Rare Up Close Look at The Sandlot (1993) Baseball Field Hidden in Utah Neighborhood & Squints Mural
The Sandlot (1993) Field Location
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today's adventure brings me to Salt Lake
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City where there's some birds going by
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there
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it's a little later in the day it's
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about 6 30 P.M
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as a recording of this Sunday September
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25th 2022
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I am in the general neighborhood
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where a 1993 classic baseball film took
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place The Sandlot this is a super
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Mercado shopping center grocery store
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which does not look to be open anymore
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put the camera around
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welcome everyone out of the woo here in
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the residential neighborhood right over
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there in the middle of it is
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The Sandlot the baseball field from the
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classic
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it was kind of a makeshift baseball
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field it was not a real field now five
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six years ago give or take a couple
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months I stood in this very spot I had
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my drone at the time Flew Over The Empty
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lot that is wedged between a bunch of
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homes that there is no accessibility to
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so I have returned hoping I can get a
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glimpse from ground level and just see
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possibly if maybe someone in the area
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one of the neighbors will let me back in
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to stay it
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holy holy baseball ground
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you could say this is my Graceland sir
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great movie
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I don't think there's anyone out there
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that doesn't love the film there might
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be a few who do not love the film but it
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is a classic by everyone's standards
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I'm inviting you to join me see what
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happens and then I might go other places
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Jordan shall you oh yeah
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yeah I did the locations like five years
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ago I think everybody has dogs here
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it wasn't the field like right here
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oh the home plate was right here yeah
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okay
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so you think I should walk over there
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and ask him
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I've never really seen them never
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anybody's out there but okay
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I've had people like hey if you want to
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put something under the fence and
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[\h__\h] hop over it yeah by my side but
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I've never I've seen them and I they've
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had one wedding back here the whole time
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I've ever seen them and beside that I've
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never seen them are those two pieces of
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wood from the movie
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really
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can I walk over there
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yeah I don't mind barking
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hey doggies
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the neighbor here just said that these
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were two pieces of wood left over from
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the backdrop of the movie
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and they were here like five years ago
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doing a reunion and she was saying they
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might be here next year to do a 30th
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Anniversary retrospector so the only
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people who've been back here are the
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casting crew from the film
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come on
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this is where it all was in fact you
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could see this building right here in
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the movie itself
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so the house of
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of uh oh not sure okay because you can
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see you can see this house here yeah
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okay now I can picture it okay I'm
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getting it now that's really cool thanks
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for letting me so here's a here's a
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photo here so that's when they were
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tearing it down yeah so that's that
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house yeah gotcha so this is where the
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backdrop was right here the backstop
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right that's cool
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so it really wasn't that far it was kind
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of past where the American flags are
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maybe like I don't know 50 yards or
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something yeah I think you can see all
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these telephone poles from the phone
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when I was a kid because I grew up here
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oh you grew up here right down the road
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and uh they still have the field here
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no kidding yeah
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and we came and checked it out when I
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was like 10 years old but now that's
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amazing
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I've never seen any photos of anyone
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standing in this yard yeah
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that will back before see when I was a
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kid
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these ones
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um like this was still open to the
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public as a park oh okay so you could
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come and you know run the bases of The
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Sandlot and stuff when I was a little
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she said sometimes the guy will let
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people in over over there over there the
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guy that owns the house is right here
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this far one with the sheds and stuff
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I might walk over there and ask
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you like the movie I love the movie yeah
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yeah I was here I'm from Florida I was
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here about five years ago I did all the
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locations and I flew a drone over this
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oh cool but I wasn't able to stand on
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the spot yeah well there it is she said
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that like next year they're going to do
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the 30th anniversary of it that's cool
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that's the rumor anyway
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it was like someone tried to climb over
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this
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look
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it's amazing there it is so you got to
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run the bases that's pretty cool
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yeah at least they kept it a field
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yeah it goes way back if you look at the
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satellite image goes all the way over
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okay I pulled up a screen grab here so
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the camera is I'm basically standing
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right here in the middle so right I'm
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kind of in the middle of these two homes
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so the backdrop I'm standing right at
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the backdrop in fact right home plate is
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as she was saying is right in front of
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me so this kind of pink painted house
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is the red brick house
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that's next door and then this house is
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right over here so first Baseline would
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have been there so that would not have
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been the wood from the backdrop that or
