When you drive all the way to Kentucky for chicken, but it's at the place that started it all for an iconic chain: *A small price to pay, for salvation* I was in KFC with my bro when the lights went out...I told him that the circuits were fried

Fun KFC fact: Back when Google Earth became a thing, it created all new possibilities. In 2006, KFC unveiled a new logo, and took advantage of Google Earth by doing a thing called "spacevertising", as in advertising so big it could be seen from orbit. They achieved this by creating a giant logo of the new Colonel in Rachel, Nevada by Area 51 in three months. The "Face from Space" measured 87,500 square feet in area, a face so big it could fit all the faces of other American icons carved into Mount Rushmore. Also bigger than the footprint of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. As part of this new logo, they hid a message saying, "Finger Lickin Good" and if they found it, 10K lucky winners received a KFC coupon for...a dollar. This logo was around for only six months, but its impact lives on

I live about 8 miles down the road. that old restaurant was the Western Sizzling Steakhouse.

@birdnest5814

Жыл бұрын

Tampa Jay should pin this since so many are guessing in the comments.

10/10 The main reason why I watch your videos is you have the old school Adam the Woo feel. You're giving nostalgia a blast for its money. It's an honor to call you a friend!

@cindythecatwoman1601

Жыл бұрын

He does have the same style as Adam the Woo. I thought it was just me but, I guess not.

@TrevorCollin_

Жыл бұрын

@@cindythecatwoman1601 they are really good friends. If I'm not mistaken Adam helped Jay to start his KZread career. Tampa Jay , Adam, Jacob the carpetbagger, and world of Micah have made me want to do what they do

@TrevorCollin_

Жыл бұрын

@@cindythecatwoman1601 you got good taste in KZread videos.

Was a western sizzler steak house, burnt after being vacant for quite some time. Hope you checked out Cumberland Falls, it's about 16 miles off exit 25 on I-75 but totally worth.

Nice vlog Jay. I think KFC changed their recipe because it does not taste the same. I usually go to Popeye's now.

Are you still in Corbin???? We live in Corbin!!!

The abandoned restaurant looks like it could have been a Latter-Day Howard Johnson's. Judging by the interior layout and the color of the wallpaper lining the pillars, that would be my guess. I looked at an old wrestler and ponderosa locations brochure and I couldn't find one located in Corbin.

@guschampion

Жыл бұрын

Western Sizzlin

Another neat Video Jay. This one made me hungry. Thanks for the video.

Craving some fried chicken now lol just came across your channel recently I love this these road trip type vlogs!

Wow, that looks so neat! Now I'm ready for some chicken. Thanks for the tour & nostalgia trip Jay.

I spent many summers in Corbin, my grandparents and a few other relatives lived there for many years, have a great trip and look forward to much ahead.

I haven't had KFC in years. Now I'm hungry for it lol. Great video 👍

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

It’s some good stuff

Hi Tampa Jay! Just wanted to say I enjoy your videos! God Bless you and Cris the Girl! 🙂

I love traveling when I can and checking out old buildings and wonder what went on it its hey day. Thanks TJ. That is the best KFC chicken I've seen I'm a while. But good food altogether

Cool stuff made me hungry !

Great Video TJ love KFC!!!

Had some last night . Nothing like some KFC buddy. Great job on the vlogg. Enjoyed it. 👍👍❤️

I'm eating at KFC in travelers rest SC right now and your right it does taste different. Keep up the good work love your videos

If your in Corbin, KY just off I-75 across from the truckstop... that is an old Western Sizzlin Steakhouse Jay!!! I still see the old red neon lighting running around the soffit of the roof. 👍👍👍. Awesome Presentation Jay!!! I’m just south of Corbin in the Cumberland Gap area of TN!! Come n sit a spell sometime. That coleslaw is good isn’t it? 😋

Hey Jay next time your in Tennessee, near Pigeon Forge drive about 15-20 miles to Chestnut Hill to Bushes Baked Bean Gift shop and Museum and the Restaurant. Sometimes they even give tours of the Bush house across the street. We just recently visited it, such a cool place. Love the beautiful blue antique truck in the front.

I believe that was the Western Sizzlin Steak house or Shoney's.

@gwenfouts

Жыл бұрын

It was Western Sizzlin’

That's awesome Tampa Jay we lived in Kentucky for 5 years and that kfc was the best

That's awesome! Love me some KFC! their mashtators is sooo gooood!

