Exploring Run Down Areas Of Downtown Baltimore Maryland - North Avenue & Leakin Park With Dan Bell
Baltimore Maryland 2024 with Dan Bell
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Thursday May
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30th
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2024 I am in Baltimore
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Maryland just just on the outskirts of
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downtown I think technically I am in
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downtown going to be meeting up with a
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friend who is local to the area and
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knows some of the nooks and crannies of
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downtown Baltimore and to be honest I
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have no idea where the day will lead
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myself
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and anyone that's
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watching I'm inviting
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you if you're up for it to join
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me shall you I am walking through a
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neighborhood or an area known as F's
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point just strolling through
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here feels good out too definitely not
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as hot
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here as it is where I came from in
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Central Florida a little cooler current
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temperature at 11:17 this is saying it's
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68° it's sunny not any clouds in the sky
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at the moment a little later it's going
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to Cloud up a little bit but definitely
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no rain in the forecast 68 I will take
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it going along the Cobblestone I guess
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this technically be brick this whole
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brick you see the the old railway tracks
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end right here over towards the old Pier
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which you can see some factories across
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this River and check it out you can't
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walk out there anymore they have it cut
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off there's the old Pier right there
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look at that there's parts of it relics
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of it right there detached from the new
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walkway right here at the
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warf that's right there the warf see on
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the
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side oh man that breeze feels
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awesome got a few Ducks down there very
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nice and across the
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way big old ships
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and a small little boat in the water
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there
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too and reading what that says City Pier
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Broadway over there right up
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there got some canoes out here here at
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the warf I want to call it a Bottle Tree
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but it is a bottle something here with
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the bottles wedged in sideways and then
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going up kind of like the bottle house
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at knots bear
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Farm I don't know if I've ever seen a
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bottle fish before though look at this
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that's pretty neat it's a bottle but
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it's made to look like a fish there's a
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couple of them got the Vagabond theater
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there and eat bera's
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muscles musles
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muscles it's very
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assertive what if I don't want to as I
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was walking around down here doing a
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little filming at the buildings one of
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the locals said what are you doing a
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little bird watching my response was
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what Lor what all right I have been
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picked up scooped up I am now in a
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secret
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vehicle with a special guest you want to
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give a hint on who you are special
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guest
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uh if you switch the letters around it's
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ban
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Dell Bandell
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I mean it's just insane how many GRS
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pleas just want to show the top up here
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top of the hill you can
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see downtown off in the distance and
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also look at the castle like entrance
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all right who is it
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really it's Dan Bell hi everyone how are
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you it's so good to see you again it's
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been a while it has been a while it's
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been a while I think i' I haven't hung
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out with you in Baltimore in years now
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you did come up to Philly last time I
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was in Philly yeah but I haven't you had
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a day with you the rocky locations or
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something yeah we went to Rocky's house
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there's a new Rocky a new Rocky movie
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yeah and he is at his own statue and at
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the top of the steps oh it's a new Rocky
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film I didn't know that he he fights uh
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bit NE oh
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God JH bonder hored he got little
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windows on the side it's little
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domed roof building here
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probably what happens is there are
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probably steps where you step down
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inside look at the front door
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here even has the
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jhv logo on the front of the
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door now see that would actually have an
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original key to it you can see the
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keyhole wow
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pull over here real quick for a minute
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Dan I want to get some uh get some cash
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here cash out of here and can you pull
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it to this ATM oh you go by the cashier
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oh wait a second ATM I was going to pull
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some money out but
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uh wow that is something else I think
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anyone listens to the no Lo no loitering
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signage no this little gas station I
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don't know if I've ever
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seen a chain link fence around it so you
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can't get in from the street
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look at this just a random chain leak
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fence around the gas station why I don't
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know this is kind of interesting this is
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right next to the train tracks by the
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old meat factory that they're tearing
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down this was used for like cattle that
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stuff you said D yeah so the trains back
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in the
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day would stop here uh there was
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probably like
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a some kind of a platform or something
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and they would bring cattle into this I
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got a few pay foam skeletons
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there it's like an old Bell Tower up
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there of some sort it's an Old Market
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you see where it says Market still on
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the side with the tow up
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top look at this little building kind a
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wedged old bank right there wedged on
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side here this is
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the motel which is now on Motel 6 it's
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like the Madison Park Medical Center is
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going to on The Chopping Block soon they
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torn down quite a few things through
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here they got a little fence around it
