27 Cloud and the 2000 Mania filming

10:30 locations and look at that Sunset an

10:32 appropriate setting to

10:34 say Vlog over

TDW 1550 - Why Is This Area Off Limits ?

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