Big Changes Coming To The Empty Back To The Future Mall - Inside Walk Thru & Bizarre McDonalds Store
Back To The Future Mall
W/ 80’s Life
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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a recording of This is Wednesday June
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the 7th 2023 I am looking over
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the Hollywood Hills in this direction
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from the parking structure at the hotel
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I am staying at Hilton just outside
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Universal Studios Hollywood
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where they filmed
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Back to the Future
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the Hill Valley courthouse
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was down on the lower lot
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I will not be heading down there today
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but I am going to go to the Puente Hills
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Mall also known as the Twin Pines mall
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there is a very strong rumor that the
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mall will be closing
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I figured heck it it is my all-time
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favorite movie that is quite the
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destination quite the bucket list for
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anyone who is a self-proclaimed
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Aficionado or fan of that film and or
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Trilogy and just gotta head over there
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see what's happening I'm inviting you to
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join me
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good to have you here
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I'm heading over to my rental car I've
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covered this before but I'm going to
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just show it real quick for those who
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may not have caught that in the past
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but in part two
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the staircase
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where Biff and
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you know the three of his goons are
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chasing Marty down the stairs
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is right here on P2
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parking two in the Hilton parking lot
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if you go through the second door right
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here you will see a familiar sight from
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Back to the Future Part Two
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and all the times I've walked by here
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and opened this door there's never been
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anyone in here because no one utilizes
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this because it is not for the hotel
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it's for the parking structure and most
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people do not take stairs
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in a parking structure
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my good friend Justin scarred is the one
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that discovered this gosh probably 10 or
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15 years ago
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and now the word is out so I always like
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to give him credit
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for finding the secret spot it's pretty
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it's all over the internet now but yeah
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pretty dang awesome let me walk up the
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walk up here
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you can even see remnants of where the
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arrow was leaving
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right up there
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and Biff comes out of here
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Marty goes down to the bottom one goes
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up and around comebacks up here
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jumps over this runs up
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and out that door
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fun fact all right
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over to the mall right here in the
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parking lot
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well parking structure I should say
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so if you would have continued out if
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Marty would have not gone down those
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stairs and then back up he would have
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opened this door he could have just gone
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out
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grab the car
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and hightailed it
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the weather is really overcast today and
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the traffic part for the course for
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Los Angeles do you see the skyline off
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in the distance over there slow going
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but I'll get there and it's rare to see
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cumulonimbus clouds like this in SoCal
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so this is a
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I want to say it's a treat but it's a
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rarity it's very interesting the
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timeline of malls in general just not
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just the Puente Hills Mall which was the
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Twin Pines Mall Lone Pine Mall
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depending on
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which section of the film
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but just malls in general there's only a
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few that are even successful anymore
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most of them you can see this one is
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still open again the rumor mill is very
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strong on whether or not this will be
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closing but I am leaning towards
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it will be closed I'm gonna try to get a
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little confirmation today but I've heard
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from a few people in my circle some
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friends that have
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kind of confirmed things that they have
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said again just speculation
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your friend nerd locations was telling
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me Oh yeah this is this is going to be
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going away and the guy I'm meeting up
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with today he also
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is on that on that side of the thought
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process so talk a little bit with him as
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well
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it was the other side of this this
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building here at the Puente Hills Mall
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at all the iconic spots have took place
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in Back to the Future
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got a lot of history here as well a lot
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of personal memories that I'll be
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sharing as well looks like this parking
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lot's used for Foothill Transit buses
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this section is anyway
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hello boss my boss was saying hi to me
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when I first visited California and I
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think it was 2012 perhaps 2013 2011.
