The Relics of The 1964 New York Worlds Fair - Incredible Disney History & First Time At Citi Field
Queens NY Worlds Fair & Citi Field
Transcript
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welcome everyone out of the woo here the
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hustle and bustle of Manhattan I love it
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we're Tampa Jay as the recording of this
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Tuesday May 16th the 16th Cheers Cheers
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beverage we are heading over to Queens
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New York via the subway here at Grand
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Central Station
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where our Tampa Bay Rays will be taking
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off Mets
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another Stadium to knock off the list
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if it's funny you're wearing purple
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because I think we're taking the purple
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train out to always yeah purple train to
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Queens also this will be kind of a
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double episode because you and I vote
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Disney folk we like we're kind of like
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the folklore the history of Disney the
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1964 World's Fair which needs no
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introduction for Disney fans happened
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right next to the Mets Citi Field
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stadium so we're covering that too yeah
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we'll be out there enjoying all the
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Disney stuff yeah it's really Hollow
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ground for Disney fans it is the
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Carousel of Progress and uh where are
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the Rays of the standings right now
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small baby as a recording of this
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best team in baseball record-wise that's
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right by like five or six games over the
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entire rest of the league we have played
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a lot of great teams that's true all
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right I'm inviting you to join me and
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Tampa Jay here in New York City over to
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Queens
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now we're heading over to Queens passing
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by this vehicle the MTA Metropolitan
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Transportation Authority with the eagle
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up top there
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it's Subway time yeah take a look at
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this when we're walking in there's some
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little cookies for sale over here with
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the New York City Taxi a Metro Car a
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smiley face pretty cool when you walk in
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there's this little area there's the
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Grand Central clock it's about 12 20. up
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it's moving just like the celebration
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clock I wonder if the celebration clock
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misses me
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and interesting this New York clock is
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cleaner and less smudges and easier to
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see
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celebration was a little foggy all right
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we're going to the purple train you
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should also mention that Tampa Jay has
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not watched this jersey yet nope not
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doing it he's not washed it and the
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razor doing good also I have not been to
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a Rays game this season that the Rays
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have lost so I'm just putting that out
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there I'm just putting that out there
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yeah we are going into the bowels the
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nether regions of the subway like three
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levels down underground this is down
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at nether regions of NYC taking a look
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at the standings as this moment Tampa
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Bay is 31-11 Baltimore is the second
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place in the AL East with 26 and 15.
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but Tampa Bay is the only one that's
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anywhere near 30 wins right now even in
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the other divisions Atlanta's pretty
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close with 26 but
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the razor five games even ahead of that
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so I'm pretty pretty happy with how
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things are going again it's early
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W's a w even this early in the season
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yeah that's awesome okay getting off
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this one
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and we've arrived over at the city field
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exit
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in fact you can see the top of City
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Field right there we're gonna head over
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there momentarily to City Field right
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there
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first we're gonna walk across this
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Boardwalk
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to Flushing Meadow Park
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over the 64 World's Fair
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I want to check the spot out for a long
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time being a Disney fan there is a
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little bit of a guide map I also have a
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few photos
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that I'm going to try to match up but
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here is Flushing Meadows Park
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and it kind of just shows the general
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area and it's something called the
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unisphere which is still there it's like
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a big globe that centralizes where
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everything was so it wasn't just Disney
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stuff obviously there was a lot of other
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things too but there was a lot of key
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elements when it came to Disney that
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Walt wanted to to unleash upon the world
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it's over where Fountain of the planets
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was I believe right here was Carousel of
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Progress and then over here in this
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corner was It's a Small World those are
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like the two big ones and then down here
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was an attraction that eventually turned
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into what the people mover is now
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and this was all here on this site
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before it was put
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into uh Disneyland and then eventually
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Magic Kingdom so right here
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Carousel progress right here it's a
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small world
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take a look at this Fountain of the
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planets from the year of the World's
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Fair not sure if this Mosaic mural has
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been here since 64 but it is dated 64
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and be able to see where that was too
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all right no joke I had no idea the size
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and magnificence of the unisphere right
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here this thing hey look at the guy
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going by on the bike right there that
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this thing is massive I mean this thing
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is like a skyscraper all its own I just
