TheDailyWoo - 921 (1/8/15) Abandoned Po Folks Restaurant

0:06 welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:06 coming to you from Beach Boulevard in

0:08 bua park watch out for that guy on the

0:11 bike we almost had a collision not a

0:13 head-on collision but a bike to the rear

0:16 end collision it's my second channel

0:18 daily blog channel it's the daily woo

0:21 coming to you from a Mecca of Tourism

0:24 here in Southern California you can

0:25 actually see the roller coaster from

0:27 knots Berry Farm way down there

0:30 if you use your 2020 Vision or your

0:33 bifocals you can see the wooden roller

0:36 coaster going over the side of the road

0:39 or at least it appears to be it's really

0:41 not the road actually turns around it

0:43 but from this angle it looks like the

0:44 roller coaster goes over the road but do

0:46 not be deceived that is not true this

0:49 area might look familiar to you as well

0:51 because just the other day I actually

0:52 did a video here at the Medieval

0:55 Times from the Cable Guy Jim Carrey

0:58 fantastic movie and I noticed something

1:00 across the street when I was here what

1:01 was it 2 3 days ago oh also I did a

1:04 video here last year right over in this

1:07 area on this pavement are actually some

1:10 handprints of some celebrities because

1:12 this actually used to be a wax museum

1:14 called movie land Wax Museum and you can

1:18 actually see the sign right up there so

1:21 what happens to be right here in this

1:23 little Trifecta of goodness the Medieval

1:25 Times knottsberry Farm down there Beach

1:28 Boulevard these hand print

1:30 I'm talking about the 1975 created

1:34 company that used to have over a 100

1:37 franchises and one of them used to be

1:39 here in bu of Park and now sits empty

1:41 and abandoned I'm talking about

1:48 sh Po

1:48 Folks one of my favorite Southern

1:52 restaurants ever

2:02 this whole area is a Mecca of roadside

2:02 attractions and former roadside

2:04 attractions a lot of stuff of the past

2:06 has been removed and other things have

2:07 sprung up in its place and this is no

2:10 exception except the building is still

2:12 here you can see that little chicken up

2:14 there a little Neon Chicken in the sign

2:17 which used to be lit up beaconing people

2:19 in to eat some Southern good food and

2:23 what says California and what says

2:25 Southerners more than a palm tree a big

2:29 big palm tree to the heavens in fact

2:34 right behind that little tarp right

2:35 there was actually the sign that said Po

2:39 Folks and you can see it's become

2:41 weathered and worn let's just go over

2:44 the top of this

2:46 here go up and take a look at Po Folks

2:50 so why does a place like this do well

2:53 for a while and then close Po Folks was

2:55 actually owned by the crystal

2:56 Corporation from 1982 till I think 8586

2:59 six and then they decided we do not want

3:02 the corporation anymore so there are 100

3:04 plus franchise locations all over the US

3:07 dwindled and do you know how many of

3:09 these are left in the United States I'll

3:12 give you a second to think about it or

3:14 to Google it how many Po Folks are left

3:17 in

3:22 existence hopefully youve paused it

3:22 looked up the answer the answer is eight

3:25 and this is not one of those eight

3:27 because this place is close

3:30 closed they actually have some

3:32 photos right up here which is very

3:35 interesting because these are not photos

3:37 of Po Folks these are wedding

3:40 photos not really sure what that has to

3:42 do with Po Folks let's take a look

3:44 inside these

3:55 doors really not much to see inside

3:55 there it's got a security system on it

3:57 Protection One and sciore security

4:00 also there's two different security

4:02 companies so I guess one security system

4:04 is not enough oh here we go ho

4:12 folks there's a little momento of

4:13 southern food goodness Po Folks Hardy

4:16 home style

4:18 cooking actually you can't see in the

4:20 windows they've actually put these

4:22 boards over them they boarded up the

4:25 window so we cannot get a view inside to

4:27 see actually what remains inside

4:30 this Po Folks I actually had Po Folks

4:33 recently was cruising through the

4:34 Panhandle on the way out here to

4:36 Southern California and I actually

4:38 stopped off in nville Florida which

4:40 nville Florida very close to there I

4:42 believe it was Panama City or Pensacola

4:44 I was a very young child and I can't

4:46 remember but in the Florida Panhandle

4:48 when I was young probably 1984 885 I had

4:52 my first taste of Po Folks and I loved

4:55 every second of it in fact po fol it was