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somewhere in that time period this was
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the first thing one of the first things
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that I came to see Back to Future is my
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all-time favorite movie
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and I just had to make the pilgrimage
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it's not only this spot but all the
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locations I'm about to drive down
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where the libyans were also classic car
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alert
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so this little incline heading down
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is where the the little VW bus the
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libyans had looking from the other angle
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you see them turn the lights on who do
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you think
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I'm trying to do a Doc Brown but I'm not
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very good at it and if it's the case
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we'll be
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a real bummer a truck strike driving
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right over there in front of
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that facade very notable facade
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also
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like someone is over there
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doing a little video as well I was
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taking some photos
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not really lining up a whole lot I've
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been here probably 50 times I've done a
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lot of videos here over the years I
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haven't been here in a while though but
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I believe this is where the fox photo
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booth was or possibly right there
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but yeah Soup Plantation called sweet
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tomatoes in Florida but Soup Plantation
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here also closed so Soup Plantation and
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Sweet Tomatoes same company it's all
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boarded up at the window in 2020 they
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close and they have not reopened I don't
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think they'll ever going to come back
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one thing I always liked about eating at
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The Soup Plantation is you're right next
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to where Marty rides the skateboard down
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right over there all right so I just
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discovered who's parked here it's Kurt
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from 80s life right here so it spoiler
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alert we just we decided to meet up here
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so it's not like a happenstance or
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anything like that but
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you're going to pretend so that you're
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pretending that this is going to be
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where the DeLorean is parked at you got
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the skateboard on its correct side right
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there as well and he's going to be doing
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a video probably a much more detailed
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video on his channel my video will be up
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tomorrow because I do the daily stuff so
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this would be kind of a more lackluster
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and I'm gonna actually walk inside the
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mall and show some stuff in there too so
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what exactly are you going to be
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covering
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so right now I'm just going to cover
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I've been waiting forever to do a back
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to the future video but I was waiting
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for everything to to you know for it to
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be the right time but since they're
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going to be changing the mall soon I
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figured I gotta at least do the mall
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scene from Back to the Future so that's
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what I'm doing today I'm just kind of
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recreating the Back to the Future mall
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scene and then later you know I'll do a
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whole video and we'll put it all
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together
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so one thing I learned from Kurt also he
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got he uh saw some Blueprints and some
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plans well not blueprints with plans on
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so they're not tearing this down they're
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just going to be remodeling it and so
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according to you they're going to extend
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the front of the building out and
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they're going to build a parking
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structure here so no one will ever be
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able to get up to 88 miles per hour in
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this parking lot ever again not that you
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could even with probably a super sports
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car maybe a dragster because there's
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only like 100 yards here but yeah this
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is going to be our rip to this parking
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lot over time at least they're not going
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to tear them all down though I think the
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structure was like over in that area so
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oh over there
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maybe right on the other side of the
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yellow barrier it's it's over on this
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side many years ago I did a meet up
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right over there an impromptu
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non-planned I don't think the mall was
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happy with it but a lot of people showed
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up right over there
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got the out of time down here it's a
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pretty sweet vehicle we got the correct
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camera this is this is exactly where uh
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well this somewhere in this area is
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where doc you know pops up I figured
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what the hell what about all that talk
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yeah I think this is where his his truck
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was right yeah so were you around during
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the 2015 we're going back festivities
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no they had they had Doc's van right
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here yeah I came here during that time
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but not on that day when the yeah
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the van was here for like gospel music
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for like six months and at the top of
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the hill was the the Twin Pines mall
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sign that's in there was up at the top
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of the hill where it normally was in the
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movie so I'm going to be making a little
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a little uh little moment here in Kurt's
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video so you gotta check out his channel
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later on when he uploads it I'm gonna be
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playing a role here going along the side
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of the yellow poles but no spoilers but
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I got this super Nerf Super Soaker
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it'll be good all right he's bringing
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his car in as a prop
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I just confirmed how out of shape I am
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running with the Super Soaker
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gotta watch this channel to see the
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finished product is pretty dang funny I
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was like let's try not to laugh another
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thing that's kind of cool about this
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parking lot are the different so you got
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the F2 you can see that in the movie and
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then like the F1 sign someone's probably
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stolen it over the years but where The
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Deloreans like with parked there when
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doc kind of turns on the the car
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and the car starts speeding off you can
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see the F1 sign in that Pole right there
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where the DeLorean is backed up over in
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that distance I'm like you know it's
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impossible for DeLorean to get up to 88
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in this parking lot this parking lot is
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really small in comparison to how they
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show it in the movie
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over here on this curve is where Marty
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slid down or jumped down the hill
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towards the end he jumps down here
