The Cleanup of Venice Beach Is Happening - Muscle Beach Has Closed / Pizza on The Boardwalk & MORE
Venice Beach Walk Thru July 2021
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this it is july
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6th at noon i have found a parking spot
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venice beach is where i'm going to be
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kind of walking up and down
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the sidewalk boardwalk in that general
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vicinity just to see how things are
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since
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everything has kind of reopened since
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the last time i was here it's probably
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been close to
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maybe a year since i have wandered
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venice
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and i have this just to shield myself
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someone just had a little just bumped
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into the curb there inviting you to join
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me
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shall you now probably the most famous
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entrance
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into venice would be windward avenue
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over there is where that sign is
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but i've never noticed here on the side
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of this building that there is a tennis
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shoe
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a tennis racket and a tennis ball kind
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of faded out
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looks like something from maybe like the
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70s up there
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well since that year ago stroll i took
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during the daytime hours
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i was out here four or five months ago
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did some filming locations but it was
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probably about four or five a.m so i
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guess i don't really count that because
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nothing was was open
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at that time there's the sign right
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there and it's sort of fitting that
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there's a garbage truck
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right here kind of part of the
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part of the experience down here will be
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a cleanup that has been taking place
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also that filming creation i did it's
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kind of documented here with this homage
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to the touch of evil painting that never
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did on the side of this building
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yeah they're cleaning this whole area up
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started earlier this month now from what
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i heard it's being done
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in stages i think it's a four or five
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stage process where
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one week it's the section that stretches
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from here
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down a couple blocks and then the
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following week it continues down towards
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santa monica it is good to see some of
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these little store fronts pulled up with
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their their the metal doors are
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are pulled up and they're selling some
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of their product last time i was out
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here
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nothing out here was open like this and
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quite a few little booths
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set up here as well people selling their
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artwork
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and it's a real beehive well i won't say
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a beehive
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it's a moderate it's a moderate beehive
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of
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semi-active activity and there's the
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there's the v
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over there made out of steel beams v of
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course for venice and the basketball
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court over here
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is hopping nice kind of neat how there's
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almost a sidewalk a walkway
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leading up to the beach itself to the
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water itself
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now when i shift over this way you will
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see the pier
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there's a couple piers in this vicinity
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this is the venice beach pier
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and the santa monica pier which might
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not be able to see from the haze is a
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couple of miles
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down that way and you can't see that
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metal v the very interesting thing
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from here as i turn you can see muscle
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beach you can see a building over there
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that says
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muscle beach now muscle beach originally
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started in santa monica near that pier
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but years ago years and years ago moved
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over here to venice
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and it's now closed muscle beach as of
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right now
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is no more there's a banner up stating
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that there are
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things to come but right now nothing no
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one working out here
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getting some rays being out in the
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elements
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having the tourists walk by take photos
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of you while you're working out
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doing a little fitness right here all
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gone all sealed up
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there is a plane flying directly
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overhead now also
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we'll add in it's not stopping some from
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working out they're using this little
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outdoor area behind where the muscle
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beach
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kind of stand was so i guess people
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still are working out even though it's
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technically not the muscle beach
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area now as a recording of this it is a
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tuesday i bet over the weekend which was
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fourth of july weekend this place was
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up there's a seagull up there this place
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was probably really really busy
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didn't come out here over the weekend
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but you can just imagine with the breeze
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off the water everyone's spray painting
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over there
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you gotta smell the fumes wafting this
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way
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and the skate park has reopened last
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time i was over in this area they had
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sand in the skate park to people
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keep from people from going out and now
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to stay indoors you know what everyone
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had to kind of stay put
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they put sand in the in the skate park i
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suppose if you want to stop anyone you
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know you stop want to stop skaters from
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utilizing
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a skating pool area sand would do the
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trick
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you know there's sand in there you can't
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you can't utilize it it was an
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interesting time 2020 and the 21.
