Forgotten Small Towns In South Carolina - Empty Main Streets & Southern Backroads Over State Line

Welcome everyone, Adam the woo, here as a recording from this Sunday, November 13th. I'm right. If these. I'm here with locations for nerds. Hey hey, YouTube zone nerd locations. Yes, we're on the North Carolina and South Carolina

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right now here at Momo. Momo's Donuts, is it Momo Donuts or the plural of Momo, Momo Donuts? Momo Donuts, piping hot caffeinated drink, you're more of an iced coffee type, yeah, but they don't have iced coffee here. mouth, we're going to go to a couple of desolate

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that you have in mind, yeah, and maybe even pepper and some movie locations.

I'm a movie locations guy, you're a movie locations guy, but we'll do it after we do the guy. Of the desolate

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you have in mind, yes, that sounds good, yes, sir, let's do it right, let's do it. I invite you to join me and nerdy places, will you? And even though they have Tasty Donuts there, I just had coffee, I have some, get some caffeine to start the day. Okay, let's move on. I think Billy Idol has ever eaten here, scrolling through nerdy locations right now, technically we're in South Carolina, now we're going to these two cities in the South.

Carolina next to each other they are next to each other in South Carolina we are on our way we have another half hour heading

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we have reached historic Chester now I wouldn't really say this is an

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city there is a population There are between five and six thousand people who live here, but from what I've heard, the downtown area is kind of a ghost town or something. I like The Walking Dead. Take a look at the side of these luxury pools. This almost seems like it. like one of the arches in Utah right here, yeah, I don't even know what that is, it's like someone decided we were doing something, but we have a beach landscape right now, oh, it's a beach, okay, a little one beach. scenario maybe maybe inspired by Karate Kid who knows, yes you can see Miyagi around here without a doubt, the best name for a gas stop, there is no mystery, there is no myth, just gaso

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, they accept all major credit cards credit, gasoline.

Like, that's not real, there's no real themes or marketing. just gas, no tricks, nothing, and where we're headed, the city center is right there, kind of visible in the distance, but these Deluxe pools don't have a roof. I'll show you what I mean in a minute, but here's another mural. that is quite impressive, representing the affected city of Chester in the center of the city, like in the photo there, you have the church building here with the bell tower, it looks like a wedding is taking place in front of the church, You see, oh, there's a wedding, yeah, yeah, there's a wedding in front of this kind of old church here like a picnic going over here on the side all this is like the sun is faded and faded but you can make out a little bit of it. what's going on here, people swinging on them, oh yeah, they're like a rope swing, there's a swing, we have a picnic look, it looks like a Mexican violinist playing right here, yeah, there's a lot going on in this mural, there are horses On the other side, this thing has been here a long time. although it is not known when this was painted, look at this step into nowhere, it's like a step into nowhere like Harry Potter, you have to turn the page, yeah, oh you know what it looks like, there's a door here, take a look , you can see where the door was used. and there's like an arch, so there was actually an entrance in the back of this building, I wonder what this was before it was a place with a pool.

I'm thinking maybe a theater of some kind now, along the front windows, they've put up these pictures of some jocks around here and that's to disguise the fact that the roof is sagging up there, you see the little Sunburst bursting , but the roof and the entire interior of the building have seen better days, well, here is an old house. the church bell rings in the distance a

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warning of a classic car parked here no one lives here at the moment at least it doesn't seem like it and there is a lot of traffic going through the city so it is an act of the city that there are People who lives here it's not completely desolate, but there are some hidden gems, well, not hidden, but in plain sight, gems around here, including this barber shop where the church bell is, oh it's just that they're ringing the church bell to let you know that the congregation is there. about to meet because, as a recording of this, it's a Sunday look at this relic Mayfield's barbershop looks like Mayfield Mayfields waits hopes Mayfield barbershops and drinks Coca-Cola that's amazing, it's a super antique, there's something rusty beautiful right there , that's a relic and then here's an electronics store, so you can see downtown there again, there's a lot of traffic around here, yeah, that church bell has been ringing for five minutes.

TV and VCR repair, that's good. Chester Electronics service prayer box where, if you have one, you can write it down and slide it into this little slot. Oh wow, I didn't expect to see a prayer box at the bottom of the electronics store door and there's someone behind this colorful curtain who will honor your prayer request I guess I mean, I've seen prayer boxes before, but never at the bottom of a base of an old door from an electronics store hmm, that was, I didn't even notice, I'm glad you saw that I said very interesting and this door.