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probably did his own stunt and then
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landed right here and then kind of
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looked up
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that direction back in 2015 the events
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of 2015 that we're going back stuff
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they had the Twin Pine small sign
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right here which was awesome and it
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should still be
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inside the mall so hopefully go in there
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and check that out too
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it's good to know that the rumor is that
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they're just going to be remodeling it
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and not completely tearing it down
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but if they're going to build a
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structure here it's going to definitely
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remove the sight line and they're going
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to get rid of this whole area over here
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so it won't look the same anymore it's
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been a while since I've been out here a
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few years perhaps a couple years this is
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when I looked here in Hollywood and when
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I lived in Orange County Anaheim and
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orange I stop by here all the time a few
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times a year I just kind of stand here
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and soak in the mood soak in the
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ambiance but it's been a while it's
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probably seen my sunglasses over class
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today but
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the future is bright the future You
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Gotta Wear Shades
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I mean this is just so iconic
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I'm already writing the skateboard right
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down here
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Soup Plantation
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I go over here see what's going on to
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suit Plantation
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wow yeah it's all windows busted
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the wood over the windows there
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yeah I'd always eat at a table right
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here
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and look out upon this and go that's
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where Marty wrote it oh there's a Panera
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Bread here I think there used to be
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another restaurant
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that in order to get the exact angle
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looking down upon that you would have to
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climb up on top of
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the restaurant that used to be there but
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that restaurant is now gone
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in the last couple years that Panera is
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brand new
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what do you mean you've seen this
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it's brand new
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yeah I saw it on a
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rerun
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I had a lot of fun filming that little
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little skit with 80s life
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take a look there's a car right here a
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glory car right here
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it's always amazing to me that Michael J
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fox Dove down this this is very hard
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compact
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area
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right there so you kind of like squeeze
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through that
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then you can go down here maybe
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I don't want to slip here but this is
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pretty steep there we go
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I'm sure this has a top on it so you can
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protect that from the elements right
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yeah but I didn't bring it and hopefully
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it doesn't rain it started raining on Me
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on the way here but it wasn't too bad I
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think I might trade my g7x for this I
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think I might start vlogging with this
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if you don't mind me borrowing this
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yeah I'm gonna start using this
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so everybody says Mobile TV studio
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Television Studios I forgot the line
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remember the lines yeah yeah Mobile TV
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studio
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come on don't put us on the spot
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I'm kind of curious if any store inside
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sells a little to Warrior try to get one
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at Universal earlier because I'm
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standing right outside Universal Studios
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Hollywood but the stores did not open
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early enough for me to go in I was going
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to get a little miniature DeLorean did
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not plan this so I might go inside the
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mall show what's inside the mall and if
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they have a store that has a little
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glory and I might get that out here and
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come recreate some scenes
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possibly
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if they have one in there if not
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there'll be no DeLorean problem I have
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been to a lot of different functions and
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events that have taken place out here
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again I did a meet up over here a long
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time ago many many years ago before I
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moved out of California the first time
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and also the first time I ever met video
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Bob Mosley and I was in Vegas a friend
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of mine now he was out here driving his
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replica DeLorean over here and security
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they used to be security actually kicked
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us out kicked him and us out of the
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parking lot because he was driving it
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around in here the mall and security at
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the mall embrace it a lot more this is
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prior to the events that we're going
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back 2015.
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and just you know it's just a lot of
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memories here that I've had over the
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years and I've done quite a few quite a
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few different videos in quite a few
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different episodes over time from here
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in the mall and it's going to be weird I
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am thankful though that 80's life is
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telling me that they're not going to
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tear them all down they're just going to
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completely renovate it so it's not going
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to be completely erased
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from existence but it's going to be
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vastly vastly changed and hopefully the
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sign inside is not removed I'm gonna go
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inside now one thing about coming to
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this mall you can't really show up at
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night anymore and get an empty parking
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lot because this 24-Hour Fitness has
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been here for a while so there's always
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people here even if it's just a few cars
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working out until the late evening so
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you can't really show up and recreate
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the night scenes with a completely empty
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parking lot at least for now but who
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knows about 24 Hour Fitness
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will close and if it does you won't be
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able to match anything up really because
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this is all going to be completely
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renovated but a lot of this still looks
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the same I don't think that staircase
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was there in Back to the Future but this
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over here looks the same
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as it did then at least for now
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so we're going to go inside and see if
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this Puente Hills inside the Puente
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Hills Mall and see if the Twin Pines
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mall sign is still in there from we're
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going back for 2015.
