Empty Towns in Middle Of Nowhere Florida - Update On Desert Inn / Robert Is Here Roadside Stand
Travel Thru Florida January 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this Saturday
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January 7th 2022 Homestead Florida at
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Robert Is Here it's a Fruit Stand I
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believe there's even some animals and
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other items inside Here Homestead
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Florida
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I have left the keys I'll be taking some
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back roads
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back to Celebration welcome everyone
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out of the will here my mom and I are
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finishing up our little mother and son
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vacation down in Key West and heading
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Northbound I'm gonna try to go through
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some small towns some back roads
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some Less Traveled areas stay off of the
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turnpike as much as possible once we get
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out of some of the bigger areas just see
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what I can see take my mom home and then
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later on this evening or this afternoon
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I will be home back to my place I'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall we take a look at these this is
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something called a jackfruit right here
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three dollars and fifty cents a fat a
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pound Robert Is Here Fruit Stand very
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very famous in this area it's just a
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Papaya's red lady papayas my mom's
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already kind of gone in here said she's
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gonna stock up on some food items as
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well
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yeah Indian River Grapefruit
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watermelons avocados
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there you go they also have world famous
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Cubana
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milkshakes look here
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there's a skull up there got some cow
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horns even got the robertus hill some
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cucumber dill pickles here you can buy
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some merchandise right here oh it's in
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Florida City okay it's not Homestead
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technically it's in Florida City have a
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big bunch of fun that Robert Is Here
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oh Robert says step out back for Arbor
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iguana and emu collection Robert also
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says ask about shipping your gifts and
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goodies besides purchase something you
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can have them [\h__\h] so I'm gonna go back
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here and see the Iguana collection in
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emus
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there you go look at the baby
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hey goat how are you I don't have any
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food for you
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sorry can I pet you go nope no petting
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okay bye
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I have a whole petting zoo out here
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there goes a cow
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there's an emu I think that's an emu
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all these animals oh some tortoises over
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there
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take a look over there that geese
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there's some tortoises kind of way over
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this old
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tractor here called the row crop 70
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named Ollie
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I tucked away over here a lot more
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older versions of tractors they're old
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retro
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relics well they're called retro but
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some relics of the past even some
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classic
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Coke machines over there check to take a
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look at that the bottle of Coca-Cola and
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this old fuel pump here this old diesel
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fuel pump
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as well I'm also just realizing it is
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2023 not 2022 as stated at the beginning
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January 7th 2023
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as the recording of this
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could take me a few weeks to get the 23
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now
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oh if you get some stuff I did 45 more
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45 worth of fruits and veggies yeah but
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I got I got
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okra corn on cob squash pears oranges
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Ginger I'm a certain small and Ginger
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with honey
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good stuff healthy and uh fried up I'm
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gonna make fried okra do all kinds of
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stuff I'm glad we stopped here
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foreign
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time
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except for this little turtle little
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turtle is trying to catch up tortoise in
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the hairstyle
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right down there
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go turtle go
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there's a nice little mural
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Florida City
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heading Northbound on Highway 27
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. I'm gonna connect with some other
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roads but kind of heading away from
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Civilization now
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Northbound on 27th fearing off at this
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intersection
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we were just kind of discussing
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what kind of crop this is all the way
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out here there's also a fire burning
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over there kind of looks like corn
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it's a lot bushier than corn but it kind
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of the same height as a corn stalk
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there's a lot of trucks
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taking all this stuff to a factory
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there's some moths or butterflies
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right there swirling around
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all right veering off at 27 onto the
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side road and now getting on this
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direction heading towards Belle Glade
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I think I've ever been through Belle
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Glade before
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it's kind of interesting the name Belle
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Glade did ring a bell I remember about
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10 or 12 years ago he's doing a lot of
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you know urbex type stuff and remember
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this was kind of on my radar for a while
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and it passed by it and realized oh yeah
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this is the former hospital here in
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Belle Glade still sitting here
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empty closed off
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seen better days but it's just sitting
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here
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completely empty
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take a look at this beautiful place
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has the textbook palm tree right in
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front
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architecture over there
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little round driveway
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not that I would ever jump this fence
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and go rooting around in there it's not
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really
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what I do anymore it even
