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Hosted by Andrew Wilcox · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 47 episodes
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“Drive-Thru Towns” is about the places you only slow for a red light or a gas stop—tiny dots where something huge once happened. A forgotten invention, a vanished boomtown, a cult, a crime ring, a spiritualist camp, a song lyric, a ghost story. Each episode unpacks who, what, where, when, why, and how to reveal why that “nothing” town once mattered—and why it’s still worth pulling over for today.
Andrew Wilcox hosts Drive-Thru Towns, a society show with 47 episodes published.
Old Shasta: The Gold Rush Queen Erased by a Railroad Spelling Bee The town that killed Old Shasta isn't even named after the right guy. In 1880, a railroad company won a lawsuit that officially named its new hub "Redding
Fiddletown: The Gold Country Boomtown That Refused to Become a Dead Man’s Punchline In this episode of Drive-Thru Towns , host Andrew Wilcox pulls off Highway 49 into Amador County to explore Fiddletown, California. To t
Trona: The Alien Planet of the Mojave Built on Toxic Salt and Stolen Lakes Wyatt Earp showed up to a California desert town in 1910—not as a legendary lawman, but as a sixty-two-year-old hired gun. He was leading a band
Bishop: Stolen Water, Dynamite, and the Blueprint for Chinatown In 1924, forty men loaded half a ton of dynamite into two touring cars, drove out under a moonless sky, and blew a massive crater into a concrete pipeline o
Rough and Ready: The 87-Day Republic That Seceded for Gold and Came Back for Beer What is the shortest a country has ever existed before deciding it wasn't worth the trouble? Not a short-lived monarchy or a brief militar
Mendocino: A California Logging Town Wearing New England Drag A man is running. In the dead of night in 1854 San Francisco, Henry Meiggs climbs onto a ship with a satchel full of forged city bonds and stolen warrants. He
California City: The Ghost Grid of the High Mojave Nat Mendelsohn—a Columbia-educated sociology professor and Czech immigrant—stood on a barren hill in the Mojave Desert in 1958 wearing a Brooks Brothers suit, white glov
Lone Pine: The Velvet Trap of the American Backlot The most famous outdoor set in the history of American filmmaking is forty-five minutes from a jail cell that once held Charles Manson, and twenty minutes from a guard t
You've driven past them a hundred times. The gas station that used to be a bank. The dirt lot that used to be ten thousand people. The water that used to be a river. Outside the five or six California cities everybody al
Madrid: The Town That Walked Off the Civic Map They came looking for gold and left with a town that eventually quit being a town. That is Madrid, Maine—not the Madrid with majestic museums, heavy traffic, and capital-cit
Eastport: The City Where the Tide Does the Hiring Eastport is the town where the tide does the hiring. At the absolute edge of the Gulf of Maine, the water doesn’t just rise and fall—it swings like a pendulum loaded with
Durham: The Holy City on a Barren Sand Hill They built a holy city on a sand hill, then watched it collapse under the weight of one man’s certainty. That is the story of Shiloh—a sprawling, four-story religious empire th
Freeman Township: The Town Born from Ash and Broken by Scale Freeman Township was born from fire. That is not a poetic metaphor slapped on later for atmosphere—the town was literally born from the smoke of Portland burni
Kittery: Bargains and Warships at the Gateway to Maine Kittery is the oldest town in Maine, and somehow it still looks like it’s in a hurry. That is the joke hiding in plain sight at the state line. On one side of Route
Monson: The Town That Exported Darkness Monson’s black slate ended up in the Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery. That’s not a metaphor—that is real quarry stone from a little town in the Maine woods, cut, polis
Swan Island: The Island Full of Furniture Where the Town Disappeared The island is full of furniture, but the town is entirely gone. That is the unsettling reality of Perkins Township—better known today as Swan Island —a
York: The Town That Rented Itself by the Week York, Maine, is a town that has been destroyed, invented, abandoned, and sold back to the summer in three different centuries. Today, it looks like coastal New England pulled
Presque Isle & Caribou: The Potato Empire with a Heartbeat In Presque Isle and Caribou, the soil isn’t just dirt—it is destiny with frost on it. For a generation, Aroostook County, Maine, was the potato capital of the wo
Millinocket: The Paper Town That Burned Without Fire It was called "The Magic City"—a massive industrial marvel carved entirely out of the deep Maine woods in just 18 months. Millinocket and its sister town, East Millino
Drive Thru Towns — Season 3 Trailer Hosted by Andrew Wilcox This season, we’re heading back into the places that made me, the roads that raised me, and the Maine that started as a few weeks old in the back seat and never
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Drive-Thru Towns is hosted by Andrew Wilcox. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 47 episodes.
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