Lost Roadside History of Yeehaw Junction - Desert Inn / Heartbreak Hotel / Miracle Chapel & MORE

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  • @TheDailyWoo
    @TheDailyWoo  5 років тому +73

    Instagram - AdamTheWooATW
    The central Florida love bugs have taken over like a plague . Yesterday’s video ua-cam.com/video/yh4LtIBXn8w/v-deo.html

    • @cruisingwithwilliam
      @cruisingwithwilliam 5 років тому +2

      love this video adam

    • @FloridaFreaks
      @FloridaFreaks 5 років тому +1

      Great video brother. These lovebugs are driving us crazy! Haha. We gotta get away for a bit... but we have a plan. Check your Instagram messages and join us... SHALL YOU?! Haha Much love bro. -Your Pal Al

    • @MrBigdavehd97
      @MrBigdavehd97 5 років тому +1

      Hello Adam ,I hope all is well

    • @cmjon6380
      @cmjon6380 5 років тому +1

      Wowsers. That was one incredible lamp

    • @Lennyg845
      @Lennyg845 5 років тому

      The desert inn was my intro to you Adam. I drive past is every month on the way to visit my mom. I UA-cam it and there you were! Anyway I actually had a really weird dream where you owned and operated the Desert Inn.

  • @josephgioielli
    @josephgioielli 5 років тому +76

    When ever I see cows in an Adam the Woo video, I know I am in for a treat.

    • @bamamoondog9039
      @bamamoondog9039 5 років тому +1

      When I see cows in an Adam the Woo video... for some unknown reason, I think of slipping on cow pies.

  • @cindythecatwoman1601
    @cindythecatwoman1601 5 років тому +54

    I like this part of Florida more than the theme parks. This is the part people don't get to see. Thanks for sharing this Adam.

  • @390rambler
    @390rambler 5 років тому +150

    I'm 60 Years old, And live in Okeechobee, And i can remember when Kenansville was thriving. I still have friends that live there. The Desert Inn was a WILD place in The 1960s. The name didn't come from People riding burros there! The Name came from The guy that kept a lot of Jack Asses. Hence, The name Jack Ass Jct. My Dad and Grandad hung out there. When The turnpike was extended from FT. Pierce, They couldn't use The Name, So it became Yee Haw Jct because of the sound the Jack asses made. It closed down recently.The Railroad followed the route of present day 441 from Okeechobee to Kissimmee.

    • @savamndelaplaine770
      @savamndelaplaine770 5 років тому +14

      Mark R. Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed reading your memories.

    • @tracker5849
      @tracker5849 5 років тому +6

      He speaks true words

    • @gc4644
      @gc4644 5 років тому +4

      When did they shut down the restaurant? I always loved stopping there in the 70s & 80s as a kid. We'd always stop to gas up and have lunch in the restaurant, i remember i always loved playing with all the little gadgets they had laying around in the restaurant.

    • @390rambler
      @390rambler 5 років тому +3

      Don't know the exact date, But it was sometime in 2018

    • @robynwest7537
      @robynwest7537 5 років тому +1

      Mike R please tell me why there are soooo many trucks! We’re are they going what are they doing? Out in the “middle of no where”. Thanks!

  • @jobos98
    @jobos98 5 років тому +19

    My Grand Father moved to Keenan's ville back in the 70s. I spent lots of vacations there from michigan. My parents later inherited it from him. I knew a man Paul Tabor who helped rebuild the school there in the 80s. He was a very skilled wood worker who Loved to give his time & knowledge to fix up the school. Yee haw junction was a cool place. Went there many times too. Keenan's ville used to have water about 1 to 2 feet deep there where all the mobile homes are back in the 50s. I learned that from the locals there. It is a flood plane area around lake Marianne. The man that told me about it said he used to canoe around there as a kid. When florida drained the everglades the water levels dropped creating usable land for the community.

  • @spudgun9315
    @spudgun9315 5 років тому +46

    These Vlogs remind me of when Large Marge was around #goodtimes 👍

  • @ben8447
    @ben8447 5 років тому +29

    this is classic Woo. This is what we love watching. Not you eating at Disney World. Instead we love watching you exploring the back of beyond.

