Incredible Day One of Lengthy Road Trip With My Dad - Father & Son Memories / Revisiting Our History
May 2021 Road Trip With My Dad Day One
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins with the saint
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cloud florida water tower and i am
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embarking on a road trip that i wanted
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to do for
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many years
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kind of a trip through nostalgia through
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not only my youth but also a special
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guest
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is going to be tagging along my father
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my dad right here
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it's going to be interesting we have
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never done i was thinking about this we
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have never done a road trip you and i
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together
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we've done family trips
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me my mom my sister and you but you and
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i have never done a proper
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lengthy road trip together this will be
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a first
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so what we're going to do is just go
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around to places
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that you used to preach at
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where i grew up
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where places you worked places
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just
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that we just kind of have memories out
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where are we at now where are we
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starting off at this is the uh
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congregation that i last preached at
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uh and ministered here until 1999
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um this is now a spanish congregation
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that meets here
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they purchased uh the building of the
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property
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from the congregation i don't know
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four or five years after i left
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we moved here in in 91 correct 1991 21
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and then i resigned in 99 july of 99.
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this was first christian church
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and i'm recalling a time when a tornado
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went through here and kind of destroyed
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part of the awning now this i think they
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fixed it since then but this if this
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reminds me if you step back you'll see
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there's a
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a little bit of a tear there
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in the roof and they repainted i got
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some some screen
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screen captures here photos you went
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through some family photo albums and
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this is what it looked like
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i don't know if i took this or if you
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took this or mom took this
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but this is what it looked like you
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could see
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what it was back in the in the early 90s
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as well
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and it was a school for a while this
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this this was the main sanctuary this is
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where we worshiped
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and there's a building
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uh one story building over here
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this was the educational building and
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that's where we had
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the
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school during the week
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congregation and actually inverted that
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they have their worship center now over
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here
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and i think they use the older building
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here for their youth oh so this is where
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they have their their probably their
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sunday services yes and here
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what if we could peek in the window and
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see
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this sign here says iglesia
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de dios pentecostal mi
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so it's a penta pentecostal congregation
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it's a pentecostal church of god
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pentecostal church of god and the win of
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can't read it
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that last word that it means welcome
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wayne avitos wait a minute
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buena vitas
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beneath this remember they gave us a
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tour
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we did come by here we didn't document i
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didn't film any of it but years and
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years ago
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stopped by and
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one of the folks here let us in walk
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around this was the sanctuary
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and there's it was we might be able to
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see it around the back there but there's
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a stained glass window behind i've got
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it covered up if you still exist and
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remember the alcove over there to the
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side uh-huh that little section when you
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were up there preaching you'd always say
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those in the alcove
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which was that little section over there
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that little past over to the right
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past those two pillars i don't know why
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that just came back to my mind you
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always talk about the alcove they redone
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the floor as well and remove the pews
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so that was
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31 years ago
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when we first moved here we moved here
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from oklahoma
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and this road trip we're doing we're
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going to be going to a lot of those
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spots in no particular order it will not
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be in order of
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you know continuation of timeline
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it's going to we're going to be all over
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the place and just kind of going where
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where the wind blows but we do have some
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specific spots in mind so 91 to 99 over
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here eight years
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yep
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i still see the see the reflection of
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the glass
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that's the glass of the baptistry
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that covering thing is covering up the
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opening of the baptistery there
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it just looks like you're looking at
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your own reflection
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oh
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just notice it is their 20th anniversary
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so this congregation took over
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this property back in 2001.
