Walt Disney’s Hometown Marceline Missouri Tour - Original Main Street USA / Museum & Walt’s Barn
Walt Disney Hometown Tour
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today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this Sunday July 16th 2023
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this road about a hundred miles outside
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of Kansas City Missouri
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the water tower for Marceline
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off in the distance
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the hometown of Walt Disney
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place that even he stated
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such an impact on his life
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what he would create later
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as far as animation
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theme parks movies
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and his life
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a pivotal point
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of his youth
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starting to rain welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here
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I love this place I love the history of
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it it's been about three years since
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I've been to this spot early early 2020
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the first month or two of 2020 I rolled
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through here gonna see some stuff I am
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familiar with there's also a few things
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I have not shown in the past I could
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hear a train
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this is a trained town the town was
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built because back in the day trains had
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to have stops where people could get off
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and eat and stretch their legs and also
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you know
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within a distance to re-steam and put
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water in the trains within a hundred
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miles of the last Depot
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and with Kansas City about 100 miles
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away
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Marceline was one of those spots so kind
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of fun fact but inviting you to join me
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and I guess I'm wearing an appropriate
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shirt Celebration Florida little Disney
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tie-in in Marceline Missouri
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a little Disney tie-in just a little
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right join me
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bad weather rolling in as always shall
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you well in this area anyway now before
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the weather gets too bad I'm gonna drive
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past the Disney Farm where him and his
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family lived
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for a few years
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formidable years of Walt
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Now The Farmhouse
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from what I was reading only has one or
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two original walls
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but so much history right there in fact
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you just pull over right here
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get out and take a look at this I recall
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when I was here before I don't believe
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there was signage like this around the
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area I went with our family to live in
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Marceline when I was around four years
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old clearly remember the day we arrived
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there on a train gonna go by that train
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station and Mr coffin medicine's wagon
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and we rode to our house in the country
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just outside the city limits I believe
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it was called the crane farm at first
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impression
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is I had a beautiful front yard
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Disney home in 1906 still comprised of
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the largest section of the current
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layout an addition was added in the
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1980s to accommodate the need of the
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current owner great care was taken not
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at the original layout and hand hewn
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features
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of the 1906 section of the Hub and you
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could just picture
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him his parents Roy family his sister
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and others all here on this property
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that I would like
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to go down here there's a little parking
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area and that is where
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the Dreaming Tree is well I'll talk
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about that in a sec a little bit more
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the seedling of the Dreaming Tree
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original Dreaming Tree got struck by
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lightning and fell down kind of rotted
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away but they took seedlings of that and
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a new Dreaming Tree has popped up and
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also Walt's Barn is down I'm trying to
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get in the barn before the storm pops
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out open 365 days a year Dawn Till dust
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free to the public
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maintained by volunteers of the Disney
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hometown
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Museum now this is going to be a
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recreation of the barn that Walt
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remembered that used to be on the
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property
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that he a lot of things happened to him
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at this Barn in fact he loved the barn
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so much that he created his own
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Recreation
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the Carrollwood Barn which is in
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Griffith Park
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in Southern California in L.A
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to tell you the truth to tell the truth
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let me quote this to tell the truth more
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things of importance happened to me in
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Marceline that have happened to me since
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or likely to in the future
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that's what adult Walt
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quoted later and in fact he not only
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lived here when he was young he came
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back
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multiple times
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to Marceline
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they even took time out of his very busy
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schedule after Disneyland had opened and
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you know just like the company was
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progressing and creating new Endeavors
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he took time out of that to come back to
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events here to show his appreciation
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for the town he grew up in about 10 or
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11 years ago the original dreamy tree
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used to be right over here next to this
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Creek where Walt would sit with his
