What Happened at Heritage Junction ? 100 Year Old Memories
A visit to Heritage Junction Historic Park in Santa Clarita California . An amazing place full of history . Open every Saturday and Sunday .
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just waiting on a nice gust of wind
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there it comes to properly display the
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flags come on wind blow you almost had
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it there it goes
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tentative dun dun dun dun welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here coming to you
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from Santa Clarita California and just
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off Newhall Avenue just past Hart Park
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is the destination that we will be
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diving into today heritage Junction
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historic Park a lot of the structures
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and buildings that we will be seeing
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removed from other parts around this
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area but they have a rich deep history
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and quite a few of them we use with some
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TV shows movies that you may recognize
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let's get over there join me shall you
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their hours are from 1 to 4 p.m. just on
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the weekend Saturday and Sunday so if
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you make the trip make sure you plan
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accordingly
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this is the party house not party like
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you're thinking the last name of Edie
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was PA are de e and it's been here since
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1992 but a hundred years before that
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it's sat elsewhere saved had moved to
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this property used in some of the old
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westerns in fact John Ford used it in
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the first couple of his films when it
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was at its original location in the
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1940s a telephone company utilized it as
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one of their bases for operation
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looks basically the same the stairs have
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been shifted to a different spot and
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it's now used for storage Tom Mix one of
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the first popular serial TV Cowboys used
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to use the back yard of the former
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property for mix Ville before he moved
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his base of operations to Glendale could
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be found behind this home at the base of
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the back porch wooden staircase as an
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information placard that states that
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William Edward party who was the
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constable was very strict if he caught a
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suspect he would take him to a tree
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chain them up until the trial if they
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were exonerated he turned them loose if
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they were convicted he would hang them
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from the tree that's harsh he also
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passed away in this very home January
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21st 1914 you have to wonder how many
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hours he spent relaxing on this very
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porch contemplating how he was gonna
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uphold the law with a very stern hand
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this very impressive homestead dates all
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the way back to the year 1875 when it
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was first purchased but mr. Henry
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Newhall a later residents of the
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property was a nominee for the
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presidency of the United States Henry
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Clay need ham who fell very ill which
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looking at this may have altered the
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decision for him to run he passed
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February 21st 1936 it's also interesting
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to note that the purchaser of the house
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Henry Mayo Newhall is also what the town
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was named after here's a great old-timey
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photo
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of what it looked like back then versus
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what it looks like now the most
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interesting fact I think about this was
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when they moved it in August of 1990
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they took it from what is now a
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secondary parking lot at Six Flags Magic
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Mountain that's where this building sat
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true story look off to the left you can
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see where the Sky Tower is basically
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this was sitting where you now park your
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car before going into the amusement park
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this faded guide map shows the layout of
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the land numbered nine different spots
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you can visit out here with the
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corresponding number with the listing of
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what they are but be careful when
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trotting because there are rattlesnakes
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most likely all up through here tucked
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away hiding in the shrubbery should be
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careful not that there's anything wrong
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with it but this could quite possibly be
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the only outhouse that I've ever seen in
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my travels that has a placard on the
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sign of it designating
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it's history perhaps donated to the
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Historical Society has an Eagle Scout
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project you don't see too many outhouses
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with a plaque shoved on the side that's
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different
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Mitchell schoolhouse Adobe I always try
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to do a little research before visiting
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places and going to locations but you
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can always learn a lot more by actually
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visiting them especially when said
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places have information on site like
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this you can read up and learn as you go
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all about what you're looking at not
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every place does it but I sure am
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thankful for those that do according to
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this parts date all the way back to the
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1860s Wow since they're open today I
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think I might be able to go in beside
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some of the facades first thing I just
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kind of want to be ander around and show
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the exterior well just see how the day
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progresses name the Edison house dates
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back to the early 1900s
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it's been in this spot since 1989 but it
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was built by the Southern California
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Edison company for their employees to
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live in while they worked check this out
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one of the few times you'll probably
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ever see at snow in this region of
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California they have their snow boots
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and skis on and as best I can tell when
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they moved the house they put it
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together a little bit differently than
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where it originally was placed you can
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see the stairs are on the opposite side
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that window in that little top piece
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below the awning matches up but it's
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just put together a little differently
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I've been asked by a few of the
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volunteers that are out here if I want
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to step inside these houses and the
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church at the top of the hill and a
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little red schoolhouse oh you know what
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why not I was informed that there was
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five or six of these in a neighborhood
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that's why the photo that I showed a
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minute ago did not match up however
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after closer inspection this photo does