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for a long time for that entire year doc
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Brown's van was in the front parking lot
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which was awesome do you remember if you
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could see this in Back to the Future was
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it rounded like this let's see let's
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pull up some screenshots now I know a
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hundred percent that is like the iconic
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side of them all there
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but I think this I don't know this looks
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like it would have dated back to the 80s
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I don't think that Aquafina soda machine
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was in the film products probably added
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later okay the 24 Hour Fitness was JC
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Penney's I think I may have misspoken
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said that this was so this was a
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Robinson's yeah and we've just checked
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the we just checked the clip and this
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right here was in the you can definitely
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see this behind Doc's head when he's
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explaining everything and he has the
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remote and all that you can definitely
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see
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this structure here I don't think you
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can ever see this part I think the
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camera kind of or the angle always
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usually kind of cuts off here
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but that definitely is that that bowl
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shape is definitely
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been around for a while
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they'll keep the same name of the ball
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or we think they'll change the name of
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the mall
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the name staying the same yeah in my
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mind every store here at the mall is
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JCPenney's that's just because I just
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thought I remember JC Penney's
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can't go in this door though
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it's out of order how to order
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Hold Back to the Future malls out of
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order
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oh wow
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there's nothing going on in here the
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sushi place is closed
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okay
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everything on this side of the mall is
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empty
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this would be something Dan Bell would
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be proud of it's like an open but yet a
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dead mall I cannot look at a mall like
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this and not think of Romero's Dawn I
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don't know I just always always think of
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that
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of course the in Monroeville where the
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mall is that ball is that JC Penney's
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you can't slide down and escalator
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anymore they've changed us there's no
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escalator from from Arizona so there's a
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lot of there's a lot of malls
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to have JC Penney's in 70s and 80s films
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JCPenney was like a big big thing oh wow
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this place is definitely completely
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empty so empty empty over here
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completely empty this way yeah certainly
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so it's an open yet empty and and
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falling into not disrepair but it's just
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following everything is closing so it's
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a it's basically uh a dead open Mall
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even the last time I was in here a lot
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of these stores were open a couple years
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ago that store was open this is where
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the sign used to be oh it's still here
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the Twin Pines mall sign this still
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right over here I think this is kind of
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similar to The Lion estate signs that
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are a Universal Studios Backlot they're
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not the real ones either they had to
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recreate them that ended up like in a
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trash Heap somewhere I think no matter
