Fuel Shortage & Bad Weather on Road Trip Day 2 With My Dad - Niceville Memories / Lost Time Capsule
May 2021 Road Trip With Dad Day Two
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welcome everyone out of the woo here
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here with my dad
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day number two of our road trip our
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nostalgic road trip if you will
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going to several states across the u.s
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where are we currently on day number two
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nice niceville florida
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moved here in 94
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90 84.
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80. 80 1984
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through 88 89 five years yep
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five years and lived in the home at the
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end of this road
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right there morning
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a lot of memories here in fact for me
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probably the most prominent i
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was 10 years old through 14 or 15 years
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old something like that
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so for me it was a really the the
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essence
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of the fiber of my being of of growing
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up
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what do you recall mostly about about
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this house if you really had to by the
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way
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i'm inviting you to join me and my dad
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shall you give me give me some memories
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oh my goodness
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well let's see the um
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what you see there is the
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built-in carport area used to be
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my office come out of the main house and
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go into that office area step down into
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the office area and then i remember
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your mother and i had a water bed back
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in those days that's right the water bed
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the flood of the waterbed that
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ultimately flooded once that's true
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and you had to take the hose through the
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back window
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to fill the water bed up and you pull it
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out and philly that's right and we had a
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pool
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that we also use that hose to fill up i
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believe we have some photos of not only
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the office that you were mentioning
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but also the pool so there's the
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backyard there so
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there you are there's grandpa your dad
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hi dad me
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and the the paint has been repainted has
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now been painted red as opposed to the
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the white paint which all kind of chips
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chopped off through the years yeah
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let's see me at the pool back here
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you're by the pool there you go
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that's you bite in the backyard by the
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you got your crazy humor from your
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mother
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i don't know about all i don't know
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about that so yeah you can see the pool
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here
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and then i think in the front too
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there's a photo of me on
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my bicycle let me get that out
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somewhere yeah i think it's back here
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there you go
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that's coming out like me in front of
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the bike i didn't go down any slides
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this was pre-sliding days but you rode
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all over town on that thing
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i did right is that the only bike i had
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it might have been the only ones i
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remember
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for some reason in my mind i remember
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having a bmx bike that's like a 10 speed
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now that i think about it i did have a
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couple of bicycles
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one of them i recall i was cruising down
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this sidewalk very quickly jumping curbs
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getting a lot of action going in and i
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turned this corner
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and i had ripped my brakes off i had
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decided
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my friends and i thought it would be
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pretty cool if we took our brakes off
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and just stopped with our feet we'd
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stick our foot
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into the back of the wheel in between
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the frame and the wheel sometimes it did
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not
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go well though because i turned this
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corner and as i was going this way
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just like this car is now going by
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precisely
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i got afraid didn't want to leap off the
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the curb and turned abruptly
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and smashed into this
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to avoid the car i just remembered this
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right here bam into this
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see i knew i knew when we got to these
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spots or it would all start
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popping back into our into our heads you
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had a car
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i did have you had here in fact when you
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hear the word
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lemon it was actually it was
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a yellow car and it was
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a lemon this is
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so when you look up lemon in the
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dictionary for a car
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there is this this is my sister this is
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my mom
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teaching her how to roller skate and
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this car
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was parked right over there on that
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curb you want to tell the store a funny
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story about this car i was playing
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football down the street i was playing
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football down this
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down this very street with my friends at
