Calico Ghost Town - Old West Desert Village & Dangerous Mine Shafts
A visit to Calico Ghost town in the desert of Southern California . An old mining community that allows visitors to explore most the property .
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today's adventure brings us to the
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desert of Southern California off on the
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horizon is a mountain range some
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lettering designating where I'm heading
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caligo welcome everyone Adam the whoo
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here and tagging along today is Cody
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have you ever been to a ghost town never
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have ma'am but I'm pretty excited I
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think it could be fun let's go check it
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out let's do it
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join me and Cody shall you dating back
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to 1881 the largest silver mining camp
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here in California an overview of the
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guide map shows that this place is
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pretty big you can just vote first
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impression of this place I must say it's
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pretty amazing it's like stepping back
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in time into the the Old West this guy's
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doing a little bit of planking for some
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reason I thought that went out of style
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that fad ended a few years ago but I
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guess he hasn't got the memo don't want
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to break any rules around these parts
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your end up in here speaking of rules
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look at this sign look at that all this
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I had to repair because drunk come in
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ribbon so you've now written a sign here
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stating yeah well it was really dark but
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the heat has really so what does that
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say he's don't rip me apart don't rip
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the skeleton apart go inside and talk to
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the warden and that's me oh you're the
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warden you're in the jail though the
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water should never be in the jail I do
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love these old-timey cigar store Indians
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however chief broken foot is not holding
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anything that you can smoke next to the
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Town Hall is a bulletin board with some
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postings of not only things for sale but
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also looking for a sheriff so if you're
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looking for a job to keep law and order
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just come down here and also a good man
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is wanted willing to work from can see
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to can't see
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you don't hear that terminology much
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anymore don't you be doing dude
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here you there oh honey do I know you
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know taking a step now into the general
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mercantile established 1882 this place
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gives off a vibe they don't normally see
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in modern day retail establishments
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there's a familiar face Manning the post
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office operation you might recognize him
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that's right
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it's happy the three flags up they're
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waving in the breeze one of them of
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course is the US flag when I was a state
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flag California Republic and one is the
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county flag of San Bernardino this mine
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cart is no longer in use but it still
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has the tracks laid down and I've never
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seen the word bankrupt spelled without
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the tee
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I guess that's shorthand perhaps I would
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imagine if you had a few beverages of
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the adult persuasion and you did think
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this was really the saloon it would be
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your demise because there's a cliff
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right there so for future reference just
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to heed this warning this is not a real
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saloon do you not stagger in there
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instead of a skateboard you have to take
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a minecart down that thing it's like
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Indiana Jones style just bombing through
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it watch me work my fingers to the bone
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for only a quarter
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it seems like the machine is doing most
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of the work more than mr. Skelly heater
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yeah that's really the best way to do
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your job though but the machine do the
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work while you just are you just chill
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but I do get the pun working us fingers
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to the bone
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he's gyrating around if you like look
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downward towards his legs oh there's
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something down there oh that's like a
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beetle on his torso that's like
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slithering around like kind of right
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there in the mid-range area remember
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it's a whole heap and better to do the
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things you think you're ting to than to
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spend the rest your life wishing your
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hand alright gotta be honest that's
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slightly slightly terrifying I think
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this might be a barbershop it states
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right up here to come inside and see the
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way it used to be
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prices were a little less expensive back
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then you can get a shave and a haircut
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for only 75 cents Oh what's going on
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here this photo could give you
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nightmares for a week he's just like
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digging all up in there like leaving no
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tooth unturned just like rooting around
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in there like nobody's business well it
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is his business if you were a child you
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would bathe in this tub it's like it's
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made out of porcelain fewer a grown
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adults you would bathe in a wooden tub
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which I would think that would probably
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give you a few splinters in the old
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nether region that's the pharmacist it
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looks like he might be on a break he's
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just got his bottle there he's trying to
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hide it but I still see it you still you
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still see it there protruding up out of
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Europe your arm area is there anything
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in there is polecat Pete inside is he oh
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yeah can I take a gander all right I'm
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going in I see him faintly got anything