It was open there's a TV there, some kind of classic TV, a floor tom on drugs, there's a full drum kit, oh there's a hole, yeah, there's a full drum kit here, look at these phones here against the wall, it's probably not structurally solid being here, but yeah, it's just the door was open extra unit I don't think Bell ever stops ringing this is cool this is like a guide map on the side of this wall so you have Westchester you have clues you have Cornwell okay the other one this okay This is It's a good base too because we're going to Chester, but then we're also going to Great Falls.

What do you think the distance is between Chester and Great Falls? 15 minutes, so those are the two cities we are in. I'm going, so this is a good thing, it's like I've never seen before. I have seen many murals on the sides. I have never seen a guide map on how this building is being used or a bit. It was like a tax preparation place and here's some kind of carriage that's not horse-drawn, oh, it's a horse-drawn carriage, here's the carriage. You see the knight up here with the horses at the reins and then the horses vanished.

We're right there in the center, ah, there's Napa Auto Parts over there, a couple of landmarks here. Catawba Mill Fishing Creek, former Catholic church. Burrs Rock, former temporal tracker. The mustache no longer has a mustache, but every time I think of that guy working hard. up there holding this cement block oh, I just walked into that anthill I just walked into that ampad ooh Hidden cat alert in 1979 according to this, yeah, Banco Popular, Banco Nacional Popular had this painted in '79. That bell it was still ringing, it's like 15 minutes now 50 at least 15 minutes and to the city center, if you want, this is.

There's a bail bond ad right next to that bank. There's a picnic table there, another park bench. This is downtown Chester, South Carolina. In all its Glory, I love it, there's an old Credit Union, this is very quirky, so there's a desk here and then there's also some old desks like those in a school, except it's not an active facility, it's just sitting on this

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window and they are decorating for Christmas there is a snowman there, a very monumental building here, possibly a bank, the pillars in front, quite a steep hill, a very steep hill, thank you and this was a furniture store, yes , there used to be one in every little town around here. for a long time it falls apart, this is definitely a unique center, it has a beauty salon there, it's interesting how it goes up the side of the hill and then looks down, note that it's also Sunday so probably during the week.

There might be some of these tours open, so add a little bit of the Desolation, since you know it's a Sunday like a taping of This all, which is near here on the corner of Columbia and Maine, it's where the city ​​hall and a laundromat down there at the end that has a mural of a clothesline and some clothes down there at the back of that laundromat and dry cleaners on Hill this is something I've never really seen it's an old horse stable where the horse stables are a storage unit, this is an active storage facility in here, inside this old horse barn, so where the horses used to be is where you can store your stuff.

Look closely so you can see the water tower appearing over the top of the laundry room here. laundry facility there's a pair of socks right there on the line I didn't realize this until now oh yeah I love a good Coca-Cola mural on the side of a

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town wall Coca-Cola delicious and refreshing se sells everywhere for just five cents it's about twice as much twice as much now it costs at least at least 10 cents now for a bottle of ice-cold Coca-Cola in a bottle the old streetlamp there Diamond up there on the left old neon the neon has been removed this was called Runyan Jewelers Jewelers I have trouble saying we have the old Diamante on top, that's a relic right there now.

I was wondering if there was an old theater down here. We've found the old Dreamland theater, a beautiful thing here, the name on it. on the side of the brick wall you have these side entrance doors you have the marquee and what did you say before and wait there's more and wait there's more the theater there's actually an old mural right on the side to celebrate All Things Hollywood look at this alley here this could be used could you oh would you if you were filming a movie could you film over here look at this glass this sinister alley yeah we have some old Hollywood style paintings on the side here unrecognized they are probably locals little red carpet small red car we see the little red carpet no carpet oh no carpet so you have the theater here you have the theatrical performances oh yeah here's the light coming down here this is cool hidden in this kind of creepy alley there's this guy holding a lightsaber Yes, it looks like a makeshift sword with lights.

I think I might be a Jedi, okay. I'm recognizing this one. It's Annie and Daddy Ward Box, right there, Daddy Warbucks, maybe a stage performance of Andy Annie took place here. the orphanage is Miss Hannigan, this is also cool, the star where celebrities or guests or actors, I should say, would go, actors and actors would come through this door here inside the theater, so this is just think about who it is . who here in Chester have walked through this same door this is really interesting Gene's restaurant is an old 70's early 80's style, a real side but it fades with the fake signage of the metal stand on top to let you see what it is like.

