The Crossroads at Walt Disney World Has Closed Forever - Ultimate Expansion Begins / Property Tour
The Crossroads at Walt Disney World Closes Forever
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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as a recording of this saturday august
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28 2021 i'm standing at the threshold
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the cusp
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of the entryway down hotel plaza
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boulevard to downtown disney well i take
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that back disney springs
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tagging along for this episode
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world of micah you still call it
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downtown disney too i do i'm used to i'm
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used to anaheim's version yeah across
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the way right here on 5 35 was and i'm
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using the word was because within the
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last day or two
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a lot more establishments have closed at
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the former crossroads
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which i have passed many times i have
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shopped in there many times i've eaten
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at many of the establishments
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as have you oh yeah you alerted me
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earlier and said hey the mcdonald's and
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the taco bell have now officially gone
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by the wayside yep
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last night i was driving past here went
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a white castle
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and i noticed that as well and we
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combined our efforts and said let's go
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out here and document this for posterity
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last time they're transforming an i4
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exit
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into disney property now what that means
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i don't really know because we've seen
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something like that happen with the
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disney springs exit off of i-4 downtown
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business right that's disney it's
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downtown disney and so maybe what
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they're trying to do now is this whole
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535 disney exit the point buena vista
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exit is always just
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a beehive of activity very much so hello
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always room for beehives
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of activities
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so maybe they're making it to where you
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don't have to really do anything but
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stay on i-4 and then coast it will make
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it a lot easier with traffic it won't be
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as backed up that's it and you were
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saying as we were crossing over the road
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they might even put one of those
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archways here
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going across
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instead of
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what this
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this has always been a different one you
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know as far as the all the mini
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entrances to walt disney world there's
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an archway this is the mickey entrance
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the mini entrance micah is right over
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there right the smaller
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all right let's get over there inviting
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you to join me and world of micah shall
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you
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and of course to get to the crossroads
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one must cross
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the road and they still have some of the
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signage up there with places that have
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been closed for a heck of a long time
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stuff that didn't even close this week
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stuff that's been closed for months
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if not longer
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and check it all out
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gooding's 24-hour food and pharmacy that
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hasn't been here for a heck of a long
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time
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sweet tomatoes which we have a little
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bit of a history you and i used to go to
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sweet tomatoes all the time back in the
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day in fact was it the first place that
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we ever went and met up and had a meal
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together and became friends that was it
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it was right here all took place here
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right here at the crossroads
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wow i know there's a walk over there and
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a little nostalgia
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into this episode a lifetime ago too it
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really does
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and over here this mcdonald's
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just closed this was open not too long
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ago within the last week or so now as it
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appears the chevy's
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fresh mex over there
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you know i think chevy's back in the day
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was called rio bravo and they they
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changed names
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don't quote me on that this is not about
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the chevys nor rio bravo
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but you see when a mcdonald's closes
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you know