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sister and it would doodle you know
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different uh artwork and come up with
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animation ideas and cartoons and things
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like that is they're put into the into
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his brain creativity
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in front of the Dreaming Tree and he
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when he came back to town later as an
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adult he took photos there with royal
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show those in a minute but the son of
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Dreaming Tree was planning on September
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04 a sapling was planted by Walt's
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grandson Branford Bradford Disney Lund
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and soil from the Magic Kingdom and
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water from the rivers of America were
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mixed with the soil
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so I don't know if this means Walt's
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original Magic Kingdom in Anaheim
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or the rivers of America in Florida I'm
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taking this to maybe be one of each or
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maybe it's possibly Florida's Magic
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Kingdom and Florida's Rivers either way
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Disney theme park items were placed here
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where the seedling was and this thing
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is really
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really growing tall
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it's really good to see that and
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probably first time I ever visited this
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area
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was 10 12 years ago in the original
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Dreaming Tree was still here
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sadly it has gone by the wayside
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but there is a photo look at this
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freaking awesome is this
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freaking Roy
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it's Walt right here
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I mean that is just
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that is just so cool
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right along the creek you see the creek
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is still kind of over there you know
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it's relatively dried up at the moment
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it is very rainy and very
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a lot of bad weather's been kind of
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going through this area but definitely
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no water where the creek was
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the original Dreaming Tree in fact the
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dreamy tree is so etched in my mind that
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I sometimes call The Wisdom Tree Top of
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Griffith Park in SoCal I get it mixed up
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and I say oh I'm gonna hike up to the
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Dreaming Tree people go no it's the
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Wisdom Tree because I'm always thinking
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for one reason I'm always thinking of
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the Dreaming Tree here in Marshall I
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have all these okay this is a cool story
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so the first time again this is a
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recreation but the original Barn that
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was here the first time Walt ever
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charged anything for entertainment
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was when
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he did a circus with some of the the
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farm animals that were here it was also
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an interesting story that the some of
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the local
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some of his local friends the kids were
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not too happy with how the farm the
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Barnyard animals were performing and
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they wanted their money back and while
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says I'm gonna give you your money back
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you know I worked hard on creating this
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just because it didn't perform correctly
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and Walt's mom as The Story Goes Walt's
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mom said
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you have to give them their money back
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if people are not getting what you
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promised them and they're not getting
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the Excellence of the show that you
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think you're going to give them they
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should not be charged
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and that is like a moral that Walt kind
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of kept in his theme parks
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and still to this day you know it
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slacked a little bit
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but you know Walt definitely always had
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that and it I think it went farther in
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his career just a lesson that started at
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the barn with you know if you're
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providing entertainment you're charging
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for entertainment it should be top
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quality if people are like opening up
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their their wallets and emptying their
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pockets for it kind of a good moral that
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started here in Marceline I think it's
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really cool about this that's just a
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couple people just we're in here as well
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so they invite
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anyone
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to come in
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and sign the walls now I've signed these
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walls a couple times also at d23 events
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which I think they just had a d23 event
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here
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a couple months ago that I wasn't able
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to attend because I had other plans
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going on
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but some of these benches
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I don't know if it was this bench or
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maybe it's at the Museum but they had
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people at the d23s signed some of the
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benches and they moved the benches over
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two here now if I finding my signature
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through here would be probably very
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tough let's see if I can possibly find
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find one of my people
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thousands upon thousands of people have
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signed
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these walls
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little scribbles of Mickey there
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all right I found
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found the biggest one of mine I think I
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signed it twice but the other one but I
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think might be covered up
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but mine is right here
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so take a look at this
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right there
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wrote my name
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right there years ago