It swells a little, but then you have the fake paint of what it's holding on to. Look at it Adam Max the cat oh Fred McCall Max the cast says it right below is Max the cat oh this dog down here is looking at Max the cat So this is where the customers come in here and Max the cat is up and out through another alley in Napa that I showed before. Well, that was downtown Chester. Now we're going to head to Great Falls, but we're doing it. a U-turn back to this place called G Mart as the cell phone checks in there, beer, wine, groceries and ice.

Okay, I had never seen Cherry RC before I knew they made it, but Cherry art RC has started to take root in the cherry industry. This was an old gas station. We were talking to the gentleman who sold crickets for fishing and he said he had lived in this area since the '60s and this place used to be a gas station in the '60s. It's now called G.-Mart and he said there used to be apartments upstairs. , there were apartments on top of this and the building, the condition of the building to hide the apartments today, they put up that tent around it, it's quite interesting and how many times He tries to sell us hot dogs there he came in, what do they say a hot dog?

Adam, yeah, they have hot dogs and then we were leaving and then they tried to sell us a hot dog. Two different employees tried to sell us, they like it. They got the hot dog and this was just like a bucket. They said it used to be 99 cents, but it came to like a dollar 20. and they thought you were complaining and they said and you said no, this would be like 250 somewhere. otherwise I thought like $20 and they were like, “Oh, sorry, the price went up” and I was like no, that's actually really cheap in comparison. Oh, I've been traveling for a while, I think there's probably about two of us. or three miles from the next place, I've reached Great Falls, downtown, this way, a quaint little community with a little strip of downtown, peeking out the storefront window, see the panels in the back, but also this wallpaper, this is interesting, peeking out of this window.Here, the front window of the store that is not structurally sound, if you were to go up, is now leaning, there has been an effort to decorate the door, then there have been two to

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tain the interior.

I think maybe they are doing it to block anyone. on that door maybe it's a disguise, some kind of old restaurant sign has been removed, but the skeleton of the sign is still there, maybe the first impression of an old steakhouse would be like maybe an old restaurant, difficult to distinguish, there's a Phillips 76 there in the distance retro Phillips 76 or Phillips 66. I should say it's 76. This pole is kind of bent up on the side. Watch as the pole lowers and bends inward and then sticks into the ground. There is a closed car wash here. There is also an 18-wheeler with an advertisement.

They really don't want anyone to smoke. in this calculator here just for random calculator it's supposed to be a security take a look at this this is like an old pantyhose sign come on does it say pantyhose over there? I could see why hose everything is here fine, silky, silky pantyhose yes, just a car like here completely engulfed and these plants are then the foliage here the same better dice now this is incredible sacred cow look at this classic look at this car this is amazing four wheel drive what kind of car is this? Awesome, this thing is amazing, you see an emblem anywhere or what kind of car it is, it says four wheel drive, that's cool, it has like a trailer hitch to pull someone out of a ditch.

Foreign, all original. It's amazing what you find with a sticker on the front the last time it was registered was 1996 now we got in the car and drove to the other side of Great Falls about half a mile was too much we could have walked it but we got in the car. and I drove up to the technical side of downtown, I got this old gas station here, this thrift store and there's a car driving by there's definitely not a hive of activity down here. I quite like the storefronts, oh there's a big building there. Walk all the way there to see what Sassy Scissors Hair and Tan with Two Tips is.

This is an interesting formation of a shop here, so you've got the windows here, this one has been smashed, but just look at this little brick niche. which leads to the shop itself, you don't really see much, with the small shops in the center where the brick surrounds the entire path, it looks like they bricked up the place where the window used to be. There is absolutely no roof on the side of this, so even if you were to rent or buy one of these areas it wouldn't make sense because all these stores there is nothing behind these walls these false walls that are here the roof has been torn off and there is a department store over here Francis department store or Francis department store and the post office over there, the distance to look across here, there's a stage at the end, like destroyed and the stage is still down there, that's amazing, I really want to know what this building is here next to the post offices.