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to say Pete oh sorry I didn't mean to
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eat in here didn't mean to disturb you
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I'm gonna go I'm just gonna go my own
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way Pete as soon as I get my
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camera unstuck from these from these
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bars COPD yet again I've ended up in
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another jail here on property but I'm
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gonna I'm gonna step out I'm gonna take
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this plank
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alright definitely picking up a theme of
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skeletons they're everywhere
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there's one perch right there on top of
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that cabinet right there hiding in the
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shadows also not holding cigars but he
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is however holding an item that you can
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smoke out of and up here I knew I
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smelled a rat here in this corner here
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in this stinky corner I don't know about
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you but all this this heat it's making
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me thirsty
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no spitting no drunkenness and no loose
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women I mean come on kids
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are welcome so behave yourself may have
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just stepped into one of the coolest old
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timey spots in existence look at this
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artwork all along the walls and a poker
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table an old piano in the corner let's
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do this Cheers
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oh yeah it's actually pretty good I've
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never had a fishel sarsaparilla again
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designated as the granddaddy of all root
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beer and keeping up with the theming
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there's a cowboy walk it in through the
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saloon doors on the logo now I'm no
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expert on the subject but when it comes
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to cleaning clothes and hanging them out
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to dry
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might not get the freshest smell placing
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them next to an outhouse property of
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Silver King don't even attempt to reach
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in there and take any of that or you
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might end up here with the claim jumpers
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with that tied around your neck and that
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vulture I'll be picking at your bones
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this horse-drawn carriage was used for
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funerals
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you can look closely right inside there
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is a casket
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ya gotta look closely to see it it's all
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closed up it appears as if the
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blacksmith has hightailed it out of town
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but he has left the tools of his trade
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right inside there we can get a can a
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peek steppin off the main road for a
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moment this is the angle off the beaten
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path now gonna head down this dirt
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section and off that direction
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warning dangerous mine shafts do not
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pass beyond this point after that alert
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makes more sense to go that direction
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check out that church now that I look at
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it it honestly might be a schoolhouse he
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just picture Michael Landon back when he
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was alive I think he would enjoy this
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this view
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built in the year 1885 that's what it
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looked like it was restored in 1955 and
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you can peek in there you can see the
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desks and the chalkboard was also used
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as a Sunday School
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for church services worked up quite an
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appetite wandering around these parts
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and this looks like a pretty good place
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to get a meal oh yeah it's Chow time the
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menu is very clever it's made to look
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like a newspaper but when you turn it
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towards the front you will see all the
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beverage and food items that are
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available for purchase sandwiches and
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burgers appetizers even a chicken
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special and they also serve breakfast at
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the table free peanuts
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so what on the ground you can see the
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entire floor is full of shells get off
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there get down there with the other ones
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and you know a place is going to be
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legit when they bring you your beverage
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in a mason jar
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heck yeah and this is what we're dealing
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with we've got a little mashed potatoes
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and gravy action some veggies a couple
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of rolls
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once again getting away from Main Street
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and heading straight up to lookout point
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you can get a pretty good view from up
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here
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full circle of the entire premises you
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can see off for miles past the ghost
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town way over to the main surface
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streets even the interstates there's a
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train down there and some people going
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inside a cave way down there check out
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these accommodations here in the side of
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the rock just think someone lived in
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there at some point what is it I can't
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hear you what do you what are you saying
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oh now you know what I think I think I'm
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good they've placed some cinder blocks
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here on the ground to give you a step
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stool to look up inside that window a
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bed even the kitchen sink
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fireplace and plenty of shade all right
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inside there I hear it I faintly oh yeah
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starting to rear its head
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here comes the train I hear the train
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a-comin rollin round the bend it's going
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over a bridge through calico ghost had I
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know that didn't I didn't ride please
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forgive me at first I thought he got
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some sort of chunk of gold that he was
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holding and upon further inspection it's
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not it's not a jewel or gold or anything
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like that it's a chunk of his nose he's
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missing his nose the best I can figure
