Forgotten Small Towns In Florida Off Hwy 17 - Empty Places & Hidden Gems On Backroads / Sunday Drive
Small Towns In Florida
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Sunday
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February 25th 2024 I am starting off
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today's video here in
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porda I believe it is pronounced just on
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the outskirts of Port Charlotte where I
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went to a ray baseball game yesterday
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spring training you know not really an
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official game or anything like that but
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I decided to get in the night before I
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got a hotel went to the game stayed in
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town last night that way today today I
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can have a casual Sunday
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drive back to Celebration through some
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back roads I'm staying off of the
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freeways the interstates I4 not getting
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on that or at least not till for a while
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I'll take some back roads before I
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connect probably over in Lakeland and
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then zip over I might even get on I4 who
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knows nonetheless there's going to be a
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lot of back roads some small towns and
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some places I've never shown before I'm
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inviting you to join me
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shall
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you this kind of reminds me of the
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cottage in La it's this bigger version
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of the Fantasy Island C Cottage it was
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used for the filming locations at the LA
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Arboretum the reason I wanted to start
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here check out the Pony Express letter
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box is right over here is all these cars
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are going by in a very this is called
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the AC Freeman house by the way it says
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right there circuit 19 1903 the AC
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Freeman house is this very impressive
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sculpture This Whispering giant oh I'm
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going to have trouble pronouncing this C
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Stuka cuka is an effigy to the first
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people inhabiting this area it was
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carved by the famous Peter Wolf TOS did
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quite a few of these wood carving there
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is a time capsule at the base placed
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here back in ' 06 and interesting at the
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base of the tree
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interesting this is really an
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impressive chunk of
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wood what kind of talent does it take to
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carve something like that out that is
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definitely something I could not do or
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don't have the the passion and the time
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to devote to be able to do that that is
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something else there's an eagle right up
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top on top of the head there
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I there even some rocks at the base
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there it's kind of holding it
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together
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beautiful think I've seen two maybe
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three or more of Peter toss Works around
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the
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country cannot recall what they were or
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where they were but I know the name
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sounds very very familiar pulled out the
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trusty Atlas here going to show kind of
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where I am so right here Port Charlotte
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get in on there that was where I was
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yesterday
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starting off here went to Gorda and I'm
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going to be taking
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17 North so all this right up through
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here
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Arcadia
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Brownville Zulo Springs among other ones
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but basically starting here taking 17 up
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that way till I connect up with BTO
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Lakeland and then back over to
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Celebration but basically this little
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Corridor here
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is is the route you can see Florida is
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very expansive there a lot of areas way
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Deep South Florida this would be kind of
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Southern Central I guess in this little
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section and then of course we land right
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there we're doing this little 120
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miles from there to there let's do it
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this is a word I need to probably add to
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my arsenal of vocabulary that I do not
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use correctly array there's an array of
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cabinets I like that I also like the
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architecture of this building array of
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cabinets it's a good word self pumping
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gas
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nozzle price of gas here as I'm
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departing this vicinity 329 a gallon
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here at this 7-Eleven you don't see
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7-Eleven too often that have a separate
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truck entrance over there you see a lot
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of truck stops that have it you don't
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see 7-Eleven is too much that have those
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there's some but there few and far
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between that have all the the ex the
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taller you know section you can drive on
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on if awning there with the diesel
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anyway random thoughts by me really
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impressive display of branches there I
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believe that's a banion tree quote me on
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that this is the community of Cleveland
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Florida
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just basically one little Street
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Cleveland
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AV got a railroad track over here
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classic truck alert coming across the
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railroad
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tracks very nice just adjacent to the
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Methodist Church next property over got
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some little junkyard back there but then
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also salvation
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Ministries little building
