Breezewood wasn't designed as a car-centric suburb, as the photo is frequently used to call out. The surrounding area is , in fact, quite rural. Breezewood is not much more than a travel center for interstate traffic. It's certainly not a town.
I haven't been through in maybe five years but don't remember it being that closed down.. I didn't think Breezewood could be anymore depressing but I was just proven wrong.
Classifying Breezewood pa as “suburban sprawl” has always just come across as an uneducated take to me like, where is the suburbs that it’s sprawling off of? My dad grew up at valley hi lake which is like 4-5 miles away so I’m very familiar with Breezewood from visiting. It’s much more accurate imo to classify it as a rest stop masquerading as town.
I stoped in Breeswood on one of my car trips between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. I was using both the turnpike and Rt 30 as my route and Breeswood was a natural place to change from one highway to the other. Obviously it also serves as a natural rest stop/ gas station place. That is why you see so many gas stations and restaurants here. Otherwise the area is very rural so that’s why there is no transit that serves there.
It's also situated on the old Lincoln Highway, though it likely sprang up in its current form long after the PA Turnpike took the majority of the through traffic off that road. Oh, and by the way, not too far to the east of Breezewood is the Sideling Hill Tunnel, which is one of several abandoned tunnels that used to be a part of the PA Turnpike before they moved the alignment south a bit, and before that those tunnels had been originally bored for a railroad line that was never completed. Wikipedia has an interesting article about the Sideling Hill Tunnel which is now a part of a bike trail along the abandoned stretch of highway.
Well you can tell you're not from Massachusetts, you were surprised to find yourself in a place with two adjacent Dunkin locations. In most of New England, we call that a remarkably low concentration of Dunkin.
I remember stopping at Breezewood many years ago. There was a young lady standing on a traffic island wearing high heels, hot pants, and a halter top. My wife asked me why the young lady was standing there. I replied that the young lady was working. My wife asked me what the young lady's job was.
I just realized that I drove through here in 2019 on a trip from my home in Michigan to Washington, DC. Breezewood sticks out in my memory as the place where we interchanged from I-76 to I-70 by exiting the highway. You explained in the video why we had to do that. Could Breezewood basically be a real-life analogy to Radiator Springs - except that Breezewood continues to thrive off highway traffic?
My dad used to work at the McDonalds in Breezewood back in the early 80s. This was back before it had a drive thru. He would tell me that it used to be so busy the line would be out the door. That store even held a record at one point for Egg McMuffins made. Once they finished building I-68 going through the Maryland panhandle, people traveling west chose that route instead of taking the turnpike. Breezewood was no longer the gateway to the west. Breezewood pretty much is a real-life Radiator Springs
Too be fair, the whole place is a basically a rest stop, you don’t expect to really walk around here, you just stop, grab food and leave. Pedestrians friendly or bike friendly isn’t really a thing for a highway rest stop. Granted, there’s way more efficient ways to make a rest stop but I guess the town really wants the interstate to go through them for that money.
I remember driving to Harrisburg from Pittsburgh during law school for an early interview. I took the Lincoln Highway to avoid paying for the overpriced Turnpike. I remember coming over that last hill and realizing I was approaching THAT meme. I was taken aback by how small it all looked and the alarming number of burned-down abandoned motels. Having lived in only KC and Pittsburgh-two cities that, while a little too car-dependent, are far from the worst offenders-I was taken aback by how massive and dangerous the center street was. Before I even learned about the term "stroad," I had already observed something that felt wrong. I got gas and thought about crossing the street for something (can't remember what) but decided it was too dangerous.
As a Californian, there isn’t a really an equivalent to Breezewood out west. The best comparison I can think of is the spanish style influenced Tejon Ranch which only exists because it’s the last stop before the mountain range that brings to Los Angeles from the Central Valley. It’s certainly an oddity in this country.
@@genoesposito2895 Perhaps, but this one specifically exists in a "gap" in Interstate 70. Because of the old law preventing a direct connection between a tolled road and a free highway, at the point where I-70 diverges from its concurrency from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it had to go to surface streets for a short distance before continuing as a freeway. I-70 actually runs along that stretch of surface roads shown in this video. People drive along that stretch because they have no other choice, whether they want to get _to_ the Pennsylvania Turnpike from the I-70 free highway, or leave the Turnpike via I-70 eastbound. With Nevada's "truck stop towns", you (presumably) have the option to bypass them if you don't want to visit them. With Breezewood, you only bypass it if you start on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and _stay_ on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Otherwise, into Breezewood you go.