Very cool

That is a really cool museum! The Colonel was a neat guy. Thanks for sharing Jay!

Really neat video!

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Jay that was an amazing video tour of Mr Harlans little chicken shack/gas station! Your take on these “glimps of gold” (my take on cool things don’t steal it but yes please do haha)

It's finger lickn' Good! 🍗🍗🍗🍗

Safe travels bud.

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy

Love me that Sweet Lightning!!!! Peach Mountain Dew!!! Didn't know about this place, on my list now!

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

That stuff is pretty tasty. Thanks Matt

Loved this. Next time you are in Corbin KY, you might want to check out Cumberland Falls. I was just at a Rays game Monday night, hoped I'd run into you. Now I am back home in Indiana. Thanks for the vids.

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

I was there on Monday night too. That would have been cool sorry I missed ya

Western Sizzlin? Maybe

Great vlog jay very different. Now I’m off to get me some KFC 👍

Toe licking good!! LOL! I do remember those star wars toys and cups, but I think we got ours from Pizza Hut. Great vide babe!

I hope you enjoyed Corbin. I’m right down the road.

Oh my...now I am craving KFC! It looks so delicious. 😋😋😋 Thank you for sharing with us. Safe travels, and God bless ❤🙏❤

That abandoned restaurant could had been a Ponderosa. That looks like the old abandon one in my area of western Kentucky. It's really cool what they done to the place in Corbin. We got that Kentucky Fried Chicken playset in Toyland. You heading to Paducah to do the "National Quilt Museum" ? I understand they do let vlogging now from some new vloggers that have passed by our place this year. As you probably know, Jacob and Justin were not allowed to vlog in it a few years back . But I am guessing you heading to Cincinnati for a baseball game.

Welcome to my home state enjoy

Looks like a fun stop. Will add to my list of places to see on the next road trip that goes through Kentucky. :) it was making me hungry to watch, Lunch ⏲️!

A true American Icon. Nice video

Awesome place ! Mmm 😋 I want some chicken 🍗!!!!!

I seen you rec this a few days ago when i went to the doc

@Sushi2008-w2y

Жыл бұрын

Yess i live here not far from there too

Hey Tampa J, great video. You should check out the connection between the Colonel and the lost city of Atlantis... it will really blow your mind...

I travel 75 south to see friends in Georgia every summer. Passed this exit before I was ready, and missed my chance to stop here three years in a row. Next summer,I plan to stop both here, and at the ARK experience further into KY.

@scruffydog2

Жыл бұрын

It just reopened after bring a drive throw for 3 years.

I live in London right north of Corbin but KFC is in Laurel County. That abandoned restaurant is a Western Sizzlin. Been that way for 10 years. Please let me know when you come through again sometime. I'll buy your lunch (dinner) or Dinner (Supper). Don't say "FAMOUS RECIPE" when talking of KFC, haha. Sweet lightning is the bomb! Lee Cummings of FAMOUS RECIPE chicken was Sanders' Nephew though. Great vlog, job well done! I gotta go in amd see the new addition.

I rolled though when you was doing your video

Pretty neat. I met Harland Sanders when I was a kid, but I didn't really know who he was or why I was meeting him. lol That was in Lakewood, California.

I'm hungry for KFC 🍗 now. Dave Thomas worked for the Colonal in Indiana before he opened the first Wendy's Restaurant in Dublin Ohio 😳. You should go there sometime. He also created the KFC bucket.

Jay, you should do a video of The Varsity when you drive through Atlanta on your way home!

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Vlogged it a couple years back but need to get back there. So good 🤤

Come to Boston for the first Dunkins. Also lowell ma for “ the fighter “ movie locations

"Back in my day a bucket of the Colonels Sanders Chicken was kinda a big deal." 😋 watching this early Thursday morning and now I'm hungry for some fried chicken. Thx 4 taking us all along on your tasty adventure!

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Such a big deal huge ! Thanks Cindy 🤤

That made me hungry. Great Video. kfc should give you some free chicken for this.