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the end of the road
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and explain what happened from there i
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got in the car to go over to the church
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building
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and i was forever running out of gas i
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mean it was just my lifestyle back in
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those days
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running on fumes turned around went out
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the road
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to the stop sign you see the stop sign
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turn left
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and and if you turn left you go up a
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little hill
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a slight a pretty good-sized hill as i
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started going up that hill
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i started running out of gas you know
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how your car goes
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and i knew what it was so i
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immediately made a u-turn and it ran out
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of gas so i
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coasted the engine stopped i put it in
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neutral
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and the car coasted and had enough speed
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on it posted down the hill
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enough or inertia for me to curve around
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this curve
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and coasted right back in front of that
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and you you pulled up right here and i
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could see you
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forever so i was down there with you
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know four or five of my friends tossing
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the football around
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which also i'm remembering we had this
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brainstorm idea
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to attempt to play tackle football in
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this road
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that lasted about an hour we decided
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that's not a good idea let's go for
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touch football
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nonetheless getting sidetracked my
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friends and i said oh there's my i think
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i waved at you
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from over there he said see you later
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son got in your car
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drove off and then you know maybe a play
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or two later
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got tackled in the road no car sound
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no cars out all of a sudden i go that
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car looks familiar
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i mean there wasn't many cars that look
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like that pulling through town
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and there you come in idling in with no
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very
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silently at a crawl pulling in here
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you get here you stop you get out remove
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your briefcase out of the back seat
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and walk back back inside
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this very house this tree here was very
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tiny
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when we moved in this tree was
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a seedling just a little tiny seedling
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and there was a hedgerow there was a
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hedge it's in that in front of the door
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yeah do you see the photo of the bicycle
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again let's see
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there's the back there it is there you
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go so there was a hedgerow we had this
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brainstorm idea to cut this down or
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maybe it was already cut
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down cutting those hedges down took a
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week
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for one and we said you know what we
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just quit the other three hedges look
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perfectly fine
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now the new residents have removed the
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hedges and they've also added
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a steel or an aluminum roof yeah
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we had this shingled and members of the
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church
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showed up to help and not
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thinking they you
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myself our family all our friends did
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not think
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let's not scrape the shingles off the
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roof
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with the nails so there were nails
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all over the yard for about a year
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i stepped on nails i must have got 20
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nails in my foot did i ever get a
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tetanus shot i don't think we ever did
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i survived the tetanus survive the nails
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i remember that man
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yeah do you remember we were in your
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bedroom
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which was the corner bedroom over here i
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know exactly what you're going to say
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and it was storming out
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it was and i remember i walked over to
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you can't see the window here but
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there's a window on the other side of
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the building
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and all of a sudden lightning struck
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somewhere close one of the trees over
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there
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that's one of the trees or maybe the
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pole or maybe i thought it maybe even
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hit the house
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and just for that split second i just
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wow
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it was either you or i that fell over
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the back of the bed that might have been
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you that could be in my mind maybe i'm
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over exaggerating but it was very
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powerful
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and the noise was amazing yeah
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that's the closest i've ever been to
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lightning that i remember a little side
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note too
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somewhere in this yard either here or
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or down there or maybe over here i had
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i had a great thought to
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bury some return of the jedi star wars