I can remember as a kid in the late 70s and 80s even the early 90s. Breezewood was still a place with many open restraints and gas stations and motels. It used to carry the name of the town of motels. But sadly she's a shell of what she used to be. Either way I still like driving through Breezewood when I can.
At 2:03 this used to be a Sheetz location, which was also a petrol/gas station. By 2:18, that used to be an outfitter shoppe and then a bar & grille for a short while.
Walking in the gutter. Breezewood used to be the place families stopped when traveling across PA via the Turnpike. It is sort of halfway between Pittsburgh & Philadelphia and has convenient on and off the Turnpike.
And now there is the Sideling Hill service plaza just 11 miles east of that is right off the Turnpike. They are constructing a “Trailhead” exhibit at this plaza to advertise hiking and biking opportunities in the vicinity.
Especially because as you get east of Breezewood the exits become much more residential so even though it’s definitely closer to Pittsburgh than it is to Philly, by the time you get to Harrisburg are exits, like Carlisle, it becomes much more residential and urban so there isn’t that easy on and off rest stops. Try getting off at Harrisburg East and finding an easy place to stop, you won’t. It’s to populated anywhere east of Breezewood
Breezewood used to be so cool. There were so many different restaurants and places to go but now it’s just sad with how many abandoned businesses there are. That Hardee’s in the video is completely gone now due to a grease fire.
Dear Caleb, love all your transit videos and adventures throughout the Northeast and Midwest (I’m from Stormy’s neck of the woods) but I’m a bit surprised you didn’t take the old National road (Lincoln Hwy (US 30)) all the way back west to Pittsburgh! As a native Pennsylvanian, I thought Shunpiking was in your blood!! We are spoiled rotten how cheap out tolls are out here in the Flatlands of Illinois!
There is something train-related you can talk about in Breezewood, actually. Namely, Breezewood was one of the towns located along the mainline of the ill-fated South Pennsylvania Railroad. In another universe, Breezewood would have been served by either the Pennsylvania (who bought the unfinished right-of-way from the New York Central in exchange for the West Shore) or the Baltimore & Ohio (who bought the still-unfinished right-of-way from the Pennsylvania as part of a scheme to build a second mainline to bypass Sand Patch). There was an article in Model Railroader back in the 90s about a guy who built a layout based on the South Pennsylvania as though it were still in use under Conrail as a secondary mainline between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
Breezewood exists because the local politicians will not allow a direct connection to be made between the PA Turnpike and I-70, so the local businesses can survive. There would be next to nothing there if there was a direct connection between the highways. It's an artificial local jobs project. I'm from Akron, OH and lived in the DC area for over 20 years, so I have driven through there many, many times at all hours of the day or night. It has taken me from less than two minutes, to almost 20, depending on time of day and day of year, to drive the ~3/4 mile between the Turnpike and I-70 (if you hit the light at the end of I-70 just right it's possible to drive to the entrance to the Turnpike non-stop, but that is usually late at night). Now if I travel back to the DC area, I plan on Breezewood being my pit stop before the final leg to the DC area, usually the Gateway truck stop, because it's easy to pull into after exiting the Turnpike. Also, if it's still there, the truck stop on the other side of US 30 where the Perkins Restaurant is (was?) was a Greyhound Post House cafeteria/servicing facility into the 1980s. I ate there on a school trip to DC in the 1970s. It was busy, being a crossroads for all the regional bus routes that existed back then. I stayed at one of the motels there once about 20 years ago, when I went to an East Broad Top RR railfan weekend. It was the closest I could get a motel room to Orbisonia. There aren't many rooms in the region anyway, and the railfan weekend is usually the same weekend as Penn State's homecoming game, so the area is just packed.
Seeing the Hardee's around the 40-second mark kind of makes me sad, because that restaurant had a huge fire within the past week. That restaurant is likely going to be torn down, and who knows whether a replacement is built.
Everyone misses the point with Breezewood. I’m sure the people who live there are grateful for the jobs offered. Very few people live there. The real issue is it exists because of a screw up in the Interstate Highway System, making it an extreme outlier. Don’t hate Breezewood, hate the car centric system that forces everyone through there.