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whatever happens to this mall I hope
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they keep this in here and it's blinking
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faintly 116 a.m that's when Marty
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originally arrives and doc says 1 18 a.m
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so 1 16 to 1 atm is when kind of
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everything originally kind of started at
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the mall and also back in 2015 for that
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whole year they had a full DeLorean
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right over here where this guy is
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mopping up the center area it used to be
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a wetzel's pretzels right here maybe it
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was an Auntie Anne's pretzels but it was
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some sort of a pretzel stand that was
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right here that DeLorean back in 2015
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was right here they had like some
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stanchions around it but I think I did
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some like unedited Vlogs or some videos
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back then of it being right here but
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this place is definitely not a beehive
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of activity
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anymore complete with the escalators are
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also on it's always kind of eerie too
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these empty open malls they just have
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the music playing as if the place is
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packed full of guests you know and the
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machines on the claw machines the photo
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ops all that stuff all on but all the
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stores completely closed and the future
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a quote unquote future of this place
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will probably be cultivated over time
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look at this neon here this place called
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automates up here which is also closed I
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just the more I travel around the
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country you see more and more malls that
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are just kind of falling on Hard Times
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no one really is going to indoor malls
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anymore with the exception of a select
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few oh this is uh this could be like a
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version of the cafe 80s here with this
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cardboard cutout of Michael Jackson
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right there even this little pop culture
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stores closed should also mentioned that
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this is a weekday it's a Wednesday as a
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recording of this and it's only 10 30 so
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some of the stores might not be open yet
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or maybe some of them just aren't gonna
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and of course also what do you think of
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malls like this I think of Kevin Smith's
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Mall Rats of course always think of an
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escalator they're trying to throw any
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kind of Mall nods Mall movie nods into
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my reference this ATM is off you cannot
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get cash there so it looks like this
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katsu place over here might be open on
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the weekends but it looks like the
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refrigerator is full of some stuff but
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there's tacos Mexico it's completely
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empty and closed down so this Taco's
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Mexico place is closed even though it
19:47
says Under New Management the menu board
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is completely gone Tokyo Grill is the
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same which is next to this empty spot
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over here it's always kind of wild
19:57
seeing empty food courts like this
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Teriyaki and sushi roll this is kind of
20:02
closed up the register has a bag over it
20:04
and Kurt was just saying hot dog and a
20:07
stick he was in here a couple weeks ago
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and hot dog a stick on the weekend is
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open this is the amount of people that
20:13
are in here just a couple customers I
20:14
don't know if they're customers I think
20:16
there just might be like Mall Walkers
20:17
walking around here there's an open
20:19
bowling alley in here as well with a lot
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of video games and whatnot even so oh
20:24
even some arcade stuff over here I got
20:26
The Walking Dead you got Metallica
20:28
but so there is an actual arcade but
20:31
it's the whole vibe of this place is
20:32
definitely uh definitely an empty Mall
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empty mall is a kind of an
20:37
understatement on uh on the Puente Hills
