Cypress Knee Museum - ABANDONED - Roadside Attraction
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welcome everyone today I'm going to
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visit the former Roadside Attraction
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brainchild of this man Tom
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Gaskins the Cypress knee Museum join me
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shall
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you I think your tripod's bigger than
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mine I got it fully extended as yours
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extended mine's never fully
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extended are you
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excited yeah I'm overwhelmed to be
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honest with
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you
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some old remnants there of course a lot
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of the letters have fallen off you can
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still kind of read what it says though
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and also that's me right
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this building has collapsed and all you
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see is the top of the
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roof rusted metal
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Cole even when there's death and Decay
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there's always life look at these
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flowers you can see where the big bolty
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metal door was here's the
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frame you can see people have graffitied
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out here no graffiti here in the foliage
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though it's very difficult to Graffiti a
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leaf right inside these glass cases is
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where all the Cypress knees would have
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been on display right along in here kind
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of stick the camera through
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glass
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electricity in the sand I don't know
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what I just touched but I got some kind
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of gooey stuff off this glass that's
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disgusting what is that look at that
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yuck ew what is
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that
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I love this this old school architecture
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and these breathable walls breathable
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walls breathable walls you can breathe
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through them from both sides even though
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the graffiti is pointing down and
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dripping downward on the wall the
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original artwork Still Remains
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especially that little turtle little
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turtle holding strong holding strong I
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forgot to mention we have Ross here
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today from camera sober on YouTube what
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are you doing here today Ross actually
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I'm following you around doing kind of
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behind the scenes you're going to do a
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little behind the scenes behind you it's
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only going to be behind the scenes right
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yeah totally behind the scenes all so
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we're going to have Ross here today from
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cameras sober doing some behind the
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scenes CH that thing behind the scenes
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with Ross from camera
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sober see the cracks in the floor after
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all these years the foundation is
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breaking apart now raining outside
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raining be Ross and I are in here it's
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actually raining outside inside of the
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outside of the facility we're inside of
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oh excuse me I'm just introducing you to
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people oh he's filming too well remember
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we're doing that behind the scenes
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thing it's supposed to be behind the
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scenes not in the
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scenes oh is that on I'm holding it is
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yours on well yeah I'm doing that behind
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the scenes
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thing
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look at Ross down there he's here to do
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some behind the scenes of me but really
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I'm doing behind the scenes of him look
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I was just uh is that on no it's not on
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it's not on good I really like these old
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metal rot iron
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railings someone has kicked into that
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one and bent it over with their foot you
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can see where some of the unbent ones
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still
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are rusted and
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decayed
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a
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t
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w where'd you go Adam I'm right here I'm
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standing right in front of you some one
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put their initials like all
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terrain I don't know what that what that
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means obviously that's me Adam the woo
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can't you see it right there atw oh it's
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an old
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stump is that poison ivy I wouldn't know
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want to touch it and find out I'm not
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going to find out rub your face on there
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should I rub your face on there and
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let's find out you you can do a vlog in
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a couple days no don't rub your face on
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there I'm kidding well look at
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this any idea what this is
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some sort of display rack of
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sorts it's not obviously the largest one
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in the world but it is the largest
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transplanted Cyprus Tree in the world
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this one right here so this actual tree
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we're looking at as of a fact is the
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largest transported transplanted
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transplanted cypess tree cypress tree in
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the world this was the focal point of
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the whole museum was this tree right
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here a little bit of History right here
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for us
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folks this place was created and run by
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Tom Gaskin he died in 1998 and his son
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tried taking over the business
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unfortunately between the
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time you're
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listener between the time that he died
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and the sun took over it became illegal
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to harvest those Cypress knees so of
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course you know what happens then what
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happens well thieves get anxious they
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think they can get Cypress knees and
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make a lot of they get a little an an
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they get a little Angy that's what I was
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trying to
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say they get a little antsy for cypres
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I'm glad you're here
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lots of cobwebs out here obviously there
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was some sort of pond or lake or water
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Ravine there area decorative right in
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front of the tree you can see some of
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the decorative rocks that are still left
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there careening down beautifully into
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where the water sat this place is
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inhabited by
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wasps what do you suppose this nozzle
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was used for nozzle got to slide over
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this Dukes a hazard Style just a good
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old boys never meaning no harm that's
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some sort of shelf or something that was
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in here in the ticket booth look at
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these old school Windows that's awesome
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oh look yes yes turning the
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knob that's so cool open air into the
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rain and the rock wall that's pretty
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fantastic let's close this window up
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there's kind of a draft in here this is
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a map of the entire property Cypress
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knee Museum you see how it expansive and
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massive it
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was awesome it's raining out here now
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but we're going to Brave the weather and
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the
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toilet oh that's
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cool this looks like the kitchen area
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perhaps he used to actually live here
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right next to the museum he actually
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probably res ided on
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property look at these awesome cabinet
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covers and what's through here
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whoa look at that look look that could
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have actually been Tom gin's chair how's
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that make you feel I'm just glad you
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narrated that cuz I didn't know what to
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say since this is behind the scenes with
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Adam W when Cypress knees aren't
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exciting enough you got to sit around
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and watch little television I wonder if
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he watch television about Cypress knees
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he's pretty decayed let me tell you
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something about Cypress
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knes power bird's nest bird's
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nest that's an old school toilet seat
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they don't really make wooden toilet
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seats like that too much
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anymore I don't know what's down in
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there that's not
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pleasant wow look at this entrance
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window that's pretty cool check out this
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old picture of the child in the entrance
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window as well as this family see the
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window over to the
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right that's actually really
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awesome
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oh through the rain it's raining harder
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now woo old trailer over there look at
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that old trailer we got to get out of
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the rain got to get out of the rain
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before the cameras get destroyed you
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look closely out of the rain gutters
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there's actually growth the rain is
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coming down right now helping spawn New
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Life
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awesome thanks for watching everyone
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