The Last Remaining Retro Motels Near Knott's Berry Farm - Beach Blvd in Buena Park / Stanton Tour
The Amazing Classic Hotels of Beach Blvd Near Knott's Berry Farm
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure begins in
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buena park california with a piping hot
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coffee i will be i may be traversing
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through a couple of communities down
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beach boulevard this caffeinated
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beverage was purchased through the
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drive-through here
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at this mickey d's which was home of one
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of
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only a couple maybe even one or two
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throughout the
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throughout the entire us that had a
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mcthriller and the sign is still there
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that is the focus of this episode
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classic old retro slash neon signage
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around knott's berry farm which is right
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over there just within a few miles
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see what i can find i'm inviting you to
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join me a little relics of the past
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oh that's good shall you if you look
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past
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the pioneer motel which they did have a
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some kind of item dangling over the top
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of it to block it but
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pioneer motel cannot be stopped
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well it can because it's been torn down
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but the signage is starting to peek
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through
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way over there is rock and bruce which i
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believe is owned by a couple members
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from kiss
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and medieval times and yes that is the
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medieval times used in the cable guy
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you can see some of some of knots
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peeking up over
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of the building here i want to focus on
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this neon that states
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mcthriller now they have removed the
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attraction that was inside
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but there used to be a yeah it was a
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very
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thrilling it was what do you what do you
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call those when it's a simulator
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a simulator called the mcthriller and
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there weren't many but there was one
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here
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on beach boulevard
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true story however it's very difficult
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to find any
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photographs or ride throughs of the
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experience
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it's been gone a long time
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and one of the cross streets is the
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westward wagon inn
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and you have a covered wagon there
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this is right across from the theme park
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some accommodations
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yep that's right big the foot heading
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west
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for a few miles and then i'll turn
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around and go back up there's a
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that's a golf cart here's something you
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don't see too much of
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in these days a a pitching area
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home run park when i was younger i went
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to quite a few of these
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and out here in town in florida
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i fancied myself as a bit of a baseball
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player but in reality i
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really wasn't that good oh wow here's a
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nice little
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stretch of them near the near the cross
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streets of ball road
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and beach the robin hood motel
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they have flat screen tvs and clean room
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free internet yeah look at him up there
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with his
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his bow and arrow
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isn't the only one right next door is
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the
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sahara motel they also have
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tvs a pool and the neon
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is lit up says vacancy and there's a
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globe up top
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yeah it's a sphere of some sort like a
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planet
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and adjacent to the rainbow inn at 8 31
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looks to be a new coke machine
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it's kind of hidden in the shadows there
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but it's not
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coca-cola classic it's a new coke
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machine which did not last very long
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back in the day of course with the
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popularity of stranger things i think
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they
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they re-released some of the cans but
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that machine
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is a relic there's another covered wagon
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motel
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right up here next to the motel
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moonlight
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there's a little bit of a dip there
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gotta watch my footing as i walk and
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it's not just
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the signage but the facades are also
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very impressive in architecture
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oh there's a bird up there
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hello bird
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well i better be gonna fly off but no
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you're just going up to roost a little
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higher up
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on that rusted out piece of metal it's
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always interesting when hbo
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is a selling point you know back in the
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day it really was
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places that had hbo would kind of draw
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you off the thoroughfare and
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make you book a room in this day and age
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i'm not really too sure
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maybe walking back it looks to be lit up
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from this side not from the other but
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there you can see the
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you see the lights around the motel are
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on
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i know in a lot of ways this might seem
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unimportant or maybe even an exciting
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but trust me this is history and there
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will
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be a time when these do not exist in
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fact quite a bit i would
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imagine have been removed along the
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stretch of road just like in other areas
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all around
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the country kind of
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we want to do this for a while document
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the history here and
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finally doing it that's a good point big
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the foot i don't have any personal
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nostalgia because i didn't grow up
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around these parts
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but i do love americana and
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just checking out things that are
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interesting to me
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you may have heard of outdoor flea
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markets but this is an
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indoor swap meet here in stanton
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and i would imagine there are some
