Unusual Roadside Stops In Chicago Suburbs- Worlds Largest Laundromat / Zombie Dad & Laughing Lincoln
Chicago Suburbs April 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this thursday april 14 2022
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piping hot caffeinated beverage a very
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windy i know where it gets its name
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chicago illinois outskirts
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take a look at this
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a
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rather large
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radio flyer
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wagon
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right here a red wagon
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of ginormous proportions
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pretty cool i have no real rhyme or
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reason what the game plan is today i'm
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just going to get in my rental car and
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drive around the greater outskirts
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of the greater chicago area outskirts
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join me
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that thing
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is big and as the gate closes
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they also have this item oh it is gusty
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and just across the way there
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it's kind of an old-timey-looking fire
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station
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it's pretty good you can see the wind
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blowing not only the u.s flag but also
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the chicago city flag this is located in
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elmwood
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park
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brisk
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cool
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crisp
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and brisk there's a frog right there
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with a fire hose
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you can see even though it is on the
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outskirts a suburb does say
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still technically
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the city of chicago
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engine one two five
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love these old buildings
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drove about 20 minutes give or take over
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to forest park
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to a very interesting
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stoop
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stairwell
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this residential neighborhood the
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interesting thing about this is there's
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street parking everywhere
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however right here
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there are meters
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and the one and only
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zombie dad
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is sitting up here on the porch created
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in 2017
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as and has become quite a staple
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of this neighborhood
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so if you're going to visit
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feed the meter
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on this block
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and from what i was reading online
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pictures are
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accepted from
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from the sculpture
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up top isn't this interesting
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there are meters here in this
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neighborhood
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charity
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s
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white
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created this
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zombie dad is secured with a lock and
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chain
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do not want
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him to escape
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this was modeled after her father
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very difficult kind of
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filming and then going back down the
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stairs
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and he is still living
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or at least was when the article was
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written
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he's just overlooking the neighborhood
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what would be his view
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night and day
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just like this
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pretty neat
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the neighborhood embraces it
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put things out things that are out there
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this is not like a halloween decor or
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anything either
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it's a sculpture
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of a real man
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up on the porch
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we have the appropriate facial covering
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on too
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made it now over to the downtown stretch
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in berwin
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if i'm pronouncing that correctly
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the old olympic theater
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this is almost a wheel of fortune moment
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where you have to guess
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what is written on the marquee
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and the olympic theater is for sale well
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for rent
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i should say
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the old neon marquee and signage over
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there as well
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and there's something a block away i
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wanted to point out but i saw this too
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which is pretty fascinating something
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else is really interesting
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so here's the marquee saying olympic
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the next building over
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i can read it from here says the
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majestic building
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the jim carrey film the majestic where
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he ends up rejuvenating an old theater
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that's what these always remind me of
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the wind is almost blowing me over like
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like i'm teetering and the wind just
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kind of shifted
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my body it is gusty
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all locked up
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i do love this though
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the lights underneath the bottom of the
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marquee
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of years and days gone by
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simpler times
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like the city has posted something that
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this building is no longer structurally
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sound
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however
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it is for rent
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which is kind of confusing ooh brisk
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oh
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it's not even that cool it's not even
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that cold out it's just the wind chill
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factor
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that's next level
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yeah check it out
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the mud majestic
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building
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and one block down past that
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is what they state to be the world's
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largest that's right the world's largest
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laundromat i'm gonna walk over there
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there it is
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with drop-off service
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300 machines
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the world's largest
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laundromat
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also states
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they never
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close yes they're open
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see the globe right there
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world history see the globe right there
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got some neon there on the side of the
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window too
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says best
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drop off service
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open 24 hours
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look at this open 24 hours it never
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closes look at this neon here of the
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laundry machine
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and this says
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non-stop around the clock
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yep
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non-stop
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around the clock and a neon
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it's kind of hard to see it but it says
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world's
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largest
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and then laundromat
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nice and as you can see in my reflection
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i have my hand cupped over the
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microphone because of the windchill
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i have my my hoodie on and yes i'm
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wearing shorts
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i probably should have thrown some pants
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on nonetheless
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best drop-off service they have free
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wi-fi
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and 300 machines
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honestly though it's not too bad unless
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the wind get the gust to win right now