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thought it was going to be like a small
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globe in the fountain but this is next
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level yeah if you ever come here you
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will be blown away by the size of that
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globe that is completely
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a lot more magnificent than I was
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expecting and these are pretty iconic as
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well this section back over in here
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which is the opposite way of where
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Carousel progress was in Small World but
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there was another Disney exhibit past
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these and I believe these are recreated
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at Universal Studios Florida these kind
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of these little pylons right here I am
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holding the world in my hip palm of my
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head look at this little guide map so
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what I'm just showing was the New York
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state area so there was just lots of
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different areas around here you can see
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the unisphere over in this direction and
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then the New York State areas which are
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right in front of me which are just kind
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of empty and abandoned at this point
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there is a stairwell to the top of it
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these people have spray painted up there
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it's kind of rusted out but this is
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looking at the top
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of that Tower right up there I guess it
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was an Overlook of some sort but now a
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very iconic structure out here
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even the remains of an old stadium over
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here
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around the back of those
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pillar items
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wow just just massive vastness
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of open area out here
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so the World's Fair stretch all the way
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that way obviously where I just was
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looking over that way
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it's the big unisphere globe and all the
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way that direction I mean it's it is a
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huge expansive area of land and directly
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under these are some of the original
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water fountains there's not a lot of
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original stuff a lot of original relics
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back here but you can see these water
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fountains very unique to the time frame
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and look at the little stands here for
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the youngins to like get up on top of
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the side yeah
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I don't think I want a streak out of
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that yeah yeah it's got some uh it's got
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a little bird dog in it okay looking at
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this old aerial image so right over in
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this corner is kind of what I showed you
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could kind of see the little pillars
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there in that old stadium we walked in
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from this way so we're going to go
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across the parkway which is a busy
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freeway and then cut across the side
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road now all most of this is gone but I
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want to see if any of the concrete
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remains from the Ford
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magic Skyway building which was over
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there which was the original
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people mover kind of using these as
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Landmark to get the bearings
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the people movie didn't come to
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Disneyland until 67 three years before
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it originally debuted in its own kind of
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interesting Incarnation it evolved just
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a little bit before he hit Disneyland
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then later Magic Kingdom
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but it stood
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right over there on the other side of
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the freeway
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mind-blowing
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okay we passed over the freeway there we
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went up across across the Avenue of
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Transportation I flipped this photo
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guide map upside down
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and right over here is the Ford Pavilion
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right where the road kind of turns it's
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now looks like it's the use for a
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parking area but right there
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right there was where the future people
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mover was and the road's still the same
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how it kind of just bows this way at an
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angle there's a fork in the road that
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direction and right over there is where
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the magic Skyway Fords magic Skyway
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there's also this map
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which has some handwritten notes from
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Marty scolar before he passed on and it
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shows I'm going to kind of go off of
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some of this just he jotted down I found
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this on the interwebs as well Ford's
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magic Skyway original peep remover
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Walt Disney and just not too far from
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there is the original great moments of
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Mr Lincoln
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what the heck these guys are doing
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wheelies through the park there look at
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this
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he's got a good wheelie going
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they all got good wheelies going on so
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this looks like it might have been
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original as well but over in that
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parking area it's where the magic Skyway
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was and then you continue on go back
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over
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the parkway that's where great most Mr
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Lika was whoa
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spaceship earth over there
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not true that's totally not I'm just
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making that up that's actually that's
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actually the zoo
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it's actually a newer Zoo
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well now that I say that
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could that let me look on the map that's
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pretty old dude
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all right I could be
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yeah it's got some H to it
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maybe they just repurpose this for the
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zoo let me check that out yeah let me
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check them out
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all right I'm gonna say no because it
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would be right over here in this almost
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like it looks like almost like a pathway
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so that was built post 64 you'd be able