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

I’ll take it! Yum Thank you

I've just recently watch `Food that build America,' it's about each food company and their history, Col. Sander really had a tough life and did a great job making those chicken which now become KFC. If you haven't seen it, it's really a good show.😀

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Gregg that sounds like a great watch

The abandoned building in the beginning does look like a Ryan’s Steakhouse. Looks just like the one we used to have between Brandon and Tampa

I got one this my town

I was at Corbin 50+ years ago with the Colonel working on a film about him for KFC. Nowhere near as grand then. That mural on the wall at 22:44 of him standing on the hill top with the cane was pulled from a single frame of 16mm film shot in California near San Diego as the sun was fast setting. It was a cold day and the Colonel was a trooper. We landed and pulled the camera off the helicopter mount and snatched this low angle shot real quick racing the setting sunlight. For decades the same shot was on an entry hall wall in the Gardiner Lane corporate training center in Louisville, KY. Not a bad esult for a last minute decision to grab a quick shot at ground level looking up into the pink and magenta sky.

The burnt building was the old Western Sizzlin.

Jay, I haven't been to KFC in over 15 years-after watching your video, I've been twice this week, you need to call them and tell them you need money for promoting them-LOL

I lived for many years in Corbin from 1973 till 1995 and my mother -in-law worked for Kentucky fried chicken 🍗 in the early 1940's and he lived just down the road from the restaurant

I’m always afraid someone is going to answer back when you say hello in those old buildings

This is fabulously insane, but I am planning trip right now.

I’m pretty sure that old restaurant if that’s in Corbin and I’m positive it is that was a former shoneys . I used to live in the area

@donniedavis4258

Жыл бұрын

I passed by few hrs ago and that’s definitely a shoneys

You should check out the short film called 'Recipe for Seduction' with Mario Lopez as Harland Sanders

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Watchlist

Fun fact. I used to work in the office of a person in our area, that owns all of the KFC’s around here. Not sure if they still do. No, I didn’t learn the secret recipe.😂 I thought this video was interesting. Thanks Tampa Jay😊💕👍

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool . That recipe would be gold thanks for watching my friend

Good to see this. My mother was born in 1938 in Harlan, KY. When she was a kid in thr 40s, she and my grandparents stopped and ate at the Sanders Cafe. My mother is now 84 but she has told me about this many times. My granfather worked for Peabody Coal Company at Black Mountsin, KY. Thanks for showing this. Enjoy your journey.

🤩 wow! Now that is something I never seen, a museum with something to eat or on the go. ☺️ thanks for showing that to us. Theirs only 10 KFC restaurants left in the whole state of Arizona. 8 are only located in around Phoenix area. The two are in Northern Arizona, which is Williams, AZ and Tuba City, AZ which is 40 miles from me. The two KFC in Flagstaff had been closed down since 2014…I think? The one in Page, AZ has been closed since 2007 and now that building is a Mexican Restaurant.

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony! The museum is a must stop if you’re passing thru Corbin. I’ve been to Williams and Phoenix before .. I should have stopped at them both. Good stuff yum

My grandpa Oberlin had dinner with Colonel Sanders back in the day

Seeing this video definitely brings back memories when I would spend all my summers staying with my grandpa in Kentucky and going to KFC sitting in the dining room and eating some delicious chicken

Glad you noticed the taste change, thought I was the only one that noticed it- went from great to only good, they need to change it back.......

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Yes it’s definitely different

We live like two minutes away from KFC!!!

I still have some of my KFC/ Pizza Hut Star Wars stuff from Episode 1. Fun Fact: Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, got his start working for the Colonel. If it weren't for Thomas, KFC would have gone under. Sadly, KFC got bought out by a corporation and wanted to take short cuts. Thomas who'd been entrusted with keeping the KFC quality, wouldn't have it, so he ended up being fired. Thomas would go on to create Wendy's. I love KFC!!! Sadly, all of ours are simply garbage now. So seeing this...I know where I have to stop the next time I go through that area! Thank you!

Hello Tampa Jay, you might consider some day to visit the Lincoln City, IN Abraham Lincoln Memorial. paul

Flaaaaammi........ oh it's chicken time 🐔 😆😆😆😆😆😆

I haven’t been up that way in a few years, but that’s always a must stop for me when I’m driving through Kentucky. The extra crispy used to be my favorite as well, but it didn’t taste as good to me the last time I had it. I just stick with the original now, which to me still tastes good as ever.

