Forgotten Relics In Georgia - Day ONE of Backroad Cross Country Trip / 8 States In 8 Days Challenge
Day one of current road trip across the US Begins with Georgia. My goal is to document one state each and every day for 8 in a row . All backroads , no interstates or popular tourist attractions . Making this all about the journey and the forgotten avenues .
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here I
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have departed Florida making my way back
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to California not by airplane as
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originally planned but the last second
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change things up a bit and rented a car
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there are eight states between point A
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and point B the final destination and
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the beginning point and I figured why
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not document that over the next series
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of eight days one state each and every
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day a conglomeration of backroad
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goodness mom-and-pop shops no major
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attractions no theme parks no freeways
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no interstates ah just the peacefulness
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of the good old US of A I'm inviting you
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to join me shall you just to give a
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general perspective I have purchased
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this road atlas and I will show the area
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that I will be encompassing will not be
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hitting every nook and cranny of the
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entire region but as you can see I
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entered right down through here and I
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just kind of meander through the area
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you see on screen and eventually by
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tomorrow enter into Alabama right over
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here it has been a while since I immerse
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myself in towns that the city halls were
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this size I'm really looking forward to
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this journey places where downtown
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consists of really only a couple
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buildings it's always nice
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this lighthouse sits in the front yard
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of a fellowship center the woods seen
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better day starting to decompose a
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little it's still pretty cool looking a
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little door at the bottom you could
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crawl under maybe a ladder that takes
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you to the tippy top of it over on the
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side of the property is basketball hoop
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covered in the kudzu I don't want to get
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too close to that probably get attacked
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by insects
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obviously as we go along we're gonna get
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some different landscapes and terrain
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through here lots and lots of pine trees
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think we've discovered where some
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carnival equipment is kept when it's not
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in use there's a ride called the Cobra
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right there between those two trees
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behind that fence line please keep in
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mind your personal safety is your
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responsibility and your liability
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proceed at your own risk I think I will
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the gates open and this place looks
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pretty fantastic it states no dogs no
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children beyond this point retro gas
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station sitting here off the side of the
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street never know what you're gonna find
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under the carport take a look at that
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Ford just chilling here I've always had
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a thing for old signage I like when
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people display it and put it out on
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their property for all to see little
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remnants of the past sometimes you get a
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good saying on these church boards
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usually clever but occasionally too
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straightforward like this one Georgia
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architecture I think I've ever seen a
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VFW that look quite like this one before
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a bunch of VW bugs on this premise us
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just sitting here and out in the
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elements
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I've heard of Family Dollar and Dollar
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General the thing I've ever shopped at a
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super dollar before bag dice is pretty
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common these days however dear corn
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siphoning out yourself and do a bag
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that's let me see too often that's what
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that contraption is they're on the far
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right instead of go into a feed store
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and buying it prepackaged just choose
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how much you want put it in the bag back
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when I was a kid I had a toy that
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resembled this u-haul you don't see him
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by this design anymore of course this is
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full-size mine was a lot smaller
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slightly different transition than the
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tree line I was looking at earlier
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a lot of green on these
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Oh Laurie here on the main drag
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equipment there is Americana everywhere
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you look
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needed a little fuel self pumping
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mechanism in action
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can't think of a more appropriate place
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to do so because I got gas and now I'm
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gonna continue going more trees these
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are good for segways
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but you know I'm moving another
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perspective would be front view gotta
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say traffic's pretty light out here not
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too shabby
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smooth sailin
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this former store sits at the cross
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streets one of the name coffee road
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caught my attention so I'm gonna veer
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off here as a dog barking on the
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property behind me
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how are you wondering what I'm doing
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okay he's not working up there yes pay
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no attention to me dog
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I mean no harm
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passing through Barwick generally no
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matter how small the community is
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there's always a water tower nine times
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out of ten the name is plastered right
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up on the side the main drag
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first building there on the right is the
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bank just next to it is the post office
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very peaceful to be honest it's probably
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a pretty secure place to keep your money
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there's no windows just the one door
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that's it it's locked - no other way to
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get it
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the pecan shop has closed up a little
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mural on the wall still remains
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the cow was started to fade here in
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Coolidge painting on the side of that
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wall
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looks like he's been there for quite
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some time dang there's a relic was the
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last time you took a gander at a
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satellite dish it's a little dirty I
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don't know if it's been used anytime in
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recent days mmm now that's a tasty
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thoroughfare very tasty if I'm
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pronouncing it correctly its arch lockni
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right arch lockni wow look at this IgA
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George's IgA
