The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) Texarkana Filming Locations - Horror Film Classic / Then & Now
The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976 Filming Locations
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currently 7 45 a.m
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on monday november 15 2021
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a train rolling by sun down
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was last
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night sunrise is happening
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which is a good thing
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because you do not want to be in
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texarkana
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during the hours of sundown
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or after sundown
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that's what i've always heard
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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you see the sun glaring there on these
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directional arrows
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stating that it's right on the state
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line
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arkansas and texarkana texas
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which
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technically i am in
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the texas version
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and i will be covering in great detail
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the filming locations
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of the town
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that dreaded sundown released on
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into december 1976
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the horror genre i really enjoy this
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movie i've watched it a lot of times
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in the past but then in you know recent
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weeks
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kind of leading up to doing the research
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to to find everything i could possibly
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find here in town
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the phantom
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before michael myers before jason
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voorhees
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there was this guy
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he was never found
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based
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semi-loosely
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on the events of a of re
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real transpiring happenings
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in this town decades before the movie
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came out
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very loosely
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it's not completely historically
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accurate
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but it's a fun one slightly terrifying
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a lot of comedy in there it's a good
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it's a good match up
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i'm gonna go match up some some screen
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grabs i have them right over here on the
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table
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right there
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fact
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i've got a lot of them
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it's going to be a busy day i'm inviting
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you to join me
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shall you
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start off downtown the corner of front
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street and maine
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there is some newer buildings
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on the back side of this
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former hotel
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that now sits desolate
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and empty
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and over on the far side of that quite a
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bit
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of different scenes took place
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as well as
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this train station that also sets
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abandoned
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a lot took place
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on the exterior and the exterior and
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interior i should say
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of this building
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in fact
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the opening sequence with that great
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voice over
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the narration of this film is
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awesome
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took place right in
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right over through here
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union station there used to be a clock
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up there
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in that empty circle
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and there are a lot of cars parked down
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here because there is a
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building next door that's very busy but
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i'm glad as for now this is kind of open
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so i can kind of line some stuff up
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because
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what i'm looking at here is very
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important
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to the film now back 45 years ago this
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structure was not here
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however
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this one
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was
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seen better days that is for sure
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if you've seen the movie
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definitely would recognize this
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i'm glad it's still standing but not
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really sure why
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it's still standing
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not in good shape there used to be a
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road that went right through here
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through some renovations it's now kind
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of a little courtyard area
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but you can see the angle of these
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buildings and there's an awning
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over there that a lot of characters
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walked in and out of quite a few extras
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doing that opening scene
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with the narration over the top of it
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this is what it looks like
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modern day
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still has the angle over there it still
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has that awning
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through that doorway
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and you can see
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parts of it are open to the elements
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not structurally sound however
