Instagram - AdamTheWooATW Another fun backroad day in North Carolina, with luck I’ll be home two weeks from today .Make sure you check out RU-vid/CoastalThings who showed me around in the video
Thank you for the show today Adam I’m not sure Chad brought that Woo enthusiasm he kinda sucked the life out of your show today we all can’t be Carolina Tony’s I guess Either way I enjoyed it thank you
I don’t always make comments but I’ve been enjoying your travels and it’s always good to see your mom. Love her! Also enjoying your guests. Take care and God bless you! ❤️
Adam, the architecture you keep calling “hollywood architecture” is actually called Art Deco. It started in France in early 20th century but is found all over the world.
Earl Scruggs! Wow! That brings back memories. My dad played in some honky tonk bands and was a big fan of Earl Scruggs. Oh, and the one sign said non ethanol gas. lol!! So cool to see this vlog. Been thinking of moving to North Carolina now that I'm retired. Thank you to Adam the Woo and Coastal Things! Enjoyed this ! :D Stay safe and warm! :D
Little more info on the Boiling Springs that town was named for ......... The Springs never was boiling , it just give the appearance of Boiling from the bubbling water coming from ground , so they called it The Boiling Springs ! Ive lived in Boiling Springs my whole life since 70's
***You're absolutely wonderful on your own, Adam.👏 Having a local individual who can flesh out details, and knows backstories, must be really helpful, in some of the towns you pass through. Either way... WIN WIN for us. Thank you, we're all loving this roadtrip. 🤠👏🤗
I actually live in the small town of Boiling Springs , I was shocked to find out Adam the Woo was in my town yesterday filming ........ matter of fact . I was watching some of Adam's videos as he was within one mile of my house and had no idea he was here !
Hey Adam! I meant to say this the other day but of course I forgot... 🤷♂️ Anyway, you have occasionally mentioned that you would like to have a classic truck, when you do a classic car alert, and when I saw the pickup that was your grandpa's and was still sitting at his property I immediately shouted out to myself "there is your classic truck!" (I was alone, no one heard me, but I still wanted to put it out into the universe! Haha). Not sure who technically "owns" it as far as who it may have gone to in his will, but if no one in your family wants it, then I think you should absolutely have it restored so that you can both have your classic truck as well as pay homage to your grandpa. I'm sure you've already thought of that or it's been mentioned but just in case I wanted to say it. Thank you for all of these videos, they are incredible and I know I'm not the only one who's lovin' em.
This video was kind of bittersweet. I went to school at the college where the Boiling Spring is located. It’s a wonderful place. In the 1990s, the spring had a structure around it that made it appear like a gazebo from a distance. Really sad to see what has become of Earl Owensby Studios. I interviewed him in an office at the studio for a college class assignment. He was very gracious with his time. I even wrote about the experience in my book, The Homeless Man’s Journal. One of my professors, the late John Brock, was a producer on some of his movies, including Hyperspace with Chris Elliot and Paula Poundstone. Eaten at Italian Garden more times than I can count back in the day. As explained in the video, the restaurant still has the floor that slants toward the back of the establishment, where the screen used to be. While it’s neat to see the little town where I went to college, it’s heartbreaking to see Owensby’s studio in that kind of shape. Earl Owensby is a true “something from nothing” story. He was adopted as a baby and grew up poor, but followed his dreams and established that studio. Thought you might check out the Silver Bullet (1985) filming locations while around Wilmington.
I was born in Shelby and grew up in Kings Mountain. I am very familiar with the whole Cleveland County area. There is a lot to see there. One of my best friends from high school loved those peach Nehi's. That Rogers theater has had several attempts at re-imagining but none were successful. I went there when it was a movie theater. Try the Shelby Diner. It has been around about 100 years. Boiling does not always mean hot. I can also mean rising up.
Hey Adam! Love your Americana videos! You need to see the original Coke mural on the side of Young Brothers Pharmacy in Cartersville, Georgia. Of course, they have touched it up throughout the years. They also have one of the first independent Coke bottling facilities there. The bldg is something else now, but the beautiful architecture and signage are still there. While you're there, you have to eat at the 4-way diner (a relic in itself). Plus, so much more to see/do! Safe travels brother!
Another winner Adam. Most all theatres in the 30's-40's across the country were built (or remodeled) in the Art Deco Streamline Moderne style...Rogers is from '36 and asking $ is 150K
Shelby is a cute town! I always wanted to see some The Hunger Games locations. Growing up in NC it was always said it was 2nd in filming locations next to CA. It has a long-distinguished filming (movie & TV) history - many greats filmed there, all or parts of, especially in Wilmington area or the mountains - Dirty Dancing, The Green Mile, parts of Forrest Gump, Bull Durham, The Last of the Mohicans, Deliverance, The Color Purple, Matlock, Days of Thunder, The Fugitive, Dawsons Creek, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Crow, one Tree Hill, Patch Adams, Junebug, The Conjuring, Halloween Kills, The Hunt for Red October…and even Muppets Space 😆 - just to name a tiny few 🎬🎥👏 And don’t get me started on some great music legends from NC…
Yes the place where Dirty Dancing was filmed was beautiful. My brother lived near Asheville for years. Anyway that beautiful lake drained out by itself. It had started refilling but then drained again last I heard.
