TDW 1542 - Soldier City : St Cloud Florida
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good
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morning out for a
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stroll good
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morning out for a morning stroll Central
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Florida are full of these birds called
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Sand Hill
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cranes and for real isn't that the most
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majestic
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Sunrise I love it
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here it's
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my second channel daily Vlog channel
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it's the daily
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woo this is Downtown St Cloud Florida
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and it has a very rich deep history and
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a lot of it's documented in this book
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and I'm going to show some of it the
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town is located where that Arrow points
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that little dot right there in Central
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Florida is St Cloud and it's nicknamed
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Soldier City CU it was started as a
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colony by the Grand Army of the Republic
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look at that ray of light right there
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looks like something out of Raiders of
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the Lost
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AR be
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crazy even though most of St Cloud now
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resides to the east of this canal
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originally mostly consumerism and trade
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originated down towards the end of this
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Waterway right over here the most
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advanced Sugar Mill of its time
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and there's still some remnants of it
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sitting right over there you can even
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see part of the foundation right there
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along the water and this was a very
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pivotal point for the town because this
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brought people in not only to work but
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also to live and they built homes right
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along this little Waterway so this was
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kind of sort of the start of St Cloud
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Florida right here and most people don't
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realize it because town is a mile or two
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to the east of this currently check out
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this photo of this coin that the Sugar
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Mill employees would get to spend at the
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commissary but it was only good in St
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Cloud and they even grew banana trees
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along the canal look at
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that I've never seen any foliage down
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that little Waterway
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before the very first person to buy land
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and settle here in town was this guy
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right between those two drummers his
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name name was LL Mitchell in fact his
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name is designated on that drum right
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there to the right and he was also the
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first person to die in town and there
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was no Cemetery yet so they buried him
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up the road and then a few years later
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they moved his body to right here which
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is now home to a lot of other veterans
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who also colonized here in town Lucius L
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Mitchell December 4th 1909 shortly after
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the Sugar Mill days people started to
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congregate and move to what is now
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Downtown St Cloud here on the left and
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this consists of what is currently
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Pennsylvania Avenue New York Avenue and
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Massachusetts Avenue and the downtown
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sections of those three streets are the
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only areas in town that have brick
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instead of concrete on May 7th 1909
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1,200 plots of land were sold from the
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building that sat right here where this
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mural now sits for $50 each just think
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about that for a second for $100 you
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could have had two of these owning two
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properties in town for a cool hyy the
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original post office is built in
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1909 and it's the building on the right
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basically what you're looking at here
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and here is a photo of what it looked
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like then you can see it matches up
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pretty close to what it looked like then
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and here's an even better picture of the
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post office check it out and you can
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faintly see the outline of where the
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window was on the far left it's been
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boarded and sealed over the variety
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store was built in 1911 this is what it
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looked like then and this is what it
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looks like now and a couple years after
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in
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1915 the bottom floor became the town's
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funeral home it's pretty crazy right and
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I do believe that this is the very first
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home built in town they used to have a
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historical marker on the side but they
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taken it down for whatever
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reason this is the very first bank in
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town built in
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1910 it was St Cloud's First National
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Bank and they even had their own
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currency look at this National Bank of
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St Cloud that's a 10 spot right there
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you could have bought 1 F of a plot of
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land with that the original grocery
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store in town was a place called pins
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grocery that's what it looked like then
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and this is what it looks like now
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almost identical another little fun fact
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those top windows up there on the right
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that was my old apartment of course I
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didn't live there in 1915 it was a
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little after that but that was the
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building I lived in by the way Micah tag
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he's tagging along with me as well you
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enjoying yourself I am I don't want to
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go outside it's it's too yeah you notice
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a lot of these shots are from inside my
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van cuz the AC is on you're from Florida
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and you admit that it's hot yes I've
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learned how to put up with it but today
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is a nogo it's unbelievably humid here
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in Florida I keep stating that in every
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video and I will keep reiterating it
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until cools down which is like what
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probably like January 1st January 1st
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it'll cool down 2° I'll be gone and I'll
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be gone by then I found this photo of
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two of the original homes when they were
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built here in town check them out back
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then and there they are right now and
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look at those top windows up there those
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two top Windows protruding from the
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basically the middle of the porch area
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up top that's where there's two guys are
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just chilling up there after working all
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day on those two homes it's pretty crazy
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they look the same but you can
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definitely see the age has set up this
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building right here is the old fire
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department and you can see where the
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fire department used to be they painted
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this mural signifying a little bit of
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the past but there's something very
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interesting about this mural
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man I hly I filming now yeah so I got
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interrupted but basically what I was
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trying to say is where the mirror is
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over
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there you can you can feel where the
