Florida Roadside Attractions & Abandoned Places - Forgotten POLICE Station & SPEED TRAP IN WALDO

[@TampaJay]

Thank you for watching!

[@simply_kim62]

So Cris announced that you dont have a P.O. Box anymore. We had a box ready to go out and its just sitting here. How do we send your box. My wife and I love both of you and we have been sending things for years. 😢we are so sad.

[@MassDeportation]

Hardys was dope as a kid

[@kandonkane]

Hey Jay, new subscriber here. Really enjoy your roadside/abandoned videos. Surprised to find out that you were Hoosier born like myself (younger me spent time in Springport, In which is about 10 min from Spiceland). Teenage years was spent in Lee County, FL before moving back to central Indiana. If you get back to Indiana I'd love to buy you and your wife dinner (I'm the proprietor of Pizza King of Elwood). Keep up the great work my friend.

[@michca318]

I lived in Gainesville and I had a friend who lived in Starke. I used to pass through Waldo to get to her house! I always made sure I was doing the speed limit. One time it was a holiday and the cop was waiting for people to go faster than 15 mph, near a school. School was out but the light was still flashing! I was so glad when I heard they stopped them from passing out so many tickets!!

[@bob4364]

Hey Tampa Jay, grest video, tour and more of abdanded historic town of Waldo FL which served also as a railroad junction..Much to come..Enjoy on

[@kellyparrish-w2r]

Hunt is on, now that Haunt season is over, missed these alot. ty TJ.

[@annabelleleesa3485]

Right? I’ve never even been to Florida, but I love these videos. They’re so peaceful, and I just love hearing about all these places time has seem to have forgotten.

[@Elephant2024]

Glad to see you back with a roadside attraction, abandoned places video. Love you TJ.😀

[@marcthorner8338]

The first time I drove 301 I thought I was going back in time!! Thanks, Jay!!!!

[@DocHolliday68-bu2sv]

Love The Roadside Attractions and Forgotten Places Episodes. Thanks so much Jay.

[@ChristheShrinerdawg]

I really enjoy these roadside attractions videos, my dude! Regardless of what part of then country they're in. Keep it up!

[@trish5556]

When we lived in Ocala from 1979-1987 we drove through Waldo many times heading to family gatherings in Jacksonville. We never stopped and explored, not even the Flea Market. Thankfully we never got a speeding ticket. Between Waldo and Starke there was a place I always wanted to stop and take a picture of but never did. It was a motel that had a sign that read Motel and Taxidermy. That always sounded like a rather risky place to stay!

[@naybur74]

i go to that Flea Market all the time, and the Antique store as well, buying the greatest priced stuff i personally have ever seen, i come away with something EVRY TIME. ..AND..also i live 25 minutes away here in Gainesville Florida, and it is really easy for me to pick up and go on the week ends, and to that Antique Mall you were in is supposedly HAUNTED..did you feel any thing. i also with a heavy heart would like to dedicate this video to my Girlfriends mother who passed away today, your intro music was very sad sounding and brought me to tears, i will always remember this video on the day i got the call, thank you for you visit to my area .

[@jackiearnold6535]

YES.. went to that flea market when I was up there 6 years ago!! Got like 3lbs of boiled peanuts🎉🎉🎉🎉 Can't find them anywhere south of Lake Okeechobee

[@Sam-02024]

Nice antique shop. "Who remembers TV guides?" 🙋‍♀Awesome vlog!

[@DanielleC7]

Love these videos! Thanks, Jay!❤

[@sailormanjames]

Tampa Jay, So glad you are back to doing your normal videos. Loved this one as I have been to Waldo many times, I live in Alachua, north of Gainesville & west of Waldo. That flea market is huge & packed with vendors & buyers on the weekend. Maybe you could revisit there & make a video?

[@redskull8044]

I really enjoy your quiet video's .... but Haunt's On is fun too!!

