MANOS The Hands Of Fate (1966) Filming Locations in El Paso Texas / Then & Now of Worst Movie Ever
Manos : The Hands Of Fate Filming Locations
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what is that noise
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here today's adventure
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brings me to el paso
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texas
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to cover the 1966
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filming locations
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manos
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the hands of fate
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which as a story goes a
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manure salesman a fertilizer
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entrepreneur
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no pun intended
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place to bet at a local bar that he
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could make a film a movie
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and it worked
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highly regarded by many
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as the worst movie ever made there are
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quite a few worst movies ever made but
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this is definitely in the top five or
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ten
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but there is something about it i really
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enjoy
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there's there's some redeemable
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qualities and it is certainly
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entertaining
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i've been wanting to cover these spots
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for a pretty good while and i'm finally
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going to do it i'm inviting you to join
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me
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as i have researched the spots and i'm
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gonna find them join me
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shall you
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as the recording of this it is wednesday
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november 17
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2021 a very beautiful day and start off
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by going up scenic drive park
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and get a view over el paso
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and then down across the
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mexico border
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as well where the opening sequence took
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place also that salesman who placed the
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bet that he could make the movie
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probably had no idea that it was going
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to live on this long in infamy and be
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studied
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in great detail
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by many a folk
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including me
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i think he got his point across and he
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won
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the bat he was also the director not
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only was he the director but he was the
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main star
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gotta say it's a pretty good view from
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up here
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very beautiful and expansive
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you don't really see this direction so
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much
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in that scene
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the family pulls up here they are lost
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and they're talking amongst themselves
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where exactly they should be heading
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and going
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they ended up turning around
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just to the side of me but yeah this is
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this is quite a view
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right here at the scenic scenic overlook
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here's a look at one of the screen grabs
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of their vehicle
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pulling past those rocks
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and then father stuck his arm out
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to let the car behind him know which way
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he was going
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and that would have been right around so
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that's those the very rocks
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right over there turned into this spot
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where i'm standing
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right there
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as he pulled in
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would have been right about here
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give or take the interesting thing is
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didn't really pull in
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at a normal straight forward position it
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was more at an angle
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kind of like that
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as shown here and the little
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concrete lift there
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that the viewfinders are on and the
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little traffic stopping
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stanchions
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still here as well
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granted
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these might be newer ones but those are
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from 66 or not
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but these are some classic looking
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viewfinders
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certainly noticeable
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is that information
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a little placard
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off to the side
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that's the one with the good view there
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of the cityscape this is kind of nice
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it's a you are here moment
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scenic point
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and this gives an overview
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of everything that you can see
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from this section now there is a moment
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when the camera kind of pans like this
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and you can see this little walkout
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which i didn't realize
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was as
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as lengthy
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as it really is but you can see the kind
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of walk out the sidewalk
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in that moment as well one of the many
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interesting things
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is the fact that they didn't really use
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any real audio