I like the look you gave to this, granted we've focused way too much on it but it gives you an idea of how car culture in America could be celebrated in the future if/when we moved past it
I dunno if you saw, but some of your breezewood video made into the recent Wall Street Journal video on RUclips... released a little over a week ago as of the time I write this comment.
A friend of mine and I went from Baltimore to Pittsburgh last month. Had to go through Breezewood to get between I-70 and the Pa Turnpike. I was kinda amazed to see this small tourist trap that existed.
You should of went down the road past the quality inn and the church because you could of seen the abandoned turnpike which was a 13 mile section of turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 due to traffic at the tunnels since the tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike original were 2 lane tunnels when the turnpike opened in 1940. You can bike and hike the abandoned turnpike next time your in breezewood id recommend you check it out
😎 Many of the abandoned properties near the Gateway Inn 🏨 are owned by the Gateway family I was told awhile back. The Sports Bar was an outdoor store at one time selling Cannondale Bicycles,Kayaks etc… The Diner was owned by Denny’s chain at one time …the Motel across from the Gateway burned in 2017 I think..the Hotel up from the Gateway is family owned still ..Finally go bicycle the abandoned car tunnels & the scenic views of the backroads worth a day trip 🇺🇸✌️
@@ClassyWhale I've gone to the Abandoned Turnpike 5 times myself. I reccomend parking on the far east end. It's closer to the old Cove Valley Service Plaza parking lot and only 1 mile from Sideling Hill Tunnel.
Breezewood is a small town that years ago they built a rest stop at,,,, for the turn pike,,, now not too far away is a cool place, its the old turn pike tunels , abandaimed long ago ,there are 3 i know of, many yewrs ago we used tonride our dirt bkien threw em, now a days is a tourist destination,,,, ,, ,but yeah its a truck stop in the middle if the mountains
I'm already planning a getaway holiday in Breezewood. I can't wait! Very disappointed that I won't be able to stay at the Pennaire Motel---highly rated on Tripadvisor. I wonder what brought Caleb to this dismal place?
It is quite loud as far as traffic is concerned and it is rather a chaotic situation, I suppose the businesses sprung up from the traffic that was there but there was little planning involved. It is not a place one would visit for the sake of it. Maybe a place to stay if you were doing a long journey.
But the motels in Breezewood are rather run down. If heading east I recommend try to drive about 100 miles to Carlisle, there are a lot nicer and more motels there. If heading west, try to get to Irwin or better yet, Monroeville outside of Pittsburgh.
Breezewood is like a gateway to the east coast or the midwest. It's usually the last fuel and rest stop for many eastbound truckers as there's not that many truck stops in New Jersey and those that are charge non fueling truckers to park there. The last time I was in Breezewood was in 2003 and I had no idea how downhill it has gone. Some are saying some of it is due to the constant raising of tolls on the PA Turnpike and travelers are preferring to US I-80 to the north or I-68 to the south. Many truck stops have ditched their restaurants in favor of fast food junk such as Subway or pizza. Glad I don't truck anymore. I'm not ashamed to be part of a car culture as it's really our last freedom remaining (though some are trying their hardest to end that)
LOL how is this a hit piece on American culture? How is it a hit piece when it’s just highlighting how road engineers and the Pennsylvania government failed at their jobs? As someone who lives in a rural area believe me there’s a million places in rural areas that are a better representation of America than a dumpy rest stop with a bunch of abandoned buildings.
I like each one. I grew up in Philadelphia and now live in Delaware County so I grew up with WaWa. However I had worked for the state of Pennsylvania for 24 years and my job took me over most of the state so I got to know Sheetz during that time. I found them both to be good spot to stop and get a quick snack or lunch. They both operate about the same way, including making your sandwich to order so everything is fresh. They both also feature gas at good prices and when you are in an area where they both operate you usually can count on the lowest gas prices in the area. I also got to know other regional chains that are similar to both of them but WaWa and Sheetz are the best.
I couldn't see either Dunkin' sign lol but that's just me. Also, that's crazy about Breezewood. You said you didn't have any change for the random arcade, but did you have money for the Caleb Rd sign? It looked like you were tempted to buy it for a minute there 🤣
Breezewood wasn't designed as a car-centric suburb, as the photo is frequently used to call out. The surrounding area is , in fact, quite rural. Breezewood is not much more than a travel center for interstate traffic. It's certainly not a town.