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now back in the day
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it used to be some handprints back here
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and your sister's name is back i think
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my sister her name is embedded for
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posterity
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you know i say the word posterity a lot
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here's an interesting fact
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oh wow look
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right there
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1992 1992
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faith it's my sister's name
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i wonder if she did this this is like a
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rendition of herself there that might be
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it says smile
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now see this is where see i kind of was
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drawing a blank because i thought it was
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around i think there's another one
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around the back
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but i always say this is for posterity
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and
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spoiler i got that phrase from you
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in oklahoma
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we were playing basketball and down the
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road on this road trip we are gonna be
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spoiler we're gonna be going to oklahoma
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on this and we'll go buy the basketball
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court we're doing a home video and you
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said the phrase
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this one's for posterity
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and it's always stuck with me
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yeah see all these are here from the
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early 90s
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and these are all ones that went
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to the school here for a short while
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a very short while is there another one
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back here
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pretty sure
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now a lot of these names i do i do
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recognize
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you know friends of my sister
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okay
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but i think i was just i was mistaken oh
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here is adam that's adam west oh adam
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west batman
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batman was here on that corner
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behind this fence was
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now was this a parsonage or was it just
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a place we rented so
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explain what a parsonage is uh parsons
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is an old word back in the day
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when preachers were called parsons
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and a parson edge
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was where the church provided a house
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for them to live in the partially set
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that board still
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is used a lot
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okay i never realized what that meant i
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said that word a hundred times and never
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knew the backstory on it and then
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when we left i'm not sure if the next
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minister lived there or not
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but the church has since sold the
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property this is not that's not church
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it's just a personal personal
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residence now
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but we live there for the whole the
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whole tenure basically of your
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and here's the stained glass window i
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was mentioning you can see it from the
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back
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many many hours
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i would stare at this from the opposite
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direction of me
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in the alcove
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in a in a church pew yeah which most
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churches don't even use pews anymore
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that's kind of
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chairs that's an old school thing yeah
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chairs now
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it's true
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but yeah this this i remember this very
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vividly you know you got to flip it
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around the other way
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close the door
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just lit up to the baptistry this went
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into
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the baptistry area that you're pointing
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out there with the
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stained glass window also the choir loft
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that's a word you don't hear much
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anymore fire choir off now we have
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stages with spotlights
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and worship teams but back in the day
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we had a
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and the choir set
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in the choir loft sang with an organist
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and a pianist and this was a door that
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went into a side room
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and there's another door that went out
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into the out into that alcove area wait
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this was the church van son
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you may or may not remember that when we
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were here
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and this was
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the awning that was here it was the
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carport if you will okay where the
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where we parked the van scooter your mom
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used to drive drive the bus the school
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bus for the school
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notice there's no
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there's no cardboard here what happened
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to the car for dad your mom ran over the
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carport
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she pulled in
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i don't remember which pillar she hit
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but one of these pillars
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and it took it down
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so there it is at least we have the
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photograph
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yeah
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oh god wow i had forgotten about that
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till i saw this and it used to be
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for a short while there was a home here
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and there was also a basketball court
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right in this section the basketball
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court was here right here and there used
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to be no fence there was no fence and
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the school kids this was their
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playground this was the you're right
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before the house was built that's right
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there was a playground a basketball
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court
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and i would come out here and play
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basketball and you played basketball at
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night
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irritated the heck out of me because
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everybody's around us was trying to
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sleep
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and there you were out there a couple of
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your buddies out there hooping and
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hollering and shooting basketballs and
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everything
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i think we have a photograph in there
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the basketball
