Wandering Through a Sleepy Mississippi Town | Dash Cam Driving Tour Gloster, MS

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@exploringthesouth975 10 ай бұрын

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@SnakeHeadFish-v5v 3 ай бұрын

@@exploringthesouth975 Rayong Thailand is a far entertainment place to be than Gloster. It had a very important roll for America during the Vietnam War as it was home to the Utapao Air Base where the B52 bomber launched bombing raids. Next to Utapao was is Sattahip Navy Base where most of what America used for the Vietnam war landed. Also in the same area was the 7th field hospital (now renamed using the last queen of Thailand name and still being used). Rayong is 100 miles east of Bangkok and a very wealthy city since it is located next to a large industrial zone where hundreds of international companies have set up shop like BMW, Toyota, and DOW. This has attracted some of Thailand's best and brightest. So we have all the things to make life far better than Gloster where I built a 4,000 sq. ft. home setting on 40 landscaped acres (luckily I was able to sell it at a good price near the end of COVID when people where getting out of the cities due to the riots, homeless and crime. I actually had already left America earlier when Obama was elected president sensing that the wheels were starting to fall of America (seems I was right). And interesting thing, while living in Gloster actually next to the Homachitto National Forest one of the Forest Rangers mentioned the he had a brother that lived in Thailand and then a FedEx mentioned he had a bother that was living in Thailand. I was no stranger to Thailand taking 2 R&Rs to Thailand from Vietnam in 1968. Out of the army went back to Thailand in 1969 (while my friends went to Woodstock) with a backpack and explored Thailand, Los, and Cambodia for a year. Going back to America I entered LSU on my Vietnam GI bill. 4 months after graduating I got a job with an engineering and construction company with an office in Bangkok that was 1974 and I never worked in America again. Now retired and well off, and still a construction man I am building my final home. My Thai wife who was a pharmacist at Freds in Centerville and Natchez is now a division manager at our hospital here in Rayong. Our 17 year old son who was born in McComb is in Tokyo right now on his high school field trip, will be home tomorrow. And that is how it is in Rayong Thailand. R

@frankwoods4532 10 ай бұрын

I like this place. Nice and peaceful, clean. Yes, I think I could live there. Thank you for sharing!😀

@kirstenjavery9647 5 ай бұрын

Looks are deceiving

@rosiemcnaughton9933 10 ай бұрын

I agree that this is a nice, clean, well kept up place. Even though there are a lot of empty businesses, there are a lot of nice buildings and really nice houses.

@rtshort 5 ай бұрын

New lumber yard being built there now. It should come back to life. The last plant closed many years ago, Georgia Pacific. It employed a lot of the town. There were 3 grocery stores there at one time, and two car dealerships.

@rosiemcnaughton9933 5 ай бұрын

@@rtshort 👍

@evangelinelight4417 8 күн бұрын

My dad was born and raised in Gloster, my Mom and her family moved there when she was 4. We went to visit my Mom’s family for two weeks every Summer. Little League Baseball and of course Loved the Piggly Wiggly, (it was small back then)…the removal of the train tracks was like the nail in the coffin…I brought my parents back home when they passed…great memories

@wv_myrtle_beach4391 9 ай бұрын

The wife and I just bought a home in this town. The people are just so nice and welcoming. Even the teenagers are respectful and so helpful (a lot you don’t see anymore). Can not wait until we are living there full time.

@caseycampbell6000 5 ай бұрын

I’m excited for you and excited for Gloster. There was a time I’d have written the town off. It got very bleak for several years there. It looks like it’s experiencing a rebirth and in thrilled about it. No matter where I go that little town is my town. I hope you make it yours.

@wv_myrtle_beach4391 5 ай бұрын

@@caseycampbell6000 oh yes. We have officially moved here full time since July 1st. It has been so great. I know it’s a small town away from a lot and that’s what we wanted, but it also isn’t really to far from things at the same time. It is just great to get back to throwing your hand up to someone you down know and they wave right back. The family and I are very grateful the good Lord has put us here.

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Congrats, Good Luck to Yall

@GeorgeMichael-x7e 3 ай бұрын

Is it open to foreigners?

@wv_myrtle_beach4391 2 ай бұрын

@@GeorgeMichael-x7e what do you mean?