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here get back on the main road there
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Royal Thai restaurant
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aqua green I don't know gu that color
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would be aqua
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green it's definitely a different Hue
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than a
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blue this place is for sale no longer
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open they got the little lights dangling
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there Royal
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tie didn't make
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it speaking of class well I didn't speak
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of them but classic
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car alert was a classic truck earlier
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that was a classic car did a little
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U-turn Smuggler
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Cove Tiki Bar and restaurant another
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Tiki place that is not open or if it is
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not open today I don't think it I don't
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think it currently is established
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1892 home of the
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Hurricanes a possibility this is an
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outdoor establishment that has only
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opened
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seasonally that roof and
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everything poly
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style oh man this might be one of the
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best grocery stores ever right
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here very
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patriotic USA grocery she even got the
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flag in the window there check it
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out like an old convenience store
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pulling in now to Fort
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Ogden got church up here here just
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getting
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out now that's awesome man old school
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literally the Fort Ogden School it's
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like something out of an 80s
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movie right this says no through trucks
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I'm not a truck and my
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car some nice little relics over here
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like there's a Dukes of
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Hazard charger up there on the lift and
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a Doc Brown
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van
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here I don't think it was the Duke's Car
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I just think it was a similar model was
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that a
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charger I'm acting like I know anything
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about cars I do know I I do know Duke's
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of Hazard though oh man it's a bumpy
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road sorry big the foot you swaying to
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and fromo bumpy very
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bumpy what's that old wooden rickety
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wooden bridge big the
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foot got this i got
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this good side view of the post office
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here with the mail drop off
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box there as
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well here at Fort Ogden actually has
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Fort Ogden WR on written on the side
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what a park over here Fort Ogden little
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painting here on the front of the post
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office got some Cowboys on their horses
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with some cattle
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1854 no
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34
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1834 not exactly the best story of the
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town in my opinion when the settlers
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moved into Florida demands increase for
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the removal of the simol Indians to a w
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Western re reservation I can't speak
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they failed to cooperate in 1835 a
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conflict known as the second seminal War
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Began 55 canoes were constructed for the
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next Winter's Everglade Expedition
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before the camp was
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abandoned 17 northward well 17 North
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yeah 17 North technically but it's kind
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of
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Northwest 17
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North cruising all the sign is making a
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statement not a promise but I'm partake
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I think this is a promise I'm going to
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see a bull what do you think big the
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foot you see any Bulls big the foot n
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false
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advertising what's that big the foot oh
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oh
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hello
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cow hello bull how you doing out
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there uh not interested in me huh yeah I
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get it most aren't what is this a
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tractor rolling through
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town yeah full-on tractor
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hello was hauling something got a local
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post office I believe the town is called
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NOA no o c a t
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e old ice machine back
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here again this is right on 177 so
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there's a there's a good amount of
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traffic going by now not as hectic as a
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freeway or anything like that would be
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but just pulling off Grandpa my dad's
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side used to work on ice machines and
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Mississippi aine Mississippi go to his
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house for Christmas and holidays and
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back in his shed he would be working on
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for some of the local residents and
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businesses he would fix ice machines I
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always remember that my grandpa that and
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the fact that he worked for the
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Coca-Cola company for many years there's
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a gas station over there that looks to
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be open but this place with a unique
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Rock work on the
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side was
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called cresy Country Art okay no no that
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evidently this artwork was by
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cresy cressy's Country Art got this
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deer down here you can see what kind of
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weather worn you got some turkeys and
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some Birds there's a boar right