Belks Belk's department store there's no one down here there's a few bags of dirt soybean fluff greener people now before we were on the other side of town we were looking at that classic one-of-a-kind classic car we couldn't figure out what someone was with A convenience store convenience came over and said let's go to this area, look for the old jail, so we found the old jail here. There are no signs or anything to tell us where it is, but it was behind all the bags of dirt, bags of dirt, look where they are. it had the bars up, yeah that's what it is, I don't know what it would do, like the bolts they had, but they had bars, I think they had double bars, so bars here and bars here, yeah this is what it would probably be like the door wow, look at this, there's the toilet, wow, this is very soft from the mud, there are the cells, two cells, oh, there's an old bed frame there, this hasn't been used in a long time, yeah Can you imagine someone locked here inside one of the cells, this is where the doors were, the doors have been there, bang, you can still see the hinges where the doors would close, yeah, I mean, the walls are so thick that it'll be hard to break them, she's got the bars there, that's cool, the old thing.

Great Falls Jail, South Carolina, what's back here, this would have been your only view from the woods behind you, Caster foreign news, these two active newspapers, I don't believe it, yeah, look, that's the news , the reporter and a little Lancaster, both, oh. here we go Lancaster News is no longer sold at Great Falls locations, well, back in the vehicle, we now have about a half hour drive to the next location. I promised a filming location at the beginning, we are going to get to a filming location about a half hour drive to get there paper tag during the trip I saw something really interesting here on the side of the road there is a farm there well I hear a train but we're on this road take a look at this whole barn here it almost looks like it could have been like a convenience store or something but it wasn't but it's right here along the road I found a parking area here on the historic Bratonsville B-r-a-t-t-o-n-s-v-i-l-l-e and this house here was used prominently in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot and we just talked. to the gift shop guy and it cost him eight dollars to walk around the property because there's a lot more here than just one place, we also have this little map here and he was saying a couple more things: We're using the Patriot.

Number three, which was known as the McConnell house, which was probably here, so it's used for a scene in The Patriot and it's also all fenced off here. It was used three or four times on the front of this house that is under preservation. At this time, but a lot of this property was also used and a fun fact I was saying here, this building was used quite a bit, but not the front of this house, the back of the house was used the porch or sitting on the porch and everything. that over there too and there's a parking space here that has a little admission area and everything.

That's where we parked across the road here in Brattonsville. I could definitely see why they use this area. Very historic pine pieces here on the back of this. the house was used, not the front, how are you doing?, you're doing well, it's good, there's enough orange too, a couple of bulls here, a couple of cows, sheep, this is great, hello, okay, We have made the trip back to Charlotte, North Carolina, and we are. I'm stopping here for a very late lunch and an early dinner at a place called Pinkies. It was almost like a tradition the last time I was in town.

I just recorded that he was with us and the three of us ate at Pinkies and the sign there says Triple. G Automotive, Volkswagen specialists, there's a Volkswagen on the roof here at Pinky's West Side Grill, which was an old Volkswagen machine shop and they just converted the Volkswagen on the roof, but they have some food here, so I. I just created a tradition that they say when you do something twice or at least I say it, you do something twice it becomes this tradition, so pinkies are now a Charlotte tradition for me. Pinky's West Side Grill I now ended up purchasing something on the menu.

It has quite a few options but I ended up getting the same thing I got last time when I was here how many how long ago was it when I was here in February? It's been eight months, nine months, and nine months. I got basically the same thing I got. Last time, what was the pterodactyl burger? You said you think about the pterodactyl burger. I added pimento cheese. Oh, my grandmother, when she was young, she saw that she was a big fan of cheese sandwiches, but she added a hamburger to the traditional pepper attack. They both have pterodactyl burgers with pimento cheese and some sides and some sides inside the peaks too.

There is some very interesting decor here and of course, on top of the roof is a VW Bug painted with the American flag. Pinky's West Side Grill here in Charlotte North Carolina, our tradition because I've already eaten here twice, if you look up it still has the Volkswagen size specialty Triple G Automotive right here on the corner of the road, okay that'll do it For today, be sure to watch YouTube Nerd. locations nerd locations very simple two nerd words oh, you'll probably spell it all together it'll probably show up yeah, nerd locations on YouTube I think Evil Knievel is behind us here, right?

Pinky's evil knee, pinky, IS Evil Knievel and look here, there are some classic car alerts here. We had a very fun day. Do you want to check out? I always say I'll see you in the next video. The Vlog ended.