[@janiebrossmann1178]

Thanks for taking us on yet another adventure 😊

[@user-kn6rc4hk2l]

Love the road side attractions and abandoned places, thank you TJ

[@WendyMurray-l1d]

I love your roadside attractions vlogs and also movie locations videos

[@MiamisburgJay]

Thanks Jay for another great vid and adventure. Waldo may be getting what it deserves with the speed traps from the past... but that type of stuff is better left to higher powers :) Have a great one

[@Mark-ur4ds]

Love this series every place big or small has it’s stories ➡️

[@kimberlylyerly2207]

Great video, my friend 😊 I thoroughly enjoy this series of yours. It's always a learning experience. Thank you. Hugs 🤗 and God bless 🙏

[@MrMetalminded]

Glad to see a video like this again after the Halloween season.

[@randygyulay5114]

Well done and quite interesting. Thanks Jay.

[@living4usgnv]

I used to stop at that former Hardee's in Waldo all the time when I would either go to the Flea Market or on my way to Jacksonville &/or Georgia (I live in Gainesville). It was always my go-to on Christmas morning when headed to see my family in Savannah. It closed in either 2015 or 2016. I'd then stop sometimes at the one in Starke (rhymes with Park). I remember the old speed trap billboards as well when I first moved down here from GA. I was waiting to see if you would have headed into Gainesville, as the original Sonny's BBQ location is on Waldo Road (FL-24), past the Gainesville Airport a bit on the right. Maybe next time.

[@MissFanCulture]

These are always a great palate cleanse from a horrible, hectic world

[@key8354]

I grew up in Gainesville (still here) and going through Waldo (to the Waldo Flea Market) every weekend with my dad is embedded in my childhood. I remember taking one of our family members to the Amtrak station there because they were on their way to Miami in the mid 90s. So many memories! I remember when that town was actually thriving with Feed stores and boiled peanut and fruit stands. Also...you were THAT close to the original Sonny's BBQ. It's on Waldo Road in Gainesville! Next time!

[@JoshHarrington-jw5yl]

I was just In crystal river wow I love florida nice genuine good people!

[@LauraHenderson-wx6xy]

Hey Tampa Jay. 👋You know your stuff, I was just about to make a comment on how this area is notorious for speed traps,so look out ! 😅Thank you for showing us more of the town. Drive safely. 👍

[@thejewishredneckprepper4675]

The pretty berries are known as Beauty Berries. Very edible, yet has very little taste.Good to make Jelly with. Shalom

[@TampaJay]

thank you for the information. I really appreciate it. Thanks for watching.

[@deborahczepiel7355]

Enjoyed this very much, brought back old memories of going to the flea market over 20 years ago.

[@leearmstrong2743]

Mornin Jay!! Glad you're back!!

[@Elyse1222]

We love antique stores. Will have to add this to the list,:). Thanks for sharing!

[@rogertemple7193]

Waldo was a nice looking abandoned town and I know a lot places like this that have speed traps but beware of speed traps in ghost towns that you don't get stopped by the Ghost Police but have a wonderful week and Thank You Tampa Jay. ☕👻🇺🇲

[@garfixit]

Love it Jay another great video

[@andystreet1479]

some very cool roadside attractions and the lake at Alto would be very spooky at night great Christmas shopping for someone special

[@Shelly-in-Tampa]

Who knows maybe one day this town could be booming. Fl. has so much change. ❤ This Video. I love seeing places I have never been.

[@TampaJay]

you never know. thanks for watching

[@allybooks0606]

@tampa jay I like watching videos about abandoned places thank you this was cool

[@michca318]

Thanks for bringing these back!

[@ChrisHalloBoo]

Loved it, fun adventure. Creepy swampland, the lake was stunning beautiful. Loved your pick of music and how you let the song play out in the end of video. Great job.

[@bjornemccomb8262]

Very old cemetery wow! Sad to see those small kids graves, tragic losses.

[@annabelleleesa3485]

I absolutely love these videos. I wish we had a Tampa Jay for Texas! :)

[@ChrisKeyes-w7y]

Tampa I love your roadside attraction vlogs and filming location vlogs

[@JohnKeyes-gh9kf]

Tampa you're at your best doing roadside attractions and filming locations

[@dawnbasham8719]

Oh great the granddaughter says Nana I need that unicorn he shown lol 😂😂 nice market items there tho ..

