When I was 8 yrs old my family went to Heritage USA and it was amazing. I still remember the geese and ducks that were everywhere and the lillipads at the water park.
When I was a kid, we lived in a house in Alabama built in 1986 that had very similar wallpaper to the hotel. I guess 1986 was a banner year for pastel-colored floral wallpaper.
I wish that Heritage would be bought and be turned into what it was once intended for - I like the idea of somewhere that's "supposed to be" clean and old fashioned. 😔💜
wow thanks for this upload.. ive been infatuated with this place for years and want to make a trip down from ohio to see the little bit thats left.. great video
It just makes me SICK how much work went into that beautiful tower, and all for nothing! I hope Morningstar can save it and turn it into housing for the elderly (or anyone, really), as someone suggested.
@@manthony777 I have said that over & over. My late father was a pastor & a CPA. Every church he was sent to was in financial distress because they didn't understand money. Most of us don't. Jim should have borrowed from Charlotte banks to make up defaults. Then hire the best financial gurus he could find.
I remember going to the waterpark as a kid... and my mom watching that damn show whenever she could... Was a cool place I thought.... hard to believe that tower is still there and still abandon...
Great video,thanks.Whatever your views are on Jim and Tammy all i can say is not many people could have pulled off a project this big and if it wasnt for their sexual sin and false accounting/ mis use of the millions of dollars that flooded into PTL i think Heritage USA would still have been there today,such a shame that once again the total depravity of man destroyed such an amazing project.
I disagree with your statement the accounting was deliberately false. Jim needed financial people around him NOT ministers. Ministers are the worse financial people. My late father both pastor & CPA went to so many churches he had to bail out from improper financial practices. There is false accounting & deliberate evasion. Jim needed more CPA's & financial officers.
The handicapped child's name was Kevin Whittum. He died in 1992 at the age of 24. Here is an article about it: www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/11/Disabled-youth-who-lived-in-PTLs-Kevin-House-dies/1112713505600/ Seems like everyone and everything in these videos is dead, except of course for Jim Bakker. Different track, I had wondered what was that huge white mansion shown around the lake in these videos. After looking closely at Google Maps, at least one of those buildings was at one time in the parking lot of the large high school that now occupies the SW corner of the property, you can rewind time on the maps and see the house sitting there, seems like once the school was finished being built the house was torn down.
I have Tammy Faye on a 1995 episode of "Larry King". A caller asks her about Kevin and she says that Kevin died, and then his mother died shortly after.
What about people like my 89 year old Mother who bought 4 GOLD LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS and spent over 70,000 bucks there? I Will talk to Mr Bakker face to face next time I see him! I believe in god and forgiveness But he got out and is doing the same thing??? and my mother is still buying his trash!
He’s going to be answering his transgressions when he takes his last breath and Tammy did too no one who did participate in his charade is an angel just saying
He’s pushing survival food in a bucket for like 1000$ each he’s never going to change prison gave him plenty of time to think about how he would defraud people again when he wasn’t being someone’s bubba
We just put light bulbs in all the desk lamps, and we put all the different numbers on every door of the bunkhouses. The showers all have shower curtains now installed…and we just put in those stick on flowers to the bottom of every bathtub, for the ultimate safety and convenience of our guests! Lmaoooooo
jerseytomato100 Not only is Kevin's House no longer still standing, pretty much everything you see in these old HUSA videos is gone. Much of the land formerly owned by HUSA is now housing developments. New houses all over the place, all over the former grounds. About 90% of the buildings that once comprised HUSA are now completely gone.
There's video of it today on youtube a lot of apartments and housing now. The tower is in bad shape but the Grand hotel was open and doing retreats and meetings and the RV park had folks staying there. Baaker took a lot of money from a lot of decent folks like my aunt and uncle and he's doing it again ,just a snakeoil salesman.
Coming here after seeing the Movie, as a French people I can be quite shocked BUT at least no, because yes as European it can be awkward to have places and TV show like these but finally where is the harm? They give some hope and some places and care action for people : the little boy Kevin in the beginning maybe if he didn’t know the show (his parent finally) and if his parents didn’t contact the show maybe he couldn’t afford to benefice the health and the rest of quite good life (apparently the poor boy died in the beginning of the 90s but at least they tried to gave him a nice end of life). Maybe I am a little naïve person, but because of the personality of Tammy and her good faith, her kind soul and positive soul : it gave me a big smile. So maybe it was not so a bad thing all these God show… I am sure some people were very sad when all of these was closed and ended.
The harm was that they were taking money from people without providing them the services they were promised in exchange. In America, we call that fraud.
Indeed, Judge Potter was an ass. He had his mind made up even before the jury selection was complete! Truly such a sad for a judge to be in- one who was to have been impartial. I wonder how many of his other cases he had "decided" prior to the court proceedings ever having been started.
Jim was my hero. I watched his show and thought to myself, "Wow, all he has to do is go out there and say he believes, and people send him money." Genius!
