Exploring The Prado Dam Bicentennial Mural : Endangered Patriotic Icon
http://www.AdamTheWoo.com - Joined By Count Stankus we ventured to pay our respects and see what remains of the endangered California landmark . This iconic piece of artwork could be nothing more than a memory in the near future.
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Transcript
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welcome everyone I'm here today with
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count stankus and we are in full motion
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and a hike if you will to actually get
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to the pra dam is that what it's called
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the pra PR Dam prao dam here in Southern
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California and as you can see we have a
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little bit of a walk past this Barb Wire
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along the rain tracks over that Hill
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we're trying to actually get to a mural
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that was actually created in 1976 for
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the
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bicentennial celebration and there is a
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little bit of holoo a little controversy
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on whether they should remove the mural
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so before this mural is removed we
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figured we would get a up close view of
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History before it is completely
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extinguished from the Southern
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California freeway View and it's
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actually right at the crossroads of two
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freeways
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as you're driving along through kind of
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the deser regions of Southern California
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you see this fantastic mural that was
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created by school kids for the
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bicentennial so let's go check it out if
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we can make the hike join us shall you
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definitely don't want to fall down this
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little embankment slide off there that
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would not be good look at all this
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Rubble this is a perfect place for
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rattlesnakes to hang out oh yes you go
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first you go first count
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stank see any snakes not
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yet as you can see this is some sort of
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water drain off area spill well from the
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dam now we are not actually going up to
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the dam that area is off limits but this
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area right past the railroad tracks this
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little pathway it's pretty much wide
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open from the freeway and you can hear
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me echoing through here here that's
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crazy hello hello anyone in there anyone
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in there hello hello it's talking back
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usually people talk back to me but now
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I'm talking back to myself my no no yes
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yes that's kind of that's kind of
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japeta tumble
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weeds lots of tumble weeds that are not
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tumbling currently at this particular
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moment
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so as you can see behind me there's
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actually a big no trespassing sign and
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not only is there no trespassing it's
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also a government property and it says
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Construction in progress the last thing
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you want to do is trespass on government
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property actually after it's well posted
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as well as a construction area because
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trespassing fines are way more and the
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penalties are way more when it's a
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construction and a government zone so
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this is as far as we are going to go but
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as you can see the main thoroughfare
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freeways right there pass right by the
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front of the mural so maybe we can climb
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up here and get some shots but this is
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as far as count stankus and I are
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actually going to go today w w WP WP sad
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Trum bone
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looks like this area actually uses as a
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helicopter pad those x's on the ground
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the dam way off in the distance but this
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is a major spill well where the water I
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guess if it floods too much or if the
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dam overfills the water would actually
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go down the side of that embankment and
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that's where the mural is you can see
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the mural is still there there a lot of
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controversy now on whether the mural
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should actually be removed but that's it
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a bird's eye view kind of 1976 marked
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200 years of of our Bicentennial B 200
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years of freedom in in the United States
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and that year
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1976 the uh students of Corona High
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School came out and did this mural and
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right now this is the largest mural in
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the United States they had some help
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from their school and also from parents
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that got them to be able to do this it
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says 200 years of freedom on the left
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side and then there's supposed to be a
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bell and then uh 1776 to 1976 but since
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then taggers have come and really
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screwed it up now what we're trying to
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do well a lot of people not me but
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people online that the creators of this
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is to get it repainted again but
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unfortunately this is a government area
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over here owned by the Army and they
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don't want people messing with it
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because of all the tagging and also
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because the paint they used originally
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was lead paint
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so that's about it here from the
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bicentennial
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mural you want to know what you think
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leave some comments down below if you
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think the mural should be saved or if it
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should be removed if you're one of the
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people who think it should be saved I'll
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put the link down below onto a petition
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that's going around to keep this
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historical mural on the side of the dam
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the spillway Dam or if you're one of the
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people that think the mural should be
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removed that's okay too leave your
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comments down below and we'll make sure
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we'll have a little discussion on the
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topic also make sure you check out this
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guy's Channel count stankus as well
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thanks for his idea subscribe please yes
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subscribe please like he said to his
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channel as well and we'll see you guys
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next time count stankus will see you on
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his channel and I'll see you on my daily
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Channel as well an unedited Vlog
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youtube/ theed dailywoo all right see
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you guys bye