Forgotten Places In Downtown Orlando - Church Street Station / City Hall Implosion & Film Locations
Downtown Orlando Feb 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Sunday February
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11th
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2024 nerd
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locations in the
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house house outside here we are in
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Orlando what would you like to do today
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well I'm a filming location guy you're a
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filming location guy so let's go look at
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some filming locations of uh the greater
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Orlando area I'm especially excited for
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this spot we're about to go to in the uh
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Lethal Weapon 3 spot we talked about
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earlier correct we'll also pepper in
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more than just those two spots and maybe
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even some non- filming locations yeah
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we're just going to have a day a Sund
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day as we're filming this here in
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downtown I'm inviting you to join me in
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nerd
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locations shall you nail it Now spoiler
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alert I will be showing a couple spots
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in this that I have shown in great
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detail over the years however friends in
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town given a little tour he has never
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seen him with his own eyes you have
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never seen these with your own no and
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eyes takes me it takes me back to a more
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innocent time in my life hearkening back
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to
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the80s you're a big Jim Varney fan
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absolutely I watched all the Ernest
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movies when I come up ER what's your
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favorite Ernest
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film Goes to Camp okay Scared Stupid I
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love them all I still I still watch if
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I'm watching TV and it comes on I just
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stop you have to Jim Barney rest in
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peace Legend man he's comic genius well
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Scared Stupid classic film however
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Ernest safe's Christmas a pivotal scene
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took place right inside this Amtrak
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station looks exactly the same in fact
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when Harmony star is waiting for the
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train you can see these
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very phone boosts behind her this is
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where she walks up to get the ticket and
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these are the doors she walks through
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however oh look there's us right there
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in the mirror look at that see
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this so the spot that you want to get is
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she's sitting here you can't cross this
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line in fact it says do not enter this
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area but this is where she sitting right
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there that's where the family is and the
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brother is taunting the sister saying
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there's no Santa you know throwing
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fabrication and lies out to her to his
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to his sister she gets very angry and
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she's sitting right here in this very
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spot so we're not going to be able to
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sit in the same spot but you can kind of
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get the angle from here evidently these
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wooden benches are deteriorating but
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still looks the same she was sitting
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right over there in that corner and
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there's the scene they have the little
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pamphlet brochures over there she's
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Harmony star was sitting right there on
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that little side and it still is an
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Amtrak
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place there's the family again showed
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these spots before but just wanted to
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give a little update haven't been in
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here in probably a year couple years
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that's the spot right there I love that
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the uh the wooden pieces are still here
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but you can see there's reasons they
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don't want people they don't want people
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sitting
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there matching up some little photo
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there always just fascinated by these
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old phone booths
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these are screen used props right
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here screen used look at
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CH to you about okay I've got some
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parking paid for parking downtown for 3
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hours so I got plenty of time to kind of
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wander around going to head over to the
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Lethal Weapon 3 spots where they
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imploded a building and I can't even
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remember I think it was probably late '
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80s that movie came
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out Lethal Weapon 3 can you imagine
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today a film company buying an entire
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building for one shot to implode the
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building yeah and you can make that same
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effect now on your
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iPhone well I watched it on TV I don't
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know why I didn't just drive down to see
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it but I remember it happened around
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midnight it was late at night the local
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news had it on TV and I was sitting at
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home watching it watching the implosion
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and I think the building I think it
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might have been The Old City Hall don't
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quote me on that but it was an Old