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remember how earlier I was saying that
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in most instances you can tell the name
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of the town because it's written on the
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side of the water tower this in this
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case it's not plausible because the
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water towers top is gone
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quite a few worldwide destinations on
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this poll the mileage rift next to the
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names must have been one heck of a bolt
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of lightning or an oversized very strong
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lumberjack hack that thing right in half
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split right down the middle
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former bar some sort it's a nice little
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painting on the side a tractor barn
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bridge and a few trees
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this mansion sitting all alone
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unfinished or once was finished and now
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it's decomposed quite a bit and
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refurbishments have stopped a lot of
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bugs out here too flying all around
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kind of creepy out here say at least
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that birds nice very very unstructured
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sound a couple of the pillars have
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already fallen you can see there's more
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than one no trespassing sign for the
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safety of those you stopped off to take
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a gander the front porches completely
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caved in just in the distance there past
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the tracks as the Leary train depot and
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this monument closest to me best I could
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tell has been in this spot since 1906 I
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enunciate that as a question because
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hello Philip Edward Boyd's name that is
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the date stamp so one could assume would
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have a hard time holding up the weight
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of a locomotive however you see how it's
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broken up there it's not even attached
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the tracks I'm referring to I do believe
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that's a cotton field
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very sporadic if you look closely you
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can see the cotton hoe here's a much
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bigger batch oh yeah that's cotton
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here's a closer view of what it looks
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like on the plant that's cotton that's
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what you lay your head on at night and
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wear and a lot of your clothing right
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there
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here in Edison to honor what was there
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theater they have placed some posters
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possibly some of the films that once
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were shown inside its doors Gone with
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the Wind
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Love Me Tender High Noon among others
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and then tucked away over here the fire
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truck from a bygone era and the jail
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dating back to 1904
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the Bell still works very well had a
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nice ring to it looks as if two of the
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side and back doors to the theatre are
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wide open it's completely accessible you
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just walk right up would imagine this
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screen was right there entry point in
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that direction still have the steel
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beams there for structural support love
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the fact that portions of the tile still
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on the ground and these doors that's
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some serious history right there no
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entry without a ticket let's go to the
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booth first before heading out at one
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point they had a chain
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I'm not really doing much good now
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however this is the kind of stuff I
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really MN say that makes me happy when
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you just stumble on items like this not
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really using the internet too much on
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this journey this Trek there's just kind
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of whatever I see with my own eyes
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while going down to different streets
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and routes no rhyme or reason which
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whatever pops up and strikes my interest
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I pull over sometimes it works out like
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this I guess I should rephrase that I am
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using the internet obviously to upload
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these videos but not how I normally do
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to research or to see what's in a
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certain area I'm just kind of winging it
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here in Coleman all the machinery
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underneath the tower still here look how
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big that wheel is it's like taller than
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me it really is about three feet taller
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there is a ladder that stretches all the
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way to the top
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I would love to climb all the way up
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there however you know what the penalty
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is for doing that here in Georgia the
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penalty is me having a heart attack a
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rather unusual conglomeration of
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electrical boxes that are live they are
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working it's like a graveyard in reality
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they're all functioning electrical boxes
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all cluster together I just get in a
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little video of the gas pumps and stuff
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was it like a mechanic shop to you I was
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taking some mufflers and oil filters
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here
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I was just inside here the owner saw me
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standing out front invited me in to look
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around not too much in there just some
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old parts but they did say that later on
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today or tomorrow someone's coming by to
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purchase these pumps some antiques so
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these will not be here in the future
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in the Invents trading post
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it's not open
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one point it was a little shop here but
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not anymore
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there's a washtub in the yard a
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full-size tub I don't want to get any
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closer to the mess it does state the no
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trespassing there you see the antlers on
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a tabletop next to the porch swing
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couple pair oh I think there's a gun on
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that chair as well
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I like this especially the overhang kind
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of gives me a route 66 5 not anywhere
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near route 66 but it kind of gives me
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that vibe and a lot of wise Georgetown
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Georgia this will also be the last
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community of the day stone's throw from
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here is the state line I were to back up
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just a handful of feet I would be in
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Alabama I'm still technically in Georgia
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barely how long the threshold
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I have to resume this bright and early
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in the morning tomorrow is another day
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and another state looking at the nooks
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and crannies today was fun
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it's been a while since I've done this
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just roam the back streets
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one day down seven to go one state down
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seven states to go that's gonna do it
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