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Mall right now it is granted it is a
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weekday so I don't want to like
20:41
sugarcoat it maybe the weekend's a
20:42
little bit busier but I don't know how
20:44
much it is in all right so that's it the
20:45
Puente Hills Mall now the empty Hills
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Mall empty Puente Hills Mall
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the bowling alley is open and the the
20:53
arcade was open but not a whole heck of
20:55
a lot else looking inside the sushi
20:57
place you had they have the tentacles of
20:59
the squid in here and there's some
21:01
silverware dropping somewhere behind me
21:10
there are always cars out here because
21:10
of the gym not really for the mall so
21:12
much it's right in this area where Doc
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and Marty were
21:16
when this baby hits 88 miles per hour
21:18
you're gonna see some serious s
21:21
right there with the fire flames and all
21:24
and also these yellow poles
21:27
over here
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still some left of these yellow poles
21:33
that you can see when Marty's driving
21:34
the DeLorean that way
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oh yeah they're not they're not they're
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uh really really heavy duty
21:49
they're not Styrofoam or anything these
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are like
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concrete poles
22:02
right over near here is the McDonald's
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they've used in every McDonald's
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commercial it's about a mile that way I
22:06
think I'm gonna stop by there too all
22:07
right before heading out of here I'm
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going to show the route that the
22:10
DeLorean takes when he's being chased
22:13
and kind of how he's driving so he
22:15
starts off here next to this pole and
22:17
heads this direction and obviously when
22:19
you watch the movie there's a lot of
22:20
editing and drawn out Dramatics moments
22:23
but more or less this is going to be the
22:26
loop that Marty takes in the DeLorean
22:29
now I can't cut in and out of some of
22:31
these cars so this is
22:33
kinda sword of the loop but you know
22:34
within a few feet
22:36
how he turns onto this section here
22:48
I mean even this it drags on for just a
22:48
little bit
22:49
when the
22:51
libyans are chasing them behind him and
22:53
he's kind of zigzagging this way he's
22:55
kind of going all over the road like
22:57
this
22:58
comes up here
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goes up to this F1 sign
23:03
a lot of this looks a lot different
23:06
Cuts this pretty hard here
23:15
and from here has to get from zero
23:15
to 88 so from right here it's Gotta
23:18
punch it
23:19
now he's getting it up to 88.
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88 miles
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per hour
23:27
so from there to right here
23:31
a DeLorean has to hit 88. automatically
23:34
hits because back in time the fire goes
23:37
directly towards this
23:39
and then to the Peabody Farm
23:41
and the fox photo booth was right there
23:44
I'm interested to see what's going to
23:45
happen to the Puente Hills Mall and if
23:47
this is going to get a complete facelift
23:50
and over time will I even be able to
23:53
recognize this place
23:55
Come Back to the Future in a very tucked
23:58
away area over here
24:00
is where they have all the Mickey D's
24:03
costumes crew and talent parking right
24:06
there
24:07
the old McDonald's logo there and there
24:10
is a McDonald's that is never used for
24:13
guests to purchase food at
24:17
no one can go in this McDonald's unless
24:19
you are cast and crew production company
24:22
but this is where they have filmed every
24:25
single McDonald's commercial for decades
24:28
they'll tear it down sometimes build a
24:30
new one they'll change while I tear it
24:32
down with the re-change the facade
24:35
to make it look
24:36
more modern older Etc this is the Mickey
24:39
D's gate four over there all the
24:42
production facilities and gate three
24:52
so think back to all the McDonald's
24:52
commercials you've seen throughout your
24:54
lifespan
24:55
they were filmed here
25:01
now granted this does not look like it
25:01
would look
25:02
probably of some of the memories you
25:04
might have and I have
25:10
because the facade has been changed but
25:10
you know they obviously don't want to
25:11
shut down an active McDonald's
25:13
film a commercial so they just build
25:16
their own
25:18
it is interesting they still have the
25:19
Retro Mickey D sign though
25:26
so obviously if they're filming that
25:26
they're not going to show this
25:37
I also just learned something new
25:37
that evidently there is a basement area
25:39
to this as well so you could film up top
25:42
you could film in the basement and not
25:44
only do they have the costumes over
25:47
but they also have like bedroom sets and
25:49
whatnot so if there's a scene before
25:50
they go to McDonald's in a commercial
25:52
they film them over in there
25:55
never knew that before it's pretty
25:57
interesting
26:02
I like that they've kept this here
26:02
and this is not very far from the Puente
26:05
Hills Back to the Future Mall Twin Pines
26:07
Mall
26:07
about a mile mile and a half
26:09
you can go to get your back to the
26:11
future on come here and get your Mickey
26:13
D's on
26:14
a lot of Pop Culture references kind of
26:16
in the same area
26:18
Mac and Me also was filmed here
26:21
you did a you did a Mac in me I'm going
26:24
to do a Mac and Me one day but you you
26:25
beat me to it years ago this is the mac
26:28
and be McDonald's this is it right uh
26:31
right here the kids were sitting
26:33
on that curb there were some kids over
26:36
here break dancing over there break
26:38
dancing
26:39
and when when they pull in in the
26:42
station wagon
26:44
it's right here
26:45
you can see this building across the way
26:47
I believe you can that fire hydrant is
26:50
the same too
26:52
but yeah you get a clear shot of this
26:54
and it's it's
26:56
100 oh yeah
26:59
oh I definitely agree it's also the only
27:02
feature film movie that that had the
27:05
real Ronald McDonald in it
27:08
and then think about it those doors
27:09
right there again not the exact same
27:11
doors but that's where Mac would have
27:13
floated from the counter yeah through
27:16
the restaurant I think he does a flip
27:18
and then comes out of those doors
27:20