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yeah four or five years ago at a d23 in
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Anaheim they had one of these benches
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this could be the one that they
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transported giving people the
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opportunity to
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have their signatures placed in the barn
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when they couldn't make it
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all the way to Missouri
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I'm just assuming that is what either
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this one is
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or this one is right over here
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and I'm not going to leave another
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signature there are some Sharpies over
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there
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but I got one over there and I believe
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there's one above the door frame
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next to a couple of people that I know
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but it might have been covered up I'll
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put that up there many years ago too but
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I've already left my Mark here but I
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always want to show this
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and anyone can come in here grab a
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marker and sign their name yeah I seem
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to recall
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a while back that up here next to Justin
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scarred's name I left
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I left one scribbled on there but a lot
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of other people have
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put their name over it's a possible mine
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has been recovered up
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but the original one the first time I
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ever visited is over here
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in the corner where is it right
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just so dang cool
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I love that barn but there's so much
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more
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so much more to see in the area and
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people just all day you know come out
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here go inside
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leave their remarks leave their comments
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write their name where they're from
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etch it on the wall it's allowed at
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about a mile away from the barn I give
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you
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the inspiration
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the real
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Main Street
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USA not at Disneyland not at Magic
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Kingdom not in the theme parks
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the real deal
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right here
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in Marceline Missouri
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just to clarify the ideas of this
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stretch of road from his youth
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went on to become Main Street USA
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not everything is exact I got some water
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on my lens
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but there are little nuances
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if you feel like you're on main street
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because it is a main street EP Ripley
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Park sound familiar
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if you're a Disney dude like me you
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certainly does Walt loved trains you got
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the Santa Fe and Disneyland railroad
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emblem over there on the side the train
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station is over there now it is Sunday
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as stated as a recording of this so the
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post office is not open but I stayed
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here three years ago I sent myself a
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letter from the post office and they
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will put the little stamp on there
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designating it that it's coming from
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Walt's hometown
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I don't make a bad pub at this place
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rocks
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Coke corner
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the real coat Corner ladies and
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gentlemen right here ladies and
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gentlemen boys and girls
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wear Coke corner
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began
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the Zurcher store Disneyland and Anaheim
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has a Coke corner
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based
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on this
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and we're over here Disneyland and has
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the the one that has the light that has
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two different colors
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the center light that's coat Corner the
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town was established in 1888
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buy that Banner but look they have the
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Main Street USA sign so for this section
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Kansas have they have designated it Main
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Street USA always good to be back here
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quaint little community
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nice place to be
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it's time
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it's like this place is closed I often
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wonder
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what it would take to rent one of these
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what would it be like to own a store
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on Main Street USA
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at any time
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you could be walking right down the
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middle
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of Main Street USA just like the salt I
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almost tripped right there on that curb
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almost trip right down the middle of
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Main Street USA like a castle and my
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mind would be up at the other end down
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there and it's set up just like you know
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in the Parks
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where you get one block and then a turn
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in a turn to the left turn to the right
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and then another block up and then the
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castle
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would be right there
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got the Maytag repair man
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it's a lot of great photos of of Walt
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when he returned here there's one here
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right in the middle of the road
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so the Uptown Theater which I believe is
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not open kind of like the celebration
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theater is not open
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but Walton Roy when they returned here
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to a movie premiere that they saw inside
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here and Walt spoke on the stage inside
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the Uptown Theater
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Great Locomotive race I believe the the
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name of the film was
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wolf had a lot of history here he saw
