Inside The Half Empty Malls Of Boston Suburbs - Jordan’s Furniture Oddities / Finding Skull Cliff
Empty Malls in Boston Suburbs
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welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here as the recording of
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this it is Thursday November 2nd 20123
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I'm standing in front of the leading
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Tower
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of
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Pizza it's a pizza place right here I
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believe this is Broadway I am in sagus
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Massachusetts and out with
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Halloween and Duncan which started in
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this general area has already brought
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out it's
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Christmas well not not yet but they're
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already yeah Halloween ends another SE
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two
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holidays
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Collide warm that's hot that is piping
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hot today I have no real game plan
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except drive around this general area
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you know within 30 40 m from here maybe
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even less than that went a long way
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yesterday up into Vermont and back there
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and back was about a 6h hour round trip
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commute so I'm going to stay a little
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more localized to this area today and
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just see what I can find I'm inviting
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you to join me cheers shall you picked
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up the coffee right over there there's
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this Comedy Store here I wonder if Bill
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Burr ever played there he's a fellow
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Bostonian or to that to the general area
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also Dennis ly I
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think
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denious from Boston too both those
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guys heard some of their stuff take a
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look at this prehistoric creature right
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here through the fence overlooking the
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main thoroughfare down
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there looks like has some lights on
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him he is a
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strewn with
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lights
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it's hard to really miss a big orange
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dinosaur down the main road overlooking
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that gas station down
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there just saying hello to commuting
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traffic tourists passing through that
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would be me and others making a
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and not too far down the way take a look
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at this
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Hippo eating passer by in
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cars it almost looks like it's
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upchucking random passer bying cars out
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of its
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all right I'm walking into a place
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called Jordan's Furniture but from what
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I was seeing online this place has a lot
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more than just Furniture inside the
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building is massive it also has an IMAX
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movie theater and who knows what the
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heck else inside of here I'm not going
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to buy any furniture but I am curious to
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see see what's behind these doors
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there's kind of a layout of the land
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here so you got the furniture up here
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which has a penous in it you got the
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third floor you got the second floor and
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then you got the first floor and the
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corner is a Home Depot but I think
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there's going to be some kind of weird
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quirky
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items inside
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here I hope so anyway greeted by this
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Wonka poster as I walk in look at this
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Wonka
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oh hi welcome to Jordan but please be
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careful because this revolving door can
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stop this revolving store can stop
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suddenly all right oh wow there oh what
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the heck is this I have just walked look
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at this oh
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my goodness he's holding the base that's
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the mascot for the Red Sox right there
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you always hate holding a Yankees player
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in his glove look at that what are you
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doing is he eating he's eating one of
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the New York Yankees all right there's a
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place called the sweet house right here
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not really a lot of people in line for
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the sweet house but there is a sweet
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house it looks like this is almost made
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out of like Jelly Bellies or something
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right up here or candy keep in mind it
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is an actual furniture store over there
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is the furniture out so just basically I
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guess they created this to try to get
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people oh yeah it says beant town so
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there Jelly Bellies right up here these
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flowers are made out of Jelly Bellies
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also so you got the big flower there
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Jelly
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Belly and you got little Jelly Belly
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Ducks right over here and there is a
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really large banana split up top the
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Beantown dig that's like two bananas all
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made out of Jelly Bellies then you got
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this piece of heavy machinery up top
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that's putting the Cherry possibly up on
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top
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there kind of want to go up that
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escalator at some point go past the
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mascot there holding the baseball
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grabbing the Yankees player well I mean
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it almost looks like he's about to like
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eat the Yankees player you know it's a
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pretty heavy rivalry with the Yankees
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versus Red Sox all AL East you know the
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Rays Tampa Bay Rays I'm follower and fan
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of also in the same division so I get it
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yeah just amazing to see
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all these are Jelly Bellies this entire
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Banana Split are all Jelly Bellies like
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stuck together like glued together here
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there's an ice cream place here called
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Richardson's Farm farming since 8 since
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1695 and they do have like a water show
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of some sort like a little water
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projection show so the water just kind
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of like goes you know kind of like
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shoots up like that right there and for
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my safety do not stand or lean against
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the wall or move chairs up to the wall
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and stand on them thank you and enjoy
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the show so this is kind of like I I'm
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I'm going to say like World of Color but