[@SanDiegoAnnie]

I remember years ago, AAA would route people around Waldo to avoid those speed traps. They used to really target out of state drivers. Think that's how they kept their economy going from all those fines. Thanks, Jay! Some beautiful scenery!

[@mar-mar-n2i]

Wish I could do what you do .... doing what you love ,,, freedom. Greetings from Brooklyn NY 😎

[@RichyRich2221]

Hi Tampa, I've been watching your vids since just before halloween. It's nice to see you back, thx fir given a brit a little taster of florida, keep safe, you & cris 😊

[@minifan77]

I love this video I was hoping you would have spent more time in Ocala though.

[@ginamullins8080]

This is my town :) You were in my neighborhood lol!

[@exinilda]

Love seeing these places. Thank you for sharing. ❤️🙏

[@W_ired]

these are what people love parts america we will maybe never see awesome jay

[@joangravel2436]

Thanks awesome places I enjoyed watching

[@donaldlinkey8399]

That's pretty neat when you walked in there. That's pretty neat when they've been in the places temperature

[@sa1ntluke]

Love the background music you used at the start

[@jshhorvath]

Now someone will know what you got them for Christmas when they watch your video. Lol

[@unlock54]

Great video

[@jparker59able]

Hi Jay. Glad you're back to exploring Old Florida. I wonder if that old brick building with the blue trim in Waldo was once a bank. Wish you had gotten a closer look inside.

[@vickys7370]

Roadside Back 👏👏So Peaceful, thank you 🦩🦩🦩

[@TampaJay]

thank you

[@currentuser3852]

I have an ancestor buried in the Waldo cemetery. Good to see some of these sights again.

[@TampaJay]

happy I could take you back to Waldo . Thanks for watching.

[@sandspurpatch]

The old Florida roadside watering hole only survived when the term was DWI and not much was done about it. Florida, old Florida is my family's world.

[@juliogonzales5441]

GREAT VIDEO MR JAY...BE SAFE

[@TampaJay]

thank you !

[@TheAsif5182]

i ve been searching for someone who visit antique shop or pawn shop , but could nt find anybody , today your video popped up on my youtube screen , and u did all what i want , abandoned places visit , antique shop visit ,cemetery visit . that was perfect mate of my choice ❤❤ so i subscribe the channel . by the way , why did u take a risk to be at place where gators can attack .!? be careful bro .

[@jonny4563]

Oh man, wish you had looked at the expiration date on that dip in the fridge at Annie's so we'd know when the last people were there. I'd wager a cash bar (no pun) is one reason they closed. That is too tempting for a lot of bartenders. You can still find little bars in lots of places on the side of the road, but I'm not sure I'd go in, but I don't drink, so I wouldn't. Thanks for the tour!

[@NASH_87]

Another Nice video. I would go to the waldo flea market every other weekend. Last time i went i found someone selling an original poster from from the Ringling brothers circus in Venice.

[@sarahmoller9716]

Great video and so much included that is so interesting. I believe the owner of Annie's was killed in a car wreck near Oklawaha a while back. These old towns are special for memories of days long ago. Also during the 1800s, so many babies and children died because of different diseases. Sad times for the families that lost their young children. Thank you Tampa Jay for this video

[@TampaJay]

That’s terrible about the owner. my condolences . I used to live on Oklawaha

[@sarahmoller9716]

@TampaJay I know you lived here and we always wish to see you around. Let us know when you plan to come back and hope we can meet. After all, I was born on Halloween in 1941. What a combo. Hope we can see you one day.

[@ericl1166]

34:17 that is a beautyberry shrub. The berries are very colorful and ripen around September. I've heard that the berries could be made into a jelly, but are not good raw. Birds like them though. Not sure about your part of Florida, but these are really common here in northeast Florida.

