Quirky Roadside Stops Near Tacoma - The Drive Thru Church & Worlds Fair Bubbleator / Downtown Murals
Tacoma Washington 2023
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foreign
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welcome everyone out in the woo here as
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a recording of this Monday February 6
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2023.
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I am standing on this cobblestone street
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I guess you could call it Cobblestone
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Brick Street here in Tacoma Washington
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behind me
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this Homestead a dog is barking
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down the way
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a scenic view
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of the water off in the distance and a
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historic church building
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starting off on this road I'm going to
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do a little tour
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around Tacoma today
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see what I can find starting off with
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this neighborhood
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it has quite the vibe not necessarily
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because the dog was barking
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but just because of the overcastness the
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raininess and the cool crisp very crisp
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weather
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here in Tacoma
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and a historic home sits up here on the
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left
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I'm inviting you to join me I probably
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don't even need these
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shall You Bing Crosby
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was born
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in a house right up here
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I think
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I think so now from the information that
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I had found
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online there was a placard in front of
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his home where he was born and lived for
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I believe three years before moving to
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Spokane
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or is it Spokane
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but I am not seeing a placard in front
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of any of these homes
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the address is 1112 this is one one two
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two you can see it faintly there
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so I'm just looking for one one one two
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North J Street
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that's one one one six
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so if it jumps four
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to one one one two
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then this would be it yeah this is one
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one one two oh there it is right there
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there's the block
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take a look at this
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birthplace of Harry lillis
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nicknamed Bing Crosby May 2nd 1904
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placed here by the sons of the American
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Revolution
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this placard
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etched in the side of the stairwell
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after looking up a little bit more
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information about it there's a
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discrepancy with this
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because
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it also States other places that he was
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born in 1903 so either
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those facts are incorrect or this marker
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is incorrect by one year
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when I first passed by this I couldn't I
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didn't see it
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so I was looking down here
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which it's not
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family built hoe
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structurally sound and sturdy
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one of the original
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I guess the terminology would be crooner
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is that the type of vocal style that he
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would have inspired many many people
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like Frank Sinatra Elvis things like you
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know places people like that
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most likely listen to Bing Crosby and
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gained a little bit of inspiration for
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their style as well
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this is where he was born right across
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from this very impressive church
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building I'm going to hit a lot of spots
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in the general area I think I'm going to
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stay around Tacoma today
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feels really good out here it feels nice
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probably like
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40 degrees and brisk
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it's a good looking house
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driving down these cobblestones
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it's a little bumpy
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now back on it looks like they paved
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over some of it so they paved over some
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of the original Cobblestone brick
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see you there
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on the hill just a bit is Old Town
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Tacoma
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this is the corner of North Carr Street
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you see the car street c-a-r-r street
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you can see the sign is kind of blowing
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in the wind and the flags there
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which are very very prominently
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waving in the breeze because of the wind
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chills it was it's 40 in the mid 40s but
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it feels a lot colder than that standing
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here
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because of the the breeze is really
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heavily coming off of the lake but I
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like this old mural
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is here I have my hand cupped over the
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mic because
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I'm not even sure how the audio is going
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to be in this with the wind but this is
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a mural of an old train here
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the gentleman on the front of the
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the train
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this mural was placed here back in 1998
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but it looks to be a lot older than that
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possibly retouched up
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in 98.