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if the back behind home plate that would
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have been the wood from the first base
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dugout
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and then you got third base line right
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here right down this line and then this
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house I believe is painted a different
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color but as you can see in the photo so
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behind me would be the man the the
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mountain I said Mansions the mountains
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would be directly behind me so I'm
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standing exactly right in the middle of
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the screen so where they all rode their
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bikes in and all that would basically be
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down the third base line which would
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have been kind of like right down here
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when they all rode
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when they all rode their bikes out like
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that
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and here's a wider angle kind of seeing
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the whole the whole expansiveness
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and there is a tree over here okay let
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me just take a look at this so you see
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over here is the dugout
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for the first base dugout
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that is where those little two-piece
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wood little pieces of wood are and this
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tree could be the tree over there next
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to the neighbor's yard just obviously
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it's had almost 30 years of growth
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but I think that might be the tree take
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a look over here you can see the same
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telephone poles as well which right
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there you got the telephone poles and
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then those trees I was talking about
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all down there on that end
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kind of zoom in on those
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pieces of wood there from the
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I believe they have put their dogs away
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they have chickens too and roosters here
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but yeah I mean I don't know for certain
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if those are screen used but they
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probably are
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probably screen news and then look over
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here behind this truck you see that Barn
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right there that little shed that can be
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seen in the film as well there's a
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different property from it
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like all the way down because the movie
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was just basically just one lot this is
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where that fence is there is kind of the
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end of it and then I think James Earl
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Jones house was there everyone owns this
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part and it's kind of sectioned out into
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four people so he even has
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it's even kind of fenced off there I
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guess you got to walk through his side
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yard no you can go right through it
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right there oh you can
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driveway okay maybe I'll walk over there
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and ask him have you met him I've never
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met him the only time I met him was
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during that wedding when I had to bring
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in my dogs okay all right I'll walk over
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there besides at nope
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thanks for all the info I appreciate it
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thank you
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all right I'm gonna walk around there
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and see what happens this is probably
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about the closest I've ever been
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thankfully the people who own this house
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they were out in their yard they were
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kind enough to give some information and
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then the other couple that was here the
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guy that was saying he grew up here
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he also just kind of came by she said
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that a lot of people all day long
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stopped by and would not have walked up
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in their yard if this lady was not as in
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fact there's a neighbor right across the
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street kind of staring at me and another
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one right there watering there alone I
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don't know how kind they would be maybe
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they would be but this is about as close
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as you can get I think
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and walk over and talk to that neighbor
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seen any Babe Ruth great Bambinos signed
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baseballs around here doc
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another dog
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I love that everyone in this
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neighborhood has dogs
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literally everyone just like the movie
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this is very interesting not only dogs
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but there are a lot of bunnies in this
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neighborhood bunny rabbits
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in this neighborhood there's one there
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there's three or four over there
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there's even another one over in that
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yard
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very interesting
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I wonder whoever owns these give gave
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him names from The Sandlot I wonder if
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I'm one of them is named Squints
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possibly
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possibly okay I was looking for someone
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out in their yard in this area no one
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out in their yard
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I didn't want to walk up so where the
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bunnies were
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where the bunnies were I had to walk way
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up in summer yards and I said Beware of
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dogs so I didn't want to go up there so
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maybe one of those neighbors would come
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out too but didn't happen
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that's gracious
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just like real life Sandlot it really is
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incredible how the entire house is all
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in golf where The Sandlot would have
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been so it's all behind these houses
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fences lots of dogs lots of areas where
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you cannot really go into anyone's
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backyard to get the angle so thankfully
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the one neighbor was out
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she was kind enough to let me kind of
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look through that one fence now taking a
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look at the satellite image it's very
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interesting so right on the corner of
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these two roads I am where the blue dot
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is where I was kind of standing really
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the only view you can get in
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is kind of over here to the side so
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right here in this center point you can
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see there's a little open area and the
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neighbor in this house was outside she
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was the one that let me walk up to the
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fence line and this neighbor over here
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was out watering the lawn and whatnot
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out front and I didn't talk to him but I
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didn't talk to her how she let me kind
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of stand in this very corner so right
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here was
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the playground sand lot as well and I