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match up you can see the homeowner once
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again standing in the snow in front of
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this very structure yep that's it nice
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themed around the period of the 1920s
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they even have down here on the toilet
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this very unique seat an old-school
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bathtub they really went the extra mile
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for the theming I like it you have a
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Raggedy Ann down here and a newspaper
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delivery boy and I was told but I
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definitely need to step into the kitchen
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oh yeah this is cool there's some
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vegetables and fruit down in there they
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got some vanilla extract some baking
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powder and their cupboards and even some
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boric acid no snow in that one but this
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is definitely definitely a throwback to
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say the least you got the milk bottles
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down there and bouillon cube oh my gosh
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bouillon cubes I always thought that was
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spelled differently you don't see
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refrigerators looking like that too
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often anymore or phones that look like a
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face that the eyes and the nose what do
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you think's behind this door yep
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it's an ironing board just across the
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way is the King's Barre home circa 1878
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let's go inside properly det-cord with
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furniture from the era and a piano if we
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look into one of the rooms we got a
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mannequin in a rocking chair it would
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heat the oven over here and also it
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would keep these burners and I think
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this is this is just fascinating
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this has its Oh see the fire would come
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up in there oh yeah and so it would come
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up this would sit on here although there
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is another cover that you could take and
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put on there but this is before the
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waffle batter in there Oh maker right
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hook and of course it would brown on the
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bottom flipped it so that it could cook
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on the other side thank you for your
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side when it finished cooking you could
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pull it open both sides would be brown
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and you got any ideas
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no neither at all can you guess what
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that is there's the door here that won't
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come any farther forward that'll go up
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but it won't come forward any farther
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because there's a block right there so
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the little mouse goes in there oh goes
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up here because you put up in the top
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and then he gets to the edge and he
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falls over into this which they fill
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with water and I'm expecting there to be
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a rabbit yeah I have to admit at first
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glance when I saw this book I thought it
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said diddy dumps a lot but i miss Retta
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it's just Diddy dumps and tots
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this is pretty cool Alice's Adventures
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in Wonderland and through the
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looking-glass it's a good read
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yeah you didn't want to you didn't want
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to put a hole in the wall so you put it
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on the picture rail up top this is a cup
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board goes along the perimeter of the
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wall where you keep cups and plates and
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over time the collections grew and
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that's where we got the terminology and
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the cupboard so cover predating that the
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cup board a board that protrudes out the
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side of the wall but Sony very
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sun-bleached but you see the silhouettes
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of the Ramona Chapel given that name
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based on Helen Hunt Jackson's novel
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Ramona that's a candle that's a votive
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candle stand you know in the Catholic
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religion they people who are ill and
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don't want to die or they have a friend
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who's ill and doesn't want to die
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and they put a penny in there or a
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couple of coins in the pot up here and
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then they pray for that person because
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it couldn't raise crops here and so
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therefore people would live on the
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ranches and the families would live
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would be together
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you know grandma grandpa uncle aunt
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anyway the kids and it's something would
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because there were good Catholics they
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had to go to Mass
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and search at least once a week and so
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they built their own little family
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churches with chapels and this was run
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by the chaplain and of course a ride
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tenor itinerant priests
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in you know in the archdiocese and the
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our tuner pretty sweet ride to get
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around to each of the little churches as
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often as they could but this is one of
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the reasons why we have in so many
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Hispanic priests is because of the fact
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that they were raised like this and
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their father or grandfather actually
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held the mass and for the family and
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those of us at votive candles stand
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tive vote intervals candles people pray
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for other people's wealth or health or
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soul or whatever and they usually
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contribute a couple of pennies or
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whatever they could and it was
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especially important in the Catholic
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Church the colorful glass windows and
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their little wishes and the church and
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if you think that church was small take
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a look at the little red schoolhouse
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circa 1890 eight six desks chalkboards
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na ting 1492 lessons include arithmetic
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history Abraham Lincoln and they also
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use McGuffey readers
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that's the third grade Edition sixth
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grade second grade and fifth grade more
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than one grade in one facility that's
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how it worked back then you didn't have
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enough students for one class for one
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grade so just threw them all on the same
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same classroom where it originally sat
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ended up being paved to form the Santa
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Monica freeway
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so it's now been moved here walking down
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the hill now towards the train station
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really looking forward to this ticket
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office and the wind's blowing that sheet
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behind it it's a very haunting haunted
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ticket office
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I thought the train station the train
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station the real one is right there in
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fact you can see part of the locomotive
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to the right this would technically be
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the back side where you would enter but
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the tracks are on the opposite side
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we'll go over there in a moment