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is he has caught and is holding his his
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own nose he's got his trusty mule by his
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side no better friend then you did a
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mule except maybe a dog my dog's a man's
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best friend but a mule is definitely a
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close second inside here there appears
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to be some interactive mannequin so
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let's press this office is afforded to a
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mining town like calico I receive
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bullion for precious metals for the
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folks minded in these heels
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thank you some of the tools you see test
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appeared here the metals a house so keep
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records show and what was found and
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so if you find silver bring it back to
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me here's a song about an old cowboy
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who's riding days there behind it
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he'd sit in a city or a town somewhere
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wishing that he would spill out on the
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Prairie
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gotta be honest it's very cool down in
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here not just because I'm out of the Sun
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but it's probably a good 10 to 20
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degrees cooler in this section that it
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is up above so it's pretty neat how it
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just kind of dead-ends into this section
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where the workers are down there they
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have that cart they have some of their
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tools on hand all right I'm going to
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leave them be in that distraction if you
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look down on the ground there's lots of
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coins and dollar bills of people who
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have missed the tray with this gentleman
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holding it out it's kind of like a
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makeshift - wishing well but the
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one-eyed guy in bed he's staring at you
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while you attempt it up close
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failed
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I think that supposed to represent
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sticks of dynamite this guy has a huge
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bucket he's trying to fill up and this
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guy all by himself is pushing that cart
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full of tons and tons of rocks at the
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end of this dark hallway
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he's holding first I thought it was an
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axe is almost like Jack Torrance moment
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it's really like a sledgehammer
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nonetheless
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that's uh
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it's kind of scary
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right to exit you have to climb this
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tall staircase and go out through that
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turnstile you heading out
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now it's my turn made it out all right
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here's an old photo of the Cosmopolitan
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Hotel of what it looked like way back
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then and what it looks like now it's now
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a sweet shop that sells candy oh my
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goodness I you know I've heard the rumor
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that these actually exist but I've never
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seen one in real life which makes me
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wonder putting two and two together what
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happened to the child that was in that
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stroller I'm answering a answer this
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question Chupacabra
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answer it
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hey open the door I'm in here that's
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right instead of a private office burger
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yeah won't be out for just a minute
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want to get all my business done if you
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know what I mean I did sir just about
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read this whole series of Roebuck
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catalog was already in here
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no there's nothing used a few minutes I
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see no catalog sir
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okay we'll close I let him have this let
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me have his privacy but he did you know
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he charged us a dollar for that so I
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guess he can't really can't criticize
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this too much it's made completely out
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of bottles well at least the walls you
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can see all the way up they've placed
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bottles end on end to create the
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structure itself all the way down from
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the top to the bottom with a peak
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population of 3000 it produced 13 to 20
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million in silver and 9 million in Borat
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minerals between the years of 1881 and
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1907 the town on April 6th 1881 several
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claims were located here which formed
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the largest mine in the district known
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as the Silver King Walter Knott
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dedicated this place to the memory of
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the heroic silver miners who lived and
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toiled here the preservation of the
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singular California heritage is also
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dedicated to you the visitor is a
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constant source of learning and
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enjoyment please respect this historical
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property signed mr. Walter nut before
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leaving gonna step into the cemetery
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here a lot of the townfolk from way back
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then to modern day are buried here this
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was the town greeter named Earl C Kelso
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and his nickname was Doc Holliday born
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in 1923 tumbleweed Harris the marshal
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for seven years
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born in 1906 and death valley Helen born
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in 1921 and stated on her headstone I
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can still see my beloved Kalka some
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recent flowers have been placed in
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memory and you can faintly see the
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lettering and date there in the late
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18-hundreds
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warned in 1870 died in 1884 cody has
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climbed up there to sitting at the base
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of it just under the spelling of the
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name up on that hill to the far right
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that's gonna do it for today this is my
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first time at this location I've been
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one to come here for years if you're
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driving from Los Angeles to Vegas or
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vice-versa you've probably seen this off
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to the side of Interstate 15 I finally
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