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it's the same kind of Technology but a
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lot smaller version here where the water
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just kind of goes up and I'm guessing
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all of these I don't know if it's on a
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timer or if it's just a consistent thing
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but right now is there's some water
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happening they used to have one of these
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the former Festival B Festival Bay Mall
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in Orlando that became the artigon mall
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now it is Desert Land one of these
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climbing around PL but they removed it
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there's a couple people up on it but you
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can kind of get on the scaffolding and
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walk around inside this furniture store
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with the big Jelly Belly Banana Split oh
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yeah take a look so it's doing all kind
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of different stuff now it's making this
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like kind of feathered water item here
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with the little upside down waterfall
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this almost looks like a shaved ice or a
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snow comb I think this is just an
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example of what the ice cream looks like
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I think I'm going to get like a small
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ice cream here from the richson Farms
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they have different cones hand dip cones
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all right I ended up getting the I ended
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up getting a scoop of the death by
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chocolate which is like a really rich
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chocolate and also while I was kind of
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waiting for them to scoop it out they
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was watching the water show that was
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happening over off in the distance with
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all the it definitely is on a timer and
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there's different points where it's a
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little more intense than the than the
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other times so I'm going to have my
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chocolate from the Richardson Farm as I
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go up the escalator I'm going to go to
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the the area up to where the actual
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Furniture is on the second floor yeah so
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it is a real furniture store I'm going
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to go back down the escalator now I just
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came wanted to see what it was like up
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here got a Beantown taxi pick up and
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return right over there all strollers
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yeah there is a fud Ruckers world's
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greatest hamburgers I haven't had fud
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record in a long time used to be one in
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bua park near NS definitely quite a few
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different things in there they have the
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it Adventure ropes course beant Town
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Richardson's Ice Cream the fud Ruckers
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and of
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course as I was walking in or walking
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out went by the Sunbrella IMAX 3D
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Theater which had tons so you think that
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these would be movie posters here but it
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says get up to 60 months no interest on
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furniture so when you're like looking
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into the furniture outlet and you just
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go down the hallway there's all kind of
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classic movie posters lining the hallway
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there's probably about 30 or 40 ones in
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frames and they sell them for $199 each
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which I think $199 for a movie poster
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it's probably just the frames that are
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probably the the biggest price on them
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cuz usually you can get these posters a
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little less but any of these posters are
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for sale for $199 including the
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frames it came with the frame there is a
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very expansive parking lot but the
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parking lines are all painted pink I
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just wanted to show the fud
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Ruckers van over here it's been a long
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time I've been to FUD
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Ruckers I'm not going today all right
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I've been driving around a little bit
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back over sagus now the Square One Mall
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I passed by this and it looked like it's
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open but it doesn't look like it's
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thriving so I thought I'd pop inside
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check it out and see what's going on
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inside the Square
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One
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Mall okay it's not as empty in here as I
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thought it would be I mean it's
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definitely
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not super busy but got the escalators
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here got the little ice cream truck it
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looks as if the Sprint store has closed
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and some other stuff's a lot of stuff's
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open though there's Clifford the Big Red
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Dog this is interesting there is so they
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got joy Biz over here you got a repair
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place got an accessory Depot but then
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take a look up here there is a small
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little Best Buy kind of crammed in the
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corner down here there is a Public
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Safety Office in here too for the town
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of sagus s a
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g I'm just assuming that's how you
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pronounce it I don't know for certain
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but so it appears as if this section of
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the mall used to be a Sears it's now
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closed
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I do want to point out just how many
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birds are up top up there hundreds of
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birds
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perched can faintly see where it says
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Sears on the side of the little Auto
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Body place
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too
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a old
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Verizon telephone booth
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here telephone's been removed but you
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got the little shell of it you got this
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great bleeding down there
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too oh there's a Savers Thrift Store
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over there this is giving me like
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serious Romero Dawn Vibes right here
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where the the four of them are sitting
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it's not this is not the Moville mall
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but just replace the gumball machines
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with the cast of Dawn of the Dead you
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kind of have the same the same kind of
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vibe through here all right from one
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mall to another this is the Liberty Tree
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Mall take a look at this alien here on
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the side of this this van right
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here checking out some malls that must
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be the Liberty Tree up there there's a
