"Tenaha, Timpson, BoBo and Blair" was the name of an OLD Tex Ritter Song my dear Mother-in-law would sing every time we went to my Husband's Grandmother's house near Timpson. Those were train stops back in the 20's & 30's and how most traveled between small farming towns back then. In 1976, when my husband and I married, we lived with my inlaws out of Shelbyville, in a small community called Huxley. It was just 2 miles from the Huxley Bay Marina on Toledo Bend. He drove a chicken hauling truck as his job at the time. WOW!! Thanks for the Happy Memories this one brought back to me. My husband passed away very unexpectedly 4 years ago.
Miss those big old pine trees , I was born in Lufkin in 1951 and then my parents moved to Tyler and I loved living in east Texas, it's so beautiful ❤️ . I wish I could move back there . P.S. love to all my Doggett relatives are 💖
Overton always brings back wonderfully warm memories of my youth!In late 40’s early 50s the town was really alive and growing! I was borne in Henderson TX. So it wasn’t a problem visiting friends in Overton. The buildings were full of businesses. East Texas was magical place to grow up.
One of the reasons I enjoy your videos beside they are well done and you make me feel like I've been there, is the fact you are an admirer of architecture. As I am I like the older buildings and homes. I guess that's why I live in a 130 year old home. Thanks for the great videos. I look forward to them.
I been a trucker over 40 yrs. I can tell you the best place in this country, the worst, where you want to be and why.Cost of that part of America and anything else you need to know!!!!
I love the old buildings and think of how they could be restored and brought back to life. How wonderful it would be if people could appreciate what was once a thing of beauty
There was a Dollar General spotted not only in Teneha but also, at the video's very outset, in Overton. A lovely gazebo in Rusk's central park and another one (may have been in Tempsen) with a canvas covered line of folding chairs facing it. Likely there was or shall be an outdoor country concert in the gazebo. In Overton, the Sexton and Coolidge buildings, both built in the early 1930's, as you reported, though separated, had their facades built of the same kind of beautiful tan-colored brick. Lastly, we all applaud your laudable albeit ambitious goal of videoing every landed space of sparsely populated rural America. Wonderful idea! Your loyal followers will stick with you and I expect and hope you'll get many more.
It's unfortunate what Dollar General is doing, they supply more unhealthy food & this seems to be cutting into the amount of money that would be made by a true grocery store, now if they offered the full line of products that the small guy did then it wouldn't be a big deal but Dollar General is kind of a throw away store if you ask me they aren't providing the community anything it didn't already have. When possible I realize this fact and shop at the small guy regardless of the price because if the small guy goes away entirely then the town will have lost the better service. Dollar General is way too small and limited to give people the basic things that they need.
Thanks for filming my backyard. I’m a transplant from rural Oklahoma but have lived in East Texas for more than 50 years. All of these locations are home. It’s a wonderful place to rear children. Ya’all come back now.
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Many parts of East Texas Hill Country is absolutely gorgeous! Btw, back in Carthage where you saw Jesus carrying the older man, that inspiration comes from the last line in Footprints In The Sand that reads, He Whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you!”
This region of Texas is called The Piney Woods. Yes there are hills but The Hill Country of Texas is more towards the center of the state. Not a big deal. Not as bad as the opening of one of my favorite TV shows. "Young Sheldon" is set in East Texas but in the opening they show the family with mountains in the background. Totally not East Texas!
I'm from Nederland, TX and I have seen many of these places. I love passing through lesser known small towns while on the road. I live in Chicago now, and I miss driving through these areas. I'm having a lot of fun watching your series, thanks!
When I was a little kid I always watched a TV show called on the road the host was Charles Curalt he traveled in an RV or at least they made it appear as such. He did as you are searching the backroads of America for good stories to show the viewers of course he had a fairly good production budget i think so he was able to do in depth interviews of people and places. If you haven’t seen any of his shows you may find them interesting. One of my bucket list items is to go to some places he went to observe the progress since his visits.
And Bigfoot from what I’ve heard, but what would I know I only owned a farm and restaurant and bar in the same Houston national forest several Bigfoot hunters came in for a brew and a pie
My Mama's side of the family is from East Texas. My great grandparents was born near Jacksonville and my grandpa and his brothers and sisters were born close to Jacksonville in a small community called Larissa which is on highway 175. You can see the houses they and my great grandma grew up in from the highway. At one point back in 2008 my great grandmama was the oldest person alive in Jacksonville and the surrounding area. She passed away at the age of 109 years old. We had her funeral at the big church in Jacksonville, I forgot the name of it. I love East Texas and seeing all the trees and the landscape. I live in the Lubbock area, and we have nothing but cotton farms and a lot of dirt lol
This is jus AWESOME, I've been wanting to do this exact traveling expoditions, in these small Texas towns but without enogh resources, it's just undoable😭😭 I'm glad your doing this, I love LEE ANN WOMACK, NICE TO SEE, SHE WAS BORN THERE, WOWWW!!! THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME 😁☺️👍 MORE PLEASE. 👋👍
I’m from Longview, grandpa is from ore city. The best people and the best living there is. Close to Shreveport, and 2 hours from Dallas. Overton has a prison and Henderson has the State prison. There was a movie made from Carthage about the undertaker . And I can just go on. And the food is awesome, and some of the best bass fishing at Lake O The pines.
