Hidden Small Towns In Central Florida - Yard Art Overload & Grave Of Walt Disney’s Grandparents
Small Central Florida Towns
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Saturday May 11th
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2024 it is very bright the sun is right
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there good thing I got my shades on I
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have made a 59 or 60 M commute away from
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my Homestead of Celebration Florida into
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areas that are
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non-touristy starting off in Umatilla
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Florida a place that I have gone on the
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outskirts of but never been to the
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downtown here before this is going to be
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my starting point and then I'm going to
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go into areas and small communities that
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I have never been in ever getting harder
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and harder to find little areas away
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from the tourism the hustle and bustle
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and population that Florida you know
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it's growing in a lot of areas but there
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are some sections where they that has
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not been in Gulf Jet and that's what I'm
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going to feature today real Florida I'm
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inviting you to join me
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good to have you here shall you I'm
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hoping to hit quite a few of these
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little places up Nature's Hometown got a
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classic Ford truck right there at this
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tire
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shop how cute is this little downtown
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right right look at
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a little Bank over there got a barber
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shop flag waving in the
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breeze got the pillars this is the
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corner of Orange Lane and this mural is
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very fascinating this dog right here is
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going after this warthog pig but the pig
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he's got the upper hand I think the dog
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is scared of the pig got a turkey over
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here a
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deer right there in the foliage this
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said something but it's kind of a Wheel
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of Fortune moment try to figure out what
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that says that Sunburst and an eagle up
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top got a little Eagle right here
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nesting on a
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branch now Cassidy at State Road 19 so
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State Road 19 goes this way this is
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Cassidy this is going to be probably the
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busiest thare hopefully the busiest
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thare that I see today the State Road 19
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so I'm going to venture off some of
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other little
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areas yeah you got a deer right there
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kind of looking directly at me got a
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fisherman up here in his boat this pull
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down
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door this kind of has like a New Orleans
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kind of feel to it the uh building
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across the way there first I thought
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this said fish and chips but it says
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fish and chicks also look at the
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vultures swooping around up top there
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fish and chips but it's called fish and
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chicks kind of reminds me of the
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place Fast Times at Ridgemont High got
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some airboats over here at this Napa
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there's a classic truck alert think I'm
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going to get some coffee here at the um
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Tilla Super Rat yeah a Umatilla super R
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here's a little classic car the one that
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was over
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here just
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left also they are very nice at the
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convenience store he's making a fresh
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pot of coffee for me they're having an
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eagle scout Car Wash $10 this cute
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little building over here number 211 is
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the address 2 211 Central
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pretty cute little downtown I don't
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think i' far as I can recall I've never
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been downtown um matilla before this
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does not look familiar to me and I have
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to say this is accurate fast friendly
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service of the
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superet a gentleman working behind the
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counter very very nice making a
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completely new fresh cup of cof fresh
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pot of coffee for me got my cup all
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prepared coffee
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being festooned into the pock at the
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coffee house fresh coffee from a small
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town all right piping hot accomplished I
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talked to the guy that had the Airboat
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outside he also came in the convenience
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store the name of his airboat Club is
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the white trash airboat Club he had the
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shirt on and everything true story like
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the mascot for this laundry mat it's a
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bear wearing a cross there for a
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necklace it's always open laundry mat is
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always open is it over here tucked away
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little small town laundry mat pretty
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dang
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cute got the Pepsi machine change
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machine the Pepsi machine has a mural a
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little mural in the front with a
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waterfall some
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leaves got the snacks
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here right on the side of the road
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well the front portion of where the L
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mat is is the twisty Express a little
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wooden ice cream cone there love the old
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70 style plastic signage that you see
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matilla it was Miss Bessie's quilt shop
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I just walk
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like the old glass blocks in the front
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making up the windows
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there evidently big
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nasty ared his name
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sidewalk says us say down in
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there and you got the city hall across
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the way very unique looking building
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also the gateway to the forest it says
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there that's their slogan um matilla has
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a chamber of commerce it's this little
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building right here that's the Chamber
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of Commerce right next to City Hall just
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a little building
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there was a little plaque right here
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check it
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out dedicated in
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1953 back when JS Allen Jr was the
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president of the Umatilla Chamber of
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Commerce to be honest I don't know if
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I've ever seen a fountain quite like
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this it has
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the little
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propulsion putting the water up into the
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main section
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there seen plenty of fountains but I
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don't ever recall seeing any that have
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like a sprinkler system pipe that puts
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the main bulk of the water there in the
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top portion of that
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bowl or they're just other fountains
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they might be disguised with theming
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where these are just PVC pipes
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few miles down is Altuna corner of State
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Road 19 and Lake King
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Road they also have painted the road
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here that way people know not to turn or
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Park here so evidently this used to be
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gas pumps this is now the Allen's well
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drilling spot you can see here where the
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gas pumps used to be at least I'm
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guessing that you got this old western
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style storefront which is pretty cool
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looking Hartman's garage look at this
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old
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building got the bars on the
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door couple little businesses here right
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along this little small thare see the
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old sign now instead of a sign there
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it's Moss
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dangling I think everyone knows when
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you're looking for a good
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time go to the Sunset
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Strip This is it I made
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road into the woods what could go wrong
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it's like how horror films
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began Sunset Strip here in Florida a
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little different than
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La don't really know what would happen
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if I went down there
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but it is in
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down the ways a bit is Aster Park and
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then just past that is aster take a look
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at this place the
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dogghouse got the beer sign on the end
