I came across your channel and to be able to see Alabama and all its wonders is just amazing. I have family all over down there and I was also born in Huntsville. I haven't been back that way in 15 or so years.. Bless your hearts and you'll keep up the great exploring.

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

how did I miss this awesome comment? Thank you and forgive me for taking a year to thank you!!

Ok, the song finally hit me. Christsmas in Dixie, ....and Merry Christmas from Fort Payne, Alabama.

teenagers outside almost unheard of these days bet they had cell phones glued to their hands love the videos thanks

@SaberRiryi

2 жыл бұрын

Well yeah, because the US has car centric places like Fort Payne that are not pedestrian or bicycle friendly. There's nothing beautiful about this concrete red brick hellscape. No greenery. Plenty of teenagers spend their time outside in other cities... but those cities are designed as places people actually want to be. Meanwhile Fort Payne's roads and concrete are cracked and obviously in need of repair. A city trapped in the mindset of the "boom days", trying to relive former glory instead of actually improving the city so that the best days can be ahead of it. Not the type of place that any kid or teenager looks at and thinks, "I can make a life here and actually enjoy living here"

@michaelklinge1857

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaberRiryi thanks things are not like they used to be but you should do well where ever you live

@SaberRiryi

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelklinge1857 It just irritates me, because I see so much potential for places like Fort Payne. I would love to see it prosper and thrive instead of every other comment talking about how they "used to be" the sock capital of the world. A lot of main street towns like this have great "bones" to be built upon. You can completely revitalize a town by making these kinds of investments. It's just that there often isn't the political will to do anything. Or the residents have no concept of how to build sustainable, prosperous infrastructure and resist it. And what little money towns like this do have, instead of reinvesting it in the downtown, they start building single family homes on the edges of town with all the infrastructure that entails. The maintenance of which, will slowly bankrupt the town since the lower property taxes can't even begin to cover it.

WOW IS INCREDIBLE, THE STREETS ARE THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGO

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Well duh

@MALOMALVADO

3 жыл бұрын

​@Jimmy Batson But it's the capital of the stocking, I guess it still is, a lot of money moves in that town

Born and raised here, so it holds a special place in my heart. I cracked up when you said turning left here… into a parking lot. Because as you started turning I was telling you in my head it was a dead end unless you were parking to go eat at the spot haha. Thanks for the memories.

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for watching, you should have hollered at me!

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from muscle shoals Alabama and we don't like all y'all Joe Biden loving gun banning clowns! Trump 2024 baby

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

@@wildestcowboy2668 someone's playing on their mommy's computer again....

@wildestcowboy2668

2 жыл бұрын

@@ExploringAlabama I noticed that you didn't deny sleepy Joe.....

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

@@wildestcowboy2668 gun banning? Come on dude, you obviously havent seen my channel...also unless all you own is beard boy tote'n ak's, lets meet up for a competition. Bet I can outshoot you any distance with iron sights. You on?

EA, enjoyed the tour. Glad to see it still looks like it did when I went thru there (many years ago).

Remember, Ft. Payne was once the sock manufacturing capital of the world.

@RuhRohRaggie069

3 жыл бұрын

Dont forget BOAZ Alabama

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Yesszzzz. Queeennnn

Love F.P. I live in Rome, Ga Hasn't changed much. You use to could go to Randy Owen's home (Alabama)and he would come out and talk with you. Don't know if he still does that.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

No he doesn't do that anymore I don't think

you might consider exploring the city of Talladega sometime. Old town with lots of history and beautiful old homes. Their cemetery was established in 1836. Its name is "Oak Hill Cemetery". Well maintained and lots of history there.

You cant beat the strand for some good grub.My nephews live in FT Payne on look out mountain........

