TDW 1750 - They Are Building A High Rise HERE ?
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there it is the Sint Cloud water tower
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just protruding and slightly peaking
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over the top of the old Chamber of
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Commerce building here on New York
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Avenue with the old bricks Illuminating
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upward out of the former asphalt they
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removed the concrete and brought back
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the old school Brick City Hall Straight
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Ahead today's Vlog is going to be about
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my hometowns downtown and the changes
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that are coming welcome everyone Adam
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the woo here and all along this wall are
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some teeny tiny murals with date stamps
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of the history of this town and speaking
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of historical figures here I am
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my it's my second channel daily Vlog
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channel it's the daily wo I will only be
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in this neck of the woods for a few more
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days in fact tomorrow I return the
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rental car I wanted to document what
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this street and the neighboring roads
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nearby look like because when I return
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and who knows when that will be all this
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could be totally or maybe even slightly
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different than it looks right now in the
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past I have shown the apartment I lived
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in for a few years right down there but
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I don't think I've ever shown what I
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almost lived in it is now a
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deteriorating building and I almost
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lived right up there where those windows
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are up that stairwell but I opted for
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for a slightly little bit better place
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down there on the end man this block
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brings back some memories and if I open
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that door to
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reminisce I would be committing a
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felony is that true there are a lot of
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Renovations on the horizon starting with
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the former Big D's which when I was in
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bands I played in Here many many at
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times in fact the stage was right over
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there in that corner the people would be
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hanging out here having a few
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beverages watching me play the Bas over
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there tucked away in the nether
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regions of this room man it's crazy
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looks so different now and it looks like
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this is the company or at least the
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builders who are kind of starting up all
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the changes that's going to happen down
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here and when you see a small town like
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this one that's not that busy not
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hustling and bustling no major
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Metropolis what is the first thing that
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you would do to add to the experience of
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a downtown like
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this I think I'd build I don't know a 15
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story skyscraper maybe a hotel with a
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parking garage however that is on the
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agenda the drawing board is look at this
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that is being
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projected to be
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placed down in here somewhere I think I
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know the place you think you know where
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that's going to be I think I do let's go
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check it out there is still a air of
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mystery to what's going to happen to
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this block but you can tell tell the old
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thrift store that I frequented many many
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times has closed as well as the whatnot
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shop next door all of these are either
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being bought out or the people are
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moving out because they might change
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this entire block also and the historic
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Hunter Arms Hotel which are now
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Apartments is also hinted at being
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renovated and check it out sincerely
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yours this door has moved up to the next
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block past this little stretch I really
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think they're going to do something with
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this I really do there's also going to
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be some major changes to the oldest
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hotel in town the St Cloud Hotel which
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they say is haunted but all the people
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who moved here before their houses were
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built in the early 1900s lived in this
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hotel and I think now correct me if I am
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wrong dad but behind this behind this is
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where they're going to build you think
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is where they're going to build the
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highrise that is what the rumor has been
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given so behind the haunted hotel
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they're going to build a taller Hotel
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what if the what if the ghosts move from
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here into the taller building or what if
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they collected more ghosts and doubled
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their number and just filled every room
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no one would want to visit downtown if
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that happened if the entire stretch of
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downtown was truly haunted who the heck
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would want to come down here we have
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walked around back and in this open
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field is supposedly where they're going
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to build the highrise
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stretching to the Heavens to the
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sky it might be a good idea I know a lot
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of places do change things up in their
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town I believe the term is
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gentrification I don't know the
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specifics of what that means but a lot
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of times when you do that to an area the
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whole
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dynamic of the downtown changes and that
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could actually be a good thing for St
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Cloud and this could change the entire
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demographic of the clientele that comes
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down here so you might have to start
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dressing a little bit different maybe
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get a fedora a monacle perhaps a bow tie
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I'd probably wear longer shorts what's
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up Adam oh hello and I also have to
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wonder if the rumors are true will the
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infamous Morse Market stay here this
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place is legendary it is a right of
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passage for anyone who either lives near
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downtown or passes through downtown St
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Cloud this place is kind of like
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something out of Clerks you can actually
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picture the characters from clerks
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standing over here in the corner just
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chilling I just grabbed one of these
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free papers and there is an aerial image
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of town from 1917 and 1926 did you see
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this I find that hard to believe that's
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almost beyond my believability it's an
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aerial view it's an aerial view 1917
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what kind of Aerials did they have in
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1917 what was it a hot air balloon or
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what Superman let's take a look at that
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paper again that is the projected
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path of what it's going to look like
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that's the the structure itself and it
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should be right here let's let's wait 6
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Seven 8 months maybe a year and see see
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if we were correct and if that if that
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ends up in see if we we've used our
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Columbo like research skills correctly
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this is it this might possibly
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hypothetically be where the skyrise will
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end up maybe the wildest imaginations of
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your imaginative imagination but we
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could be right we could be correct and
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if we are every all everyone that's
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laughing at us now will be apologizing
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later and that seaweed that
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seaweed that weed has to go according to
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my father this is some sort of aquatic
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plant here is this a is this a
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ponia I picked up this book a couple