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so this would be the opening scene
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nailed it would have had some parking
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meters
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some classic cars
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the hotel
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the red carpet there and the awning
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yeah
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take a look at that there's still an
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awning still there
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well
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kind of anyway
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check out the little
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places the bulbs would go into
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the bottom of the awning
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and this would have been a couple double
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doors here
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and i like the fact that the windows
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still
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still look the same even though cracked
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and whatnot
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you can see
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there the same type of
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same type of windows
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stuff like that's pretty exciting that
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you could
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kind of step back in time a bit now it's
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going to be tough to get the exact angle
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because there are a lot of cars parked
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here currently
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but newspaper rack here
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and notice the
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the style of this light pole
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i'll show that in a moment but another
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awning from the train station and then
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looking back
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over towards
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that hotel so there is the bottom of
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that light pole and where that newspaper
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rack
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would have been
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looking that way
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and stepping back this is kind of the
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angle they had with the pole there
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between the awning
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and the building paperboy
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you'd hear the
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the voiceover of the paperboy saying
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extra extra read all about it
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during that
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if you watch that opening sequence the
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clock is still there at that point as a
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dump truck a couple blocks away
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it's taking care of its morning routine
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this brickwork is a little more open
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than it was
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so the concrete came up to about here
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and the brickwork over time over these
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decades has been a little more a little
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more open but if you look at this angle
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you can see some of the brickwork
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already starting to to kind of peek out
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from there
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and there's that awning
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right over there
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i'm kind of wondering now
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you know all these vehicles are here
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next to what was the station
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and the workers have parked here
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there is a michael myers
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from one of the people in the station
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do they know
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that one of the characters that
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predated
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myers
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in film history took place right here
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did they know about the phantom
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i certainly hope so
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in this general vicinity
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was a post here
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looking from that angle
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at
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union station there
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it was kind of a little bit later on as
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the the movie progressed
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when
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you know sundown happened
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you can see it says billiards and
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dominoes and you can see the station
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over there
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which kind of leads me to believe that
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before they built this new building
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there was a
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a billiard spot
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right over here in
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this area at one point you see the
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phantom's feet from a low down
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perspective
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from what was the street where the cars
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were parked there that's now this little
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courtyard
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walking along
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just showing his feet giving a lot of
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suspense
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and where he walked out of
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would have been this
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precise door and
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precise spot
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right about there you can even see
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you can even see the little
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like kind of goes up just a little bit
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with the concrete
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and here's the example so there's that
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little kind of lip upward and there's
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the woodwork
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and the phantom's feet
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first we're shown walking
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right out of this very
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doorframe
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getting a little peek through the crack
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here in the wood
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of where the actor
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there was a stuntman that went on to do