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the wind's not blowing and it's flying i
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think it's like 45 45 degrees yep i just
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checked
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i just checked the weather on my phone
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45 degrees not too bad right now but
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when that wind gust comes through here
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that's a whole different story
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back in my rental car now noticing the
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castle community center
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which is pretty neat looking
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it looks like a castle
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can't tell if they still use it at this
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time
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oh yeah it's nice to have a little
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little warmth in the car
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covering some miles today too just kind
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of looping around to some certain areas
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but this is pretty cool drove a pretty
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good ways
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over to the town of naperville now
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probably a half hour so
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there's a mural over here on the side of
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the
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community
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concert center
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here's a look up just a
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tad bit closer to this
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this might be temporary
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in fact
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this might be an outdoor auditorium
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the only reason i'm saying that is
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because take a look
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here
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there is a little crack between here
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where this probably
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goes up
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here's a little placard that states some
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of the facts the elmer corner
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band shell constructed in 1966
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municipal building dedicated on june
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30th of that year
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and the
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municipal band
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shows a little bit of the history here
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so here's the band shell back to up
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until 1925
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and then there's the band shell a little
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bit later this is the evolution
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of the band shell
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there was this one
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and this is the current one
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so that mural is
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removable
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who to guess an incredible looking
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church building over there
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and not to take away from that
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architecture
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but i'm gonna say hello to the laughing
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lincoln
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i'm in his land of the illinois slogan
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the land of lincoln
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lincoln is chuckling it up
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right there with a nice smile
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a belly full laugh
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a knee slapper a little bit of a knee
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slapper there abe you being honest
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you're laughing it up
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got his hand here
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a document
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the laughing lincoln was placed here on
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december 2nd
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of 2018
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abraham lincoln was 30 years old in 1839
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storytelling and humor defined lincoln's
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reputation as he grew from chopping wood
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story keeping
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to leading a divided nation
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trying to find some info on why he's
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chuckling it up in such a laughing
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fashion
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however the paperwork under his hand
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is the county board deed to three-point
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acres 3.82 acres to naperville
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to quote
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be used as for a public park
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document under lincoln's hand represents
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the legal transfer of the property
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i sound like more like santa claus
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but i was trying to impersonate
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abraham
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you really see abe
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abe laughing too much he usually was
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pretty serious in all the
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interpretations of of himself
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abraham laughing here
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got the hand up the knee slapper
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i sound like jolly old saint nick abe
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that's something to laugh about my
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interpretation of you not the best
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got the hand slapping the knee
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got the foot down here
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kicking the
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the floor
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having a good time
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lincoln there
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lana's tape that's pretty cool
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that put me in a good mood
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just seeing this
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okay moving on something else i didn't
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realize till recently also this is
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chicago ave
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here in this town in the suburb
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see the sign right there
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but the reason i see the wind blowing
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a couple it's a dual reason on why it's
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called the windy city obviously it's
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very windy
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but some give it that name
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because of those in authority making
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promises they couldn't keep and blowing
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hot air out their mouth a very windy
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promises so the windy city
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pretty interesting i did not realize
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that until recently
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a bunch of people have been telling me
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that so it kind of makes sense for two
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two reasons walking along the river walk
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now there is a covered bridge walkway
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of sorts
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water street is what this is known as
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and a
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decent sized sculpture
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of dick tracy look at this
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detective dick tracy
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from the comic books
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and of course also the touchstone fell
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as well
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wow
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that's pretty neat
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that is big too this was placed here
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back in 2010.
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tracy was the brainchild of chester
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gould passed away in 85
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syndicated by the chicago tribune to
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this day
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roared off of gold's drawing boards for
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46 years
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to achieve the status
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of one of the most recognizable icons
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crimed making crime stoppers
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a household name
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long time
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naperville resident
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dick loacher became illustrator of the
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tracy strip in 83 and habitually became
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author as well
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so that is why this is located here
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in the naperville
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township
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i love it
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so my head
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goes right up to about the middle of the
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sculpture's torso
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don't see too many
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dick tracy sculptures like this
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someone behind me walking their dog the
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dog is panting
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and look another one this is a couple
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blocks away from
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where i just was
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it's the cat in the hatch strutting its
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stuff
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with an umbrella here a susan
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umbrella you can always tell dr seuss
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style
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got the bow tie there
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got the hand up in the air
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and i like how there's always this
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information here
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this was placed here back in 2007.