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that's that's adam adam before he became
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the woo see i play basketball i like i
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like juggling that's right like bo
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jackson i think that was my hero
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oh jackson okay there's the front of the
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house we'll walk over there
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in a second i thought we had a picture
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of you here's the front of the church
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which we've already shown so we had a
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basketball shot we got a
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that's
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the bear is getting out of the cage over
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there
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now there's
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well i thought we had a basketball shot
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we do have one it might be right back
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into the boat the bow knows one there no
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all right the younger eyes of my son
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found the picture it wasn't i couldn't
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pull it up there you go that is that is
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proving that the van was marched apart
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right here that's right
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right underneath there and that look on
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my face while i'm dunking
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a miniature soccer ball
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is probably the expression mom had on
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her face
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when she stretched out this
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cardboard i thought i was so cool you
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know looking back on it i thought i was
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jumping about eight feet in the air
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about six inches and i couldn't even
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dunk a full saw and i think this wasn't
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even like regulation it's not even a ten
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foot goal now it was more like an eight
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foot go but there is you can see the
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windows here the building that's this
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building
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right over here
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yeah right over right over in that
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section i see the rusty shed
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the rusty shed the rusty shad i say
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that's the
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oh no kidding you are right yep
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wow good eye gonna walk around the front
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actually
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i just see something else
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this is not the fence
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there's a second film so they have built
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a secondary fence
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i think the shed has been moved
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the shed might be might have been back
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just a little bit yeah
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there's our shadows and over here also
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we have a photograph of my first car it
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was a ford ltd
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and it was parked
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right over in this little grassy section
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my first car this one that's the one
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i think there's actually another photo
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in there
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of it but it was like a close-up version
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and it was painted gray and i eventually
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got it painted i think i made a painted
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like dark or black color i can't
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remember what i think i'd yeah i did i
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got it painted
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and then i got in a wreck and it had a
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white door on it
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there's a station wag remember that i
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remember that yeah i got it painted
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black and then i had a white door yeah
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and there's the station wagon and
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that home is right over there across the
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street and the youth minister home was
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over here and that has been demolished
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this is but the shed is still right
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there and we used to store stuff in that
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shed
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right there yeah how about that i've
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forgotten that see it's all coming back
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to us now
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the sun is just now rising that building
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you under
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the yonder building not this building
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where the down the alley where the
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carport used to be but the second gray
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building that extension that's the back
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portion of that education building i was
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telling you about okay right that's
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where the kitchen was for the for the
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church for the for the congregation
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meals for the school yeah a fellowship
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meal there you go they called it yep
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fellowship meal and sometimes i would
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dip out of the service early
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to go help
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anytime they needed my help to get out
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of the service early
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i would go
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i would go over there and help load help
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load the chairs
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help load the chairs
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and then we had to move those screens
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the doors the wall yeah yeah yeah
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wow
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and my my attempt and being young and
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youthful i would grab as many of the
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metal folding chairs as possible so you
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wouldn't just carry one in each hand you
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carry seven
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on either hand
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just kind of show off for everyone look
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i'm whole i'm carrying 12 chairs
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and then by the end of the day my arms
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occur on the corner of 192
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and this little establishment over here
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used to be a baseball card shop that i
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used to visit a lot i think the guys
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that worked in there probably got sick
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of me going in there but i would walk
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over to that baseball card shop
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and there's a carport here that's been
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built on and we're kind of responsible
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for that as well well we had to screen
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them now they've actually
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bricked it up
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dressed up nice in the front of the
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building let's see the you got a picture
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of the front i don't know why
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my sister's not in she was taking a
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picture i guess she was so there's mom
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there's me a very thin me and very thin
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you and young
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and young you yeah that is in front of
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this very
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building right here well this is the
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this was our home from
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moved here in 91.