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open September 1st 1887 that was a heck
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of a long time ago president Benjamin
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Harrison stopped over in April of 1891
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and Teddy Roosevelt was met at the depot
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by the California governor back in 1903
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don't see water fountains like this too
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much anymore all rusted and antique
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looking
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oh that's good good and cold needed this
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looks as if this guy is working very
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hard here at his station got to make
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sure he presses that in the proper way
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it would be very confusing people could
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get very misunderstood if he did not
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know what he was doing some conductor
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hats here in the case gonna head now
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into the museum through this door step
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down oh we got the Duke there we got
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some Chaplin information remaining
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artifacts behind this piece of glass is
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a miniature displaying that subject
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matter if you look down in there there's
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some minecarts probably with gold of
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some sort and then over here oh yeah
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there's one of the workstations here
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among the rocks
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according to that Orange sign on the
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wall this is Buffalo Bill's trunk which
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held four of his gold-plated revolvers
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during his world tour with his Wild West
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Show up there on the top of that little
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shelf
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lots of exhibits in here in cases along
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the walls indoors at the old train
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station it's pretty cool
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I'm guessing this room is used for
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events on occasions they have a stage
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some folding chairs you have to imagine
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all the activity that took place in here
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way back in the day back in the old
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cowboy days I like those weary not this
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is not an active rail line that I'm
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losing my balance off of it's been
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closed for some time of course across
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the fence to the left that one is still
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quite operational and this train used to
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ride along the route parallel to where I
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am meandering it was used for years
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until it was donated to the historical
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property warning do not get close when
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this is running I'm allowed because it's
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you know it's shut off so there is no
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danger plus I was to fall from these
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stairs however I made it completely
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unscathed
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take a look at this all the bells and
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whistles and knobs ooh I'm not sure
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what's down in there but there is a rope
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what happens if I pull this
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it's tough to see from this angle but
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that's the Bell
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you get a better view from down below
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that's it that's the bell that was
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ringing no longer making any noises
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because I'm currently not up there pull
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it on the rope listen it listen hear
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that sound that's a bell not ringing it
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was right against this very wall and I
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will now match up a couple shots from a
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Charlie Chaplin movie called the pilgrim
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and a Frank Sinatra film titled suddenly
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there he is hanging out in this very
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spot you see the name there suddenly up
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on the awning would have been mounted
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right there about where the drainage
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pipe now is you see the ticket window
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top left of your screen is a chimney
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looks a little bit different it still
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has the hole for you know to smoke to be
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emitted but back then it looked a little
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bit different and it does now there you
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go flashback to the movie sill
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and there's Charlie right there Chaplin
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himself was also here in this scene
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being chased by an officer in this spot
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would I ran directly towards me you
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could see all this very prominently and
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as the police are in hot pursuit camera
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pants Chaplin runs off straight that way
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even the awning and the door still look
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the same
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there's the door and there's the awning
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of course the trains there now we're
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here
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there was no train just disregard
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disregard the train moving on I was told
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I'm not allowed to enter the Newhall
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Ranch House but the next best thing I
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could do is just meander up on the porch
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and try to peek in the windows currently
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doing a little work and they said
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hopefully this will be open again in the
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future so maybe we could return at a
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later date and we could actually go
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inside the way we listen to music
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certainly has changed since back that
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right yeah just uh just a little whoo
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what's in here
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some cobwebs some cobwebs here no but a
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big attack by cops that's gonna do it
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I'm saying this I'm contemplating I'm
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imagining that a snake is down here whoa
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what was that it wasn't a snake it was a
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stick but in my mind was playing tricks
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on me take it a step further ring that
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notification bow by doing so it takes it
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a step further and definitely make sure
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make sure my mind is definitely playing
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tricks on me here amongst amongst the
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trees
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it's hot out there see right there that
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Sun
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this is shade it feels good but I'm
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still gonna eat is like it's getting to
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me shouldn't be this hot in Southern
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California but it is it's slightly more
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humid than it has been in past years you
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do you do your own Columbo like research
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skills on why that is and get back to me
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cuz I want to know I'll see you guys in
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the next video the vlog is did you enjoy
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this video give it a thumbs up lets me
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know you care this is probably the
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longest outro I've done in quite some
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time
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I think that was good that was good
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that's a good walk over aha well in the
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olden days you didn't get up
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well the adults didn't get up and go
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outside to use the outhouse not so
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instead they use the chamber cloth is
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that where the term came from I don't
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know I don't have a pot to piss on
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right