“ GULF COAST CARAVAN ” 1960s TRAVELOGUE FLORIDA, MISSISSIPPI, LOUISIANA & TEXAS XD55024

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    One of the episodes in the series "America!" with Jack Douglas, this color travelogue takes the viewer on a tour of what is known as “America’s Riviera” or the major cities along America’s Gulf of Mexico coastline: Brownsville, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola among others. It originally aired as a two-part episode with the same title in the larger series titled “America!” with the first episode chronicling the journey from Florida to Mississippi and the second the journey from Louisiana into Texas. Like other episodes in the series, this two-part film is also hosted by Jack Douglass.
    U.S. coastline on Gulf of Mexico (0:46). White sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida on the Miracle Strip (1:18). Escambia Bay (1:30). The Pensacola Bay Bridge (1:47). Pensacola City - first colonized under Spain by Don Tristan De Luna (1:50). Pensacola Navy Yard home to Pensacola’s Blue Angels (2:17). The Naval Aviation Museum - hanging model of N3N or “The Yellow Peril” airplane used to train cadets during WWII, the JT3C Turbojet Engine, astronaut display center and wings worn by astronaut Scott Carpenter (2:45). Pensacola Lighthouse (3:41). San Carlos Fort (3:53). Barrancas Fort (3:55). Pickens Fort on Santa Rosa Island - sight of Apache Geronimo’s imprisonment, old cannons, and the Gatling Gun model 1890 (3:59). Pensacola Museum of Art/ Pensacola City Jail (4:39). The Grand Hotel at Point Clear Mobile Bay, Alabama (5:10). Mobile (5:54). Mobile’s sea port (6:13). Oliver Wintzell’s Oyster House (6:26). Azalea Trail Tour Center (7:59). Long Gardens of the Earl Longs (8:27). The Richard’s House (9:17). Oakleigh Antebellum Home - Mobile Mardi Gras (9:40). City of Pascagoula, Mississippi (10:26). The Longfellow House (10:39). Spanish Fort and artifacts identified by the Smithsonian Institute (10:55). Burial place of the Krebs family who invented the cotton gin before Eli Whitney (11:18). Biloxi, Mississippi (11:34). Biloxi Lighthouse (11:38). Gulf Beach of Biloxi (12:01). Resorts and hotels of Biloxi (12:09). Sport fishing - dolphins, Spanish mackerel, speckled trout, sheepshead flounder etc. (12:46). Ride on the Sailfish for leisure tour of the waters (14:00). Biloxi Ocean Springs Highway Bridge (15:07). Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis (17:58). Gulfport Chamber of Commerce (19:39). Dauphin Island (20:14). Fort Gaines and Civil War Museum where Admiral Farragut commanded from (20:42). Bellingrath Gardens (21:26). Importance of religion - Episcopal Church of The Redeemer, Saint Michael’s at Biloxi (22:03). Important historical figures - Prince Madoc of Wales, Isabella De Soto, The Pirate Patriots and Jean Pierre Lafitte (22:24). Introduction of episode 2 (23:40-25:02). New Orleans, Louisiana (25:05). Painting of the battle of New Orleans (25:16). Portrait of Andrew Jackson (25:18). Lafitte, LA (25:36). Map illustrating Houston’s connection to the Gulf of Mexico (26:39). Houston, Texas (26:46). The Rice Hotel (27:12). Hotel America (27:20). The Warwick (27:23). Mecom Fountain (27:40). Neiman Marcus Houston (28:07). The Astrodome (28:21) Game Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Houston Astros (28:51). Statue of Sam Houston at Hermann park (29:27). Battle of San Jacinto Monument (29:43). Portrait of General Santana (20:25). The USS Texas (Dreadnought class) (30:41). NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Clearwater, Texas (31:29). NASA lunar excursion module (32:03). Galveston Island (32:36). Portrait of La Salle (33:20). Shrimpers or “Mosquito Fleet” of Galveston (33:31). The NS Savannah Nuclear Transport Ship (33:47). Treasure Isle Tour Train (34:04). Galveston sea wall (34:18). The Texas Heroes’ Monument (34:35). Bishop’s Palace (34:59). Oleander flowers (35:18). The Seahorse (35:37).
    Jamaica Beach (36:11). Sailing of Polynesia Tikis (36:47). Corpus Christi, Texas (38:01). Buccaneer Days Festival (38:19). Padre Island (39:57). Brownsville, Texas (41:51). Gateway Bridge above Rio Grande (41:57). Brownsville City Hall (42:06). Charles Stillman’s Home (42:16). Journey's End (43:08). Matamoros, Mexico (43:18). The Drive-Inn (44:14). Villa Del Refugio restaurant (44:36).
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  • @valfletcher9285
    @valfletcher9285 Год назад +41