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and then in 99 you guys moved elsewhere
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in town and have moved other places in
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town since then but this was the first
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place that we moved
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from
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oklahoma to
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the parsonage
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no when we first moved here
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but actually there's a house for that
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where that
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shop is
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there was aft after the basketball court
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was torn out they built the house right
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no they tore the house down that's when
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the whole place began to play okay
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gotcha yeah
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i get foggy sometimes
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remembering many times that i pulled my
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car up here
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because she had your car mom had her car
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in the driveway so i would have to park
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next to it and i always recall these
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little power pole stanchions that hold
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up
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you know just to just to keep the poles
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in place
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and the first day we moved here
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there was a tornado siren that went off
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from the water tower which is located
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because my sister and i both terrified
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of tornadoes and moving from oklahoma
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the previous spot we had lived
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mom said there's not going to be any
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tornadoes in florida
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first day
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first day that tornado sirens the uhaul
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truck the tornado siren
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so i'm just showing the the bow nose
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juggling here i don't think bo jackson
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ever juggled but just i was wearing a
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bow no shirt
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that was right here
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there you go
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pretty cool
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where does the time go
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very quick
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this is first of many spots we're going
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to be going to
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we're going to hit the road and just to
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reiterate there will be no
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no order
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of of the places we're going it's just
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kind of it won't be it won't be in
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chronological order there's a dump truck
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going by
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but we're going to head out
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head northbound
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up out
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starting to make our way
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out of florida and just see what the day
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happens
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and drive a few hundred miles each day
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stop for the night and just document the
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whole experience of myself and my dad
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did i do the join me shall you i don't
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know if i did
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i don't remember you doing that
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but if i join me
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shall you
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you know you said nailed it hit the road
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hit the road jack that's the song i was
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thinking about it reminds me
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when you and i were riding with your
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grandpa
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your mother's dead no you're going to
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say you were in a car we weren't in the
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car i know where that happened
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it was in
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oklahoma commerce oklahoma
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i might be wrong
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you tell the story but i said
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whoa joe
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whoa jack
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just a phrase you know oh jack like oh
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my goodness oh jack and your name is
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jack you realize that was
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his name my grandfather
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your wife's husband
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husband
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your wife
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i know a man with a wooden leg named
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smith
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the other husband
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i spent the best years of my life in the
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arms of another man's wife
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my mother
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i can't remember who it was
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oh gosh
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all right let's hit the road
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jack
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1991 seems like a long time ago but at
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the same time it doesn't really seem
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like that long ago also i'm not sure if
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i mentioned this is in sync cloud
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florida
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moving on
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heading out to saint cloud and
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northbound
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it used to be a little awning between
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the two buildings that would kind of
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shield you from the weather
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right there you can see it's been torn
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out
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drive up and show
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used to be a flagpole right there by
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that walk
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oh right there in the middle right there
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and the sign so this is now where the
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congregation is that's where your office
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was and the sign
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for
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what is now not used anymore is still
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take a look at this this has not been
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used
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in many many years but it used to be
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from 8 to 8 30 and 2 30 to 3
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was the school zone
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that sign is a little relic that is no
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longer utilized
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would you dig that up and
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it'd be worth something one day that
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belongs in a museum
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fueling up at the turkey lake
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service plaza off the turnpike
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and there is no
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self-pumping
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gas mechanisms if i hold it with my hand
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current price 288 a gallon
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and there's a wheelbarrow full of water
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here and there is another service plaza
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just up the road called the
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okahumka plaza stopped at the turkey
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lake one instead got a large
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piping hot caffeinated beverage probably
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needs one of those cardboard things
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around it this is a little toasty
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oh my gosh that's hot should also
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mention that big the foot is also
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tagging along
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for this road trip adventure all right
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back on the turnpike
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veered off the turnpike and stopped off
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near the villages
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at a place called brownwood
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and keeping up with the theming they
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have
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they have a cattle guard right here
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across the road
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because this is a cattle drive
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going through here
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you recognize this from your truck
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driving days i saw this yeah yeah
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they were building it when i first saw
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it how many years ago you think that was
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at least probably
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took us a while to find it because this
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whole area has grown up quite a bit
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since you recall but i never knew this
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existed here's a cowboy with a little
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calf
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and there was a sign back there saying
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stay off the sky you try to wrangle it
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there was a sign back there saying do
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not sit
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on the cattle well this gentleman's
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sitting on the cat on the cattle there's
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a bird up there
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flying around as well
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this is
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corner of megison road and state road
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44.