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the very first movie he ever saw very
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young happened in Marceline and the very
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first play he ever saw so there's the
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photo here there's the Upton theater
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Uptown Theater right there
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so this that's basically they're
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standing right there
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you got the spirit of Mickey
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on June 30th 1930. open with June 30th
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1930. so the first movie he ever saw was
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not in this theater with the first movie
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he ever saw was in town a little earlier
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than that but in 56 they came back and
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premiered the feature film The Great
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Locomotive Chase
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and greeted every child at the door
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Walton Roy took the stage before the
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movie and sang the Mickey Mouse song
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and in 1998 the Disney Company came back
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for another Premiere and premiered the
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spirit of Mickey
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in that theater there it is Great
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and there's Walt right there up on the
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stage itself I got to go in there when I
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stayed here in 2020 I actually got to
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got to go inside there man they have
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really added so much
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so the first the first play he ever saw
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was Peter Pan when he was very young and
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he loved seeing Peter Pan so much that
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play that when he was young in school he
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played the part of Peter Pan and we all
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know how Peter Pan worked out because he
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made Peter Pan
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later for Disney
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it actually got to go inside here which
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is pretty nice and I saw some photos of
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the event they had here a couple of a
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couple months ago and I saw people were
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in there you can see a Great Locomotive
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Race sign a player on the wall
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I really hope this gets renovated it's
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kind of like well I don't want to
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compare it to laughagram but I hope
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laughagram gets restored I hope this
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gets restored Marceline is that name has
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been used
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a lot of times you'll see it just little
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nods to it in the parks on the
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properties
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here's a nice little mural over here
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Main Street USA mural
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I don't know what it is I just get so
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happy whenever I'm here
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all right there's the barn
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there's the how there's the barn in the
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house the farm that he lived on the 40
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there's the tree
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there's him oh man there's
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there's young him right there with a
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little
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a little Mickey
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obviously Mickey didn't exist then yet
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but
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here we have the drawings of the animals
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it's also it's also kind of just such a
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cool thing
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that him growing up here and not growing
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up in Kansas City or Chicago is born in
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Chicago a few years prior five years
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before he moved here five or six years
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don't quote me on the exact year Ridge
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his dad wanted to move here because he
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did not want his family
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and his kids growing up in Chicago I
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thought this would be a better place for
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his family to be reared
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but if he would have grown up in Chicago
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the big city or Kansas City where they
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moved after this for the formidable
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years
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I don't know if things would have turned
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out the same for Walt train going by
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train going by
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oh the soothing sounds of a train
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because you think about it
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all those early
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animations and all those early cartoons
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that ended up making him very popular
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were based on Barnyard animals and most
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of the characters at Disney are Barnyard
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animals that we know and love they're
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all animals that would be in a small
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town and like a farm in a barn
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I'm just picture standing at the castle
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looking down that way I guess you could
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go either direction but
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I feel like I'm standing at the castle
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looking down
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towards the train station down there
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because the train station is down there
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just one block over
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peeking back in the theater again
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I'll show this again and then I'll show
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what it looks like modern day to see the
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theater there off to the left it was
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like the banner went right across here
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and the building between the Uptown
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Theater and this building looks like it
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was demolished or probably burned down
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just like an empty spot now he came back
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a number of times in his adult life one
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was for the theater Great
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Locomotive Chase he also came back for
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the the opening of a city pool that was
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named in his honor and also the school
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so I think three times if I remember I
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remember meeting correctly a few times
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it's not snow white or Cinderella
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wishing well but there is
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oh wishing well
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one of those one of those years
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a little gazebo over there well actually
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the Gazebo oh