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door you can feel the wood transferring
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into the concrete and the owner of the
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building came out and was not happy that
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I was knocking he was not happy right no
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he was not happy which I guess is kind
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of understandable in a way it's kind of
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understandable but well the funny thing
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is he asked you to explain what you were
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doing and then while you were trying to
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explain he cut you off he wouldn't he
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wouldn't listen to my explanation which
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is fine I was knocking on the wall but
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still but usually When someone knocks
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you say can I help you and and they
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explain it but he just kept saying don't
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knock on my wall don't knock on my wall
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and then I asked him and then he asked
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me very very very confusing anyway
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moving on right about the time the town
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started there was a massive fire
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destroying a lot of the buildings and
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right after the fire in
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1917 this building was built that's what
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it looks like now this is what it looks
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like then it was a place called
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Zimmerman's all the windows match up
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still looks the same gosh that was a 100
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years
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ago well 99 years but who's count and
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check this out this building looks
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pretty much the same except they have
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put a different facade over it but the
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angle of the building is pretty much
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identical and some of the buildings
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downtown have date stamps on it like
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this one minson's Hardware 1914 that's
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what it looked like then and it still
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pretty much looks exactly the same even
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the doors and windows are in the same
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spot and this bank right here is rumored
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to have been robbed by John Dillinger I
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don't think it's true but that's the
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rumor one of the main focal points of
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downtown is this hotel pictured in this
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photo which is where a lot of people
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were living when their homes were being
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built originally and you can see it
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looks almost identical as it did back
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then of course some of the awnings
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aren't there they used to have balconies
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going outside of each of the rooms but
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other than that looks pretty much the
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same right around the area that the new
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city hall is now right in here was a
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train track that ran from that way all
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the way through town and they have
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immortalized it with this mural and you
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can see where it says St Cloud depot and
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right on the side of this building is
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the old train station right here so just
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imagine people here waiting for their
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train to arrive this building's still
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used for events and whatnot but I would
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say the majority of town folk now have
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no idea what that used to be the inside
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of the hotel has kind of been kept to
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the era you can see where the old
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check-in desk was people got their mail
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and supposedly the third floor of this
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hotel truly is haunted there's been a
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few ghost hunting shows who have gone to
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the third floor and snooped around I
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think once something gets more than 100
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years old it automatically becomes
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haunted that's it that's pretty much the
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rule once it hits 100 years old the
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ghosts the ghosts come out to play if
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you're 97 years old you're not allowed
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to be haunted yet no you're knocking on
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the door but they haven't let you in yet
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don't talk about knocking there's no
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knocking you can't no knocking some guys
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got to come out and yell us and they
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have a mural here the Saint Cloud fire
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of
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1917 and a lot of the Town burned not
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all of it but a few buildings burned
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just after midnight on July 28th 1917 a
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suspicious fire started in a store room
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and they have put a mural up right here
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on the side of the wall from an old
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photo of what the fire looked like after
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to burned down a lot of the storefront
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do it man do
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it I want to see see the Wheeling yeah
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look at
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this that's awesome this Bandshell and
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park this property used to be a cow
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pasture downtown is right over there so
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basically past 13th Street a block or
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two is the whole downtown area and this
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was the very end of town this was a huge
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cow pasture until years later when they
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built this and this whole property never
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ever gets used in fact it's weird that
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this is even here because I haven't seen
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it used in probably a decade going to
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have a little dinner now starting with a
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salad and bread at chimentos and looks
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like Micah does not like you don't like
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black olives right like do you like
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spaghetti and meatballs yes that's good
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because that's what has been ordered for
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you the main course has arrived you're
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still you're still Chow Down on the old
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salad but look at this man those are
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some uh those are some boisterous
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meatballs is that a good way to describe
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meatballs boisterous boisterous
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meatballs and in typical Central Florida
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fashion it is now raining and lightning
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and
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thundering the storm you could even say
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it's raining cats and dogs out here
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although I haven't seen any any animals
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falling from the heavens but yeah you
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get the idea look at this Splash over
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here look at
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this this is what we're dealing
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with this is Florida folks nothing out
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of the ordinary we're not in California
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right now this is Florida look at that
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look at that water if we were probably
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any other state people would be like
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losing their minds going out to the
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grocery store buying all the canned
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foods yeah here in Florida people are
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just like oh it's a little it's a little
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Mist a little Mist out there yeah this
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is every day check out the water coming
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out of that drain over there it kind of
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looks like a monster it's like a monster
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like vomiting up some sort of like evil
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H2O see it over there coming around the
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corner it's like a snake Reg
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regurgitating liquid hydration for the
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masses here in
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Florida all right first the
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Heat and now the
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torrential
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rain
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hashtag Florida you so