I used to run 911 as a Paramedic in Henderson. Lovely town. I lived in Tyler and of all the smaller towns in East TX, Henderson was one of my favorites.
I grew up in a town close to Shreveport, Louisiana called Bossier City. Very familiar with Carthage Texas. The movie you talked about Bernie wasn't just a movie, it was a real murder. In a small town like Carthage it was a horrible thing.
😃🤗So thrilled to see you visit Henderson and Carthage- proud to say that we live between those two towns, in the beautiful, quiet Pineywoods! (Glad that you were successfully able to avoid the tornados in our area that weekend… that Friday night was a real nail biter!!🫣😅)
One thing I noticed about all of these Texas small towns is how spread out and spacious they really are! If you have lived in the northeast like I have you would appreciate the spaciousness and the ease of finding a parking space! Whatever "Personality" Jacksonville may lack in its buildings and businesses it sure makes up for it in that high school football stadium! That high school stadium looks fancier and more stylish than all of the college football stadiums that I have ever been to, including the one at the college that I went to! I really love the look and style of that stadium!
We folks pay well for sports programs. Very poor and depression in these towns as interstate 45 created a new way to travel mile marker 1 in Galveston up to Oklahoma.
Hi Lord Spoda A good trip in rural Texas. It's a wonder. As you enter a different state you see a distinctly different architecture. Many of the houses in rural small towns are brightly colored. It's a difficult and hard job filming those odd places. Appreciate your tenacity. Thank you for these informative and entertaining videos.
Enjoy your array of videos. Fresh and simple and always interesting, citing little things - both unnoticed and obvious - with the resultant query or story on any given topic. Yet, during your Overton segment here (@6.10) noting the typically found neglect and decay of these small towns, how did you, Mi Lord, not notice the new windows/door frame on that building on the 'main drag' and wondered... then you'd have discovered that antique car behind the glass?! Coulda been a whole wide wondering story right there! Nonetheless - great storylines, insights, assessments and good viewing on all these topics you do that people just wouldn't know of without your explorations! Thanks. Keep on Bronco'ing . . .
G'day mate. Watching from Australia. I've just stumbled across your channel. I would love to visit some of these smaller towns in your country. They fascinate me. Just like the smaller towns in Oz land. Its on my bucket list for sure. Hearing your Australian Siri also makes me smile. Take care mate. Youve got a new subsrciber.
Awesome, Greg! Australian Siri has become one of this channel's personalities. In an upcoming video, I'm going to name the Bronco "Sheila" because she talks with an Australian accent. :)
TEXAS my favorite State, where I was BIG and famous in Radio broadcast out of Houston in the 90's to 105 Cities Nationwide on the Q-morning Zoo! Hung out with all the Rock Stars, Movie and TV Stars. I've visited EVERY State in America. Charming, Quaint, back-roads of East Texas - sorry you missed the most important City, Nacogdoches, The oldest Town in Texas, College of SFA.-where I got my BA, Nacogdoches, it is mentioned in 2 John Wayne movies as, Big Jake - he says to a bad guy "you must be from Nacogdoches". I did take an old train ride in Rusk back in 85 with a girlfriend, Thanks for the Charming videos, I LOVE old movie theaters too, I managed one with 3 pictures houses built in the 1930's in Wharton Texas, downtown square, where I went to Jr. College, cute town. Now Im in Florida, and I really dont know why - this makes me want to move back to TEXAS!
I also really like how you give the numbers about each town, that’s pretty awesome.I travel the country in much the same manner. I guess I enjoy looking at the architecture and different places
My late husband grew up in Rusk and his brother still lives there his other brother is in Nagadoches and one passed in Tyler and one more brother lives in Jacksonville I went to Rusk in 1999 drove around the square and that was it
You should go see Jefferson, Texas. It used to be a port town but when they dynamited the Red river log jam the level of lake Cado dropped some 10 feet leaving Jefferson high and dry.
You also missed the Killough monument which commemorated the last and largest Cherokee battle. Jacksonville is located in Cherokee county. This is why the theater in Rusk was called Cherokee. It is also why the Fighting Indians with Native American Chief monument is for Jacksonville High School.