    When I was a child, back in 1970 I will never forget vacationing on Fla. Gulf Coast. We stayed in a motor inn called "Blue Horizon". My family stopped at road side parks (we drove from Baton Rouge where I STILL live) and had sandwiches(wrapped in wax paper and sealed with a toothpick) and Mom made Delaware Punch and it was in a light blue Coleman drink cooler.Just having the blue and aqua paper Dixie cups was exciting back then. We brought our toaster oven to the motel - my mom WAS frugal but the REAL reason was that it was not all built up and commercialized back then with restaraunts. The beach was white sugar sand and the air smelled so different - so salty and I will never forget how clean, fresh and lovely it was. I went back 3 months ago. It costs several hundred dollars to stay in a high rise hotel and has, to me, lost this magic.

    • @frez777
      @frez777 Год назад +5

      I watched one of these the other day and it made me feel so good about how OUR Country once was.

    • @MH3GL
      @MH3GL Год назад +4

      Isn't it amazing all the little details you can remember from so long ago?
      Thanks for sharing!

    • @angelachurch9929
      @angelachurch9929 Год назад +2

      So wonderful and simpler times, would give anything to go back...

    • @kesmarn
      @kesmarn Год назад +1

      I love your detailed recollections.

    • @peterholthoffman
      @peterholthoffman Год назад +2

      I know exactly what you are talking about! As a child, in the early 1960s, my family would go to the Point of Rocks at Siesta Key. Dad would fish while my brother and I played in the amazingly clear and warm water which stayed shallow until you were far from the beach. That water was full of all sorts of marine life.
      Lunch was bologna sandwiches in wax paper, hard boiled eggs (with salt and pepper in aluminum foil packets made by Mom), and instant milk from powder (as actual milk would have spoiled in the car on the way).
      In the evening, we would sit on the beach with a campfire, eating the flounder that Dad had caught, while watching the incredible sunset the area is known for. At night, we'd lie on the powder-soft sand and look up at the Milky Way which was clearly visible as there was no nearby light pollution.
      I revisited the area in the mid-1990s and, while I could still tell there was some magic in the air, it is no longer anything like what it was. The entire area that I remember as forested is now condos and the beach is crowded.
      I thank my parents and my lucky stars to have the wonderful memories that I do.

  • @laserbeam002
    @laserbeam002 Год назад +34

    Great post. Simply wonderful. This was filmed before the world went stupid.

    • @ikant312
      @ikant312 Год назад

      No, the world was very stupid during this time. Looks like it was before or during the civil rights fight. Not to mention the fact that the narrator literally said that Jefferson Davis was innocent of any crime and was wrongfully imprisoned.

    • @ronaldmcdowells1107
      @ronaldmcdowells1107 Год назад +2

      No it was stupid then also. People were just too stupid to realize it was stupid and didn't realize it till the invention of the internet which at that point it was already to late.

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 Год назад +7

      @@ronaldmcdowells1107 I agree that humans have always been stupid but there was a time one could live peacefully (and/or ignorantly) without it being shoved down your throat. The internet is fine but social media is stupid.

    • @SaltGrains_Fready
      @SaltGrains_Fready Год назад

      @@ronaldmcdowells1107 I'm glad U R Stupid Enuf 2 Know THIS.

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  Год назад +2

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  • @SaltGrains_Fready
    @SaltGrains_Fready Год назад +11

    The world like that is long long gone.

    • @BrassLock
      @BrassLock Год назад +2

      That's jolly surprising isn't it?
      After all, it was only 62 years ago . . .

  • @brandonshaw7619
    @brandonshaw7619 Год назад +15

    1964?
    Mississippi gulfcoast before camille and katrina,
    Practicaly every building shown in the biloxi segment is no longer there even the bridge is replaced
    Great video
    10:30 my high school

  • @larkatmic
    @larkatmic Год назад +26

    Bugs, heat and humidity with no air conditioning. I don’t know how they did it back then.

