Instagram - AdamTheWooATW Getting into the groove and loving this trip so far . Just curious but is this the type of content worth subtly mentioning Patreon for or should I just keep it hush hush as I have for some time now ? i don’t like mentioning it in the videos really but for those who find it , it’s there .

No annoying music, just the wind, scarce and fitting comments, suits the subject . Very well done. Thanks.

love that there is no annoying background music

Wow.. Cant believe that you came through my hometown. BREWTON, ALABAMA. Awesome !! If I knew you were coming through town, I would have taken you over to the local newspaper. They would have loved to have done a story on you, your videos, and this series !! You would have been a "celebrity" passing through town !!

These small town and quiet communities are an inspiration to witness because people developed these towns and raised their families here without the need for all the glitz and glamor of big city life. Much respect to these communities that have helped shape America.

I love how you don’t feel like you need to comment over every shot. Sometimes silence says everything.

When everything was built to last but the people passed away and the kids moved to the big cities

This entire series is an urban photographer's dream

It really is a beautiful state with decaying old towns and great nature scenes. I used to live in the Florida panhandle and would often drive up there and explore around.

I love this. I'm from Dublin, Ireland and something about sleepy, backwater American towns always fascinated/comforted me. To think of all the lives and families that grew there, all the memories people must have had. And to see it so desolate and eerie in modern times, which in itself lends its own strange beauty.

That graveled type road material is called tar and gravel. Alabama roads used to all be covered in it back 25-30 years ago. You don’t see tar and gravel roads much anymore. This makes me homesick for days gone by. I’m a Georgia girl born and raised but spent some time in Alabama as a new bride and college student and it will always feel like home to me. I’d love to go back to those simpler times. The megaphone is an important thing in this area. It’s a tornado siren. They are everywhere in the south. I’m surprised you didn’t see more of them.

Might be interesting to talk to some of the people who still live there for their perspective on things.

The stories that could be told by those old trees, the roads crossed, the gas stations that pumped the gas.

Born and raised in Dothan which is 10 minutes away from cottonwood and the others are only a short drive away. Love these old small towns. There filled with mostly elder farmers and family member which drive 10-15 minutes to Dothan to do all there shopping. They survive on farming and livestock. They live great lives. My grandfather lives in Wicksburg farming and it is a very peaceful and quiet life he lives but I love going out to help him. I grew up in this type of small town. Very tight knit folks.

Love these back roads series capturing the quieter side of America. Classic ATW! Safe travels!

This is much more enjoyable. I prefer to listen to the background sounds instead for sound effects, music, and excessive talking. Great video!

And they say we're over populated. Seems to me maybe we just need to spread out a bit.

The “training union” is like Sunday School but at night usually right before the evening service. I grew up in a Southern Baptist church in Tuscaloosa, Alabama!

Sad to see towns that have so many closed stores yet they still try to bring cheer by putting up flowers and Christmas decorations.

In 1967, I was a young Navy recruit. My home was in Massachusetts. I had been assigned to attend a six month Navy communications training school outside of Pensacola, FL which if you look at a map, is basically an extension of Southern Alabama. I decided I wanted to have my car so I headed south from Massachusetts, taking my time as I had allowed 4 days for the approximately 1440 mile drive. Everything was going just fine as I cut west from Georgia into Alabama headed to Montgomery where I checked into a motel to spend the night. I was just getting settled when there was a knock on my door. It was a sheriff's deputy and he did not look like officer friendly. He demanded my ID and questioned me sharply on what I was doing there. He relaxed a bit when I showed him my Navy orders to Pensacola. He then advised that it wouldn't be a particularity good idea for me to leave my car parked in the motel lot overnight, what with my Massachusetts license plates, front and rear. As I said earlier, 1967 and the flames of the Civil Rights confrontations were still burning bright in Alabama and Gov. George Wallace was fanning those flames as best he could. Young, liberal, Northern civil rights workers, "Freedom Riders", voter registration workers et all were most definitely not welcome in the deep south at that time. Several had been recently murdered. My Mass. plates were not going to get me friendly waves. The deputy was a WW2 vet and appreciated I was just on my way to my duty station and not a rabble-rouser and allowed that he didn't want to see me harmed in any way by local folk who took exception to my Northern origins. He told me to follow him to the local police station, leave my car there and he then drove me back to my motel. He told me to be ready to go at 6AM and he was there waiting in the morning. He drove me back to my car, then told me to follow him, which I did, to the county line. There was a deputy from the adjoining county waiting and after a few "How are you's", I commenced following him, all the way to the next county line where again, a deputy awaited. This continued all the way south, through I'm sure, some of the small, quiet towns in this video. Nine counties and nine deputies later, I crossed into Florida, no bullet holes in my Mercury Comet, thanks to a bunch of deputies who made sure I had safe passage. It's hard to appreciate now just how dangerous those quiet little Alabama towns could be back then,

"this shop closed on Mondays, as stated" this killed me. Ha ha. I live in Alabama and thee small towns definitely remind me my childhood. NAFTA killed small textile towns. Thank you for making this video.