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keep the honest man honest
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there's even an officer parked right
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here in the parking lots here
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all right moving on however here really
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noticing the kind of architect unique
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architecture also on this not only the
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building is available and for sale
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across the road but this little spot
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which is now currently a Seventh-Day
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Adventist Church
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definitely getting some Florida vibes
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from that with the kind of crisscross
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flowery design there
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the concrete
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love that and way up there for one
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reason another Goodyear blimp
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is out
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why would the Goodyear blimp be
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uh here
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veered off just a bit on this dirt road
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noticing this place which looks like
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maybe some accommodations at some point
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possibly a an old Motel all fenced off
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as well
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it's obviously kept up in MO but
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I can't really tell exactly what it's
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used for currently there's an old burned
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out car over there
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right on that corner former store
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the backside of an old store that
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setting desolate now
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concrete
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Wall's still up arrive now in Pahokee or
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pahaki Florida this is the water tower
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p-a-h
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-o-k-e-e
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a hokey evidently there is a downtown
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area a lot of the
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the windows and doors are barred up and
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there are two water towers in town
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there's one I showed on the outskirts of
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town
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there's another one
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down this road through the downtown area
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definitely say I've never been through
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Pahokee I think it's pronounced Pahokee
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or hockey
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no
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any idea
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I don't know but it's really a sad state
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but
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the city's in
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very run down
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do you really like the architecture
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through here though like kind of like
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art deco style
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even a store or restaurant over there
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says
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I want MO
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because Billy Idol's been here
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this pink building over here is called
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the Creole building
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kind of a neat little downtown
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just this little section here that's the
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Chamber of Commerce
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on the the orangish yellow building
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there that's the one level
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and I guess that must be the skyscraper
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the Creole building there
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yeah there are at least people walking
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around it's very videos that you do
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though
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there's the Pahokee flower shop there
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and we have found the theater in town
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always like a good classic theater
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there's one right up here
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it still has the Marquee there
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it has where the movie posters would
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have been at one point
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painted pink now
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and just sit here desolate and empty
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pulling over a bridge now running
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parallel to Lake Okeechobee
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around the perimeter of Lake Okeechobee
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over there
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in fact we're going to be going through
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Okeechobee
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the birds are circling around up there
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for sure
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pulled over here off the side of the
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road
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this little pull off
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stretching the legs
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a little further into the town of
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Okeechobee next to the Lake Okeechobee
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but the water tower says Treasure Island
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maybe there's treasure here this mural
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here says railroad arrived here in
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Okeechobee back in 1915
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there's a little painting there of a
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boat train station and an ice plant
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sorry I'm in the neighborhood per se
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since this is just on the way under the
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commute I'm on today
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decided to pop back by
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the Desert Inn
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bar and restaurant or should I say
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former here in Yeehaw Junction Florida
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back in December of 2019 a
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tractor-trailer truck 18 wheeler plowed
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right into the front of the building and
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it has been rumored that it was going to
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be torn down almost immediately after in
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fact I did a video a couple days after
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that and then did a video a year or two
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later and it's been probably a year I
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don't know maybe even more than a year
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since I've been here and I'm here to
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update that nothing has been done to
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this place
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in fact I pointed this out last year a
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year and a half ago when I was here the
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National Registry signage that used to
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be right up here has been removed
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for whatever reason
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they have opted not to keep it on the
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National Registry because really there's
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nothing left of it other than a
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demolished building
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looks like some parts
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have been taken down off of it but you
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can really see right inside there into
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where the bar was and everything why in
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the heck oh look there's a bathtub over
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there very curious why this has not been
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completely torn down
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leveled and then something else has been
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put in his place here
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before it was torn down
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there was a lot of rumors this place was
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haunted and they said that this this
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Bordello room upstairs here and this