  • @mayanicole6935
    @mayanicole6935 5 років тому +35

    Thank you for sharing all these great destinations of the roads less traveled for those of us who will probably never see them in person. You rock Adam!

    • @TheDailyWoo
      @TheDailyWoo  5 років тому +4

      You’re welcome . Thanks for watching

    • @mayanicole6935
      @mayanicole6935 5 років тому +1

      @Richardo Frankie thank you for your service!!

    • @trainlover123trainsrock
      @trainlover123trainsrock Рік тому

      @@TheDailyWooif you go to the building now, let’s just say it’s not in the best of shape

  • @rhondaz356
    @rhondaz356 5 років тому +35

    I love and appreciate all of your videos, Adam. This type of video, however, is my absolute favorite.
    TY for showing us all of these places off the beaten track. 👏🏻👏🏻

  • @debmorris9648
    @debmorris9648 4 роки тому +1

    it is such a shame that so much history has just faded away in so many words but it is so nice that you go and find these places to share---thanks so much

  • @thedoncrazephaze5375
    @thedoncrazephaze5375 4 роки тому +6

    I live down the road from Yeehaw Junction and the Desert Inn...semi-truck ran right into this few weeks ago. I drove by it week ago, crying shame this roadside legend has been ruined.

    • @TUKByV1
      @TUKByV1 3 роки тому

      I was hoping to make a trip there when I got some money together. About a year after that idea, I got this news.

    • @thedoncrazephaze5375
      @thedoncrazephaze5375 3 роки тому +1

      @@TUKByV1 ....yep, truly a shame this was ruined like that. Like an icon dying...

    • @TUKByV1
      @TUKByV1 3 роки тому

      @@thedoncrazephaze5375 The Osceola County Historical Society doesn't show it on their website now, so I take that to mean they've written it off.

  • @waltermuller6167
    @waltermuller6167 5 років тому +7

    I love the peace, quietness and history of the backroads Adam. Keep up the good work.

  • @Calken54
    @Calken54 4 роки тому +7

    Nice to see the Hotel-Restaurant-Bar before a Semi Truck crashed into to it.
    Thx-Adam

  • @STATFIGHTER10
    @STATFIGHTER10 4 роки тому +5

    here's a little information for you about small little building on the side of the road that belong to AT&t and that was used for a long distance telephone lines in the old coax systems they had in the 50s and the 60s. my dad used to work on those systems out there and he used to replace and repair amplifiers for the old coax systems

  • @nalamo1000
    @nalamo1000 5 років тому +3

    i like taking these back road trips with Adam the Woo

  • @TampaJay
    @TampaJay 5 років тому +13

    That was awesome man. I haven’t been thru yeehaw junction in years. I’ve always wanted to visit the hotel

    • @TheDailyWoo
      @TheDailyWoo  5 років тому +2

      Thankfully I stayed there 5 years ago . It was ....Intresting

  • @SextonHardcastle85
    @SextonHardcastle85 5 років тому +13

    I used to stay at the Pilot there all the time coming back from south Florida when I was a truck driver.

  • @AdventuresofmalibuandDad
    @AdventuresofmalibuandDad 5 років тому +3

    Adam I love your simple quiet videos like this sometimes. You view of time and life amazes me. You are a true artist who sees the things in life we should appreciate. Love this video. Thank you for sharing, and exploring for us.
    The Millers from Florida 👍❤️

  • @paulasalisbury9971
    @paulasalisbury9971 5 років тому +3

    I love all your videos. The road less traveled are my favorite. Thanks for taking me along!!!

  • @nickf0331
    @nickf0331 5 років тому +2

    Thank you for these awesome videos! My wife and I live in Miami, but when we go to Orlando, we travel through U.S. 27 to see the roads less traveled. Being from a crowded city it's nice to see small towns every once in a while. Keep up the great work!!

  • @LadyDragonsblood
    @LadyDragonsblood 5 років тому +1

    Loved that Dragon street lamp.... I just LOVE it when you travel the back roads and show us true history. It was the small towns that made the country great.

    • @TheDailyWoo
      @TheDailyWoo  5 років тому +1

      The dragon light was very cool

  • @johnchandler271
    @johnchandler271 5 років тому +2

    Thanks for letting me join you for your adventure. I was not disappointed.👍😀 Yee Haw.

