Abandoned Tennessean Motel, Awesome 1950s Roadside Motel

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  • @rhondaz356
    @rhondaz3566 жыл бұрын

    Hi guys, it really is sad how many of these motels have closed. Nice job as always...

  • @KentuckyRanger
    @KentuckyRanger6 жыл бұрын

    Another awesome video! you know, back in the day, motels like this were called motor lodges? True story! LOL!

  • @heatherelliott8575
    @heatherelliott85756 жыл бұрын

    If only you could turn the clock back at some of these places and be able to be there just for an hour, wow

  • @InfamousCrimeLocations
    @InfamousCrimeLocations6 жыл бұрын

    Pretty cool stuff Jon!! Love abandoned hotels/motels

  • @TampaJay
    @TampaJay6 жыл бұрын

    I love classic lost highway motels. This one needs some TLC, it could be flipped and used for anything

  • @SueGirling68
    @SueGirling686 жыл бұрын

    Hi Jon, A beautiful old motel, it's really a shame that they aren't renovated and made beautiful again in the original style. Great video guys xx

  • @musclerussell8109

    @musclerussell8109

    6 жыл бұрын

    love birds

  • @pinacoloda226
    @pinacoloda2266 жыл бұрын

    oh and very interesting video, i was born in the 1950s and recall staying in dozens of motels just like this one,in our family travels. brings back so many happy memories for me a sincere thankyou,from a new subscriber😉😉

  • @tammanyfields3583
    @tammanyfields35832 жыл бұрын

    This is where we moved! I love Rogersville.

  • @HelenHollywoodExplores
    @HelenHollywoodExplores6 жыл бұрын

    Great find and sweet video 👻👌🏻👽

  • @OdySlim
    @OdySlim6 жыл бұрын

    Hi John, As a kid we were always on the road as a military family. I loved staying in those Motels. The Tennessean looks like it was a nice, peaceful place to stay in its time. Regards from Ody Slim

  • @espritfleck2623
    @espritfleck26236 жыл бұрын

    I say torlet too and worsh cloth lol. Loved the vid guys!

  • @garydavis3471
    @garydavis34716 жыл бұрын

    Great video..as always

  • @buddyanddaisy123
    @buddyanddaisy1236 жыл бұрын

    My late father had a friend who owned a motel like this. he was having trouble-could not compete with larger, more modern hotels nearby-so he ran it until a buyer could be found-the new owner tore it down and put up condos.

  • @rebeccalouise1815
    @rebeccalouise18156 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video as usual

  • @susan5301
    @susan53016 жыл бұрын

    So cool to see vintage. Such a shame they let the house go also. Great video! Thanks!

  • @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010
    @prestoncheapbtheadphoneste30103 жыл бұрын

    I like those sun glasses 👓!

  • @MichaelsExplorations
    @MichaelsExplorations6 жыл бұрын

    Love all the wallpaper and sag caepet reminds me of the 70s nice video safe travles

  • @glendafromaustralia1625
    @glendafromaustralia16256 жыл бұрын

    Fabulous video Jon. Watched Kentucky Rangers live stream. He put up photos of his animals and family and one of your vids with Ray Ray in haunted tunnel. Great fun but scary in tunnel with those voices. Australia 🐾💕🐾💕

  • @rockytop228
    @rockytop2286 жыл бұрын

    Love this place ♥️

  • @amylou7245
    @amylou72454 жыл бұрын

    Awesome Video! I remember visiting my Aunt when she actually lived in one of the rooms for alil while! This piece of history is long gone now....Tore down to nothing now! I live 2mins from there. I had always hoped they would fix this place up and make apartments or something out of it!! Oh well! Good piece of history in this video!!! ❤❤

  • @genniejefferson1892
    @genniejefferson18926 жыл бұрын

    I saw before picture. Very nice.

  • @owen4248
    @owen42486 жыл бұрын

    Awesome motel must have been quite the place in it's day sad it will never be used again great explore......

  • @UrbanKiwiana
    @UrbanKiwiana6 жыл бұрын

    Hi jon awsum explore love the video

  • @tonimurtagh7141
    @tonimurtagh71416 жыл бұрын

    Wow great find,sad it's all falling down though

  • @AbandonedExplorationUrbex1979
    @AbandonedExplorationUrbex19796 жыл бұрын

    4:02 😂 I love seeing vintage old motels...

  • @cherylboudrie6172
    @cherylboudrie61724 жыл бұрын

    So Sad,I Bet this was such A Beautiful home,Another house goes down the drain,OMG I bet it was so Beautiful!!!"