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had a pretty good soundtrack too when
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the car pulls in here
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but all the actors and actresses were
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voiced over at a later time including
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the little girl the daughter
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so as they were parked here well kind of
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more
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about in this area
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i'm getting cold mother and hungry
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it was an adult woman doing the voice
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it was weird and the mom you know they
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don't have any snacks give her any food
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in fact they don't really get any food
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anywhere in the near future anywhere in
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the time frame after her daughter said
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she was hungry and cold and the father
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said i could put the top up
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but the mother said no she could just
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sit up here with us
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wouldn't it be the same temperature
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in any part of the car whether it's the
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backseat
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why do they just put the top up for her
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i've watched it many times even with the
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commentary
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and one of the commentators was tom
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naman who played the master and he was
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saying from this when he's when he was
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watching it back
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kind of giving his thoughts on it
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he was saying that his house was down
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there you know somewhere down there so
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this whole area he was a local
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to this to this area his daughter was in
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it he was in it
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and a cast of local players from the the
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theater
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all were kind of hired
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to to do the rolls kind of does work out
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in reality as well when they pull in
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from that angle and then park
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right over here but when they exit out
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it's that angle the car pulls around
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those set of rocks there and you can see
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that second lip up there of the rocks
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around the corner that still looks the
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same
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also i don't even know 100 if it's
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pronounced monos
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or manos
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monos or manos
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and monos or manos
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is translated hands
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so the movie really could be called
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hands the hands of fate
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it's said by a lot of people i didn't
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just i didn't think of that all by
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myself that's kind of one of the main
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statements about the name of the movie
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filmed here in el paso
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there's also one other moment
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that is intercut with this overlook
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scene
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i'm gonna try to find it i think it's
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around the corner over that way
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but they make you think it was up for
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you on this overlook which it's not okay
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the other angle is about a quarter of a
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mile
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on the decent down from scenic drive
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just about like that
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you see the little rock hill
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that's there in the skyline
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in the distance in the mountain range
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which would have been
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this here
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so there's a little
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rock part the little rock hill
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and the walkway across
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that rock hill
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as well
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that's it and it's intercut with up
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there on the scenic overlook just
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realized i gotta go about 19 miles back
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east
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on the outskirts of town to the next
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spot
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i messed that up but i'm gonna backtrack
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just a bit to get to the other two spots
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and down the hill while i was in this
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area went ahead and went by el paso
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street 107 south el paso street to be
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more technical which is where the capri
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theater used to stand right here next to
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this hotel which is still there and this
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is a photo retro photo from back in the
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day and you can see the hotel is there
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and the capri
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was right beside it
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now inside there was where the movie
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premiere took place
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and all of the cast
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was on hand as well as a lot of
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prominent
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folks in el paso and they started
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laughing
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very shortly into as the movie started
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and it said that some of the cast well
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quite a bit of the cast
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ended up kind of sneaking out the back
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and leaving because they did not want to
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be there
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you know to witness to witness all that
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but witness the laughter here's a photo