The number of abandoned businesses is really shocking.
Huge portions of the country look like this now.
It’s probably because of covid, far fewer people were taking long road trips anymore.
I haven't been through in maybe five years but don't remember it being that closed down.. I didn't think Breezewood could be anymore depressing but I was just proven wrong.
Always would stay here on my way down south. Remember when not all these were abandoned
No, just look at Gary, Indiana
Classifying Breezewood pa as “suburban sprawl” has always just come across as an uneducated take to me like, where is the suburbs that it’s sprawling off of? My dad grew up at valley hi lake which is like 4-5 miles away so I’m very familiar with Breezewood from visiting. It’s much more accurate imo to classify it as a rest stop masquerading as town.
I stoped in Breeswood on one of my car trips between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. I was using both the turnpike and Rt 30 as my route and Breeswood was a natural place to change from one highway to the other. Obviously it also serves as a natural rest stop/ gas station place. That is why you see so many gas stations and restaurants here. Otherwise the area is very rural so that’s why there is no transit that serves there.
It's also situated on the old Lincoln Highway, though it likely sprang up in its current form long after the PA Turnpike took the majority of the through traffic off that road. Oh, and by the way, not too far to the east of Breezewood is the Sideling Hill Tunnel, which is one of several abandoned tunnels that used to be a part of the PA Turnpike before they moved the alignment south a bit, and before that those tunnels had been originally bored for a railroad line that was never completed. Wikipedia has an interesting article about the Sideling Hill Tunnel which is now a part of a bike trail along the abandoned stretch of highway.
Our tunnels used to be part of the old Broad Top railroad before they went boom and turned into why they are today. Somewhat paranormal spot
Well you can tell you're not from Massachusetts, you were surprised to find yourself in a place with two adjacent Dunkin locations. In most of New England, we call that a remarkably low concentration of Dunkin.
I remember stopping at Breezewood many years ago. There was a young lady standing on a traffic island wearing high heels, hot pants, and a halter top. My wife asked me why the young lady was standing there. I replied that the young lady was working. My wife asked me what the young lady's job was.
I just realized that I drove through here in 2019 on a trip from my home in Michigan to Washington, DC. Breezewood sticks out in my memory as the place where we interchanged from I-76 to I-70 by exiting the highway. You explained in the video why we had to do that. Could Breezewood basically be a real-life analogy to Radiator Springs - except that Breezewood continues to thrive off highway traffic?
My dad used to work at the McDonalds in Breezewood back in the early 80s. This was back before it had a drive thru. He would tell me that it used to be so busy the line would be out the door. That store even held a record at one point for Egg McMuffins made. Once they finished building I-68 going through the Maryland panhandle, people traveling west chose that route instead of taking the turnpike. Breezewood was no longer the gateway to the west. Breezewood pretty much is a real-life Radiator Springs
Nooo, not the diner!!!! :(
Thank you for going to Breezewood so we don't have to!
So many people in sight, yet not a single person in sight… so depressing.
This is where the abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is
Yea it is. I didn’t know until recently that it was famous for two things
Too be fair, the whole place is a basically a rest stop, you don’t expect to really walk around here, you just stop, grab food and leave. Pedestrians friendly or bike friendly isn’t really a thing for a highway rest stop. Granted, there’s way more efficient ways to make a rest stop but I guess the town really wants the interstate to go through them for that money.
I remember driving to Harrisburg from Pittsburgh during law school for an early interview. I took the Lincoln Highway to avoid paying for the overpriced Turnpike. I remember coming over that last hill and realizing I was approaching THAT meme. I was taken aback by how small it all looked and the alarming number of burned-down abandoned motels. Having lived in only KC and Pittsburgh-two cities that, while a little too car-dependent, are far from the worst offenders-I was taken aback by how massive and dangerous the center street was. Before I even learned about the term "stroad," I had already observed something that felt wrong. I got gas and thought about crossing the street for something (can't remember what) but decided it was too dangerous.
As a Californian, there isn’t a really an equivalent to Breezewood out west. The best comparison I can think of is the spanish style influenced Tejon Ranch which only exists because it’s the last stop before the mountain range that brings to Los Angeles from the Central Valley. It’s certainly an oddity in this country.
