TDW 1599 - Completely Empty Mississippi River

0:04 Now that's a church

0:04 van. You have a lot of the congregation

0:06 in

0:11 there. Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo

0:11 here. Quite possibly on the worst

0:14 road ever created in Mississippi. It's

0:18 my second channel, daily vlog channel.

0:19 It's the daily woo. Look at this. Look

0:22 at

0:29 this. Holy cow. It's the daily woo. But

0:29 across this fallen down fence through

0:33 the

0:33 woods sits something very very

0:37 interesting. There are

0:39 remnants of a recreation of the

0:43 Mississippi River. The sheer size of

0:45 this is very impressive. Some of the

0:48 leftover mechanical aspects. And at one

0:50 time this was filled with water flowing

0:55 all through here. You can see how it

0:57 just winds all through this wooded

1:18 area. You have to tread lightly when

1:18 walking because there are protruding

1:22 rocks sticking up out of the ground.

1:26 and they jab into the bottom of the

1:28 soles of your feet. Ow. It seems to

1:31 never end. It winds its way through all

1:35 these trees and shrubs. They definitely

1:37 put a lot of detail into this. It always

1:39 blows my mind what exists in the most

1:41 random places. It appears the way it was

1:43 put together was in pieces. So, this one

1:46 is labeled one piece. That's another

1:48 piece. That's another piece. And they

1:50 must have brought them in piece by piece

1:52 and laid them down in the correct

1:56 locations of each spot. How much do you

1:58 think something like this cost when they

2:00 first created it? Any ideas? I'm not

2:02 sure. The last time water flowed through

2:04 here was

2:05 1973. I bet in its heyday, this place

2:08 must have been quite the sight to see.

2:13 Be very quiet. Jacob's reenacting the

2:16 water movements. It's even built to

2:17 signify the lowlying river areas with

2:20 the elevated land areas. I think the

2:22 best way to show the sheer size of this

2:24 place is to take the drone up in the air

2:27 and get a bird's eye view of how much

2:29 acreage and land this Mississippi River

2:33 scale model really

2:35 encompasses. This is amazing. This is

2:38 something you definitely do not see on a

2:40 daily basis. If there's one word I would

2:42 use to describe this, it would

2:45 be majestic. And there's even this

2:49 rusty platform that leads to a fire

2:53 tower that gives you a little bit of an

2:55 overlook.

3:07 I think at one point the observation

3:07 tower made sense, but now the whole area

3:09 is so overgrown you can't really see

3:12 anything on the ground floor from up

3:13 here. Here is yet another overlook area.

3:17 And that makes sense because this is the

3:20 biggest open

3:22 section. Look at this.

3:25 The Mississippi, the mighty mist, the

3:27 old man. Deep river. This is not

3:32 something I thought I would see out

3:34 here. Slightly terrifying. A burnt to a

3:37 crisp robotic demon. Look at that

3:41 face. That's

3:48 terrifying. We came pretty close to

3:48 running out of gas. Luckily, to the

3:50 rescue was this place. It's called the

3:52 pit stop. And I have a funny story from

3:54 my childhood. When I was just a little

3:55 boy, my family and I would travel. My

3:58 dad and I made up this song and it went

4:00 like this. Going to the pit. Stop. Stop.

4:03 And we're going to get some pop pop. And

4:05 we're going to go potty potty potty

4:07 potty potty at the pit. Stop. It's a

4:10 true story. And they also have surge,

4:12 which is a good thing.

4:21 Found another set of the crosses just

4:21 down the road from the Clayborn County

4:24 rubbish pit. I know it's just another

4:26 word for landfill, but I kind of like

4:28 rubbish pit better. I'm getting a little

4:30 hungry. And this

4:33 place I think this place is as good a

4:36 place as any to grab to grab a bite to

4:38 eat. It appears as if you walk

4:40 underneath her dress through the front

4:42 door and into the diner itself. I think

4:44 we should go inside.

4:47 Check it out.

4:53 And supposedly the blueberry lemonade

4:53 here is to die for. It looks pretty

4:56 good.

5:03 Oh yeah.

5:04 Tart and tangy. The food has arrived. I

5:07 got the Reuben sandwich with extra

5:11 potato salad. And what'd you get? Some

5:13 roast beef. It looks pretty good. The

5:17 soup is pretty good. Full of lots of

5:20 delicious veggies. And according to the

5:22 waitress, the banana caramel pie is

5:25 absolutely incredible. So, I'm about to

5:28 indulge myself.

5:37 That's good. Lots of bananas, lots of

5:37 caramel, and lots of whipped cream.

5:42 I do not. All right, that was good. The

5:46 guy just asked for Alka-Seltzer in

5:47 there. You can see where the gas pumps

5:49 used to be. And originally, it was just

5:52 this front building and then as time

5:54 went on, they expanded the restaurant

5:57 around to the back. When you stop off at

5:59 Roadside Diners, you really do not know

6:00 what to expect. What did you think of

6:02 the food in there? Legitimate. It was in

6:06 the upper echelon of roadside diner

6:09 food, in my opinion. Huge thumbs up.

