Thanks for watching! I am placing these referenced videos / first 3 episodes of my Okeechobee series. My previous video at Yeehaw Junction and First Episode of my Lake Okeechobee series + the Last Look of The Desert Inn : ruclips.net/video/Jaz9_gPwddc/видео.html Second Episode of my Okeechobee series: Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Movie Theater & Very Haunted Cemetery ruclips.net/video/OklHmdIYYPo/видео.html Third Episode of my Okeechobee series: Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Prison & Corrections Facility Ghost Town ruclips.net/video/RHyltULL0-o/видео.html
You look very handsome in your Grandpa's hat! What a great way to honor him. 😊 Thank you for taking us along with you. Looks like that museum might be a fun one to visit! Hugs 🤗 and God bless ❤🙏❤
I’m so sorry for the loss of yourGrandpa, I’m so glad you had childhood & adult memories with him to hold onto. My heart goes out to you and your family. I love the hat! You do him proud❤️
Have you done a video or might you do one on the short lived amusement park Pirate's World in Dania? You really hit me in the memories with the wild west place. We went there once when I was a kid (I'm 70) . Thank you for bringing back some old but happy memories.
This is another great trip to see these abandoned places especially the old ghost towns of the Everglades and the empty hospital i really enjoy places like this take care stay safe and thank you Tampa Jay.👋📻🙏
One of my favorite installments to catch up on here on RUclips. Keep on doing these videos as much as you can man. You have a good eye for detail and interesting spots and love seeing the history of the places just like me.
Oh Man …it’s crazy to see that town is totally abandoned 😮but, thanks for taking us along to show us around. You look fabulous in your Grandpa’s hat…so great to always have a piece of him with you ❤ May he rest in peace 🙏
Your Grandpa had good taste, his hat looks great on you! Love this series, keep up the great work of showcasing parts of Florida most people would never see otherwise. I live up in Alachua, Florida which is about 15 miles North of Gainesville. So glad that you did the Tom Petty tribute episode. I went to school with him at Gainesville High. After he became so famous, he always loved to come back to Gainesville & do shows at the ExacTech Arena, better known locally as The Odome. You were next to it when you did the Halloween spook night on the U.F campus. As a tribute to Tom, at every home U.F. football game, the whole stadium, usually around 90,000 fans, sing "WE WON`T BACK DOWN" at the beginning of the third quarter. Awesome
You look awesome in your grandpa’s cowboy hat 🤠 It’s fitting for your roadside adventures and abandoned places videos 👍 Love this series! Liked the area by the bridge and the scenery in last part of the video. These types of videos are my favorite to watch. You have a nice variety of different types of content for viewing. All are great 👍
That hat really suits you well brother, thanks for filming all these amazing locations. I always enjoy a good adventure. See you in the next one. Love ya bro.
Thanks, Jay for showing us around. I always find it amazing just how many buildings and places are abandoned down there in Florida. It is something for sure. Have a great one :)
You wear his hat well. I can't imagine you without it anymore!!! Have you read the book Killer Cane about the Hurricane of 1928? You would truly enjoy it and would make your Ocochobee trip much more meaningful to you and your viewers....
Jay...another interesting video. Belle Glade seems a bit sad. Wishing you an awesome 2025...you are a great inspiration to me. Love the hat and it's meaning
BTW You spell OKEECHOBEE so much better than I did!!! Thx for the series..it's an two day trip that we did after reading the book. We included the Coral Castle in Homestead. Fascinating...
Enjoyed watching your video love the hat that was your grandpa's much a head happy new year Tampa Jay love ya looking forward to watching your next video ❤️ 📹 😊😅😂❤❤❤❤
2 videos back to back for the start of 2025. I love it and the back roads ❤. I loved the Desert Inn. So sad when the 18-wheeler ran through the restaurant. I was hoping they would restore it. Wow, how it looks now is heartbreaking. I had always wanted to go there before all of this happened. Love the Backroads videos. Hope to see a lot more this year. Love the cowboy 🤠 hat. I have a feeling it's a memorial of itself. Wow, Belle Glade has been abandoned. Years ago it was an amazing little town. Hope to see more videos this year of the Backroads. Much love ❤️
You wear the hat well. I have a hat that my dad wore and after he died it became my festival hat as he passed on the week before Mardi Gras and I was living in Mobile. After that I wore it to festivals and concerts adorned with some beads from Mardi Gras.