  • @That420Gamer
    @That420Gamer 5 років тому +11

    Good luck on the journey, getting lost is how more content can be made! ;D

  • @christianmennitt2399
    @christianmennitt2399 5 років тому +2

    I wish I had gotten to stay at the Desert Inn while it was still open. I hope and pray that one day it'll reopen for us to enjoy for another generation.

  • @BigSi-xw6wv
    @BigSi-xw6wv 5 років тому +3

    Thank you! I'm definitely a history buff. This was wonderful.

  • @bmxtrickstars
    @bmxtrickstars 5 років тому +1

    We have passed through there so many times on our travels, but never stopped to check it out.. Thanks for the info.

  • @QueenBeeBeautyXO
    @QueenBeeBeautyXO 5 років тому +3

    I'm loving your adventures Adam! Thx for taking us to places like this! 😊I love to travel and see these out of the way places! Better than the well known places IMO.

  • @davidleach919
    @davidleach919 5 років тому +3

    The bank is a great architectural building. Classic simplicity.

  • @RayRayTheExplorer
    @RayRayTheExplorer 5 років тому +6

    These videos are taking me back to the the day you was my inspiration' The first person on UA-cam i watched was you awesome as always stay cool man

  • @sandyvi808
    @sandyvi808 4 роки тому +1

    😮 Thank you for immortalizing this before its demise 😢

  • @Jonb173
    @Jonb173 5 років тому +1

    FANTASTIC

  • @johnnyberetta9533
    @johnnyberetta9533 4 роки тому

    I was in that bar in April 1979, and I had a big ice cold can of Budweiser on a 93'F morning at 11:30 am. I was down there on vacation from Toronto and travelling up the turnpike to visit Orlando. The Desert Bar and Inn was a MAGICAL place. I will always miss it. PARADISE...Florida style...

  • @Jennstravels
    @Jennstravels 5 років тому +1

    Awesome video. I had always wondered about the history of Yeehaw Junction when I lived in Vero Beach.

  • @kincaide67
    @kincaide67 5 років тому

    I'm really enjoying these Lost Roadside History Tours. Some rather thought provoking content. Thanx for sharing these views of lesser-known areas with us. Looking forward to the next one. Take care.

  • @aristotlealive4266
    @aristotlealive4266 2 роки тому

    Best part of ur video is no nonsense background music, just original sound 👌

  • @aaronhali5524
    @aaronhali5524 4 роки тому

    Serge and Coleman would be proud! Thanks for sharing the Florida history…

  • @southernharleyrider1971
    @southernharleyrider1971 5 років тому +1

    Great trip! Enjoying the backroads with Adam The Woo!

  • @dmoreaux
    @dmoreaux 5 років тому +2

    Love your adventures Adam. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to your next one...

  • @tracker5849
    @tracker5849 5 років тому +3

    Went to desert inn first time 1973 for my first mothers day...there were donkeys EVERYWHERE!!! they had the cutest donkey Tshirts...back then there were cows n gators everywhere..before the rat took over Fla

  • @savamndelaplaine770
    @savamndelaplaine770 5 років тому +2

    Yeehaw Junction. Hwy 60. Not that long ago the drive from,Lake Wales FL to the Junction you, would encounter hardly any vehicles. It truly was a lonesome highway. I
    Loved it .

    • @jmautobrokers6568
      @jmautobrokers6568 5 років тому +1

      I drive thru there all the time on my way to Lakeland from my home in Port St. Lucie

    • @savamndelaplaine770
      @savamndelaplaine770 5 років тому

      @@jmautobrokers6568I remember how isolated it could be at night. Now with more homes along the way. Traffic has picked up. But I still enjoy the trip. Stay safe

  • @Dearshelbywilliams
    @Dearshelbywilliams 5 років тому +2

    Holy crap I’ve always wanted to know the story of this place every time we’d pull off the turnpike to go to Yeehaw. Thank you for this!!

  • @themichaelvortex4784
    @themichaelvortex4784 5 років тому +1

    Loving these glimpses into the Florida that was. Great video Adam. Thank you! 👍🏼🤘🏼😎

  • @mousestreetdvc
    @mousestreetdvc 5 років тому +4

    That's our neck of the woods! We drive through Yeehaw Junction on every trip to WDW, as we catch the Turnpike there! Nice video Adam!