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of tom over here he played the master
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there is his daughter who played the
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daughter
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i'm cold mother and hungry
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i guess this is before the movie started
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before some of the cast snuck out here
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is a side angle
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of that building as well from another
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photograph from back when the capri was
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still standing so this entire block
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has been bulldozed to el paso and henry
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trost is the corner
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and the capri was basically
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more or less in front of where i'm
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standing right here so it would have
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been right about there there was another
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storefront between the capri and the
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hotel that still exists i wish someone
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could go back in time and tell
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all those that left the movie premiere
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because they were too embarrassed that
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the movie would go on to live
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a very long life a lot of the best ones
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like that were forgotten about for many
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years and then rediscovered and you know
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thanks to the internet
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things kind of get legs again and
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reappear that's what happened with this
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one
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it's not going away it's shocking
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it's beyond your imagination and here is
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the flyer for the world premiere that
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happened right across the road it was at
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8 pm light stars and excitement
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produced and photographed in and around
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el paso with a local
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cast of stars
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there it is right now it says capri
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right down there starts tomorrow man
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it's the hands
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of fate no matinee today the doors open
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at 7 15
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p.m 45 minutes prior
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to this
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movie officially
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rearing its head upon el paso
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and then eventually
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decades later the world made it to the
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outskirts of town
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this road that runs parallel to the
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property here
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is designated nuevo
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who echo
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tanks road i'm probably not pronouncing
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that right
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but that's the designation
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and right here
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it has been bulldozed and torn down
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but it appears to be some remnants of
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where the house was
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over towards valley lodge i was confused
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if this was valley lodge or just in the
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valley lodge area when they first see
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the sign
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at the beginning
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nonetheless this is the home where torgo
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was
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master was and you can see there are
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some remnants over here
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and over towards that tree line is where
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the car
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first pulled in
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there are
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quite a bit of debris i don't want to
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step on any snakes
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could be i don't know if your scorpion's
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out here or not
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definitely some ants
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i'm gonna traverse over there
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whoa there's a lot of birds up there
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didn't notice those so i got a little
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bit closer now the best i can figure
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running long ways along here is where
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the stairs
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leading into the house was where torgo
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met the car pulling in they would have
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pulled in from that direction
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over there
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i'm going to kind of
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scour around this debris and see if i
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can find anything
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that kind of matches up at all the
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satellite view from 2010 shows
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kind of the layout of where the
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buildings were there were two buildings
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kind of a utility shed
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or a barn or something back there and
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then all the interiors and the filming
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of the exteriors were in this one
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right here and all those birds are in
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these trees
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right over there so i'm kind of standing
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about where it was
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more or less i think it's kind of up on
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the
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a little elevated hill just off to the
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side of where i'm standing where they
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pulled in was this direction
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you know obviously since 1966 none of
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this looks the same but the mountain
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ranges are over there in the distance
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and the far distance that foliage is
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kind of obscuring them but the car
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pulled in here