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something is happening
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mcdonald's don't just close
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taco bell which is on the other side of
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the property they don't just close
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without a valid reason
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goodbye mcdonald's
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at the crossroad just outside the cusp
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of disney world property restaurant is
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permanently closed
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closed please visit the other locations
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wow you see a lot in there you can see
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all the inner workings of the drink
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machine
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sure can you can see definitely the
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inner workings
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right over in there everything
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underneath the counter
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has been removed you will not be able to
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get a beverage
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at this moment inside address up top
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there one two five
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four nine
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one two five four nine here in the
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crossroads
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looks like something was removed from
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this
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would you say this is a stanchion
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would that be classified as a stanchion
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mica well i think stanchions you can
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remove i don't know if this can be
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actually removed i think it's a
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stanchion it's a stanchion i'm going to
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say we're going with stanchion i'm going
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to say that it's a stanchion
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the golden arches have been removed
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that's for sure the golden arches have
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been up there there's a a tourist copter
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going by
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and all those birds up top
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yeah no more golden arches here on this
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mickey d's
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kind of a little bit of a peek in here
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through the window looking up at the
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pick up here area and the bar stools and
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everything
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this building will be torn down in
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bulldozed this whole site will be
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will be changed down the road oh yes no
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more piping hot caffeinated beverages
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will be served through that
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drive-through nor indoors no big macs
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no filet of fishes
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nothing
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think about that kind of reminds me of
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when there was a mcdonald's at downtown
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disney before it became disney springs
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that has been since removed he used to
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be able to get mcdonald's fries
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in the theme parks
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even on the west coast
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at disneyland he could only just get the
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fries and then here next to splash
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mountain disney world these have a
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mcdonald's fry stand and goes without
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saying these hours are
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are no longer active
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and you would not pay there anymore nor
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pick up at those other two stations
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i would even say that they probably
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removed the dumpster
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that was in here
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yep dumpster is gone
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now there's just a ladder and some
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propane tanks
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dumpsters not needed for a place that's
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closed
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oh yeah there was
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you can see where the cars would sit oh
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yeah with the oil oil spills there for
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all these years
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this is probably moved over to another
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store another location
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i can i imagine they recycle
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golden arches recycles
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well there's your problem right there
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vern
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this wise got a little
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horde in it
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my daddy used to work on them things
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just follow there were two drive-through
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lines here
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right there and right now there's a
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little there's a
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they were cones well this one's coned
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off but this one's not it's a little
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little mcdonald's cone oh dang look over
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here it says walt disney world right on
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the side really look at that wow
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that's cool that is a relic
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wow that's pretty cool what's it say on
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top i saw bbg so i was thinking so