  • @dianasmith1212
    @dianasmith12125 жыл бұрын

    Did you do the vid of the cemetery in Rogersville, Presbyterian Church? My grandfather was born in Rogersville in 1876 and they were Presbyterian. Possibly they attended that church! So I had to check this out even tho I'm pretty sure they were gone before this place was even built.

  • @cascadiawestcoast3327
    @cascadiawestcoast33276 жыл бұрын

    Like the video thanks for sharing

  • @ruthshelton1924
    @ruthshelton19246 жыл бұрын

    What a shame to see how everything was just forgotten about. The folks that built it probably died & that was it. There was a beautiful Victorian home in Edison, N.J. I would see because it was across the street from where I got on my shool bus. I wish I'd taken pics of it when I only got to go in it once in the early 1990s. It was so well built & had been taken care of. When you walked into the front door to the left was a beautiful fireplace, there were metal tiles on the ceiling & crown molding all over. Red velvet wallpaper. Pretty crystal lights. It had a nice big porch on the back. It was 3 storys high with an attic. Every room was so nice & the Victorian furniture was still there. The woman was 98 when she died in her bed room. She was the daughter, & had gotten the house from her parents. The place was bought by a land developer & of course it was torn down & three homes were build where the house had stood. What a shame. If I hadn't been in the Army I would have tried to have gotten it on an historic list.

  • @melissahale346
    @melissahale3466 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos, especially not having to hear language! Keep up the good work!!

  • @ruthshelton1924
    @ruthshelton19246 жыл бұрын

    If I had ylthe money I'd like to buy both propertys. Then done some research to see if building a new motel/hotel & restaurant would do well in that location. I'd put in an all around indoor/out door pool. In the sumer & all winter you could swim, hot tubs, ect. Next door outside you could use the pool in the summer & in the winter you could ice skate. In the summer show movies outside where folks could sit on blankets or also rent or have folding chairs. In the back you could have a really nice garden, walk path with nice benches.Next to that would be a nice home to live in. How does that sound folks?

  • @smallblocksadventures6008
    @smallblocksadventures60086 жыл бұрын

    Neat video

  • @heatherelliott8575
    @heatherelliott85756 жыл бұрын

    Great find John, what a pity its wrecked, the shag pile carpet and the old couch takes ya back in time. Even though I wasnt born yet its amazing how it looks on the outside kinda colonial look to it

  • @louisaloi9178
    @louisaloi91786 жыл бұрын

    Sure was back in the day a nice property.Makes me wonder if place was bypassed by a new interstate highway.Sad😢buildings too far gone to repair now.Eventually will get bulldozed over,classic 50s roadside motel.Reminds me of Breezewood,Pa.turnpike exit motels from same era.

  • @pbs4535
    @pbs45354 жыл бұрын

    That wall paper & shag carpet is 60s & 70s style as for those matches thats a fire hazard.

  • @ruthshelton1924
    @ruthshelton19246 жыл бұрын

    Thanks during the live streem for saying my fave funny word of yours--"turdlet'.That was a very fun night. Thanks to you I got off cig smoking ! I'm doing the vapor thingie & am on #3 strength. Will get down to just vapor soon. The clowns who've been mooching cigs from me for 5 yrs are p- o- ed. Oh well. One guy was really ticked off & looked like he might get abit nasty. ( I live in a crap HUD apt.But soon will try hitting the place with a big lawsuit -- that's why I'm still there.) I spent 14 yrs in the Army & have two 3rd degree black belts so he wouldn't of faired too good. (-:

  • @M60gunner1971
    @M60gunner19716 жыл бұрын

    Rogersville is really nice.

  • @deborahkolusk3741
    @deborahkolusk37416 жыл бұрын

    That was a good fine!👍✌️

  • @TThomas122
    @TThomas1226 жыл бұрын

    If you're ever in the Roane county area, here's a couple places you might be interested in checking out, the old Roane county court house in Kingston,Tn, built in the 1850's, and The Temperance building in Harriman, Tn, build in 1890's. Maybe something you can google and see if you're interested.

  • @ExplorationUnknown

    @ExplorationUnknown

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like places id love to check out if i could get in them.

  • @peggymccabe8825
    @peggymccabe88254 жыл бұрын

    You don't see matches anymore. That's cool

  • @garbage854
    @garbage8546 жыл бұрын

    Neat motel :)

  • @genniejefferson1892
    @genniejefferson18926 жыл бұрын

    Did you have a before picture? Nice video . Wonder when it closed.