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guess who owns the property is over here
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and could not get them to come out I
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didn't want to walk up in the yard
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because there's so many dogs and their
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house is kind of offset from the road
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but yeah that's pretty much it you could
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just see how lengthy all that is so all
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this up here was not used it was pretty
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much all right here and James Earl
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Jones's house was kind of like at the
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top of where the screen is so it's just
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kind of that little area right there but
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you can just see how expansive all the
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empty little lot is here in between all
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the homes but all these houses have no
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access into that empty field at all and
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this lot here is completely fenced off
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so it's like even though you can't
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really see it there's no way in
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to that area without asking permission
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and I don't want to jump a fence
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kind of impromptu impulsive
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so the neighborhood is over here so I'm
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looking at it from this little area see
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the sun where I walked over there to get
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the peak in was down that way and I
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believe who owns the property is down
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that way and you can just hear
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a lot of dogs barking
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now they're camera shy even though I did
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not want to jump the fence obviously
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probably wouldn't have been the wires I
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don't need one of those dogs
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coming after me or you know one of the
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property owners which are about 25
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Property Owners around the expanse of
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where the sand lot was I was able to
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walk up to the fence and see some screen
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used items that were there from The
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Dugout never seen that before when I was
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here five or six years ago I was in that
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parking lot kind of did an overhead
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perspective did not get that close
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that's the closest I have ever been to
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baseball 1993 Sandlot film history
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nailed it and as I passed this
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cul-de-sac here away go back after my
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run the car oh there's a bus going by
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Utah Transit Authority bus
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going by here's a community garden
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over here in this little section
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in this neighborhood
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I'll see what else see what else there
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is in this area okay back in the car now
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and still in the neighborhood but going
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to be heading over to
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a store that was used in the movie where
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I saw something online that possibly a
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mural was painted on the side of it
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take a look
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at these peacocks here this is in the
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same neighborhood from The Sandlot
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pretty close to where the bunnies were
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all right see you up doing a little
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digging buddy
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doing a little digging and you can see
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the sun is just about over the mountains
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over there I have made it over to
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Midvale to the Vincent building and I'm
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going to walk around downtown driving in
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it's kind of empty
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where a lot of people on the street so
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it should be an interesting stroll
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through Midvale I think it's called
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Midvale
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m-i-m-i-d-v-a-l-e about 10 minutes south
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Salt Lake where over here on the back
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side of this building the Vincent
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building
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referred to as they're doing some
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construction
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using quite a few movies including The
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Sandlot get a better perspective from
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the front
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looks like this fence has been kind of
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pulled back
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I don't see any dogs in this area though
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no it's not pulled back it's just kind
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of bent out if they've
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put it there as well
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and maybe tearing this down
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now when I was pulling in here
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to park I did notice that the mural
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is official it Still Remains sometimes
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when you see stuff online
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and then you get to a place
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usually it'll be painted over or changed
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but take a look at this Squints right
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here
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from The Sandlot
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and All His glory with the sunglasses
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that is amazing
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painted on the side
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of the Vincent building
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looks like you can even see
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the mountains here in Salt Lake in his
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glasses
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check that out
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something written on the side here I'm
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not sure if that's the artist's name or
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someone just spray painted their own
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thing there but pretty awesome
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I think that might be the artist's name
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if it's not my apologies I don't see
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any other thing stating who did this
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that is great
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because in the movie The Sandlot
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they show the front of this building
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looking all very very retro I'll show
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the front of it they walk around the
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front yeah you can see not in the best
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shape
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however there's a pelican
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right here to quote another movie Mandy
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look at the pelican fly pelican
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has nothing to do with The Sandlot
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but it does have to do with Pelicans
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this could have been an old Bank perhaps
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you can see seen better days
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yeah the 93 film sand lot this is what
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it would have looked like
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still kind of looks the same except that
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we're in red there where it says Vincent
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drug has changed obviously classic car
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is not in front either but this sign's
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still there and this is what it looks
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like current day
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modern day
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today
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there's that sign there where it says
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Fountain and cosmetics that's still
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this very unique architecture still
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there as well it does say open daily on