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here there's an owl that's been painted
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over kind of slightly the Hue of the owl
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is disguised by that white out
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there some apartments that were here as
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a shopping cart I was noticing around
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back there's like some accommodations
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around the back that are unoccupied as
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well see around
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here yeah see there's like
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little little apartments back here or
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there was possibly the owner of this
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business at one point probably lived
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behind the store
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itself kind of it's been gutted
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out you can see the kitchen still in
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here I watch my hands on this
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glass hot water heater the kitchen the
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oven refrigerator
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open well when I say open I mean
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completely smashed
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in interesting it's like a pump room of
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some
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sort it's a Power Aid display over over
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there there's another oven over there in
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corner all right moving on got an old
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house over there and the Highway
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17 motel and I believe this is a private
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residence so I'm not going to go up in
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the yard but take a look as I was
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driving by I had to pull over I think
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that's another Toth right
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there just in a random
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random
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yard it's got to
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be or someone else with that impressive
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Talent historic
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Arcadia established
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1886 heading in got some public parking
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over
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here till 5:00 p.m. today plenty of time
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decided to walk around this is a little
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bigger small town than some of the other
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ones I was swinging
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through this is The Old City Hall
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population of about
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8,000 give or take had to look it
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up the lamp post out front
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here little information placard in the
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front The Old City
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there town was settled in 1883
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Incorporated in
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1886 back then the population was only
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300 wow Thanksgiving night of 05 the
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town burned out of that fire only three
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brick stores survived using only brick
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and
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block reand re
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re began
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rebuilding most of those buildings
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remain
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today oh the land that was the first
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city hall was a pineapple patch brought
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in
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1917
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original 20ft brass fire pole and the
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400 lb siren are to be placed in the
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City Hall Museum wonder if that ever
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happened either the numbers were put on
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there that way whoever put the boards on
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the window know which one went where or
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the numbers repl on afterwards I'm going
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with option one this is
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downtown cute and
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quaint downtown Arcadia
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Main Street
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Arcadia to be exact you can see it there
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kind of silhouetted out with the
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Sunburst reminds me of a little bit of
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downtown s cloud I love this downtown
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there's a whole bookstore here called
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Dragons Den books you got some
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flamingos little Chandelier and take a
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look at the old arcade building over
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here painted pink that is a relic
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beautiful piece of architecture right
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downtown
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right oh here's the old opera house you
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can even see the old signage right up
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there got to be careful though there's
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some uneven walking
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surfaces treasure alley what that sign
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says and over the hill voodoo doll a
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little thrift store
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downtown bags under the eyes you get
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Insomniac you get wrinkles you get the
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old double chin yep I'm guilty of all
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that stuff dry skin arthritis back pain
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gas constipation ptis Flappy
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arms that's neat look at that right
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there little baseball baseball player
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soloette oh here's a Mickey baseball
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Mickey oh that's cool you just got to
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remember you got the tail down there
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I like that and the name of that store
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is the
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nest located right here on Treasure
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alley lots of good stuff lots of good
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stores oh it's this is the herd Opera
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House 1906 a historic Place registered
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within the US
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Department of interior kind of see it
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right there pretty
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neat think I like about L these old
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towns and old main streets as you always
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see what used to be here with the towork
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dozers and who knows when this little
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inscription by by
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flip was put in the concrete there just
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the rod iron railings these have been
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here for G half a
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that is some impressive building right
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there that old neon well it's not neon