Nevada has lots of truck stop towns like this
@@genoesposito2895 Perhaps, but this one specifically exists in a "gap" in Interstate 70. Because of the old law preventing a direct connection between a tolled road and a free highway, at the point where I-70 diverges from its concurrency from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it had to go to surface streets for a short distance before continuing as a freeway. I-70 actually runs along that stretch of surface roads shown in this video. People drive along that stretch because they have no other choice, whether they want to get _to_ the Pennsylvania Turnpike from the I-70 free highway, or leave the Turnpike via I-70 eastbound.
With Nevada's "truck stop towns", you (presumably) have the option to bypass them if you don't want to visit them. With Breezewood, you only bypass it if you start on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and _stay_ on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Otherwise, into Breezewood you go.
Can't believe I missed this place during my drive to Indy 😅😅
I can remember as a kid in the late 70s and 80s even the early 90s. Breezewood was still a place with many open restraints and gas stations and motels. It used to carry the name of the town of motels. But sadly she's a shell of what she used to be. Either way I still like driving through Breezewood when I can.
At 2:03 this used to be a Sheetz location, which was also a petrol/gas station. By 2:18, that used to be an outfitter shoppe and then a bar & grille for a short while.
Originally a HoJo's restaurant
Walking in the gutter. Breezewood used to be the place families stopped when traveling across PA via the Turnpike. It is sort of halfway between Pittsburgh & Philadelphia and has convenient on and off the Turnpike.
And now there is the Sideling Hill service plaza just 11 miles east of that is right off the Turnpike. They are constructing a “Trailhead” exhibit at this plaza to advertise hiking and biking opportunities in the vicinity.
Especially because as you get east of Breezewood the exits become much more residential so even though it’s definitely closer to Pittsburgh than it is to Philly, by the time you get to Harrisburg are exits, like Carlisle, it becomes much more residential and urban so there isn’t that easy on and off rest stops. Try getting off at Harrisburg East and finding an easy place to stop, you won’t. It’s to populated anywhere east of Breezewood
You are saying how young you are. When you can not recognize the Howard Johnson colors or architecture.
Breezewood used to be so cool. There were so many different restaurants and places to go but now it’s just sad with how many abandoned businesses there are. That Hardee’s in the video is completely gone now due to a grease fire.
Dear Caleb, love all your transit videos and adventures throughout the Northeast and Midwest (I’m from Stormy’s neck of the woods) but I’m a bit surprised you didn’t take the old National road (Lincoln Hwy (US 30)) all the way back west to Pittsburgh!
As a native Pennsylvanian, I thought Shunpiking was in your blood!!
We are spoiled rotten how cheap out tolls are out here in the Flatlands of Illinois!
There is something train-related you can talk about in Breezewood, actually. Namely, Breezewood was one of the towns located along the mainline of the ill-fated South Pennsylvania Railroad. In another universe, Breezewood would have been served by either the Pennsylvania (who bought the unfinished right-of-way from the New York Central in exchange for the West Shore) or the Baltimore & Ohio (who bought the still-unfinished right-of-way from the Pennsylvania as part of a scheme to build a second mainline to bypass Sand Patch). There was an article in Model Railroader back in the 90s about a guy who built a layout based on the South Pennsylvania as though it were still in use under Conrail as a secondary mainline between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
Breezewood exists because the local politicians will not allow a direct connection to be made between the PA Turnpike and I-70, so the local businesses can survive. There would be next to nothing there if there was a direct connection between the highways. It's an artificial local jobs project. I'm from Akron, OH and lived in the DC area for over 20 years, so I have driven through there many, many times at all hours of the day or night. It has taken me from less than two minutes, to almost 20, depending on time of day and day of year, to drive the ~3/4 mile between the Turnpike and I-70 (if you hit the light at the end of I-70 just right it's possible to drive to the entrance to the Turnpike non-stop, but that is usually late at night). Now if I travel back to the DC area, I plan on Breezewood being my pit stop before the final leg to the DC area, usually the Gateway truck stop, because it's easy to pull into after exiting the Turnpike. Also, if it's still there, the truck stop on the other side of US 30 where the Perkins Restaurant is (was?) was a Greyhound Post House cafeteria/servicing facility into the 1980s. I ate there on a school trip to DC in the 1970s. It was busy, being a crossroads for all the regional bus routes that existed back then. I stayed at one of the motels there once about 20 years ago, when I went to an East Broad Top RR railfan weekend. It was the closest I could get a motel room to Orbisonia. There aren't many rooms in the region anyway, and the railfan weekend is usually the same weekend as Penn State's homecoming game, so the area is just packed.