Hey Jay; Wondering if you've experienced the "Sugar Express" in Clewiston. Might make for some good content that falls into your wheelhouse and add to the Okeechobee series.
The next time you go through Wauchula you might check out the old Hardee Memorial Hospital that's been abandoned since the early 1990's. It's also where the Twiggs and Mays baby swap took place in 1978. Supposedly it was done intentionally per a doctor's orders according to nurse's aid Patsy Webb.
I have crossed that little bridge in a 70,000 lbs truck. And Big Mound ( or Mound City ) is probably the Indian burial ground you mentioned. But it’s North-East of Belle Glade.
Who knew there were so many places to explore,:). Very interesting indeed. There are quaint towns not abandoned around too, wondering if you would do exploring videos in those spots?
The building you thought was a pharmacy was a vocational rehabilitation office, that was a government funded program that helped people with mental and physical disabilities find jobs or to get grants or funding to get in to technical schools and college. I'm not sure if they still have Voc rehab programs anymore but they used to have offices all over the state.
Fort Lauderdale has a swing bridge over New River near sailboat bend. Not so much abandoned places in fort Lauderdale there's a lot of great things to see. I like it when you go to places I've already been it's nice to hear your perspective
The OReilly's bass boat you saw was legendary bass fisherman Roland Martin. That's his boat and he was probably either taking someone out fishing or out shooting content for his channel! Pretty cool you got that!!
whoa! look at the universal lining us up. That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to check his channel out. I’m happy you watched it and brought this to my attention! I used to do some fishing on my own. Thank you !
I think the only business open for business is the correctional facility. And they have a car dealership Ford which is been kept alive from the Seminole reservation coming in buying cars when they get their money.
You should talk to a few local people and interview the mayor. Cash for keys program worked in Saint Petersburg under Mayor Foster ten years ago to turn that city around. It could work anywhere. Even in Europe, countries give away abandoned houses for $1 to people who remodel them. Restore history don't destroy it.😊😊😊
Jay. The prehistoric burial mounds are located just west of Belle Glade in Chosen which is known by many as the "Indian Mound." These sites were excavated by the Smithsonian Institution during the early 1930's and later by archeologists from the Florida State Museum in Gainesville.
You never When to parkway general hospital in North Miami Beach It was closed years ago and been put on the internet by so many people. You see patient files and everything It's just crazy I was a candy striper there when I was 14 15 and 16
That's a one lane bridge each side has a couple of minutes with a green light to go. If both sides decide to drive at the same time someone's going swimming😂😂
Unless you carry a gun, stay out of Belle Glade and Pahokee. They rotate crops from Sugar cane to Corn throughout the year. That airport is for the crop dusters. You were in Palm beach county. A lot of great football players come out of that area.
If you did a count from Orlando west to east all the way north of all the empty businesses homes hospitals etc that are just rotten away. It would blow your mind with all the homelessness that we have in this state and all of these buildings wasting away into decay. If they really cared they could actually home thousand and thousand of homeless people and families. Get them into technical schools and back into work. But the governor doesn't do things like that He has no time for the poor.
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Thanks for watching! I am placing these referenced videos / first 3 episodes of my Okeechobee series. My previous video at Yeehaw Junction and First Episode of my Lake Okeechobee series + the Last Look of The Desert Inn : ruclips.net/video/Jaz9_gPwddc/видео.html
Second Episode of my Okeechobee series: Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Movie Theater & Very Haunted Cemetery
ruclips.net/video/OklHmdIYYPo/видео.html
Third Episode of my Okeechobee series: Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten Prison & Corrections Facility Ghost Town
ruclips.net/video/RHyltULL0-o/видео.html
Mound City is a big Indian Burial Ground in Palm Beach County.
It’s not west of Belle Glade
You look very nice in your grandpa’s hat. Hang on to all of your sweet memories. Where there was great love there is deep grief😢
You look very handsome in your Grandpa's hat!