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just an old sign but
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awesome what a great little town like a
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beacon this old sign is waving me in
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this kitchen oh watch out for this this
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is a oh that is not structurally sound
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that road look at that
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hole right here at Michelle's
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kitchen get a coffee to go we also have
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espressos in latte try a little
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localized coffee look at that piping hot
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caffeinated beverage Neon right
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there very unique buildings through here
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there's a Depot over here
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coffee
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achieved it's now an insurance place the
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old Depot with the clock located at 4
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West Oak Street this clock is not the
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correct
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time there is an unworking clock in fact
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both
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sides have two different times that says
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8:30
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this
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one
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11
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20
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7ish it's right now it's like
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12:30 feel like there might have been a
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sweet mural right there one time maybe a
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Coca-Cola m o there's just a random
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fountain or random
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uh sprinkler
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on oh
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technically there's a bunch of them on
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out there no vehicles at any time
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allowed on the bricks or the
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pavers the Arcadia historic district
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compromises 58 blocks within 340 acres
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and embodies the city's development of
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the founding post office in 1883 through
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the late
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1920s I've never been through here ever
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if I
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have as my dad used to always say well
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still says I've slept since then that's
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his way of saying very forgetful I've
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slept since then 100% was an
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advertisement on the side of this a
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ghosts ghost signs they call them if you
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will cuz they're faded away but remnants
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are peeking through this is a serious
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serious Wheel of F Fortune moment right
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here oo that's a
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toughy that's
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a toughy made the commute down a little
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bit to Zulo
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Springs this might have been a bank but
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check out that unique AR architecture
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there little cafe over there on the side
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Auto Care place this is the main area
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Main
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Street
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the aapco cafe up here went up and did a
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little
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U-turn I don't think I've ever been
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through this community before
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nice the side view of that
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old gas well not a gas station but a
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mechanic
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shop 17 is right there look at this
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little Green
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Building how cute is that
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thing fire department the town was
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established in
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1904 there's the Civic Center and the
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only reason I know that didn't look it
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up is because this
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sign says
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so 1904 I think about every little town
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there's usually a dollar store Dollar
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General here's the post office but look
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at this freaking
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tree this is a tree day look at the Moss
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there you do not want to take that and
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rub it all over your skin learned that
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church camp not that I rubbed it all
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over my my skin on purpose but that
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stuff would get on you you were out for
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activities they're in church
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camp look at these
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wow look at this off of the side here
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these are like these Vines dangling down
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I don't know if I've ever seen that
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before pretty cool the vine it's like
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something out of a horror film these
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things can like engulf
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you holy Lord the Hitchcock would be
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proud there's a crow right
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there uh speaking of horror
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films okay I'm going to keep walking
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Crow but this is the post
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office ZIP code
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338
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90 US Post Office Zulo Springs I got to
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be honest I didn't even know there was a
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Zulo Springs until
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today right here in the strip mall kind
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of looks like this was maybe a gas
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station or something at one point and
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there's 17 Northbound right there look
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at this you could just like the Swamp
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Thing could hide in here o something's
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moving around in there I don't want to
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get too close could be a squirrel or
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could be another brow that Crow startled
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me what an impressive freaking
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Branch looks like the tree used to be
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taller but the branches fell
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go who knows it's continuing on now to
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wa aula believe it it's
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called Little flow of traffic through
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there downtown again don't believe I've
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ever never
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been through here before little