I'm so glad your using a real map...it's the little things

When you look at all them old shops that were thriving in the 50's and 60's that was the time America was really great!

Wow, that eerie overcast brings back memories! I partially grew up in Selma, AL. It was a cute, little city back in the day. Unfortunately it now suffers the ills of poverty, bleakness, and growing crime. Sadly, if things keep going the way they're going, Selma will suffer the same fate as the town you toured. You can't beat that Alabama soil though. Pecan trees are king and some of the sweetest peaches are grown there.

I wonder how it looked when these towns were thriving with people.

I really enjoy when you do these series. The freedom of the road.

I feel so sad watching this. All that abandoned history sitting by the wayside. It's great you are documenting it.

I use to live right across the line in a little place called Muscadine Ala. loved it. Wish I could move back. Had nothing but a Piggly Wiggly and hardees down the road across the Ga line into Tallapoosa Ga, I bought a home with three bedrooms and 5 acres for 50,000. It was beautiful.

BREWTON, ALABAMA is where Grand Ole Opry Star Hank Locklin lived for many years. Also, William Lee Golden of The Oak Ridge Boys is from Brewton originally. Brewton is an awesome town !! Thanks Mr. Woo for going through South Alabama !!

15:51 I liked the General Lee parked out front of the fireworks store! "Looks like the Duke boys are stocking up on their fireworks!"

We can only imagine the countless forgotten lives, hopes, aspirations and dreams of the people living in these towns during their hey days. We can only imagine how these towns influenced and shaped generations of their residents. If these towns could talk, I'm sure their stories would evoke a vast variety of emotions from the highest of hope and elation to the deepest of regret and sorrow. Ultimately, it all comes down to a bleak reminder of the relentless passage of time, and the only things that matter are the people that are close to us, and the sometimes very few precious, transient moments we have with them. Live in the moment folks. In terms of conventional time - yesterday is gone, tomorrow may never come.

Love ridin' those old Alabama Back Roads... Great Video !!

Sweet home Alabama. Roll tide Roll. Where the skies are so blue.

The cry of an abandoned town, the metal banging in the wind.

I'm from the last town in the vid. Atmore. Raised there for the first 20 years. Let me tell you... I live in a Chicago suburb and work downtown in a skyscraper. I would love to be back in Alabama and I'm actively working on making that happen. My life seems to be in fast forward since moving here. I make a lot of money but now I've learned... money ain't everything. City people could never appreciate what country is. Although I didnt have a lot growing up but I never recalled being generally unhappy like I feel in Chicago most of the time.

Anytime I see a town like this I have this desire to restore it. Im not even sure why. No one would just give me a town to restore.

I live in Huntsville Alabama & damn this place is booming like crazy!!! Almost forget that there are places like this right down the road!! Huntsville has grown so much, when I was a kid my grandparents lived where the Interstate is now!!! Facebook, Google coming in turning this place blue for the 1st time in years😢 With growth comes more issues always!!! Much ♥️from Bama🙋‍♀️💕

I had to drive to Birmingham last year from South Florida. I stayed on I75 until somewhere over Alabama's southern state line when the total discombobulation of GPS and a lack of a physical atlas landed me on some side road. The next four hours were fascinating- winding hills through mid 50's architecture, a total lack of visible inhabitants and the best wrong turn I've ever made :-)

thank you Adam for going back on the road. 4 people in the UK to see parts of the Americana that we wouldn't see normally. Thanks to you we get to see these things please keep it up I know it must be lonely. you're definitely the man

Seeing the deserted towns brings flashbacks to me. I can see our wooden grocery store (wood floors also) with ppl bringing out grocery sacks. We were so close we normally walked when needed a few items. At the gas station, an attendant would pump our gas, wash the windshields, and ck the oil. I grew up around white gold (cotton) but most of us were poor, but we didn't know it. My little town, Boyce, LA, no longer exist, but my best memories are still hanging around there -- just like the old Coke sign.

wondering if you ever stopped to talk to anyone, or try the small local eating places in these travels. very interresting concept for a video.

Safe travels! Those old, once-was-great, storefronts and buildings tell such a story.