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Government building they were going to
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implode and then I guess Hollywood
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caught wind of it decided let's just
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show up and film it have Danny Glover
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and M Gibson do the scene all right over
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on the corner of Court a in East Pine
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there's a Thai restaurant right here
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this is downtown movie Miami Connection
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classic bad film in the same vein as the
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room Troll 2 Miami Connection was filmed
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in Orlando not Miami it a big fight
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scene that happened right
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here in this exact angle but also this
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was used Problem Child 2 classic John
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Ritter Jr what a
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troublemaker but there was a scene that
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took place right here the bank was
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located on this street in fact this
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building here looks exactly the same and
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just kind of show couple little Clips
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here you see the little the car driving
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over obviously there's been some
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progress of that building still
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there but new buildings have popped up
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progress and again not showing all the
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spots from all these movies but you know
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just kind of given a little bit of a
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tour there it is where the she goes in
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goes the bank now A restaurant I'm going
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back to nnest real quick saes Christmas
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this is where Jim Barney's driving the
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cab Parks right here he's got Santa in
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the car he picks up Harmony on this very
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Corner if you look really closely you
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can see that green awning across the
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street and the fire hydrant there also
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yeah just little little things downtown
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Orlando really is amazing how much
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downtown has changed check out the green
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four lease awning there the buildings
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off to the left look completely
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different progress getting a selfie
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there
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yeah so where they imploded the building
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is about two blocks that
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way also on this corner I had to look it
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up I wasn't sure if it was the next
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block over this one but I have now
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confirmed thanks to to the wonderful
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world of the
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internet you familiar with the band
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warrant Beyond familiar with the D so
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this was Janie Lane's Sunset Strip right
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there that was it corner of orange and
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pine very shortlived of course obviously
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called the Sunset Strip because he
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wanted the homage to California but this
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is where it was located right here dude
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I'm going to take a photo of that I'm
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more excited for that big 8s Rock fan
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big Janie Lane fan and actually we were
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managed by the same guy in my music
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career Obby Steinman Obby and Janie
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opened this up and uh I was always
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invited to come down but I never made it
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that is so cool that I brought that up
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and now you're like stoked on it yeah
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this was Janie Lanes right here I don't
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think it's only open a few
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years he passed right yeah he passed
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away 10 or 11 years
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ago now it's Mona Lisa's Sunset Strip it
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wasn't on Sunset though it was on Pine
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and orange okay we found this one photo
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photo of Janie in front of the place you
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can see where the sign was there I think
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we found where the door entrance was
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where this photo was
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taken do a little match up here so we
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kind of put our cerve efforts of our
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brains together we're assuming that this
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was the
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door and this might be the original sign
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holder right
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here right has to be has to be so that's
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where that sign was he was standing
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there with the
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atam well that's true because he's there
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right now absolutely how you guys doing
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my name j good
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man okay I found this article here from
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the Orlando Sentinel from August of 11
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when he passed away Lanes or Orlando
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ties it was early '90s when it was open
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Janie Lane it was located up stairs on
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the corner of orange Aven P Street so
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you would have gone in that door and
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walked up the stairs love these old
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buildings the old Crest building
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here followed by the First National Bank
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and
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Trust the crest building that is a that
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is a
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relic again construction progress there
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it's like a little crane right here
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underneath this very impressive