@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage That lake is in VA with the hotel in the background. The old dance hall, the cabins, and some other locations were filmed in Lake Lure NC. It has been demolished.
Hey Adam! Huge fan of your vlogs! If you're ever in Hickory, NC and need a guide around I'm totally down to help! I've lived in the area for about 3 years and Doordash every night so I've seen some interesting places around here. Also I live less than 10 minutes away from the Henry River Mill Village where the District 12 scenes in The Hunger Games was filmed! It's a cool/creepy place, but you gotta call the owner ahead if time to explore it. Let me know if you'd like to take me up on that!
If you're paying huge mark-ups for a hamburger, you never have a right to complain about not having any money. Especially in your senior years. Learn to cook, and probably how to shop. Ain't you learned nothing'?
Adam, one of the nicest little one stop light towns that you should visit is called Ellerbe, NC located about 75 miles east of Charlotte. The main road through it is business US Hwy 220. The claim to fame is that it was the last home of wrestling legend Andre the Giant who's old home is located a few miles west of the town off scenic Hwy. 73 in rolling hills and timbered forest. Ellerbe was also home to race card legend Benny Parsons. There is a springs here as well you guessed it, called Ellerbe Springs which was a draw for early travels who came to drink the water and bath in it believing that it had healing properties. Today, it is a popular destination to visit because of the two-story bed and breakfast house that has stood there for many years. I'm not sure if it still is but there was also a fine dining restaurant within the house as well. Besides all this, the little town boast some nice antique shops and a world class museum called the Rankin Museum. Dr. Pressley Rankin was a locale legend. He traveled the world gathering artifacts and had a huge collection of which part of was used to create the museum. Of special note is one of the best native American artifact collections in the state. There is also a wonderful array of taxidermy exotic animals from all over the world, fossils, minerals and local and state historical artifacts including early medical devices since he was a doctor. There is even Civil war items. Added more recently there is a special section just for Andre that one should see that has many of Andres personal items in it. Just south of town is a locally popular farmers market store with fruits, vegetables, crafts, jams, jellies, etc. with a building shaped like a huge strawberry that sells ice cream! The country side around Ellerbe, especial to the west along Hwy 73 is one of the most beautiful country drives in the state and carries you through the last remnant "hills" and hardwood forest that you will see once you leave the Piedmont region heading east towards the coast. I highly recommend this little town Adam for you to visit. There is also a couple of local dining spots there as well.
The Movie...Rutherford County Line, filmed in the late 70's, was about my cousin Damon Husksey, and loosley based on the murder of his brother, my uncle Roy, and other police officers, in 1978ish. I was a little girl at Harris Elementary School when uncle Roy was shot and killed by James Hutchins, who was later executed. Earl Owensby made all thisninto a movie called Rutherford County Line. I am a Rutherford County girl and a proud member of this family.
What a great little places love the buildings . Its fantastic you have youtubers on and able to increase there subs . I've discovered some great channels from these vids .
I grew up in a small town in Tennessee called Red Boiling Springs it was known for its mineral springs in the 1920s and on. They had some grand hotels that were pretty grand. Lol a great time to be a kid in the 60 and 70s what a life , I can tell some stores. Great shows Adam Peace
Thanks Adam for another great vlog from small towns here in NC!! I've been thru Shelby and Boiling Springs on a motorcycle, but didn't know all the interesting facts. Special thanks to Chad for your wealth of knowledge...going to check out Coastal Things
Are you sure that guy grew up in the area? He barely mentioned Earl Scruggs and never mentioned Don Gibson at all .He didn't show you the Don Gibson Theater either .
You should come roadtrip through the town that the Majestic was filmed in, its called Ferndale and its on the coast in Northern California in Humboldt county. Its a cool old town with lots of beautiful Victorian style homes.
Thanks for teaming up with other RU-vid channels. It’s been a lot of fun discovering the variety of new RU-vid channels. I enjoyed this video with Coastal Things. My channel and his are pretty similar(hiking and walking channel), and I always enjoy a good hiking channel. And after checking out his channel, I subbed to it.