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is there a truck stop nearby that you
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would stop at here
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actually there's two or three of them up
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at the interstate
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i-4 is just what we're about six miles i
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guess from i-4 to the west yeah
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and i was stopped at their locations
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now when you were trucking you couldn't
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really pull over the truck on the side
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of the road and see stuff like this down
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the road this way
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and just have to drive by and look at it
22:49
and couldn't stop there was nowhere to
22:51
stop
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actually there's really no where to stop
22:54
now we had to park up the road up the
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street
23:01
okay there's a little information
23:01
placard over here
23:03
see what this says
23:04
it says carrying the legacy
23:08
brownwood has chosen to quote carry the
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legacy
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bronze sculptures
23:26
i really like the fact that they have
23:26
the little
23:32
the cattle what cattle guards down there
23:32
sometimes when you're out in the middle
23:33
of nowhere and you go up on farmland you
23:35
will see these cattle guards so the
23:37
cattle cannot cross across their hooves
23:40
will not allow them to walk across
23:42
across the
23:43
cattle guard and they place it
23:45
place it here too a true cattle guard
23:49
doesn't have anything between the bars
23:52
that's what actually keeps the cattle
23:54
from going across it
23:56
drove quite a ways off of highway 90 old
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highway 90 runs parallel to 90 which
24:03
runs parallel
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to interstate 10
24:06
is this placard that says
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the town
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of elleville
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not really a lot out here but the
24:14
present route 90 led through this town
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of several hundred people
24:19
the ruins of the sawmill are on the west
24:21
bank
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of the swanee oh that is
24:27
confluence with the swanny
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river
24:31
and this bridge
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which you cannot drive down this bridge
24:35
anymore
24:36
they have this barricade
24:38
but take a look all the way at the end
24:41
old timey bridge way down there
24:43
driving by this on that road over there
24:46
i assume this was the railroad bridge
24:49
because the railroad is right near here
24:51
as well but it's not a railroad bridge
24:55
it's an old road no railroad tracks
24:58
at all
25:00
some pigeons
25:02
walking around
25:28
pulling up into lee
25:30
and the title of the town name
25:34
is little but proud it's a little town
25:38
they like it a lot
25:43
kind of like big the foot
25:43
he's little
25:44
he's not a full-size sasquatch
25:48
but he's proud
25:54
big the foot would be proud
25:54
and this is the downtown area
25:57
very quaint
26:11
also through this area are lots of
26:11
flowers
26:13
that are just randomly growing off the
26:15
side
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of the road
26:18
very beautiful
26:21
i don't believe they were planted though
26:25
they just pop up on their own accord
26:28
are like petunias are those petunias
26:31
it might be
26:32
i pulled over here at the madison
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florida entrance
26:36
there is a gas station called the pit
26:39
which brings back memories of my youth
26:42
we would go on family road trips
26:44
we would pass
26:46
the pit stop probably going up to
26:49
my grandma's in
26:50
mississippi we would probably go through
26:52
this area where there's a chain of pit
26:54
stops and we made a little song i made a
26:57
little you made a little song you tried
26:58
you and me to sing and half the time i
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wouldn't sing it and you would just sing