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sculpture this whole area has changed so
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much over the years like a big theater
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here at Plaza Cinema Cafe this is a new
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building and this is Church Street so
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one block up from Janie Lane so Church
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Street has seen times this is where
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there used to be a haunted attraction
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called Terror on Church Street right
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here long
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G year round hun
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dto down
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town
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Orlando wow there's a discovered
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downtown shop right here that's neat buy
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like 407 merch in there and this is
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probably the expression that would have
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been on the face if this pillar was here
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back in 91 when they did The Old City
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Hall implosion except this hotel was not
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here however the implosion took place
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right on this very Corner through these
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little pillars right over here continue
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this
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way over here in this
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patch Mel Gibson and Danny Glover were
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right here with some stunt doubles
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running away from a practical effect
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this before CGI Richard Donner was on
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hand was televised on the local news
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stations and they destroyed the Old City
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Hall I found a couple articles there's a
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new city hall right there this article
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look at Mel Gibson right there got the
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got the eyes going on implosion will
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make us see this from The orando
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Sentinel in
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1991 Danny Glover and Mel Gibs will be
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on hand the fall of the Old City Hall
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will start the film off with a bang
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Richard
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Donner they thought it would be great
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they heard about the they've heard about
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need to get rid of the Old City
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Hall brought the group out to take care
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of it a lot goes into an implosion they
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also imploded not long after that
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probably in the '90s as well they
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imploded the old Orlando
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arena as well where the magic play where
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Shaq was there in his rookie
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year some information here some of the
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streets that were closed downtown
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Orlando will be a movie studio of sorts
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orange Al to South Street Anderson
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Street between Division Street cetric
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Etc less than 6 seconds should pass
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before all eight stories turn into
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estimated 13,000 tons of rubble
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technique
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known as implosion it's fun to
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building the pyot Technics were provided
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by Sun Valley California
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group they brought uh they brought all
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the the LA folks out here or at least
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the SoCal folks out
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here partridges charge weighing 3 oz to
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1.4 lb inside four wooden doors will be
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placed around each loaded
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column then wrap a chain link fence for
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protective reasons fascinating I think
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33 is the magic number yeah the building
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was around for 33 years and as we stand
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today it's been 33 years since since
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that
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scene that's wild to think
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about so I believe you can see this in
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the scene so now that I'm standing here
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I
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don't believe it was this empty patch I
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think it was maybe over where that
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Fountain was let's match up some clips
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from the film all right we're crossing
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the street
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now got 19 seconds to cross oh it's like
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a countown we got a countdown 15 feel
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like rigs 1 12
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grab the
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cat noce when you rewatch that scene he
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cuts the cord at like 6 minutes on the
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timer and then like it immediately goes
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to like 3 minutes so there's a a little
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bit of a continuity eror
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there so this is the new city
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hall which has stood here for 33 years
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plus and if you watch the clip The Old
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City Hall was right here a adjacent to
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this and this building can be seen in
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the movie if you watch it at a very you
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got to kind of slow it down to see it
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but yeah the building was right there
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and they ran out almost where that like
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black cars parked right there yep is
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where they both were s behind the car
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realizing they made a terrible
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mistake C blue wire old Mel
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Gibson that gu yeah doesn't make the
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best decisions there it is imploding can
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kind of see the reflection of the Bush
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that I'm standing next to so there's the