Seeing the Hardee's around the 40-second mark kind of makes me sad, because that restaurant had a huge fire within the past week. That restaurant is likely going to be torn down, and who knows whether a replacement is built.
So sad... that was my go-to stop when I traveled through there. I couldn't believe when I drove there a month ago and saw it.
Hardee’s is gone but will come back, not sure when rebuild starts.
I used to stop there in Breezewood back in the very early 2000s. When I drove flatbed truck. I think it was on the downhill slide then.
It’s a shoulder you putz
Breezewood is too nice of a name to be used for this place, lol.
At the 2:05 mark, that "abandoned something or other" is the original Sheetz building, before they moved to their current location.
You were there in the off season. If you catch it just right, Breezewood is like the Vegas of Bedford County!
The best thing in Breezewood Pennsylvania is the Motocross/ATV track “Breezewood Proving Grounds” I go there all the time.
I think the last building is an old Red Roof Inn that caught on fire a few years ago. You can see it if you're getting on the interstate.
JPVideo did a good urban walk through of that Penn Aire motels. Plus it's in a drive by in one of my videos near the end
Everyone misses the point with Breezewood. I’m sure the people who live there are grateful for the jobs offered. Very few people live there. The real issue is it exists because of a screw up in the Interstate Highway System, making it an extreme outlier. Don’t hate Breezewood, hate the car centric system that forces everyone through there.
As the son of a trucker I fkn love these highway business hubs
I like the look you gave to this, granted we've focused way too much on it but it gives you an idea of how car culture in America could be celebrated in the future if/when we moved past it
I dunno if you saw, but some of your breezewood video made into the recent Wall Street Journal video on RUclips... released a little over a week ago as of the time I write this comment.
@@Optopolis yeah I saw!
A friend of mine and I went from Baltimore to Pittsburgh last month. Had to go through Breezewood to get between I-70 and the Pa Turnpike. I was kinda amazed to see this small tourist trap that existed.
Anticipating my hours-long stay in Breezewood the day before Thanksgiving! Sigh.
Yeah that's not a sidewalk :(
The meme stroad.
1:24 100% not a sidewalk 😂
You should of went down the road past the quality inn and the church because you could of seen the abandoned turnpike which was a 13 mile section of turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 due to traffic at the tunnels since the tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike original were 2 lane tunnels when the turnpike opened in 1940. You can bike and hike the abandoned turnpike next time your in breezewood id recommend you check it out
It's in the cards!
Breezewood Pennsylvania, the missing link between here and the cars universe
Its crazy that if they decide to build a single direct entrance to the other highway all buisness in breezeweed would vanish
I remember Breezewood from the 1950s when it was really bustling; it was a hideous hell-hole then too
😎 Many of the abandoned properties near the Gateway Inn 🏨 are owned by the Gateway family I was told awhile back. The Sports Bar was an outdoor store at one time selling Cannondale Bicycles,Kayaks etc… The Diner was owned by Denny’s chain at one time …the Motel across from the Gateway burned in 2017 I think..the Hotel up from the Gateway is family owned still ..Finally go bicycle the abandoned car tunnels & the scenic views of the backroads worth a day trip 🇺🇸✌️
Breezewood is where Interstate 70 leaves the Turnpike
I've been through Breezewood quite a few times going from Ohio to DC and NC.
I had to travel there today in the whole town is like one big huge truckstop with no crosswalks or sidewalks and absurd amount of signage!
So you were in Breezewood and didn't bother going to the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike? Oh you missed out.
I didn't have enough daylight - it's in the plans!
@@ClassyWhale I've gone to the Abandoned Turnpike 5 times myself. I reccomend parking on the far east end. It's closer to the old Cove Valley Service Plaza parking lot and only 1 mile from Sideling Hill Tunnel.