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stories that could be told
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right inside those doors from the locals
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classic
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those are so much fun when you're young
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i think my weight would be distributed
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correctly on this however current day
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plenty of pawn shops through here as
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well this is like pawn shop row and
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there's some
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a locksmith as well a lot of pawn shops
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on the stretch
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former taco bell alert
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right over there the old school style
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this one is not retro but they built it
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to look
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retro customer parking only on that bent
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piece of metal i don't know if that
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applies because there's probably not any
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customers
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this place has seen better days however
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next door
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the motel is still open next to the jade
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palace
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and they have cable
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that is a beautiful antique right there
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that entire thing next to the road
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heading back the other way now
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kind of circling back i just figured out
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what this reminds me of
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beach boulevard reminds me of obt orange
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blossom trail in orlando
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very similar low weekly rate
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free movies here at the riviera
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here's another one another good one the
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tahiti
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nice can't be a 100
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certain but i feel as if the venus
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has been here a long time live
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entertainment it's a sports lounge
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the venus says temporarily closed
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the steakhouse is
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very unique looking
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it's located just across the way from
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the jade palace i was out early out
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earlier
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park ave
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slays park ave ill garage il garage
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well i
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i assume it's a steakhouse ah
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that's where i got the idea when i i
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pulled in here i saw
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steaks and chops
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that neon there probably lights up very
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beautifully in the evening
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when they're open
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you can kind of see where it says
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fabulous on the the other side there
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kind of tucked away but this market
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where checks are
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well checks with an x are cached
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got an old western vibe to it
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could have been a pay phone here
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yeah payphone would have mounted right
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there
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can't get in it's all boarded up
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obviously with the
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little stop icon on the door
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pretty cool looking though see with the
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sun
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glistening there next to it a little
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sunburst
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just talked to a guy that runs a food
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truck in that parking lot he said that
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they are going to tear that building
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down
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in the very near future
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according to him also approaching this
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this beauty yeah look at that
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it's got the arrow circling around the
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lights around it
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and can't really be in this neighborhood
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without showing the recreation
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the white house down there at adventure
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city
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and the stump building
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it's a building that looks like a tree
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stump
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about two or three stories tall it's
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safe to say because there's a safe there
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safe to say the theming through here is
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on point
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old west style that looks to be a newer
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one as well but it does have that old
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school
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vibe to it next to the travel inn
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motel with the jacuzzi room and the
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shadow park
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and getting closer to back to knotts you
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have the
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calico motel
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keeping up with the theming and the
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budget in
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perfect he's talking about americana
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and this is the motel there is a says
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new
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see where it says new there in the
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corner it it that is that is an untruth
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it is not
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new anymore but i do like how that was
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left the top portion there on the
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marquee nothing is written
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this is great and even though it is not
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not available completely closed off
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looks as if there's some vehicles back
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there people are staying here
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even though it's not open for business
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in fact
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the front door is either the front door
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is open
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this is as far as i'm gonna go however
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that's the pool area
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over there check it out on the west
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coast checkers are called rallies if you
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look for the
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ferals on beach behind that just one
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block over
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is i'll give you the
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precise coordinates stanton ave
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and corsica lane
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kevin smith's clerks ii
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movies filming location was right back
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here where these condos apartments
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now are with the motel that sits
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adjacent still here
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now the buena park
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inn which can be seen in a couple of
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a couple of moments in the film itself
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nice little side note this has been this
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has seen a lot of progression over the
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years since the last time i
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i paid it a visit i believe it was an
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old burger king that they repurposed
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and turned into movies it would have
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been right back in there
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pretty fun to think about so if you were
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on the roof of movies
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you could have seen knott's soak city
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property
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very easily right here
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right over there
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