TDW 1838 - Almost Moved Into Tower Of Terror
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welcome everyone add the woo here it's
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going to be another warm one stay out of
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the sun do not go towards the light stay
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if possible in the shade I'm going on a
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Hollywood hike not up into the mountains
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but along the roads and the sidewalks
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but this time off the boulevard it's my
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second channel daily Vlog channel
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it's it's so good the daily without a
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doubt I feel there is so much to see and
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so much to learn about the neighborhood
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I now live in remember I told you the
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best way to learn things to just go out
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and experience them for yourself that
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goes along with just pounding the
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pavement you you get to you get the full
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experience that one tucked away beneath
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this overpass with the beaming ray of
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light really giving quite the Ambiance
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in that shot are some fantastic murals a
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cattle drive this guy's going to
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Hollywood here's a pretty good one of
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John
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Wayne created by Lacy Lee in
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2010 that's the date stamp on it this is
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a storage rental
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facility decorated to look just like the
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old west there's some guys up there on
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the
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balcony and an
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eagle protecting the property Welcome to
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the Hollywood Bowl self storage and
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amongst the skyline amongst the citycape
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is a gargantuan kitty cat that makes
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Godzilla basically look like Amateur
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hour got to admit this is pretty cool
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tucked away in the permanent shade of
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freeway very
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artistic I like it over my shoulder is
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Maryland making sure I cross the street
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here on Franklin
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a very safely this bit may have run its
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course already but I'll give it one more
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shot you can let me know if it's getting
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old or not place your bets will this pay
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phone be quite operational or will it be
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dysfunctional place your bets place
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your the answer is it works it
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works they finally invented something
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that work or left something that well
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that's that was I that that went nowhere
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there it is the one and only Hollywood
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Tower give you a little inside tip I
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almost almost
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almost moved into there but I didn't but
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I was I was I was very close to moving
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in to that complex and truth be told the
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only reason I opted out of that decision
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is because I knew if I were to live here
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I would be vlogging inside the room and
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on the roof and on the property all
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around the perimeter
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constantly and I just didn't feel like
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that was a safe option I didn't feel
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like I didn't feel like that would be
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wise but it would have been pretty neat
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to reside here there's a little placard
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here on the side of the wall
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1929 sophisticated living for film
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luminaries during the Golden Age of
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Hollywood and it's on the National
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Registry of historical places on a side
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note
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directly across the street at the 101
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coffee shop that's a pretty delicious
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food in there I've eaten there quite a
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few times directly behind the diner is
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this old vintage looking hotel with
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fantastic murals of Hollywood folklore
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and watch out for pedestrian Crossing oh
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they're wearing Mickey
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ears oh
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wow see I never knew
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all these paintings were in here
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wow inside this parking
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structure is
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that is that Bert
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Reynolds whoa I wonder what happened to
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Paul Newman why isn't Paul Newman next
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to Redford there it looks like at one
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point he was but he's been replaced by a
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power outlet this is
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amazing just wandering around you never
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never know what you're going to stumble
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upon Jimmy Durant good night Mrs
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Calabash man that
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is I love this kind of stuff you never
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know what you're going to find behind
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the bumper of this vehicle The Three
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Stooges you just go on and on and on
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even the elevator doors are
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adorned with goodness see what's down
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this hallway some snack machines
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ooh what have we here
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in the LA oh my
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goodness what year were these painted oh
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Wy up there the Road Runner lady in the
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Lion King whoa The
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Simpsons I thought that was Jessica
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Rabbit for a second but it's
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not this is incredible Spidey
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I love it I I love this stuff this is
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the type of thing I long for just
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stumbling
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across fantastic murals like
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this and even this this probably has a
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deep rich
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backstory it wasn't originally here
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obviously it was planted on the side of
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this wall could this have been used in a
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movie or maybe a piece of an old
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Hollywood Hotel that was destroyed you
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you can see how the top part of the head
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has been ripped
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off this sums up the happenings that go
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on around here filming All Along The
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Boulevard movies
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television oh the cast of mash up there
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Warner Brothers a Hollywood Sign
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Universal
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Studios Capital
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Records we're not in Kansas anymore you
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know what this reminds me of the Tower
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of Terror at Walt Disney World used to
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be at Disneyland but now it's only in