5:00 the very first place I actually consumed

5:03 a moon pie you guys remember the moon

5:06 pies that was the first place I we're

5:08 going to walk through here probably

5:09 should not walk through here but we're

5:12 going to do it anyway through this

5:27 debris this ain't no entrance get around

5:27 to the other side

5:34 they drive a hard

5:34 bargain all right let's go back around

5:36 the other way there wasn't an entrance

5:38 around the other way either so where do

5:40 we enter we don't because this place is

5:43 closed probably will never reopen again

5:46 you got to wonder of the eight

5:48 franchises that remain how many will

5:50 actually continue to strive and how long

5:53 before Po Folks in general is just more

5:57 than nothing more I should say than

6:00 memory so enjoy

6:03 this this little walk around Po Folks

6:07 here in bua

6:25 park you'll notice that ambulance that

6:25 was just riding by that's how that's

6:27 probably an ambulance that would be

6:28 coming towards me because when I eat too

6:30 much southern food I start to get chest

6:33 pain cuz I eat too much southern food I

6:35 am addicted it's definitely southern

6:37 food is definitely my weakness so it

6:39 won't be long if I continue to eat

6:41 southern food that an ambulance like

6:43 that is going to be coming for me

6:44 however I have started back on a water

6:46 diet eating try to eat a little bit

6:48 healthier trying to get drop a couple

6:51 pounds the holidays are over and it's

6:54 time to start watching what I eat so no

6:55 more southern food at least on a limited

6:57 basis for me so po folks I am very sad

7:01 that you no longer exist here in Buena

7:03 Park because if you did let's be honest

7:05 I would probably be eating here 10 to 15

7:07 times a month whoa look at

7:27 home it' be really cool to climb up on

7:27 the roof but you can see they've locked

7:28 it see that ladder they've locked it and

7:31 they have a humongous heavy metal

7:35 door blocking the entryway because they

7:38 have secrets to keep in there they have

7:41 taste test ID goodness the secret recipe

7:46 lies behind that door even in closure

7:49 this place still has Secrets inside the

7:52 PO folk

7:54 Secrets it's very interesting also my

7:57 uncle was telling me I was up at near

7:58 Atlanta and we to a place called folks

8:01 no PO just folks and he was saying that

8:05 part of the Po Folks became folks I

8:06 don't know if that's true you guys do

8:08 some research for me and let me know if

8:10 some of the Po Folks some of those 100

8:12 plus Po Folks have actually become just

8:16 folks not Po Folks and do you know the

8:21 1961 song the country music hit

8:24 single do you know who wrote that song

8:27 and who sang that song if you do leave

8:30 some comments down below that poof folks

8:33 was actually based on the name poof

8:35 folks was based on a single a country

8:38 music single and that singer that you're

8:40 going to look up and leave some comments

8:41 down below actually had some legal

8:44 problems with the restaurant tried to

8:46 sue them but then eventually became part

8:48 of the Po Folks team and actually became

8:51 a spokesman for them so here you go Po

8:56 Folks Po Folks goodness

8:59 and I'm not really sure I might St I

9:01 might stand corrected on this if I am

9:04 incorrect but do you think that this was

9:07 the Po Folks drive-thru sign I could be

9:10 wrong I think it's just an

9:11 administrative office sign but it looks

9:13 very similar to the Po Folks

9:19 theme all right that's about it short

9:22 and sweet like I said starting a diet

9:25 I'm not really calling it a diet I'm

9:27 just calling it a change I'm not going

9:29 to go on a crash diet like I had before

9:31 but I am going to try to limit my soda

9:33 intake drink more water maybe I'll have

9:36 one or two sodas a day but try to drink

9:37 a lot more water try to cut back on some

9:40 portions instead of gorging myself it's

9:43 amazing how much I eat that I'm not

9:45 5,000 lbs I'm definitely overweight but

9:48 it's amazing that I'm not completely

9:53 gargantuan like stay puffed Marshmallow

9:55 Man size Adam as much as I eat constant

9:57 fast food constant soda

10:00 constant coffee so we need to harness

10:02 that and bring it down it's a new year

10:04 2015 I did not want to do a New Year's

10:06 resolution but is already a few days

10:09 almost a week past New

10:12 Year's got a little bit of

10:21 cough all right see you

10:21 guys Po Folks Po Folks you no longer

10:26 exist here in bua park and it makes

10:29 makes me

TheDailyWoo - 921 (1/8/15) Abandoned Po Folks Restaurant

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