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figures and i was going to have what do
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they call a time capsule
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and later in life now we will talk about
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a time capsule at the church
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maybe i got the idea from that and i
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buried somewhere in this yard
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no hopefully no one comes out here with
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a shovel and disturbs
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the residents but somewhere over here is
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one or two return of the jedi figures
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that i buried did i make that up
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or did it really happen i think it's in
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the backyard i think we did that in the
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backyard
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we did it in the backyard
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but i'm a little it has been it has been
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let's see 1984
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would have been 38 years 37 years
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37 years
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wow now this is it though
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a lot of memories right here
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all right wanna head over to the church
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we'll show any more of these pictures
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i think we got them all let's go through
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them again there's the backyard
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me and my dad and you and there's
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there's
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we should recreate the we should we'll
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go to this
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yes coast down and there another shot
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there we go
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right there your sister
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your sister who's mother someone's
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sister
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that's right that's right there on that
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little little side corner it is
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and there you are playing the duck hunt
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nes 1985 remember it well
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1985 was the year that i discovered
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nintendo entertainment system
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i saw back to the future for the first
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time and i tasted
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mountain dew to my lips and my tongue
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for the first time three of the greatest
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moments happened in 1985.
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look at that right there yeah duck hunt
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duck hunt got a christmas and
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1985 you wouldn't let your sister play
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of course not that's
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not what brother to do they don't let
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their sisters play nintendo
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it was my nintendo that was both of ours
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i got pretty good at it too
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there's the office inside the office
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what what's this
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car track yeah race track that is cool
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that's right inside the wow talk about
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ancient that's a typewriter
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that belongs in a museum also have some
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baseball memories really liked baseball
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when i was that age in fact there was a
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guy i knew over here
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him and his dad would play baseball in
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the yard instead of his dad like
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pitching the baseball to him he had it
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on a rope
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it would swing the rope around and it
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had the baseball
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attached to the rope and then his son
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would hit the baseball and it would go
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the opposite way
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i thought that was pretty ingenious but
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speaking keeping up with the theming of
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baseball over here
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kind of like the sand lot in a lot of
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ways where you know the characters from
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the movie the sandlot would show up to
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an empty field
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to play baseball this was my sand lot
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right down here
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and i spent countless days
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if you needed to call me for dinner or
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mom needed to call me for dinner
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odds are i was probably at the end of
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this little area
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right over here is that the house they
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built on your baseball yard they did
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right over there in the corner you see
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the fence is a house that they built
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and they ruined the baseball field for
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the
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for the locals
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see construction crews are not concerned
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with with uh with a with a few young
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lads from the neighborhood wanting to
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play baseball
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progress waits waits for noah
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and there was a fort that someone built
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over here
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around the corner there's like a tree
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house i do kind of recall that as well
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it wasn't it was very shoddily built it
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was not the best
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the best ever so we're going to take off
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from here
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drive up maybe recreate the
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the running out of gas so i would have
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been here saying
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see you later dad have a good day at
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work
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a couple football plays later look back
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your car still the lemon the lemon
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stealthfully
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you were probably thinking i bet i can
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get back without anyone seeing me i'm
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gonna try to recreate the running out of
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gas
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give me a play-by-play okay we came out
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of hudson i i
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came out of hubston circle in the lemon
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turned left there was no
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lot more traffic today than it was that