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tree up top there's also an AMC in here
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all right this place is
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definitely pretty dang empty there's
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some more little there's like the Happy
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Van right over here and I definitely
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like the way this place is set up too
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with the little Atrium area and
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everything also there are quite a few of
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these this is a city tour bus over here
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you do have this little uh Barat jewelry
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repair right up here as well a lot of
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times you'll see like Mall Walkers a lot
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of times you'll also see that there will
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be fitness places so you got Best
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Fitness is taken over part of the empty
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mall and then you got Best Buy right up
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here and evidently you could go in the
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Best Buy through here at one point but
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nowadays you can't it's all it's all
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kind of closed off and you can see how
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long of walk like the long Corridor all
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the way down here all right there is a
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Five Below over here there's also a Pet
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Express which is not open do not touch
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this the gate is
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armed I don't know if it really is or
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not but maybe probably not look at this
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place though it's a ghost town in here
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I'm over in the food court now where
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they have an armed forces recruiting
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center but this is the food cord right
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here there's a place called Liberty
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Pizza there's also a place called sea
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lion sushi right over
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there definitely not a beehive of
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activity falafal mom over there in the
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corner whatever was here on this corner
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is no longer
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open
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oh they have a hurricane simulator goes
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7 they used to have one of these outside
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Oldtown in CMI right next to one of the
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hotels and got the Old Navy over here
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you got the a lot of times you'll see
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the massage chairs and gumball machines
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there's a lot of empty stores
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though check out Plucky ducky right here
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you got all the rubber
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duckies in here as well $2 for one play
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you can get a just an assortment of
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rubber
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duckies a very unique roof line up here
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too it's kind of like futuristic Style
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with the roof there okay I'm kind of
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wandering through the woods now I'm
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looking for an area called Skull Rock
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now there is a rock here with some paint
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on this almost looks like a ramp it's
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kind of interesting how this kind of
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almost looks like a ramp
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up but up this hill kind of up the rocky
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terrain is Skull Rock which I believe is
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back back in 2001 when I was reading
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online somebody painted with a bunch of
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skulls very very Rocky terrain through
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here just got to watch where I'm walking
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down here going up the side nice and
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cool and crisp out here in the late
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afternoon it's about 3:30 4:00 right
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now very very cool and
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crisp let's see if there's like a view
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up top here pretty Scenic yeah look at
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the Lea
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leaves very
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nice leaves all changing oh you see
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downtown
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Boston over there in the distance
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there's a pretty good view of the
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skyline over
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there nice okay I feel like this has to
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be
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it and you got this metal Spike here
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driven into the Rock itself then you got
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a lot of spray paint up here I'm not
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really seeing all the skulls though oh
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you know what it's little
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Cliff yeah this is
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pro
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whoa okay I need to get a different
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angle of this but this is it it's like a
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big
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Gorge right here wow it's like a big
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Gorge okay it appears as if skull Cliff
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has definitely been painted over over
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the years I'm going to kind of zoom in
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now if I was to hike down there you
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could get a little bit better view but
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looks like it's really tagged up
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right in there was a bunch of
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skulls on the side of that
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Cliff could go up there and see if we
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can get a better View and here's another
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angle kind of look at down look at this
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this is quite the incline don't want to
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slip off of here
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but yeah it's kind of hard to really
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make out what all of it is but that's
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all painted oh I can see a skull from
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here let me zoom in right down there
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that is definitely the skull Cliff Skull
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Rock that skull is just
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staring directly into my soul I'm going
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to look over the edge
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here kind of see down into
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it yeah just mostly just all tagged up
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now that not even a whole heck of a lot
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of skulls
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I imagine at one time it was pretty
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impressive but now kind of not so
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much all right this is kind of strange
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it almost looks like this is a
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man-made ramp here you can see how they
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stack the
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Rocks see that is just an unusual
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coincidence but then over here looks
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like a
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foundation of sorts but it kind of looks
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like a makeshift like like a bike trail
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or something almost like a BMX type bike
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trail with a little cusp kind of going
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around the corner here I don't know very
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interesting all right over here to the
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corner of Fountain
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Street this culac there's a bicycle
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here so very interesting there's a
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plaque right here so this is pretty