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theodore seuss geisel
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seuss was his middle name interesting i
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didn't realize that
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it is appropriate
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that this eight foot tall sculpture of
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dr seuss first book character
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be located here at the nichols library
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why is it appropriate oh okay it's
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appropriate that it's in front of a
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library because it was a book
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and it celebrated its 50th anniversary
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of the first publications that's when
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all
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of these
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were created
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and placed in different areas so that's
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the correlation the fact that it's a
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library and it was in a book
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other than that i don't believe there's
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any
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any correlation there's the
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hat shadow
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to this area i could be wrong now and
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yet one more block away
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is what is affectionately referred to
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as darth
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naper
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naperville
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there is a correlation there
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and the reason
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it has been given this nickname because
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it's very similar
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to darth vader with that
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hand outreach like that
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no
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i
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am your father
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the father of this town in fact the
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naper homestead
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the naper homestead across the street
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joseph naper and his wife almeida
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i am your father
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i am here
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there was a oh wow there were a few
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houses
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very wealthy one of which stood
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right here i'm looking at this compass
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this is the foundation of one
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of those homes
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this is the fount this is the old
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foundation right here
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i'll never join you
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that's not true
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that's impossible
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and together
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we can
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wonder if darth vader ever said shall
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you you know off camera
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what's going on over here
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what are you doing over here goose her
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duck
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this bird
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okay that ended well because
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they have been known to charge one could
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really have quite a bbq
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on that grill right there that girl
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stands
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taller than the roof line of this
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restaurant
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looking at the bench that's beside it
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you put a lot of lot of burgers
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steaks on that bad boy
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almost looks like an apple sounds like
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an apple passing by this place with the
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mural of a tiger
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and an elephant
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and not just me oh there's a monkey up
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there
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but also some giraffes out front that
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are not paintings
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and a couple elephants
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back to the paintings of zebra
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oh a snow pusher
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thankfully it's not snowing and with the
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wind blowing like it is
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i don't know if i've ever seen a
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drive-through tobacco stand before
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it's the
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in the drive-through lane to get
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maybe a carton or a pack
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yeah i don't know if i've ever seen a
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drive-through tobacco stand
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nike park
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is the name of this
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and the old c72 tower
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still back here and antennas
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behind them
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i couldn't find any confirmation that
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anything was launched from here
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back in the day
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however you can see it's up on a hill
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you can
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definitely not really a bird's eye
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perspective
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but a
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kind of up high perspective
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from this little berm
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they blocked it off
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where you cannot climb up the ladder
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anymore
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to get to the top they place us metal
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and wood around it
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so no climbing up to the top of this
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there's one of these in la i hiked up to
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as well it was way up on the top of the
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mountain
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this one not as elevated
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but it is here down the first base line
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of this field
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over in foul ball territory
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good place to watch
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watch the game though up there
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i'm also noticing this building here
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the wind
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has destroyed the roof
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and there are shingles and nails
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all scattered through the
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field here
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see part of the shingles there
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would be pretty neat to
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stand up on there
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can't climb to the top though it's
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blocked off
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this is a little development called elk
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grove
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now there is
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now these are not real animals
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but there are live elks
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about a mile or two back
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into a little park area that i drove
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into
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and could not find any wandering around
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maybe this is not the time of the year
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for the live elk
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to be out and about
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or maybe i just didn't find the right
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spot
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but i found
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these i was looking forward to maybe
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seeing some live elk
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but the road i went down kind of like a
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a circle
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driveway way out down the park
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was all blocked off so possibly this is
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not the time of the year
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but there are at least a dozen or more
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of these fake elk through here from a
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different angle there
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got the fountains in the water
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even on the side of these vehicles there
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are elks
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look at the buildings or look the little
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spherical buildings there in the
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distance this light is out by the way
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that's why they're here guiding traffic
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the power on the lights out
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but notice the three spheres there
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it's hypnotizing
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and that's gonna do it for today
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i will say
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whatever the reason the name this was
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given this region was called the windy
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city whether it's because it really is
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gusty and windy weather-wise
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which it is
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or because
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people making promises they can't keep
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spewing out
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those in authority those are the
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higher-ups
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whatever your interpretation of why it's
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called the windy city as a plane goes by
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landing at the airport
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it is windy
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and i'm in a city where all the
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outskirts so i'm in the windy city
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i'll see the next video
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vlog
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is windy
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thanks for watching it it's almost
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knocking me over
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wind gusts
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the vlog is over