Looks like you ended up where you were meant to be! I'm in Canada, so I can't imagine making the move from the Great White North to somewhere warm and sunny year round! I'm attached to my frigid wasteland 😂. I always love your trips down memory lane :) Anytime you show photos of your dad I smile, I can just tell he was a wonderful man. May he rest in peace and in Christ's eternal love! ❤
I've lived there for 66 years now. I was born here. I got a boat when I was 16 and have always had a boat ever since. So I'd go the beach with my boat and pick up the hot girls. Girls love boats. I still have a boat. It's Grady White. I love the thing. As for the bars, back then it was Charlies Beach Bum Bar. It was a rock bar. It turned into a BBQ place and It's now Frenchy's Rockaway. We used to camp on Sand Key Beach. As for guitars, I could play every JB song. I still play a lot of guitar.
Thank you for mentioning the name of the original bar that is where Frenchy's is now! I've been wracking my brain for a few years trying to remember the name of the place but I have memories from the 1970s when I was on the beach with my parents on vacation, the song "Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys would play over and over on the juke box, which I think was set to blast out onto the beach, during my time playing there in the sand I must have heard it about 20 times! For whatever reason that memory stays with me, and that sunny day I built sand castles on Clearwater Beach. We would go there every single summer for a few weeks, and stayed at the Tropic Isle Motel which is now torn down, I was so sad when I saw that, it used to be right next to Frenchy's, that Cool Bar place. It looks like a city parking lot now. So sad that was torn down it was a beautiful 40's style Mom and Pop motel. The time I spent in Clearwater Beach is forever etched in my mind and I would love to return someday, we left Florida a long time ago but I hope to visit again.
Hey Jay! Seeing this video brings back a lot of memories for me too. I moved to FL when I was 9 years old in ‘88, and we would make many weekend trips to Clearwater beach as a family. Also was the place to go with the high school crowd in the mid to late 90s. So much has changed! Still live over near Safety Harbor but don’t get out to the beach nearly enough. Was just there on Friday with my wife and 6 year old boy, and always makes me realize we need to make it a priority more often!
Always love the videos dude . Clear water memories….. I remember my dad getting sun stroke while we went fishing there . I caught a hammer head shark . I was only about 16 yrs old . Captain jack was the owner of the boat . He was a singer/guitarist at night down there . Great memories
Great looking back with ya Jay. Growing up in Tarpon Springs myself Friday and Saturday nights on Clearwater Beach was a weekly occurrence during High School 94-98. I sure do miss the way things were back then as well
Definitely a time of the year when much attention is on FLA with Spring Break/Training. Thanks for doing such a great job in capturing the ambience of Clearwater Beach.🏖
I ❤ Clearwater. However I don't love how the parking garage went from 20 to 40 per day. We don't really go there now to go on the beach. I love the restaurants around that area.
Not sure if you remember a lady that worked at Crabby Bills back then whose name was Marge (red headed elderly lady) . That was my mother. I also worked there back then and ended up doing maintenance for nearly 12 years. The GM was Matt Geiss . But great video ! Living here for the past 25 years it's sad to see how the beach has changed before our very eyes. I'll subscribe ! Look forward to catching up on your content
Thanks for the tour! Moved to Dunedin 10yrs ago and hardly ever go out to Clearwater Beach. Usually go to Honeymoon Island beaches.... breakfast there 8$ lol
👋Hey, Jay! Will you be going to the Knotts Boysenberry Festival? Also, I’ve seen on RU-vid they’re almost done with the Knotts Hotel right across from the theme park. Looks swanky!!! 👻
Hi Tampa Jay! Great video! Have you ever done one of these kind of videos at St. Pete Beach? Or take a drive down RT. 19 (I think) and show all the cool shops and restaurants. I would visit St. Pete and St. Pete Beach with my Grandparents and Uncle to visit family. This was more 80s. Have you ever eaten at Ted Peters in St. Pete? I hope you make it there sometime!! Great food!! They’ve been there a very long time!
It’s very cool that you got to live truly ON Clearwater Beach when you first moved here, that’s amazing! 🌊 I also associate Clearwater with one of my first FL memories as well, when we moved here in 2015, we drove out to Clearwater with my mom (her choice, she came down from NC to help us move) and we had dinner at Frenchy’s. It was my 1st experience at any FL beach! l really need to check out that Palm Pavilion & a piña colada! 🍹
Tampa Bay love your content but I have to correct you when you were in Hogans Hangout the little figure next to Ric Flair's belt wasn't Old Ric Flair it was classy Freddie Blassie a wrestling manager famous for the saying "pencil neck geek" of course you wouldn't know that you were "attitude era" and Classy Freddie Blassie was 80's when Hulk Hogan was a huge deal. Keep up the great work!!!!