AND....just think of how KARMA works....Jerry FALSEwell is now DEAD and Jim Bakker is BACK ON THE AIR! PRAISE THE LORD! :) The phrase "what comes around goes around" is SOOO true! ANYWAYS...THANKS for posting all these vids & I hope MORNINGSIDE & "The Jim Bakker Show" becomes as great as Heritage USA & PTL Club was.....I believe it WILL! :)
When I was 8 yrs old my family went to Heritage USA and it was amazing. I still remember the geese and ducks that were everywhere and the lillipads at the water park.
We all loved it! The kids were skate guards. We volunteered on phones, the auction and passion play. Every show and service were God blessed.
It’s sad about the mismanagement but honestly the idea was great! A place where loads of likeminded people could be together in the name of the Lord
I Loved to hear Tammy sing.. She had a voice that God gave her would make you love the Lord.
When I was a kid, we lived in a house in Alabama built in 1986 that had very similar wallpaper to the hotel. I guess 1986 was a banner year for pastel-colored floral wallpaper.
That’s so funny! Yes, the colors that year were awful. 😂
I wish that Heritage would be bought and be turned into what it was once intended for - I like the idea of somewhere that's "supposed to be" clean and old fashioned. 😔💜
wow thanks for this upload.. ive been infatuated with this place for years and want to make a trip down from ohio to see the little bit thats left.. great video
I think it was in the First Epistle of Peter that Jesus said he needed a convention center and a mini gold course, if I'm not mistaken.
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I wish I could have went there. It looks like fun.
It just makes me SICK how much work went into that beautiful tower, and all for nothing! I hope Morningstar can save it and turn it into housing for the elderly (or anyone, really), as someone suggested.
@Joe Johnson , I don't think it was fraud. He just promised more freebies than he could produce. He needed financial advice badly. imo
What about all of that money sent in by old folks and others that couldn’t afford it for a scam?
@@manthony777 The entire operation was a fraud
@@CreachterZ When you are elderly you have the responsibility to be wise in your finances. The world 🌎 ain't going to do it for you.
@@manthony777 I have said that over & over. My late father was a pastor & a CPA. Every church he was sent to was in financial distress because they didn't understand money. Most of us don't. Jim should have borrowed from Charlotte banks to make up defaults. Then hire the best financial gurus he could find.
I remember going to the waterpark as a kid... and my mom watching that damn show whenever she could... Was a cool place I thought.... hard to believe that tower is still there and still abandon...
My grandma gave them money. Probably went towards that bunkhouse…..,.
@@weltonvillegal6258Do we know whether her money went towards the bunkhouse?
Great video,thanks.Whatever your views are on Jim and Tammy all i can say is not many people could have pulled off a project this big and if it wasnt for their sexual sin and false accounting/ mis use of the millions of dollars that flooded into PTL i think Heritage USA would still have been there today,such a shame that once again the total depravity of man destroyed such an amazing project.
I disagree with your statement the accounting was deliberately false. Jim needed financial people around him NOT ministers. Ministers are the worse financial people. My late father both pastor & CPA went to so many churches he had to bail out from improper financial practices. There is false accounting & deliberate evasion. Jim needed more CPA's & financial officers.
@@betsyheimbuch Maybe! Maybe not! There are a LOT of corrupt CPA's and financial officers. The problem is finding HONEST CPA's and officers!
The handicapped child's name was Kevin Whittum. He died in 1992 at the age of 24. Here is an article about it: www.upi.com/Archives/1992/08/11/Disabled-youth-who-lived-in-PTLs-Kevin-House-dies/1112713505600/ Seems like everyone and everything in these videos is dead, except of course for Jim Bakker. Different track, I had wondered what was that huge white mansion shown around the lake in these videos. After looking closely at Google Maps, at least one of those buildings was at one time in the parking lot of the large high school that now occupies the SW corner of the property, you can rewind time on the maps and see the house sitting there, seems like once the school was finished being built the house was torn down.
7:59 Beautiful Victorian style brick and concrete shell. Those victorians, always building skyscrapers out of concrete :D
I always wanted to go there .. Had a gold membership...
did you loose any money on it
@@tmo4330 I guess he did and many other people
@NotCrazyLikeU Do you know how Kevin's mother died? In a 1995 interview Tammy said that both Kevin and his mother were dead.
I have Tammy Faye on a 1995 episode of "Larry King". A caller asks her about Kevin and she says that Kevin died, and then his mother died shortly after.
He died in August of 1992, and his mother died in November of that year. His father died in 1997. They are all buried in Michigan.
What's their names?
Too bad we don't have cool places like that anymore.
So glad the scam was put to an end before more distasteful half finished building could be build and funded by scammed people.