I drove truck back in the 1970s L.A. to Houston and all over Texas Rio Grande Valley Good 2 lane roads. Lots of little redneck towns friendly people! Good times!
That old theater reminds me of the grand days of The Gem theater in Galena Park TX. As a kid, I saw a lot of movies there. It closed down around 1970 and eventually was made into a church.
Joe, When you stared this East Texas trip you weren't far from a UA-camr I watch and have been watching for almost 7 years he's got almost 2 million followers on Facebook and lots on UA-cam. (Ima survivor Sanctuary) Lester Morrow about 15 other family members on UA-cam on dad's land in Plum Grove. Texas. Super good people.
I live in Overton for my first 25 years of life. Hate how much the town is neglected. Was a nice quiet town. Still have family there. Hopefully one day the city can get stuff together and make it where people want to stay there again instead of running everyone away.
Yes!! I live 2 miles away in New London and I went to elementary and middle school there. The buildings have a lot of potential to be absolutely beautiful. They need to keep up their old buildings like Kilgore or Henderson does.
I love those old theaters -here in Statesboro our old theater was transformed into a theater-lol-plays,recitals,performances,music acts -these buildings are way too precious to abandon them because a multiplex is more modern.
You missed a great opportunity at the reason for the mural in Rusk. The Texas state railroad, the world's longest state park runs from Palestine to Rusk with old steam locomotives. It would have been a great video for your audience and an adventure for you. It was neat to see my old stopping ground in East Texas, particularly what I consider my home, Timpson.
That’s a really nice area. You’re in in Houston county Texas alto is right next to Rusk. I’ve spent a lot of days and nights in alto in Rusk Texas is where the state hospital used to be lots of crazy stories about the state hospital.
I love to travel and check out off the beaten path towns but I rarely get to do so. I live in Arizona but when I get the opportunity’s to go east, like Florida, I take all the back roads I can find. Thanks for sharing your travels with me.
Been about 20-years since I've been there myself. Looks about like I remember it. That little band of Texas along it's East border is certainly an unique part of the state. In a lot of ways it resembles areas in other states more than it does the rest of Texas.
We love East Texas, and our families have owned lake houses there since the early 60s. In Texas, there is a great app to locate and document all of the historical markers across the state. We use ir sometimes when traveling the back roads and enjoyed learning some local history along the way. It’s called Texas Historical Marker Guide.
10:07 what a magnificent house. I did a little sleuthing and found it, it was built in 1934, is 4,739 sq ft and on a .75 acre lot. What's odd is that google street view shows an image capture of March 2023 with the burnt garage being repaired, but this video we're watching indicates it was uploaded 1 year ago, leaving me to conclude July 2023. So perhaps he recorded this months prior? Anyway, I would love to see the inside of that house, I bet it's amazing.
Speaking of Sandy Duncan. Her TV show had her beiing from Taylorville Illinois., my home town. In the day she came there and the city made a big whoop-T-do of it . They named a street after her, declared a Sandy Duncan Day, gave her a key to the city. Taylorville Il is dying, too.
if mega stores and warehouses didn’t take most of the customers maybe these old downtowns might still be thriving. I’m nostalgic but I miss the tiny bakery, shoe store, sporting goods store, barber shop. All part of my childhood in a town just 20 minutes south of Portland, OR.
That's one thing you don't see at all in northern metro and suburban areas. Abandoned houses. There used to be when I was a kid, but I guess real estate is too valuable to let houses just anymore.
My dad, my brother and I refurbished an old building near the Orange County Courthouse in Texas. It did not survive the onslaught of Hurricane Rita in 2004. So many old buildings are begging to be redone.
very interesting. there is a Jacksonville FLA too, we lived there for awhile. i watch some of those urban explorers that explore abandoned homes. its interesting and sad at the same time. good video, thanks for sharing
The State of Texas has a website that tells about the history of most towns and cities. Overton and Henderson prospered during the East Texas Oil Field boom. Overton died out as the wells became depleted. Carthage is the county seat of Panola County that's chock full of natural gas wells. The county once supplied the USA with 20% of it's natural gas. Too bad you didn't visit Daddy Sam's Bar-b-que & Bail Bonds. That's where Bernie, his lawyer Scrappy Holmes, the judge and DA went to lunch and ate together during the trial. Their downtown was revitalized by the Texas Main Street program. Their high school has been a Texas Football powerhouse for decades just like the Longview Lobos with both poised to win their division's state championships this year. Tenaha and Timpson have saw mills and chicken farms along with a growing Hispanic population that like to paint their businesses with bright colors. The two also have very good high school football teams. The new interstate I-69 will run by them so should be experiencing increased economic growth.