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buenos aires buena vista something yeah
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wow yep that's the but empty parking
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lots empty buildings out here now
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wow look at this see look at this
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this is a lot of property i'll admit
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this is
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probably a very valuable piece of land
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used to be a grocery store here the
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goodies
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i believe was back here and there's the
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taco bell walk over there in a minute
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yeah the taco bell clothes over there
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even a work tool here
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as another copter goes by
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down some of the signage and whatnot
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here on the property
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buffalo wild wings gone
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still has the signage up for now
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and even some paper signage on the doors
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go over there and read what that says
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okay
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back on august 19th this states
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august 19th
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this location permanently closed
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as a recording of this is the 28th so
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that was nine days ago
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it's all happened
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it all happened very quickly within this
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last month now micah was just looking up
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an article informing me that
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the property was a is 198 million
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dollars and falls under imminent domain
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which that is very interesting that this
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is under imminent domain
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you hear that a lot with with walmarts
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fall under imminent domain
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not
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not roadways
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well i guess it could be i guess it
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could be under anything if you look up
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on those tv screens up there there's
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just some lettering saying
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well it's like it's almost like a coding
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issue where it says there's nothing on
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the screen anymore
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it's just like some text
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and then over here is like a walk-up
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window where you used to go up power's
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still on
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and you would get your your take out
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orders
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if you so choose
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oh and there's lockers down there
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right down there look it's like lockers
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under those seats got the sunroof up top
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not much sun today in fact it just
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stopped raining
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shortly before i arrived here was it
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quite a big storm
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the signage there's a fountain over here
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is that green water
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it's like a slimy waters like
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nickelodeon style
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right here well jamba juice has the
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green lettering
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i am picking up some serious mark
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summers vibes right now
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what in the heck that is moderately
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disgusting
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it doesn't smell
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is that
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maybe this is all the stuff inside jamba
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juice they are emptying it out they're
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emptying out the fluids
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look at this this is
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what in the heck
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why is it green i don't know that's a
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weird green too it's like a grayish
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mercury
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weird
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i'm not thinking
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i'm not taking a sip of that either
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the one and only time i ate here i was
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watching a filming location
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of yours are you working for
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sleep awakening oh no way yep right
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inside this firehouse subs i was sitting
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there eating some tasty meat watching
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sleep away camp that's so cool it's an
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angela baker that was a
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that film invocation was a long time ago
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so that
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that shows how long ago that was that's
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probably six seven years ago at least oh
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look thank you for ten wonderful years
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we made we closed this location to make
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over the i-4 ultimate expansion
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and they uh they had the one over on
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international yeah by seaworld
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ten years
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the eye for
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ultimate ultimate expansion
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i like that name though it's going to be