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to see it in this area but right here
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that is the Ford magic Skyway which
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was right over there
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directly behind
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well in front of where
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this very unique structure is so it must
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have been built for
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for the zoo this is a nice Discovery
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this has to be from 60 right
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look at that it's a globe it's the
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world's fair right
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the world history
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all right credit to imagineering Disney
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online my friend Gary Hall from Kingdom
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to WWE Kingdom cast just sent me some
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photos take a look at this this railing
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is still here
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these photos online imagineering Disney
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yeah this is awesome this railing is
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still going over the freeway and you see
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the the Ford
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Pavilion right there and that's using it
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as a landmark just how far we've already
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traversed and it appears to be the same
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holes through here from an angle kind of
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like that on the photo I just showed
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blowing my mind right now you know
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crossing over the freeway there as soon
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as you cross over you pass a little
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access road and right on the right
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it's Walt Disney's Great Moments with Mr
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Lincoln should be right in here all
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right it assumes as if there's been a
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lot of new construction but looking at
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the maps it was right over there there's
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a huge Tennis Center over there now
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and the photos I kind of saw that it
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just didn't really match up but right
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over there was great Melissa Mr Lincoln
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and these were all Tram routes through
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all of these areas all these streets
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were Tram routes
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for the New York
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the World's Fair here in New York
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this is definitely a pilgrimage
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anyone that's really into Disney history
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especially the history of Disneyland and
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Disney World and the attractions should
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probably come out to it I'm kind of
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disappointed in myself that it took this
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long
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to do this because this is like this is
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hollowed ground
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definitely Hollow ground when it comes
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to the Disney fandom
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I probably put this up with going to
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Marceline I'd say go to Marceline
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go to New York Queens to the spot
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there's two big ones when it comes to
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history someone's skating in the pool
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over there underneath the unisphere
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unisphere
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New York section
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lots of relics still out here highly
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recommend visiting this if you're in the
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area go to New York swing over here take
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the subway drive it is even parking
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check this out
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Disney history 101 right here now
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because I'm standing in the foreground
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it looks like this isn't that big
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come in here Jay gotcha how big would
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you say that is just oh
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so what did you expect that to be the
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size and magnitude that you thought it
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was going to be the first time I I came
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out here no yeah I forgot though I
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forgot how big
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I mean it's like it's like a towering
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building
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massive I mean look at the size of those
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little humans right there in the air at
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least
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holy cow
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awesome
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yeah yeah Tampa Jay pointed this out
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walked right over Court of States so you
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think maybe because Lincoln was in this
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area maybe maybe uh that's why they
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deemed this area the court of states
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with Great Moments Mr Lincoln over there
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kind of American now approaching the
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fountains of the fairs look on the guide
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map and they're still here the fountains
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of the fairs over here now just dried up
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pools no water in these
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at all
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it's like a reflecting Pond almost with
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no water
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Fountains of the fairs where are these
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pigeons are is the court of the universe
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or was
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and then the pool of Industry which is
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this massive
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pond
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pool right here and according to the
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notes
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right over there it's Carousel of
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Progress and that'll flow further over
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was It's a small world and on the other
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side of the pool of Industry past this
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little unique structure the other side
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of the Waterway was a phone that you
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could call into Disneyland because
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Disneyland opened in 55 this World's
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Fair was nine years later
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even though people move or Carousel AT
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progress
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small world did not open on opening day
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a Disneyland opened
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you know after the World's Fair those
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attractions open after the world's fair
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but right over there on the other side
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of that you could call over to
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Disneyland from New York City and these
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pigeons right here they weren't around
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them that's a pretty impressive view
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right there
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man it must have been just amazing to be
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out here when all that this was going on
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more of the original Fountain so just
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picture back in 64.