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here I smell fire so something's Bur
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just dropped as hell over
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horrified but um I
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I I know it's it's horrible but it's
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went to I love it
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sh it's so exciting
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um it's now a social
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club but back in the day it was a
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theater you see there two uh they're
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almost like art deco cut
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up oh the two ladies wa yeah figurines
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or
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whatever I think that theater is from
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the early like 1915 something around
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there so they started showing
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silence but
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uh this this uh
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that is a Survivor cuz a lot of those
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theaters are just have been torn
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down they're not even here
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anymore the Maryland Transit Police out
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course old Coca-Cola signage oh you want
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to go back oh no I got
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it dinkin find dry cleaning and storage
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I think I don't know if that's open
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anymore
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no so Dan was just telling me this
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little little
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red uh think diamonds over there that's
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to alert the fire department if there's
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a fire to not go in that building just
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put the fire from Outdoors do not go
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inside the building or any any Pacman's
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Fried Chicken
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open hop in the store that's a small
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space right there I hop in the store and
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get a little
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beverage look at the phone booth
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yeah look at that that still has the old
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uh like Ivy all on the side of that one
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side all all right got a little
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refreshment going on here I got my lipin
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diet green tea
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loitering so evidently somebody used to
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live up top there above the store store
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is pretty active they had a lot of stuff
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in it even had a little delic you get
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sandwiches whole sign is behind this
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thing
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here so you can see this is fresh
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whatever was underneath that
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sign which is the case for a lot of
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these these
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old bodegas uh they cover up the old
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sign and uh you know it'll be 20 30
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years you can see the old sign it's like
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that's what over here caught on fire
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oh looks like there's been of fire in
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here too yeah
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are they tearing this thing down while
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we're in here the was
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that someone ran over something with a
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lawnmower no dude that was a collapse
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someone but this building is
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occupied
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here and this building
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is as far as I know is
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abandon all right this is a place I've
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heard about D on quite a few videos on
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leak
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Park pumping station here dated from 18
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1989 is that a real park or is just an
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area known as leak Park no it's a real
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Park
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um but this is one of the only roads
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that goes through the park that you can
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get this kind of privacy hello
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dear they found so many bodies that down
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these roads down these roads that they
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eventually formed a group called The
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friends of lean Park and one of the
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first things they did was shut the roads
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off and clean up all the trash and the
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abandoned car cars and everything
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else here's the
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well so is a so was there a time when it
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was like more prominent um the city came
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in
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and closed it off so they built it up
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but you can see people just come back
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and they break it
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up this is where uh Von
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Conor's who was
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26
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27
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um he was brought back
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here uh and they set him on they beat
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him up set him on fire
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at the well right
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here and then the fire got really what
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I'm assuming because it was in the
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winter months it was in January I
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believe so the fire got really big and
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you can see right through here to the
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woods I mean you can see right through
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here in the winter to the road yeah I
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think the fire got too big so they
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picked him
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up and threw him down inside of
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this uh into the well well is a it's a
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storm
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what year was
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that oh my gosh
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yeah well that looks milky what is in
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there is that
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sand I don't know man that is scary what
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year did that happen or what around what
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time uh
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2016 so not that long ago yeah
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2016 all right parked we're going to
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walk down through the woods take a look
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at that prey Manis right
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there and a big
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squirrel all right so up here in the
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uh they put up a a little QR code
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QRS look at
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this way out here in the woods this is
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still the lean park right yeah hry
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Jones born in 1824 passed away in
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1882 yeah look at this a little
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headstone right
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here we are up in the old uh Cemetery in
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par up in the
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woods
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now they have
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them oh it's a snake cleared so there
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was a snake right there what kind of
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snake was it I can't tell it's
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uh right there went underneath those
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leaves it's like underneath those
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leaves it's like right behind The
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Headstone and then there small small
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brown yep garden snake
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now this building here is historic there
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was a there was a jazz club in here back
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in the really 1920s and
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30s yeah somewhere down this alley it
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says Duncan it seems
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legit see if there's a Duncan down this
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alley
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I'm not seeing a Duncan think that sign