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a lot of other things
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in hollywood a lot of other big budget
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movies he played the role
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would have been in there they would have
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said action
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he would have walked out they also built
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a fake ticket booth
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right here adjacent
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to that door
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i'll show an example and this was
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a fake theater because it's not a real
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theater in real life the paramount to be
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exact
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that's what the awning looked like then
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over here is where earlier he had walked
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out of this is a little bit later when
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they're signifying nightfall and
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everyone's locking up and going home for
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the evening you can still see that
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windows there
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and the
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fake ticket booth
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would have been right next to that door
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right about there i can't get over too
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much farther because this car there's
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trucks in the way if you read closely
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between the theater and the hotel awning
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so on the corner it says
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coffee shop there was a
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coffee shop
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facade as well
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right over in there
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back over to this angle next to the
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coffee shop that
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that hotel entrance
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and the couple that would have walked
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out of there
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did not know what their demise would be
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shortly after they got in their car
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and left
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wasn't good
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it was very rainy you see the rainfall
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going down
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got the umbrella out
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walked out of there there were two
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double doors
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and he kind of has a little smirk when
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he sees the
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the raindrops
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some double doors and some panes of
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glass
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obviously all these years later
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disrepair
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and now it's just all boarded up
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they then get in their car driving in
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the rain
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turn the corner which
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kind of a nice segway shows off this
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portion of the building
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using a number of a lot of other scenes
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right over here just right there gotta
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love the style of the vehicles back then
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okay this is nice that there's no cars
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parked over here
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there it is right there
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this looks all too familiar as much as
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i've been watching this movie
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this is so cool
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captain jd morales and
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deputy norman ramsey could be seen
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walking down this
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stairwell here
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windows have been covered up
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obviously
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and they were waiting on spark plug who
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was kind of like a barney fife type
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character
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kind of unusual for the film but did add
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a little comic relief
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to it as well
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couldn't find the keys
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had to go back up the stairwell
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come back down go into the office
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and then finally got the keys
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and pulled the car out
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from this spot here
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now there were some parking meters
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and then drove off
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he was a bad driver though very bad
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driver the role of spark plug was played
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by the director charles b pierce
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shown here going out the front door
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and he used that name because of the
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nickname he was given for his
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directing style
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and this is really
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yeah this whole awning here
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not the best shape
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i'm glad he found the keys though
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you know the director had a little
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supporting role to a spark plug peeking
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through the glass you can see those
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stairs
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those stairs are
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the stairs behind him here
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as he's
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quickly running out realizes he's
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holding up
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who were parked right down here
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quite a bit took place up here on this
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little this little ledge
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when you're walking up the stairs
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when jd morale was played by ben johnson
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who
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fantastic actor in this is being
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interviewed by the press
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right over in here
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kind of making his way
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over towards them you see the cameras
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see that railing
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i like this view of deputy norman ramsey