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walking over here
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hydrating yourself and then
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after you get done get a little H2O
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you turned back this way and right in
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this grassy patch
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was the OG Carousel of Progress
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right here this is the spot
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right where those trees are growing up
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connecting with the pool over there this
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little grass
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non-berm because it's not burning up
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Carousel of Progress
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one of my favorite attractions
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not a Disneyland anymore now this launch
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bag which is kind of weird
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but at Magic Kingdom it's still there
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thank goodness now here is a photo check
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out this little Transportation device
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down here which is exactly where we are
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standing so basically that kind of weird
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Transportation device was just sipping
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along right here I think that thing's in
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storage
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I hope so
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yeah
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probably on so I was supposed by selling
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it eBay or something pieces you've
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discovered it
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this is amazing
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that is pretty awesome Avenue of
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progress marking the area
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there's like a picture of the house so
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Carousel the progress is about 100 yards
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that way if you turn this direction
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right over here past these other water
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fountains according to the map
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was about 20 30 yards well probably 50
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yards
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that direction past the
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water pump so if you continue from where
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I just was those water fountains were
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there and it's the last section before
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you reach to now freeway over here so
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it's the last little chunk
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and take a look who the sponsor was
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Pepsi Cola you can't get a Pepsi
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anywhere on Disney property anymore
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interesting how things changed we
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thought they were small world was
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sponsored by Pepsi a little more than 50
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or 100 yards probably like 300 yards
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from those water fountains but it was
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right over here in this corner this
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little wedge
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right here was small world
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rolly Crump
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Mary Blair Walt Disney
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all right in here creating all this
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and I was hoping maybe there'd be some
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concrete work
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some of the foundations left but really
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really nothing other than the original
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water fountains and
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a couple of the the street signs and
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those Globes the little concrete Globes
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this is just hollowed ground
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when it comes to Disney history and yet
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another photo
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from small world you can see the trees
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have grown up this used to be a tram
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route through here now there are people
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riding bikes and skateboarding through
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this area but this is the best angle
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obviously these trees have grown up over
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the decades
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right over there
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also fun fact they have parts of the
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World Fair 64 small world
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Hollywood Studios and they also have the
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original great most of Mr Lincoln Mr
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Lincoln
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and what's that what is that place
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called in there the Hall of Presidents
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no no not the Hall of Presidents the
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museum that when you go to Hollywood uh
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one man one man's dream sorry I almost
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said walk and walks footsteps
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walk-in walks footsteps that's the tour
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of Disneyland
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one-man's dream at Hollywood Studios
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they have chunks of items that were here
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they have the little
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the decorative ornate pieces from small
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world and then the piece
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that was Abraham Abraham Lincoln from
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Great Moments over there now in Florida
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yeah this piece here is what I'm talking
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about
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Jay was just noticed it too I think
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that's Carousel progress back there off
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in the distance
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you'd be
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right that way
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wild not seeing a date stamp on anything
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out here no this could be original you
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think they are okay right because just
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because of the groundwork
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it kind of looks like the curb yeah they
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look very mid-century like spaceship
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fish so that small world photo there
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were benches on the other side over
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there they've been removed but possibly
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this is the same era some original paint
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and Jay has a very keen eye it's a
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hidden it's a kind of sort of Hidden
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Mickey right here and I know this has
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nothing to do
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with Disney but it is very interesting
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that there is a d I know I was looking
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it up I mean Disney was only one 30th I
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thought the same thing you know 1 30th
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of the the exhibits that were out here
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so definitely not but that's just kind
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of a weird it kind of looks like the
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Disney what's at us it does all right
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Jay is on a mission to find all these
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These are amazing Eisenhower Promenade
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because we're here yeah do you know
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Eisenhower is the one we have to thank
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for the interstate system yeah it's part
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of the new deal yeah because every image
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I've ever seen so look at Mickey and
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Pinocchio the rabbit there from Alice
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does it make it look like the unisphere
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the big Globe is as magnificently large
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as it really is but it is yeah there's a
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big sculpture down there in front of it
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now across this uh empty pool I don't
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know if that probably was added later
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after after 64 but yeah all right
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heading over to the game the Hoover
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Promenade
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Hoover Promenade
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again Carousel Small World Court of the
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Moon
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now we're just finding more and more of
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these things a snow Moon
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it's a space station
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oh that is wow check this out we're
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walking back over the stadium this is an
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Andy Warhol 64. and this is a dolly
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Salvador Dali Venus oh wow
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as we're going back over the boardwalk
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over to Citi Field
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these little kind of unique art deco
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like archways was the entrance in
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they'll be able to match up one more as
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well oh what's this city of New York
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oh there we go side of the New York
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World's Fair oh nice and also there was
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the world fair was here in 39 to 40 but
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also 64 to
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65.
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Flushing Meadows
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all right heading over to the game yeah
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it almost looked like they had some sort
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of like opening ceremony or like a
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little dance something going on out
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front
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but that is kind of leading in should be
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the last thing I show from
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the world's fair catch up as many
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characters in there now there's people
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in raincoats which would have been right
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about in this general area
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oh is this leftover this might be
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leftover Q area
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this has got to be leftover cue because
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look at the the type of architecture
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this is it's exactly the same
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it's over there
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this has got to be from 64.