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because right down here is the artist's
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signature
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Bob Henry 1998 this mural depicted life
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in the 1890s made possible that
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community and Gifts city of Tacoma
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it was dedicated in 99 so I guess yeah
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it was painted in 98 dedicated
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a year later
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has that old-timey look even got some
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banners through here as well
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some of the old-timey buildings are
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still
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down this really a pretty busy
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thoroughfare now back in the day it
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probably was not this busy oh it
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definitely wasn't
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progress on the side of this building is
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an old U.S mail slot take a look at that
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that's a relic of the past
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a few sculptures up here
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through old town
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this one appears to be
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a gentleman holding a fish
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embracing in a loving Embrace here while
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he holds the fish
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looking lovely lovingly into her eyes
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but she is not paying attention to him
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she is more enamored with the fish
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he's got a bag full of stuff down here
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okay this is robarsky
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prepo V Jess
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a fish story by Larry Anderson
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one of those would be the artists
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that win really blowing through here
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so he's holding the fish here
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it's very interesting I don't really
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know what the back story on this is but
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they have the light there I'm sure at
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night it's all illuminated so everyone
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can see the Glorious fish that he's
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holding
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over now into the Theater District
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do not block this driveway
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also looks to be kind of a art district
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as well
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fact
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kind of see a lot of paintings here on
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these like empty buildings
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that are through there but I believe on
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this corner
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is kind of a historic marker as well see
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if I can walk over there and find it
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where the very first time
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people were told to stand
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for the Pledge of Allegiance and
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national anthem the pledge of the
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international Anthem was here in Tacoma
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and I believe there's a marker over here
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also a pretty neat clock up there too
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that is not telling the correct time I
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don't think that clock at the top of the
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tower has worked for quite quite a while
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it's all rusted out but definitely
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is a sight to behold up there the Clock
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Tower
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downtown Tacoma down at the End of the
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Street Tacoma also has a Pantages
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Theater
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and also over here is
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an antique shop called
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Sanford and Son
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this is definitely a cool little area
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classic car alert this Thunderbird this
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very beautiful blue Thunderbird
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now if this is the Bostwick building
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then that placard
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would have been right here someone has
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either removed it or stolen it
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to the Bostwick building back in October
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of 1893
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originated the customer standing during
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the rendition of The Star-Spangled
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Banner used to State it so right here
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but someone has taken that piece of
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History right here what I am assuming is
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the Bostwick building
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according to a couple different articles
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I was reading online that's where it
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used to be
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dang
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it's gone this rock pylon here has a
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bunch of hands
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kind of all reaching up to the top of it
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with a teetering Rock
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over on the side as well
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and there is also a Rialto just like
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South Pasadena has a Rialto look at that
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building
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man this is an awesome area but there's
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the Rialto Theater
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South Pasadena has a Rialto as well
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that is a really cool looking old
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theater right there look at that
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I love the old neon that's working
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and the awnings there
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great that's great
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Club Silverstone used to have
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lounge and dancing area
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and this place looks pretty awesome this
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place appears to be open at certain
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times I don't know if it's open today
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the side's not on Savoy special where
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they have a lot of retro stuff in here
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including this guitar but take a look at
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this here is the genuine bud man t-shirt
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there's even a classic Mickey up there
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in the corner too on that t-shirt
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and that is a sweet mustache on that
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mannequin nice classic truck alert that
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old Ford up there I pulled down this
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alley so I want to go to look at some of
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these vintage murals that are kind of
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tucked away here in the Theater District
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this was a one-way street so I had to
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kind of go down one way around
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not this road with the other Road loop
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around and then Park up here to kind of
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get this angle but take a look at this
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beautiful old mural
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the cigar package here Turkish
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cigarettes
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Omar I believe it is Omar is the name of
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the
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cigarette company up there but this is
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nice untagged
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untarnish with the exception of like you
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know weather worn
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and then over here is a New York and
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Washington outfitting company mural one
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dollar
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will dress you for one week one dollar
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will dress you for a week
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it has the guy on the end there with the
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sweet mustache and the top hat
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that is awesome
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but I thought maybe there was a
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Coca-Cola mural up there but it says
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something company and apparel
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and then the pythian temple
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right there there's even a couple other
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murals that have been painted over that
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are tough to see and then down here
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there is an Optus optician exclusive
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optician
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this is the kind of stuff I'm always on
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the lookout for and always
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trying to find
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you know untouched
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for many years
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on the side of brick wall that they
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paint for advertisements from back in
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the day
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so good
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I just want to focus on it just for
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another another few seconds here
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bask in the glory of this nostalgia
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really the type of thing you see in
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really small forgotten towns not really
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in bigger areas like the Seattle Tacoma
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area
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so this was a nice little treat to see
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this untouched ended up driving about 20
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or 30 minutes away from Tacoma to an
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area called Sumner
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where there is a drive-through church
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I do not know if I've ever seen
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a drive through I've seen small churches
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self-proclaimed smallest churches in the
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U.S but not one
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that you can drive directly through