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 Год назад

      They weren't Wimps like you= SNOWFLAKES=😥😥😥❄❄❄

    • @macmedic892
      @macmedic892 Год назад +10

      They didn't know anything else.

    • @voiceofreason2674
      @voiceofreason2674 Год назад +11

      Ironically AL MS LA we’re the least obese states until the 70s a/c and fast food did a lot of damage to public health

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад +12

      If we outlawed AC, we'd be rid of Yankees in three months....far easier task than Jeff Davis tried.

    • @larkatmic
      @larkatmic Год назад +4

      @@voiceofreason2674 Wow, never thought of that.. Very true. Yep, we are living in a time of convenience, comfort and abundance. My grams from New York City said to me once most of us were malnourished until after WWII. In the teens 1920s and 30s They lived on ketchup sandwiches, peas and pasta, buttered bread, eggs and coffee. Only on holidays did they have large meals with meat and desserts.

  • @dixieboy5689
    @dixieboy5689 Год назад +3

    My cousins , on my mothers side, live in Mobile. It is a beautiful city , in many parts. They had a big power boat
    and we went out in the gulf for a ride. It was great. I remember it well. Thanks

  • @dixieboy5689
    @dixieboy5689 Год назад +4

    >>> 5:43 ... Deep In the heart of Dixie , indeed.

    • @robinread8010
      @robinread8010 Год назад +1

      If Heaven ain’t a lot like Dixie, I don’t wanna go.❤

  • @Hotshotter3000
    @Hotshotter3000 Год назад +6

    I googled Wintzell's Oyster House. The place is still in business!

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 Год назад +2

      me too, lol

    • @Hotshotter3000
      @Hotshotter3000 Год назад +4

      @@alanrogs3990 And the founder passed away in 1980. His family sold the place to another company in the late 80s, but the decore and all those writings of his are still up.

    • @johnchildress6717
      @johnchildress6717 Год назад

      And still a great place to eat oysters.

  • @CosmosNut
    @CosmosNut Год назад +1

    These are just amazing to watch, this step back in time. Same planet but different world.

  • @josephwirtz8352
    @josephwirtz8352 Год назад +23

    In the panhandle of Florida in the 80s, it was affectionately referred to as the “redneck Riviera”.👍🏼

    • @jesseturnip
      @jesseturnip Год назад +1

      Yes sir

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад +1

      Yes it was! Lived in Ft Walton in 1981. After just 7 months, we left! There was no money there, very typical of a military town.

    • @deeexxx8138
      @deeexxx8138 Год назад +5

      it still is

    • @allen480
      @allen480 Год назад

      @@jagboy69 Sure glad you left, you little snob.

    • @rodcoulter997
      @rodcoulter997 11 месяцев назад

      Still is…..at least to most Southerners…

  • @tombig4011
    @tombig4011 Год назад +9

    I have lived in south east Alabama all my life and am very familiar with these areas. It has been such a treat seeing these places 24 years before I was born.

  • @lmgc5059
    @lmgc5059 Год назад +1

    La saturación de las películas en color de esta época tiene un encanto especial.

  • @gigiesparza396
    @gigiesparza396 Год назад

    My favorite travelogue out of all of them.

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams 7 месяцев назад

    Wintzell just dated the film. The restaurant was established in 1938 and he said they were there 26 years so the date it was filmed is 1964.
    10:00 A bit of trivia, Mardi Gras means Fat Tuesday.

  • @coreenbingham7171
    @coreenbingham7171 Год назад

    I just love watching these they are so cool

  • @fastsetinthewest
    @fastsetinthewest Год назад +1

    Excellent video with commentary. Eaglegards...

  • @paulnguyen8910
    @paulnguyen8910 Год назад

    My family emigrated to Houston in 1972. They had a spinning Gulf sign downtown up to March 1974.

  • @rbjones72703
    @rbjones72703 Год назад +3

    I live in historic Galveston. So much here including Jean Lafitte abandoned home ☠️

  • @madamesalamander16
    @madamesalamander16 Год назад +6

    My grandfather was stationed in Pensacola while this was filmed. He was a test pilot for the Navy, and was taking his qualifications to see if he could be an astronaut. Unfortunately, he was just a bit smaller than the rest of the candidates and had a hard time keeping his G's down! My grandmother would have been thrilled if they could have stayed there. She said Pensacola was lovely and she made friends wherever she went.