What a great way to honor him. 😊
Thank you for taking us along with you. Looks like that museum might be a fun one to visit!
Hugs 🤗 and God bless ❤🙏❤
I’m so sorry for the loss of yourGrandpa, I’m so glad you had childhood & adult memories with him to hold onto. My heart goes out to you and your family.
I love the hat! You do him proud❤️
What an awesome video!! Watching on my TV and the quality is fantastic! Excellent hat choice for this series. You make your grandpa proud. ❤️🙏
Cool hat TJ. Im glad your Grampa gave that to ya. This way a part of him is there with you in your travels
the hat suits you Jay. Your grandpa would be proud
Have you done a video or might you do one on the short lived amusement park Pirate's World in Dania? You really hit me in the memories with the wild west place. We went there once when I was a kid (I'm 70) . Thank you for bringing back some old but happy memories.
Tampa Jay, I love the hat.❤
thank you !
This is another great trip to see these
abandoned places especially the old ghost towns of the Everglades and the empty hospital i really enjoy places like this take care stay safe and thank you Tampa Jay.👋📻🙏
Awesome hat!! nice way to honor your grandfather, loved the video, keep it coming 😊
Got to love a video which includes visits to Lake Okeechobee and Yeehaw Junction.😃
Thank you, Tampa Jay, for taking us along on these trips!
That is a GREAT HAT! Wear it proudly Jay, RIP grandpa.
Best way to start my day is with a vid from Tampa jay ⚡️🦇 haunts on! You should make that a T-shirt 🤘🏻
Maybe one day! much ahead of
maybe one day much ahead thank you
One of my favorite installments to catch up on here on RUclips. Keep on doing these videos as much as you can man. You have a good eye for detail and interesting spots and love seeing the history of the places just like me.
Oh Man …it’s crazy to see that town is totally abandoned 😮but, thanks for taking us along to show us around. You look fabulous in your Grandpa’s hat…so great to always have a piece of him with you ❤
May he rest in peace 🙏
Your Grandpa had good taste, his hat looks great on you! Love this series, keep up the great work of showcasing parts of Florida most people would never see otherwise. I live up in Alachua, Florida which is about 15 miles North of Gainesville. So glad that you did the Tom Petty tribute episode. I went to school with him at Gainesville High. After he became so famous, he always loved to come back to Gainesville & do shows at the ExacTech Arena, better known locally as The Odome. You were next to it when you did the Halloween spook night on the U.F campus. As a tribute to Tom, at every home U.F. football game, the whole stadium, usually around 90,000 fans, sing "WE WON`T BACK DOWN" at the beginning of the third quarter. Awesome
Thank You for another great adventure. Your Grandpa’s hat is stunning and looks good on you.
Found you from Adam the Woo love your vids and yes grandpa is with you and love the hat treasure it always!!!
thank you appreciate you !
Love that your wearing Grandpa Hat , it looks great on you , such an enjoyable video Thank you so much 🤗🦩🦩🦩🦩
The hat looks great on you!
I wore my grandpa’s flannel shirt for years after he passed. It always felt so comforting (and comfortable).
You look awesome in your grandpa’s cowboy hat 🤠 It’s fitting for your roadside adventures and abandoned places videos 👍
Love this series! Liked the area by the bridge and the scenery in last part of the video. These types of videos are my favorite to watch. You have a nice variety of different types of content for viewing. All are great 👍
That hat really suits you well brother, thanks for filming all these amazing locations. I always enjoy a good adventure. See you in the next one. Love ya bro.
I haven't been able to watch your last few videos because of work. I'll have to binge watch them when I get home.
appreciate you thanks for being good to me
Thanks for letting us explore with you! Your grandfather’s hat has an Indiana Jones feel to it ❤️
I enjoy these episodes. Thank you and my condolences on your loss.
It’s always nice to share time with you in your videos. ❤
Hey Tampa Jay, looking great with your grandpa's hat..Great roadside video to places within Florida..Enjoy your week.
These are your best videos Jay Keep up the great work and I love your hat ❤
Perfect video for a cold winter day!
