Memories on Hwy 192 in Kissimmee Florida - Places I Lived & Worked / Closed Roadside Attractions
A visit to Hwy 192 in Kissimmee Florida .
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure will begin at osceola
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county stadium where in the
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late mid to late 90s i went to many a
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baseball game and even
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worked part-time selling hot dogs and
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soda
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when the houston astros major league
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baseball team spring trained here
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they no longer do that
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and like a lot of things around here
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they have they have changed
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up and down the thoroughfare known as
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highway 192. i'm going to go
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up one end of the road starting at the
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threshold of saint cloud into kissimmee
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up through town and then back down the
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other direction i'm inviting
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you to join me and as we see what has
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progressed changed gone away and been
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erased
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from existence shall you
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yep over two plus decades ago i could
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have been right there behind that
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concession stand
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taking your order you see the field
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there
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through the little corridor it was also
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on this property where i met
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yogi berra when he was coaching
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for a short time for the astros
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a lot of memories around these parts
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rodeo grounds straight ahead there
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but back in my day there was an outdoor
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rodeo ground
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that has been torn down right there
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along the thoroughfare
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replaced by this newer one this bank
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that sits on the corner of den
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john i can't even tell you the last time
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this was open
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sitting here empty and non-used for
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20 plus years if i had to guess
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and the trees out front kind of suit it
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they tell the tale
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i'm going from here up to 27 and then
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back down so we're gonna be covering a
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lot of ground
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focusing on everything this side and
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then
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back down the other on the way back
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former 7-eleven has seen better days
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stopped for gas here many times
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even the pumps have been removed
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done quite a bit of thrifting inside
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that salvation army
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before that it was a scottie's hardware
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store
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this is in the mid-90s around that time
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frame
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it's been restructured into thrift shop
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while i'm in the neighborhood cruise up
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here a block or two to
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one of my former residents it certainly
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is a lot nicer than when i lived there
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but the
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top right balcony
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that was my my place for about five
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years here on donegan
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wow a wave of nostalgia just
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just washed over me this value pond that
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sits at the threshold of
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three other similar stores cash america
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and queen
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of pond used to be a surf shop themed
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diner and bar and out front in what is
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now the parking lot
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used to be a beach and they had a
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volleyball court and the volleyball
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sometimes would go over
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the exterior of the property and bounce
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onto the highway over there
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stopping traffic that was a long time
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ago
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also i do not recall ever seeing that
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used as
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is a original purpose of a taco bell
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right there on the corner of emery not
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a whole heck of a lot of kmarts around
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in this day and age
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this was one of two in this area
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the other a few miles back i worked out
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for
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half a decade five years and
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occasionally they would send me to this
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location if they needed help
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it was a handful of days i clocked in
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here at this store
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but most the time was at the other one
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located at the cross streets of 192 and
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simpson road
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like the other this became a big k which
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was
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their version of a super walmart they
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tried to expand and add groceries
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it's always fascinating to see little
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relics there
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like the power strip along the sidewalk
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and a couple of the plugins where
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machines and little rides would have
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been you put a quarter in and
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you're in a rocket we're on a horse
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down just a few hundred yards to the
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next corner this installone place used
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to be a fazzoli's
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maybe a hundred or more times i sat
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right behind those windows
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not getting alone but having some
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lasagna and spaghetti
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this was this whole area was my stomping
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ground
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and when i didn't go inside
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go through the drive-through it was
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located right here
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drive up window still intact
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some extra bread sticks please
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i used to be a target
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it was in the same parking lot adjacent
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to another place i worked
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for five years i worked at a lot of
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places for five years
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back then it was an office max recently
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they have been
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bought out by office depot so hence the
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name change
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yeah quite a few years in their they're
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stocking the shelves and
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working and receiving good times
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another former buffet is a pawn shop
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across the way there
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i went to a couple of times but even
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more than a couple of
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times was cece's pizza
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oh yeah i have frequented
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this now closed establishment on more
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than one occasion
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their buffet used to be 2.99 they raised
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it to 3.99
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and i think it was 449 then 5.99
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it's been a while since i've been to a
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cc's i think the chain is still going
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but this particular one
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there's no more