  • @franklynpolster8949
    @franklynpolster8949 Год назад +2

    They cover the "Battleship Texas" which was towed 8hrs to dry dock this week. You probably knew that already . lol

  • @tedfox2683
    @tedfox2683 Год назад +1

    At 34:49 The lady in the statue is not Pointing to the red light district in Galveston she is actually pointing towards the battle ground that is 26 miles away.

  • @tolfan4438
    @tolfan4438 Год назад +5

    You can tell the oyster bar owner really loved his business

  • @nikmills
    @nikmills Год назад

    That mariachi scene with the expressions of the faces of patrons and musicians alike - phew, everyone just wants them to stop playing.

  • @christopherj5780
    @christopherj5780 Год назад

    Loved going to Ft. Desoto

  • @tylerward5839
    @tylerward5839 Месяц назад

    “Admission only costs 20¢ or 25¢ but we sure would pay $20 or $25 to see the looks on our children” that line kills my soul in 2024

  • @JUST-ME2468
    @JUST-ME2468 Год назад +4

    So ,so many things wrong with these old ' Periscope ' films ; my how things have changed - some thankfully for the better!

  • @westvideo
    @westvideo Год назад

    nice cliff on the title slide

  • @AerialEscape
    @AerialEscape Год назад +7

    I grew up in Pensacola. We used to boat over to Fort Pickens and camp on the beach. At night, rats the size of large cats would come out on the beach and eat whatever washed up on shore that day or whatever trash they could find. Back then, you could go into the fort and the rooms where Geronimo was held captive. It was normally flooded with several feet of a mixture of old rain water and leftover hurricane remnants. One night when I was about 15, I decided to sleep out on the beach by myself while my folks slept in a nearby tent. I passed out pretty early, I guess around 10 or so after a long day fishing and kneeboarding. I woke up sometime late at night with a thick fog shrouding the island, which is pretty abnormal for summer in the panhandle. There were still some coals left from the fire earlier in the night so I got up from my cot and sat down by the fire to put another log on. About 20 feet in front of me I saw an old man with long grey and black hair wandering around like he was looking for something. I was still pretty young and the thought of us not being out there alone anymore kinda scared me, so I tried not to make any noise or bring any attention to myself, so I decided not to put that other log on for now. I slowly moved back a little away from the fire pit and pulled my blanket up around my head thinking that would somehow protect me (the safety of my blanky) when the figure started walking in my direction. I tried to stay calm but I was freaking out inside and doing my best not to scream. I knew the fire was pretty much out so there wasn't any chance they could see me from the light, but I swear it felt like whoever it was knew that I was there. I could hear their footsteps making that swooshing sound you make when walking around in the loose sand on the beach and the air started to smell different the closer they got, it was like a mixture of sage and cedar wood, but this was the island and we dang sure didn't have any sage growing anywhere even close. The cedar smell could have been from the fire, but the sage really threw me off because my mom always cooked with it, so I was pretty familiar with the smell. What felt like an eternity could have only been a few minutes or so, but the figure slowly disappeared back into the fog and I crawled back into my cot and fell back asleep with my blanket wrapped tightly around my head.. We visited Fort Pickens nearly every summer until I grew up and moved away, but I never had another encounter like it.

    • @Krisesakes
      @Krisesakes Год назад +2

      I read your whole story ! Are you a writer by trade ? Thank you though. I really enjoyed it. 😀

    • @robinread8010
      @robinread8010 Год назад +1

      Beautiful memory!

    • @AerialEscape
      @AerialEscape Год назад +2

      @@Krisesakes Thank you. No, I'm not a writer by trade, but maybe I should be :)

  • @mynamehappy
    @mynamehappy Год назад +10

    I choked on my coffee laughing at the golf course flag in Mobile 😂

  • @gregpeterman1102
    @gregpeterman1102 Год назад +4

    Hurricane Camille wiped out the Grand Hotel.

    • @LockportDan
      @LockportDan Год назад +2

      I was there for Camille stationed in the AF. Keesler AF Base.