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everyone queuing up
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just repainted obviously just repainted
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Scholars yeah
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and the Yankees game the other day it
23:37
was a day game this is a night game for
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his pitches at 7 10 I believe
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it's a little overcast and a little
23:43
Breezy it's gonna be nice
23:46
never walked into a baseball game across
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a boardwalk before there it is
23:51
City Field oh I see a big apple over
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here there is a big apple that has the
23:57
words home run on it and front oh there
24:00
are some sculptures out front I see Tom
24:03
Seaver over here all right this is the
24:05
Shea Stadium home run let's give you the
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home run Apple behind the center field
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wall Shea Stadium back in 81.
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part of the club's magic is back
24:13
marketing campaign and now it sits here
24:16
I also heard that the original home
24:18
plate of Shea Stadium is somewhere
24:20
around here yeah I really like how with
24:22
uh when it comes to me being you know
24:24
going to baseball games and stuff I'm
24:25
really branching out into a lot of away
24:28
State I think it says uh number 12 for
24:30
me I told 12 stadiums while rooting for
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the Rays including Tropicana Field so
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yeah a total of 12. see I'm I'm standing
24:37
under a branch I've been branching out
24:38
now it's still early enough this section
24:40
of the parking lot is not filled up
24:41
basically the subway we came in on
24:43
over there so a gentleman over there by
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the Big Apple alerted me that the
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original home plate of Shea
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was over here
24:53
Shea Stadium before Citi Field I think I
24:56
see it you see it where's it at I think
24:58
I see the Shay Jay
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it's right over here I can see the I can
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see the plane yeah this is Wild is this
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it wow this is it oh that's first base
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okay first base okay where's first it's
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our second
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that's probably the pitching rubber
25:13
right over there there it is you see it
25:16
let's get the pitching robber here
25:27
there it is look at that
25:27
do the pitching rubber right here
25:30
so Shea Stadium evidently was active
25:32
until 2008
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and then home plate I'm a fastball
25:38
rolling in or maybe a curve or a slider
25:40
a change up in that era you know a
25:43
knuckleball was still a thing
25:46
and we'll see knuckleballs too much
25:48
anymore
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site of Shea Stadium home plate
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that is cool
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you said you played catcher I played
26:02
catcher like Mike Piazza yeah so Mike
26:04
Piazza was your mat
26:05
it's my vet yeah I liked him I was
26:08
playing catcher
26:09
remember Gary Carter he was a catcher
26:12
also yeah I think of Daryl strawberry
26:14
stood right here at this plate yeah
26:21
pretty wild another fun plate Dwight
26:21
Gooden over there on the mound
26:23
doc or Dwight depending on which card
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you had
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Dwight Gooden might have been a little
26:29
before your time I think so yeah
26:32
I didn't ever knew how to refer to him
26:34
as Dwight or duck
26:36
I've never met the guy but I had his
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cards I love What stadiums do this
26:52
I wonder what happens when Tropicana
26:52
Field gets torn down will they build it
26:55
elsewhere and put a little
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little uh indentation in the sidewalk