Adam these back road tours ARE THE BEST! Our entire family (including teenagers) sit and watch every second! TY for taking us with you! 💪👍

I love small towns. I hate to see them close down. That means a lot of people’s dreams were lost.

Adam, you were 8 miles from my house when you came through Horn Hill. Wished I would've known. I'd have bought you lunch in Andalusia!😥😥

It sure is more interesting, when you get off the interstate!

Awesome to see you in my area. I’m from Dothan Alabama and currently live about 1 mile from Fadette, AL. I drive by the Free Ice/Dr Pepper building every day. Love your videos.

I've lived in Alabama since 1973 came from Southern California Alabama has been good to our family my father retired out of the Navy and this was a halfway point between my mom's town of Brewton Alabama and my dad's family in Indiana in Centerpoint but since you brought Brewton up and there where you saw that painting where the guys were doing the logging that's either Highway 29 or 31 they both run through Bruton I'm just not sure which number it is but just to the north of that would be where my grandmother house was I'd say would be about 3 blocks at the most just to the south of that on the railroad tracks are you were talking about what's my grandfather's barber shop I was really young I don't really remember but I think he shut his shop down some place around 1961 1962 in a town like that he raised a family of 10 children and my grandmother and him I assume he made a halfway decent living worked a lot of long hours back then they were shut down one day during the week and I want to say it was on Wednesdays always work Saturdays never worked on Sunday my grandfather didn't believe in doing anything on Sunday that was a day of rest I'm thinking my grandfather was born like 1897 and my grandmother was born like 1906 or 07 most of my relatives from Brewton now we're gone I have a few relatives that live on the outskirts and smaller towns but a lot of good memories as a child go in there we would come from California to visit and then after we moved here it was a regular thing to go down there lot of good memories are in Brewton but it's not what it used to be but nothing is anymore but I'm glad you put Brewton in there always thought of the day ever came that I could retire which that day has come and gone and I still haven't retired haha Atmore would be the town I would want to live in but I definitely want one day want to be able to live in small town America I don't live in a huge Town Huntsville Alabama but it's too big for me now hopefully somebody enjoys reading this

Being British this is gold to me. Alabama never been there so it's great to see these off the beaten track roads, small towns and cocoa cola signs..haaa

I love the old store fronts and advertisements

Oh The Stories the people who still live in these areas could tell. When the town's were thriving and raising families......

Love just hearing simply your rambling voice, and the sounds that you yourself are actually hearing around you. It feels like being along on the road trip with you. Wonderfully filmed. Thanks so much ! Definitely 2 thumbs up !

I was stationed at Ft. Rucker in 1975 when hurricane Eloise hit. I went to my first concert in Dothan. Nice trip down memory lane!

Nice job, wish we could go back in time, the 40' s and the 50's . A time when you could open a gas station or repair shop and car s we're easy to repair .You didn't need a ton of money, just talent. Would like to see you do a road trip video just on gas stations and repair shops. Thanks for your time and effort .

Americana strikes gold in my heart and old theaters too. I’m loving this awesome journey. much ahead man

My mom lives in a very small midwest rural farming town. They have all the basics and the town seems to be thriving. You can feel your stress level plummet as soon as you get closer to it. In those towns people look after each other unlike the cities and suburbia.

My dad was a truck driver in the 60's, he would take me with him sometimes when I was a young boy on summer vacation from school, I remember small towns like the ones here, although at those times they were much more populated, thoroughly enjoyed this!

IF I EVER COME INTO A LOT OF MONEY I'M GONNA LIVE SOMEWHERE LIKE THIS. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.

Interesting and kind of sad road trip through the back roads. At certain stops I wonder about the detailed history of the towns, buildings, gas stations and general stores. Loving the quiet serenity of your 9 day trip. Keep up the good work Mr. Woo and thank you

I love seeing these old buildings still standing.

I love when Adam talks to animals on the side of the road. 😃

I love these types of videos and seeing the backroads of America, have a safe journey Adam and thank you for what you do.

I grew up in Marianna, Fl and back then the closest “big city” was Dothan, Alabama. This really brings me back.

I took a similar road trip in 1979, remember Brewton, Flomaton, and Atmore. Witnessed an incredible crash involving a car vs logging truck. Great video! The area has not changed much

Love the way you do your commentary ❤️ your voice makes me feel peaceful and you comment just the right amount. Excellent video! I subscribed. Thanks from Canada 🇨🇦

Something about the back roads and little towns of America I tell you.... if only all those buildings could talk. Makes me want to get out and road trip right now! Stay safe out there.