[@danusdaughter8652]

We live down the road from Annie's! ❤❤❤

[@MichelleMartin-ld6zg]

Evening Tampa Jay nice to see you back again after Halloween 🎃 great video I guess there's much ahead love from Michelle over here in Nottingham in England ♥️ ❤️ 😘 💖 💕 💙 😊😅😂😮

[@bobbieabbott]

I used to live off of County Road 225 there in Gainesville, so Waldo was an area where our post office was and I think when they lost their Hardee’s and their school system there they really went downhill as a town.

[@lastFLnative]

Great cemetery content!!

[@TampaJay]

thank you

[@lastFLnative]

@@TampaJay ...😁👍

[@jasonwaycott8829]

That population graph was spooky. In 30 years Waldos population hasn't changed. nobody comes nobody leaves 😂

[@RobertDickens2002]

Me and Deans french onion dip go way back.

[@TampaJay]

me too great stuff

[@springbrown9769]

Summerfield, my hometown. My grandfather used to drink at Annie's. Back in the 90's. That town isn't whst it used to be. Sad.

[@sandman4384]

Nice job I been thru waldo many a time seen some cops some people get tickets and most follows the speed limits never stopped to check it out thanks

[@raydurz8716]

Incredible Hulk collection discovered on Lou Forigno’s birthday.

[@TampaJay]

whoa , now that’s a crazy coin

[@markteicher5785]

I watched so many haunted house videos of yours that I forgot you did abandoned places

[@TampaJay]

thanks for watching

[@MikeRuh01]

I like the old towns. Waldo doesn't seem that bad if ya like quiet places. But I guess ya have to drive to find entertainment. Those tombstones are probably the only things left of the people from the 1800's? Thanks for the show TJ

[@Christopher-v7u]

My favorite breakfast item i like from Hardee's is the porkchop and gravy biscuit.

[@karenjenkins7497]

You found Beauty Berries. The deer like them and you can eat them too.

[@TampaJay]

thank you so much!!

[@tobinsphotovideo]

Florida is the only state where you still have constant buay traffic even in an abandoned town.

[@robl4775]

another great video. just a note: bivouacked sounds like "biv" + "oo" + "akt"

[@michaelmayhem138]

Much ahead in this strange world

[@SuperBoomshack]

I received a speeding ticket in Waldo in the early 90s; the cop was the biggest a$$munch I ever met

[@michaelrobinson1003]

Your radar detector would go off as you passed the city limits and change of speed sign. There would be a police car parked in front of the station and usually a cop in a chair out front. As you approached the bcop car lights came on and you'd be signaled to pull over. Yep, speed trap

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

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[@graceaffari6486]

Waldo Florida had a very large flea market But because of the speed trap, a lot of people didn’t go They used to hand out tickets like they were candy I guess it changed now. I don’t know. I haven’t been up that way.

[@Altoncrews]

TAMPA JAY YOU SHOULD LOOK INTO SILVER BULLET LAWTEY, FL POLICE CHIEF YOU'LL BE SURPRISED AT WHAT YOU'LL FIND OUT

[@DREADPOOL]

I always warned people not to speed through Waldo.

[@donaldlinkey8399]

I think I saw that dog somewhere from poor that's a hornet doll ghost

[@RobertDickens2002]

That was definitely a Hardees but then probably changed to taco bell.

[@candacepost2137]

Is it still a speed trap?

[@MikeLockheart]

Why are all these places Abandoned ? Future video idea, Filming locations for the first Jeepers Creepers movie ?? It was all filmed in Florida I believe.

[@TampaJay]

I have already made that video. Check out my channel. I actually got the Jail before it was torn down.

[@bobbieabbott]

The Waldo community school my two sons went to elementary school there and my older son had to go further south to Hawthorne middle high school but he had to catch the bus there and then go to the high school but this may have been their high school at one time or just the school for the area with several grades in it.

[@MassDeportation]

I LIKE TRAINS, AND..

[@MassDeportation]

SHIPS!!

[@johnstarr2458]

Why’d you put such sad music at the end of your recent video

[@bobbieabbott]

I used to live off of County Road 225 there in Gainesville, so Waldo was an area where our post office was and I think when they lost their Hardee’s and their school system there they really went downhill as a town.

[@JohnnyKennedy-sf4sf]

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