6:11 After eating that pie, I could really

6:13 use a cup of coffee. You think there's a

6:16 Starbucks or maybe a Dunkin Donuts in

6:19 this neck of the woods? We are virtually

6:21 in the middle of nowhere. We passed

6:22 nothing that resembles civilization in

6:25 about 15 to 20

6:34 miles. We just crossed over into

6:34 Louisiana. There was no sign. There was

6:37 a pole that someone had stolen the sign

6:40 off of, but there was no

6:49 sign. That is the Louisiana State

6:49 Penitentiary. And just outside is the

6:51 museum and a random ATM.

7:01 We have some of the confiscated inmate

7:01 weapons in this case. Some brass

7:04 knuckles. Believe it or not, this is a

7:07 homemade shotgun. Some of these are very

7:09 frightening. You do not want to deal

7:13 with someone with these. Someone even

7:15 fashioned a throwing star. At first

7:18 glance, you wouldn't think this is

7:19 dangerous, but check out the protruding

7:21 metal object at the end of that

7:24 toothbrush. This is what a ball and

7:26 chain looks like. 50 lbs. In the 1970s,

7:29 these medieval looking axes were taken

7:33 from inmates. My question is, how the

7:35 heck did they even get in there to begin

7:37 with? Wow, look at this gruesome

7:41 Gertie the electric chair. And it says

7:45 do not climb over. Look at this. They

7:48 have the sponge that

7:50 goes around the forehead and the head.

7:54 Oh my gosh. Looks like he's

7:57 incarcerated. He escaped. He escaped.

8:18 Seeing a deer mounted on the wall is

8:18 pretty normal and even a fish. What is

8:22 more unusual than that is a room full of

8:26 every possible creature known to man.

8:32 in a painted wall

8:34 festoning every

8:38 corner. What in the heck am I witnessing

8:42 right now? Even this dog coyote animal

8:46 thing is very bewildered. As fascinating

8:49 as the museum was, what's even more

8:51 interesting is right outside the parking

8:54 lot is the actual prison. Look, look at

8:57 that razor

8:59 wire.

9:01 That That's tough to get in and out of.

9:04 You do not want to mess with that

9:10 stuff. Got this coffee from McDonald's.

9:10 They've put out their holiday cups, it

9:12 looks like. But I want you to check out

9:16 this old motel sign. How

9:19 awesome is that vintage thing? Super

9:23 cool. That massive building you see

9:25 straight ahead is the tallest capital

9:28 building in the US and the tallest

9:32 building anywhere in Louisiana.

9:34 Flamingos.

9:36 And overlooking this monumental

9:39 structure is the man

9:42 himself, Huey Long. And not only is this

9:45 an impressive pillar, but it's also his

9:47 tombstone. He was the former governor of

9:50 Louisiana and then became a senator and

9:53 was in the run for the presidency when

9:57 he was assassinated inside this very

10:01 building. And his final resting place is

10:04 right there. And the rumor is the bullet

10:08 holes from the gunfire are in the lobby

10:12 of the courthouse. It's very

10:15 impressive inside here and very large.

10:19 The ceilings are

10:21 extremely extremely

10:24 tall. And this is the spot. This is

10:27 where it

10:29 happened right here. There's even a

10:32 placard stating the fact on the wall.

10:35 And check it out. Look at this. There is

10:38 there is a bullet hole right there in

10:40 that pillar. And look at this mark on

10:43 the wall. That looks like that could

10:44 have possibly been one also. And here is

10:47 a depiction of the event. Check out this

10:49 circular thing here in the photo on the

10:52 ground. I'm standing on that circle

10:55 currently. It's hard to say, but even

10:57 that could have been a bullet hole on

10:59 the ground. There's also another story

11:01 of a bomb that went off and exploded a

11:04 pencil stuck in the roof and it's still

11:07 there. And you have to look very close

11:10 for it. But the tiles and lights on the

11:13 roof, there is one that is illuminated

11:16 continuously as a memorial to that

11:19 event. Yours and zoom in on it. You can

11:21 see it. Yeah, look at it right there.

11:22 It's like a chunk of wood embedded in

11:25 the light fixture area right there in

11:30 corner corner of the screen.

11:33 That's It's pretty wild right up there.

11:36 Yeah. What is that metal? There's a

11:39 secondary piece of wood, a shard of wood

11:42 wedged in the side of that pillar if you

11:44 look really

11:46 closely. Wow. There's two of them. Quite

11:49 the story here in Baton

11:58 Rouge. It's a pretty sweet Coca-Cola

11:58 sign. Look at that

12:00 sunset. Fire

12:02 red. Pretty beautiful. And with that,

12:06 vlog over.

TDW 1599 - Completely Empty Mississippi River

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