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they got rid of the Gazebo look like you
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can even see where the line of the
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Gazebo used to be
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it's been a race from existence
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I could hear it
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this is really nice this little
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Pond they built right here
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and
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the original
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autopia
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used to be on the outskirts attack well
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the original one used to be at
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Disneyland where small world is now
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there's a smaller version of the autopia
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that still exists there
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and they
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supposedly are going to be bringing it
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back here now Wall came back so over by
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where the pool is to the Municipal Park
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which I want to show that
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which I think is on the outskirts of
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town was where this originally was and
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it fell into disrepair
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so Walt and Roy wanted to to bring a
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project here almost like a theme park
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to this town but when Walt got ill and
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passed away that got scrapped and the
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Florida project now known as wdw took
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over
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that completely got scrapped so it never
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this it never came back but their
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version of autopia
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hopefully one day will make their
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appearance
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back here relocated from the Magic
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Kingdom of Disneyland a lot of people
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give me cruds sometimes because I call
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it Walt's original Magic Kingdom like no
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no that's in Florida look at this Magic
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Kingdom of Disneyland and Walt many
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times even when you're riding the train
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it'll say welcome to Walt's Magic
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Kingdom oh there's a Spiel on that
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Marceline's favorite Sons Walton Roy
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Disney
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accepted an appreciation mayor C.A young
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July
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1966. they retired in 1966 making way
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for a new attraction It's a Small World
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fresh off its year-long run at the 1964
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New York World's Fair which a few months
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ago
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I was able to go to the spot where the
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World's Fair happened and sea where
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small world was which now took over and
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retired autopia
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at Disneyland and then the cars came
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here and here it is I'm gonna go try to
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find where that original spot was Circa
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1968 only lasted a couple years
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there's the pool that Walt dedicated
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as far as I know there is no affiliation
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with the Disney Corporation and this
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Museum
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or anything that goes on here I believe
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the last event was a d23 event so I
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guess
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might be off on my thoughts on that
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the history of Walt and all that the
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company as far as like the Deep rooted
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past
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of Walt you know the Uptown Theater all
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that was that was fell in that hole I'm
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just like falling everywhere here today
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They Don't Really chime in too much
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financially
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it's like in the Parks you get yourself
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a Coca-Cola
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and just like on Main Street at
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Disneyland at Disney World there's a
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piano
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right dear
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this is a barbecue place which just
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closed up
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it's a piano nice touch
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nice touch
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I've been here before but it's been a
26:27
while highly recommend the hometown
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Depot Circa 1913 why the town even
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exists
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as a railroad town
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it's because of this building well this
26:42
building was built for that reason
26:45
and it really does seem appropriate even
26:47
though it's not used as a Depot anymore
26:48
the trains just passed right through
26:51
that it houses Walt's Hometown Museum
26:53
Tuesday through Saturday 10 to 4 Sundays
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one to five and closed
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every Monday
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all right I am in here they asked no
27:08
filming in the museum but I could take
27:10
plenty of photos so I'll take some
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photos and talk about what I see
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all right I'm standing back outside I'll
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show some of the things that were in
27:18
there they have some of these photos for
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sale and this is you know Walton Roy
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around Marceline
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that's kind of in the gift shop
27:25
and this just shows them in school I'm
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gonna see if I could find where the
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original
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school he went to he showed up for the
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rededication
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but uh he is right down towards the
27:37
bottom there
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is a little
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uh
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I think his name is like kind of written
27:43
right there of him at the bottom sitting
27:45
sitting towards the bottom of the the
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photo and this this is a signed pamphlet
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or assigned program
27:52
from the Walt Disney Elementary School
27:54
they showed up for the dedication you
27:56
see his name is upside down there but he
27:58
saw in the top of it he had a really
27:59
good really good signature this is the
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desk
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I'm gonna see if I can go by where the
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see if I can go by where the school was
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and find the desk that he scribbled his
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name on you can see put the WD they
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actually have this
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at uh one man's dream a recreation as a
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one-man's dream at
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Hollywood Studios it's not the real one
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the real one's here there's both your
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brothers Walton Roy next to that