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the US they only have one of them in
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Florida but the Bell hop kind of reminds
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me of that which is a slight segue
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because what you're looking at right now
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was the inspiration for that ride the
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Hollywood Tower the Tower of Terror you
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do the
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math hopefully the elevators in there
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are a little safer at some point I would
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like to go inside and ride that elevator
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up to the top and see how it compares to
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the ride I don't know if that would be
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appropriate to go inside someone else's
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residence maybe I need to call and get
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permission first I Feel Like a Stranger
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in a Strange Land but I also feel
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slightly at home the longer I roam
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around this neck of the woods I start to
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learn a little more and I'm going to
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start diving a lot deeper into a lot of
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the subject matters but for now I'm just
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trying to learn the layout of the land
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and
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hello get a room sometimes when you're
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in a new place you can be very
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overwhelmed and sort of feel like this
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guy but I'm getting there I I'm I'm
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adapting slowly I'm learning it's an
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overload of information but I'm soaking
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it in I'm soaking it in very well when I
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think about the amount of movie and
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television history that's here it makes
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me pretty excited cuz growing up as a
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young lad I was always fascinated by the
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subject and now I'm KNE deep de in the
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midst of it if anything that expression
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pretty much sums up how I'm
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feeling someone has drawn a memorial to
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Chris Cornell I saw sound garden back in
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1994 1995 at the edge concert field in
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Orlando Florida it's a great
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show so sad he passed so young sometimes
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I feel like not having a vehicle here is
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a blessing in disguise parking
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situation slim Pickins there's not a
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whole heck of a lot of
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options oh something's happening down
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there and look at that mountain right
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you don't see that kind of view in
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Florida 31 years ago someone who arrived
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here in town inscribe their name and the
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date August 17th 1976 Hollywood and
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Foxy pretty neat remnants of the
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past right along the sidewalk someone
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left their burrito
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there I guess they weren't hungry
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anymore and a baby bottle on top of a
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random dishwasher on the side of this
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thoroughfare they don't call this place
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Holly
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weird for nothing if you are feeling
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inclined to walk down this alley do not
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do so now I know you're thinking I don't
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see a no trespassing sign so what's the
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harm in it well look at this placard
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here on the ground I never seen this in
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all my life quote right to pass by
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permission and subject to control of
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owner section 10008 civil code embedded
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in the ground they're not using some
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Home Depot paper or plastic sign mounted
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on the side of the fence they're going
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full placard classic truck
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alert the person Hawking was not
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entertained Look At That Neon they are
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Illuminating the lights first a heart
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then a a piece of cake and then the
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entire board lights up coffee a piece of
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chicken and ice cream
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cone pretty
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cool yes my favorite car SL vehicle of
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the day is this man it reminds me of
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those old bomber planes except it's on a
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VW Bug bus that's awesome the best
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interpretation I can gather from from
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this is in order to create goodness just
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flick the switch
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on and Magic will feston
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itself into the heavens it's still hard
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for me to wrap my head around the fact
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that anywhere in the vicinity of where I
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live I can just look up and
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see the world famous Hollywood
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Sign pretty incredible when you think
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about
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it right over here in this bag is an
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item I just purchased from a thrift
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store what's in the bag what's in the
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bag but first check this out the license
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plate States 66 Nova that is a classic
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and I like the fact that the dice are
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just hanging there from the window old
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school style I got this 1992 book
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entitled A Day in the Life in Hollywood
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it's not super vintage but old enough to
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where there are a lot of really cool
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photos in here you can just see what
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this area has looked like over the last
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couple
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decades I've been purchasing a lot of
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books just to
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research this neck of the woods oh
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there's the Hollywood sign right there
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the old horse ranch below it wow people
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used to spray
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paint the back of the
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letters it's very difficult to do that
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now they have it very
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secured pretty interesting area pretty
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interesting
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history stuff like this are great
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research
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tools whoa cuz I have to be honest I
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since I am new here I'm learning
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something every day I am not completely
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knowledgeable of every subject but life
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is funny that way you learn as you go
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you learn by
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doing and by getting out and seeing
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things just like this little girl who
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has her handprints where Roy Rogers left
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them all right I'll see you guys
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tomorrow the
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