I live here in Longview tx and have run around in all these little towns. Welcome to East Texas. New London also lost about I forget maybe 60 kids or more when a gas leak blew up the school years ago.
What cool old buildings still standing ! The little shop with lights @5:15 is a barber shop. The vertical multi-colored ribbon sign is the traditional "Barbers Pole" symbol (for barber shop).
I have a family member that lives in Jacksonville it's a sleepy little town when you cross over the bridge the reason why they built the bridge cuz people used to rob the bank that's why they built the bridge and Bonnie and Clyde used to go down there
Im a country boy. I love hunting,fishing. Loud cars, guns and loud music. My nearest naighbor is a mile away and i will never let my yard turn into a trash pile. People that have trash in their yard are modtly lazy bumbs collecting a welfare check.
henderson. i used to be there often when i was a kid. dad worked in produce. watermelons were big . the sheriff was i swear the inspiration for bufford t. justice. tatum brown. bigger than life. he didn't have a junior, but a deputy who once got mad at his car and shot it.....close enough. summers are H O T. leave your footprints in the asphalt. people were rather nice. and the radio station was the "little red barn on top of the hill". and it was indeed just that :)
Grew up in a small town with two dissecting streets like a cross, when I see a town. like this I feel a home even if my 5k town was in California and the house I grew up in is worth a million dollars.
Tex Ritter had a famous song "Teneha, Timpson, Bobo and Blair" about the train through all four towns. Jacksonville was rated the biggest ghetto in all Texas. Their stadium is the "Tomato Bowl".
"Tenaha, Timpson, BoBo and Blair" was the name of an OLD Tex Ritter Song my dear Mother-in-law would sing every time we went to my Husband's Grandmother's house near Timpson. Those were train stops back in the 20's & 30's and how most traveled between small farming towns back then. In 1976, when my husband and I married, we lived with my inlaws out of Shelbyville, in a small community called Huxley. It was just 2 miles from the Huxley Bay Marina on Toledo Bend. He drove a chicken hauling truck as his job at the time. WOW!! Thanks for the Happy Memories this one brought back to me. My husband passed away very unexpectedly 4 years ago.
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I cross every part of Sabine River. Louisiana got us beat on visitors center. Coming back, we got old motels and DPS to greet us home🤣😁
I’m about 12 mi out of Nac, near Woden. Love life in the woods!!!
My husband would sing that too!
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Greetings from Switzerland. USA is a beautiful country. Love watching your videos. Lovely towns and villages, each with their own character.
Wow, coming from you that says a whole lot. Thank you so much for your comment about Texas.
as a texan thank you, switzerland is absolutely breathtaking
Miss those big old pine trees , I was born in Lufkin in 1951 and then my parents moved to Tyler and I loved living in east Texas, it's so beautiful ❤️ . I wish I could move back there .
P.S. love to all my Doggett relatives are 💖
I’m going to miss it so much. I plan on moving away when I’m older but there is really nothing like it anywhere else ❤️
Overton always brings back wonderfully warm memories of my youth!In late 40’s early 50s the town was really alive and growing! I was borne in Henderson TX. So it wasn’t a problem visiting friends in Overton. The buildings were full of
businesses. East Texas was magical place to grow up.
One of the reasons I enjoy your videos beside they are well done and you make me feel like I've been there, is the fact you are an admirer of architecture. As I am I like the older buildings and homes. I guess that's why I live in a 130 year old home. Thanks for the great videos. I look forward to them.
Thank you, RR. We are definitely on the same page. :)
Wow God is good. I literally was praying to be able to see different cities in this area to be able to decide on my next move. 🙏 God bless you sir!
I been a trucker over 40 yrs. I can tell you the best place in this country, the worst, where you want to be and why.Cost of that part of America and anything else you need to know!!!!
I love the old buildings and think of how they could be restored and brought back to life. How wonderful it would be if people could appreciate what was once a thing of beauty
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There was a Dollar General spotted not only in Teneha but also, at the video's very outset, in Overton. A lovely gazebo in Rusk's central park and another one (may have been in Tempsen) with a canvas covered line of folding chairs facing it. Likely there was or shall be an outdoor country concert in the gazebo. In Overton, the Sexton and Coolidge buildings, both built in the early 1930's, as you reported, though separated, had their facades built of the same kind of beautiful tan-colored brick. Lastly, we all applaud your laudable albeit ambitious goal of videoing every landed space of sparsely populated rural America. Wonderful idea! Your loyal followers will stick with you and I expect and hope you'll get many more.
Thank you for that, David.
I worked in Tenaha back in 1980, before I moved to Houston.