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window is one of the one of those said
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rooms
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seriously the
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the curtain there
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is not even an attempt to like even have
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the fence up anymore
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so I'm just gonna like walk right over
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oh look at this let's take a look so
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this is still here
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property has been placed on the national
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register of historic places
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man that right there
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that is a relic
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so sad what happened to this place
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I was able to one time stay here around
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the little hotel around the back which
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kind of resembles the Bates Motel
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in a lot of ways
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probably not structurally sound to go in
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here so
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probably not the smartest to walk over
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you can see people have signed their
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their names up there on the speaker
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the table here there's the bar over
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see there was like some spoons or
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something on the let's even open
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yeah this is open
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wow I'm not going to go any farther it
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just wouldn't be a good idea
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to go in here because this sophistic
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cave in at any time
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what's the update
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from Yeehaw Junction
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again do not recommend
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climbing up there any of that
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not a good call
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a truck just like that that's not the
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truck but truck just like that plowed
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into it
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oh they have removed the desert inside
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up there they have the hotel
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signage
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so slowly but surely this thing is
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disappearing and being erased from
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existence
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that's the update here from Yeehaw
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Junction
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back before it was called Yeehaw
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Junction it was called jackass Junction
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True Story
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the last time I was here this whole side
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of the building was still intact
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and now even this little storage area
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you can see there's a speaker there
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different household items things like
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that some lettering down here to the
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sign across there can be seen
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and just look how completely unstable
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all this is there's a door right here
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almost looks like something plowed into
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here as well
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or maybe during one of the last
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hurricanes
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yeah someone's not abiding by this
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someone has ripped this door off
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gone inside there I'm not going to do
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that
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it's going to kind of peek in but
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it's mural here was painted back in
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2011.
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and the bordello room was up there and I
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was able to go in here before
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it was destroyed
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did a video on it where I stayed
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overnight
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around the back
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there's this there's the now Infamous
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stove up there
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see how many photographs in this place
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was torn you know truck right ran right
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into this
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seeing through this way oh there's an
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old Tom's machine
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that's wild
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that is so wild
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all right update I'll check back in
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another year or so we'll just see
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what other stuff has been removed and
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man that's wild oh dang that's a big
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lizard
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that's like some of the iguanas I saw
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back in Key West down in Key West
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over the last few days I was down there
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that's a huge lizard
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dead milk will be proud of that big
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lizard in my backyard can't feed or
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defeated anymore and then around the
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back of the property is where I ended up
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staying over a decade ago or so a place
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back here that Norman Bates and his
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mother
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would be completely proud of they have
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boarded up these as well I think it was
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that room right there I stayed in fact I
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had an air mattress I didn't even sleep
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on the bed I took the air mattress that
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I had in my van when I was like staying
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on my sleeping in my van rented the room
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just to do a video staying overnight and
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I quote unquote haunted
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motel and I the The Mattress was not the
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most Pleasant mattress so I just put my
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air mattress
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on top of it
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ah memories continued on now into
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Kenansville
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passing through here as well home of
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the Heartbreak Hotel
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and someone with some fireworks
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just like the other song The Heartbreak
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Hotel and across the way here
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for a while I thought someone was living
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in the Heartbreak Hotel but it doesn't
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look like anyone's living there now
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but over here on the corner of North Bow
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Street
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is the old Bank
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here in kanansville First State Bank
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right across from the Heartbreak Hotel
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and gonna finish off with the U.S post
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Office Kingsville Florida
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32739 the ZIP code
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States back from way back in the day
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I've shown this before but it's been
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about a year so I'm passing right by it
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taking my mom home
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and
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the old keenansville school
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with the Bell right here the Sun is
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setting through the trees soon to have
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dripped Over the Horizon
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that's gonna do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video a vlog