Parkton, North Carolina only has 1 light in its little town. It used to be just a flashing caution light. I’m not sure if they have improved it or not. That town is so small that if you sneeze, you’ll miss it 😄
Having lived in this area til last year, yes, that IS the spring the town sprouted up around. Apparently, in the early 1900s the town leaders messed the spring up. They were trying to enlarge it. They used explosives.
If you're still in the area come this Saturday, The Haunted Farm Hendersonville NC will be open for our Love You to Death 4 event! We'd love to have you come by and explore our haunted attraction!
It's funny he said that if you were looking for someone at the fair they would page you to the waterwheel. At the South Carolina State Fairgrounds, there is an ICBM on display and they always page people to the rocket if you were looking for someone. Thanks for the video.
I enjoy your videos, Adam :) Thanks for sharing! I would love it if you could make some content from South Port (filming locations from IKWYDLS and Safe Haven to mention a few) and Wilmington (Dawsons Creek, One Tree Hill etc.) Love from Norway
Awesome Thank You for showing off Shelby NC area. To bad Earl Scruggs museum was closed, I should have looked at the hours when I suggested it to you. Hope you got to have lunch at Shelby Cafe and have a Garbage Platter ❤️😋 My son will be going to Gardner Web this year and now we know where to find the Boiling (bowling) Spring at on Campus, so cool. Thank you
Was just at south of the boarder and as of 2/8/22 at 1:16 pm your sticker is still there undisturbed. Don’t kid yourself. I thought about snatching it as a Souvenir but I didn’t lol
I lived in NC for about 4 years. I’ve never heard of a lot of these towns. Nice to see the NC we missed. We spent most of our time in the area around our city and the beaches. Wish we would have explored some of the mountain towns and areas.
This was cool to see! I graduated from GWU there and lived off campus my last year in Mooresboro. In my time there I had heard the rumor that the spring used to bubble more, but they wanted to make it bubble even more so they used dynamite, but it was unsuccessful and ended up making it even more still.
WOW! Shelby is the next town of any size down the road from Forest City, which is where my momma was born and raised! Additional notes: I had two cousins that attended Gardner Webb College in Boiling Springs One of my best friends from high school lived in Mooresboro, which I believe to be just over the county line in Rutherford County (we pronounced it 'more's-burro", as in 'more's the pity" I heard that in addition to Earl Scruggs, Leon Rippy (search "The Patriot" and "Saving Grace" was from Shelby. If he wasn't, he sure sounds like it. 😆
That 'Old Hollywood' theater's style is called Art Deco or Art Nouveau, depending on its date of completion. It's style is what made the Great Gatsby famously attractive to the new generations. This is an irreplaceable and unreplicable type of architecture that should be seen as criminal to destroy. What many people don't know is that succeeding to place a structure on the National Historical Registry oftentimes only leads to time (and vandals) destroying it, instead of instantly by our profiteering condo-corrupt local government and their gentrification-loving real estate friend's demolition crews. Once on the list fundraising is up to whoever owns it-including the city, who in turn has the right to just let it sit-especially if it's not up to code adding to the costs. Still, I'd rather look at this all say long than Any condo design I've witnessed in my 49 yrs of life! Beyond the lavish design of the Victorian era, it is the very last of its type to marry Extravagant artistic design with functioning architecture. Even back in the 1890's when Art Nouveau began, it cost millions in today's cash value to complete. Same goes for the Deco movement of the 1920's & 1930's. Just for the mere pleasure of combining the unprecedented imaginative skill of glass, woods, metals, marble and stonework artists along with engineers and architects at the very top of their fields, working both inside and out for the sole purpose of pure joy. They took the necessary [ a structure dedicated to purpose driven by need or popular demand] and turned it into functioning top of the line functioning art. Which today, through its rare and few survivors, is available for the average person to enjoy via venues like this magnificent example here, should anyone again choose to invest in the future by preserving the lost past. I'm up to speed with today's definition of lavish, excessive living. (I binge a young real estate agent's channel based on global multi million and billion dollar properties on the market today.) Atrophied is the best description I can express for those who consider that luxury. Soulless, sad, empty and artless only begins to describe the modern offerings purchased at that price tag. Buildings like this one serve to remind us of the handmade Human Skill that pushes the imagination's limits while retaining a warmth despite functionality's stubborn boundaries. That is necessary for truly retaining one's spot in the Lap of luxury. To me, raw nature is the only thing that can beat well skilled craftsmanship. Aside from disallowing our kids to be consumed by LED, digital and everything plastic (ciao, hardwood floors or valuing anything handmade...), there are literally techniques and skills here that have been lost or are being lost to time through the deaths of elder mentors and master craftspeople. This is in arguably a necessary piece of history. {And so concludes my rant for the day!!}
Great idea for taking a photo. Great another person who knows the town love the tour guides. Now that is some mural. The theater design looks like art deco. I get soo sad when they tear down building that have history attached to them. Thank You for sharing.