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strawberry
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stand off to the side right over there
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it's like all they have thought maybe it
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was a fruit farmers market stand but
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it's just strawberry a lot of
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strawberries around these parts must
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commend this place for their correct
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time piece up there at the wachula State
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Bank it is in fact a couple minutes till
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1 both sides of the clock keeping
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precise time their slogan is build New
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Beginnings from old traditions little
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gazebo down here very beautiful downtown
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with a really great mural there got the
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farmers out planting and well picking
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the crops you also got some ranchers
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here with their cattle they longhorn
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steer right there the Pioneer Medical
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Center box that gentleman's on top of it
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looks like a Florida Fence Post company
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right up over in here and then this I
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can't tell what exact L that is dumping
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something in that Barrel right here in
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the swamps of Florida city of watula
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again cities don't necessarily have to
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Big hu big big huge metropolises with
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skyscrapers or anything like that they
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can be quaint little towns if you will
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so there's a residence right here but
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next to it looks to be like an old
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business maybe a well I don't even know
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I'm not even going to assume what it was
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but over here in the corner you can see
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where people were parking right there
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and it's right next to this printer and
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publisher The heral
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Advocate and you even have the Lakeland
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which isn't too far too too far away you
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got the the newspaper box there from The
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Ledger which is the local
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paper around Lakeland which is up the
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ways a bit I'll probably be passing
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through there when I connect with I4 at
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some point today oh here's the here's
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the Harold Advocate right here okay they
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have the they have the paper in front of
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where the paper is made serving Peace
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River Valley right there 93 cents for a
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paper I guess what tax comes to a dollar
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now I'm noticing down here just some of
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the just the way the build the buildings
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are with the woodwork and all that is
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very interesting over on the one
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particular side there like old theater
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down here also but then past the theater
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the Marquee's gone is a an old signage
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that has some light bulbs underneath the
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bottom of it some old light bulbs
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underneath the sign itself and then down
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the way just a little bit
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is this right here which is basically
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just has all the the different
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directions to different places around
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the world so have Guatemala right there
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is 912 miles Kenya
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690 no 600
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6,963 Dominican Republic 800 plus miles
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Haiti 700 plus miles Argentina
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3,489 this is the send me
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missions building which is why they have
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a lot of international spots on there
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might have been part of a church or
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something at one particular time right
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here on the corner of Court
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Street oh no restoration building it has
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it has the crosses there up on the Side
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Restoration
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Depot looking my way now into Bowling
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Green Florida and until today I did not
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realize slipped past my radar that there
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was a Bowling Green green Florida how
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did I miss
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that it's an old trailer here that has
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Scooby-Doo with a US
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flag also side not I'm just really
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loving this drive today seeing stuff I
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haven't seen some small towns some back
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roads well off the highway it
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couple cars sitting there grass grown
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around them damage and wrecked ones but
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there are some used cars for sale over
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here at Hills Auto World and there is an
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Elvis mural on the side of this trailer
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oh that is that's awesome king of rock
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and roll wants to sell you a
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car I love love the backdrop of the
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tower behind
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it thank you oh thank you very
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much there's the post office
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station an old train car Atlantic Coast
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Coastline over
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incredibly peaceful out
30:38
here now being where I live in
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celebration I've kind of covered
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everything within an hour or two when it
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comes to like small town things so you
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have to venture a long ways away so this
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might be something I'm going to start
30:49
doing a little more of because leaving
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out of my Homestead driving a couple
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hours in the same day turning around and
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going back when it comes to Florida
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obviously I do road trips I'm already
30:57
out and about when sometimes when you're
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so close from home you don't want to
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like venture out too far in one day and
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then turn around drrive back when you're