  • @keepinitreal42069
    @keepinitreal42069 5 років тому +3

    This was a true treat thank you as always Adam ✊👍🍻👏

  • @Imjustherevibin
    @Imjustherevibin 10 місяців тому

    I pass there in 2019 and recently passed there 2023 big difference love Florida history

  • @theOrlo
    @theOrlo 5 років тому +3

    This is what you do the best Adam.
    #since09

  • @nellgrill3845
    @nellgrill3845 3 роки тому +1

    Adam,.♥️ Interesting show..,. Oh of course we still love Disney shows 💙😁

  • @chrisullery3386
    @chrisullery3386 5 років тому

    Back in the early 90s I drove a beer truck out of ft. Pierce and yee haw juction was one of my stops, only had two stops there. Ty for this video.

  • @mags3521
    @mags3521 4 роки тому

    My mother lived in Kenansville for over 30 years, her & my father bought a place there for $25 a month back in the 60s. They come down to Fl. every winter to fish on Lake Marion, after he passed away Mom moved down there full time. She lived on the corner of the highway & Myrtle street & had a p.o. box at the old post office for years! There use to be a great place to eat on highway at the corner where you turned to go down to the lake, great gator, catfish, turtle, & shrimp. There use to be a small little diner about halfway to Yeehaw Junction on the left that served all you could eat fried lobster it was fantastic. Daddy helped build the addition on the Church of God in Kenansville! The story I heard about Elvis was he was traveling from one gig in south Fl. & went by the old heartbreak hotel & that's where he got the idea for his song. I don't know whether it's true or not but that's what the old timers said. There use to be an newspaper article in a frame in the old hotel for years.

  • @jonmason1955
    @jonmason1955 5 років тому

    I've been to Florida on a number of occasions and knew there was more there than the Everglades, Miami / Beach, Tampa, Daytona, the Keys, Boca Raton and Disney World. Thanks for the "off the beaten path" tour. You know it's a good video when you get The Woo's Wide World of Wild Animals! Cows, especially. There's something calming about how cows laze about.

  • @caroleroseburgh1344
    @caroleroseburgh1344 4 роки тому +2

    Hi Adam 🙋. I'm really glad that you did this video before it was destroyed.as Yes Adam people actually do eat cactus. merry Christmas and happy new year to you and your family.😀🖐🏼💙

  • @91_C4_FL
    @91_C4_FL 5 років тому

    I used to pass the Desert Inn on my drives between Tampa and Boca a few years back but I never stopped there. Thanks for showing all of this, Adam. Your Florida videos always make me nostalgic for a state I already live in.

  • @michaelkane2470
    @michaelkane2470 4 роки тому +2

    Adam I’ was born and raised in Stuart,Fl.Not to far from Port Saint Lucie ,where you did the Devil Tree video.I live in Saint Augustine Fl.Hope all is well.

  • @passholder_trav
    @passholder_trav 5 років тому

    Ate there once. Coming back home from Lake Wales after volunteering for some hurricane cleanup after Hurricane Charley. I live in Vero and VERY FAMILIAR with Jackass Crossing. There’s a private residence in Vero that you NEED to visit, it’s RIGHT up your alley and would make an incredible vlog. This dudes story needs to be told! His home’s INCREDIBLE! I have some photos of the outside, who knows what’s on the inside. It’s SO WELL done, his idea of decorating is A1, a folk art masterpiece if you will.

  • @gumshoe5365
    @gumshoe5365 5 років тому

    I love theses small forgotten towns and structures!

  • @carterpishotta8185
    @carterpishotta8185 5 років тому

    Wow, as a child, I spent a night at the Desert Inn back early 80s. Still looks the same. Very cool.

  • @afterpartysin4911
    @afterpartysin4911 4 роки тому

    please never stop brother thank you!!!

  • @oquendo0021
    @oquendo0021 5 років тому

    I'm from ft Pierce but when I ride through central Florida you really get to appreciate how beautiful are state is

  • @donnicholas7552
    @donnicholas7552 5 років тому +6

    Any video that begins with moo cows, I know I'm going to like. And I did like it!