It's unfortunate what Dollar General is doing, they supply more unhealthy food & this seems to be cutting into the amount of money that would be made by a true grocery store, now if they offered the full line of products that the small guy did then it wouldn't be a big deal but Dollar General is kind of a throw away store if you ask me they aren't providing the community anything it didn't already have. When possible I realize this fact and shop at the small guy regardless of the price because if the small guy goes away entirely then the town will have lost the better service. Dollar General is way too small and limited to give people the basic things that they need.
The Rusk train😎. Especially at Christmas.
Though I wished he'd have walked in one of our German shops. I visit family out in Riverside and cut across through Trinity.
Thanks for filming my backyard. I’m a transplant from rural Oklahoma but have lived in East Texas for more than 50 years. All of these locations are home. It’s a wonderful place to rear children. Ya’all come back now.
Good evening Sir, my respect, what you want to do is a really big target, cause the US is most a rual nation.I will follow you with joy. Greatings from your German fan 👍 🇺🇸 🇩🇪.
Thank you, Uwe!
Many parts of East Texas Hill Country is absolutely gorgeous!
Btw, back in Carthage where you saw Jesus carrying the older man, that inspiration comes from the last line in Footprints In The Sand that reads,
He Whispered,
“My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you!”
I hope it isn’t on public property or paid for with tax dollars.
This region of Texas is called The Piney Woods. Yes there are hills but The Hill Country of Texas is more towards the center of the state.
Not a big deal. Not as bad as the opening of one of my favorite TV shows. "Young Sheldon" is set in East Texas but in the opening they show the family with mountains in the background. Totally not East Texas!
Love your videos its lovely to see the other side of America , the buildings have no character all of then are like boxes .
I'm from Nederland, TX and I have seen many of these places. I love passing through lesser known small towns while on the road. I live in Chicago now, and I miss driving through these areas. I'm having a lot of fun watching your series, thanks!
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When I was a little kid I always watched a TV show called on the road the host was Charles Curalt he traveled in an RV or at least they made it appear as such. He did as you are searching the backroads of America for good stories to show the viewers of course he had a fairly good production budget i think so he was able to do in depth interviews of people and places. If you haven’t seen any of his shows you may find them interesting. One of my bucket list items is to go to some places he went to observe the progress since his visits.
.Lovec his shows.
I understand that when he retired he just sat behind a desk.
He also wrote some very good books about his travels.
I grew up in the Jacksonville rusk and troup area. Its cool to see someone exploring my old home area.
East Texas Piney Woods is gorgeous, loaded with wildlife & huge trees!
And Bigfoot from what I’ve heard, but what would I know I only owned a farm and restaurant and bar in the same Houston national forest several Bigfoot hunters came in for a brew and a pie
I love watching these videos. I suffer from extreme motion sickness so you are doing the driving I dread.
One of my favorite things to do is go for a car ride to explore new places!
My Dad was born and raised in Rusk county I spent a lot of time there as a child visiting relatives in the Henderson area.
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Great commentary, it's all interesting thanks keep up the good work
Thank you, Betty.
So much fun cruising these small towns.
Thanks for taking me along!!
My Mama's side of the family is from East Texas. My great grandparents was born near Jacksonville and my grandpa and his brothers and sisters were born close to Jacksonville in a small community called Larissa which is on highway 175. You can see the houses they and my great grandma grew up in from the highway. At one point back in 2008 my great grandmama was the oldest person alive in Jacksonville and the surrounding area. She passed away at the age of 109 years old. We had her funeral at the big church in Jacksonville, I forgot the name of it. I love East Texas and seeing all the trees and the landscape. I live in the Lubbock area, and we have nothing but cotton farms and a lot of dirt lol
Jacksonville has the oldest footbridge in the state
This video is one of the main reasons why I am subscribed to your channel. I love when you do walkabouts.
That is awesome, Miles. :)
This is jus AWESOME, I've been wanting to do this exact traveling expoditions, in these small Texas towns but without enogh resources, it's just undoable😭😭 I'm glad your doing this, I love LEE ANN WOMACK, NICE TO SEE, SHE WAS BORN THERE, WOWWW!!! THANKS FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME 😁☺️👍 MORE PLEASE. 👋👍
No problem, Edsel!
Thank you for this video. Always wanted to see those towns. My daughter lives in Tyler.
I’m from Longview, grandpa is from ore city. The best people and the best living there is. Close to Shreveport, and 2 hours from Dallas. Overton has a prison and Henderson has the State prison. There was a movie made from Carthage about the undertaker . And I can just go on. And the food is awesome, and some of the best bass fishing at Lake O The pines.
I'll be visiting Longview soon!