27:02
it well i don't sing it sing it anyway
27:04
and it went something like this
27:07
we're going to the pit stop stop stop
27:10
stop and we're going to get some pop pop
27:12
pop pop pop and we're going to potty
27:14
potty potty potty potty potty at the pit
27:17
stop at the pit stop see i remember it
27:24
that's been like 40 years ago prices for
27:24
gas has changed over that time period
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too
27:28
gas back then was not 2.94 a gallon was
27:30
not i was like finding the
27:33
old advertisements there's a coca-cola
27:36
says have a coke
27:41
used to be have a coke and a smile right
27:41
if there was like the continue
27:44
sometimes you'll see them painted on the
27:45
side of the brick that's not painted on
27:48
it's actually a piece of wood placed on
27:49
it but that's that shows some age
27:53
chimes i'm going to guess this is the
27:55
county courthouse
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madison county
27:58
and there is a silo a grain silo
28:01
in front of the courthouse you don't see
28:03
that every day
28:18
hundreds of bicyclists
28:18
and those
28:20
vehicles were cast in madison were
28:25
they carry the bicycles okay yeah that's
28:27
what i was doing
28:34
so we got about
28:34
40 or 50 motorcycles and then the
28:36
bicycles
28:38
behind the motorcycles
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oh yeah there was a whole crowd of them
29:12
i think that was all of them
29:23
arrived in greenville florida
29:23
home of ray charles
29:25
musical genius known to the world
29:29
ray charles r c robinson but known as
29:32
ray charles
29:34
was a native son of greenville
29:37
and known by his childhood playmate
29:39
simply as rc
29:42
he had a fun fact about
29:44
greenville right
29:46
uh yeah when i was driving a truck i
29:48
went to a bunch of greenvilles and so i
29:50
did some research
29:52
and of the 50 states
29:54
the town named greenville is used 33
29:57
times
29:59
so in 33 of the states is a town
30:02
greenville which makes it the most used
30:04
name
30:05
for one town
30:07
in the u.s because a lot of different a
30:08
lot of different states have multiple
30:10
town names but greenville will be the
30:12
number one out of all the town names for
30:14
different states
30:20
and one of them just so happens to be
30:20
greenville florida greenville florida
30:31
and right here in this park
30:31
is the band himself
30:59
from what i heard
30:59
is the home that he lived in was slated
31:01
for demolition
31:03
but it is us has also been saved
31:06
and it's just a few blocks away so gonna
31:08
swing by there as well check that out
31:16
after further reading here
31:16
well not further reading but after
31:17
reading
31:18
this plaque it says it is a
31:20
reconstruction of the home
31:27
where musician ray charles 2004
31:27
201930 to 2004 lived with his mother
31:31
aretha williams and adopted grandmother
31:34
so it is not
31:35
the original house
31:37
it is a reconstruction of the home
31:41
a fireplace
31:42
and one of the four small rooms provided
31:44
warmth open windows and doors allowed
31:46
breezes
31:47
to cool the house
31:49
the abandoned house was scheduled for
31:50
demolition demolition in 2006
31:54
the town purchased the structure to
31:56
preserve it
31:57
okay that's kind of confusing is it
32:00
this doesn't look like theory this looks
32:02
looks like it's been fixed up quite a
32:03
bit
32:05
the cat the town completed the
32:07
reconstruction of the house in 2008 so
32:10
it is the original foundation
32:12
they've just completely reconstructed
32:14
the house
32:16
yeah does that make sense yeah
32:19
you can tell by the
32:21
roof over the
32:23
porch that's a new
32:26
roof
32:29
the metal roofing
32:36
but that looks like the original floor
32:36
and steps
33:00
decided to go ahead and stop and get
33:00
some more fuel
33:06
this one has a self
33:06
pumping
33:08
nozzle gas price here
33:11
getting into the florida panhandle
33:14
three dollars
33:16
and nine cents a gallon and i went
33:18
inside got myself another coffee and
33:20
also gonna try something called an ooey
33:22
gooey butter cake
33:26
have you ever had an ooey gooey butter
33:27
cake uh i have never had an ooey gooey
33:30
butter cake
33:31
here's another coca-cola emblem
33:34
and a grocery meat deli
33:36
and beer there's a taco with a sombrero
33:38
on
33:45
heading towards panama city
33:45
we have just crossed over into central
33:47
time zone
33:55
time travelers
33:55
that's us
34:04
it's a bumpy road
34:04
now passing through bluntstown or
34:06
blountstown m b railroad
34:09
locomotive four four four
34:13
just sitting here
34:15
along the tracks m b
34:18
102.