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kind of circled around
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pulled up right along here there was a
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fence
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they looked over at confusion at torgo
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standing where i am
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and there's also some mountains over
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in the distance over there this used to
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be all farmland right over this berm
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where this dirt is
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was farmland at one point and then this
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was a homestead that was used
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for the movie what i'm looking out but
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they went right along in this section
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turn the corner they'll have farmland
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which is no longer green
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was right there
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and parked
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kind of in this general vicinity not a
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lot to match up
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but i'm definitely getting some some
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hands of fate vibes right now
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and
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close distance i didn't realize how
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close it was but the pillars hoping
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they're still there
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are way over there the whole all the
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pillar saints
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when torgo lost his hand it was burnt
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general vicinity of this angle as well
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the very confused family
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there's a lot of speculation also on if
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torgo was human
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or if he was
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some sort of creature
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with the legs you know what are those
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what are those mystic creatures that
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have the
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the unusual legs
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and the way he walked
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i don't know if there's any any truth to
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that speculation but that's what some
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say there's a lot of
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a lot of that when it comes to this film
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it's been studied you know so so much by
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those who love
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really badly made movies but that would
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have been right here from this angle i'd
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also hope that possibly even though it
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was bulldozed there'd be one of these
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bricks
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these red bricks around
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there are no more red bricks they have
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really
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really uprooted this place every
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sense of the term
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unrecognizable
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and most likely in the very near future
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the reason it was torn down
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probably condos or businesses or
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apartments through here
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and those that live here will probably
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have no idea
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of the unusual
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film history that they're
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standing upon
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and just one more example when she's
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kind of standing here also hoping this
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stair this these two two stairs would be
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here
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they're not even the
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even the base of the house
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it's long gone but that would have been
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about that angle then follow it around
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it was like the corner section where
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the daughter finds the doberman pincher
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he's pretty dang thank cool to be
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standing in this spot however right here
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where torgo would have been torgo
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he took care of the place while the
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master
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was away and the master
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that way over
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i don't know
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a mile or so down that direction
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really hoping those pillars are still
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there let me go check it out
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let's head over there looking again on
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this
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2010 the satellite view you'll notice
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next to the house
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a few feet away is kind of an
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indentation
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i don't want to say it's a pool but it's
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a concreted
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hole
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in the ground
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there's some rubble here
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there is a possibility that
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the house
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from hands of fate was
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all piled up over here
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with this rubble as well
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as you can see it's right next to those
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trees
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and if there's any oh there's a red
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brick
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look at that
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there's some red bricks right there holy
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cow
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okay yeah it's all been piled here those
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are the bricks
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from the walk when torgo does his very
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unique walk to the theme music to
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torgo's theme music
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those are the bricks right there
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oh my gosh can i even i don't know if i
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should climb up here
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i guess i could climb up there i'm gonna