27:00
for home plate I hope they do hope they
27:02
don't just build a condo or something
27:04
and I've added this to my list my 12th
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Stadium while rooting for the race and
27:07
I've been to like three or four more
27:08
stadiums but the Rays weren't playing
27:10
I'm trying to eventually over the next
27:12
couple years knock off every Stadium
27:14
while they're rooting for the ride so
27:16
this is about let's go shopping at a
27:17
field top of the list because that's
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their home stadium so one home plus 11
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away I've been at 12 stadiums rooting
27:24
for the rice and growing 12 it on I love
27:27
all these little historical
27:28
documentations the miracle mess October
27:30
16th 1969 they win the 69 World Series
27:34
that's a lot of strikeouts 19 in one day
27:37
that's amazing that's nuts on Earth day
27:39
too dang I remember this mid 80s when I
27:43
was really getting into baseball cards
27:45
Lily dykstra's home run in game three of
27:47
the 86 national championship series he
27:50
said his cards too
27:51
got Seaver here too as well
27:55
with the Home Run Apple off in the
27:58
distance
28:03
pretty dead cool man I know this Yankee
28:03
Stadium there was no sculptures of any
28:04
of their players at least for what I had
28:06
seen yeah I think I'm gonna like this
28:07
Stadium a lot I already like the vibe
28:09
out here
28:10
I have one question
28:18
are those
28:18
petunias
28:20
yeah this is a pretty sweet setup
28:23
walking into the main Veranda here the
28:25
main lobby going up the escalator I
28:28
really like this like Gateway Inn got
28:31
the programs and yearbooks over there
28:33
and you got the the escalator on the way
28:36
up the escalator we were on Valley
28:38
Sports I don't know if it's going to air
28:39
or anyone's going to see it but they
28:41
were like Hey we're trying to get some
28:42
Tampa Bay Rays folks on Bally sport so
28:45
maybe we'll make it on Valley Sports
28:47
entertainment check out that Mets car
28:49
right there too looks like they got some
28:51
people out on the the warning track
28:53
there behind home plate
28:55
yeah everybody's out here look at this
29:01
this is gonna be great I like the
29:01
stadium block
29:05
122 Row one
29:08
seat 11.
29:10
and 12. these are our seats right here
29:12
looking up
29:14
and looking around
29:20
there's Randy rosarina right there
29:20
there's Randy right there Randy's right
29:28
there's nothing to work there's Brandon
29:28
oh my gosh
29:30
there's lineras he's former uh he was
29:33
third base coach last year now he's
29:35
usually behind Cash In The Dugout
29:40
all right dude look who's throwing
29:40
batting practice it's freaking cash cash
29:42
is throwing batting practice Kevin's
29:45
have to talk about it right look at that
29:48
that's cool
29:49
player now coach and also he played High
29:53
School baseball in Tampa
30:00
oh I think is that wander going in
30:00
I think wander's going into the batting
30:02
cage Harold Ramirez is over there
30:04
signing autographs all right this is
30:05
cool up top they got these vintage
30:06
baseball cards I used to have a couple
30:08
of these I had this Daryl strawberry
30:10
that looks like a 1986 Topps card on the
30:13
far end I really like this setup this
30:16
Amazing Deli almost looks very New York
30:18
it's like textbook New York it's got
30:20
like graffiti on it it's got stickers on
30:22
it it has over here it has some wheat
30:25
pasting slapped on the side has some
30:27
gumball machines it has Mr met there and
30:29
has the neon it has everything Amazing
30:32
Deli that is a really that is really
30:34
cool cool theming right there there's an
30:37
old school Keith Hernandez 86. I
30:40
remember that era of the match right
30:42
there very well done the theming through
30:45
here check this out this neon NY mess
30:48
here it's like a met store book over
30:50
here and this looks like you would see
30:51
when you're like walking through you
30:53
know any other any of the Burrows you
30:55
would see like some of the buildings if
30:57
the electrical box
30:59
got the shoes up top there that's a
31:02
little bobble head got the Coca-Cola
31:04
even check out this theming a little uh
31:07
Little Bird Relic that is that is nicely
31:09
done very nicely done and they have a
31:12
big apple and center field here next to
31:14
the batter's eye as well the rays are
31:17
still out there over in the outfield's
31:19
giving some toss-ups
31:21
and hitting the ball the little part