0:44 burned to the ground 1:00 not a sidewalk
1:32 Bit sad to learn both Classic Diner and Exxon, two of the stores in the iconic photo is gone now.
thank you for doing god's work
If Breeze-wood had a nuisance abatement team they would have there work cut out for them 🙄
Breezewood is a small town that years ago they built a rest stop at,,,, for the turn pike,,, now not too far away is a cool place, its the old turn pike tunels , abandaimed long ago ,there are 3 i know of, many yewrs ago we used tonride our dirt bkien threw em, now a days is a tourist destination,,,, ,, ,but yeah its a truck stop in the middle if the mountains
I'm already planning a getaway holiday in Breezewood. I can't wait! Very disappointed that I won't be able to stay at the Pennaire Motel---highly rated on Tripadvisor. I wonder what brought Caleb to this dismal place?
It is quite loud as far as traffic is concerned and it is rather a chaotic situation, I suppose the businesses sprung up from the traffic that was there but there was little planning involved. It is not a place one would visit for the sake of it. Maybe a place to stay if you were doing a long journey.
But the motels in Breezewood are rather run down. If heading east I recommend try to drive about 100 miles to Carlisle, there are a lot nicer and more motels there. If heading west, try to get to Irwin or better yet, Monroeville outside of Pittsburgh.
You should go to Cleveland,Ohio and Decide if the heavy rail and light rail is trash
It's happening soon!
@@ClassyWhale I live there and it is not the best
3:56 Louis Black showed us where the universe ends: now we finally know where it begins!
Nice report. Cracker Barrel restaurant appears to be no more in Breezewood.
Stoped there many times on my way. Not what it used to be.
Its a like a rail yard for Tractor trailers.
1:30 it called a *kurb*
2:27 Interestingly, they reused a pair of hockey sticks as door handles.
thumbnail interpretation: florida in PA
Breezewood, PA, and Cookeville, TN, should be sister cities.
Damn what happened to the toll booths?
It’s a truck stop town basically
Swear to god I have never, ever seen that meme in my life…
we love breezewood.
When was this video actually taken?
Breezewood is like a gateway to the east coast or the midwest. It's usually the last fuel and rest stop for many eastbound truckers as there's not that many truck stops in New Jersey and those that are charge non fueling truckers to park there. The last time I was in Breezewood was in 2003 and I had no idea how downhill it has gone. Some are saying some of it is due to the constant raising of tolls on the PA Turnpike and travelers are preferring to US I-80 to the north or I-68 to the south.
Many truck stops have ditched their restaurants in favor of fast food junk such as Subway or pizza. Glad I don't truck anymore. I'm not ashamed to be part of a car culture as it's really our last freedom remaining (though some are trying their hardest to end that)
Kind of looks like photos I've seen of Branson, MO.
I always stop there for food for fast food Hardee's before entering maryland ocean city maryland
Eastern time 7 eastern time. Got it
Hardees went up in flames on 10/8/22, otherwise just another hit piece on American culture and history.👎
I have a second home at valley hi which is right by Breezewood, it’s a mess man.
LOL how is this a hit piece on American culture? How is it a hit piece when it’s just highlighting how road engineers and the Pennsylvania government failed at their jobs? As someone who lives in a rural area believe me there’s a million places in rural areas that are a better representation of America than a dumpy rest stop with a bunch of abandoned buildings.
Yeah, Breezewood is a depressing place.
Truck Stop Ville😊😊😊😊
That's not a sidewalk.
Depressing.😢
Caleb, Wawa or Sheetz?
Wawa!
Aye good answer
I like each one. I grew up in Philadelphia and now live in Delaware County so I grew up with WaWa. However I had worked for the state of Pennsylvania for 24 years and my job took me over most of the state so I got to know Sheetz during that time. I found them both to be good spot to stop and get a quick snack or lunch. They both operate about the same way, including making your sandwich to order so everything is fresh. They both also feature gas at good prices and when you are in an area where they both operate you usually can count on the lowest gas prices in the area. I also got to know other regional chains that are similar to both of them but WaWa and Sheetz are the best.
For me Sheetz is too fast-food-ish. I did like their man n' cheetos though
I couldn't see either Dunkin' sign lol but that's just me.
Also, that's crazy about Breezewood. You said you didn't have any change for the random arcade, but did you have money for the Caleb Rd sign? It looked like you were tempted to buy it for a minute there 🤣
This capitalist architecture isn’t depressing.
Its a real place 😂
Is the Starbucks still there, that's the only place people would go to there, to get gas and coffee and high tail it out of that mess.🤪
You sound a lot like John Mulaney.
It’s funny because it’s not even suburban
Where you forced at gun point to go to Breezewood?
No, I did it for the viewzzzzzz