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just doing you know three and four and 5
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hours of commuting to go to do a circle
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around so I might end up doing what I
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did over the last day or two where I
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might go somewhere get a hotel you know
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a few hours from home and then cut
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through on the way back home to some of
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the places that some of the places that
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I haven't seen before so it might be
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kind of a new new model
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for what I might end up
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doing when i'm not traveling out of the
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state that
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is I also noticed over here on the
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corner here of US 17 looks like there's
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an old closed down abandoned
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jail yeah take a
31:52
look this is right here along 17 it's a
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traffic look at this decrepit old shock
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shank looking
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building
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wow Andy D
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frin look at that windows open up there
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Warden being up there looking
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out this had to been some sort of
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incarceration
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facility just look at this you walk
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right up here
32:42
little building right there oh what was
32:42
that a stick maybe it's a snake sell
32:44
Supermarket right
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there basketball court around the the
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rear end no just chain link looping over
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there there is no barb wire which which
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is interesting Maybe I'm
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Wrong maybe I'm
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wrong or they just feel like any
33:06
prisoners wouldn't climb over
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that maybe they were honest honest
33:13
prisoners that is an awesome structure
33:15
right there the bell towers well Lookout
33:18
Towers guard towers probably didn't have
33:20
any guards up there that's what that
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reminds me of ooh wait a second this
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says the
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in you can see it better this way yeah
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look the in did they convert this into
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like an
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Airbnb
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weird on the back
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here the gates wide
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open all right oh that window's wide
33:47
open probably people living in there
33:49
squatters and
33:51
whatnot take a look Windows wide open
33:54
I'm not going to go in there but yeah
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just zoom in
34:02
something pops their head out I'm going
34:02
to
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like poop
34:15
myself also another open window up there
34:15
oh wow open oh this whole thing's open
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okay yeah look at this around the back
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open gates open windows open
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doors completely open door completely
34:26
open door completely open
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hello hey yeah I'm good there's some
34:58
signs out front saying don't go in
35:01
so walk around the
35:06
perimeter pretty neat pretty
35:12
neat I have to be honest I don't think
35:12
I've ever seen chain link that goes up
35:14
to there and then folds in without barb
35:16
wire
35:17
before that's a
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first
35:27
oh there's a vulture vulturing around up
35:41
there is it just me or is this Cowboy up
35:41
here well this was he's like he's got
35:44
quite the the Machinery right there it's
35:48
like Carol o'
35:55
Conor Carol o Conor mix with a little
35:56
bit of
35:58
trying to think who that would be hos
36:00
cartright yeah hor hos cartright harol o
36:05
Conor mash
36:07
up probably the artistic rendering was
36:10
not supposed to be either one of those
36:12
gentlemen or maybe it
36:23
was ooh almost
36:23
fell almost fell right
36:25
there
36:37
there's the victory praise Center up
36:37
here see that
36:45
mural zipping along now making up a
36:45
little time heading over to the next
36:47
little town vs 17 North Fort
36:56
me I might I feel like I've been through
36:56
here before the other towns not so much
37:00
but in time A lot of times these small
37:03
main streets do all kind of run together
37:05
and look
37:12
alike well to be honest I don't
37:12
know but I feel like Fort me rings the
37:15
bell and I'm starting to get closer to
37:17
areas that I Traverse through not really
37:20
through this area but close to those
37:23
areas however if I have been through
37:32
here I failed to see this mural of this
37:32
dog over here next to the RNs pawn and
37:35
cigar shop you can like pawn something
37:38
smoke a stogy at the same time that's
37:40
right I've got the VCR how much you give
37:42
for me give it to me
37:45
for that was the worst Arnold ever
37:49
that's right come on let's Pond
37:52
something and then smoke a
37:55
sto okay they approve they appr they
37:57
approved they honked little Garden of
37:59
Flowers there I'm not going to say the
38:01
line about them being you know what
38:04
patunas are those patun okay I said it
38:06
are those patunas City of Fort me
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established
38:10
1849 Pastor
38:13
appreciation on March 17th here at
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Cornerstone Ministries and there's a
38:18
little mural
38:20
here a soldier there with his
38:23
horse and the little Main Street of
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Fort
38:37
me good to see you sir shaking the hands
38:37
here looks like he's got his top hat in
38:40
his other hand this guy up here on the
38:43
bench is reading the paper or some sort
38:46
of pamphlet and then I'm not sure what
38:49
this is is this just like a gazebo now
38:50
pulling through
38:52
Homeland the name of this little
38:54
Community don't even think there's even
38:56
a downtown or anything it's just a few
38:59
houses Homeland
39:02
Florida Cavalcade cornicopia of
39:05
trees beautiful trees a lot of trees
39:08
today holy crap look at this little
39:10
hidden downtown there is a downtown here
39:12
at Homeland
39:22
yes that is great even an old rocking
39:22
chair right a couple old rocking
39:25
chairs
39:40
that corner of mimosa
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a here's the post office that's the
39:43
downtown this is the crumb
39:52
building 1915 a thing of
39:52
beauty hidden back this is as hidden As
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It Gets
40:01
probably not a lot of people punching in
40:02
coordinates for this little
40:10
Community that's it that's the that's
40:10
all of downtown Post Office right
40:14
there corner of fourth in mimosa and
40:18
this which kind of looks like it needs
40:20
like a Coca-Cola mural painted on the
40:21
side but there isn't
40:38
come no climbing on the
40:38
railing must be like a big problem
40:40
around here people showing up here and
40:43
climbing on the
40:44
railing no skateboarding bicycle riding
40:47
or roller
40:53
skating you know a sign's been somewhere
40:53
a long time when it still says roller
40:54
skating on the side
41:01
33847 the ZIP
41:01
code got the pull down shutters there
41:03
which no need for
41:06
that
41:22
going all right take care he the
41:22
neighbor came out and said hi with her
41:24
dogs very friendly I told her what I was
41:26
doing driving from Port Charlotte back
41:28
to Celebration not staying off of I4 she
41:31
said that's a good Florida drive real
41:34
Florida she's right she gets
41:38
it passing through Winter Haven now
41:40
we'll be fearing off a 17 and connecting
41:43
with Highway 27 very very shortly my
41:46
home stretch back to my
41:53
house just popping through real quick
41:53
like Winter Haven is the water ski
41:56
capital of the
42:02
world says so right
42:02
there Smith Brothers the fuel station is
42:06
taking over that old mechanic shop take
42:09
a look at this
42:11
Firestone the Googy architecture I
42:14
believe it's
42:15
called slight slant there of the
42:20
roof the old classic Firestone Neons
42:23
still kicking oh now now you got to love
42:25
this God to love I4 back to the hustle
42:30
and bustle and congestion of I4 traffic
42:34
and that's going to do it for today
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thanks for watching back in
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celebration see you in the next video
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the Vlog is over