34:47
all right dad take us back to 1981 1981
34:47
the picture you're looking at is the
34:48
house we moved into we took that
34:51
uh and that is the house right there
34:54
that we're looking at
34:55
here on cherry street
34:57
in panama city florida
35:00
how many months did we live here live
35:01
here about three months
35:04
approximately
35:06
and we um
35:08
i'm noticing that they have fix on the
35:10
far end
35:12
the carport section
35:14
is now flattened as opposed to when you
35:17
had your car parked under there
35:20
they kind of had like a little elevated
35:22
but also noticing
35:24
that the wrought iron fencing that holds
35:29
holds up the awning is still there i
35:31
mean the wrong iron posts the wrought
35:32
iron posts
35:34
yep they're still there
35:35
as well as looking at looking down
35:38
cherry street
35:39
cherry street or cherry ave cherry
35:40
street cherry street
35:43
which i thought it was dirt but you said
35:44
it was paved just like a lot of dirt
35:46
over it
35:47
the same amount of power poles
35:50
are still down there so if you look back
35:52
at the photo of the house and you look
35:53
at the power poles
35:55
and that store at the end three months
35:58
three months we lived here
36:00
i would have been
36:02
eight years old
36:04
eight or nine i've been nine years old
36:06
we got a picture over here now where do
36:08
we live before here and after here uh
36:11
before we moved here in 1981
36:14
we lived in leroy illinois which will be
36:16
one of the last places we'll get to
36:18
visit on this trip
36:20
and then when we left from here
36:22
we moved to
36:24
pensacola florida
36:26
which we'll probably get to tomorrow
36:30
one thing i'm also noticing is the
36:31
wrought iron not rot i keep saying
36:33
wrought iron but the chain link fence
36:35
over there with a topper that is very
36:38
distinct
36:40
you'll notice that in the photograph
36:42
that you took from the road
36:44
there is that chain link fence with that
36:46
topper
36:47
that is very distinct with the mailbox
36:50
and the post
36:52
over there
36:54
new paint job though it is now painted
36:56
beige
36:57
another interesting thing that happened
36:59
in this when we moved in
37:01
i hurt myself that's right on a pole it
37:04
was a
37:05
it was a bottom over of a clothing rack
37:09
a clothing rack was in the yard and we
37:11
were moving in i stepped on it and the
37:14
clothing rack flipped up flipped up and
37:16
hit me below the eye right below your
37:18
left eye
37:20
and i had a scar there for many many
37:23
and it happened right there in front of
37:24
that front door
37:26
it was pretty painful i do recall that
37:28
even at nine years old i can remember
37:29
back to
37:30
to that happening
37:31
we're only here three months
37:37
you're on cherry street for cherry lion
37:37
area
37:41
it's a cherry street yeah
37:44
there it is it's cool it is so cool
37:46
okay we're coming up on the same house
37:48
from a different angle
37:53
this isn't abandoned
37:55
yeah we thought this might have been it
37:56
but it's not
37:58
you notice a lot of these houses on this
38:00
street are abandoned
38:01
like this one here
38:03
is abandoned this car's just sitting
38:05
desolate
38:06
you can see this broken out glass yeah
38:09
and i think this may have been where our
38:11
landlord lived
38:13
because they lived right next next to us
38:15
or one door down looks like this was
38:17
right next to us
38:18
and you'll notice the step up to the
38:20
front door we had to step up to their
38:21
front door to go in their house
38:24
well that's what i think this was our
38:25
landlord's house
38:28
and then this is the cherry street house
38:31
that we lived in
38:33
not sure anybody's here except that car
38:35
does look like somebody like this
38:38
and it's the same green step up to the
38:40
door the same green
38:43
step up that's in the photograph and the
38:44
photograph yeah
38:47
and i hate to keep reiterating myself if
38:48
there's those
38:50
iron pieces
38:55
that's pretty neat
38:55
all right what's the next spot here
38:56
right here
38:57
all right now we're going to go over to
39:00
the church that we attended for a brief
39:02
time while we were living
39:03
over on the other side of town
39:06
real quick like before heading out
39:09
the top one top of that metal piece