  • @valfletcher9285
    @valfletcher9285 Год назад +5

    Those boats are Pirogues. LOL Prounounced "PEE-rows"

  • @joshb5632
    @joshb5632 Год назад

    This is very cool. Wish you would fix the hissing in the audio tho. I think this is farily easy to do

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  Год назад +2

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  • @tommyd4018
    @tommyd4018 Год назад +1

    may i ask where do you get these great films from?

    • @captainamericaamerica8090
      @captainamericaamerica8090 Год назад

      DONATIONS! ESTATES SALES. ETC

    • @override7486
      @override7486 Год назад

      @@captainamericaamerica8090 And just libraries, collections etc. Only small portion of films has been scanned and digitized. Most of the stuff was never seen in normal "digital" form, outside of projector.

  • @I-Libertine
    @I-Libertine Год назад +3

    My favorite part of the US.

  • @randybargar4916
    @randybargar4916 Год назад +3

    I live in Pensacola. I wonder what happened to all the Spanish Moss trees? Very few left to see anymore.

    • @jazzbo13
      @jazzbo13 Год назад +2

      Cut down for condos.

    • @valfletcher9285
      @valfletcher9285 Год назад +3

      I live in Louisiana. Spanish moss mostly grows in live oaks and in Cypress and crape myrtles. It has something to do with the cleanliness of the air around the moss. I learned it a few weeks ago while taking the Atchafalaya Swamp Tour by the tour guide. The moss in the swamp is beautiful.

    • @allen480
      @allen480 Год назад

      @@valfletcher9285 I find it interesting that Caddo Lake in NE Texas has plenty of Spanish Moss, same for a good part of NE Louisiana in the vicinity of Oil City and Vivian. Beautiful area.

    • @bigbird2240
      @bigbird2240 Год назад

      Drive down scenic to road called Manolete and drive up that road to see tons it’s a neighborhood called gabberone

  • @bayourat15
    @bayourat15 Год назад +1

    Look how blue the water was in Biloxi

    • @LockportDan
      @LockportDan Год назад

      And hot and mucky. Lived there in 1969.

    • @jdeang3531
      @jdeang3531 Год назад

      Less river water diverted from Lake Ponchatrane

  • @tylermiddaugh1515
    @tylermiddaugh1515 Год назад +1

    "a sign that shows the fun loving spirit of the owner" *shows grumpy old man*

  • @oohweeoohwee9222
    @oohweeoohwee9222 Год назад +4

    That's my turf. my stomping grounds.

  • @jked7463
    @jked7463 Год назад +1

    What was the date this film was first released?

    • @johnchildress6717
      @johnchildress6717 Год назад +1

      Looking at the cars on this 64 would be very close.

    • @garypesci746
      @garypesci746 11 месяцев назад

      Probably mid to late 1965, the Astrodome opened in April 1965

  • @deeexxx8138
    @deeexxx8138 Год назад +5

    This looks like 1967 or 1968, pre-Camille (1969)

    • @cullendonaldson9303
      @cullendonaldson9303 Год назад

      My thoughts exactly. Changed the gulf forever

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад +1

      Buena Vista hotel is in the shots of Biloxi. Pre 69.
      Longs Gardens in Mobile. Brand new Ocean Springs bridge. Alligators still at Fort Gaines. No condos on Pens Beach. I'd guess 1966.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад +5

      1965: Just got to the Houston chapter. Lady got out of a 64 Caddy...Astrodome is finished still with real grass mentioned. Painted dirt by end of year when that grass died. Astroturf by 1966.

    • @frankfowlkes7872
      @frankfowlkes7872 Год назад +3

      1964. Wintzell's was founded in 1938 and he says that was 26 years ago.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад +1

      @@frankfowlkes7872 likely filmed in different cities over a year or two and edited together.

  • @jamesmack3314
    @jamesmack3314 Год назад +4

    Confederate flag as a golf course marker? Too funny…it would be an international incident today

  • @danquigg8311
    @danquigg8311 Год назад

    Why is the camera tilted in so many scenes?

  • @jochenpeiper6797
    @jochenpeiper6797 Год назад +7

    LOVE the pin FLAG on the Mobile Bay golf course !!!!!!!!!!

    • @andrewscease8185
      @andrewscease8185 Год назад

      Get bent, racist fool. We fought a war against Nazis. Maybe you heard of it? Too bad they didn't get them all. Like cockroaches, they keep crawling up out of the trash sodden darkness.

