Hosted by Andrew Wilcox · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 24 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 24 episodes published.
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
Show notesPresque 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
Show notesMillinocket: 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
Show notesDrive 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
Show notesThe ALCAN: The Road That Connected a Country and Erased the People Who Built It One thousand, three hundred, and eighty-seven miles. Built in just eight months during the height of World War II, the Alaska Highway (ALCAN
Show notesUtqiagvik: The Top of the World, Where America Ends and the Dark Begins There is no road to Utqiagvik. There never has been, and likely never will be. To reach the northernmost city in the United States, you must fly ove
Show notesPortlock: The Village Everyone Fled From Deep on the Gulf of Alaska coast, on the rugged southern tip of the Kenai Peninsula, lies a ghost town that didn't die because the fish ran out or the economy collapsed. It died b
Show notesEagle: The Last American Town Before Everything Became Canada Situated on the banks of the Yukon River, just 12 miles from the Canadian border, sits a town that was once the "Gateway to the Interior." Today, it is a quie
Show notesChicken: Too Remote to Spell Ptarmigan Deep in the Interior of Alaska, at the end of the Taylor Highway, sits a town that owes its name to a spelling bee that never happened. In this episode of Drive-Thru Towns, host And
Show notesSeldovia: The Boardwalk Town the Highway Killed Before the Earthquake Could This is the only episode of Drive-Thru Towns where you actually cannot drive through the town. There is no road to Seldovia. To get here, you ha
Show notesHope: Named After a 17-Year-Old Boy, Forgotten Like One Too At Mile 56.3 of the Seward Highway, a 17-mile spur road dead-ends into a town that time—and the gold rush—nearly left behind. While the rest of the world rememb
Show notesEklutna: The Oldest Living Place No One Drives To Twenty-six miles from the glass towers of Anchorage sits a village that has been continuously inhabited for over 800 years. While thousands of commuters blast past the Ek
Show notesNinilchik: Where Russia Never Really Left High on a bluff overlooking Cook Inlet, five gold onion domes catch the Alaskan sun, looking like a piece of the Old World that drifted across the Pacific and simply took root. T
Show notesWhittier: The Town That Was a Secret, Then a Bunker, Then Itself Most towns have a "welcome" sign. Whittier has a schedule. To enter this town, you must drive through a single-lane, two-and-a-half-mile mountain tunnel th
Show notesPortage: The Town the Earth Swallowed At Mile Marker 79 on the Seward Highway, a skeletal "ghost forest" stands frozen in the tidal mudflats. These white, salt-drowned trees are the only remaining headstones for Portage,
Show notesDyea, Alaska: The Town That Lost a Race and Died of It There is a cemetery in Southeast Alaska where almost every headstone shares the same date: April 3, 1898. In this episode of Drive-Thru Towns, host Andrew Wilcox tak
Show notesDrive Thru Towns — Season 2 Trailer: Alaska Welcome to Drive Thru Towns. Season 2 is here — and we're heading somewhere bigger, wilder, and colder than anywhere we've been before. Alaska. This season, we leave the moss-d
Show notesHavana & Quincy: The Millionaires of Shade Tobacco Welcome to Drive Thru Towns. In this episode, we travel the rolling hills of Gadsden County to explore Havana and Quincy, Florida—two towns built on the "green gold" of
Show notesMicanopy: The Town That Time Forgot Welcome to Drive Thru Towns. In this episode, we pull off US-441 and move under a canopy of ancient live oaks to visit Micanopy, Florida—a place where the humidity feels like history a
Show notesCedar Key & Rosewood: Pencils, Clams, and a Buried Town Welcome to Drive Thru Towns. In this episode, we travel to the end of State Road 24 to visit two towns forever linked by a railroad, a swamp, and a silence that too
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Drive-Thru Towns is hosted by Andrew Wilcox. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 24 episodes.
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