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looking out the window
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very
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you know confused on what was happening
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in the town and that would be this very
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window
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see the reflection of the
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building off of the abandoned building
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behind me
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okay two different moments
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another meeting with the press right
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there up on the ledge
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i'm kind of zoomed out a little bit but
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there's a kind of a closer look i
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believe they were up on like a
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scaffolding
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or something they were elevated just
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a little bit or possibly
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through one of the windows up on the
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upper level
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behind me at the now empty building
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and then where
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spark plug
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finds the key
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you know before
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pulling off in the cruiser
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and obviously the parking lines are
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different
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they're kind of angled now when back
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then
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you can see they were more kind of more
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straight on now i'm going to walk around
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the back this is the front of the
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building
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you can see the train tracks
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over here
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which is where jd morales was dropped
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off
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by the train
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looks a lot different
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from that angle
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how it was back then this says
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to the station
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does not look like i'm going to be able
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to get access
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to a couple spots i was really
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wanting to document
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fenced off pretty good
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got the appropriate signage
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dang after walking the perimeter outside
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and then
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climbing up these stairs here around the
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back
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i need to get through those doors
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which is one of two
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pinnacle locations
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of the interiors
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i'm just gonna have to explain it
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almost positive that everything still
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looks precisely as it did
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back in the 70s through there but
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those doors are all closed up
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this is all fenced off
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no one's
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really on property i guess i could ask
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someone out
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front next door that's walking around
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that's about the best
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it's kind of disappointing from what i
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can tell just in recent days weeks or
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months in a very recent
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time frame
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they have really kind of sealed
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everything up
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you know obviously if you had a a ladder
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and quite a bit of
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gumption you could go up there go
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through that window but i'm not going to
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be doing that
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but everything around the front which i
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expected
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but i was almost certain around the back
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that that stairwell
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would lead up and then but
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i guess too many people here causing
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damage
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or other things so they've sealed it all
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up recently so i would do the next best
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thing and just describe it to the best
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of my ability to give a little little
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context remember what i was saying about
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that window here this first window that
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you see the reflection of that would
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have been
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a facade of an office inside the
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interiors going up the stairs the spark
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plug
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walked up right through here
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and jd morales is looking out
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well he was looking out the window and
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then he turns back to talk to this
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gentleman so that window there now it
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does look the same inside but i am kind
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of showing it from
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the outside perspective is that very
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window the only one
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that appears to not have any kind of
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breaks on it you see the
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you see the reflection
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but if you were to go inside or if i was
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to go inside
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this
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kind of greenish blue wall there you can
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see that's a facade up here you can even
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see the brickwords and the top the
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camera
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is kind of showing the top of that fake
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wall
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that makes up the office
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that was
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right up there peeking through the