@jfmac 5 ай бұрын

My grandparents lived there many years ago. I just saw their house in the video. Thanks for making me cry like a baby! Ha! I miss them so much! ..and this town..

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate you checking out the video.

@frankwoods4532 10 ай бұрын

Ha Ed, did you forget yourself when you said oh 💩.😀😃Just teasing Bro!

@exploringthesouth975 10 ай бұрын

LOL. Yeah, I got a little excited to see the Piggly Wiggly. Brought back a lot of memories.

@rtshort 5 ай бұрын

It used to be at the end of Main Street (The direction you were going on the right on the corner across from the Post Office). The owner died and someone opened it back up as "The Grocery Store". It's fairly new where it is now. That building used to be a dollar store.

@reneewalker2806 9 ай бұрын

I Love it ❤ The Community is Helpful and Very Friendly the town is beginning to expand

@DeanVanderwerf 17 күн бұрын

Brings back memories

@caseycampbell6000 5 ай бұрын

I grew up there. I have walked, biked and driven every inch of it since I was big enough to walk. I’ve been gone a long time now, living out west now, so this brought back so many memories. The Gloster I grew up in is gone. It was Mayberry in the early eighties, man. We lost the Georgia Pacific mill and the railroad and Gloster died. I’m so glad to see its rebirth.

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching the video.

@MsQueta 3 ай бұрын

This feels surreal... your literally documenting my hometown 😮

@GeorgeMichael-x7e 3 ай бұрын

What is it like in your opinion

@ApeeSatisfied 2 ай бұрын

My family is from there. The SELMAN'S.

@Lezarstreams 12 күн бұрын

It’s not sleepy when it’s Monday - Friday and when it’s a party!

@deborahbeaty3770 5 ай бұрын

Our family grew up in Gloster and many of our ancestors found their resting place in the area. The “W” in Arthur’s middle name stands for Winston; I wrote a research paper about him long ago. You did a great job! Thank you.

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate you checking out the video.

@benjaminpettis5468 5 ай бұрын

Great Video of this town. I have been reading about a new lumber industry being built that you mentioned in this town & also news the railroad will be brought back to serve the new industry, hope you might have more videos on this area. Thanks for sharing this town.

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it. Thanks for checking out the video.

@rtshort 5 ай бұрын

It was originally a town built on a railroad line. The hill he was going down on Main Street used to have a depot on the rigth. The plywood plant (Georgia Pacific) shut down and there was no need for the railroad after that. Well, a little deeper than that, but there was a railroad there before.

@SnakeHeadFish-v5v 3 ай бұрын

Moved from Glostrer 15 years ago, now live on the oposite side of the world in Rayong Thailand. Don't think I'll be coming back. My Thai was a pharmacist a Freds in Centerville while I worked all over the world for Chevron,

@exploringthesouth975 3 ай бұрын

How is Rayong Thailand?

@brookfoster1034 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for exploring my town I call home

@exploringthesouth975 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for checking out the video

@caseycampbell6000 5 ай бұрын

Hey Brooke. 😊

@peachespointofview Ай бұрын

My hometown.

@virginialongmire 8 ай бұрын

Im from Gloster but now live in bsl Mississippi

@Poet6129 4 ай бұрын

Hey, I'm from London UK and viewing this all in the deep south - find it fascinating!Where are all the people..??!! In my city its the total opposite- cars, people, flats heavily congested! But, where are all the people..? 😮

@exploringthesouth975 4 ай бұрын

Hello, just my opinion, this town's population is around 900 people. This video was completed early Saturday morning so many were still just waking up.

@peachespointofview Ай бұрын

It’s a small town. Not many people live here.

@jeremysmith6352 4 ай бұрын

This is my home and I do miss it

@sandraanderson-lf4yu 3 ай бұрын

Are there no gravel streets.

@TruckDriverJustin 3 ай бұрын

💪 gloster= G-Vegas Mississippi. you riding through here saying it's a ghost town is completely wrong, gloster population traffic comes from west and north west amite county and some of Wilkinson county. the old track is the old divide line of gloster in the middle of town that divided the town during segregation era however today since about 2015 that boundary doesn't exist anymore, we shop at the liberty wiggly pig gloster wiggly pig amite county has about 6 dollar type stores and bigger shopping comes from McComb or natchez