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the side but I don't believe it's still
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utilized anymore so where it says here
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Rock Springs prescription specials
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down below lowest prices in town this is
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so classic
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Fountain drinks you probably had the
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Grenadine Cherry Coke in there
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sugar-free candy Department
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we always discount prices if they were I
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don't think they're open anymore yeah
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other than a few random cars are driving
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through here not a whole heck of a lot
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of activity
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happening granted it is a little late
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today it's a Sunday you know for Salt
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Lake City a lot of places aren't open
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but I have a feeling that this place
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this town downtown is not really a
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beehive of activities also 758 on a
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Sunday as a recording of this
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that might I don't know what that honk
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was but Vincent the Vincent drugs also
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was used in Halloween for the exteriors
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of it
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and
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also The Sandlot
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and I kind of peeked in the window and
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it looks as if the entire place is kind
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of shelled out and empty at the moment
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there's nothing inside the store anymore
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thankfully the signage is still out
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there this is about the best I could do
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as far as kind of having my light off my
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phone looking into the store you see
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there's some paint cans in there and
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it's pretty empty and kind of gutted out
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at the moment which means
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it is not no it's not open daily anymore
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there's nothing inside here just sitting
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here empty the main reason I came down
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you know 10 miles south of Salt Lake to
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this little downtown was to see the
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Squints mural which is over on that side
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so it's not over here on the fenced off
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area it's more towards the back side of
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that near the gas station and
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convenience store but since I'm down
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I'm just gonna stroll around hopefully
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Michael Myers wasn't around that would
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not be good not be good at all but down
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in the alleys no
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no shape from what I could see walking
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these alleys but there is some a cool
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mural here as well and the occasional
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vehicle
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going by
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okay here's a bank well one of the banks
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that may be the other one the other
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Corner was this one clearly says on the
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corner corner of First Ave
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it says Bank up at the top portion I
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like this building a lot
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in the old town taverns this would be
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the old town area
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of this community Old Town Tavern over
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I'll see a Coca-Cola mural up here
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that's good
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this is nice look at this this is
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actually older I think this is maybe
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like a newer version painting of it but
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this looks very retro as well this has
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been here for a while
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yeah take a look at this this is this
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has been painted on this advertisement
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I'm painting on the side of this wall
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for quite some time I don't see a date
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stamp anywhere on it
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but that is definitely seen some years
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beautiful
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and right over here
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are some paintings of some of the
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landmarks here in town
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there you go look at this it's going to
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still have the the sign across the front
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I am still fascinated by this building
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on the corner though which
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I guess there's One Bank on the other
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end of town well the couple blocks
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down the way where I just walked with
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the theater over there continue on but
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this does look like it would have been a
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bank
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at some point the windows have been
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Cinder blocked over
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as well
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kind of falling into disrepair
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unique architecture up top
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and then the
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defensive building they've been some
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drugs right down there
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I'm kind of glad that the this mural
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down here brought me back down here just
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to walk around the little Main Street of
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this town pretty awesome
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but this right here this really ties
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into this episode of the salon
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like I said I've covered it in the past
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in great detail all the location
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locations five years ago but this was
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not here then and today was the closest
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I've ever gotten up to the actual sand
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lot in that neighborhood
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which is pretty dang cool
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and the fact that part of the Dugout was
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still there
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just right there on the other side of
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the fence that's pretty I had no idea
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until today part of the dugout
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from the film still there
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made it back up to Salt Lake now
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Capitol building in front of me found
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this parking lot off to the side around
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the back side of it
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I'm gonna walk up to it here
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noticing how cool it gets in the evening
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it's not cold
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but if I had a jacket on I would not be
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uncomfortably warm it's a little brisk
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you know hot during the day and cool at
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night unlike Florida which I will be
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returning to Florida in a couple days
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and not only is there a hurricane
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heading to Florida which hopefully
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in a couple days when I hop the flight
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to go down there that does not delay or
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you know postpone that in any way but in
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Florida
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this time of the year it doesn't really
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cool down a whole heck of a lot at night
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like it does here at Salt Lake
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a nighttime walk
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Salt Lake City
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foreign
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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