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is a
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fabrication that says be
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careful how you treat others you might
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be
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entering
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so behind all these these gates are
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where the Windows Doors W get in this
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was a what was it called MCC it was MC
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then it was uh
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Epstein and it closed sometime at I
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believe of the
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night uh but inside is all the old oh
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there was a room upstairs that was
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filled with those old cash register the
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the push button kind you know the
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automatic so
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downtown there's three random CDs here
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on the ground I'm not going to touch
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them and flip them over to see what they
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are but yeah just three random CDs
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underneath uh bench here on the
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sidewalk all right we got all the
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pigeons down here and a non- pigeon a
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little bird down here this is the
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Lexington Market which opened in
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1782 I don't even know it even still
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open anymore
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that's that's the new building this is
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the old building the old building I
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don't know if they're I don't think
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they're tearing this down I think
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they're redoing this one look at this
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you got all the different parts of the
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cow there that's new what road are we
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what road is this right now uh this is
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uh that's Saratoga Street the cross
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street Lex
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Street I've only been down here 5 all
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right actually this is Utah Street so
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that's the corner of Saratoga and Utah
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Street says video Patrol on that sign
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there for your safety videos are being
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recorded Utah Street all right this
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building is freaking awesome look it's
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all burned out up here it's like
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completely burnt out but look at the
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pillers of this it's like a maybe like
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an old Bank building or something but
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it's all been burnt out completely burnt
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out up to the top there okay around the
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corner of the building was it called The
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Marin building or the Moran building
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there is an open window there I don't
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know if I want to go rooting around
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inside there this fire damaged this here
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is a new build oh this is this at one
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time was probably a b a bank you could
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drive through and you would drive all
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the way through to the alleyway gotcha
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okay and then they probably added this
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1970s and
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uh I have been in that door you've been
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in there yes
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was it before the fire back that way and
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no it was after the fire this is
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not maybe it is burned a little bit but
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obviously it's accessible people are
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just going in there using it as a
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bathroom old department store I'll show
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you something you can look in we just
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got to get well I don't know if we're
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going to get across the street yeah a
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lot of traffic down here it's amazing
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all the hustle and bustle of all this
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traffic and then all just all these
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aband buildings
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all right there is a Federal Savings and
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Loan over there which I don't think is
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open I think that building is completely
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empty this building is completely empty
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and now we're going to walk down this
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road so we went down that back alley
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what did I end up stepping
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in um human Duty yeah it's okay they got
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to walk it off there was like a pile of
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needles and Adam's ready to jump in like
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what I I I avoided the needles and then
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I landed
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in human DG it's okay though this isn't
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St Cloud it's not celebration a long way
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for it's definitely not
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C oh my God I think there is some
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graffiti there of Robocop right there I
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think that's supposed to be
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RoboCop got the train coming through and
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then up top
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oh
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hi this building is empty this building
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is empty dis count beepers has seen
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better days empty empty empty empty all
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those windows are completely open and
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there's a ghost sign up there that says
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furniture and rugs yeah discount beepers
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and even though the salon says Walkin
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welcome whoever tried to get in here and
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walk in was not welcome yeah yeah that's
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not a I don't over here amongst some of
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the spray paintting graffiti also paint
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here on the ground check out this
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diamond that's like protruding off the
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side there it's got the neon on it all
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here in this alley and something you
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don't see too often is up top here there
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is foliage and trees growing off of the
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fire escapes yeah take a look at
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that we're over on Park AV now which is
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the remnants oh of what was Chinatown
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for a while you can see some of the some
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of the architecture up here
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so there really isn't a Chinatown in
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Baltimore
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anymore not I mean we go look in
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these but they're they're all
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ADV cookie car for ear
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piercing a restaurant here called the
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China Doll restaurant
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R and if you check out some of my other
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filming videos you can see the inside
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from the back when they were tearing it
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down so that says China and it's been
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painted over it's been painted
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over that ow what the hell was
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that something just bit my leg they put
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the parking garage in here which was
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right here at one time um
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to so they'd be parking down here to go
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to
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Chinatown but so did Chinatown move on
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the outskirts of town now no it
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basically just died off uh the
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neighborhood died off everything sort of
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died but they're saving I thought they
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were going to tear this out they're