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the ultimate expansion
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so years from now there will be an
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off-ramp right here and i-4 will be
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widened
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that is so wild
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and the hours there no longer
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applicable
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but what's this over here wow there's a
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plunge it
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right down there that says plunge it
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there's the open side
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no longer needed
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oh there's the big sign right there yeah
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good eye that's the sign they've taken
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that down
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and then kind of peeking in through the
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the glass which has a lot of a lot of
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haze on it because the humidity
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is intense out here right now so inside
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there
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it's kind of like kind of humid
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i think the ac is still on in there
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maybe that's why it's fogging up like
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it probably is the ac is probably still
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on the power still yeah i see the lights
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on in there but not for much longer
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the name of this place was on the border
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it had like an open air window where you
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could get your drinks
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your food options
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you could go in here if you were dining
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in
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as well
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there was something called the queso
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club you get free queso for a year
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once again you got the lights on all the
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power is on in here
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yeah
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pretty wild to see all this empty
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just within the last couple weeks all
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this has been emptied out
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some stuff in this development
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closed before then but a few things just
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recently closed
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august
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was when they gave them the time frame
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to get out august 21. another view in
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this window here as well
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and kind of pulling back you can see
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says closed
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permanently not just one paper sign but
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two
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two paper signs stating
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they will no longer be reopening at this
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spot
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if you go across this way you can see
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the
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empty parking lot with the culprit off
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in the distance i-4
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almost laughing
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we hear you eye for
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noted
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this is over here at goodings yeah oh
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this is chevy's yeah
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isn't that cool so this is going to be
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this is going to be taken out soon the
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chevy's is still open as of this very
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moment there are cars over there
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might be one of the last items out here
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still still be around for a little bit
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longer i wonder if those biscuits are
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still good in there
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i'm going to say no
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that wine's probably oh where was the
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red lobster right across the taco bell
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right there it's right next to the taco
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bell way tucked in the corn okay we'll
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walk over there we're going to do the
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loop around
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you can see there is still a few things
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there's a place called noodles up here
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oh and there's a mohs
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i'll go check and see if the most is
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open you cannot get a one hour photo
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developed here anymore
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look at this sign
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all kind of fault this has been closed
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for a while this did not close within
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the last couple weeks this has been
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closed for
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months yeah goodies i have shopped in
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here before
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been a while ago but i have i've bought
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a few items in here over the years take
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a look at that
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all the way down to the coolers and
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wow
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goodbye to the goodings
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this appears to be some sort of theming
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here when you walked in the goodings
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this is through the other
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the glass doors that opened
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this little like a little stage of some