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window again
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now if you go up the top of the stairs
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the railings still look the same the
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banisters
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right
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over the top of that
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brickwork was where spark plugs desk was
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he was kind of a receptionist he was
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answering the phone calls
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and over on this side
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if you go to the other top of that
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brickwork
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over there is where
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the office was notice the railings
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are still the same
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kind of looking at the railing so there
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there's the reception desk
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there are those railings and there is
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that fake office
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now if i was inside i'd be able to line
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this up but
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can't do it going over the desk again
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notice this door over here now the door
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has been removed but notice the
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brickwork in these two windows where
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they have a bunch of flyers on them
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so those flyers
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would have been on those so his desk
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would have been behind that wall
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and there
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are those two windows that were covered
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up
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with boards from the inside and the
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flyers and i'm going to zoom in you'll
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be able to see where that door was
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the door has been removed but the hole
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for the door in that corner
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right over there still there
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kind of zoomed in through the window
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so there's that corner and there's where
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that door
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would have been i'll show you a couple
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other examples of
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of that door so keep in mind this door
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just keep it in mind because there it is
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again
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the door where the keys were placed
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there's a signage for the keys
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there's jd next to the window
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this guy is confessing but
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morales knows he is not telling the
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truth so this window
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here's the door
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there's that window
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is that second window that's open and
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you can see the door through there
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i have to reverse this because i am on
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the opposite side looking up the stairs
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where they are walking up
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in fact those three windows
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are still here i'll show those windows
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in a minute
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but fake facade of the office
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immediately up the stairwell
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and there's that door i was mentioning
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in those windows so reversed
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now keep in mind
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i am not inside i'm outside but if you
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reverse it
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there's those three windows
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right up there
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one two three you can see that through
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the awning
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and you would have the fake facade of
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the office
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and everything else that i mentioned
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as well
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there they are walking up the stairs
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everyone is interviewing
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really wish this was not the case and
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there was someone around that
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knew
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how to get in here or if i would even be
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allowed to get in here but it's not
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happening
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this will just have to do doesn't even
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look that could be that safe
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inside there
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pretty
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not not structurally sound a lot of
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these buildings you can see through the
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dirty glass there reflection in a
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roundabout way it's kind of fun
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being presented with a challenge and not
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being able to be inside there but i want
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to show where the car keys
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were placed on the wall
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when the other guy points at the wall
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to spark plugs and says the keys are
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i'm going to zoom in and show exactly
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where the car keys were placed looking
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through that window right there on that
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brick wall and that very corner where
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that indentation is
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i know it's a detail that really isn't
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that important but
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it's the little things that i get
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excited about
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and a couple other spots want to point
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out
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same level second level
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adjacent is like a kind of a big
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open section
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when he first gets off the train morales
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wants to buy a cigar so he makes his way
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over to the concession stand
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which have the cigars
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which would be on the far end