31:23
we're kind of walking through center
31:24
field and I really like the neon they
31:26
have going on over they have like a neon
31:27
sign above the Shake Shack and the
31:29
mascots are out and look a little Fan
31:31
Fest they have going on throughout the
31:33
course of the game there's nobody over
31:34
here so I gotta went over here and uh
31:36
met the mascot they were a little
31:37
disappointed that I was wearing raised
31:39
gear but I think they'll they'll be okay
31:40
they got they got a picture with myself
31:41
and Tampa Jay also while we were over
31:43
here man this bridge is Shea Ridge right
31:46
here take a look I always love these
31:47
kind of like old Americana type of
31:49
bridges this is Shea bridge this is the
31:52
information it's like was this like a
31:53
real bridge I want to say okay it
31:55
doesn't say it here but it's indicated
31:57
yeah it might be so Shea was inducted to
31:59
the Mets Hall of Fame in 83 and the name
32:01
Shea is honored alongside the best
32:02
retired numbers on the Outfield wall and
32:05
also the Shea Bridge yeah I'm really
32:07
liking Jay and I are really liking this
32:08
field a lot wow
32:16
okay we are heading into the Delta Sky
32:16
360. which I realize is named after the
32:19
airline Delta but these comes with the
32:20
comes with the seat
32:22
that we got the Delta Sky 360 door F
32:26
let's get some food I just talked to the
32:27
hostess
32:28
she was saying that there is more of a
32:31
deli style buffet style that's still
32:33
part of the Delta Lounge down this way
32:35
kind of curious to see how it is because
32:37
I don't think we have time for like a
32:39
sit-down meal yeah I'm here for the game
32:41
but I would definitely like to access
32:42
the lounges that did come with it now
32:45
it's definitely not complimentary you
32:46
definitely have to it's also just just
32:48
kind of like an easier access area but
32:49
they got the hot dogs they got the
32:51
burgers and fries chicken tenders
32:52
souvenir cups Mr Frost this area over
32:54
here has sweets cookies cotton candy
32:58
Mets themed lollipops and whatnot I
33:02
haven't had a hot dog in a while so
33:03
maybe go with the Nathan's Hot Dog
33:05
basket you get the you get the regular
33:07
one here or you can get the fries or you
33:09
can get the combo or you get the chicken
33:11
tenders and fries or the burger I think
33:13
they have salad offices over there too
33:15
oh build your own salad here we go
33:18
they have build your own salad sort them
33:21
the petite lettuce Farm Fresh
33:22
gluten-free I think I'll get a salad I
33:27
think I'm gonna get a salad even from
33:28
this thing it looks like this looks like
33:30
there's too many bad seats in the
33:31
stadium I really like this Stadium I
33:34
really do this is pretty interesting
33:35
both the team's bullpens are in the same
33:37
area kind of over in right center right
33:40
down here
33:41
not on either side more Anderson right
33:43
center so you got this little area here
33:45
you got a bullpen there and you got a
33:47
bullpen right here
33:49
Dave Wales a long time radio voice of
33:53
the
33:55
please join us for a moment of silence
33:57
we honor is
34:08
thank you
34:10
that was all on December 2nd 2021
34:13
nine-year-old Madison eight milio left
34:16
her family and friends to be to be Angel
34:18
after a courageous battle with Dion I
34:21
wanted to show this photo of Jay and I
34:23
with the mascots they're covering up our
34:25
logos that's a good one yeah yeah
34:28
speaking of good one these seats aren't
34:31
too bad it's kind of they're kind of low
34:32
down you kind of have to like look up a
34:34
little bit to see third but to the guys
34:36
we're gonna be standing a little bit
34:37
with the kind of race started thank you
34:39
pretty well
34:40
I do like oh I hear a cowbell
34:43
it's Capital maximum in there
34:47
you're gonna hear a cowbell
34:50
dude I hear a cowbell all right so
34:52
you're here
34:57
also noticing they put the Big Apple
34:57
away evidently they when the Mets hit a
35:00
home run the Apple Springs it pops up
35:02
all right that's strange there's a Mets
35:04
person ringing the cowbell almost like
35:05
cowbell mixed as of the trough two out
35:07
of two strikes because the Mets do the
35:10
cowbell thing too
35:11
that's different
35:14
cowbell non-max
35:17
faux cowbell Maps a not as good as
35:21
cowbell Max
35:23
Go Baby Go Go baby go go go go go
35:27
off the wall bring it in wonderscores
35:31
Harold scores two run RBI
35:41
there it is
35:44
beautiful
35:46
all right got some booze out we got a
35:49
home run baby
35:50
