Walt Disney Hometown Tour Kansas City to Marceline - Main Street USA / Original Studios & Much MORE
A visit to Missouri to check out the hometown of Walt Disney . Starting in Kansas City and making my way to Marceline To the original Main Street USA . Some locations Included are Laugh O Gram studios , former homes , hometown museum , dreaming tree and barn .
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welcome everyone Adams uh whoo here Cody
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drinking some hot coffee staying warm it
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is brisk in Kansas City where we are
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beginning Walt Disney is behind us a
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painting of him because he began a
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portion of his career here in fact this
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theater he was hired to do illustrations
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when he lived here in KC is that what
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they say KC I think is KC there are two
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cases I've never been here so I'm not
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exactly sure there is Kansas and there
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is Missouri we are on the other side of
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the river in Missouri right and we're
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gonna take in some of the sights and
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sounds here and then meander an hour or
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two overs would you let Brees feel that
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briskness coming in stop I don't want to
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think about it you don't wanna think
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just take two just tune it out shoot it
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out we're gonna go over to Marceline
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it's gonna be a full day a full video of
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adventures you are shivering I am cold
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I'm not wearing gloves you have a glow
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at least you have gloves Jax I'm smart I
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can't handle it bro
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I'm inviting you to join me and Cody
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shall you about a block away this
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building how's the old laughs a Graham
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Studios even though it went bankrupt and
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closed down a lot of the animation that
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we know and love stemmed from this
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structure thoughts and ideas formulated
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behind those walls Mortimer mouse which
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you might be more familiar with the name
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Mickey Mouse
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is said to have been inspired by a mouse
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found back here
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in the woods
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here on this far end the upper-level
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sealed-off fenced off set to look from
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afar now the light pole has seen some
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changes over the years and the building
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across the way has been completely torn
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down but he also recorded some
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promotional films for the city right up
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there looking downward perched up on
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that very corner with his cameras a few
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years ago a restoration progress began
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and was underway for a short time it
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appears as if that has halted however
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it's been like this for for a while
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paintings on the side one of them
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including Oswald
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yeah lucky rabbit right there at the
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very end towards the top his last couple
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windows and right here at the top of the
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frame is a young Walt a picture of young
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Walt looking over the road there were
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also times that he didn't have a place
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to clean up and a shower so he would
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have to walk from here down to the train
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station and that's where he would that's
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where he would do so sleeping up there
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in the office working and then taking a
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little walk
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truly a magical place does it look like
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much now very rundown but hopes dreams
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aspirations plans all it took place
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behind those windows what do you think
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Cody you think if this oak opened as a
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museum people would make the pilgrimage
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out to see it
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yeah I think they would maybe one day I
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think it would be a smart idea for sure
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so what they do it the architecture of
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this is pretty nifty little railing
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there along the hedge
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very distinct
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it is a little bit of a walk not too bad
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when you're driving but walking it would
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yeah just a little bit of a hike the
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interior of this place is rather amazing
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very this is also where he booked a
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one-way train ticket out to Los Angeles
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and we all know what happened after that
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things started to work out just a bit
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and just a few blocks away top of this
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building is a TWA moon liner rocket
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which you might remember from Disneyland
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Tomorrowland there's one here in the
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city
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let's hit the top of that building I
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first learned about this from my friend
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six-six he'll ride who before he passed
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away a few years ago alerted me that it
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existed and he repeatedly would state
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one day we have to document this and
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show how it pertains to Walt he loved
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that history and route 66 hence his
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username so this pertains to the subject
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matter but also a little
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a little nod to him before heading out
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of town wanted to swing by this
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residential neighborhood this home the
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Disney's lived in for a very short time
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in fact there's a Mickey birdbath
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there in the yard and up in the window
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also some other some other items there
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the birds chirping are a nice touch
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located in the same vicinity as this old
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store the coca-cola mural faintly
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protruding through the brick
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does it get much more Americana than
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this that's a good one and with that
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gonna make the commute over to Marceline
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the sign directional arrow states that
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we're almost there
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upon entering the community the first
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thing you see at the welcome side often
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the distance over there
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is the recreation of the barn on their
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farmland property it's gone through some
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renovations since those days but this
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was their homestead right here on the
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city limits right the threshold as well
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as growing up here he also returned a
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little later in his life here's him
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walking into his yard the population I'm
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noticing has decreased by about a
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thousand since that photograph a second
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away with our family to live in
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Marceline when I was around four years
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old I clearly remember remember the day
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we arrived there on the train mr. coffin
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medicine a wagon we rode out to our
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house in the country just outside the
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city limits I believe it was called the
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cream corn
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my first impression of it was that it
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had a beautiful front yard reminder this
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property is privately owned however open
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365 days a year
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dawn to dusk and free to the public
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which is nice visitors and those who
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make the pilgrimage are granted access
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back to the section where the dreaming
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tree used to be and the new tree is
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sprouting up considerably I can see it
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there in the middle of the street more
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things of importance happened to me in
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Marceline that have happened to me since
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or are likely to in the future this
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sapling was planted by his grandson
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Bradford lund with the assistance of the
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wdw ambassador's soil from the Magic
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Kingdom and water from the rivers of
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America
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we're lovingly mixed with soil so that
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this can carry on the tradition and just
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a few feet from the original dreaming
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tree she's a stand right here behind
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this wooden fence
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the Train kind of start with me which he
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used to sit under
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and do some dreamin there's Roy and his
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brother returning to the spot as a young
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boy remnants of the original tree are
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still back here we've been in this spot
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with his number two pencils and his Big
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Chief drawing tablet scribbling away
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doing his own first animations and he
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himself is even credited this as being
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the birthplace of his creativity right
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here
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careful man yeah that's definitely ice
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would you like to take a little souvenir