@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip the butcher shop and Jucys has the best burgers. And Pizza King is a must . Go Lobos👍
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My grandmother lived in Henderson other family still does I grew up going to all those small towns love it there
Timpson, Tenaha, Bobo, and Blair are four towns just a little further north that found world fame due to a song during WWII.
Brought back memories, of when I used to work in East Texas.
I used to run 911 as a Paramedic in Henderson. Lovely town. I lived in Tyler and of all the smaller towns in East TX, Henderson was one of my favorites.
I grew up in a town close to Shreveport, Louisiana called Bossier City. Very familiar with Carthage Texas. The movie you talked about Bernie wasn't just a movie, it was a real murder. In a small town like Carthage it was a horrible thing.
The folks in Carthage loved Bernie and detested Margie so didn't shed any tears over her murder.
😃🤗So thrilled to see you visit Henderson and Carthage- proud to say that we live between those two towns, in the beautiful, quiet Pineywoods! (Glad that you were successfully able to avoid the tornados in our area that weekend… that Friday night was a real nail biter!!🫣😅)
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The masonry work on the old buildings is just spectacular. Once craftsmen lived in this country in great abundance but sadly they seem extinct now.
One thing I noticed about all of these Texas small towns is how spread out and spacious they really are! If you have lived in the northeast like I have you would appreciate the spaciousness and the ease of finding a parking space! Whatever "Personality" Jacksonville may lack in its buildings and businesses it sure makes up for it in that high school football stadium! That high school stadium looks fancier and more stylish than all of the college football stadiums that I have ever been to, including the one at the college that I went to! I really love the look and style of that stadium!
You make a good point. And, high school football is king in Texas.
Texas is huge! Lots of space.
We do appreciate the wide-open open Spaces we realize how lucky we are
We folks pay well for sports programs. Very poor and depression in these towns as interstate 45 created a new way to travel mile marker 1 in Galveston up to Oklahoma.
That footsteps in the sand is awesome.made me shed a tear
Me too
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A good trip in rural Texas.
It's a wonder. As you enter a different state you see a distinctly different architecture. Many of the houses in rural small towns are brightly colored.
It's a difficult and hard job filming those odd places. Appreciate your tenacity.
Thank you for these informative and entertaining videos.
Thanks, Rajeev. And you're right - the architecture does change, a lot. It's really interesting, I think.
Enjoy your array of videos. Fresh and simple and always interesting, citing little things - both unnoticed and obvious - with the resultant query or story on any given topic. Yet, during your Overton segment here (@6.10) noting the typically found neglect and decay of these small towns, how did you, Mi Lord, not notice the new windows/door frame on that building on the 'main drag' and wondered... then you'd have discovered that antique car behind the glass?! Coulda been a whole wide wondering story right there!
Nonetheless - great storylines, insights, assessments and good viewing on all these topics you do that people just wouldn't know of without your explorations! Thanks. Keep on Bronco'ing . . .
I wish I would have caught that. :)
Teneha,timpson, bobo and Blair famous song written by Tex Ritter.about four towns in east Texas
That's because tex Ritter was born in Minola.
G'day mate. Watching from Australia. I've just stumbled across your channel. I would love to visit some of these smaller towns in your country. They fascinate me. Just like the smaller towns in Oz land. Its on my bucket list for sure. Hearing your Australian Siri also makes me smile. Take care mate. Youve got a new subsrciber.
Awesome, Greg! Australian Siri has become one of this channel's personalities. In an upcoming video, I'm going to name the Bronco "Sheila" because she talks with an Australian accent. :)
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TEXAS my favorite State, where I was BIG and famous in Radio broadcast out of Houston in the 90's to 105 Cities Nationwide on the Q-morning Zoo! Hung out with all the Rock Stars, Movie and TV Stars. I've visited EVERY State in America. Charming, Quaint, back-roads of East Texas - sorry you missed the most important City, Nacogdoches, The oldest Town in Texas, College of SFA.-where I got my BA, Nacogdoches, it is mentioned in 2 John Wayne movies as, Big Jake - he says to a bad guy "you must be from Nacogdoches".
I did take an old train ride in Rusk back in 85 with a girlfriend, Thanks for the Charming videos, I LOVE old movie theaters too, I managed one with 3 pictures houses built in the 1930's in Wharton Texas, downtown square, where I went to Jr. College, cute town. Now Im in Florida, and I really dont know why - this makes me want to move back to TEXAS!
As a resident of one of big cities in Europe I sometimes dream about peace and quiet of a rural US town....Although I've never been to the USA
He should come to really East Texas. We are dying.
You have a very comforting voice this channel is great to fall asleep to
Cool. :)
I watched one of your videos yesterday for the first time and I really enjoyed it so I’m back for another one. cool channel, great job!