  • @captainamericaamerica8090
    @captainamericaamerica8090 Год назад +1

    Is the OYSTER RESTAURANT STILL OPEN???

    • @jimmyfloyd9970
      @jimmyfloyd9970 Год назад +1

      yes,multiple locations,not family owned anymore

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад +2

      @@jimmyfloyd9970 When the corporations move in, it's game over. Isn't Copeland's like that too? Last one I was in was dirty and the food sucked.

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад +2

      Wintzells on Dauphin St is still pretty much like i remembered it in this film. The others are chained out and more modern.

  • @terr777
    @terr777 Год назад

    I wonder when they switched to Astroturf?

  • @rbjones72703
    @rbjones72703 Год назад +1

    Corpus Christi! PINS

  • @nickthomas181
    @nickthomas181 Год назад

    It has to be noted they used the English word Caravan not trailer or toy hauler ..It's a caravan..

  • @Juggernaut-fg2up
    @Juggernaut-fg2up Год назад +1

    He said Texas has few lakes lol yea ok. Out of all states Texas has the eighth most area of water

  • @markward6076
    @markward6076 Год назад

    The old man with the beard looks like Charlie Manson.

    • @ikant312
      @ikant312 Год назад

      Except he got way more people killed than Manson could ever hope to.

    • @deeexxx8138
      @deeexxx8138 Год назад

      They didn't mention Walter Anderson, the artist who lived alone on Horn Island for much of the latter period of his life. When this film was made he was close to his death and I don't think he'd been "discovered"

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 Год назад +2

    Stunt flying? Formation flying you mean.

  • @bobt5778
    @bobt5778 Год назад

    Sounds like John Wayne is narrating.

  • @pheddupp
    @pheddupp Год назад +12

    The segment on New Orleans was pathetically short. New Orleans is a Hell of a lot more interesting than motels in Texas, just saying.

    • @NOLAgenX
      @NOLAgenX Год назад +5

      Ansolutely pathetic. Since this was from the late 60’s we can only assume the show had some kind of bias against the city, compared to the amount of time Mobile got.

    • @piatpotatopeon8305
      @piatpotatopeon8305 Год назад +6

      Even as a proud native Texan, I agree. I've visited New Orleans before and it deserved more.

    • @m.woodsrobinson9244
      @m.woodsrobinson9244 Год назад +3

      It wasn't even a segment! A couple of shots and a couple of sentences. Wow!

    • @pheddupp
      @pheddupp Год назад +4

      @@m.woodsrobinson9244 More of a big deal was made out of Lafitte...

    • @pheddupp
      @pheddupp Год назад +2

      @@piatpotatopeon8305 I wasn't knocking my brothers and sisters in Texas, I was just let down that more wasn't shown about NOLA.

  • @ronaldmcdowells1107
    @ronaldmcdowells1107 Год назад +4

    Anytime in history without air conditioning or central heat can kiss my ass.

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад

      LMAO... Good one!

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад

      Then you'll have a hot and sweaty Kester

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад

      @@STho205 we call that swamp ass!

  • @ampatriotsmith9545
    @ampatriotsmith9545 Год назад

    A time when Americans were not as well traveled like they are today

  • @Bishop228
    @Bishop228 Год назад +1

    Lifelong Gulf Coast resident here. Boy, they really just skipped right over New Orleans in this video huh lol. Not even a full 2 minutes in New Orleans. Kinda odd.

    • @cal30m1
      @cal30m1 Год назад

      Not to mention no word on Orange Beach or Gulf shores…

    • @nc818
      @nc818 Год назад +1

      Probably because they didn’t want to show the “colorful city” there is not a “colorful” person in this whole film

    • @UnkleBot
      @UnkleBot Год назад

      not enough whites lol

  • @johnanonyimous5007
    @johnanonyimous5007 Год назад +1

    way too many youtube ads

  • @chasenip2
    @chasenip2 Год назад +2

    When people say they “wish we could go back to” THIS is what they mean. I wonder who built all those beautiful antebellum homes they love to show off?

    • @TheDieselbutterfly
      @TheDieselbutterfly Год назад +3

      No , I think most just want to go back to when there were male and female , etc.