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day okay so i start up this hill the
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incline
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looking at it on camera is a very tiny
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steep enough to where you can turn
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around exactly and about where
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okay we're watching the black car go up
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the hill
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right about there is where it started
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talking out and right about there
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and posted from that point back down
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very slowly very quietly
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made enough of that like i said there
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was enough inertia that i was able to
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make the curve
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and coast ever so gently
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in front of the house the perfect life
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where i had lived
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let's try it you're all excited to go to
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work with your briefcase
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thinking to myself probably i'll get
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some gas up the road here
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so right about in here starts concunking
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like it does when everyone starts
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running out of gas
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so you're like well i gotta turn around
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gotta make a quick u-turn make a quick
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u-turn here
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yeah and this is where i made the u-turn
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okay
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turn the e-turn and just put it in
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neutral now and coast on down let's see
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what happens
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we gonna make it well i might have been
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a little further up the hill maybe maybe
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just maybe you were up the hill to get a
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little more
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okay this gentleman coming down the hill
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this gentleman's thinking
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what is this guy doing okay i gotta turn
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up this car coming by
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you know what this might work
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close
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of course there was no truck here with a
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trash dumpster that's
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great
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i gotta tell you it's funnier today that
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it wasn't that it happened
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i'm over there dad's home now just a
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ways away about a block
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from there is this convenience store
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now called a tom thumb but it was a mom
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and pop store
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at the time i used to go in here did not
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have any quarters to play the video
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games but i would
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go in and watch the preview screen of
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altered beast
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a video game out at that time and would
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say one day i'm gonna play altered beast
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and eventually i did they also had
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commando in here they had two video
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games
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now i'm gonna go in here and get myself
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a coffee got a little piping hot
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caffeinated beverage from a memory
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from back in the day inside this place
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the video games were over there in the
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corner now that i think about it
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altar beast might not have been one that
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may have came out a little bit later but
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commando was definitely
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one of them they were tucked away in
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that back little corner over there
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i just talked to a couple of employees
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in there they didn't even realize there
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used to be video games in the corner
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they said
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gosh i wish i wish there were still
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video games in there but there aren't
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but there's there's coffee though
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okay moving on to the next spot there it
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is
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looking pretty much the same as it did
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with the circular driveway you could
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pull up
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many times you pulled up right here you
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know
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yeah when it was during a weekday if you
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had to go into your office
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right pull up here go in through the
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doors little small parking lot there out
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front
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anyone in there
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so this was built recently because this
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wasn't
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this wasn't here this was here
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this brings back some serious memories
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when we
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first moved here in 1984
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the congregation was always changing
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because
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of the uh air force base and people were
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coming and going that were members of
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church from the air force but somebody
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told us the story
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that there was a time capsule buried
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somewhere on the property
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so one saturday there must have been 15
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or 20 of us came out here with shovels
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i remember that poles
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because nobody knew where the time
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capsule was buried
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and the moral to the story or the
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conclusion to the story is
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the time capsule was never found still
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buried it's still
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here somewhere so there's possibly one
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at the house of my star wars figures
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and there's also a time capsule
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here at the church as well but we dug
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holes
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all over this place