I also really like how you give the numbers about each town, that’s pretty awesome.I travel the country in much the same manner. I guess I enjoy looking at the architecture and different places
Thank you, Joe.
My late husband grew up in Rusk and his brother still lives there his other brother is in Nagadoches and one passed in Tyler and one more brother lives in Jacksonville I went to Rusk in 1999 drove around the square and that was it
You should go see Jefferson, Texas. It used to be a port town but when they dynamited the Red river log jam the level of lake Cado dropped some 10 feet leaving Jefferson high and dry.
You also missed the Killough monument which commemorated the last and largest Cherokee battle. Jacksonville is located in Cherokee county. This is why the theater in Rusk was called Cherokee. It is also why the Fighting Indians with Native American Chief monument is for Jacksonville High School.
I love your videos. Sometimes when I’m bored, I “explore” these tiny gems on Google Earth. Watching a video is better though. ❤
I drove truck back in the 1970s L.A. to Houston and all over Texas Rio Grande Valley Good 2 lane roads. Lots of little redneck towns friendly people! Good times!
That old theater reminds me of the grand days of The Gem theater in Galena Park TX. As a kid, I saw a lot of movies there. It closed down around 1970 and eventually was made into a church.
Joe, When you stared this East Texas trip you weren't far from a UA-camr I watch and have been watching for almost 7 years he's got almost 2 million followers on Facebook and lots on UA-cam. (Ima survivor Sanctuary) Lester Morrow about 15 other family members on UA-cam
on dad's land in Plum Grove. Texas. Super good people.
I live in Overton for my first 25 years of life. Hate how much the town is neglected. Was a nice quiet town. Still have family there. Hopefully one day the city can get stuff together and make it where people want to stay there again instead of running everyone away.
Yes!! I live 2 miles away in New London and I went to elementary and middle school there. The buildings have a lot of potential to be absolutely beautiful. They need to keep up their old buildings like Kilgore or Henderson does.
I love those old theaters -here in Statesboro our old theater was transformed into a theater-lol-plays,recitals,performances,music acts -these buildings are way too precious to abandon them because a multiplex is more modern.
I totally agree.
You missed a great opportunity at the reason for the mural in Rusk. The Texas state railroad, the world's longest state park runs from Palestine to Rusk with old steam
locomotives. It would have been a great video for your audience and an adventure for you. It was neat to see my old stopping ground in East Texas, particularly what I consider my home, Timpson.
Thank you. Great job.
Thank you for the kind words, Matthew.
That’s a really nice area. You’re in in Houston county Texas alto is right next to Rusk. I’ve spent a lot of days and nights in alto in Rusk Texas is where the state hospital used to be lots of crazy stories about the state hospital.
I love to travel and check out off the beaten path towns but I rarely get to do so. I live in Arizona but when I get the opportunity’s to go east, like Florida, I take all the back roads I can find. Thanks for sharing your travels with me.
That's awesome.
Been about 20-years since I've been there myself. Looks about like I remember it. That little band of Texas along it's East border is certainly an unique part of the state. In a lot of ways it resembles areas in other states more than it does the rest of Texas.
Ranchers, oil, trees, deer leasing, swamps, and more. Sadly deteriorating as no jobs.
But we're self sufficient in all needs.
We love East Texas, and our families have owned lake houses there since the early 60s.
In Texas, there is a great app to locate and document all of the historical markers across the state. We use ir sometimes when traveling the back roads and enjoyed learning some local history along the way. It’s called Texas Historical Marker Guide.
And those markers are full of history, too.
10:07 what a magnificent house. I did a little sleuthing and found it, it was built in 1934, is 4,739 sq ft and on a .75 acre lot. What's odd is that google street view shows an image capture of March 2023 with the burnt garage being repaired, but this video we're watching indicates it was uploaded 1 year ago, leaving me to conclude July 2023. So perhaps he recorded this months prior? Anyway, I would love to see the inside of that house, I bet it's amazing.
Speaking of Sandy Duncan. Her TV show had her beiing from Taylorville Illinois., my home town. In the day she came there and the city made a big whoop-T-do of it . They named a street after her, declared a Sandy Duncan Day, gave her a key to the city. Taylorville Il is dying, too.
Interesting.
if mega stores and warehouses didn’t take most of the customers maybe these old downtowns might still be thriving. I’m nostalgic but I miss the tiny bakery, shoe store, sporting goods store, barber shop. All part of my childhood in a town just 20 minutes south of Portland, OR.
I agree.
Just try to get anyone to stop shopping at Walmart.
@@oldrustycars Pretty difficult when they run mom and pop out of town and become the only game in town, where else can you go to shop?
glad this kind of content showed up on my youtube recommended list
Awesome!