39:11
is gone but the middle s
39:15
still over there
39:16
the design inside the wrought iron there
39:20
that's what you're talking about yeah
39:23
let's zoom in
39:36
that's amazing
39:36
after how many years 81
39:39
40 years ago
39:57
my wife
39:57
your mom she's definitely gonna enjoy
39:59
watching these
40:00
watching these videos
40:02
i should also mention a story about my
40:04
mom she always describes
40:06
over the years i i've always heard her
40:08
tell
40:09
stories of me and her walking to the
40:11
store
40:13
to get food and stuff and she could
40:15
always she never liked the smell of the
40:17
paper mill that was down the road and
40:20
when he pulled into this neighborhood
40:22
i could smell the paper mill or at least
40:24
a mill of some sort yeah
40:27
the stories are true they are
40:30
something else i remember about this
40:31
house son
40:33
is that after we've been there
40:35
i don't know maybe a month or so
40:37
the carpet smelled like
40:40
dog mess
40:41
and your mom just kept complaining kept
40:43
complaining so we went over to the
40:45
landlord's house and asked them if we
40:47
could rip the carpet out so one night
40:49
your mom and i ripped out all the carpet
40:51
in the house
40:53
so it wouldn't stink smelled like
40:56
a dog urine
40:59
and then when we finally moved out when
41:01
we did move over to pensacola they
41:03
wouldn't give us our security pot
41:05
deposit back because we ripped the
41:06
carpet out of the house
41:13
oh gosh what an experience now according
41:13
to that billboard up there
41:19
says the building has been sold
41:19
with an exclamation point
41:45
it was just this front portion
41:45
okay in 1981 this was an add-on
41:48
this
41:49
probably from
41:51
here over is an add-on
41:53
because we parked the u-haul truck
41:58
right at the back door here
42:00
so we could plug in our refrigerator and
42:02
freezer before moving into the house
42:04
over on cherry into the house on cherry
42:06
street yeah exactly
42:11
so you had the refrigerator in the back
42:11
of the u-haul right into that door of
42:13
the u-haul yeah
42:14
and why were you plugging the
42:15
refrigerator in just to keep the the
42:17
food we had all the food in the
42:18
refrigerator in the freezer and it kept
42:21
pretty good for a day or two while we
42:23
were actually on the road but then when
42:25
we get somewhere we would plug it in
42:28
keep it cool so it didn't spoil you
42:30
backed it up here plugged it in
42:32
they built you know concrete here or the
42:34
cinder blocks door was somewhere around
42:37
in here
42:41
it has been gutted out it sure is
42:45
now you plug you parked the u-haul here
42:47
because have we not moved in that house
42:48
yet no we didn't move in the house we
42:50
were actually
42:51
we stayed about uh maybe you know four
42:53
or five days in a motel on the beach
42:56
while the u-haul was parked here plugged
42:59
in while we were looking for a house
43:01
so for four or five four or five days of
43:03
u-haul is parked right there yeah
43:06
with all our stuff
43:08
and then we got the house
43:10
because then we moved over and
43:14
moved everything into the cherry street
43:16
house
43:19
this is the front entrance or was the
43:21
front entrance
43:41
this was the original
43:41
front entrance to the building
43:52
so the sanctuary was in here
43:52
or the sanctuary was here
44:07
and from here we went
44:07
to pensacola
44:09
yeah i was going to get
44:11
i was
44:12
the goal was to get work here in panama
44:14
city but i never could get any
44:16
real work
44:18
so then found an opportunity in
44:20
pensacola
44:22
so we moved over to pensacola
44:31
in time for your sister to be born in
44:31
december
44:33
there in pensacola at the hospital
44:41
i think that's where we used to try to
44:41
get you to go in the water
44:44
i was afraid of the water you didn't
44:45
like the water when you were
44:52
young sun is slowly starting to descend
44:52
it's 5 30 p.m
44:54
it's the hour time change it's
44:56
6 30 by driving times
45:14
that's gonna do it for today
45:14
an eventful
45:16
trip so far day one
45:18
a lot of good memories see the next
45:20
video
45:21
the trip will continue
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the vlog
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is over