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zoom in
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nice
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yeah so it's all been cast over here
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into this pile
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and there's the example again
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there's the stairs
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and there's those red bricks
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seen many many times where they
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torgo went to get the luggage
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for the gas he didn't even want him
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staying there he tried to warn him but
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they didn't listen
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they didn't listen at all but
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trotted across those those red bricks
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many times
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more of the foundation piled up here
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i was looking to see if i could see the
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stairs
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the two stairs that led into the front
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doorway
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there's really no way of
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of telling it probably buried underneath
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all the debris on top here
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and something you do not see on camera
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was this
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this i don't know what this is a
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concreted hole here like a
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to hold water obviously it's not a pool
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but this was right next to the home and
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this is still here
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not shown not shown in the movie at all
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so they just they tore it down from over
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there
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moved everything
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to this section and piled it up all
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right i'm gonna state i stand corrected
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i was saying the house was over there
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about probably 20 20 yards farther than
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where i am
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by looking at that satellite view again
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and just kind of seeing the the layout
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based on that concrete hole that i
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thought was a pool
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the house really is adjacent to where
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that concrete hole in the ground starts
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which means
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that i was incorrect
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it was not precisely over there
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where i had stated
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but in fact
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more about here
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they pretty much put the rubble on top
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of where it was so those stairs
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could still be down there but buried
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because by you know judging by that old
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satellite view the house was right here
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next to next to this
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or if not if not in this precise spot
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at least somewhere over in this section
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difficult to pinpoint exactly but just
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wanted to clarify that that i really do
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think it was here
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and not over there you know
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six of one half dozen of another but
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just statement just getting one last
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look at the house
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so if i ever return here
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this will probably be gone
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or if anyone else ever shows up out here
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there's a possibility this would be
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removed
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a new development will take over
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and this was the second kind of shed
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second home that was on the back side of
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the property that was
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not used either in the filming i do wish
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there was more to match up i wish the
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building was still standing
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or at least
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you know the foundation very prominently
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or
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the sides of the walls but
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you get what you get
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1966 was a heck of a long time ago i'm
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surprised
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anything is left out here at all
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and now gonna just drive down the hill a
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bit
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about a mile or so see if the other spot
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still remains
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and while i just pulled away from that
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one spot wanted to show that this was in
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the interiors of the house
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he had quite the outfit there
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with the hands
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on them
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that was right over past that tree line
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down that road
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and right up this dirt path should be
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the pillars oh
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i can kind of see them peeking out over
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there they're there this is really
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exciting
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the fact that these
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appear to be precisely how they were
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in 1966
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what the heck
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yes they're still here
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i love it
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or is it manas this makes me happy i'm
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already starting to see some
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blemishes and things that are noticeable
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there's also an inscription here which
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you really can't see
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it says toward
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the mourn
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and the rising