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weeks ago and inside is a photo of the
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inside of the Citizens National Bank
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that became the People's Bank and some
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say it is a rumor that John Dillinger
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robbed this bank but I think that has
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been discredited but in the 1930s this
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photo was taken and now there is a gift
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shop I'm going to go take a look inside
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and see what it looks like current day
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so this would have been the Vault maybe
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the door was right here yeah so the
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vault door Bank door would have been
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here now it's a thrift shop but that's
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where all the money was kept right in
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there just talked to the gentleman who
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owns the little shop inside there and he
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said they have started started
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renovating the hunter Arms Hotel and
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they are going to break ground by the
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end of the year right in that lot
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directly in front of me now as the
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parking garage for the highrise that is
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over here on the Left Behind the S Cloud
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Hotel that we were just standing in the
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empty lot so hypothetically if I come
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back for the holidays I might see I
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might see some differences down here
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good thing I'm filming this yeah for
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posterity and you might even get some
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Christmas gifts if you come back to
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buiness
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was that John Dillinger let's start the
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rumor that that was Dillinger that
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looked like Don gillinger is that white
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pick up don don
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Dillinger what is now the VFW Hall used
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to be the train station and for years I
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tried to find a photo to prove that the
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train tracks were right here in front of
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it and I finally have found it in this
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book look at this old photo there of
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some wagons in front and you can see
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this is the exact angle that was taken
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in that picture and the railroad tracks
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finally I have found some sort of
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documentation the railroad tracks as
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seen right here in this book we exactly
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where these parking pillars are now
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where it says VFW only is where the
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train track started ran down 10th Street
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towards CMI Florida here in Oola County
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you'll also notice next to the railings
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is a little embankment it's almost like
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the concrete was elevated a few inches
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and here you can see that's where the
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concrete was and they just took some
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sort of buffer and just kind of scuffed
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it down to make it level but you can see
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how it's stretched all along there just
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like in the photo there how it's
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elevated plus you got the asphalt of the
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parking lot that raises the parking lot
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up that's true too yeah it could be that
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or maybe that it wasn't buffed off maybe
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just they took this was actually lower
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yeah that's it but that's it a little a
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little history here has been discovered
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it makes sense cuz you can see how it's
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kind of BU in the ground but back in the
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day this road was not here and you see
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how this is elevated so just take the
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elevation of this go back in time to
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when that was elevated yep you're
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totally right before this highway was
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here what is called 13th street that
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runs directly through town across there
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you see the Band Shell that used to be a
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cow pasture it was the farthest thing
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you would see on the outskirts of St
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Cloud and right here next to the water
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tower this service center this car
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dealer used to be this in this photo is
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from Hurricane Donna you can see how the
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road is flooded it's not flooded anymore
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they've created canals and changed the
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whole dynamic so that will not happen
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again unless well it might happen again
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but less likely now with the drainage
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system that is now in place about 2 or 3
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miles from downtown is this Waterway
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here they call it the canal and along
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this canal was originally where St Cloud
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Florida started a sugar directly behind
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us but in front of us straight ahead is
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Lake too and this thoroughfare was used
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for a lot of transportation and of the
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product of the Sugar Mill and it brought
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a lot of people into town so the
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beginnings of St Cloud started right
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here of course now no one lives on the
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canal everyone's downtown right and now
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there's major changes coming to the
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downtown area it's going to be almost
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unrecognizable the highrise to our
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generation and say 20 years y
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everything's always changed you know
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construction Crews come in and just
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totally change everything up it's going
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to be interesting to watch all that take
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place in increments as it grows along
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you probably won't notice it as much as
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I will because I'm going to be gone for
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a while and come back that's when you
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really notice that things change when
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it's like directly under your face you
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don't see the progression in is did I
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ever tell you I used to work in
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construction no you never did I never
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told you that no back when I was 17
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years old I work on this construction
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crew just for a just for a brief time a
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few weeks and uh I remember one time
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when this guy
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this guy came to i' i' been working
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there a short period of time but he was
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a brand new greeny newbie guy like a
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rookie exactly exactly you were there
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two weeks you were you were the uh I was
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the experienced veteran you were the
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experienced he was the amateur you were
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the veteran that's right that's right so
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anyway um so he's over there and I watch
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him he's nailing these nails and every
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time he'd reach into this pouch the put
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belt a fanny pack yeah yeah yeah he
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reached into his nail pouch he pull out
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a nail and I noticed that about half of
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the nails he would throw away he just
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toss them over to the side pull out
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another one and maybe he would nail that
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one and were they defective or well I
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went over to him I went over and I said
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look what I noticed you're throwing half
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of the nails away what what's going on
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what's the deal he says well when I
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reach in and I pull out a nail out of
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the pack if the if the point is pointing
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toward me I know that's a defective nail
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and I throw it away and then the next
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one I pull out if it's pointed toward
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the wood I nail that one in the wood I
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said there was nothing wrong with it
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exactly I said dude dude those are not
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defective Nails the one you're throwing
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away are not defective he said they're
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not I said no they're for the other side
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of the
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house now I know why you only work there
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two weeks two weeks Vlog over