This reminds me of The Holy Land Experience in Orlando.....
that's where Orlando got the idea, from PTL
What about people like my 89 year old Mother who bought 4 GOLD LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS and spent over 70,000 bucks there? I Will talk to Mr Bakker face to face next time I see him! I believe in god and forgiveness But he got out and is doing the same thing??? and my mother is still buying his trash!
tulsamike3434's ATC MC Shop you’re just bitter. U can’t have the love of Jesus and be that way
believe in God not god.
@@mj6962 if you defend crooks and con artists I cannot have any respect for you.
@@MrButch-ls8vl amen to that
He’s going to be answering his transgressions when he takes his last breath and Tammy did too no one who did participate in his charade is an angel just saying
Where was that glass auditorium going to go on the the site?
+crixxxxxxxxx I am not quite certain.
I think across from where the moose was, out by the water tower.
He’s pushing survival food in a bucket for like 1000$ each he’s never going to change prison gave him plenty of time to think about how he would defraud people again when he wasn’t being someone’s bubba
Is that Tammy second husband that lit the tree?
0:12 Even the mini golf game footage is misleading!
Get ready for all the views coming from the Eyes of Tammy Faye motion picture based off the documentary
We just put light bulbs in all the desk lamps, and we put all the different numbers on every door of the bunkhouses. The showers all have shower curtains now installed…and we just put in those stick on flowers to the bottom of every bathtub, for the ultimate safety and convenience of our guests!
Lmaoooooo
I don't believe Jim was out to defraud anyone. He was just disorganized. Is Heritage still operating?
No. Most of it was been torn down and converted into housing developments.
@@crixxxxxxxxx , that's sad. The construction looked solid and well done
What happened to Kevin's house? Is it still standing?
jerseytomato100 No, it was destroyed by fire years ago, I believe.
jerseytomato100 Not only is Kevin's House no longer still standing, pretty much everything you see in these old HUSA videos is gone. Much of the land formerly owned by HUSA is now housing developments. New houses all over the place, all over the former grounds. About 90% of the buildings that once comprised HUSA are now completely gone.
@Jayne Wainright He died in 1992.
Now in 2021 the holy land in Florida takes its place
There's video of it today on youtube a lot of apartments and housing now. The tower is in bad shape but the Grand hotel was open and doing retreats and meetings and the RV park had folks staying there. Baaker took a lot of money from a lot of decent folks like my aunt and uncle and he's doing it again ,just a snakeoil salesman.
Coming here after seeing the Movie, as a French people I can be quite shocked BUT at least no, because yes as European it can be awkward to have places and TV show like these but finally where is the harm? They give some hope and some places and care action for people : the little boy Kevin in the beginning maybe if he didn’t know the show (his parent finally) and if his parents didn’t contact the show maybe he couldn’t afford to benefice the health and the rest of quite good life (apparently the poor boy died in the beginning of the 90s but at least they tried to gave him a nice end of life). Maybe I am a little naïve person, but because of the personality of Tammy and her good faith, her kind soul and positive soul : it gave me a big smile. So maybe it was not so a bad thing all these God show… I am sure some people were very sad when all of these was closed and ended.
The harm was that they were taking money from people without providing them the services they were promised in exchange. In America, we call that fraud.
What the hell ever became of poor Kevin? These idiots should be ashamed of themselves using poor Kevin as their shill
He died in 1992. His adoptive mother died later that year, and his father in 1997.
Heritage Grand Tower .. "Victorian Style"!!! Huh??? Give me a break. No more Victorian than a Days Inn motel.
1:00 the guard looks like he's using a red boa or tassles. The gayest flogging I've ever seen.
QUAL~IT~TEA COUN~TREE
@CincinnatiGifts Judge Potter was obviously a Baptist.
Indeed, Judge Potter was an ass. He had his mind made up even before the jury selection was complete! Truly such a sad for a judge to be in- one who was to have been impartial. I wonder how many of his other cases he had "decided" prior to the court proceedings ever having been started.
Frank Gamble is standing by.
Miracle Valley for rich folks
Jim was my hero. I watched his show and thought to myself, "Wow, all he has to do is go out there and say he believes, and people send him money." Genius!
It's called "testicular fortitude."
@@randomteesOne of our fine UA-cam commentators, indeed one “randomtees,” has let loose with an unnecessary scatological reference.
AND....just think of how KARMA works....Jerry FALSEwell is now DEAD and Jim Bakker is BACK ON THE AIR! PRAISE THE LORD! :) The phrase "what comes around goes around" is SOOO true! ANYWAYS...THANKS for posting all these vids & I hope MORNINGSIDE & "The Jim Bakker Show" becomes as great as Heritage USA & PTL Club was.....I believe it WILL! :)
Such a shame to destroy a ministry like this but praise GOD Jim Bakker is back again❤️
another stupid person..Ill pray for you,,,send me your money....STUPID!!!
@@dennisschramm3294 amen brother. Why people believe Bakker anymore is beyond me…
@@ryanthompson2893 he’s a master magician who will trick people out of money to pray for them he’s the penn and teller of evangelists
WTF i Bush watched