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sort i had kind of recollected that this
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was a publix at one time before it was a
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goodings now that i see it it's
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refreshing my memory
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this was never a publix it was always
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a goodings
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i could be wrong now now that i state it
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now i'm starting to rethink my thoughts
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maybe it was
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it was a goodies for a heck of a long
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time and then it closed
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could have been a publix
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okay forget i said that might not have
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ever been a publix almost a decorative
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type lighthouse item up top there
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oh there goes another helicopter over
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the seafood and bakery signage
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now flippers
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pizzeria
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now the sign is on okay there are people
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people inside flippers even though some
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of the signs are out off or some of the
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letters are off
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there's one of these over at old town as
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well there's a flippers over at old town
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as well that's the other only other
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flippers that i know of but this one is
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still open for the time being
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you just looked up another fact
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about when all the places that are still
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here have until when is that day the end
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of august so like four days
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wow the 28th so so this could be the
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last chance they get flippers moe's
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that's it right and noodles moses has
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been closed oh
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yeah the signs have been up so i always
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think like how many people drive in here
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thinking i'm gonna go to moe's okay they
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drive up here and it's all close but
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noodles noodles is open noodles world
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kitchen is open
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for just a few more days only a few more
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days and then all this will be erased
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from existence now this is giving me
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some southern california
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kind of flashbacks i
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really like noodles and company however
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when i've eaten at the one out in orange
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california it was called noodles and co
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noodles world kitchen
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but this is really throwing me for a
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confusing loop because look over here
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this says noodles and company noodles
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and co but that says noodles world
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kitchen
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my brain does not know how to compress
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this thing yeah it does have soup
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plantation yep we had sweet tomatoes
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that's true dang this would have been
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really good a grilled cheese and tomato
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soup place now this is not green
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this is not green at all no it's not
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this is a this is a normal this is a
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normal fountain
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bud ruckers here is not open i do enjoy
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some some fuddruckers just talked to an
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employee that came out of noodles and
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company
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and she was stating that today
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is the last official day of noodles
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world kitchen noodles and company will
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be closing tonight from shark tank
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home of the grilled cheese donut
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oh yeah it was good you tried that you
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tried a grilled cheese donut
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shark tank
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the thing is anyone that appears on
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shark tank if they get picked they think
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it's happening we're a success we made
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it on shark tank this was one of the
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first places to close fast forward a
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little bit
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does not a success make
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it's almost kind of like american idol
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just because you win american idol
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doesn't mean you're going to have a
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successful career right although
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if i knew this place existed i would
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have frequented it because yeah i am all
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about some grilled cheese and donut mix
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maybe there's another spot
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i haven't seen another common sheet but
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abby i used to come here on days like
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this rainy days
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and get yourself a little burger
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doughnut it's good for the soul man