Love the hat, grandpa had good taste in hats. Looks good on you Jay
Looking forward to seeing this Okeechobee and Yeehaw series. Have to watch later tonight but was excited to see you posted! Happy New Year God Bless!
I love when you go to old roadside attractions
Thanks, Jay for showing us around. I always find it amazing just how many buildings and places are abandoned down there in Florida. It is something for sure. Have a great one :)
You wear his hat well. I can't imagine you without it anymore!!! Have you read the book Killer Cane about the Hurricane of 1928? You would truly enjoy it and would make your Ocochobee trip much more meaningful to you and your viewers....
Jay...another interesting video. Belle Glade seems a bit sad. Wishing you an awesome 2025...you are a great inspiration to me. Love the hat and it's meaning
I love to hear you talk about your grandpa
BTW You spell OKEECHOBEE so much better than I did!!!
Thx for the series..it's an two day trip that we did after reading the book. We included the Coral Castle in Homestead. Fascinating...
Happy Sunday Tampa J
Happy Sunday!!
Enjoyed watching your video love the hat that was your grandpa's much a head happy new year Tampa Jay love ya looking forward to watching your next video ❤️ 📹 😊😅😂❤❤❤❤
thank you so much for watching and sticking to the end. I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it. Appreciate you my friend! much ahead!!
2 videos back to back for the start of 2025. I love it and the back roads ❤. I loved the Desert Inn. So sad when the 18-wheeler ran through the restaurant. I was hoping they would restore it. Wow, how it looks now is heartbreaking. I had always wanted to go there before all of this happened. Love the Backroads videos. Hope to see a lot more this year. Love the cowboy 🤠 hat. I have a feeling it's a memorial of itself. Wow, Belle Glade has been abandoned. Years ago it was an amazing little town. Hope to see more videos this year of the Backroads. Much love ❤️
You look awesome in your Grampa's hat! I am sure he would be proud that you wear it well.
Thank you ! I’m glad you think so, that hat means a lot to me
Cool hat dude.
love your grandpa hat. The music you have at the end is great. Good video.
Such great series cool scenery & well told ➡️
I love traveling , been to a ton in North Florida but appreciate seeing the Southern parts from Tampa.
Lovin’ that hat on you Jay, lookin spiffy asf 😄😁👍🏻👌🏻
As always great video
That’s John Stretch park is our low key spot when we aren’t local enjoying Corbett. Lox life
Cool! I bet that hospital would be fun to explore. I can almost guarantee it has ghosts in it. Spooky 💀
I really enjoyed your video. Love his hat cherish forever..
I so miss Florida 90 days or so and we will be back in town!
NOT Palm Beach County.
The Belle Glade hospital is listed for sale at $7,500,000.00. It sits on 14.71 acres. It was called Glades General Hospital.
It was bought several years ago by Passages Malibu for $1.5 million. They had thoughts on rehabbing it but apparently that never happened
And the local law enforcement watch it very carefully
You wear the hat well. I have a hat that my dad wore and after he died it became my festival hat as he passed on the week before Mardi Gras and I was living in Mobile. After that I wore it to festivals and concerts adorned with some beads from Mardi Gras.
Happy New Year Tj, WISHING YOU MUCH PEACE AND SUCCESS.
I was born and raised in Belle glade . That place was the sugar mill
Where the truck hit the building, is that the same one Adam the Woo sites a couple of times?
I appreciate you linking the previous videos, we are bracing for snow here in South Jersey, not sure if I’m going to work tomorrow yet
Hey Jay; Wondering if you've experienced the "Sugar Express" in Clewiston. Might make for some good content that falls into your wheelhouse and add to the Okeechobee series.
Miss all you guys going to the Desert Inn! Too bad it never got fixed up, probably cost way too much 😢
Love your vids, great job.
So cool! Thanks!
The next time you go through Wauchula you might check out the old Hardee Memorial Hospital that's been abandoned since the early 1990's. It's also where the Twiggs and Mays baby swap took place in 1978. Supposedly it was done intentionally per a doctor's orders according to nurse's aid Patsy Webb.
Happy new year Tampa Jay
I have crossed that little bridge in a 70,000 lbs truck.