Training union was like Sunday School for kids, only in the evening before the night Church Service. Old Baptist tradition.

Mr. Woo,....You've done your best work with these explorations. Excellent travels through the south; very good work on your part. I'm a new patron and you've really done some great stuff in sharing Mississippi and Alabama. Thank you!

This is absolutely fascinating I'm from Australia & am finding your journey very interesting I also really like the way you talk to the animals and your concern for them ... the horses in the rain Safe travels & thank you so much

I've had my fill of Disneyland, Hollywood, etc and can't watch those. This type of video is WONDERFUL...so interesting! Forgotten little places off of the highways, and byways. Love how you attempt conversation with the cows and horses. They hear you...and who knows what goes through their minds when they hear your voice???

That “megaphone” was actually a tornado warning siren.

I miss this. I'm a widowed mom with two young boys and I take them out to the country all the time when I used to have my horse...

I grew up in Geneva, the town between Black and Samson. I don't get back there often, but I did go visit my aunt and cousins over the holidays. That area of Alabama has always been pretty quiet and peaceful. Glad to see you went through there.

More great Americana, oh to have that rain here in Australia at the moment. Great video

the silence in some of the shots is what keeps me coming back, time to just watch and think of what was in these places

Love your chats with the animals lol thats great also the way you talk to people an not at people we all can relate to your trips thanks so much !!!

"Training Union" was an old term for Wednesday night Bible studies in Southern Baptist churches years ago - some still have them.

I can’t believe you came through my town and I missed you!!! What in the world. I live in cottonwood and was like “Hey! That looks familiar.” and then you said that you were there. Ding dang.

Seems kind of sad that small town America is dying. It won't be long before it's completely gone.

thanks for sharing this really enjoyed makes me feel like I was riding along with you I love small towns keep them coming God bless you and keep you safe on the road always

Actually enjoying this journey with you. So peaceful.

That is some of those towns that Wal Mart has put everyone out of business.

These little towns were probably real nice places in the 1930's to 1960's ,and they're still pretty cool . I really dig that old American ( Amoco ) gas station-store with Dr.Pepper painting on the side ,that is beautiful classic Americana. Yes, we will join you Adam......won't we ? Thanx dude, you rock on man! Bob. G

I love southern Alabama. I lived there for a couple of years when my then husband was in flight school. I would drive for hours looking around. A very special place for me was Selma.

I am happy you did this. The whole state of Alabama is soo wonderful. I love the smell of the air down there!

My boys and I took a trip to Tuscaloosa to see the Tide play this past October. Rained on us the whole time too. Took time to see an antebellum home and such in Greensboro, AL while we were there. You see so much more off the interstate. My boys still talk about Greensboro now and again.

When we moved a lot I was baptized in that tiny place, Madrid, at a very young age. Crazy to see it pop up on here!

Adam, I love your vlogs with the different towns. I enjoy this more than the theme parks. I always want to peek through the windows of these old buildings to see what's in them!

Thank you for the ride.....I used to visit all these places.... when I was young these were all busy, bustling places

I have to be honest, I'm not a huge theme park guy, but really love it when you do the small town America stuff (as a brit) - thanks Adam 👍

I would love to go metal detecting around some of those old stores and gas stations.

Great video. A lot of this reminds me of spending childhood summers with my grandmother in northern Louisiana. During the 70's when I was a kid it was a lively, bustling neighborhood but even then you saw derelict traces of the past. These days grandma's old neighborhood is mostly a ghost town with a huge church smack in the middle.

Your nooks and crannies videos are the best. Absolutely love your back-roads explorations.

Good job Mr. Woo, this is why I watch, love seeing small town America 👍

So quiet at the beginning of the video. That’s hard to find these days.

I've never seen an actual field of cotton. Very cool!

As a truck driver I pass through these places all the time

Wow, this is a first for me. I’ve never seen anybody record in my own area. I’m in Dothan, there are a ton of towns just like these all around. Agriculture continues to be a major economic factor here, but it has seemed to slowly evolve into service-retail for the remaining communities. Many are accusing big businesses of running small community businesses out. Yes, that plays a part... Much of the issue is older owners retiring or passing away, or just the lack of economic feasibility in owning/operating small businesses that don’t see many customers. There are still plenty of cities that have strong local businesses! I hope you enjoyed your travel through here! It’s got it’s ups and downs, but it will always be home to me.

This is endlessly fascinating, Adam. It's a bit like Huell Howser's old show on PBS 'California's Gold.' Thanks for taking me along.

I’m just going back and watching these from a few days ago. Really enjoy them! Keep it up, I wish I had to ability to do trips like this!