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fascinating I didn't real I've done some
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of the
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spots of Elizabeth Short in La
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where life ended but it
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began not too far from here
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she was born in
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July 1924 lived on Salem Street now
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occupied by the Interstate
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93 they have placed this here so this is
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where this is kind of her stomping
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grounds the Black Dalia on January 15
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1947 she met her demise in a not a
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really bad
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fashion probably seen photos of her in
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front of the
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front of the school that was used in
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nightmare in Elm Street sitting on the
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standing on the staircase or sitting on
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that staircase this plaque has been
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placed here in memory of Elizabeth
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Short nation's most infamous and
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unsolved crimes Betty
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short she black hair and her pinent for
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dark attire earned her the name the
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Black
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Dalia so she was born not too far from
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here but she lived at 115 Salem Street
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which is right where the interstate is
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now which is right over
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there the house she grew up in was right
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here where the rotary is which is just a
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circular Road pattern can see it say
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it's right there
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rotary and the intersection and the very
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busy Thorofare has taken over from where
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her home
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was and then about a mile maybe not even
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a mile from there it's another
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historical spot here Jingle
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Bells was written right here next to
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this this big pair of
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glasses right here at the eye exam
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place
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according to this plaque Jingle Bells
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was composed here on this site stood the
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Simpson Tavern where in 1850 James
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peerpoint wrote the song quote Jingle
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Bells in the presence of Mrs Otis
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Waterman who later verified the song was
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written here peero had the song
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copyright in 1857 while living in
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Georgia Jingle Bells tells of the sleigh
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races held on Salem Street in the early
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1800s which is just right here in this
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General vicinity so you just think about
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a oneor open
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sleigh High tailing it down Salem Street
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the early
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1800s this plaque has been placed here
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by the Medford Historical Society back
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in
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1988 it's pretty dang
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cool I feel like these glasses with the
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the snow and everything there they
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should put like a one horse open sleigh
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behind there I think that I think
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they're missing the missing the mark on
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that there is an Amelia airheart mural
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on the side over here she's a former res
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resident of this area too Medford
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Massachusetts I had no idea aviation
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pioneer nurse educator poet and Scholar
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Amia
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aart from Massachusetts who
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knew well anyone that went past this
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mural did all right I just looked up
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what this body of water this River was
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and this is in fact the real Mystic
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River I have seen the movie Clint
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Eastwood directed sea
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Penn with the same title with this is
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the real Mystic
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river right
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here it's really not moving that quickly
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it's a very slow paced
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River it's kind of more stagnant than
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anything
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else a couple Ducks over there you zoom
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in on
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them even the Ducks are
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stagnant
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paced in a world full of Kardashians be
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a
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Gallagher I just realized I am wearing
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my beefy King Orlando shirt which has
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really good roast beef so I have decided
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to get some roast beef here in
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Massachusetts at a place called Kelly's
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which has a few few different
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ones but I de said you know what I'm
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going to get some roast beef wearing an
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appropriate t-shirt right here is the
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chef holding a big roast beef sandwich
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established in
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1951 give it a try all right ended up
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getting roast beef sandwich and I ended
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up getting some horseradish sauce on it
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and I also got the chili which has like
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a me meaty chili which is pretty good
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the chili was pretty dang good the roast
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beef I will say definitely does not hold
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the candle to beefy King it just didn't
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have it was not as good definitely
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better than you know typical fast food
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roast beef but when it comes to beefy
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King in Orlando in The Milk District
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versus Kelly's I'm definitely going to
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side with beefy King but would get it
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again it just wasn't it wasn't quite
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what I expected it was decent but not
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definitely not the best roast beef
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I've ever had but it is I guess it is a
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staple in the Boston
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area and I was pretty hungry so we
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pretty good they also have seafood and
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sandwiches also but yeah Kelly's here we
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have a
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drive-thru and that's going to do it for
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today thanks for
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watching kind of just a random day it
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was kind of nice to stay local to where
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my hotel was and end it with a nice
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delicious
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meal also had onion rings the onion
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rings are pretty good they were they
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were crispy they were tasty the onion
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rings were good I'll see you in the next
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video the
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Vlog thanks for watching it's over