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street over there that car that I showed
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is like where they
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were there's the building imploding you
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see that definitely was an old building
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there's the new city hall right there
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with that very kind of unique little
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architecture in the front the explosion
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happened right here
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man and there's the road right there
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that's
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wild okay so they car they were hiding
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behind was right there and there is a
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scene after the after the
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demo that shows like this where all the
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rubble from the building was right here
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and you can see the new city hall trees
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are obviously grown up since then but
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yeah that's the angle their car could
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have been on that side of the street
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this street might have even been kind of
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shifted since then too but it's
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basically in the same general area with
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the rubble there and when you rewatch
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that clip it appears as if there was
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like big cocacola sign on the top of the
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new city hall above where all that
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Rubble was evidently there was a
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Coca-Cola sign up there maybe for the
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movie or probably not could have been
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advertisement placement advertisement
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right that's what I'm thinking that's a
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possibility that Coco sign up ain't up
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there no more and there's no kind of
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placard or anything here designated the
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implosion or the fact that the movie was
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here there is this
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art installation in Fountain
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right here as well but again yeah that
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Coca-Cola sign was like right up there
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construction
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scaffolding I think we might go by where
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the old arena was imploded too let's do
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a little implosion k
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today implosion Sunday there you go so I
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like just starting the day without
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really a plan and you just never know
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how that plan is going to morph just go
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out and start doing stuff and you never
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know what'll happen nice little
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Transformers uh almost said vesa but
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it's not a
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vesa it's a GV gii all right we're down
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on Church Street Station now now this
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has had a fence around it for many years
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this is the Old Church Street Station
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train main
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Depot can't go past this
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fence oh you're not supposed to go past
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this fence but there was a time when
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Church Street Station and Church Street
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Market wow there's like something going
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on up there they're doing like some
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sawing there was a time when this is
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very very thriving Church Street Station
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was one of the highly promoted tourist
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attractions of Orlando on par with you
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know Disney and Universal
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and now it's still open but it's nothing
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like it was I mean it was really a
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beehive of activity down here all the
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time someone has chained up their
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motorcycle right there all right there's
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a sign over here south Florida Railroad
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Company in
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1880 the railroad came to Orlando from
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Sanford the first Depot was to run from
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bumby Hardware in
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1881 in 1890 this Depot
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one of Florida major city so 1890 was
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when this Depot was built 10 years after
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the railroad came to
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Orlando pretty
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fascinating now this Depot sits empty
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and also want to mention a nice little
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scene takes place in Miami Connection I
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did a very detailed Miami Connection
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filming location a few years ago but
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there was a pivotal scene that took
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place right here too so just throw it in
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some filming location knowledge this is
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the bumby block 1886 so there's
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hamburger Marys in West Hollywood Santa
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Monica Boulevard interesting you think
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it's a is a
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tie-in maybe I mean Janie Lane brought
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Sunset Strip here maybe hamburger Mar's
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brought hamburger Marys interesting they
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got good burgers though Fantastic
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Burgers the one on Sunset yeah Santa
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Monica Santa Monica okay the bumby
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arcade classic arcade in here is sat EMP
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for many years are they revamping it ooh
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ooh look at
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this the bumby annex 1920 pres preserved
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by the historic preservation
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committee Adam I don't know if you know
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but this is a screen prop from Creep
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Show Chief wooden head from Creep Show