And Big Mound ( or Mound City ) is probably the Indian burial ground you mentioned. But it’s North-East of Belle Glade.
Who knew there were so many places to explore,:). Very interesting indeed. There are quaint towns not abandoned around too, wondering if you would do exploring videos in those spots?
😊Very enjoyable video ❤
thank you appreciate you
Yes. Much ahead
The building you thought was a pharmacy was a vocational rehabilitation office, that was a government funded program that helped people with mental and physical disabilities find jobs or to get grants or funding to get in to technical schools and college. I'm not sure if they still have Voc rehab programs anymore but they used to have offices all over the state.
Morning Tampa Jay
Fort Lauderdale has a swing bridge over New River near sailboat bend. Not so much abandoned places in fort Lauderdale there's a lot of great things to see. I like it when you go to places I've already been it's nice to hear your perspective
Dig the hat!
You & The Woo few others should make a video playing a song one day would be a huge hit
South Bay the biggest speed trap in the state of Florida. Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Central Florida Highland Games and the Brevard Rennaissance Festival are happening this month. Just saying. Seems like 2 events right up your alley.
Remember your video on the Desert Inn. I also remember when the truck ran into it. Sad really.
The OReilly's bass boat you saw was legendary bass fisherman Roland Martin. That's his boat and he was probably either taking someone out fishing or out shooting content for his channel! Pretty cool you got that!!
whoa! look at the universal lining us up. That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to check his channel out. I’m happy you watched it and brought this to my attention! I used to do some fishing on my own. Thank you !
Dang wish you took 80 to LaBelle 😢
Love the Log Cabins food
They used to have a Americana and bluegrass festival next to the inn.
We have abandoned Burger King here in Palm Beach Gardens as well!
Heck lots of them here in Michigan...tons of McDonald's still open...go figure
That building was not a pharmacy it was a goodwill 😂
thanks for confirming
I think the only business open for business is the correctional facility. And they have a car dealership Ford which is been kept alive from the Seminole reservation coming in buying cars when they get their money.
Grampa rules!
You should talk to a few local people and interview the mayor. Cash for keys program worked in Saint Petersburg under Mayor Foster ten years ago to turn that city around. It could work anywhere. Even in Europe, countries give away abandoned houses for $1 to people who remodel them. Restore history don't destroy it.😊😊😊
COWBOY 🤠 TAMPA JAY 😊
Jay. The prehistoric burial mounds are located just west of Belle Glade in Chosen which is known by many as the "Indian Mound." These sites were excavated by the Smithsonian Institution during the early 1930's and later by archeologists from the Florida State Museum in Gainesville.
thank you! i really appreciate it. I will head back to Chosen someday
@TampaJay keep up the good work! I'm a postcard collector and dealer if you ever need any vintage FL images for your videos .. Kevin
You never When to parkway general hospital in North Miami Beach It was closed years ago and been put on the internet by so many people. You see patient files and everything It's just crazy I was a candy striper there when I was 14 15 and 16
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Pour one out 🫗 for your grandpa, Jay.
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Its some pretty country out there but very poor people out there they cant do much to spruce up the area
Pahokee and Belle Glade are some of the poorest parts of Florida
That's a one lane bridge each side has a couple of minutes with a green light to go. If both sides decide to drive at the same time someone's going swimming😂😂
That is sugar production and that is steam.
They could use the hospital for
for an indoor haunt.
Unless you carry a gun, stay out of Belle Glade and Pahokee. They rotate crops from Sugar cane to Corn throughout the year. That airport is for the crop dusters. You were in Palm beach county. A lot of great football players come out of that area.
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That wasn’t a theater it was an old furniture store turned into a church and you was downtown with the jays fashion store 😂
If you did a count from Orlando west to east all the way north of all the empty businesses homes hospitals etc that are just rotten away. It would blow your mind with all the homelessness that we have in this state and all of these buildings wasting away into decay. If they really cared they could actually home thousand and thousand of homeless people and families. Get them into technical schools and back into work. But the governor doesn't do things like that He has no time for the poor.
It’s not Ft. Worth, it’s Lake Worth.