chase after him
27:22
one of the best scenes in movie history
27:24
it's a classic but I actually really
27:25
like Mac and Me
27:27
I mean it's a straight up ET rip-off but
27:29
it's pretty awesome
27:31
no
27:33
no oh no E.T ripped off Mac and Me
27:35
that's right
27:36
everything is recreated in there to be
27:38
like an active place you can even see
27:39
the menu boards in there on
27:53
if you take a look over here
27:53
it's another McDonald's Old sign is back
28:04
hey think about even even back in the
28:04
old days back when it was like the Fry
28:07
Guys and Grimace and Hamburglar they
28:10
were all inside here
28:12
you know Ronald hasn't even been used as
28:14
promotion or the mascot of McDonald's
28:16
and like over a decade probably like
28:18
almost 15 years
28:20
you won't see Ronald in a commercial
28:22
anymore
28:31
for Access press call button on the
28:34
keypad
28:36
not open to the public
28:39
in fact there's not even a drive-through
28:41
around the back
28:43
look at this it's not even like a place
28:45
you could drive through
28:46
and this is kind of like it's one block
28:48
off the main road and you got to really
28:49
want to come back in here
28:51
to this uh little Warehouse District
29:01
Ronald would answer maybe grimace
29:01
see what happens
29:02
should I no yeah well what's the worst
29:05
that'll happen
29:12
it was like the footprint of Ronald's
29:12
shoe down here
29:16
what it was like the footprint of
29:16
Ronald's shoe right here
29:27
is Ronald McDonald the happiest happiest
29:27
hamburger clown
29:38
oh check it out there's like a
29:40
McDonald's tables in there
29:46
yeah maybe they filmed some in there too
29:49
there's an old signage look at that you
29:51
see the McDonald's right behind the
29:53
golden arches there
30:05
oh there's a ladder over on this side
30:05
that you could just climb up to the roof
30:07
to get the
30:09
Get Up on the Roof
30:20
look up any old Mickey D's commercial
30:20
who's right here
30:21
all of them
30:27
trying to see what the prices say on
30:27
there I don't know if they have the
30:28
prices on the board or not probably not
30:30
probably wouldn't put the prices in a
30:32
commercial
30:34
or maybe they would
30:36
can't tell what that says in there
30:43
ever I'm over in this neck of the woods
30:46
like to swing by the donut hole I'm not
30:49
gonna get a donut but I am going to get
30:51
some coffee
30:52
it's the quality
30:57
I hope they have coffee
30:57
I would imagine they'll have coffee
31:00
yeah coffee and donuts you drive right
31:02
through the middle
31:04
of this donut
31:05
quote it's
31:08
quality
31:12
not gonna get a donut but I am going to
31:12
get a coffee I haven't had a coffee yet
31:14
today
31:16
it's about time to get a coffee
31:18
from the donut hole going through the
31:20
middle of the donut hole
31:27
got the pink boxes cash only I think I
31:27
got some cash
31:41
some delicious pastries over there they
31:41
just have a plethora of delicious
31:44
looking donuts right there
31:50
it's pretty good
31:50
cream filled ones with strawberries
31:53
different other pastries
31:55
red items these are their hours up here
31:59
are from five to nine every day except
32:01
Tuesday they're closed got my coffee
32:05
friendly service decent prices
32:08
caffeinated beverage
32:10
achieved from the donut hole
32:20
and a good size beverage look at that
32:20
piping hot caffeinated beverage achieved
32:23
once again back in some traffic heading
32:25
towards downtown and then from downtown
32:27
L.A back to Hollywood I'm gonna drive by
32:29
my old neighborhood here at Hollywood
32:31
I'm noticing that there's a Denny's
32:34
right here
32:35
this Denny's has been torn down
32:37
right on this corner
32:39
was it Denny's on the corner of Van Ness
32:42
and sunset
32:44
I would eat there occasionally
32:48
many many times for the couple years I
32:50
lived here in this neighborhood I would
32:51
pull right off here off Sunset I would
32:53
do this little roundabout right here
32:56
you can see the Hollywood sign off in
32:58
the distance I would stop
33:00
right at this section that Denny's was
33:02
over there you can see that Denny's in
33:04
the background of Pulp Fiction one of
33:06
the scenes from Pulp Fiction was it an
33:08
old dilapidated building that was right
33:10
here and then I would turn here off
33:11
Harold way
33:13
onto this road
33:15
which would connect with my former
33:17
apartment down here at the end
33:23
I lived on Carlton Ave
33:24
halfway between Hollywood Boulevard and
33:26
sunset right on the 101.
33:35
in fact that was my apartment building
33:35
right there this one right here
33:43
yep
33:43
that was it
33:44
I pulled my car right down this driveway
33:47
at underground parking
33:50
replace nozzle when finished that's not
33:53
the car that I'm driving but
33:55
five dollars 29 cents a gallon here at
33:57
the 76.
33:59
self pumping gas nozzle
34:02
cross
34:03
from Tommy burger over there
34:06
and you can see the roof so that used to
34:09
be my roofie right up there I would sit
34:11
up there sometimes and edit my videos on
34:13
my phone
34:14
you see the Hollywood Sign Paramount
34:15
Studios Griffith Observatory downtown LA
34:17
right from the roof view right up there
34:25
I would always get gas
34:25
right here at the 76.
34:28
brings back a lot of memories 101
34:31
freeways right over there
34:33
is a little mechanic shop here that
34:36
fixes some of these holly hollywood Tour
34:37
Vans
34:45
different time
34:45
back in the parking structure now back
34:47
at my hotel
34:48
this is where I started there's that
34:50
staircase
34:52
a little Back to the Future
34:54
spots today
34:57
kind of head up to the elevator and head
34:58
up to my room and back up at my room
35:01
really good view of Universal Studios
35:08
can't really see the lower lot from here
35:08
where Hill Valley is you can see Warner
35:10
Brothers off in the distance
35:12
but I can't really see the Backlot
35:14
section of universal from this angle but
35:16
you get a pretty good view
35:17
of the globe City Walk
35:19
Griffith parkhoff in the distance the
35:21
archway
35:23
Wizarding World castle
35:26
and through the clearing in the mountain
35:28
and the trees over there downtown L.A
35:30
got the freeway here
35:32
as well
35:40
pretty awesome view for sure
35:40
it's a valley off in the distance
35:42
let's go do it for today thanks for
35:43
watching I'll see you in the next video
35:44
the Vlog
35:46
is also it's very overcast
35:49
has it been a lot of sun
35:51
out too much on my visit to SoCal this
35:55
this current trip
35:56
it's been kind of nice having uh
35:58
having cooler temperatures I'll see you
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