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yeah this exact one here on bumby exact
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one he comes alive at
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night I don't think it's the one from
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the film but it's similar right or is
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this the one
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I think it's the one really I think it's
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been relocated from Arizona
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Orlando PTO are classic cigar store
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India you don't see too many of these
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anymore no these are great these were
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created to promote they put them in
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front of tobacco shops to sell
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cigars and if you look close you can see
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where he comes alive at night his feet
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come off of here and then he goes out
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and to the world and rids the world of
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bad guys that's what he does you're
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committing to that bit this bit all the
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way committed to the bit Church
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Street
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Station pretty awesome if they're
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renovating It restaurant across the
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Street's doing a little little active
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over there it's going to be a food Hall
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according to the signs look at the
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shyenne saloon right here in Opera
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House look at
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this look at these wild
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Cowboys that is awesome
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little artwork on the side
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there wow I'm getting like once upon a
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time in Hollywood Vibes right
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here let's see Leo in here doing a
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scene man look at the woodwork this
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place is
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never been inside the Cheyenne Saloon
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you look up here they got
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the the stained glass
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windows
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incredible an event space unlike any
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other man this place is awesome yeah
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this place is like a treasure trove
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historical goodness this door is open I
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don't know what's going on over
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here air conditioner's
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on what's in
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there oh they having a
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gig this was San's department store
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Major Drive Goods establishment from
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1915 to
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1950
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1915 wow a business on West chur Street
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next to bumby Hardware in 1924 he hired
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JC Hanner construction to construct this
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tan building for his store so this
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building even though the business
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started a few years prior this building
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was built in
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1924 incredible look at this rod
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iron look at this rod iron here
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just
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awesome got a little Gator
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mural in a
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flamingo it's now called Hay Buffalo
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it's also interesting there's all these
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bricks down here the people who wanted
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to preserve Church Street this is dated
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back in ' 89 right here that's dated
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Back in
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88 '89 so this is all late 80s 87
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89 88
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89
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85 pretty
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cool look at this look at this Old
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Church Street
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Station little bar right
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here yeah this place has definitely seen
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better days
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utilized for a different thing look at
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this bridge it used to be a bridge going
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across the road you can walk across to
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the Cheyenne and over to the bumby
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arcade definitely documented cuz when
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they put f up you're going to tear it
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down at some point yes it didn't
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look look at that building right there
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that is
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awesome
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1890 look at the back of the bumby
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building
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this train station and the bumby arcade
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and all that
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predated
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I4 which is right there and the new
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Arena where the magic play is there but
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we're going to go by where the old oena
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used to be little relics of the past
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here with the tile Herman's loan office
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used to be here where there's now a
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dance club now it's not very busy at the
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moment but we were kind of drawn in we
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noticed there was a couple 80s
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references in the front of this building
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it was in the Old Hunt Brandon building
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from
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1911 basically it's like a huge I call
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it like maybe like a baret cuz it's a
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bar and an arcade but there is just so
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many references to the 80s it is like
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80s Mecca overload inside what it called
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one up
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Orlando everything in there from Peewee
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to Goonies to to save by the Bell you