Annnnnd now I want KFC! 😆

Jay, I agree with you that KFC tastes different from when we kids( well I'm much older than you) but I recall they didn't have fountain drinks ( maybe the 70's) and you can get Fanta soda in cans) with your meals. I do crave KFC now and enjoyed your fun vlog in Corbin! Thanks Jay! 🍗

TAMPA JAY I GREW UP EATING KFC I LOVE EXTRA CRISPY CHICKEN 🐔

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Great stuff!

Kfc also had a restaurant called "KENTUCKY ROAST BEEF 'N' HAM" just a little Kfc history

That was a Western Sizzling steakhouse

The abandoned building looks like a Big Boy restaurant.

You went all the way to Kentucky for chicken? lol

@noellesimagination7813

Жыл бұрын

I hope your grandma is OK, if that's why your up that way.

I wish you were coming my way in Kentucky, but I am sure you are not. Very few vloggers go through my area because it is not right off an Interstate. We are 20 minutes from Corydon, Indiana and I64. Closest "big" town to me is Brandenburg. We have one of the few bridges to cross the Ohio into Indiana. I have been to Claudia Sanders restaurant in Shelby, County and also to Col. Sanders grave in Louisville, but not to Corbin where you were.

@dandavenport7488

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Matthew Welsh bridge into Maukport, IN which recently got a well-needed coat of baby blue paint and some paving. Try the catfish or chicken tenders with a loaded baked potato and slaw at Little Dave's in Brandenburg. Little Dave is getting on and I fear won't be with us much longer. Say "Hi" if he's in. His birthday is March 15. 86yrs old in 2023.

@trish5556

Жыл бұрын

@@dandavenport7488 I haven't been there in a while because my husband is so picky, but I loved it when Dave went to each table to ask how everything was.

@dandavenport7488

Жыл бұрын

@@trish5556 He tries to on the rare times he's there now. He always praises his staff when he talks with guests.

That place is so cool. Love fast food history. All the stuff they have on display in there, is awesome. I remember when they had those Episode 1 bucket toppers! The old style spinning bucket sign is sweet. Feel like those bucket signs are a bit of a rarity these days. Great video, Jay!

Great video! I love some KFC. I analyzed the spinning bucket in your video and found that the bucket does 1/2 a rotation in 18 seconds, therefore a full rotation will take 36 seconds. There are 86,400 seconds in a day, so if we divide 86,400 by 36 it equals 2,400. Therefore, I believe ihat bucket spins 2,400 times a day. Have a great day!

Didn't realize how much we have in common 😃 Grandparents were also from KY...and KFC was part of my life growing up Also my parents lived in Lakeland FL when they were Newlyweds 👍

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty awesome Josh very parallel to me. Thanks for watching man

Looks a lot better than it did in 2015

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

It does was there last in 2014

The local KFC here in mt.sterling KY is nothing to brag about. The portions of the chicken are so small. Very little meat. The chicken you received looks nice and I can can hear that good crunch. BTW, good video.

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Thanks for posting was great info on KFC. However, I live in Ontario Canada and KFC pieces are cut so small nothing like what you get in the US. I have relatives in the Georgia and the pieces are just like what you got in this video. Here it's just not worth buying as we don't get what we use to. Again, thanks for this video!!

He was born in Henryville, Indiana

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Indiana Fried Chicken has a different ring to it

I've never been there

That was 03:03 DJ Kitty :D

Looks like a bob evans

Insanity walking through that charred hellscape with slip on "vans" 🙀

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the channel

Is this a repost, or is this new

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

new

@charlesbean7396

Жыл бұрын

@@TampaJay Damn took a trip outta town. Nice 👍

What city is your family from?

@TampaJay

Жыл бұрын

Albany Dale Hallow

I waited in a virtual line for hours to get those stupid fried chicken crocs because I'm a heavy set fella. Once it was my turn to order they sold out of my size. Total bummer. I would never wear crocs in my life....unless they have fried chicken legs on them.

That burned down restaurant used to be a Shoney’s 🐻

Adam and his Dad hit this place a year ago, and it's one of my stops when I visit friends in the area in the future. I actually met the man when John Y. Brown (Future Kentucky Governor) Owned KFC in the early 70s. I was 13 years old and he was a bit grumpy. I know his son took the helm as the Colonel later on but I met 'THE Colonel' himself back then.