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sun
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and there's a how new housing
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development being built
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off in the distance
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right over there
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yeah it's moving in so just to give a
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perspective the house
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was right over there
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near those crossroads
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and this was right up here so
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could have technically walked
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from there to here now all the scenes
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in this area took place at night pretty
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much the whole movie
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took place at night oh and this is a
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compass
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now i recognize this
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this little inscription here i didn't
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realize it was a compass that is
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pointing pointing
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northbound there he is resting
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comfortably on that concrete slab
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and two of his wives there
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up against the pillars
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now one thing that's really
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interesting
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which is kind of what i like about a lot
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of spots is kind of noticing
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a few different things so as he's laying
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you could see over here is this
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kind of hole in the concrete a blemish a
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little bit of a nuance there that's very
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very distinct
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i point that out because you can see it
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right over here you see that distinct
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little hole
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see the dog there
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kind of like looking at the actress
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there and you got him laying across
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this slab with that kind of blemish
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which is always kind of neat to point
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that out
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wow
23:18
that's this is awesome where the fire
23:18
was burning was in the middle of that
23:20
compass area you can see the little two
23:22
markings there the two etchings like
23:23
v-shaped and then the other ones that
23:25
are not v-shaped
23:27
the fire
23:28
was in that spot there you can see the
23:30
little v-shaped markings
23:32
along the ground right there see the
23:35
the v shape
23:37
i'm referring to
23:38
so it would have had the kind of the
23:40
flame going up
23:41
right there in the middle and once all
23:42
the wives wake up they started arguing
23:45
and he's kind of just sitting there
23:46
listening thinking
23:48
wow they're really
23:49
they're kind of really having an
23:50
argument here in front of me and another
23:52
thing i'm noticing is this little hole
23:54
right here in this pillar notice that
23:57
hole that little etching there
23:58
just past where they're all
24:00
kind of sitting around and i point that
24:02
out because over there this is the angle
24:05
as he's sitting that hole
24:08
is still there
24:09
walk over here and give a little closer
24:11
view
24:12
so there's that hole which was seen many
24:15
many times back in 1966 when
24:19
he was kind of like he was actually
24:21
slapping her but she was against this
24:23
pole and he wasn't the only one doing
24:25
the slapping it was a whole slap fest
24:27
going on
24:28
but there's that hole
24:30
this pillar was used
24:34
a lot of slapping
24:36
going on up here these pillars an even
24:38
better perspective another better angle
24:41
of that hole over there
24:42
in the side of the concrete a little
24:45
embankment here
24:46
that they were laying across
24:48
and once again there's that
24:51
there's that hole right there in the
24:53
concrete and just off to the side in
24:54
this little sand area is where all the
24:57
women had their fight they were really
24:58
kind of going at it right over here
25:06
as shown here you see all the sand
25:06
it's really the only spot where they
25:08
have that possibility
25:10
of doing that
25:11
because all the other areas are kind of
25:13
down
25:14
embankments
25:15
and full of other you know a lot more
25:18
hilly than this angle which looks to be
25:20
like the same the same angle and any
25:22
time he had the ability to outstretch
25:24
his arms to present the hands on his
25:26
wardrobe he would do so he's right there
25:29
in front of that
25:30
slab where
25:32
him and others were laying down i placed
25:34
my blu-ray
25:35
over here on the corner
25:37
this is where his feet
25:40
would have been
25:41
it was also that pole that she was up
25:43
against there when he put the fire down
25:46
towards her feet
25:48
right over there as well
25:50
that's a very popular
25:51
pillar here's another angle when he's
25:53
walking in with his dog the doberman
25:56
coming up from
25:57
from that angle that's also where torgo
26:00
who had his hand caught on fire and torn
26:02
off right down here because the
26:05
you know the fire was right there at the
26:06
base of that compass
26:08
torgo ran off that way you can't really
26:10
see any background stuff because
26:12
it was night it was under nightfall oh
26:14
here's another one when he's telling the
26:15
woman to to stop
26:17
arms stretched out with those hands
26:19
on the wardrobe
26:21
also on that same side over there in the
26:24
sand
26:26
just very close correlation
26:29
you know to the
26:30
to these even though torgo lost his hand
26:34
it's caught on fire
26:36
he did he did get away
26:39
he did get away even though he was
26:41
laying there
26:42
and then his hand was burned
26:46
at that little like flame there by the
26:47
where the compass was
26:49
yeah
26:51
i think torgo made it but not before
26:53
having the women
26:54
you know going after him as he was
26:56
laying
26:58
with the camera angle kind of up like
27:00
that
27:01
and they were above him kind of clawing
27:03
at him and then eventually he rolled off
27:06
right along the ground
27:09
with that same indentation
27:11
over on the end that i mentioned as he's
27:13
laying there you can see the props he
27:14
put in his legs near his knees
27:16
again there's that kind of hole in the
27:18
side
27:21
torga a great character here he is
27:23
getting his hand ripped off he's on fire
27:26
being held up there in the air well
27:29
he kind of scurries off
27:31
that direction
27:34
really happy this place
27:36
still exists
27:38
and when they were filming it they
27:39
probably had no idea that there was
27:41
going to be a high definition version
27:43
you know you watch the original kind of
27:44
grainy stuff you miss a lot of stuff but
27:46
it's been restored which you know pretty
27:49
awesome
27:50
trying to get it all
27:51
kind of in the same frame there
27:56
one more spot
27:56
i have one more spot that i discovered
27:58
that i'm happy to to reveal
28:01
heading over there now because this one
28:02
wasn't too difficult to find obviously
28:05
you had to figure out exactly where it
28:06
was but there were some mentions
28:12
online about where this was just happy
28:12
it still remains
28:13
the next one however
28:15
i've seen no indication
28:18
that anyone's discovered where that was
28:20
so
28:21
i'm just gonna put it out there
28:27
this one was kind of an easy one
28:27
this section
28:28
although there was not really a super
28:30
duper update
28:32
you never know things changed so quickly
28:34
year to year
28:36
things could be removed so i'm glad this
28:38
is still here
28:43
and yes i did contemplate recreating
28:43
laying down on there but i don't know
28:45
what that mess is
28:46
i don't want to put my head down there
28:49
so let's just say i did
29:02
this is awesome for real
29:02
there used to be a sidewalk right there
29:05
but there still is a sidewalk it's just
29:07
kind of hidden over with the dirt
29:08
leading to that building back there
