TDW 1562 - The FIRST Publix Super Market

0:09 whoa look at the size of that mosquito

0:09 right there that is a

0:17 mosquito I filled this entire car's gas

0:17 tank up for

0:20 $19 little bit different than the van I

0:22 prepaid

0:23 $30 so I got $11 back welcome everyone

0:27 Adam the woo here gas efficiency

0:31 something I am not used to it's my

0:33 second channel daily Vlog channel it's

0:36 the daily

0:45 woo this old Motel always reminds me out

0:45 of something out of an old horror film

0:47 notice this sign that says caution

0:49 overhead power lines the unusual thing

0:52 is they have adorned this area with

0:56 colorful banners there's more right here

1:00 it's almost like they're saying come

1:03 touch these power lines now I know the

1:05 purpose is to draw attention that way

1:06 the power lines are there to protect

1:08 people just seems kind of strange right

1:10 there seem to be a lot of them around

1:12 here I guess that's the way they do

1:14 things around these parts many years ago

1:17 this was one of my favorite thrift

1:18 stores here in Davenport there used to

1:21 be a huge American flag painted on the

1:23 side of that wall they had a back room

1:25 full of old VHS hard to find out of

1:27 print stuff and a lot of classic horror

1:30 stuff that was never released on DVD

1:32 those were the

1:36 days do you remember a vlog I did a few

1:38 months ago at a place called the mystery

1:40 hole which is this weird building under

1:43 the ground that was like it would throw

1:45 your equilibrium off there was a few of

1:47 those all around the US and there used

1:50 to be one right here on this street

1:51 corner this one was specifically called

1:53 the mystery house and it sat right there

1:56 and the only thing left to document this

1:59 piece of roadside history is the name of

2:01 the

2:02 road and speaking of mysteries wonder

2:06 how long that boat's been sitting there

2:08 my guess

2:10 is a pretty good while Adam the Woo's

2:13 Wild Kingdom if you look really closely

2:16 on the right you will see a sign that

2:18 says Winter Haven it's behind that

2:21 little foliage a small little town that

2:23 a lot of people do not realize is the

2:25 birthplace of a southern retail grocery

2:28 Empire but before we dive into that

2:30 subject

2:32 matter there is a purple

2:36 fountain right here in the park what are

2:39 you doing over there Kitty what are you

2:41 doing you

2:42 hiding playing hide and go seek you

2:45 might be able to get a better

2:46 perspective of it from a

2:49 distance how do you think they make that

2:52 purple they put coloring in the

3:00 water huh in 1930 a man by the name of

3:00 George Jenkins started a business in

3:03 this building right here starting in

3:06 this very small building inside the

3:09 General

3:10 Store he named it

3:19 Publix just think 1930 people would have

3:19 walked right up in here and it is now a

3:23 bar of some sort but this is where it

3:26 all began after a very short time the

3:29 business started to grow and it moved

3:30 from this location to what is now

3:33 considered to be the first ever Publix a

3:36 couple blocks away and the reason it's

3:37 thought of in that fashion is because

3:39 this upcoming building was the first one

3:42 that started to really adopt that famous

3:44 classic Publix's look I think I see it

3:47 it's right up here check it out what is

3:49 now a thrift

3:50 store that's totally an old school

3:53 public this building would become the

3:55 template of what future publes would

3:57 look like for decades and decades and

3:59 decades the building looks almost

4:01 identical as it did so many years ago

4:04 the only major difference is the

4:07 Public's awning right where my rental

4:10 car is parked is where the original

4:13 customers parked the parking lot looks

4:25 same that's what it looks like

4:25 inside pretty

4:28 cool

4:38 the first job I ever had was working at

4:38 a Publix in St Cloud Florida so there is

4:41 a little bit of a historical tie in in

4:43 my life what is this it looks to be like

4:46 some sort

4:48 of baby doll or a Barbie doll arm on the

4:53 ground what happened here this is around

4:55 the back of the building but you can see

4:57 they still have these tile ES windows

5:00 that are similar to The fronts and

5:01 here's the back doors and I'm guessing