    • @TheDieselbutterfly
      @TheDieselbutterfly Год назад +2

      No , I think most just want to go back to when there were male and female , etc.

    • @nc818
      @nc818 Год назад

      Slaves against their free will built them and this shows how revisionist history was so prevalent back then.

    • @LockportDan
      @LockportDan Год назад

      Slaveowners

  • @johnallen6945
    @johnallen6945 Год назад +9

    I can't remember the name of the town but I'm pretty sure it was in Alabama on the coast. The town was infamous as the center of organized crime in the whole south. It was nothing but bars, whorehouses and flop houses for the men of the military bases outside of town. It was said that you could get anything you wanted if you had the money. There was a lot of illicit everything that went through that town on the way to Texas.

    • @deepbludude4697
      @deepbludude4697 Год назад +6

      Biloxi MS, but most every military base I have been on has that stuff to entertain the troops

    • @davidm4255
      @davidm4255 Год назад +2

      Probably Phenix City. They made a movie about it in the 50s. "The Phenix City Story" I think you can find it on Roku.

    • @johnallen6945
      @johnallen6945 Год назад +2

      @@davidm4255 That's it! And I will watch the movie if I can. Thank you. My 71-year old mind is not as sharp as it used to be. But I remembered that place. Den of inequity.

    • @deeexxx8138
      @deeexxx8138 Год назад +1

      @@johnallen6945 Not on the coast, it's across the river from Columbus GA and Ft. Benning

    • @johnallen6945
      @johnallen6945 Год назад +4

      @@deeexxx8138 Thanks DeeExxx. I was enthralled by this video and I am hitting the road come January. I'm going to bypass Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and especially Houston,Texas , because I don't like the police there and vowed to never spend a penny of my money in those states. But by golly I am going to travel that Azalea Highway in September. To see beautiful Azaleas and flowers like that would do my heart good.

  • @chrisearles4836
    @chrisearles4836 Год назад +3

    Disappointed that they skipped over New Orleans

    • @valfletcher9285
      @valfletcher9285 Год назад

      I am glad they did. Too much hype over NOLA and lately it has really taken a tumble into violence and crime. Praying the city will keep up the historical sites until a new mayor can be brought in - same goes for Baton Rouge. These places need to clean up.

    • @robinread8010
      @robinread8010 Год назад

      How was NOLA in the 60’s? Nothing like today, I’ll bet.

  • @jochenpeiper6797
    @jochenpeiper6797 Год назад +3

    been a surfer , fisherman , hot rodder and live aboard Yacht Owner for 40 yrs. here on North Padre Island , Corpus Christie , still have Buccaner Days every year , been to South Padre , Brownsville and Matamoros a thousand times , loved to party in Matamoros , havnt been in a few yrs. , to dangerous !! really miss the America in grew up in !! now its basically '' gay africa '' ..... gonna sell my Yacht and Euro Exoticar in november , and MOVE to Jomtien Beach , Thailand !!!!!!!!!

    • @guymorris6596
      @guymorris6596 Год назад +1

      I saw the Blue Angels a few months ago at Wings Over South Texas held at Naval Air Station Kingsville.

    • @jochenpeiper6797
      @jochenpeiper6797 Год назад +2

      @@guymorris6596 yea , they seem to rotate the air shows between NAS Corpus and NAS Kingsville , if you anchor your boat in Corpus Bay bye the base runway , great view from there !! stopped in Kingsville for fuel on the way to S. Padre lots of times but never been into the actual town , im sure King Ranch is super cool !! , i was a Working Cowboy in my 20s in Wichita Falls TX , loved it !! cheers bro, from N. Padre

    • @jochenpeiper6797
      @jochenpeiper6797 Год назад

      @@SpaceInTime1885 after 40 yrs. of Yacht and Exotic Automobile Ownership , now living in a Luxury Beach Front Condo for pennies on the dollar and my retirement check allows me to Live Like a King in South East Asia , what have you done with your life besides being a bitter LOSER

  • @michaelfranklinwhibley2935
    @michaelfranklinwhibley2935 Год назад

    Do you remember the smell of the hallways in The Holiday Inns yes behind the wall there were all the plumbing for the toilets and the guy never used the proper glue that smell was poo poo Aqua poop

  • @victorparedes6887
    @victorparedes6887 Год назад +3

    lol crimes he had not committed. good one.