  • @pinacoloda226
    @pinacoloda2266 жыл бұрын

    "terlet"😄😄 love the accent!!

  • @lauraleckemby4113
    @lauraleckemby41135 жыл бұрын

    Where is this? If ya ever get to Spring City, let me know? As always, great!

  • @bethbartlett5692
    @bethbartlett56925 жыл бұрын

    Hotels have interior room entries. Motels have exterior room entries. I prefer Hotels by Hilton. This Property would renovate nicely into Studio Apartments with MidCentury Modern Decor. My son was born in 1985 - 😉

  • @jackieeberlein5267
    @jackieeberlein52675 жыл бұрын

    To bad the motel got that bad. Probably was nice in it's prime. Good video😘💘🎥

  • @Karmy.
    @Karmy.6 жыл бұрын

    This is crazy

  • @danielleschiazza6172
    @danielleschiazza61726 жыл бұрын

    This is so sad

  • @wishingiwasfishing-easttn5769
    @wishingiwasfishing-easttn57694 жыл бұрын

    They just recently demolished this hotel.

  • @KdoggMkeyy
    @KdoggMkeyy6 жыл бұрын

    Buy the hotel make renovations and making your own hotel LOL I would other than that awesome VIDEO Jon most incredible

  • @daniellehunley6392
    @daniellehunley63925 жыл бұрын

    They torn the motel down the other day 😔

  • @takuya.t1601
    @takuya.t16012 жыл бұрын

    It’s like resident evil world lol

  • @nitashadow2860
    @nitashadow28603 жыл бұрын

    So sad they let it go to waste. Still sorry I didn't have the bell on

  • @charlottereed8060
    @charlottereed80605 жыл бұрын

    You are 5 years younger than my son.

  • @cherylboudrie6172
    @cherylboudrie61724 жыл бұрын

    "I am not being mean I Promise to God,But you crack me up so bad with these"Turrrlets" never heard something so funny in my life,I Love you!!!"

  • @Badgirl360
    @Badgirl3606 жыл бұрын

    Great video guys I'm glad I sub to you guys great job love it🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

  • @johnschueller3309
    @johnschueller33094 жыл бұрын

    Can you tell me if it for sale

  • @pierreklee7490
    @pierreklee74906 жыл бұрын

    What is the history of this motel?

  • @brucewells9412
    @brucewells94126 жыл бұрын

    I haven't been there , but i know people who haved i been in the dejarnette in stanton va

  • @RayRayTheExplorer
    @RayRayTheExplorer6 жыл бұрын

    My grandpa's nephew a small world. Ask permission and you may receive

  • @OdySlim

    @OdySlim

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey there Ray Ray! Good to see you on the video. It looks like you and John are having a good time roaming around making videos! Take care my friend, Regards, Ody Slim

  • @OliveMule

    @OliveMule

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ray Ray The Explorer i like ur page too ray ray!

  • @Matt-gq7hc

    @Matt-gq7hc

    6 жыл бұрын

    The motel is now completely falling apart I think they are starting demolition on it.

  • @evdallas123
    @evdallas1236 жыл бұрын

    Ats a neat place

  • @lindalee7284
    @lindalee72846 жыл бұрын

    ☆☆☆☆☆♡

  • @iiatargetanalyst3046
    @iiatargetanalyst30466 жыл бұрын

    He could convert these rooms into studio apts. Needs some work 😂 kidding. He better off wait for a developer come along buy property

  • @crystalscan2002
    @crystalscan20026 жыл бұрын

    any plans for the property or just let it rott more

  • @SuperKaren1953
    @SuperKaren19536 жыл бұрын

    Ray Ray sounds like me,he's kin to about everbody,lol

  • @erinnarmour
    @erinnarmour6 жыл бұрын

    I was 8 years old on the date of that newspaper, if I did my math correctly.

  • @chaosdemonwolf1

    @chaosdemonwolf1

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was 36

  • @ruthshelton1924
    @ruthshelton19246 жыл бұрын

    If I had 'THE'....not, ylthe !

  • @MrGeronimoe
    @MrGeronimoe6 жыл бұрын

    Guess you'll have to use more tastefull euphamisms eh! eg.'turdlettte' or 'shitter':-)

  • @patriciacurnutt7669
    @patriciacurnutt76696 жыл бұрын

    Why don't people with money fix it up and start another hotel there? I would if I had money. Would be good investment.

  • @curtis13450
    @curtis134506 жыл бұрын

    hot wheels and wattch other people flip so allsome to see hot wheels jumping on blog boaring lets leave