5:04 this was the original grocery receiving

5:07 door right here and my assumption truck

5:10 would pull up right here employees would

5:12 open that door unload the truck through

5:14 there stock the

5:16 shelves the beginning of a grocery

5:18 Empire right here if only this broken

5:21 concrete could talk they now have well

5:24 over 1,000 locations but it all started

5:27 right here in Winter Haven Florida

5:30 pretty awesome I'm not sure if everyone

5:31 will be able to appreciate this because

5:35 Publix is more of a Southern state es

5:38 type of grocery store but if you live in

5:41 this area odds are you've either seen

5:43 one or shopped at one and if you don't

5:45 live in this area you have probably

5:47 heard the name one or two times there's

5:49 a lizard on my

5:52 window what are you doing up there buddy

5:55 hanging on for dear

5:57 life come on get off of

6:00 there it's not safe it's not safe get

6:04 off there you go

6:16 jump you drinking some water is that

6:16 what you're doing I'm holding a chicken

6:19 right

6:20 now I'm holding a I'm holding a chicken

6:24 what's this chicken's name Shirley

6:27 Shirley get it l

6:30 oh L and charlot she's

6:32 flinching I didn't make you

6:36 Flinch I've never held a chicken

6:44 before you ever been held by anyone

6:44 before beside your

6:51 owner look it's

6:51 Shirley she's staring look at this she's

6:54 a natural she's a natural natural on the

6:57 camera going to squeeze the poop out I'm

6:59 going to squeeze the poop out of her I

7:01 don't know no no no here take her back

7:03 this bird feeder has like a little

7:06 crazy long mustache seems to

7:10 be some casualties over here on the side

7:12 of this building I guess this is their

7:14 Halloween theme it's a boat store and

7:17 this mannequin this bloody mannequin is

7:19 just dangling off the side of

7:22 this pontunes

7:29 vehicle and nothing says America no no

7:29 not like like this boat but a code

7:32 violation for having mannequins out in

7:34 the yard without permission take that

7:36 back it's not a boat shop it's a

7:38 political headquarters this guy's trying

7:40 to escape get out of there while you can

7:43 this guy's doing some weird version of

7:45 calisthenic there's an old Drive-In

7:47 right there look at that you don't see

7:48 those too often and up here on the left

7:51 hand side if you look closely it's a

7:53 birthday cake hanging in the sky from a

7:56 water

7:57 tower and it spells out out Publix this

8:00 entire area is owned by Publix there's

8:04 the bakery there's the trucks there's

8:08 the water tower close up shaped like a

8:11 birthday cake I don't really know why

8:12 it's shaped like a birthday cake I guess

8:14 maybe because Publix has a bakery that

8:17 creates birthday

8:19 cake could be there's their credit union

8:22 they have their own banking system here

8:25 and there's the classic

8:27 green Publix's trucks that you see all

8:29 over the interstates look at this old

8:31 hotel with the neon signs you don't see

8:34 those too much anymore here's the

8:35 corporate offices and distribution

8:37 center and check out the name of the

8:39 road George Jenkins Road Mr George

8:43 himself we're arriving now at Champions

8:45 Gate and going through the gate of

8:49 Champions and if you want to know

8:53 why I parked here it's because you can't

8:56 do a Publix video without going in a

8:58 Publix

9:00 and one thing Florida has that a lot of

9:02 states don't are an endless supply of

9:04 fun noodles that act like I'm some kind

9:06 of SE creature like

9:14 fingers and this is what a typical

9:14 Public's looks like now considerably

9:17 larger and considerably different than

9:20 its humble beginnings look at this guy I

9:22 think his name is Chester Cheetah his

9:25 sunglasses definitely cooler than mine

9:27 have they revamped the backer Jack kid I

9:30 never remember him being that excited

9:32 ordering coffee right now 6 cents away

9:35 from being very evil if they only had

9:39 something I could purchase that costs a

9:41 nickel plus tax then it would be true

9:44 thank you mission accomplished it's not

9:48 as evil as I hoped it would be but still

9:51 good wow I guess the hurricane did do a

9:53 little wreak a little Havoc that

9:55 building's on its

9:58 side

TDW 1562 - The FIRST Publix Super Market

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