29:12
all right moving on
29:24
what a great robe it'd be a great
29:24
cosplay would it not
29:27
at a convention
29:29
see some manos
29:31
cosplay or torgo
29:33
perhaps
29:38
i'd give anyone a high five that did
29:38
that was that's a deep cut
29:40
this whole movie's a deep cut but
29:42
that's what i like about it
29:44
moving on oh so random if this exists
29:48
and random that's still there
29:56
okay welcome back to the car
29:56
i don't know probably 30 miles to the
29:57
next spot on the complete other side i'm
29:59
on the east side
30:00
i'm going over to the west side
30:03
and then i'm done
30:04
one last spot
30:06
just looked it up and it's 26 miles to
30:09
the next and final spot
30:11
the el paso country club
30:15
well just outside of it a couple blocks
30:17
outside of the el paso country club this
30:20
is memory drive
30:22
and it's unusual
30:24
because memory drive kind of slants off
30:26
that way
30:28
and goes
30:29
around a
30:31
rather new roundabout up there
30:33
but now that i'm here looking at it
30:36
you'll notice
30:37
the old memory drive
30:39
still exists next to this property
30:42
of this rock fence wall so memory drive
30:45
there's just like an unusual makeshift
30:47
parking lot here
30:49
from where the old memory drive was
30:52
before the roundabout
30:54
was built
30:55
and they've kind of coincided it
30:57
into
30:59
the driveway leading into this property
31:02
so i think memory drive used to go
31:05
through where this rock wall
31:08
now sits
31:10
based on i'm showing i'm showing all
31:11
this and explaining it so i get up to
31:13
the roundabout it'll make a little more
31:15
sense there's never been a definitive
31:17
answer to where
31:18
manos the hands of fate
31:20
title screen went across and where the
31:23
the car was driving from and then turned
31:27
down towards
31:28
the makeshift sign that was painted that
31:30
says valley lodge
31:33
where is this street corner
31:36
the only clue would have been
31:38
right over here
31:40
you can kind of see
31:42
obscured by foliage a street sign
31:45
but it's you cannot tell what that says
31:49
i am
31:50
100
31:51
well 99.9 confident
31:54
that the spot i am standing at
31:56
is where this was
31:58
renovated and changed so much since
32:00
1966. all of these homes
32:03
were not built until 1977.
32:06
this was all farmland all through here
32:09
that could be seen
32:11
when
32:12
the officer pulls over the car to talk
32:14
to them
32:14
except they were pulled over
32:21
on the far end of that roundabout over
32:21
in that direction i'll walk over a
32:23
little bit closer but yeah all this was
32:24
farmland
32:26
back in 66 everything i'm pointing the
32:27
camera out
32:31
now following along the former route of
32:33
memory drive there is this fire hydrant
32:37
could be a new fire hydrant that may
32:38
have rerouted it a few
32:40
feet but i am under the assumption that
32:44
that fire hydrant
32:46
is this fire hydrant
32:48
right here
32:50
repainted
32:52
now it could have been moved
32:54
but i do believe it's in the same spot
32:57
based on the other road that's behind me
32:59
i'm about to show you so i'm thinking
33:02
where the car turned down would have
33:04
been right here
33:06
this brick wall was not here memory
33:08
drive would have
33:11
come out right about here
33:13
and that sign
33:15
that valley lodge sign would have been
33:18
right about there now it could be off a
33:20
few feet and they might have put a
33:22
different fire extinguisher
33:25
a few feet over
33:26
but there is a good possibility
33:29
that that
33:30
fire extinguisher is the same one
33:33
a good possibility or at least
33:35
you know the same
33:36
the same water system underneath it
33:38
because if you look from this angle
33:40
you will notice fire expire
33:43
hydrant there not extinguisher fire
33:45
hydrant there
33:46
but up here and you couldn't see this in
33:48
the the old school grainy version but in
33:51
the crystal clear blu-ray version you
33:54
can faintly make out
33:57
el paso country club
34:00
and look at the distance between the
34:01
roads
34:02
you got that road there
34:05
and then you got the other el paso
34:07
country club road
34:08
which is over
34:10
on the distance so you've got the fire
34:12
hydrant here
34:14
and el paso el paso country club road is
34:17
right up there same distance look at
34:19
that and at the very end of the movie
34:21
when the two ladies are driving down
34:23
this road the camera is facing the other
34:26
direction and you can see over the top
34:30
of their car
34:31
there is one very unique looking
34:34
building
34:36
off on the horizon there and that
34:39
building is still back there even though
34:41
there's kind of a rock wall in front of
34:43
it that building is still there which
34:46
would be the perspective
34:48
facing
34:50
that way now i'm going to zoom in and
34:51
show that building this is a very
34:52
business road was not that busy
34:55
back in 1966 been repainted but that is
34:58
the very building
35:02
very unique architecture so very very
35:04
distinct that's the building behind them
35:06
as they're driving down the road
35:08
towards what you would think would be
35:10
towards valley lodge
35:12
oh
35:13
i wasn't even standing the road that
35:14
person hocked i'm on the sidewalk
35:15
started now looking at this again
35:18
over at the el paso country club signage
35:21
here it goes over
35:23
like a little bit of a
35:25
i don't know what you'd call it a ravine
35:26
of sorts a ditch and it has a little
35:29
railing there because there is a bridge
35:31
you would assume
35:32
there is a bridge and there is a little
35:34
bit of a ditch here now where that sign
35:39
was right over here
35:41
let me walk by
35:44
and show where that el paso country club
35:47
signage was
35:49
it was here
35:56
so there would have been a metal railing
35:56
right along here this is very
35:58
long-winded to explain this but it's
36:00
been a source of a lot of conversations
36:01
when i'm looking things up online
36:03
this is one of the elusive spots so this
36:05
is my thoughts on it i'm pretty
36:07
confident metal railing was right there
36:10
and that el paso country club sign
36:15
and then they would have turned
36:20
and gone down that road which puts where
36:20
they got pulled over
36:22
right here along the ditch
36:25
would have been right in this area
36:27
and as i stated the houses were not
36:30
built till 77
36:31
so all the houses would not have been
36:33
there and there was a guy on a tractor
36:36
doing a little bit of work and that
36:38
tractor and the fields could be seen
36:41
as they were pulled over
36:42
in this very spot
36:45
right there so that spot
36:48
is
36:53
that spot now keep in mind the street
36:53
sign memory club drive and country club
36:56
drive would have been about 30 yards
36:57
farther that way where everyone's
36:59
turning
37:01
by the fire hydrant almost that
37:03
extinguisher again
37:06
that's where they would have turned it
37:07
would have gone down
37:09
well not this new memory drive but the
37:11
one farther over there
37:13
right along the edge of that rock wall
37:16
and one more one more point
37:19
to prove this at the end the two ladies
37:21
are driving they turn past the stop sign
37:24
down onto memory
37:26
and when they do that
37:27
you'll notice there's like a little
37:29
indicator sign a little
37:31
warning sign that you can't go any
37:32
farther because you go into that ditch
37:35
the ditch that's over there
37:37
boy this is such a busy road
37:39
no one's going down memory though
37:40
they're all going down
37:41
country club i'm going to walk across
37:47
but where the street sign which is now
37:47
there on the new memory drive would have
37:50
been
37:52
there is a glimmer an indication for one
37:55
millisecond
37:57
of what road this is
37:59
and that is another hint on how i
38:00
figured this out right before they made
38:02
this turn and right during this moment
38:06
above the stop sign
38:09
if it is paused for just a brief moment
38:12
depending on what version you have you
38:15
have to look at the older version
38:16
because on the blu-ray they kind of
38:18
cropped it out a little bit if you look
38:19
at the old
38:21
grainy
38:22
version
38:24
look up top here
38:25
and look
38:26
at the lettering of what it says
38:30
gosh can you even see it it's very dark
38:32
hold on let me go over here there it is
38:36
see if you can make out
38:39
what letters those say
38:41
c
38:42
o
38:43
u
38:44
and part of an inn
38:55
country
38:55
club
38:57
driver road one of the two the wind is
38:59
like not wanting this to cooperate with
39:02
but that's it
39:04
holy cow
39:06
going on record and saying
39:08
that this is the corner
39:11
and that valley lodge sign was right
39:13
over here
39:25
and the road
39:26
would have gone between the fire hydrant
39:29
and they would have pulled down towards
39:30
the valley lodge sign
39:32
which was right there
39:35
and that's gonna do it
39:37
for today
39:39
want to cover this for a while
39:41
i did
39:43
i feel good about it
39:46
i love doing upstair filming locations
39:48
did quite a few
39:50
the last series of days on this road
39:51
trip going
39:53
cross country
39:58
good times i'll see the next video the
39:58
vlog
40:00
is over