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this used to be a friendlies
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now it's a liquor store and smoke outlet
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but that was a friendlies
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for a long time don't remember if that
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was a waffle house or an
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ihop it was one of the two it's been
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repurposed and
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is being used for something else at the
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moment
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and has been for a long time located
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just next door to river adventure golf
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where
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i also work part-time worked at kmart
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full-time during the day and then
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miniature golf course
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that was once here in the evenings
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it was a fun job
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in a lot of ways i kind of have this
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road to thank for the start of my
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youtube career
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well over 10 years ago did a lot of
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content
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down this thoroughfare wouldn't know it
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by looking at it
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but this was shell world a very large
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gift shop that sold only
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shells that whole building getting into
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gift shop
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territory now the more extravagant
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looking the better just one of these
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type of things i enjoy doing a couple
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times a year when i visit florida
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reminiscing down this road seeing what's
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changed
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looks to be going strong as always one
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of the two wizards
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casting some spells see the magic
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protruding up from his hand there
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and of course the big orange a permanent
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staple
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around these parts fun fact one of the
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first times i
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ever visited central florida we came
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down to walt disney world we were living
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i believe in oklahoma
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my mom and dad brought my sister and
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myself down here we stayed in this
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motel or hotel and my sister was very
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young she went around to all the doors
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and removed the do not disturb signs
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brought them back to our room my mom
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said
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go put those back where you found them
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and of course she did not remember where
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she found them so
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she just put them back on just random
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doors
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i don't know why i always remember that
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when i passed this place area in front
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used to be a
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very beautiful fountain and a lake
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themed out and now now it's not
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just kind of just sitting here as is now
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those accommodations were still open
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this one i am approaching
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has been closed for quite some time
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the reason i am driving back around to
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this section
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there's a pool back here with a little
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shed that was
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converted into a snack bar
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that i also worked out and it's still
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back there
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wow it's still there
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it would have been around late 90s early
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2000s
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around that time frame i worked a lot of
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jobs
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this was another part-time one where i
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worked full-time during the day and then
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the evenings
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would show up here and my boss
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he was it was very casual as far as when
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i wanted to arrive either he would work
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and if i wanted to work he would go home
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so i had a kind of a flexible schedule
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and i work quite a bit i was probably
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here
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four to five nights a week sitting right
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over there
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and now it's gone well it's still there
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but the business is gone and the hotel's
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closed
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have a very funny story one evening
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there were some guests staying here
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some very rowdy fellows
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who decided to start throwing their
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friends into the pool
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fully clothed no bathing suits anyone
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that
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walked out of those rooms you see over
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there they just came down
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to the little snack area they would grab
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them
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and toss them in the pool when they ran
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out of
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friends to do so they started doing so
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with regular guests
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and it happened three or four to three
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or four people they were just walking
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around they would grab them i hid
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behind the counter
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it sounds very far-fetched that's how i
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remember i was
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i thought i was gonna i there was a
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point i removed
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my wallet out of my pocket because i
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thought what if they climb over the
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counter and then throw me in the pool
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they didn't
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but witnessing this event was pretty
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comical
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in those days water mania was still open
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which was a water park on the other side
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of these buildings that is also
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long gone not sure what's going on with
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this place over here
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it's been empty for a long time as well
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prime real estate just sitting there
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for real aren't some of these gift shop
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facades amazing
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looks to be a brand new bbq
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place behind you
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oh they placed you here well that's good
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better to be out front than inside there
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right
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this gift shop's not even open
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you can do a tour for 150 cash
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what was a b oh there was a b just went
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right on my forehead
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an rv park used to be right over that
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little embankment but even on
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this side you can see some relics of
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what once was a little sidewalk there
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going under highway 27 where i'll be
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doing a u-turn and then
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heading back the other direction
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chat little squirrel got a little
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squirrel
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some sea lions on the side of this one
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where'd you go little squirrel
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okay see ya i was able to check out the
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supermarket on one of its last days
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about six seven eight months ago or