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grilled cheese
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tomato soup it's good i was kind of
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wondering if this was ever red like a
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big ol bowl of tomatoes oh you could dip
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the donut down in there
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i also recall a time when fuddruckers
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was one of the greatest hamburger places
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you could find
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over time there are so many choices for
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burgers you know 10 years ago you
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brought up fuddruckers it was the top of
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a lot of people's lists i don't know if
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it's still relevant in the world the
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world of you know top burger places i
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still like fuddruckers but in comparison
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to how they were ranked
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there's just so many options now you
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know i would imagine there's probably a
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lot of people even as busy as this was
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that had no idea that a lot of these
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places were even tucked away back in
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here
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i don't know if that would have altered
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or changed
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you know the plans of anything
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wow what was over here is this an old
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hotel no the restaurant
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fine dining like i think
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but
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they had to park your vehicle like valet
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was complimentary
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and the font choice you'll see looks
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similar to something you would see at uh
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hollywood studios mgm
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never ain't here but it was
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and you know what you never will nope
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because this place is in utter disarray
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yeah they never reopened
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even even in the last year and a half
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yeah i don't think they ever did after
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all the shutdowns last time i was here
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there's another walt disney world
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this boat is good for as much rain as
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as happens out here you know it rains
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pretty hard so this boat would be good
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even though it's filled with sod well
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that filled with soil i mean
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this kind of decorative design
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reminds me a little bit of around the
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backside of house of blues
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at disney springs oh look at this
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there's a crab down here
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there's a crab down there
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here's a limbo board of some sort
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a limbo board right here i think that's
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supposed to signify you're not supposed
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to walk over there
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i'm not going to go over any past there
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get that all boarded up people have
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probably tried to break in over the
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years
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and i'm really curious about the
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miniature golf course over there if
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that's still open or not i walk over
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there too reading the signage up on the
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marquee over there it says aged steaks
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they had steaks that were aged probably
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was pretty good i did never eat here but
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it's right on i-4 interstate 4 the
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traffic goes right by it you can see it
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from the interstate
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got the palm trees
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fresh fish
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aged steaks
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i4 zipping by
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and the crossroads signage
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still over there as well as a sweet
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tomatoes
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sign
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interesting fact about sweet tomatoes it
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has two names sweet tomatoes and soup
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plantation
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are the same company
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has closed
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all the locations across the u.s there
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are no more
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but i have frequented this sweet
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many times this particular one as well
21:39
as dozens of soup plantations in
21:41
california before they all close
21:44
yeah these tourist helicopters are very
21:46
prominent out here
21:53
there it is the crossroads
21:53
signage right there crossroads
21:56
shopping
21:57
and dining
21:58
and if you look closely you can see the
22:00
goodings sign
22:02
tucked away in there as well
22:04
as the traffic down interstate 4 goes by
22:07
at a relatively quick speed
22:10
always busy through this corridor here
22:13
always very busy right next to 5 35
22:20
and from what i can tell
22:20
because they have the dumpsters out
22:23
this miniature golf course is also no
22:26
more it is closed as well it's official
22:31
dang another miniature golf course
22:35
in central florida
22:36
bites the dust will be very interesting
22:39
to see where they they build the new
22:41
ultimate i-4 expansion off-ramp
22:45
going off here
22:47
odds are good it could go right past
22:50
where this
22:52
miniature golf course was there was
22:56
a shark dangling from this rope right
22:59