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saving the whole row which is wonderful
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so these are going to be either
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apartments or one whole
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house okay imagine they're probably
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going to try to keep that on here yeah
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that looks like a newer maybe you know
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do some restoration down
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here so this is
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Marx um so this is the old building here
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and they're starting to build a new
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building onto the side of it so
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Marx has been was a restaurant bar it
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was here forever I for decades and
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decades probably starting in the ' 50s
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maybe even earlier than that it was a
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Speak Easy so it was earlier than that
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but it was called Marx Marx MX and the
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son was named Morris he was a friend
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Chef the restaurant was around the back
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that was the front part they left that
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was Morris's room up there that was the
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guy that owned it yeah he slept on a
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mattress on the floor a dirty mattress
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on the floor with a
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stinking uh blanket he was a very
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eccentric I loved him I mean the door
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was right on that side so you worked
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here a little bit back in the day on and
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off for years I would come down here
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here and work but I loved Morris he was
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a very good man he was very good to me
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it is interesting so all new
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developments there new developments
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there and this is they're going to save
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this and wedge it in between here thank
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God they're saving this building because
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honestly it's one of the oldest
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buildings in the neighborhood and he
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said he was born on the top in the top
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up there he was born in this room here
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yeah and he died in this room here he
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spent his whole life in this room in
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this building yes
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so they've been inside they went inside
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they stabilized
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it uh it looks like they yeah they put a
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new they put a new roof on too
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see yeah look you still see the the
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chimney there yep then the old uh the
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old
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woodwork so he lived up here and then he
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had the the restaurant downstairs floor
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was his living quarters behind there was
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the kitchen very small kitchen yeah and
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then there were stairs on this side that
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came down to the dining room we got
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eyebrow arching firms hot old treat walk
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are oh that's slightly dangerous look at
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the shards of glass just dangling off
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the side
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of peek in there what's in there
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look at that
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had it's a lawless land looks like fun
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to me all right this building here at
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least part of is called the Mayfair now
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and they're basically going to do what
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they did with the other building Dan was
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showing me where they're going to build
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like condos and you know like a housing
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project area over here apartments right
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along here they're going to incorporate
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this old theater into it so that's
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pretty neat it's also got some f leage
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grow it on the roof as
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well yeah I got the head off the top of
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that little sculpture there and the head
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off the top of that little sculpture
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right up
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there all right as soon as this passes
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by I want to show this really cool
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looking building that was a Greyhound
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station would you consider this Art Deco
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or midcentury modern it's Art Deco I
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would say art deco yes it was built in
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the 1930s and it was a Greyhound station
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I love it now it's not used for anything
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no now it's offices for the Maryland
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historical society and they have also
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shot movies and TV shows there as well
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what can I what can I see that at vep
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vep uh I think the wire okay I would
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imagine a lot of the buildings we're
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showing were probably seen in at least
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one seen from the oh debb does Dallas
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really no I'm just kidding I okay
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see all the tile work
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there I hear some birds over here
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there's a bird going by I hear some
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birds chirping here on the street corner
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of Howard
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Street and Monument
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Street beautiful
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Square definitely in a slightly
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different area than where we were a few
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blocks back this is Washington
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Boulevard no it's Washington Square
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Washington
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Square and there is a Washington it's
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Mount Vernon Square and that's the
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Washington Monument which is the
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centerpiece of Mount Vernon
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Square there's old George right there on
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the horse yeah that church is something
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else there's another George George
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Peabody 1795 to
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1869 oh yeah the Stafford Hotel up there
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above that
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house this house here has a pool in the
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basement it's a not very big but it's a
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small kind of deep pool oh yeah a little
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chicken pajita action going on over
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here oh it looks it smells so good
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what's the name of this place D Latino
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Diner it's on the corner of Eastern
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Avenue and Grundy Street I think it's
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Grundy yeah it's a very uh action-packed
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shot right now where I'm filming through
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the it's one of my favorite
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places oh thank you oh that looks
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beautiful all right that was really good
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I am very
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full uh I don't even know Are you full
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oh what area town would this be
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called This is Holland town Highland
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Town Highland Town yeah Highland Town
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Baltimore and this place is kicking it's
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good the
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best good stuff good good chicken the
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painting over on the side of the
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wall of a
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bird that's going to do it for today
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from Baltimore thanks for watching I'll
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