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railroad that I showed earlier in the
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park where it says Disneyland railroad
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so that was here even when they came
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back and this is
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the Santa Fe Station where the museum is
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Marceline news this is talking about an
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excerpt from the Marceline I knew
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written by Walt himself back in the late
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30s
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and here's a photo of Main Street Kansas
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Ave back then that moment and then also
28:48
coming back for a July 4th invitation
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this is him going and looking at the
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desk so evidently he remember signing
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the desk once but it was sick it was
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signed another time so there's a little
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bit of
29:02
unclarification of Walt's signed the
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dust the WD twizer if he did it just WD
29:07
and then the the purse the student who
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had the desk after him may have just
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emulated and signed it a second time but
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this is kind of neat when he came back
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he brought a one of the flags that hangs
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at Disneyland it's like an orange
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Mickey flag they don't I think you can't
29:23
purchase the flags anywhere but at but
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here at the hometown Museum and all
29:29
those you can see it is here and
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at Disneyland but they have
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one of them here in the flagpole at the
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at the new location of the 1960 we came
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back to Dedicated I'm going to go by see
29:41
if I can find that flagpole he dedicated
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the flagpole also but he brought two
29:45
flags from the Anaheim Park one there
29:47
and this one you can purchase miniature
29:49
versions of this in the in the gift shop
29:51
as well there's him holding that very
29:54
one that they have
29:56
in the museum this is kind of a fun fact
29:58
so where coat corner is now the store
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that used to be there or the store
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that's still there
30:04
this clock used to be in there Santa Fe
30:06
Standard time and that's the
30:08
that's the cash register now this is
30:10
really awesome so
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his sister Ruth
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did not want to attend to be around a
30:16
lot of people for the opening at
30:17
Disneyland 55
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so Waltz sent her money to buy a
30:21
television set so she could watch it and
30:23
they have her rug and the actual TV she
30:25
watched the opening ceremony on
30:28
in 1955 in there and they're and they
30:31
actually play the play it on there so
30:34
not only do they have Memorial services
30:35
in LA and other areas but they also had
30:38
one
30:42
here in Marshall here's a piece of the
30:43
Dreaming Tree
30:46
and this just kind of showed some of the
30:48
things that came later with the company
30:49
and then Walton's Inspire Walt had
30:52
created based on his time here in this
30:56
I love the farm
30:58
small town type things really resonated
31:00
and showed up in a lot of his work
31:03
over the years now the old school that
31:04
was torn down I'm gonna go to the corner
31:05
where the school used to be
31:07
but here is him saying you know this
31:10
building's probably gonna get torn down
31:11
one day you should save this wall so
31:12
they did the wall
31:14
is in the museum as well and here's more
31:16
info on a theme park coming to Marceline
31:19
it was like a whole project and then of
31:20
course when he passed it didn't happen
31:23
but there's like a kind of a map and
31:25
this was on his desk so when you go to
31:30
the studios ever you know I was lucky
31:32
enough years ago to go in Walt's office
31:34
and they kept it they recreated it and
31:37
put everything back all his stuff
31:39
that when other people took over the
31:42
studios they put it all back in the
31:43
exact place and this was on his desk
31:46
at his at his passing of course that
31:48
whole idea got scrapped
31:50
and then talking about the stamp that
31:52
came out
31:53
and uh he could get here at Marceline
31:56
actual stamp that's what the stamp looks
31:58
like right there
32:00
and this is kind of cool this is so this
32:02
is uh inspiration for Main Street USA
32:05
and I kind of took each individual one
32:07
so Hotel Marceline which is in that
32:10
little kind of like halfway point down
32:11
Main Street USA the Allen Hotel
32:15
was the real life Hotel Marceline
32:18
and then the opera house was cater's
32:20
opera house where he would happily spend
32:23
spare his spare pitting in his pocket
32:25
for change to attend a show he was that
32:28
is where he saw the stage performance of
32:30
Peter Pan on that high load stage I want
32:32
to see if I can find where the caters or
32:34
katters opera house is
32:37
and then Murray's department store
32:38
inspiration for
32:40
The Emporium all of us here
32:43
in town and of course I already shoved
32:44
the Upton theater and Zurchers it was
32:49
just a kind of another photo there
32:50
talking about the Great Locomotive Chase
32:52
here's some him standing in front of the
32:54
Uptown Theater here's another
32:57
more info on the
32:59
on the original school this is
33:00
interesting this little building looks
33:02
to have some relics of the past in it
33:04
as well
33:06
it's a little counting machine there a
33:08
little adding machine
33:10
there's like a stogie
33:13
a lighter and an old book
33:19
this is right next to the museum
33:22
oh it was the Coal Company
33:24
okay according to what I just read in
33:27
where he originally went was the corner
33:30
of
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North Chestnut and West Richey
33:35
which is going to be on that next corner
33:37
see if the building's still there
33:38
the train horn going by
33:50
I mean everything's within a couple
33:50
blocks of each other it's all downtown
33:52
all right no in fact it was just a few
33:54
steps
33:56
from what I was thinking it was right
33:57
here with this gas station is now two
34:01
zero five was the address according to
34:03
what I read up
34:09
no webs
34:09
even though could have been here
34:12
where you type in 205 and it pops right
34:14
there where that is okay so evidently
34:16
this was the Allen Hotel
34:22
it's a little nod
34:22
on Main Street is the Marceline Hotel
34:31
try to figure out which one was the
34:31
inspiration for the Emporium
34:33
but this was the Allen Hotel
34:40
I could definitely see it now with all
34:40
the all the apartments up there now or
34:42
maybe just sitting up there I don't know
34:43
yeah look at this great photo of the
34:45
brothers there I guess that's Mr zercher
34:49
zerker Zurcher
34:51
when they returned
34:53
standing right in front
34:56
of the spot
34:59
and it looks like connected to that
35:01
hotel
35:02
right here was Murray's The Emporium
35:08
inspiration for the opponents how much
35:11
money have I spent in the Emporium
35:16
you don't want to know and as The Story
35:16
Goes that is where
35:19
he got his first pair of overalls mom
35:21
bought him a pair of overalls inside
35:24
that store
35:25
right there he was no longer he was not
35:27
gonna be a city boy
35:29
Country Boy
35:31
never lose sight of one thing
35:34
that it was all started by a row of mice
35:36
I'm not a funny guy I'm just a farm boy
35:39
from Missouri who hides behind a mouse
35:41
and a duck
35:42
there they are in front of the
35:44
train station okay this is a photo also
35:47
from the hometown Museum I found
35:49
on the web of cater cater's opera house
35:53
where Walt saw his first production
35:56
ever live performance of Peter Pan and
35:59
best assumption is right here next to
36:04
they were connected and saw an article
36:06
that it was one of the world's worst
36:09
fires ever to happen in town it almost
36:12
burned all the downtown down
36:15
and saw something else that
36:18
here on the corner of this Road Howell
36:21
Ave
36:22
that there is some leftover bricks if I
36:25
had not seen that photo I would have
36:27
thought it would have been over there on
36:28
that empty plot
36:30
hello
36:33
but the photo has it on the other corner
36:36
so it wouldn't make sense okay just
36:37
talked to a couple locals very friendly
36:40
Folk
36:41
and he was saying that this is the
36:43
corner which makes sense because it does
36:45
light up that photo being on the edge
36:47
here and he said they do a walking tour
36:50
there are little QR codes
36:52
and they helped write the walking tour
36:54
so there's a bunch of different spots
36:56
you just scan the QR code and you get
36:58
the info so right down here let's see if
37:00
some of the Brick is here all right this
37:02
might be that brick here look at this
37:11
original opera house brick
37:11
could be
37:13
a foundation perhaps is still the same
37:16
and then they just rebuilt this on top
37:19
of it
37:19
it's a chance
37:29
fascinated it also helps to read Adam it
37:29
helps to read
37:30
located at the Cyclone Gator's Hopper
37:47
read
37:47
I'll be in a rush see that kind of stuff
37:50
all right
38:51
I think there's a tunnel right here that
38:51
goes directly under the tracks
38:59
oh wow
38:59
looks like someplace Pennywise would
39:01
love
39:02
goodness gracious not even be going down
39:04
in here
39:43
this tunnel was made in 1951.