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over this way
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and i i will zoom in
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and show where that concession stand
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area was
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so he would have walked in more from
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this side walking towards me
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in that open area
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talking to some of the locals
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and whatnot and needed a scar so walked
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over there bought one through the glass
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that's not a reflection that is a
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structure inside of the structure that
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was like a little store
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at the bottom base of that
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that's where he ended up purchasing
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quite a few of them
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also were some oranges for sale he
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didn't want any vitamin c
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he just wanted a
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smoke
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notice the windows
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see the windows there
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you can see those windows
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okay i'm done with these i do have quite
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a few more that i would have loved to
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have matched up but wasn't in the cards
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i don't know if it's wise to be standing
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right here
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from that spot that i showed
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earlier where the phantom i'm going to
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get down here low
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crawled we're not crawled out of it
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walked right out of there
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walk back over this way
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just to show a spot that i'm not 100
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percent confident about
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but i am
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i'm kind of confident not a hundred
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percent but the more i look at this i
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was thinking this is was possibly the
25:09
interior you know exteriors of the hotel
25:11
but in tears of the restaurant where
25:13
they were eating the gentleman shows up
25:15
and says that the phantom could be
25:17
anyone one of the local town folk
25:19
alluding that maybe he was the phantom
25:21
was in the restaurant
25:23
but the more i look at it i'm noticing
25:24
another archway door
25:27
and i'm going to say it's probably this
25:29
one if i had to
25:31
if i had to guess i would say it was
25:32
this one just with the way looking
25:34
through there
25:36
of the way the wall angles
25:39
and up top
25:41
now obviously all of it has been
25:43
destroyed but
25:44
the way the arch of the door is
25:48
you know the
25:49
the way it's angled
25:50
with that circular pattern you know the
25:52
wood and glass has been removed
25:56
they very well
25:57
could have been sitting right behind
25:59
there
26:00
because when they walk in they kind of
26:02
shift over that way so the table would
26:04
be
26:05
right about there
26:06
now i'm getting a better perspective
26:09
kind of from up elevated like this
26:11
and i'm noticing there's like a pole in
26:14
so if you walked in immediately you'd
26:17
have a pole so the camera angle
26:20
would be the door and then you got that
26:21
hole over there and there is
26:25
there is a pole in there let me zoom in
26:28
and show yep take a look
26:30
right there through the archway of the
26:32
door
26:34
camera have been set up on the other
26:35
side of that pole looking back towards
26:37
me it is the same building and even
26:39
though it's not completely attached to
26:41
where i think it is down at the end
26:43
if you peek in through here this is kind
26:44
of reminiscent of where i just was where
26:47
phantom walked out of there but if you
26:49
peek through here
26:50
the way the entire building is you know
26:53
it's all one building
26:54
but notice those pillars there
26:57
that stretch all the way down so i'm
26:59
guessing it probably goes all the way to
27:01
the end
27:02
and the pillars i'm referring to
27:04
right there look at the woodwork on
27:06
those pillars
27:07
same type that are in here you know
27:10
20 30 yards away from the other store
27:12
front in the same building
27:14
there's
27:16
very similar pillars with
27:18
woodworking
27:27
okay i'm going a little too far into
27:27
details here
27:29
all right
27:31
i think i've got the spots here in
27:32
downtown there's still quite a few more
27:35
to find
27:38
he was never caught
27:40
the real you know in reality what this
27:42
was based on and the movie never was
27:44
caught
28:10
one spot i could not find was the barber
28:10
shop
28:11
just trying to notice the type of roof
28:13
line there
28:19
but i would imagine they used so much of
28:20
this building it could have been any one
28:21
of these this does not look like it but
28:23
everything else here on this other side
28:25
of where i just was
28:27
it's all kind of shut up shut it up
28:30
can't really see in
28:32
but it could have been anywhere through
28:34
here yeah it's been so long ago
28:36
tough to tell
28:39
about another mile away a mile and a
28:41
half away
28:42
located in the quality hill historic
28:46
district
28:47
corner of locust street
28:49
and sixth
29:04
take a look at this
29:04
now all the times viewing
29:10
i thought that this was just a parking
29:10
lot
29:11
where all the cars were parked but in
29:14
fact it is a road
29:16
that shifts that way
29:18
the little grass area here
29:21
still looks the same except very
29:23
overgrown
29:24
in need of a little bit of a mowing
29:27
of sorts
29:33
there's a perspective see the cars
29:33
parked
29:34
along the road
29:36
and this very unique looking building
29:39
off in the distance
29:42
and the interiors were also inside here
29:45
judging by the way the windows look when
29:47
you're on the inside looking out
30:08
there they are leaving the dance
30:08
going out to the vehicle
30:11
little did they know that a short time
30:12
after this
30:13
the musical instrument that
30:16
she was using at the dance
30:18
a phantom
30:21
well it's just those spoilers
30:24
didn't end well
30:26
it's kind of a her kind of
30:28
kind of a terrifying moment
30:30
you just got you gotta see it you know
30:32
any of the locations i do including this
30:34
one really should probably watch the
30:35
movie
30:37
before if not after
30:39
yeah you could watch this and then
30:41
watch the film and then go back
30:44
go back and
30:45
watch this watch where the spots are
30:47
again afterwards but you have to watch
30:48
this scene yourself notice the windows
30:50
here and the incline
30:53
of the roof
30:54
going inside looking out so these
30:56
windows
30:57
there were two sets
30:59
so you got the lower set
31:01
the windows shown in the photograph
31:03
there would have been up there that had
31:04
now been boarded up
31:07
this would have been the door they
31:08
walked out of
31:10
as well but
31:12
the camera would facing towards where
31:14
i'm at looking up
31:15
you see those windows up up top there
31:18
which would be those windows and you
31:19
could see the incline how it kind of
31:22
kind of shifts downward
31:24
just like this roof kind of has a slight
31:26
shift downward
31:28
as well which is kind of interesting
31:30
because they would have walked out here
31:32
this grass is very very tall by the way
31:33
it's kind of
31:34
smooshed down but i walk through it this
31:37
grass is very tall it's so tall that
31:39
gravity has kind of forced it
31:42
kind of downward
31:44
but they would have walked out
31:46
to the car there through the front door
31:49
which was there but when you watch that
31:50
particular moment
31:52
you know based on these windows which
31:54
are at the front they leave through the
31:56
back and the very next take
31:58
they're walking out through this front
32:01
now it's just a metal door but
32:04
it was a real door back then restaurant
32:06
supply
32:10
could have been a restaurant supply back
32:12
but soon after was and now
32:14
really just being used for storage
32:31
there's a window i should be able to
32:31
peek in
32:33
right up here and you can kind of see
32:34
where the dance took place
32:45
quite a bit of mesh to look through but
32:45
kind of get the idea and there are some