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i don't even remember what we were using
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as a guide post and how to where to dig
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but
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it was weird and they've also added
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more parking over in this section
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which i recall there was one event that
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we
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erected a volleyball
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court over here and didn't work out too
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well because there were so many
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thorns in this section
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that the volleyball court was
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a little prickly when you were you were
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getting on your skin your socks and tell
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them about the
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volleyball games the volleyball with the
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thorns
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and all that all the little prickly
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things do you recall the hurricane
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that we had an overnight stay in here
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inside here me and a bunch of others
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played
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monopoly all night was it just one night
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or was it a series of nights no it's
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just one night just one night
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and we ended up having all all the cars
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that i wasn't old enough to drive then
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but anyone who had a car we pulled them
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all through here or they pulled them all
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through here
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or maybe over in here at some at some
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area
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and they they put them up side by side
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by side within like
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a couple centimeters from each other
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inch from each other theoretically to
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protect each other
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so that way if the wind blows one away
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it'll it'll
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blow them all away i don't know if
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scientifically that makes a lot of sense
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so there was just dozens of cars
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probably out in the road i don't know
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maybe here i'm not even sure
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but they were all wet i remember seeing
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that thinking i've never seen anything
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like that where they were all wedged
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together
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side by side by side by side by side
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and the storm passed there wasn't a lot
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of damage and i can see why we did that
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because this is a very
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sturdy cinder block foundation here
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and your office was around the back
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in fact the office door if you went
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through the back section was back here
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there is a door i don't remember using
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it but
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you would just go through the front but
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this was your office what's interesting
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is this
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this section where my office and
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the fellowship hall which is further
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down the building part here
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this was an add-on to the original
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and there was a defect of some sort
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in the building because anytime there
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would be a heavy rain
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you could hear the rain coming
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between the walls of the future oh
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really
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nothing was ever done about it but
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we do have one photograph inside from
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a halloween well we'd refer to as
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halloween it was called fall
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festival and here's everyone dressed in
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their outfits this was
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the pulpit and the church pews and that
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is inside in the sanctuary this very
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building in the sanctuary
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curtain in front of the baptistery there
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oh there's me right there with the
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cowboy hat
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and i was preparing for 2020 right there
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for the regulations of 2020
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i got my facial covering on i'm i was
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predicting the future there you go
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from 1984 to 80 early 89
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were you preaching here the whole time
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or did you take any time off or was
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all those years you were here i was here
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the whole time yeah he also worked a
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couple part-time jobs on top of the
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full-time church
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yeah the church was small enough or was
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small you could pay me a quote-unquote
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living
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salary so i had to work another job yeah
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most of that time
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and that was bay lighting and support a
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place called bay lighting which was a
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electrical supply warehouse we should go
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by there and see if it's still standing
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that'd be cool yeah
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anywhere else besides bay lineup uh
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no that was that was it all right let's
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go by check it out it was right over in
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this area too i i learned a
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valuable life lesson on humility
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there were a couple people visiting from
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the church and if i ever told you the
22:40
story
22:41
there are people visiting that were
22:42
about my age they were visitors from the
22:46
and one of them was fancied himself as a
22:48
bit of a sprinter and a runner if you
22:50
remember correctly i was
22:51
at that time was a lot more slender and
22:54
thin
22:54
and it could run pretty fast and all
22:57
everyone i knew in there said oh adam
23:00
adam could win a race
23:01
against this guy so i came out they were
23:04
in there it may have been like a
23:06
vacation bible school or something and
23:07
after that so i came out here and i was
23:10
walking all around thinking okay we're
23:12
going to start down at the other end and
23:14
run
23:14