39:43
should also be noted when
39:46
they sold the farm
39:48
the Family Farm they still lived in town
39:51
another year
39:53
and people think
39:55
no one's really totally confirmed that
39:57
it was this house here on Kansas Ave for
39:59
about a year
40:01
typing the address and it would have
40:03
been that one right about there
40:06
just up the ways a bit still on Kansas
40:11
is that signed the Municipal Park you
40:13
see Mickey there and you see the train
40:21
this is where those autopia cars were
40:21
and the pool
40:23
see if I can find the pool I've never
40:25
been to the never seen the pool spot
40:31
now since those days the pool could have
40:31
been redone but this is the spot of the
40:33
pool in fact you can see train tracks
40:35
over there in the light poles are all
40:38
still
40:39
kind of in the same spot so you got the
40:41
trains over there
40:44
even still some train cars off in the
40:46
distance into the poles then this is the
40:48
pool it's been added on to or maybe even
40:50
completely renovated
41:03
again they were gonna
41:03
have the pool in his name and he said
41:06
I'm just going to show up
41:08
so it came out and six or seven thousand
41:12
people
41:14
showed up as thousands of people showed
41:16
up the agricultural Department right
41:18
there has a greenhouse
41:21
and here is the
41:23
Olympic flagpole
41:25
very monumental
41:27
in the front of the property
41:41
and it's closed today obviously no
41:41
classes
41:42
here another train going by
41:50
yeah it's probably good that nothing's
41:50
going on today because let's go up and
41:52
get some
41:53
clear photos here the front
42:08
or the magic of learning begins now
42:08
there are more
42:10
of these around the country that bear
42:12
his name
42:14
but the only one in his hometown
42:28
and this is also from reading at the
42:28
info at the Museum
42:30
where the memorial of his passing also
42:32
took place
42:34
in his hometown
42:40
yeah take a look at all that artwork on
42:40
the walls
42:42
classic
42:52
I was also reading that
42:52
if you show up
42:53
during a normal operating hours that
42:56
they will let you go in and get photos
42:57
of course because it's the weekend right
42:59
now that is so cool with the train going
43:01
by right there
43:04
all you have to do is just sign in and
43:06
visitors can go in and see some of the
43:09
the classic artwork in there
43:21
about the Alvin Hotel constructed in o6
43:21
interesting too this is just kind of
43:22
like teetering here on the mailbox
43:24
Roy remembered didn't remember what he
43:27
had to eat but did remember that his
43:28
little sister Ruth spilled the plate of
43:30
food his father had paid for in real
43:31
cash Hotel marsley found on Main Street
43:33
USA Disneyland is a replica of this
43:36
building
43:37
yeah there's just little uh information
43:38
things over we just gotta just gotta
43:40
look for them and take a look at this
43:42
you got Roy there
43:45
and then you got these two windows and
43:48
I'm kind of looking at the little like
43:49
rivets here under the at
43:52
SF it looks like it's been repainted
43:55
it looks to be the same train
44:08
that second window if this is the same
44:08
train which I'm assuming it is
44:10
you got Roy there holding on to that
44:13
and the rivets here match up exactly
44:15
this
44:17
painted over
44:18
and then right here there was a split
44:20
piece that was like in the middle
44:22
and then Walt was putting his head out
44:24
of there
44:58
wow originally they were going to make
44:58
120 000 stamps
45:01
ended up being
45:03
153 million
45:05
and fifteen thousand
45:10
yeah I guess that's what that number is
46:01
driving right down the middle
46:01
of Main Street
46:03
USA
47:31
the original Main Street USA
47:31
till next Time Marceline till next time