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Yeszssss a bonanza burger yum 😋 🍔 🍔 🍔 🍔

Was raised in Fort Payne from Kindergarten-1st, 3rd-12th… graduated in 2013, moved away in 2015. Looks the same 2 years ago! The house on the right at 11:19, my old friend Miguel Orozco used to live there. 11:26 the white house with the wooden fence and the green car on the left I used to live there. It used to be yellow but somebody repainted it

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

thats cool, its a neat town

Nice town, liked the courthouse. You always got to put food 🥘 n your hole. Lol 😂 enjoyed the town. ~ Texas

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Me and my church served down where they have the soup kitchen by the courthouse about a week ago

My home town. Jack’s hamburgers was always the place to eat, growing up. That and Western Sizzlin’. Everybody went there after church.

Awesome little..ish town.. when it gets to cold up here.. i may have to take a little cruise..

Enjoyed the adventure. I miss Alabama.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Its b Not changed much as far as I can tell cuz I live in fp

Cool thanks. Haven't been there since the late 90s. Still looks almost the same.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Well its changed a bit but not much cuz I live in fp

I really enjoy this trips..your family makes a fun-walk-around. It would be cool to see ya'll meander in north Bama...up near Hamilton there abouts.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

Love that town, only I didn’t see was a Dairy Queen.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't go past the turn headed there

lolol the Canadian coin is called a looney ,its worth a buck here in Canada ,74 cents USA

I could spend some time in that town. I’d loved to been around to have seen that town in its heyday. I loved the Strand Store/Eatery. Oh and I love y’all’s channel. I’ve never been to Alabama but I’m interested in anything that southern small town and I love anything Civil War and preferably confederate. Ive been shooting blackpowder pistols and that got me into anything civil war and I’ve got into metal detecting, bought a Garrett 300 recently. So really your channel is right up my alley. Great video.

I did some metal detecting in Ft Payne several years ago.

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

What did you find

@daytondigger1

3 жыл бұрын

@@mistydupree4351 don't recall any memorable finds. Someone local was there as well detecting and I didn't stay long. We were exploring caves and looking for bottles and old beer cans mostly.

This is my hometown. Lived there all my life so far, and there is 2 whole other sides of town they didn't show which has multiple schools, and the other part which had a bunch of fast food restaurants.

@ExploringAlabama

3 жыл бұрын

true, but the old school downtown is the cool parts of towns

Remember you cant visit FT. Payne without visiting Joe Truck stop. on Hwy 35

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

Wowowow

The best bbq in that area used to be at Mud Creek in Stevenson

Cool town.. what's wrong with tomatoes??

Not many people use “case quarter”. Now a days. I do most of the time. I Reside near in Dogtown. Close to Lick Skillet.

@ExploringAlabama

2 жыл бұрын

I know the area, nice! Thanks for watching, subscribe and hang around with us!

Magbie family of Ft. Payne.

I always run into the same problem....but with onions. I say no onions please, I'm allergic...food comes...onions. 🙄 Yup..thanks.🤪

Should have went to the Bar-B-Q Place and ate some fried JoJo’s

@mistydupree4351

3 жыл бұрын

The bbq is so good there with some Jojos and chicken sauce yum yum

You say you saw people (even teenagers) walking around, but I saw next to no one walking around in your video. I used to visit Fort Payne a lot when I was younger to visit my grandmother when she was alive. This town falls into the same trap as a lot of car-centric main streets. Sidewalks that are too narrow. No bicycle infrastructure which would allow kids to actually come and engage in the community. No one wants to walk into the downtown from the surrounding areas. Basically no greenery, ensuring that you have a red brick concrete hellscape that's obscenely hot in the summer. It's a place designed for cars to the point that it actually feels physically uncomfortable to walk on the sidewalk, so as soon as people can get off the street and into a building, they do. There's nothing about the outside area that makes you want to stay there. No one would want to sit on a bench on that sidewalk and watch the world go by. And until that changes, neither will Fort Payne.

hey, das, not Canadian, eh!

Ft. Payne drank a many of beers close to where Hank Williams JR fell off the mnt which one reason sports a beard ALWAYS I may not be right about all aspects of this but it did happen n he lived check it out for urself

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