  • @juanitalee5519
    @juanitalee5519 5 років тому

    Adam, please keep bringing us these back road historic vlogs! Can't get enough of them!!!!

  • @hannahbyrd8119
    @hannahbyrd8119 4 роки тому

    I used to live there with my papa, he was an funny old man but I loved him. The house i lived in, he built himself with his own two hands. I miss living out there

  • @debbietharp9314
    @debbietharp9314 5 років тому +2

    On our last trip to west palm I told my husband it would be awesome if Adam did a vlog on this place. And now....shonk concon con con...he did!

  • @RnKAllDay
    @RnKAllDay 5 років тому +7

    Great vid man, we shld collab at Coney Island this summer

  • @wasabi741
    @wasabi741 5 років тому

    I can remember eating at the Desert Inn when I was a little kid. They had spiders, mice and other cool thing attached to strings that ran to the bar. One time they lowered a spider on a table and the lady screamed and spilled her drink in her lap...lol...she was pissed!! She stormed off to the bathroom and when she opened the door they had a life size, half dressed, Indian standing there. She screamed and hollered and stormed out the door. The whole place was in a uproar....good times! Dinner and a show!

  • @angeljoy75
    @angeljoy75 5 років тому

    Quite a few love bugs here too. Bugs with no personal space boundaries. Up your nose, in your glasses. Makes mowing the lawn a bit of a challenge. 🐞😒 Thanks for braving the bugs to share with us! Have a lovely day!

  • @nathanhammond8254
    @nathanhammond8254 4 роки тому

    Very cool I love hiking in woods and hunting or just exploring smoking nice bowl 😁👍

  • @amyyoshikawa7698
    @amyyoshikawa7698 5 років тому +1

    Hi Adam, really enjoyed this awesome vlog on the Yeehaw Station. I like the old history of the post office and the bank house from 1914👍🏻😺

  • @chrisbroemel5508
    @chrisbroemel5508 5 років тому +4

    I pass the Desert Inn every time I visit my in laws. They live in Frostproof.

  • @Spike643
    @Spike643 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for putting this vlog up to see it before the damage!! :(

  • @gemineye9796
    @gemineye9796 5 років тому

    Just shows how much technology has changed what once was daily living to such a beautiful part of our history!! I love these videos, they are something I wish to do in the near future. Visiting all these places. Woww

  • @MaxStax1
    @MaxStax1 5 років тому

    Great seeing Adam back in his element , making the ordinary seem interesting. He is so talented at that, amazing. I enjoy videos like this.

  • @edgufler1122
    @edgufler1122 4 роки тому

    Thank you for the Trip to Yeehaw Junction Adam. Enjoyed it very much.

  • @leslieschoenberg
    @leslieschoenberg 5 років тому +9

    Hope you will go down to Hollywood Florida and show people the difference between Hollywood Florida and Hollywood California

  • @alishakay143
    @alishakay143 5 років тому +1

    I’m loving these small town vlogs 👍🏼😎

  • @alexandre_fraga
    @alexandre_fraga 5 років тому

    4:53 pure art The coolest thing is the calm city, how clean everything is.

  • @KLEARSKITHEKREEPER
    @KLEARSKITHEKREEPER 5 років тому +18

    😎 first scence..cows be like..."Adam the MOO?"..😂😎

  • @theathjr
    @theathjr 5 років тому +1

    LOVING THIS BATCH OF VLOGS ADAM❤️

  • @helenamountford9234
    @helenamountford9234 5 років тому +1

    You do 'the middle of nowhere' really well! Loved those mail boxes in the PO.

  • @Ashley-kd2su
    @Ashley-kd2su 5 років тому +1

    I love these quiet peaceful vlogs Adam. 💙

  • @Tyler6610
    @Tyler6610 5 років тому

    This video is kind of nostalgic for me. Your desert inn video when you stayed was one of the first videos of yours I watched when I subscribed around 5 years ago.

  • @christopher27531
    @christopher27531 5 років тому

    Love it when Adam talks to the cows or any other animals. You got a heart Adam!👍

  • @tubehound8
    @tubehound8 5 років тому

    Thank you for peeling back the layers of this great land.🇺🇸👍

  • @juanitalee5519
    @juanitalee5519 5 років тому +1

    On the back roads again!! Love these vlogs ADAM!!