for many years
23:06
the shark has been removed
23:06
there is a fin down in there though i do
23:08
see a fin
23:11
you can see a shark fin there
23:13
and there's this gentleman trying to
23:15
escape from the rock formation there
23:19
oh and there's a pirate over there too
23:22
i think there's gators in here
23:28
this is a little depressing
23:30
for real
23:31
a piece of central florida tourist
23:35
through here
23:50
as a mosquito goes by my face just want
23:50
to mention that
23:52
even though i did not play any riveting
23:54
rounds of golf at this particular place
23:58
i understand the miniature golf
24:00
phenomenon i used to work at a mini golf
24:02
course on highway 192 in kissimmee river
24:05
adventure golf very similar to this one
24:08
and that one closed that one is
24:10
abandoned and this is
24:12
has the same fate as the one i used to
24:14
work at so
24:16
dang this was called pirates cove
24:19
and if memory serves me correct there is
24:21
another one on international drive that
24:23
is still open
24:25
probably transferred the shark over
24:27
there or bruce has escaped
24:30
i mean there is the fin over there but i
24:32
don't think that's bruce's i think
24:33
that's bruce's buddy
24:35
there was something right here on this
24:36
shoreline
24:41
there's a couple of pirates out in the
24:41
water too
24:43
i found one of the pirates noggins over
24:45
there yeah you look very closely you can
24:47
see that crossroad sign over this
24:48
shoulder
24:49
right over here
24:51
with the interstate going by
24:53
and of course pirates cove through here
24:56
dang
24:57
kind of hoping that pirates cove would
24:59
survive
25:00
and they would just you know all the
25:02
restaurants would close but pirates cove
25:03
would last
25:05
alas
25:06
it didn't
25:08
oh there's a couple golf balls down here
25:10
yeah there's one right here
25:12
that could that's a little souvenir
25:14
right there kind of hard to see there's
25:16
also a neon when they're in the water
25:19
and
25:22
there are two pink ones right there
25:34
there's a cone in front of there
25:34
and there is a sign saying do not
25:36
traverse past that building so the
25:38
closest i'm gonna go is just up to where
25:40
the entrance is
25:42
but all of this will be gone very soon
25:53
there's no writing on the golf ball
26:04
i think the quote is take nothing but
26:04
pictures
26:05
and and leave nothing but memories
26:08
taking it a step further though
26:11
and throwing the golf ball in the water
26:12
for posterity right dang this is awesome
26:16
really hope they move all this over to
26:18
the other spot
26:24
look at this anchor right here yeah
26:24
that's huge the sign has been taken down
26:30
he's waiting for us
26:30
up there in the foliage
26:35
that is cool
26:40
and then right here
26:40
all the different
26:42
the distances to different areas got
26:44
tokyo
26:47
oh there's a pirate's cove and traverse
26:49
city
26:51
okay it has all the different ones
26:54
rapid city
26:55
bar harbor oh there's the moon up top
26:58
and the caribbean and then la
27:00
states that la is
27:02
2160 miles from right here
27:10
oh there's a little skeleton up top
27:12
pretty good theming through here
27:14
a little skull and crossbones
27:24
no i wish i would have
27:24
i wish i would have come out here and
27:25
played a round of golf
27:27
kind of kind of bummed i didn't
27:33
hi
27:33
slippery wind wet matey
27:37
i guess if you still had
27:39
a golf club there's some balls back
27:40
there in the water
27:42
you could still go by here and play the
27:43
first hole
27:44
i'm not gonna go past that but
27:52
man kind of stinks all this is going to
27:52
be gone including that volcano
27:54
up there this might be the last time we
27:56
see
27:57
captain i think that captain's name is
28:00
he's got a black beard captain
28:04
crossroads captain crossroad there you
28:07
go
28:08
captain crossroads may you find a good
28:11
home
28:12
on i drive captain crossroads i
28:27
yeah there it is if this still works
28:27
i'm gonna lose it oh yeah look at this
28:29
it says while load okay red reloading
28:34
white loaded okay should i try it try it
28:37
push the cannon and there she blows
28:42
oh wait
28:43
i thought that doesn't even push in
28:45
oh maybe the button was right here oh
28:47
that's the button it's a
28:49
button button who's got the button
28:54
this doesn't look structurally sound
28:57
it might be
28:59
granted this is all going to be gone
29:01
sooner than later but
29:03
wow that would be neat oh there's a
29:06
button right down here look
29:08
look at this
29:10
didn't do anything
29:12
if it did i would have lost it yeah it
29:14
would have been exciting whoa there
29:16
appears to be another pirate in there
29:18
inside this window
29:31
that's as far as i'm gonna go
29:33
see you later pirates cove
29:47
no more pirates cove it's going to be
29:47
weird not seeing pirates cove driving
29:49
down i-4
29:51
but you can always see it when you're
29:52
driving down i-4
30:00
all right let's go over the switch it
30:00
made us man suicide us up there wait
30:04
look look
30:20
don't be shy over there come out from
30:20
the foliage
30:29
okay you're being shy i really do miss
30:29
this place either soup plantation or
30:32
sweet tomatoes
30:38
gosh i went to this place a lot on both
30:38
coasts
30:39
i almost just tripped over that
30:41
i didn't pick my foot up far enough
30:44
yeah it was an all-you-can-eat buffet
30:46
style salad bar
30:50
says they're now hiring
30:52
don't let that fool you though they're
30:53
not hiring they all closed i used to
30:56
really love the chickpeas
30:59
get a little ranch on my salad some
31:01
chickpeas they also had some pasta they
31:03
had baked potatoes
31:05
sometimes you could even get slices of
31:06
pizza
31:07
it was it was on the secondary salad bar
31:10
oh man i love some sweet tomatoes
31:14
and the first meal we ever had
31:17
we met up
31:18
decided where to go to eat and one of us
31:21
said let's go to sweet tomatoes
31:24
the other i don't know if it was me that
31:25
brought the idea up or you that brought
31:27
the idea but nonetheless
31:29
this is kind of the birth of our
31:30
friendship right here well as i said if
31:32
they want to go do some research the
31:35
daily woo episode you shot that day was
31:37
the steve martin parent hood house wow
31:39
and the lady pulled up was like you guys
31:41
buying a house no kidding you have a
31:43
better memory than i am when it comes to
31:44
that that was it i remember food yeah
31:48
everything else all bets are off
31:51
they had the chili in here yeah
31:53
dad we also ate this at the puente hills
31:55
mall
31:56
back to the future but over there was
31:58
soup plantation
32:05
we've eaten a lot of meals together yes
32:05
we have i don't know if i want to get
32:07
too close to see if we can see
32:09
that animal running around in there
32:12
he crawled around down in there you see
32:14
the electrical box back there is open
32:17
yeah that's as close as i want to get
32:20
they're cute from a distance
32:22
if one scratches you though
32:24
not not pleasant you don't know what you
32:26
do
32:27
never ever ever go to a wild batch of
32:30
raccoons and do this if anybody even
32:31
even even even
32:37
we should just do jim varney the rest of
32:37
this video
32:38
as many jim vardy references as humanly
32:40
possible
32:42
making the way now over to taco bell or
32:44
what was the taco bell going past this
32:47
little tiki area
32:49
and you have to abide by the signs here
32:50
you want to follow all the
32:53
all the rules and whatnot
33:12
yeah that that dock right there looks
33:12
like it's about to fall in
33:15
kind of interesting to think that right
33:16
over there all the hustle and bustle
33:19
of interstate 4 then through here not
33:22
really a lot going on but then even more
33:24
hustle and bustle
33:25
right across there on the entrance
33:28
to hotel way
33:29
and disney technical disney property
33:32
starts right there that's where i
33:33
started the intro
33:34
a while back you can see mickey off
33:36
there in the distance and all the hotels
33:39
leading to downtown disney disney
33:40
springs and just closed very recently in
33:44
the last few days
33:46
taco bell
33:48
signage taken down but you know you can