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so it was very uniquely themed inside
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but you know it's just sitting here
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empty
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wow i thought for certain they would
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have removed a lot of these items in
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here but no they're just they're still
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intact
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indoors check that out some of the
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little figures there up on top of the
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on the balcony zoomed in way over there
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the last time
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when i was inside here i mentioned how i
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wanted that panda bear
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and it's it's still there right there
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that panda is still up there
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there's the other wizard
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oh yeah giving me the stare down
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it's good to see you other wizard
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i didn't forget about you some do but i
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never forget the other wizard
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a little farther down 192. he's watching
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over this shonies
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well it was a shonies
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ferris wheel at old town is moving those
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clouds are looking
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ominous anti-gravity theater
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has some stuff out front on the porch
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some seats and mattresses well cushions
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some sort
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and a stage was set up probably 2003
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2004
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around that time frame stage was set up
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right here and a former band i was in
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from this area performed punk band
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performed right here
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it's now a a barbecue spot
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everyone that all the crowd was standing
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right in here
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facing the other direction towards the
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stage
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it's amazing what comes back to mind by
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just
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driving past seeing stuff
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good memories always makes me happy that
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this still exists in some
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form it was an attraction
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called believe it or not the haunted
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mansion
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didn't last very long because of the
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same name
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located at the disney parks just down
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the road
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they have kept it looking like a castle
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last time i was here there was a beehive
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of activity
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and one of the workers approached me and
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no taking photographs even from the road
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which i abided by they just got one
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quick
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quick angle and moved on but today no
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one here
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so i'm just kind of shimmering by here
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at a slow pace
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way back in the day they did an
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appearance gunner hanson
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leatherface himself was in there signing
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some autographs
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true story used to also live in this
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neighborhood rented a house for about a
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year
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right down there you'll notice there are
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homes on
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on this side but there also used to be
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homes on this side of 192.
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there still is one there but just past
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that one you're seeing are all empty
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lots
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notice driveways are still there see the
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driveways
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lead to nothing that now cell phone shop
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used to be a convenience store i would
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walk to occasionally and
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get a beverage or two was talking to a
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friend the other day about kenny rogers
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roasters and he was asking if there were
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any
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around these parts in fact there were
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this restaurant here used to be a kenny
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rogers roasters
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yep classic car alert
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nice whoo look at that sky
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up there oh man
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gotta love florida summers
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not looking too pretty you can hear some
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thunder
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kind of roaring over there as well
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got my very first cell phone right there
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in that storefront back in 2003 i was a
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little late to the game
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but i remember it well you never forget
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your first cell phone
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yeah i know 2003.
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i i wasn't i wasn't up with the times
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but but i got it then and in the same
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shopping center
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way before that decades before this used
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to be a music shop
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i would get ticket master tickets for
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concerts
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pre-internet and i would hang out in
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there quite a bit
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buy cassettes cds were
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happening at around that time coming
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into fruition and i would ask
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what bands are coming to town because i
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couldn't look it up i couldn't google it
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so i had to go up to the ticketmaster
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computer
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and have the employees at the music shop
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right here
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in this clothing store where this
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clothing store is certainly very simple
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to figure out that
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used to be a pizza hut
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neither is this road some potholes
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i'm gonna say at least a hundred times
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over the course of the 20 plus
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years i was driving through kissimmee
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back to saint cloud when i lived here
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from the early 90s and on i stopped at
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this checkers
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took this same route around the
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drive-through
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section usually this one was closed
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it was coned off this one was the
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one that was always open and i would
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pull
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through this very drive-through right
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pull up order a champ burger a small fry
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and a soda sometimes two chambers
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that was my burger of choice and then
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pull up
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to the end this just recently closed
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even last time i was here a few months
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ago it was open
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and i did this very thing
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but was able to pull away with food this
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time
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there will be no food tucked into my
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window
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pretty wild
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this was the kmart that other kmart i
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worked out
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lightning this is also the parking lot i
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did my
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