  • @CatherineRhoadsNC144
    @CatherineRhoadsNC144 4 роки тому

    Yup, that's Yee Haw! Loved the bar.

  • @MegaHahndo
    @MegaHahndo 5 років тому +3

    Love these videos Adam. Great work my man!

  • @JHGwjesusLuv
    @JHGwjesusLuv 4 роки тому +2

    Hi,Adam here it is looks so much different in one piece after seeing it yesterday being hit by the truck, what a shame.Sure hope nobody was hurt? After all it was just a building.

  • @timetogodoug
    @timetogodoug 5 років тому +3

    Morning Adam, as I was watching this, I thought wow this looks familiar for some reason? Then I rememberd you did a vlog on this area years ago, including the Heartbreak Hotel. Vlog 784 8/24/14, wow time flies by. Have a great day of adventures!

  • @se7ensnakes
    @se7ensnakes 3 місяці тому

    I have ridden my bike twice through Kenansville from the Orlando Airport area. I used the Old Canon Creek Road. I go to Yeehaw Junction and then to Vero Beach. This little town reminds me of a tv series called THE LOST ROOM

  • @Helen-eq7es
    @Helen-eq7es 5 років тому

    Those skies looked ominous! Enjoy these vlogs where you go off the beaten track

    • @TheDailyWoo
      @TheDailyWoo  5 років тому

      It got pretty nasty it’s either overload of love bugs or rain

  • @Dive-Bar-Casanova
    @Dive-Bar-Casanova 5 років тому

    Thumbs up.
    All the Johnson and Johnson nurses ads played before Adam's "Shall you". Very touching.

  • @Poly_steve
    @Poly_steve 5 років тому

    i must say its fun having you back in Florida.

  • @vickiilarraza195
    @vickiilarraza195 5 років тому +1

    Last week my family and I were in LOVEBUG of Orlando, FL. Very much infested swamp fine home of mine.

    • @chrismartin2123
      @chrismartin2123 4 роки тому

      I dont remember seeing any this year in north fl. Usually we get some but this year not that i noticed

  • @creekwoodjoe1607
    @creekwoodjoe1607 4 роки тому

    Great relaxed tour guide through a historic ghost town area. Love your side candid comments and wit. Felt like I was with you just walking around. Thanks. Subscribed.

  • @carlcook5755
    @carlcook5755 5 років тому +1

    love how random these vlogs are - our next visit to Florida will include some of these places !

  • @olbear9984
    @olbear9984 3 роки тому

    Ate many meals when passing the inn when coming back to our warehouse in plant city. They had a big spider on a string ,when someone went in they would let it down scaring folks. Years later a restaurant truck stop was built on the far corner. Retired now road runnings over. Miss it. 🐻

  • @JimBerthiaume
    @JimBerthiaume 5 років тому +1

    Adam, your great at what you do! :) This video is one of many that shows it.

  • @keithratamess9402
    @keithratamess9402 5 років тому

    I gotta say you are one the best youtubers as far as original content and making the videos fun but educational. I hope I can see you at Disney when I go down to florida!

  • @jameyraymond7327
    @jameyraymond7327 5 років тому

    Thanks for sharing. Always enjoy the quiet countryside and history.

  • @bonniehowell4259
    @bonniehowell4259 5 років тому +2

    I used to have family in Yeehaw Junction and I remember eating at the Desert Inn. They upcharge for lettuce, cheese, unions, and most other add-ons on your burger. It was odd. Sad to see it closed though.

    • @gc4644
      @gc4644 5 років тому

      Lol, I forgot about that! I can recall eating there thru the 70s & 80s as a kid, id order a cheeseburger with everything on it, and id always then hear my dad grumble about them charging for lettuce & onions.

    • @bonniehowell4259
      @bonniehowell4259 4 роки тому +1

      @@gc4644Yes! So glad someone else remembers this!! Your dad sounds like mine..Funny story lol

  • @nintendogamer2419
    @nintendogamer2419 5 років тому +1

    Another great video. Love these back road videos a lot more. So much history and stuff to see.