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the middle of
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this is a real thing what the heck
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pretty awesome though it's got the
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steeple up top it's got the
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church bell like a ringing ring the
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church bell
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drive as you are
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you'll be loved that's what the sign
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says
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out front
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a drive-through church that is something
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could safely say I've never seen
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anything like this before should
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probably wipe my lens off I got rain on
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my camera
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I'm gonna drive through it I'm gonna go
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through and see what's all about
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just like he would have at a fast food
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restaurant
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where they have the distance of how tall
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up your vehicle can be
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they have that here as well clearance
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eight foot eight inches
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my rental car should be able to squeeze
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through here
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barely
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and I'm the only one in the
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drive-through line
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I thought maybe the the interesting
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novelty of this would be drawing quite a
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group of people
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it's just me
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if you don't want to drive through you
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can sit over here at this table
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got the stained glass windows has the
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little church pews here this rental car
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turns off
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every time you kind of stall out I could
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also walk through it here's the pulpit
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I feel like it makes sense to drive over
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there another stained glass
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that's different
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that is definitely different
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I did it something I never knew I needed
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to do I don't know if I'd classify it as
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a bucket list
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but I did something I didn't ever expect
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I would do until today drive through
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a church building
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be interesting
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I kind of like it it's different
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and it draws attention
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to the larger congregation and the real
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Church well we'll call it a real church
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but the building over here that houses
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the larger congregation probably every
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Sunday
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it's kind of a little novelty thing
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but might get some people interested in
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the subject matter
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and then the religion and showing up
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here it might even get a few people
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go into their congregation because they
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drove through this little building first
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and then decided hey we should come back
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on
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one day and see what the church is all
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about
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it's different I like it
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you can kind of see how it's set up here
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I drove through now I'm walking back
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through so I guess if you wanted to you
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could come up here and even sit get out
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of the car
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as a residential neighborhood over there
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in the distance you got the cross
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up top there
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okay here's the here's the pulpit
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even has some hours but I believe you
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probably drive through this at any time
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unless they
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put a little chain up or something
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and even have the
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Bible here King James version of the
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Bible yeah
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might be the only one that there is
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there's another one I've never certainly
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never heard of
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of what before
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all right it's cold get back in my
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rental
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carrying on but I had to drive over the
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outskirts of Tacoma probably 10 miles on
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the outskirt 10 15 miles outside Tacoma
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to see this I'm glad I did
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pretty neat and a little more
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information this was built in 2020
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it can do all things through Christ who
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strength because we Philippians 4 13.
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also I just noticed in this little
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retention Pond outside the drive-through
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building are a bunch of ducks that are
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in the water
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a lot of ducks
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some in the water and then some over
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there on the shoreline hello ducks
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continued on down the way
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over to an area I'm not allowed to park
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here but I can't drive past it
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no parking local residents only
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probably about 20 minutes from the last
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place I was was at but take a look at
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this cylinder ball here in the front
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yard of this
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this used to be from the World's Fair
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in fact I saw a photo of it yesterday
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when I went up into the Space Needle
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and now it sits in front of this kind of
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Queen Anne looking Cottage here right
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along the water
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and I actually got a photo
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yesterday when I went up to the Space
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Needle they had a photo of this
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I believe it was an elevator perhaps let
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me look at the the photo again but now
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it is not downtown Seattle it's over in
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an area called Redondo
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in front of this home
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very interesting just drove up and did a
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u-turn turned around sound View Drive
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South
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right here along the water
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and I snapped this yesterday some of the
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information and attractions talking
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about the World's Fair
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located at the Space Needle now which is
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like gosh a half hour
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30 miles or so from here so it's moved
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all the way over here
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one of the most popular Fair attraction
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was called the bubble later
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you can see it right there
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an elevator
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almost like the wonk evader but it's the
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bubble later now it's just sitting in
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someone's yard
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pretty neat
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I don't know how they got access to that
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how they ended up owning it
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but a little hit little World's Fair
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Seattle history
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many decades ago
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this photo looks like it would have been
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taken from the other side
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the doors would have been the other side
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this is kind of around the back end of
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it
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you can see the doors there that opened
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up and let everyone inside
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of the bubble later
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is a rather large coffee mug
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the world's famous Bob's Java
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and the front sign out front says yo
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that's gonna do it for today
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a little Tacoma roaming around Tacoma
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and some other areas so the outskirts of
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Tacoma found some interesting stuff I
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just felt like getting to my rental car
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and driving around see what I can find
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look some stuff up
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and most of it was still there in fact
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all of it was still there
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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next video the Vlog
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is
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that's a big
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coffee mug coffee cup coffee
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pot
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I'll see the next video of the Vlog
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is over
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there's a monkey and a giraffe and an
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eyeball