That's one thing you don't see at all in northern metro and suburban areas. Abandoned houses. There used to be when I was a kid, but I guess real estate is too valuable to let houses just anymore.
I agree very much with your respect for theatres. The sign of culture since the Greeks.
My dad, my brother and I refurbished an old building near the Orange County Courthouse in Texas. It did not survive the onslaught of Hurricane Rita in 2004. So many old buildings are begging to be redone.
very interesting. there is a Jacksonville FLA too, we lived there for awhile. i watch some of those urban explorers that explore abandoned homes. its interesting and sad at the same time. good video, thanks for sharing
3:34 That old theatre is gorgeous. 📽🎞
Hello. Thank you so much for showing us . Different places 👍🏾😁
Thank you for watching!
The State of Texas has a website that tells about the history of most towns and cities. Overton and Henderson prospered during the East Texas Oil Field boom. Overton died out as the wells became depleted. Carthage is the county seat of Panola County that's chock full of natural gas wells. The county once supplied the USA with 20% of it's natural gas. Too bad you didn't visit Daddy Sam's Bar-b-que & Bail Bonds. That's where Bernie, his lawyer Scrappy Holmes, the judge and DA went to lunch and ate together during the trial. Their downtown was revitalized by the Texas Main Street program. Their high school has been a Texas Football powerhouse for decades just like the Longview Lobos with both poised to win their division's state championships this year. Tenaha and Timpson have saw mills and chicken farms along with a growing Hispanic population that like to paint their businesses with bright colors. The two also have very good high school football teams. The new interstate I-69 will run by them so should be experiencing increased economic growth.
Great comment, Bill.
I live here in Longview tx and have run around in all these little towns. Welcome to East Texas. New London also lost about I forget maybe 60 kids or more when a gas leak blew up the school years ago.
What cool old buildings still standing ! The little shop with lights @5:15 is a barber shop. The vertical multi-colored ribbon sign is the traditional "Barbers Pole" symbol (for barber shop).
I agree.
True I remember working out there about 10 - 15 years ago they got tomatoes on everybody.
I have a family member that lives in Jacksonville it's a sleepy little town when you cross over the bridge the reason why they built the bridge cuz people used to rob the bank that's why they built the bridge and Bonnie and Clyde used to go down there
We have many of these little towns in South Carolina. I live in Clover which has around 10,000 now but they are building houses everywhere
Where are all the people? Even Carthage, a "small city", seemed to have very few folks walking around.
You really have an eye for distinctive architecture!
I love it!
Good to hear ya Joe.
Dairy Queen is a fixture in many small Texas towns.
Im a country boy. I love hunting,fishing. Loud cars, guns and loud music. My nearest naighbor is a mile away and i will never let my yard turn into a trash pile. People that have trash in their yard are modtly lazy bumbs collecting a welfare check.
Have you done a video on the area around Floyd, Hale, Crosby and Lubbock counties? Just curious lots of small rural towns over here lol
Working on it!
Thank you for letting me travel with you love your videos I learn alot
I enjoy your video’s. Do these towns still have a function school system. I think that would be something most viewers would like to know.
henderson. i used to be there often when i was a kid. dad worked in produce. watermelons were big . the sheriff was i swear the inspiration for bufford t. justice. tatum brown. bigger than life. he didn't have a junior, but a deputy who once got mad at his car and shot it.....close enough. summers are H O T. leave your footprints in the asphalt. people were rather nice. and the radio station was the "little red barn on top of the hill". and it was indeed just that :)
Yes indeed my uncle was a sheriff the first black one infact Cleveland Brown ..Jr Brown!!
NO WAY. I am FROM Overton 😭 lived there and went to elementary and middle school. Still live 2 miles away.
Miles and Miles of Texas
Grew up in a small town with two dissecting streets like a cross, when I see a town. like this I feel a home even if my 5k town was in California and the house I grew up in is worth a million dollars.
I live in Overton. Great video!
Cool! The police lady there was really nice. I enjoyed talking to her.
You are doing my favourite tour.
Do a video on rural north Carolina and rural Michigan
I absolutely will be, next summer, both places.
One thing that strikes me about these towns is the lack of folk walking around . Every town feels empty and soulless
While in Rusk, visit our Historic footbridge. Also, the Cherokee Theatre is used year round.
I live here. It’s beautiful.
Right up my alley, except we are sandwiched between Center and Jasper, Texas! 👍🏼
That Art Deco Cinema should be saved. its a thing of beauty
Love your work. Wonder why they're are so many expensive trucks.
Tex Ritter had a famous song "Teneha, Timpson, Bobo and Blair" about the train through all four towns. Jacksonville was rated the biggest ghetto in all Texas. Their stadium is the "Tomato Bowl".