past there this is going to be the
23:16
finish line i think i think it might
23:17
have been over there we were starting
23:19
and i knew i was going to win i was
23:21
confident i was going to win
23:24
and the moral of the story is i lost
23:27
all right speaking of working at bay
23:29
lighting
23:31
this building that you see behind me is
23:34
the warehouse that was
23:36
bay lighting back in the mid 80s
23:39
this is actually the rebuilt structure
23:43
somewhere during that period of time i
23:45
don't remember what year it was
23:47
the bay lighting building burned to the
23:49
ground it was a massive
23:51
fire and then when they cleared the
23:54
foundation off and rebuilt the structure
23:56
this is what they built
23:58
and then we the owner of the company
24:00
removed
24:01
the i mean moved the bay lighting
24:03
business back into the structure
24:05
yeah what did you do here you were in
24:07
sales here worked in the warehouse i was
24:09
working the way
24:09
driver and uh you know electricians
24:12
would come by their
24:14
electrical supplies and we sold
24:16
appliances and
24:17
lighting and stuff like that that was
24:20
one of the delivery guys
24:21
you were telling me a story as we pulled
24:23
in here about these rocks over here with
24:24
a hurricane
24:26
yeah one of the years a hurricane was on
24:27
this way and uh
24:29
our boss had us tape up the plate glass
24:32
windows which is kind of a traditional
24:33
thing people do when hurricanes are
24:35
coming tape up the windows
24:36
and i remember thinking to myself the
24:38
whole time we're taping up the windows
24:40
the hurricane is going to take all those
24:41
rocks and throw them right through those
24:43
plate glass windows so you didn't put
24:44
boards up it was just tape this
24:46
tape yeah that was just telling me that
24:47
when there was the fire there was some
24:50
obviously this is a different building
24:51
but the old building that was here there
24:53
was a second ledge also
24:55
and those that were in the offices up
24:56
top had to jump off
24:58
and one of the guys broke his leg
25:05
do you remember the pizza place that was
25:07
was this where they gave away the free
25:09
pizzas
25:10
that time was this where they
25:14
gave away the free pizzas from the pizza
25:16
place that time
25:18
i don't think this was the place there
25:20
was a place in town for some reason in
25:21
my in my head i was thinking it was
25:23
this bayou breeze place they gave away
25:25
when they opened free pizzas for like
25:27
the first couple days
25:28
they did for a week actually for a week
25:30
all you had to do was call them up and
25:31
then come get them
25:33
and we went up we called it in and women
25:35
up and you had to walk like a block
25:37
but it wasn't here no it wasn't here it
25:39
was back over
25:40
more into town in niceville
25:43
we're actually in valparaiso oh this is
25:45
technically valparaiso yeah
25:47
we've crossed over the the town line
25:50
right
25:50
we're now parked in front of where we're
25:52
at the bank in front of the post office
25:54
here at valport why did you choose a
25:56
valparaiso post office
25:57
over at niceville post office i don't
26:01
i mean it's pretty much it's more or
26:02
less the same same general area
26:05
only about a mile away right but i have
26:08
a recollection of
26:09
us in the basically in the in the bank
26:11
parking lot looking at this
26:13
and all the lights were off over here
26:16
and it was later in the evening and you
26:18
went in
26:19
and i was afraid for you that maybe i
26:22
had seen one too many scary movies
26:24
and you went in and there were no lights
26:26
on you said why aren't there any lights
26:28
on
26:28
and you went in that door and i was
26:32
in the car waiting for a couple moments
26:34
kind of terrified
26:35
and you came out with your mail and we
26:37
went on with the evening and everything
26:39
was fine
26:40
i don't remember that oh i do
26:43
it's amazing what you can recall what
26:44
you pop back into your head yes sure
26:46
because i'm seeing this and this is just
26:49
you know jarring back a memory
26:50
how about that in 1988
26:53
niceville high won the state
26:56
championship
26:58
in football and just kind of peering
27:01
over
27:02
this fence here you'll see the nhs
27:06
lettering in the foliage down there at
27:08
the end
27:10
on the grass hill we
27:13
sat there in 1988 and watched them win
27:16
the championship game
27:20
i recall it being very very cold it was
27:22
freezing cold out here
27:30
and the reason we had to sit on the
27:30
little grassy hill
27:31
is because there was no seats it was so
27:33
packed
27:35
and there were people sitting everywhere
27:37
all along the grass
27:39
all in the seats standing room only
27:44
everyone sitting all around here i
27:45
didn't remember what year was we had to
27:47
look it up
27:48
1988. that was a pretty big deal pretty
27:52
big deal
27:52
it was a big deal niceville high
27:56
state football champions for this small
27:59
town was a
28:01
that was their hoosiers moment driving
28:04
through the property of
28:05
rbcs rocky bayou or
28:08
went to school for quite a few years
28:10
this was the gym which was new at the
28:12
time
28:13
played many many a basketball game
28:16
back in there building 700 the gymnasium
28:20
the gymnasium room
28:22
yes yes this is the same shop since you
28:25
said the
28:26
guy that worked at the shop here worked
28:28
on your car yeah the yellow lemon the
28:30
lemon car
28:35
okay this is uh that playground on the
28:35
left over there
28:37
was not there all of this area right
28:39
here was full of trees
28:41
and there was enough room to pull the
28:43
little school vans that's what we call
28:45
buses
28:46
you were you were a bus driver i was a
28:48
bus driver for uh for the school
28:50
and they were just regular like 40
28:51
econoline style
28:53
you kind of like 14 passenger vans 12
28:56
passenger 14 passenger vans
28:58
and i was on your i was on your your bus
29:00
you were on my bus and some other things
29:02
i just went home with you afterwards
29:03
i think this building on the left was
29:05
one of the original buildings when you
29:06
were here
29:13
that's where the office was as well as
29:13
yeah i went to some classrooms there yep
29:16
that was where i went to i went from
29:19
fourth
29:20
fourth through eighth grade here i think
29:22
so i think
29:23
fifth grade sixth and seventh
29:26
was right inside that very building many
29:29
many hours
29:32
i was inside there wow
29:41
those were the days never to be repeated
29:41
again
29:43
wow that is so now they actually have
29:45
school buses
29:46
they got real buses no more small vans
29:50
now we're both a little hazy on the
29:52
details but dad seems to recall
29:54
this shopping center based on the the
29:57
incline of this hill and this turn
30:01
possibly the one one four zero sweet one
30:04
or the fantastic sams could be it
30:08
the video store we used to rent vhs from
30:10
and
30:11
this this little dip reminds me of what
30:13
it was like pulling up
30:14
so possibly one of these just need to
30:16
reiterate not confident that was the
30:19
video store
30:20
but we're just assuming it was based on
30:22
our on our
30:24
yeah the trajectory of coming down the
30:26
hill that's my memory
30:28
and the store was right in this area
30:30
right here something like this
30:31
and as much as i love movies this would
30:33
be kind of a pivotal moment for me
30:35
especially being able to rent
30:37
films there was no streaming back then
30:39
nope there was no
30:40
blu-rays no dvds all vhs and
30:44
you had to rent the vcr we had to rent
30:46
the equipment the vcr player itself
30:49
now if you had obviously anyone who had
30:51
a good abundance of money could buy a
30:53
vcr
30:54
we did not fall into that category so we
30:57
would rent
30:58
the vcr and they would there would be
31:00
instructions
31:01
on how to hook it up to your television
31:04
and you would go
31:04
in and there was almost like a a metal
31:07
tree
31:08
stand that they would put the vcrs
31:11
on that were in like a briefcase yeah
31:14
and they were inside
31:15
could have been the nail place could
31:17
have been fantastic sams or gnc or
31:19
possibly this one
31:20
but one of these was one of the first
31:22
video stores
31:23
i think so that i frequented and we
31:27
usually every friday night we would rent
31:29
the vcr
31:30
in like 10 movies something like that
31:32
and we would watch those throughout the
31:33
course of the whole weekend
31:35
and we and if my memory serves me
31:38
correctly and we know how well my memory
31:40
works
31:42
we also had to sign every time we rented
31:46
the equipment
31:47
you had to sign a guaranteed thing that
31:50
you're going to return the equipment in
31:52
the movies
31:58
did we ever return them we did but it's
31:58
too bad we're not here for very long
31:59
we're heading out of town here in a bit
32:01
if we were here till may 13th we could
32:03
go to the nhs
32:05
equator back club
32:09
oh what is that it's supposed to be
32:11
quarterback club
32:14
quarterback now in the shopping center
32:16
right up here was a
32:17
movie theater and we're on the subject
32:18
of movies been closed for a long time
32:21
but i saw a big top peewee
32:23
in 1988 inside oh is the door open to
32:26
the former theater and it appears as if
32:28
inside they're doing some construction
32:30
they have torn the screen out and the
32:32
snack bar area
32:34
and they're fixing it up for a future
32:36
development future
32:37
establishment not a movie theater down
32:39
here at the end
32:41
was where you would pick up the papers
32:43
you had a paper route for a while
32:45
i did the right guy at the rocky bayou
32:47
school and he was going to give that up
32:50
i asked maybe if i could take it over
32:52
and i did and he read me through the
32:54
route and
32:55
this was the place right up here where
32:57
we would pick up the papers you wanted
32:58