Adam you pronounced it properly mooresboro, just like mooresville. Country pronunciation mo’sboro. I’ve lived in NC for 65 years. There’s country pronunciation and there’s city pronunciation. You also pronounced Boiling Springs properly as well. Country people do not use the oi sound.
Gibsonville, NC. Quintessential small town. An old train town, "The City of Roses" has that quaint main street you love. I visit there from PA often because my brother lives there. Peace & prayers.
I love these type of towns.. Quaint, plain. A throw back to times gone bye. Many of these throw back towns exist. Here in Alabama there plentiful. Scattered through out the state.
You sure make my day your travels are just wonderful. I sip coffee and feel like I'm right there with you. Thanks for sharing and your so goofy at times makes me laugh. Your friend mike from Oklahoma
Another awesome video, Adam. Love to see you here in NC. Please come out here to eastern NC--my law office is in Greenville--it's beautiful out here and east toward Bath (the oldest NC town) and Kitty Hawk. And my wife and sons would flip to see you covering our area.
You are right Matt he could do couple weeks worth of vids down east with all the little towns from where you are down to Beaufort would be great! btw Hi from Snow Camp NC he was here few days ago @ Sword of Peace ( An outdoor drama) that has exiting structures from the Under Ground Railroad on its grounds very few folks in the area havnt a clue ! Wish it couldve been mentioned on his vid here but so few realize it.
The Tour De Pont was a huge American professional bike race that came through NC yearly. That is what the mural of the bikers and the comments about the bike race. NC has had quite a few professional cycling events. The largest was the Tour de Pont, but we consistently host IronMan's and even the US Cycling National Race to determine who wears the National Champion kit for the international races.
There are actually 4 Hunger Games movies. 1. The Hunger Games 2. Catching 🔥Fire 3. Mockingjay Part 1. 4. Mockingjay Part 2. There is also a prequel of The Hunger Games supposedly about to go into production and filming for a 2023 US Release. If that does indeed come to fruition, there will be 5 Hunger Games movie. And yes I know I am a 🤓geek. It's fine I'm okay with that 🙂👍😎.
Y'all can see Beverly Hillbillies and hear Earl Scruggs diddy on Pluto TV, 24/7. Also, Let's do not forget "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", A Scruggs tune that will live in infamy. Talking about Earl Scruggs, you may as well check out his partner, Lester Flatt. I do not know anybody that does not know this, lol.
ATW, loving your channel! I'm not throwing rocks at your guest but he give you a little unintentional misinformation. He told you that the Ballad Of Jed Clampett was written by Earl Scruggs. That's incorrect. If you're interested, the Ballad Of Jed Clampett was written by Paul Henning, sang by Lester Flatt and the banjo was Earl Scruggs. Together they were Flatt and Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys. They we part of The Grand Ole Opry which was about the highest achievement of the time for musicians. They also performed songs such as Foggy Mountain Breakdown and the theme song to Petty Coat Junction. Back then as a kid, bluegrass was a staple in my house. Ok, have a great day, "shall you"! -Russ
Adam...maybe this was named Boiling Springs because there was already a Hot Springs North Carolina!!! It's a cute little mountain town close to the Tennessee state line. You should visit there!
I grew up close to there. Hiddenite, North Carolina. Moved away as soon as I was old enough, could'nt handle the liberal run county of Alexander. I do miss my Cheerwind and Mallow cups, which can only be found in North Carolina. I was born in the bedroom of my grannies house in Mt. Pilot from Mayberry R. F. D. Which is actually Pilot Mt.
Cool!! I went one semester at Gardner Webb, fall of 1983. I became to homesick & came home. To Columbus GA, where you were at the beginning of your road trip.
This is awesome and amazing I love this and I like this is amazing and I like this my name is Craig king from south west wales in Pembrokeshire in Haverfordwest
I love that old theatre. We have the old Tower Theatre in the Tower District. I all but grew up there, as my grandparents on my mother's side, had a house on North Adoline, between the Tower District and Roeding Park. My grandfather was a mechanic for the City of Fresno, which owns that park. He'd give my parents tickets for Rotary Playland and we enjoyed that so much. One of my grandfather's friends was Dr. Paul Chaffee, the director of the zoo. He was one of my grandfather's pall bearers at his funeral.
u should be ashamed of yourself for taking any money for possibly the worst tour I've ever heard-so much more than you tell-Earl S. was my mother's cousin, so I know the area and you sure blew this outstanding town. You know nothing about it and certainly didn't try to learn prior to making this video along w/many other of these videos!
"Hollywood style" architecture is just art deco - which became popular in the mid 1920s and 1930s - the start of the golden age of Hollywood. So it is no surprise that most theaters were built around that time and in the architecture style of the era.