yeah it comes with a territory
36:10
oh Siri loves a chat you see his
36:10
necklace there
36:12
yeah Siri
36:30
I don't think so I thought that was a
36:30
double man that was a homer oh heads up
36:33
how about it that's your Siri that's
36:35
yours Siri I got Christian a third now
36:38
taking a pretty long lead over here and
36:41
Ramirez let's just seeing a quick Little
36:43
Blooper
36:45
oh that's it there you go the RBI for
36:49
Harold 4-0
36:56
blow a golf clap over here remember plan
36:56
ahead
36:57
oh I don't think City Field is happy
37:00
that I got popcorn they're booing
37:01
they're booing me right now both got
37:03
popcorns cheers they're Brewing us
37:05
because we got Mets popcorn yeah I'm
37:07
supporting the I'm supporting the uh a
37:09
mess economy because they have one of
37:11
the biggest payrolls in the game like
37:13
five times with the race habit yet the
37:15
race are winning this game that's their
37:18
budget is 300
37:32
go go go go
37:32
inside
37:40
that was awesome
37:53
has some booze going on
37:59
speed one out with a raise to win this
38:01
one
38:10
there it is there it is it's over praise
38:10
Win race Win race
38:12
win
38:14
still the best team in baseball well you
38:17
have never watched this jersey except
38:19
this whole season I haven't been to a
38:21
game you haven't been to a game that the
38:22
race so far
38:24
I think we are the Rays right now best
38:28
team in baseball at the moment everyone
38:30
says the season is early but you know
38:32
what the season is creeping along nicely
38:34
and they just keep winning and they have
38:37
a good record going on at the moment
38:39
seeing all the guys coming in there got
38:41
Jose Siri we got Manny Marco coming in
38:43
oh there's two right there Steve
38:45
Sternberg I'm just walking down owner of
38:47
the race he's given some high fives as
38:49
well there's wander coming in right here
38:51
here's Brandon Lau his esoc for 80s
38:54
here's Taylor Falls
38:57
that guy's getting yelled at what's your
38:59
problem
39:00
wow
39:02
the carrot is not happening I was like
39:03
man he's gonna toss the ball up now
39:05
Maine's about to toss this ball up there
39:07
we go he's launching it launching it
39:10
back okay
39:16
I thought that was a weed eater first
39:16
but actually it's a vacuum they're
39:17
pulling it off of there and then you got
39:19
the lawnmower over there in the distance
39:20
is just like using it to like kind of
39:23
grate the uh the diamond the infield but
39:25
that's like a reverse that's like a
39:28
reverse uh
39:29
leaf blower it's like sucking up the the
39:32
dirt
39:33
yeah I think the word is getting around
39:35
that you haven't watched that Jersey
39:37
someone just yelled at me someone just
39:39
said watch that Jersey Jay No don't
39:41
watch it ever except as the season goes
39:44
on I might get a different seat than
39:46
sitting next to you but also be at the
39:48
same game I like it we might be an odor
39:50
as time goes on yeah yeah but Breeze and
39:52
ax that's what it is
39:58
it totally slipped my mind but I met a
39:58
nice guy inside said hi to us a couple
40:00
times and he said oh yeah I know you
40:03
like The Beatles and a totally I mean I
40:05
totally knew it happened but I slipped
40:06
my mind he reminded me you should go out
40:08
to second base where the stage was when
40:10
the Beatles played at Shea Stadium so
40:13
I'm gonna go find the second base
40:14
evidently it was like a little farther
40:16
on the diamond so I'm gonna go back over
40:19
there and show where the where where the
40:21
Beatles played for for Shea
40:23
fake second base
40:30
the original Shea Stadium is right over
40:31
so evidently this is where the stage was
40:33
set up for the Beatles
40:35
Fab Four
40:37
performed on if this is possibly second
40:40
base
40:41
nope oh yeah second base right here
40:45
The Beatles did a John Lennon video
40:48
yesterday
40:49
seen the footage from them playing at
40:51
Shea it's probably one of their most
40:53
famous Stadium concerts
40:56
legendary
40:57
next to the spot where the new City
41:00
Field is you think of the Beatles
41:03
right here second base would have been
41:05
the stage in fact the crowd was so loud
41:08
you couldn't even really hear what they
41:10
were singing It's the cheers and screams
41:14
were just so loud
41:27
the Bay Rays one
41:27
against the New York Mets it was a good
41:30
day thanks for watching I'll see in the
41:31
next video
41:32
also covered some Disney history
41:35
over the 1964 World's Fair spot that
41:39
was pretty dang cool
41:42
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