to go with me a couple of times
33:00
and you want me a couple of times maybe
33:03
like
33:04
10 times maybe more than that i started
33:07
off pretty strong for the first couple
33:09
weeks
33:10
and then you would wake me up at like 3
33:11
a.m and say you wanna do the paper app
33:13
with me and i go i want to sleep
33:14
wasn't it right in here where the papers
33:16
were dropped off i
33:17
don't really remember i was thinking it
33:19
was over at that bank but i could be
33:21
totally wrong
33:21
i remember this awning okay
33:25
nonetheless nonetheless you would pull
33:28
out of here
33:29
and go to that next block turn the first
33:31
round and take the first right and
33:33
that's where the paper route would start
33:35
and then we had to roll up the papers
33:38
and put them in bags put them in bags if
33:40
it was raining
33:42
or use the rubber bands and the sunday
33:44
paper was always
33:45
10 times thicker than the tuesday paper
33:49
tuesday paper was very very light so
33:51
you'd show up here early morning
33:53
so you did this as well as minister
33:57
as well as bay lighting so you did
33:59
something else other than bay lighting
34:00
i guess i do you think we should you
34:02
think you could remember the paper route
34:03
no
34:05
turn right here on mcewen drive
34:09
and we would go up okay is any any of
34:12
this ringing a bell
34:15
now where do we go from here dad where's
34:16
the paper wrap picture
34:18
picture you have the papers and i was
34:20
sit i would all
34:21
see i'm driving but you would be in the
34:22
driver's seat i'd be in the passenger
34:24
seat
34:24
your folding papers and we would toss
34:26
them on either side so you toss one
34:28
maybe there
34:28
we only had certain people that we
34:30
dropped them off to right it was only
34:32
yeah
34:33
it was only like every tenth house or
34:34
something like that probably
34:36
we turned right here i'm guessing take a
34:47
i can still like i'm having flashbacks
34:48
of the papers
34:49
hitting the sound hitting the driveways
34:52
yeah there was one time i threw a paper
34:57
and it got
34:58
it kind of dangled on one of the the
35:00
mailboxes i think i remember that and we
35:03
laughed the whole rest of the night
35:06
probably from sleep deprivation because
35:08
it was 2 a.m okay none of this looks
35:12
familiar
35:12
no i think that's the end of the paper
35:14
route at just about the halfway point
35:16
between niceville and pensacola
35:19
is this rest stop has one of the blue
35:21
angels
35:23
up here on this pole
35:29
still in route to pensacola i'll try
35:29
this
35:30
windshield wiper oh there it goes okay
35:49
so the way it works is you there we go
35:49
you also have like an impromptu car wash
35:52
that's pretty neat new yorker deli and
35:55
pizzeria what's the significance of this
35:57
dad
35:58
like in 1981 when your mom and i we
36:01
moved down here to
36:02
pennsylvania i started working for an
36:05
insurance agency called
36:07
a.l wildex and this was our office my
36:12
supervisor regional vice president
36:15
this is the office the house he used for
36:17
his office
36:18
this is where we met this we operated
36:20
business
36:22
so that's kind of the memory that i have
36:24
at this spot
36:25
here on cervantes right he's three
36:27
thousand one cervantes
36:30
um it's funny you still remember the
36:33
name of the road and the number of the
36:35
road all these years later
36:36
that neat how the mine works yeah well
36:38
it was on my business card for many
36:40
years
36:41
and now it's a deli they serve food in
36:43
there they do drove a few blocks over
36:45
well a mile or two over
36:47
to this park where back in the day there
36:50
was a concert an outdoor event
36:53
and this road that's in front of this
36:56
structure
36:58
this very short road is adam's street
37:02
i thought it would be well either my
37:04
parents or myself
37:05
thought it would be fun to get a photo
37:07
of me named adam
37:09
in front of the street sign
37:13
and we have a photo to document that
37:16
of myself in front of
37:20
adam's street and with that we've
37:22
actually found that same sign
37:24
right here at this corner
37:33
yeah there's the the tree limbs up there
37:33
in the distance
37:33
and the sign
37:37
this is side note this is an old
37:40
pay meter how about parking meter
37:45
as well and the sign in question
37:48
on the corner of zara
37:52
gosa street and there's adam street
37:56
in the historical district of pensacola
38:01
am i still as thin as i was back then
38:03
yeah but you're a little taller
38:05
i'm still a stem though right dad
38:11
yeah right that's cool let's put a
38:11
thinning filter
38:13
on this on this video there you go
38:15
that'll work
38:16
can you see the side in the frame
38:25
yeah i can now
38:25
30 years later how about 30 years am i
38:28
getting the math right
38:29
that's 40 40
38:32
years later yeah amazing
38:44
that's cool yeah
38:44
got an oversized transport up here oh
38:48
oh he's going around that tree left
38:49
missing the tree limbs
39:00
that's a mystery he's about to turn is
39:00
it going to turn we might get a view of
39:02
what we can get a reading on the side
39:04
yeah nope there's nothing on the side
39:14
look at this is that a septic tank it
39:14
might be
39:15
i don't know what that is one day we're
39:17
just in the house we heard this
39:18
it sounded like an airplane landing oh
39:20
it sounded like it was gonna land on our
39:21
house
39:23
but it never seemed to pass it just
39:25
stayed over our house
39:27
and uh then we went outside and it was a
39:30
blimp
39:31
made it over to forest glen drive
39:34
actually this is dated september of 1981
39:37
you have the pen there
39:39
and there's me and dad on the front
39:42
steps
39:43
which looks considerably different the
39:45
house has been repainted but those steps
39:47
are still there as well as the awning
39:50
and we have a number of photos of the
39:53
front of the front door and there was a
39:54
dog
39:56
on the front door a weenie dog we didn't
39:58
even have a weenie dog at that time
40:00
there's you in front there in the
40:02
driveway
40:03
yep
40:09
and this is also where my sister that's
40:10
where where where we were living when my
40:12
sister was born she was not born in the
40:14
house but was
40:15
brought back to the house and i had a
40:17
friend that lived directly across the
40:19
street and i went to stay with him when
40:20
you took mom
40:21
that's what we did to the hospital yep
40:24
what's the next photo
40:25
okay there we go more more of me in
40:28
front of those stairs
40:29
and there was a tree in the front yard
40:31
it's gone now
40:33
by the driveway there's our car and
40:35
there's that tree and you were standing
40:37
up against that tree
40:42
oh there i am as a pirate yep there's
40:42
the weenie dog
40:44
peeking same bricks wow how about that
40:52
let's walk a little closer and get kind
40:54
of get that angle
41:06
here's the driveway where your car was
41:06
this is also where my sister learned to
41:08
walk
41:10
she first learned to walk right here
41:12
next to the driveway there's mom
41:14
and my sister who are falling over
41:16
taking her some of some of her first
41:17
steps there's that tree i mentioned a
41:19
moment ago and there's the driveway
41:21
wow i kind of like the paint scheme
41:23
before
41:24
more this is in the backyard there i am
41:28
pulling her around in a little red wagon
41:30
my sister looks like he
41:31
yanking her down back she's going so
41:34
too fast in the backyard here okay this
41:38
is over at a park we'll go over there in
41:39
a moment and actually
41:40
that's the friend that i stayed at his
41:42
house across the way i went and stayed
41:43
with him when my sister was born
41:45
and we're gonna go by the park and show
41:46
that we did go by and notice that the
41:49
the big
41:49
wheel thing that we're in is gone now
41:55
and there's also we're gonna see if we
41:55
can find where the pool you find the
41:57
i think the pool might have been removed
41:59
but we'll drive by where the the pool
42:01
was as well
42:02
another pool holding my nose in the nine
42:05
foot
42:06
section it's starting to rain so we're
42:08
gonna get back in the car
42:09
i thought i was hot stuff you look
42:13
kind of you have like that look you have
42:15
that like look on your face like
42:17
that look you know he's got that look
42:20
you know it's got
42:20
you doing some kind of stunt flying or
42:22
something it does look so different
42:25
but those are the same stairs and you'll
42:27
see there's also was a
42:30
not a car port but a drive-in what do
42:33
they call it when you park your car a
42:34
garage
42:34
yeah and the garage it's now been
42:36
enclosed has been enclosed and
42:38
repurposed
42:39
sure that's an interesting roof
42:43
also it's like a tin roof on this too as
42:46
opposed to the shingles back in
42:48
september of 1981 i'm glad that you
42:50
wrote that on there with a pen
42:52
it gives us the wow 40
42:55
almost 40 years ago yeah a few months
42:58
shy of 40 years
42:59
pretty amazing all right let's go over
43:01
to the park where the pool was and over
43:03
to our second home
43:04
yep losing two spots there was this one
43:07
and another one
43:09
off of lee's way boulevard it was just
43:12
one block up
43:14
not far at all to the park now this
43:16
looks considerably different there was a
43:18
huge
43:18
wooden structure in the middle like a
43:21
two-story structure almost
43:23
like a wheel and there was the wheel
43:26
and i recall your mom my grandma
43:30
came to visit her and grandpa and we we
43:32
went by here came to the park
43:34
and it was there was so much here that's
43:36
been torn down
43:38
that her comment was how much does it
43:40
cost is it free
43:42
because she thought it was like it was
43:43
such an entertainment complex of sorts
43:46
that they were going to charge admission
43:49
looking at it now you would never think
43:51
that that comment would ever even be