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thankfully now it is not frowned upon
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for everyone to be out and about being
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active
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skating riding bikes surfing swimming
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everything is kind of pretty much back
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to how it usually used to be
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kind of wish this taco stand was open
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never never heard of this one but i bet
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they probably have some pretty good
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tacos
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hey i'm just gonna start from this
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position and walk toward walk this way
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for a little while and then
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kind of loop back just do a little walk
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through it is kind of neat to think that
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this used to be a road people would park
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over here
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drive this this used to be a road at one
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time as did this there used to be a big
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hotel
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right here this is kind of neat this
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mural over here shows some of the famous
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faces that lived here back in
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1915 to 1916. you know i will admit they
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really
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are cleaning up this area at least
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through this one particular section
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you see them painting over here and in
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this little area between these
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few blocks from the big metal v and all
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that
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down to here there are no tents all the
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tents through this section
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have been removed right up here used to
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be the venice beach freak show but they
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pulled out i think in like 2018 but it
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was right here
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in this building now notice through here
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you'll see it's all cleaned up there's
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just no tents along the beach
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facing this way but you shift to this
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where this block starts and there are
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tents
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and if you look a little closer as i
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walk over to this tree
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there is a signage from the city giving
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some of the info
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this is all done in stages so it looks
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as if it's just kind of moving its way
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down towards
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santa monica so as of right now as of
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this day walking down
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thor nav right to the beach you can
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still see there still are some tents
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going all the way down that way part of
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me kind of wonders if it's going to
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change the vibe down here
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or not if the vibe will stay the same
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it'll probably help
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dramatically change the vibe through
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this whole area
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it's just always kind of it's always
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kind of been like this so
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i don't know i guess i don't have a
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really a thought process on it either
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way over here at sunset ave
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now from what i heard now don't quote me
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on this i don't have all the info
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but they are relocating a lot of people
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living here
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along the water along the beach to where
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i'm not sure to where but and it might
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only be for a short time they've got a
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sign back there so they had
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90 days to claim claim anything if they
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were not out by a certain time then they
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just put it in storage
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they have 90 days but i do feel it's
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going to kind of make its shift and make
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its way down to santa monica you can see
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not even here along where the sidewalk
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was but now
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a lot of tents have moved out towards
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the beach almost like right on
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waterfront
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as well like over there in the sand a
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very artistic vibe down here one of the
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things i really like about this area is
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how
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kind of like artsy and artistic it
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really is and creative everyone
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has their personal expression out and i
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hope that remains even after
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a lot of the cleanup kind of made it to
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the end of where the santa monica
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ends and then the long sidewalk over to
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well not santa monica venice i should
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say i made it to the end of where venice
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begins
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and the long sidewalk to santa monica
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but it appears as if everything just
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kind of shifted
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over to this very far end for now i'm
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just gonna start making my way
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making my way back it'll be interesting
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in a month or two to see
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see what the vibe is like out here see
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if everything really is cleaned up
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judging by the first couple blocks
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on the other end it appears as if they
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are making some some serious headway
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though and things are
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they just try to get cleaned up quite a
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bit see i really like this right here
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now i would imagine that someone is
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probably using the back of this van for
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some living accommodations
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i did that for a while too although my
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ford my ford e150 was not as stylish and
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art decored as much as this is right
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this is pretty pretty dang cool
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setting up a little setting up a little
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camp inside there out of the elements
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nice and you can see off in the distance
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there is a an officer
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a patrol car over there with a couple
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couple
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officers inside just kind of watching
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over everything out here city of los
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angeles parks and recreation
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temporary tent is over here on this
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block and also notice that someone is
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over here painting a brand new mural
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along this wall
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i will say though there are a lot less
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vendor tents than i've seen in the past
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fun fact down there on the end there's a
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place called the more or more they used
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to be a tattoo place where i got my
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the last hello parks and recreations now
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pulling through here i signified my
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five years of doing daily vlogs i did
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with the with a tattoo on my arm the
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number five on my arm and i got it in a
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place back there that's now
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not a tattoo place anymore right here on
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venice beach kind of tough to even think
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about that that was even two or three
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years ago now
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wow time really does fly check out this
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sign right up here
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as well saying no camping this has been
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here for a while so
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i tucked into one of these alleys here
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and this is something i've never noticed
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these little like look at the
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the items up here on the top of this
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roof there's like king triton there's a
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guy with some wings
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without a doubt most of the activity is
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down here towards where the big metal v
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is and these gentlemen over here have
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finished well it looks like as if they
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painted
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over the section that they were working
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on
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right in here they're kind of touching
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it all up and then there's the
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there's the big v over there the v for
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venice this is saint mark
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he is the patron saint of venice and
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right near saint mark is
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big daddy's pizza where i ended up
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getting myself a slice of pie big
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daddy's pizza and this is what we're
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dealing with this was six dollars and
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fifty cents pretty good size you can see
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the comparison of the plate in my hand
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yeah it's it's loaded up it's known as
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the supreme which has a little bit of
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everything on it
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that's 6.50 is a little more than you
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know
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most would pay for a slice of pizza but
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it's kind of a winning row moment
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with well or a win in venice moment
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underneath
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saint mark the patron saint of venice he
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might have liked supreme also
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a nice delicious slice of pie with the
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backdrop
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of venice beach
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over here by the v also is a little sub
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station
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it's not a station it's a substation
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is there a difference still a station
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but it's just it's called a substation
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it says right there on the side
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and i was incorrect they were not
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finished painting the little area
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that's over here leading up to the v
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down windward
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getting it all ready for those who are
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going to walk across this
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hundreds if not thousands of people in
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the future and with that heading away
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from the water
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back underneath well the back side of
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the venice side going out to pacific ave
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people in the street getting a photo
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better get out of the real quick always
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some really cool artwork through here
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if you look up top there is a head with
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some vines from like a root system
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coming out of the bottom of the head
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there take a look at that
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pretty neat hey you just never know what
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you're gonna find painted on these walls
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through here and the soda refreshing
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cold drink machine has been
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incarcerated it's been put behind bars
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for one reason or another and i was just
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over at the skate park
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check this out here is a dog town piece
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a little skeleton
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holding a board there and you can see
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where it says dog
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town skates it's pretty neat a skeleton
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has a halo
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a halo on this little snail down here
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appears to have some some vampire fangs
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inscribed there on the concrete
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found some street parking didn't cost
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anything however it's tough to find
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most of the parking lots are anywhere
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from 15 20 25 30
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for the full day but i got pretty lucky
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with street parking oh hello crow that's
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gonna do it for
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today from venice beach nothing too
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vital nothing too important just a
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casual stroll up and down the sidewalk
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there used to be a road
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back in the day now it is used for
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buskers
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street vendors etc it'll be interesting
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to head back it's really kind of
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silhouetted out here with the
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with the umbrella but it does help keep
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some shade
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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