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back to Florida with you eating it alas
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I think it'll be okay he put it here put
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in 1950 he used his fondest memories of
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Marceline to recreate the old family
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farm barn in the backyard of his place
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in California this is a recreation of
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that recreation if that makes sense
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it is accessible and allowed in fact
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encouraged for those to enter take a
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sharpie and write on the walls or a pen
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and thousands have done say autographs
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and words are welcomed on the interior
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only and they supply some pins if you do
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not bring any it's filled up nicely it
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is tough to find a spot that is not
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covered in something frame up there is
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all the way up there
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on two different occasions on previous
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visits many years ago I also left my
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mark the easiest to find is up here
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above the doorframe but I only left my
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initials right there in red as you walk
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in a stream door that's the first one
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the other was a year or so before that
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on one of these rafters this is kind of
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a toughy yeah oh yeah and a nice little
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addition to those who could not make the
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trek at d23 expo in anaheim they let
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everyone who decided to to sign these
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benches and they transported them all
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the way from California meaning I have
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yet another one that has been documented
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right here on the far right corner of
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this seat
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headed into town now and this cos ebo
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hear a train going by kind of adds to
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the ambience
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nice from here gonna be walking across
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the way to the station which is now a
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museum you can see it there off in the
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distance Santa Fe number two five four
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six
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Disneyland railroad
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it's so good I feel like it just got
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faster
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look at it now I'm dizzy mmm I think
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you're supposed to spend the opposite
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three game
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gotta love the fact that it's named EP
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Ripley Park which he named for the first
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steam engine at Disneyland and also
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appropriate at the Museum the home town
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museum is in the train station that he
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arrived on
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very familiar flag there with the orange
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background a Mickey and there's a desk
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there below it if you look closely at
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his desk you can see WD inscribed on it
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used to be at the schoolhouse but now
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they moved it behind this glass case at
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the Museum effect he carved his initials
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in there twice a gift from Disneyland or
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the old attractions that is no more in
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Anaheim here's one of the vehicles on
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display as a piece of the dreaming tree
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as well look down there there's a mural
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of them picked up a few items including
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this postcard is a little windy
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I want to see if I can get a special
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imprint on the back of it at the post
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office before walking up the stairs
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noticing there are two plaques here the
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relic version that is kind of starting
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to rust away stating the stamp and a
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little bit more detailed explanation
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honored guests arrived for the postage
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stamp ceremonies on the Santa Fe
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Railroad renamed the Walt Disney special
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120,000 stamps were ordered for the
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unusual demand for those stamps resulted
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in the total production of 153 million
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am I reading that right and it is a
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one-of-a-kind postmark so it comes like
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this okay so I assume you're trying to
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take pictures we do this here yeah just
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like that and it will be just a little
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bit wet for about a minute the
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inspiration for Main Street USA
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from his memories he constructed what
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you walk down at Disneyland and in
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Central Florida at Magic Kingdom and
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since then others around the world okay
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they're starting to see the characters
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here mr. chicken Dale & Donald Wow and
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there's the photo of Walt up there up on
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the stage in front of everyone you got
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Pinocchio here by the snack bar just a
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couple years ago we did free Friday
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night movies we just played any medium
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and it was free result connections to
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help pay for the electricity and this is
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it but the goal is to restore her what's
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the rush like he put the flashlight over
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towards the wall oh yeah look at that
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Wow and then over the other side we
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really want to turn into a community
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asset yeah that's amazing
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so that if like any of the organizations
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that you know cific or today you should
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want to use them for a fundraiser they
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can use it Japan over just a little bit
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there as a mannequin they're kind of
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hanging out there just kind of one
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planet yeah they've been there a long
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time
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what's this room right here - Marta -
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well that's the actual projector this
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sure is wow this is cool I'm gonna wait
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the counterweight that is amazing oh
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that's neat this rolls of film up here -
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registry when they promote when they did
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the premiere the great locomotive chase
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that movie theater was open for almost
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24 hours because Walt wanted anybody
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that wanted to see it to see it he's
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pointing at a clock there on the side of
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the screen the clocks still hanging
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inside there it is they're downing
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supermarket
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Tilly the Sun is starting to set
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night falls about to rear its head
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I like the fact that it has the Train
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there on the far end
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a pretty good view from up here on the
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second floor looking down Main Street
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USA in the evening some neon lit up over
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there in the distance here's my
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merchandise haul I got a sweet t-shirt
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and some collectible bags that they came
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in as well as this postcard here that
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shows Main Street a magnet the old
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ticket to off Autopia and this flag
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which I have never seen for sale
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anywhere this is an exclusive you might
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recognize that because it it flies and
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Main Street at Disney when you're first
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walking in near the train station go
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look closely for it it's the only other
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place I've seen it and I've never seen
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it for sale except in Marceline back in
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1966 this version of Autopia opened up
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on the opposite side of town at the
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municipal park and since has been
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removed and they are creating a new
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track yet to be determined when it will
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be opened
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but those cars will run again here in
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Marceline transplanted from Disneyland
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in Anaheim
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actually kind of peaceful here very
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peaceful
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it looks very similar
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the neat thing is it is two blocks just
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like Main Street USA at the Disney parks
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are two blocks you go up to one take a
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right
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does the manatee go into the locker area
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just like this one so this would be the
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start walking past the flagpole and
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train station and the castle would be
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straight ahead
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the real coat corner the original coat
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corner what better to wrap the day up
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with with an icy cold coke crud shook it
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too much stick it out
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Cody's very cold holding the camera
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right now Thank You Cody you're welcome
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I'll see you the next video the vlog you
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gonna pound that thing
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dude are you ever gonna come inside I'm
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just I'm just enjoying the moment