43:52
made
43:53
because it's been just all the the old
43:55
stuff has been demolished
43:58
yeah looks a lot different than it did
44:00
back
44:01
1981-82
44:06
all right heading over to the second
44:06
house here in pensacola
44:09
oh by the way we couldn't find the pool
44:11
all right as i make
44:12
way up to leesway boulevard it will be
44:16
the home just off to the right
44:20
and my fondest well unfondest memory
44:24
was almost burning the property down
44:27
i had played with matches
44:34
i had played with matches and
44:34
burned down the greenhouse in the
44:39
as well as the half of the wooden fence
44:43
and you showed up and there were fire
44:46
trucks out front
44:47
and you had to park down the road
44:49
remember that i do i pulled up i was
44:51
coming up lee's way and i saw all these
44:52
fire trucks i thought wow
44:54
something's going on that got closer and
44:55
closer and closer and it's at my house
44:58
sure enough the backyard i melted
45:02
the greenhouse plastic covering of the
45:05
greenhouse and then
45:06
your dad my grandpa showed up later
45:09
probably around the same time he went to
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that park
45:11
well they probably visited a couple of
45:13
times but he fixed
45:15
the back fence the portion of it
45:19
so what i'm curious about if we go
45:21
around to the back and see if we can
45:23
find where the fence that grandpa
45:27
replaced the fence that'd be neat to
45:28
find
45:29
one more thing about this house is that
45:32
i come home from work one day and your
45:34
mom says that
45:35
you weren't feeling well you are in your
45:39
and i go in the bedroom and there you
45:40
are white as a sheet
45:42
we took you to the doctor and the doctor
45:44
said you go over right now to the
45:45
emergency room and they had an
45:47
emergency appendectomy on you you had
45:51
your i think your appendix had burst
45:53
that wasn't quite that was i was that
45:55
was very painful
45:56
thankfully there is an apartment complex
45:59
so we're out looking at the backyard of
46:02
the fence
46:03
now my recollection was it was in the
46:06
far corner
46:08
of the yard so if we go this way the
46:10
greenhouse was in the far
46:12
corner yeah of the yard all the way at
46:14
the end so if we go
46:15
here yeah to where the other connection
46:19
and none of these look to be replaced
46:27
so here's the corner of the yard to be
46:27
in here
46:34
i'm not really seeing a distinct change
46:34
in color pattern though are you
46:37
it's hard to tell but too many years
46:41
weather worn
46:42
and my dad just did such a great job of
46:44
fixing it that's also a good point
46:46
he probably got the same exact boards
46:49
that were there and in my mind it was a
46:53
whole section
46:55
but in reality it could have just been
46:57
five or so
46:58
a couple couple different pieces let's
47:01
stop for a bite to eat at a place that
47:03
we used to frequent very often right
47:06
next to
47:07
well now it's next to richie's east
47:11
ho folks except i recall it being a
47:14
stand-alone
47:15
restaurant this is part of a strip mall
47:17
now i guess the stand alone
47:19
is now gone but kind of a win-in-roam
47:22
moment when you're in the florida
47:23
panhandle
47:24
gotta go with some po folks in fact
47:27
there's also one in
47:29
niceville and there might even be one in
47:31
panama city so the three places that we
47:33
lived at
47:34
panama city don't quote me on the panama
47:36
city
47:37
definitely one in niceville and one or
47:40
two
47:44
in pensacola never been in this
47:44
particular one though but definitely
47:46
enjoy
47:46
some poe folks always as a family this
47:50
was kind of a treat to go to pofos which
47:53
i believe is short for
47:54
poor folks it's a southern way of saying
47:58
poor folks po folks good old southern
48:01
cooking and relatively inexpensive
48:05
oh yeah that was a good call a tasty
48:07
meal and also
48:09
got some moon pies fun fact the first
48:11
place i ever ate a moon pie when i was
48:13
young
48:14
was at po folks this isn't the original
48:16
building this is not the original
48:18
building all this is new stuff
48:20
okay hang on one second go real slow
48:21
right here
48:23
this building immediately to my right
48:25
was the first
48:26
new building they built if they first
48:29
met in a house
48:31
and then they built this building and
48:33
then they tore the house down later
48:35
years later and built this huge
48:36
sanctuary worship center over here
48:39
and this would have been the original
48:41
parking lot from here
48:42
lots of pine trees yeah i remember a lot
48:45
of a lot of
48:46
pine trees and i do remember the house
48:49
that we met in yep
48:52
and you and i would do puppet shows we
48:54
did some puppet shows sure did
48:56
in that house yep and right over here
48:59
where
49:00
this warehouse now is was where all the
49:03
trees were
49:05
i was looking at some satellite images
49:07
and kind of turned the time back
49:10
and the house would have been right
49:12
about here
49:13
right in this precise and you slept in
49:15
that house
49:16
for quite some time i did uh there was a
49:19
time period for about a month or so
49:22
when your mom and you were still living
49:24
over panama city and i was
49:26
arranging getting a job over here in
49:28
pensacola and they let me sleep on the
49:31
nursery floor on an air mattress during
49:33
the week right here
49:34
where that and that part now it is right
49:36
there that's pretty cool
49:37
just picture this parking lot was all
49:41
all pine trees i say palm trees i meant
49:44
to say pine trees
49:45
grass and pine trees and
49:49
my sister at a very young age
49:52
stepped in an ant bed right in here and
49:54
was covered in
49:56
ants in the house but they think it was
49:58
a shed back there
49:59
there still is a shed up the same shed
50:01
but probably not the same
50:04
and the grass the grass caught on fire
50:08
it started burning in a guy had moved
50:10
down that he
50:11
knew from a previous church somewhere up
50:13
north had moved down here to live in
50:15
pensacola
50:17
and he had a extra car that he wasn't
50:20
using and it was parked out there and it
50:22
burned up
50:22
it burned the car the car up wow
50:27
now this was the first building they
50:28
built after the house the house would
50:30
have been over here
50:31
okay and then this was like a fellowship
50:34
hall and then in the back part of it was
50:36
some classrooms and stuff this is you
50:39
because that building is completely gone
50:41
now i think
50:42
if if it's not totally gone maybe it's
50:44
been incorporated into this new
50:46
campus conflict this must have been
50:48
around easter time i think so judging by
50:50
the easter easter basket so the house
50:51
would have been over to the left side
50:53
over on the left side here yeah
50:55
this is now a dead end but it used to be
50:58
burgess road you should go through
50:59
through yeah straight through there now
51:01
it's dead in they've turned make a turn
51:04
so all the palm trees are gone and the
51:06
road has been kind of cut off
51:09
they built some kind of a new through
51:11
way to cut the road off
51:14
there may be a burgess road on the other
51:15
side
51:53
that's close when you count count the
51:53
seconds between thunder and the
52:09
running into a little bit of a problem
52:09
now most the gas stations north of
52:13
are all out of fuel with the exception
52:15
of diesel
52:17
stopped by about three or four different
52:19
ones and all the nozzles
52:21
are bagged up i'm having flashbacks of
52:24
my winter trip
52:25
after a lot of searching 309 a gallon
52:29
found a little mom-and-pop shop
52:38
that had some fuel we actually looked it
52:38
up online and there is a gas
52:40
shortage across the entire panhandle
52:44
we got we got pretty lucky with this
52:51
self-pumping nozzle they fueled this
52:51
thing all the way up
52:53
man i got a little worried there for a
52:54
minute
52:59
went in the store and notice that on the
53:00
front page of the pensacola news journal
53:02
sorry out of service no gas thankfully
53:06
the place that
53:07
stopped off here on the side of the road
53:09
this little establishment
53:10
they did have fuel they said they just
53:12
got their truck in earlier
53:14
lucked out because it is definitely a
53:16
shortage in the panhandle right now
53:19
i guess i should have checked check the
53:20
paper before we left
53:22
just like that alabama state line
53:26
right over this hill drove a ways up the
53:29
road
53:30
to georgiana alabama the home of
53:34
hank williams painted there on the side
53:36
of that train
53:48
and the boyhood home
53:51
of hank williams
53:59
from age 7 to 11 1931
53:59
lilly williams moved
54:03
hirum h-i-r-a-m hiram
54:06
and his sister irene to this house
54:11
when he was eight his mother bought him
54:12
a guitar for three dollars and fifty
54:14
cents
54:16
practiced guitar under the roof
54:19
sang on the street for tips
54:22
and they moved to greenville in the fall
54:23
of 1934
54:26
and then in 1937 at age 14 that's when
54:30
he started referring to himself as hank
54:32
i never knew that i didn't
54:38
there's either a little puddle here it
54:38
rained quite a bit yeah
54:41
they are closed got here a little too
54:43
late in the afternoon oh look at this
54:59
i'm just gonna hook up the hank's
54:59
caboose over there it might
55:02
the museum opened june 5th of 1993.
55:07
let's get in the road here let's check
55:08
it out
55:35
now
55:35
that's kind of neat
55:48
and then it'll be gone this is the
55:51
downtown
55:52
starting with the post office speed
55:55
limit of 25
55:57
not a real beehive of activity
56:06
oh there sure is something you see a lot
56:10
of
56:10
in south hand alabama
56:40
that's gonna do it for today getting a
56:40
hotel right here off of the freeway
56:45
an eventful day a long day
56:54
the trip will continue in the next video
56:54
see the next video the vlog is over