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there says bikers wanted the dog housee
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believe this is
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Barberville and there is quite the Yard
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Art Emporium across the street here it's
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called Barberville Yard Art
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Emporium I guess that would clarify the
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name of the
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town looks
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massive they're not kidding this place
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has a lot of yard art there is a
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giraffe's head coming out the top of
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that building right there all top of
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that truck there's a big
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boy it's the blue silver
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Auto always love a good big
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boy wonder if that's for
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sale I would imagine everything's for
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sale let's see a tag on that though
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man it'd be cool to own a Bob's Big Boy
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or fish's Big Boy give me a fist
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poop I think a Bob's Big Boy cuz you
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know the one at Burbank bunch of lamp
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post back in there he a big
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chicken oh look up here that Iron Man
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up in a
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tree look at
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that Barefoot not
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allowed make sure you have shoes or
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sandals on no bare feet
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allowed look at that man there's just
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like a ton of stuff back in there
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there's another there's another big boy
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very very
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expansive I seem to recall many years
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ago I'm not on the same route I'm on
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now I just bumped into this started
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shaking this is like a metal
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Flamingo but I seem to recall passing by
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not doing the whole circle around the
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lake like I am today but I believe I
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went by the front of this place once
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many years ago and it was closed i'
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never been inside walking around and
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seeing all this could be thinking of
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another yard art place
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though big turtle right down
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here you got some tables you get a gator
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little yard Gator
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$145 it's the back side of a
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pig
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ooh
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Bigfoot $1,600 for this
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mariachi
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band made out of
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metal this place is great it's got a lot
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of
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stuff that big old swing right
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there a lot of woodworking as
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well wooden bar big old Gator down
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here $800 for that you can sit in a
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horse
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hiney was regular l that what happen
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yeah long necked alien there if I fall I
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get a few days
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off little Mister right here misting
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down ground gets a little slippy
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slippery there Jesus and an eagle oh
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take a look at this you got the big
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dinosaur right there but look up top you
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got Godzilla climbing the top of that
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Tower
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right there there like oil rig well
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actually this might
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be that's not an oil
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rig the tower
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is the barber bille Barberville Florida
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Post Office ZIP code
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32105 no loitering or skateboarding or
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bicycle riding or roller
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skating entering Pearson now the fern
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capital of the world that states got the
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water tower straight ahead and old
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service station sitting there not in use
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anymore some cars parked next to it but
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it's no longer a service
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station town of Pearson
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Watertown this is the Pearson Town
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Center pretty
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nice station 44 here in town Pearson
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Florida
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quaint little Community connorville is
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the name of this
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area pretty good siiz building obviously
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used to have some gas pumps out front as
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well you can see where the slab was
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there and the two poles and the little
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remnants of where the gas pumps used to
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sit etched in the ground a pretty good
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size building a little twostory building
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Connorsville there's not a whole lot
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here in Connorsville but there is
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this no sign of Rosanne into ceville now
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this gas station or whatever this was
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convenience store closed down here the
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post
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and there is an active Circle K across
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the street have some people at it but
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the other Corners are kind of
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desolate no matter how small a town is
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it will usually have a fire station of
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some
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sort and a post
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office most of them
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do and it's a little satellite dish
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which I don't think that satellite dish
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works anymore I don't think it's plugged
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in looks like the freezers and the
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coolers are still back in
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there peeking in the window
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there all right needed to fuel up here
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now in a town called
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Paisley Paisley Discount Beverages gas
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349 a
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gallon fueling up here at this
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little tiny gas station and since I'm
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swinging through this town this is
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paisley been many many years since I
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stopped off
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here you got a little Wishing Well of
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sorts this is about an hour from Walt
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Disney World and there's some Walt
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Disney history here some very
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interesting Walt Disney
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history here in
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Paisley little overgrown out here a lot
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of ant beds
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and I figured since I was passing
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through this area I should show this
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again it's been many many many years
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since I just hopped off
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here again if you are going to the parks
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and you want some Disney history some
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deep Disney history of the family
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lineage this is the place to do
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it take an hour
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one way out of your day hour hour and 15
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minutes hour and 15 minutes back Charles
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and Henry at a call were the
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grandparents of Walt Disney Colin Disney
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family moved to Florida in 1884 from
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Kansas family settled on land a mile
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north of
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Paisley Charles and henrietta's
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granddaughter Flora married Elias Disney
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in 1888 and later moved to Chicago where
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Walt was born in 1900 as a child an
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adult Walt was a frequent visitor of
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Paisley with his aunt Jesse all
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Perkins pretty cool right pretty
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fascinating how just how existence
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is cuz if they wouldn't have met they
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wouldn't have had a
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child who would have met someone
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else and if that other person their
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parents hadn't met and had
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them then they would have would not have
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connected gotten married had Walt Walt
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wouldn't exist
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or would would Walt have existed through
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different parents in another way and he
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wouldn't have been Walt it's also very
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confusing but also very interesting if
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you think about it too
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much go a little
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wacky Walt's grandparents right here on
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his mom's
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side again a little overgrown through
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here
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made it back over to Celebration now
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much needed day just kind of venturing
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around checking out some small
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towns returning back home thanks for
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watching I'll see you in the next video
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the
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