33:50
always
33:51
you can always tell a taco about a
33:52
modern day taco bell and the
33:54
old school taco
33:56
yeah this is you don't want to be
33:57
driving around through here because look
33:58
at that
33:59
there's like some nails and stuff there
34:02
just going to get rid of that
34:04
okay somebody does
34:06
pop a tire
34:11
drive through
34:11
closed off
34:12
there is a note on the window
34:16
could this have closed on the 19th as
34:17
well or was it even more recent than
34:20
that
34:21
here we go says sorry
34:23
lobby is closed
34:25
today will be the last taco bell
34:28
will be open for this location
34:31
we hope to see you at our new location
34:34
okay no date on there but very recently
34:40
will be open for this location kind of
34:42
peeking in the foggy window there
34:46
very very hazy
34:48
the humidity makes it tough to see
34:51
to see in all the tables have been
34:53
removed
34:54
oh no they haven't some of the tables
34:56
have been removed but you can see some
34:57
of the chairs are still in there all the
34:59
stand-up tables that were gone and a
35:00
view from the front here one two five
35:02
five five the address
35:05
wow look at this is a very interesting
35:07
shrub here it looks like a
35:09
a this topiary it's like a mushroom
35:12
it's a mushroom topi area if i'm looking
35:14
at that correctly
35:23
one two five five five is the address
35:23
go up to the door and see if there's any
35:24
more other information
35:26
still a few little structures and stuff
35:28
in there but most of it has been removed
35:32
a little bit of a glare obviously
35:33
because like i said the humidity on the
35:35
window
35:39
whole kitchen has been completely
35:39
cleaned out probably took all the
35:41
inner workings over to a another
35:43
franchise spot
35:46
and the same signage right here
35:48
on this one
35:49
today will be the last taco bell will be
35:51
open for this location a lot of places
35:53
will have two drive-throughs this is
35:55
this is so you know the height is good
35:57
this is just to let you know if you're
35:58
driving a truck or a van that's too tall
36:00
or an item that's like loaded down too
36:03
much
36:03
you can't go any further this is also
36:05
another protective just to double check
36:07
that when you go around the side
36:09
you don't destroy the awning
36:17
cannot confirm an order anymore
36:17
and you cannot place an order
36:20
because the menu board
36:22
is also gone removed
36:28
here at the crossroads
36:28
i know this is a lot to
36:30
to let it soak in this is a lot to cover
36:33
there's a lot of places that just closed
36:35
approaching the main entry
36:38
of the former red lobster
36:43
when i was younger
36:43
i always looked as red lobster as the
36:46
premier seafood place
36:48
you know as i've gotten older
36:50
i realize there's a lot of other options
36:52
but red lobster was very prominent in
36:54
their advertising campaign they were the
36:56
first one that i recall
36:58
where you'd see the shrimp and then
37:00
you'd have an actor's hand take the
37:02
lemon and squeeze
37:04
onto the seafood i said i'm gonna i want
37:06
to take a lemon and squeeze it
37:08
the juice from that onto
37:10
seafood and i still do that to this day
37:13
this says this location closed
37:17
right there due to i-4 construction
37:19
there is one over on 192 erlo bronson
37:23
highway
37:24
not supposed to go past this caution
37:26
tape here
37:32
these fountains will most likely
37:32
be removed as well
37:40
old red lobster all the signage of all
37:40
these places have been removed
37:42
so unless you know the layout of the
37:43
building which is pretty easy to tell
37:45
you would not know it was a red lobster
37:48
or the taco bell or the mcdonald's
37:50
any other places even the mini golf
37:52
place signage has been removed
37:54
look at this empty parking lot
37:57
there's a lot of acres out here i could
37:58
see why someone would want this land
38:01
except when it comes to the well from
38:03
what i was told about the
38:04
eminent domain
38:06
you don't really have a choice in the
38:07
matter
38:09
it's kind of it's kind of wacky how all
38:11
that works
38:12
all the bugs are now starting to come
38:14
out rear their head
38:16
as dusk has approached the sun is going
38:18
down
38:19
now uno over there pizzeria uno is in
38:21
fact closed
38:23
as well that will probably be one of the
38:24
last spots
38:26
to show and document but not before this
38:29
perkins
38:30
so just to give the layout perkins is
38:32
there the red lobster there
38:35
taco bell there and then everything else
38:37
way past it
38:39
considerably acres and acres pass it all
38:41
the way down towards the back end of the
38:43
property where that mini golf
38:45
course is right over there
38:47
if you're not familiar with what a
38:48
perkins is it's kind of like a denny's
38:50
it's almost like i almost say it's a
38:52
step up from denny's but yeah it's kind
38:54
of
38:54
it's like a denny's more or less
38:57
different different establishment but
38:59
very denny's-esque a diner song
39:02
oh and as that sports car goes by very
39:05
quickly
39:06
showing here that it says restaurant is
39:11
and another signage
39:13
we regret to announce that this perkins
39:16
restaurant has closed
39:17
apologize for the inconvenience still
39:19
has the fish fry sign
39:21
in the window oh
39:23
this still has
39:25
the perkins sign as well one of the few
39:27
out here that does still have
39:30
the establishment's title listed on it
39:33
and there's the wd
39:34
wdw entrance over there
39:38
and approaching the last spot
39:40
is pizzeria uno is it still called
39:42
pizzeria unos or just uno pizza pasta
39:45
seafood burgers
39:48
all kind of all kind of stuff here
39:55
oh and i'm seeing a pirate there a
39:55
pirate's cove adventure golf this might
39:57
be the last piece
39:59
of the pirates cove signage let's walk
40:01
over there and show that
40:03
lights are still on inside the uno
40:06
do you know if it's still called
40:07
pizzeria uno is it just uno just uno for
40:10
a while it was pizzeria uno
40:12
and they shortened it
40:14
open late every day
40:16
but not today
40:19
not today the neon here says immediate
40:21
seating the knee that neon is not on
40:24
anymore
40:32
lights are on inside
40:32
but no one's in there
40:39
oh it is so humid just to give an
40:39
example
40:40
look at the sweat that is rolling off
40:44
of this door here
40:55
the original adventure golf
40:55
that right there is a
40:56
that's a relic now
40:58
and the only thing on property that says
41:00
the name of the adventure golf place
41:04
and then over here
41:06
still has the goodings the 24 hours
41:10
buffalo wild wings fridays on the border
41:14
sweet tomatoes and that's gonna do it
41:16
for today
41:18
from
41:19
the former now it could be called the
41:21
former
41:24
your guess is as good as mine on when
41:26
all this will be bulldozed but i would
41:28
imagine sooner than later considering
41:31
the last couple spots that are here
41:32
we're told that today is their last day
41:35
or
41:36
by the end of the month
41:37
which is just right around the corner so
41:39
first of september there will be nothing
41:42
open here on this property of the former
41:50
pretty wild it is
41:50
sad
41:52
can't stop progress
41:54
i think i learned that from a disney
41:56
attraction i think so too carousel of
42:00
progress
42:02
that's progress dear and that's a sports
42:04
car i'll see you in the next video the
42:06
vlog
42:28
how many different episodes have you
42:28
done on this this property three i think
42:30
this would be your third one your third
42:32
and last third and last that's it
42:35
came down when everything was still shut
42:36
down i was pretty much the only one kind
42:38
of like this and then i came back when
42:40
they were doing the curbside pickup
42:42
stuff
42:43
and then today so i kind of see it
42:45
progress yeah
42:46
if you haven't checked out micah's
42:48
channel do so world of mica on youtube
42:51
it's easily searchable
42:54
mystery uncovered
42:56
the place that's all falling apart
42:58
that's been closed for a long time the
43:00
neon out front is still on
43:02
johnny's hideaway
43:05
yes
43:09
shaking
43:12
notched is that a martini