32:47
restaurant supplies
32:49
still in there
33:26
this stretcher road outside of town
33:26
known as mandeville road
33:28
was used in quite a few moments
33:31
in fact whoa
33:34
right there that's the spot
33:36
that's one of them
33:37
notice the pillars there in the driveway
33:39
leading onto the property
33:42
and the brickwork
33:46
this is when a spark plug hits the
33:46
brakes
33:47
driving it he's driving a little too
33:48
recklessly
33:57
as a car went by
33:57
this was used in a number of different
33:59
moments
34:00
but most notably
34:02
it was right here
34:13
mandeville road
34:13
just outside town
34:20
pulling into spring lake park now
34:20
right next to the water tower
34:22
texarkana water tower right there
34:26
now this property is massive so there's
34:27
no way of matching up
34:30
the tree that was used
34:32
because they're probably throughout the
34:34
entire property very
34:36
expansive property 5 000 trees
34:40
but at one of them
34:43
a trombone moment
34:56
this is only one section of the trees
34:56
thousands thousands of trees i thought
34:58
i'd be able to match up the tree
35:00
it's not gonna happen
35:03
there he is with the trombone
35:06
and
35:08
there she is over there
35:10
against the tree
35:12
and it could be any one of these
35:14
and supposedly
35:16
on occasions they will do a screening of
35:18
the movie
35:19
right here in spring lake park
35:22
that'd be pretty fun
35:26
that's that's what i've heard anyway
35:26
over to the texar
35:29
college campus
35:31
i don't know why i had trouble saying
35:33
that
35:34
this empty plot of land on the far end
35:36
of the campus
35:38
used to set
35:40
a building that has been demolished
35:43
shown here
35:49
it's been gone for a while but notice
35:49
over here that says texarkanage
35:52
college parking
35:55
that was kind of a clue on where this
36:01
you see the plot of land
36:01
and the sidewalk has been kind of
36:03
elevated a little bit
36:05
that could possibly be
36:07
the tree or maybe the seedling from the
36:09
tree
36:10
that was shown with the the angle kind
36:12
of going that way kind of probably more
36:14
like that
36:16
but yeah you can see there is a tree
36:19
and a little grass area and everything
36:22
okay moving on
36:24
over to the corner of watts street and
36:26
14th
36:28
is where
36:30
the church was where the wedding took
36:32
place
36:33
right here on this very corner
36:35
however as you can see
36:40
been bulldozed
36:40
you still see the sidewalk
36:47
not really even a foundation
36:47
for where the wedding was there is a
36:49
foundation of a of a home that was
36:51
behind it
36:52
as well as over there
36:56
this is the angle we're looking at here
36:58
now that i'm backing up a little bit
37:00
getting a little bit better perspective
37:01
from here
37:03
you can see the well it's basically a
37:04
drainage air i thought it was a sidewalk
37:06
but it's basically where the drainage
37:08
goes with the ambiance of the train
37:10
going by
37:11
you can see the bicycle
37:14
and you can see that little drainage
37:15
area and
37:16
where the car was parked it's right
37:24
here and i'm also noticing
37:24
sidewalk while the sidewalk leading up
37:27
to the church building is gone
37:33
right over here
37:33
is a step up
37:35
so you'll see
37:36
there's a step here that's like a piece
37:38
of concrete and then another step which
37:41
leads me to believe
37:43
that would have kind of been
37:46
and if you watch that moment the groom
37:49
i always kind of laugh at his facial
37:50
expression when
37:52
all the rice is being thrown
37:55
kind of kind of a funny funny look on
37:57
his face
37:58
as it goes out this is all during the
38:01
opening narration
38:02
yeah the building's gone
38:04
over off of west 7th street now
38:08
the address being 1738
38:11
west 7th
38:13
palmer's grocery
38:15
don wells
38:17
probably recognize her from gilligan's
38:19
island she was also in town that dreaded
38:21
sundown
38:24
palmer's
38:25
became lanier's corner
38:28
before it closed down but you can still
38:30
see up here where it says
38:33
lanier's
38:39
but on the awning
38:39
it says palmer's
38:41
and one of the associates is walking the
38:42
groceries out to her car
38:45
has the address right on the side
38:47
1738 the lanier's corner it all pretty
38:50
much kind of looks the same
38:52
in fact even this
38:54
this little window here
38:56
still there where
38:59
show that they had bacon on sale
39:01
and bread
39:02
and hoop cheese
39:04
she would have been parked right over in
39:06
here
39:07
there is a bicycle tire
39:10
and the phantom pulls up
39:12
in his vehicle
39:14
right along
39:16
that area
39:18
and on the side
39:20
looks like this little
39:22
like a meter of some sort
39:25
still there you can kind of
39:28
kind of see how that looks
39:43
and this metal door here
39:43
when she pulls off drives off
39:45
can be seen
39:47
for a brief moment
39:48
camera would have been back
39:51
similar to this
39:54
walking backwards
40:00
yeah pretty neat that it's still
40:00
standing
40:02
trying to get the angle here
40:15
there she is kind of looking over
40:15
at the phantom against the brick wall
40:55
made it back downtown to main street 216
40:55
main street to be precise
40:58
to the theater that was not the fake
41:00
facade of the paramount theater which i
41:01
showed earlier
41:03
but another one that says paramount
41:05
theater
41:06
which was used for the world premiere
41:09
that they show at the very end with the
41:11
narration showing the very end of the
41:12
narration
41:14
where the crowd is lined up and then
41:16
they allude to that the phantom might be
41:18
in line to watch his own movie
41:21
which is pretty interesting and one
41:23
thing you really have to notice is the
41:24
checkerboarded floor
41:26
which you can see through the window
41:28
and then showing it in the screen grab
41:30
has the checkerboarded floor
41:34
tried to locate also the train tracks
41:36
from the closing
41:38
sequence
41:44
engine number 201
41:44
this was filmed in scott arkansas a few
41:46
hours from here i would have drove up
41:49
however these tracks have been removed
41:52
from the premises they are no longer
41:55
did a little bit of research on
41:57
where it is located so this now
42:00
can be found this locomotive here
42:03
which can be seen these were taken in
42:05
scott the train
42:07
has been removed but number 201
42:10
if you're ever near eureka springs it's
42:12
located at a train museum there
42:15
the train
42:16
from town that shredded sundown number
42:19
201
42:20
is there
42:21
in eureka springs maybe one of these
42:23
days
42:24
i'll go take a peek at it but it's there
42:26
i have located the town that dreaded
42:29
sundown train
42:31
and it's a few hours from here
42:34
out kind of out of the way but pretty
42:35
pretty dang cool it still exists also
42:37
during the recording of that and the
42:38
filming of that notice
42:40
there's a little continuity here a
42:41
little mistake there with the cameraman
42:43
up top
42:44
and could not find a few spots i could
42:46
not find
42:48
these homes that were just kind of used
42:49
for a brief kind of narration montage
42:53
you know this kind of area here this
42:54
could be in town consider this a
42:56
homework assignment for anyone who's
42:58
feeling
42:59
inspired as well as this road i thought
43:01
this was going to be over near where
43:02
spark plug hit the brakes
43:04
thinking maybe there's a train track
43:06
over there but could not locate i mean
43:08
this has been
43:10
40 plus years 45
43:12
years
43:13
so a lot of these buildings
43:16
have have been torn down
43:18
but
43:19
found quite a bit also this home here
43:22
where dawn wells
43:23
is kind of being chased there was even
43:26
an address up on the side but after
43:28
searching all the addresses anywhere in
43:30
town even garland city
43:32
where i am hearing they also did
43:35
a couple could not find just trying to
43:37
show everything i found but then also
43:39
the ones that really kind of kind of
43:41
threw me for a loop could not find this
43:42
supposedly this is on a ranch somewhere
43:45
in garland city you know on the
43:46
outsource way outskirts
43:49
of town
43:51
and there's the ranch name
43:53
says bar ranch
43:55
couldn't find it though
43:58
and i couldn't get inside here but i did
44:00
discover a lot and i feel like i gave a
44:02
pretty good detailed version
44:04
of the spots from town
44:06
that dreaded sundown
44:09
the classic
44:11
horror film classic if you haven't seen
44:13
it check it out
44:15
and that's gonna do it for today
44:17
i'll see the next video the vlog
44:25
keep waiting for spark plug to run out
44:26
of there or maybe jd morales
44:29
the vlog
44:33
is over
44:33
oh one last thing
44:34
i never realized when you're watching
44:36
the film
44:37
that you can drive underneath here
44:39
there's a
44:40
it's kind of it goes let me go up here
44:42
and show
44:47
i also did
44:47
talk to an associate over
44:50
i was working outside
44:52
there was any chance of getting in here
44:54
and it just wasn't happening but i did
44:56
ask around i never realized this was
44:57
down here
44:58
there's one scene during the film where
45:00
you can see a ladder
45:02
kind of right up there
45:03
i never realized how large that ladder
45:05
must have been to go from there
45:08
all the way up to there
45:30
still looking for the
45:30
phantom after all these years