Forgotten and ABANDONED Neon Signs of Cherokee
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE - Joined by Jacob from http://www.TheCarpetbagger.org I ventured to Cherokee, North Carolina to see what left of the incredible amount of vintage neon signs that used to welcome weary travelers. A few still in use, a few hidden and a few on their last leg. Quite an adventure . Enjoy !.
More former signs from Cherokee can be found at http://www.thecarpetbagger.org/2014/11/cherokee-nc-abandoned-neon-with-adam-woo.html
Transcript
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welcome everyone I'm here today with
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Jacob and we are in Cherokee North
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Carolina alongside the okany river the
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interesting thing about Cherokee North
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Carolina is the population is only
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around 2,000 people it relies on tourism
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right here at the foothills of the Smoky
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Mountains and there's a lot of old 1940s
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50s and 60s neon signs you don't see
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neon signs very often unless you're in
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Las Vegas and this is a long way from
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Vegas what happens in Vegas stays in
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Vegas and what's about to happen you see
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where I'm going with this in Cherokee
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stays Cher in
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Cherokee you're going to delete this
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footage right Adam oh of course I am man
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of course why wouldn't I let's check out
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some neon signs and some wonderful
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things is here in Cherokee North
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Carolina join us shall
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you the beauty about some of these signs
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is the fact that the locations that
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they're at you don't know if they're
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abandoned if they're just close for the
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season or if they're opening especially
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around this time of
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year oh man look at that totem pole just
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laying there it's falling
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over lot of stuff closed out here but
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they've left a lot of their
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lights some fantastic old
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signs
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unfortunately this one right here shut
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down now it actually used to dance at
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night with the lights flashing on and
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off it's pretty
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here what I like about this one here it
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looks like an old postcard see little
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people on vacation there in the pool
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right little yes/ no neon
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there one thing I noticed is that some
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of them actually have power some of them
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don't have power in fact some of them
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probably get so annoyed with people
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trying to flip the switches off and on
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yeah be knowing if someone came along
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and turn your sign on when you're right
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so they've actually clipped a lot of the
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wires on some of these old vintage neon
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huh this exact sign and the tepes here
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at the village were actually used in a
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Kevin Bacon movie do you know which one
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it was put on your thinking
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know
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check out this abandoned Hotel the thing
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that's very interesting and peculiar
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about this particular place there's
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trees actually growing up through the
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hotel itself right through there look at
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that this used to actually be called the
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princess Motel over there there used to
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be a like a Neon Indian princess sign it
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looks like that's been scrapped gone now
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that room actually there is full of
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toilets I just peaked in
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buddy how much wood would a wood chuck
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chuck if a wood chuck would chuck could
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chuck or would chuck
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would answer
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that answer
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that
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this sign here is actually modeled after
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a man known as Chief Henry he was more
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famously known as the world's most
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photographed Indian a lot of the
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postcards you'll get here in Cherokee
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still have Chief Henry's picture on them
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up and down you'll still see today where
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there'll be Indians offering to pose
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with you for pictures but he was kind of
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the founder of that he was the OG
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photograph OG photograph IND and that's
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him right
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there
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tax thery bear that has been left
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outside for the past 50 years by face
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but it's been worn Away by tourists
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constantly petting it his face is
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definitely a little little bit
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distorted oh you all right
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that's weird what
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pool huh where's the
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pool
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nothing is more welcoming when you stay
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in a hotel than a giant gun I'm going to
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shoot
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you ah the gun the the thing was locked
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it was locked the gun was locked for
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safety
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oh man you're being held by two bears I
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thought they were werewolves
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some of the best neon signs in town are
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actually at abandoned locations and you
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had something to show them on the sign
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that was kind of pecul right you can see
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on this side it says air
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cond it's spelled wrong spelled wrong if
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you go around here to the
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back
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right here to the opposite side of the
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sign you can actually see it is spelled
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correctly so misspelled on one side
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spelled correctly on the opposite
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side thanks for joining us everyone make
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sure you go over to Jacob's website the
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carpetbagger dorg he has a whole area
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section dedicated to the specific signs
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that we've showed you and some that have
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been removed from here in Cherokee North
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Carolina till next time see y
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free oh yeah I forgot to tell you check
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Daily woo I do a unedited Vlog every
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every single day and now for the
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greatest thing here in Cherokee in
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Indian
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reservation and what am I going to show
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you a completely random
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Triceratops the beautiful thing about
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these old signs Americana if you will is
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the fact that you don't even know if the
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ones that are there are at I can't even
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I don't know what I'm trying to say
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right now the beauty of the location a
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lot of yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you
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don't know if the places are abandoned
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closed for the season or open so we're
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going to have to just use our guest Bing
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G guessing putting our thinking cap
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putting our thinking caps on and we're
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going to let them come along with us and
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try to figure
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out what I'm
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saying taking some pictures of the all
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the neon signs around
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town wow
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oh I'm from Florida so