  • @jagboy69
    @jagboy69 Год назад +2

    What to do in Houston? That's easy, get mugged or car jacked! Too bad they spent more time on Lafitte than New Orleans. :-/

    • @STho205
      @STho205 Год назад

      New? ORLEANS?....Never heard of it.

    • @tedfox2683
      @tedfox2683 Год назад +1

      All the blacks from New Orleans move to Houston and that’s the reason why you’re getting robbed and car jacked

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад +1

      @@tedfox2683 Their Democrat leadership is the maim problem, but the hurricane helped move a lot of people there. Funny how right after Katrina, New Orleans cleaned up pretty good the next few years. Well, at least the French quarters didn't reek of piss too bad. Today, Bourbon Street is a shithole once again.🤮

    • @robinread8010
      @robinread8010 Год назад +1

      When this film was made, Houston was VIBRANT! Great memories of all the stuff to see, do, and eat back then! It wasn’t super crowded and you could go out at night.

  • @glennjames7107
    @glennjames7107 Год назад

    The woman at 45:07, looks like her left eye, might have caught the backside of her boy's right hand the night before !
    If you know what I mean.
    Ahhhh..... isn't history wonderful !
    Domestic abuse is no laughing matter !!!

    • @garypesci746
      @garypesci746 11 месяцев назад

      She also needed her dark roots touched up big time.

  • @billmeeker774
    @billmeeker774 Год назад +3

    What an interesting video back when the bravery of the Southern men was honored and not reviled as it is today. Now most of these things are either ignored or closed now to today's American families. I've been through this area and there are no freeway signs honoring anything including the gardens; much less the home of the President of the Confederacy. Today all our history has been destroyed with the removal of all symbols or honorable memory of the Southern dead who gave the last full measure for a cause they thought they were fighting to protect. I doubt by the next generation the kids will know much of anything about our nations history or anything.

    • @UnkleBot
      @UnkleBot Год назад

      you mean traitors who paid for their treason with their lives...nobody celebrates losing a war better than the south...pathetic ....lmaooo

  • @UnkleBot
    @UnkleBot Год назад +2

    poor jefferson davis and those "uncomitted" crimes lololol

  • @najadea1382
    @najadea1382 Год назад +3

    I was into until they started talking about those houses and confederates. I know my people built those houses and didn’t get to enjoy any of the nice things about the gulf coast

  • @machete454
    @machete454 Год назад +1

    It's too bad the people of today have all but ruined this area

  • @nc818
    @nc818 Год назад +6

    This entire production was wayyyy to nostalgic about the confederacy. They even skipped over New Orleans “a colorful city” to show us more boring old plantation homes

    • @whiteclifffl
      @whiteclifffl Год назад

      This was produced before America hating libs started to revise our history.

  • @jazzbo13
    @jazzbo13 Год назад +9

    5:43 Snowflakes losing their shit right now.

    • @jagboy69
      @jagboy69 Год назад +1

      That's what I thought when I saw that! "Racism on the 12th hole" F them! ;-)

    • @alanrogs3990
      @alanrogs3990 Год назад

      lol, I wish they'd just die in their own misery

    • @allen480
      @allen480 Год назад +2

      Jazzbo13. Roger that!

  • @huwzebediahthomas9193
    @huwzebediahthomas9193 Год назад +1

    Route 66 is better.

  • @piatpotatopeon8305
    @piatpotatopeon8305 Год назад +11

    I'm surprised traitors and slavers were celebrated like that.

    • @georgeadams5390
      @georgeadams5390 Год назад

      Ok

    • @josephricci7391
      @josephricci7391 Год назад +8

      troll better, that was weak.

    • @charles1964
      @charles1964 Год назад +2

      Their Democrat party legacy was in power then

    • @ikant312
      @ikant312 Год назад

      @@charles1964 yes, before they all became Republicans after the civil rights acts were passed.

    • @ikant312
      @ikant312 Год назад +4

      That’s how DeSantis wants history taught nowadays in Florida.

  • @areguapiri
    @areguapiri Месяц назад

    The narrator's info and opinions of white American history are as comical as they are nasty.

    • @BrodyYYC
      @BrodyYYC Месяц назад

      I can see from your other comments that you base EVERYTHING on skin colour. Must be a stressful life.