Hey Tampa Jay, I just recently discovered your channel. This is a really cool video. You mentioned the blue hotel that your family lived in, but you couldnt remember the name. I looked it up via google street view; it was called Sea Captain - Resort On The Bay.
30:48 Someone needs to make a channel where all their food orders go awry. “I ordered the kale and tofu, fake meat, 1/4 veggie patty on whole wheat pita bread, but somehow I got this double bacon, double cheeseburger on grilled sourdough. I won’t complain though, I just go with the flow.” 😆😆😆
$30 for that breakfast ? Considering that wasn't what you ordered ? It's gotta be nice not knowing the value of a dollar these days.. $30 to park ? What are you smoking ?
I've been to that Crabby's. 🦀 A few years ago I was invited to go with my Supervisor for an Origami Owl Incentive Trip. 😊 Very nice beach. 🏖 Origami Owl is known for their Living Locket Jewelry. 🦉 Thank you for taking us with you, and reminiscing. Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏
I was born in Tampa, spent many school days at the beach, it's a shame what has been done to the once beautiful Clearwater beach.. You could actually see the beach while driving! And drive and park on the beach.. City commissions,mayors and other city officials were bought and paid for by realtors
Another awesome video! My wife and I had our honeymoon in Clearwater Beach back in 1997. We stayed at that Hilton, back then it was called the Doubletree hotel. My uncle was actually the GM of the Doubletree. We moved to the Tampa area back in 2004, but had to move back to PA in 2008 because of employment. We love your videos and Chris the girl videos. Thanks to both of you for bringing our Florida memories back and we hope to be back down there someday.
Really enjoyed this video. Lots of info on old school Clearwater Beach. Grew up there in the 80s and 90s and at that time they only had one multistory hotel on the beach the rest was like you pointed out two story orignal hotels. We used to skimboard out on the main beach and the hotel at the time decided they owned the beach. So theyd send out the security guard and threaten to call the police. Clearwater Beach was a small beach community back then and having a hotel claim ownership on a beach we would skimboard on was foreign to us so wed just ignore them and keep skimboarding after a flew expletives were thrown back and forth. Clearwater Beach has changed so much over the years. But I guess from being Americans best beach so many years in a row would lead to those changes. I'm more of a me and about three other people on the beach type of dude at 4pm. I think you got a virgin because your straw has a condom on it. Dope video homey you get the locals approval on this one!
Hi Jay, Super awesome video dude. Love when you show before and after pics and share memories. Look forward to the next cool adventure. Have a great day buddy. You're always awesome. 😊👊❤
😢 I love my freaky Tiki I used to shop there all the time when I lived on Clearwater Beach By the way you do know that when you go to Clearwater Beach and go to the stores and restaurants if you show your ID and prove that you're a local you get a local discount
From the thumbnail I thought you actually met Hulk Hogan lol, but still looks like a fun experience. I definitely felt the emotion when you were talking about your family and where you lived. Thanks for taking us along on the tour.
WOW!!! Clearwater beach brings back alot of memories for me as well. I remember clearwater beach in the 80's and 90's. My word, so much has changed. So grateful that memories never go away. I sure do miss the good old days!
That was pretty cool that you got to see how your life was when you first moved to the area. I could only imagine how the rent is now at that place your family lived in. Btw at 32:08 that’s a figure of Classy Freddie Blassie a legendary heel manager.
Thanks for sharing your memories with us TJ ... it's amazing how much the change is everywhere ans glad u can share it with us.. ❤ ans have for an ever moment for you..
Jay, i like watching your stuff.. Does the city own the beach where they were renting the beach stuff , or was that a hotel that " leases" the beach to that concession stand ?
Where the Ric Flair belt was that was actually an action figure of wrestling manager “Classie” Freddie Blassie….who was Hulk Hogan’s 1st manager when Hogan was a heel.
I was Happy after I HEARD (not an Amber alert) Hulk Hogan turned away from scientology. his new wife was a member. hulk tried to sue the operator of the you tube channel, 'growing up in scientology', but the suit was dismissed. // now HH is out of that church/faith at least that is the word.
Your very lucky to live in Florida during your best times your life I only live there and till I was 3 in key west visit every summer, but God how I miss Florida I haven’t been back there since about 19 or 20 and they’re about to turn 49 damn, how time flies
Thank you for this video Jay, I have recently been following you through Adam The Woo's videos and getting to know you better. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thanks TJ for taking us down memory lane. I love Clearwater beach and hope to one day relocate to that area. Last time I was there we ate at the Palm Pavilion, it was awesome.
Thanks for sharing your memories here. I have a few of my own visiting clw beach while i lived in pinellas county, now in tampa. Good times liked the palm pavilion, never went to crabbys there but went to the irb one. Did one christmas at that hotel restaurant.