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got 80s and '90s all mixed
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in I was pretty impressed with that
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place I'm not real big on the whole
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Barcade thing but I think they did it
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right I think they did this place right
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absolutely
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Ghostbusters Game of Thrones
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Transformers a whole Barbie
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section A lot of good places for photos
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Social Media stuff but then also a Cool
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vibe they were playing the 80s Tunes in
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there too you do social media in Orlando
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and you're an 80s person this is the
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spot this house over here looks like it
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might not have anyone living in it
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possibly for sale this area of kind of
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old timey Orlando was the entire
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neighborhood using Problem Child 2
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haven't been over here in a few
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years all these houses reuse the
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neighbors house that tree there and then
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the Healey
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house
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located right there John Ritter's
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Homestead house pretty much still looks
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the same as well as the house next to it
26:08
the sold sign was in the front they also
26:10
had a exact small miniature Recreation
26:13
of the house as his
26:17
mailbox love John Ritter and where the
26:19
carport is was a little screened in like
26:21
a Florida room but now they've turned it
26:23
into a carport the lemonade scene was
26:26
here the neighbors and then when John
26:28
Ritter his character Mr Healey pulled up
26:31
with
26:32
Junior that house down at the end there
26:34
was a lot of single local women that
26:37
were very
26:43
interested so where Junior's throwing
26:43
the food out to all the seagulls look
26:46
how small those trees are now there are
26:49
little cypress trees here but that's the
26:52
angle where Junior's feeding the
26:55
seagulls they must have brought in a
26:57
bunch of SE seagulls or something CU
26:59
there I don't always see GS living right
27:02
here interesting right across from the
27:05
Healey house same
27:08
neighborhood I love the scene where the
27:10
Grandpa's like up in the tree there too
27:12
and then the two twins from Kindergarten
27:14
Cop are also in this fresh squeeze
27:16
lemonade lemonade fresh squeeze
27:20
lemonade it's one of the first filming
27:22
locations I ever did way back in the day
27:25
very detailed all around Orlando so kind
27:26
of returning to scene of a former spot
27:29
just kind of idling past here kind of
27:32
look into where the implosion was
27:33
passing back by kind of
27:35
just driving around downtown
27:39
Orlando all right over here at Lake dot
27:43
Park where the oena used to be where the
27:46
magic used to play right here at the
27:48
Forefront of Lake dot that's Colonial
27:51
Drive over
27:53
there the stadium was also imploded
27:59
but it used to sit right here in this
28:03
now Big Field Courtyard new apartment
28:08
complexes businesses a creation Village
28:11
creative Village right there but this is
28:14
where the magic started this is also
28:17
where Shaquille O'Neal played first
28:20
couple seasons for the magic is Rookie
28:22
year right here on the
28:29
court they imploded
28:29
that as well a lot of
28:31
implosions in Orlando you can see Lake
28:33
dot you can see that
28:35
little little pipe there that led up to
28:38
where the Amway arena I they just called
28:41
it the oena that little pipe that leads
28:44
from Lake do in right there so obviously
28:47
the video and the photo was taken from
28:49
over there but it was right here that
28:52
was the entrance the Amway arena also
28:54
known as the oena all right so just down
28:56
so the new Orlando Magic arena is right
29:00
here has it doesn't have the name it's
29:02
not called the Amway or the arena
29:04
anymore but this place called the
29:06
District says today is a good day I did
29:08
a whole V detailed video on this so you
29:11
know a little bit about punk rock a
29:13
little bit you ever heard of a guy named
29:14
gigg Allen of course I've heard of GG
29:17
Allen the man the The Legend I don't say
29:20
I don't say he a legend he wasn't a good
29:22
guy but he's legendary in in bad ways so
29:26
he in no November of 91 there is a
29:29
historic moment that Gigi played in Club
29:34
Space fish which is now the district
29:37
right here made national
29:40
news Le I guess you could say legendary
29:43
in bad ways where he ran out and threw
29:47
poop at people in the
29:49
street right in front of this building
29:52
and I knew you would want to see that
29:54
because absolutely apprciate that
29:58
absolutely and there's a photo you can
30:00
match up of Shephard Smith who went on
30:02
to become a very famous newscaster he
30:04
was localized and you could probably
30:06
stand in the same spot he did and match
30:09
CU I know you love matching up photos
30:10
yeah absolutely let's pull it up and
30:11
I'll match it up so Gigi came out into
30:15
the street the street over here none of
30:16
these buildings were here this bar was
30:18
here imagine the surprise of those
30:20
people just a random people walking by
30:24
people walking down the street now had
30:26
no idea of the magnitude of the
30:28
situation that was about to happen poo
30:31
bombs courtesy of GG
30:33
Allen there's the load in door around
30:36
the
30:37
back it is an open bar now I would
30:41
highly doubt people that work in there
30:42
have any CP zero clue should we tell
30:45
them I don't think they need to know no
30:47
maybe better left unknown and these
30:49
obviously have been since ' 91 those
30:51
have been built anyway I figured you
30:53
like that little punk rock history
30:55
Orlando yeah
30:59
today's a good day all right I made the
31:01
commute over to iDrive now Hogan's Beach
31:05
Shop there's one in Clear Water you were
31:07
saying oh isn't that in Clear Water and
31:09
it is but there's another one that he
31:10
opened here at this old 7-eleven here on
31:20
drive you like the old WWE era this is
31:20
the WWF actually WWF that's what I mean
31:23
WWF Andre the
31:26
Giant got The Ultimate
31:28
Warrior King Kong
31:30
Bundy Hollywood Hulk Hogan which is my
31:33
favorite version of Hogan that was your
31:35
favorite era yeah Hollywood the NWO
31:42
version yeah back in the day when he
31:42
bled that was a big um no no in the WWF
31:45
they didn't want him to bleed because
31:46
they were trying to be a family product
31:48
really yeah didn't he wasn't he the one
31:51
that was on mared with children yeah for
31:53
a little while I think he made a couple
31:55
of
31:56
cameos
31:57
I think originally that Cameo was going
31:59
to be
32:00
divine but Divine passed away beforehand
32:03
so it ended up going to him I never knew
32:10
that but I always love it inside here
32:10
they got a lot of lot of different stuff
32:12
including Rocky 3 Rocky 3 probably one
32:14
of my favorite Rockies oh yeah speaking
32:16
of thunder lips in the flesh baby check
32:19
out over here you got Jimmy Hart right
32:21
over here the megaphone got all the
32:25
little cutouts there
32:28
nice all right we made it back over to
32:29
192 now look at this like fancy sports
32:33
car over
32:34
here you wanted to see some Florida
32:38
project locations now they recently
32:40
repainted this was using some of the
32:43
promotional photos for the film The
32:45
mother and daughter were up against the
32:47
side of this and up until about 6 months
32:49
ago it looked exactly like it did
32:52
then but it's been repainted is that it
32:56
so the buy one get get one free park
32:57
tickets no or tickets tour no chours has
33:01
been removed from the window but if you
33:03
look closely there's like a little hole
33:05
over here to the far left and you see
33:07
where the crack is and I don't if you
33:09
can even see but there's a little blue
33:11
paint marking on the ground all of that
33:14
is
33:15
still kind of visible so as we're
33:18
looking here so there's the
33:21
crack but take a look at this if you
33:25
look at that photo there's the blue
33:27
paint marking that you can see in that
33:29
photo and here's the hole that they
33:31
stuck out over on that photo they did
33:34
leave part of it still blue though they
33:36
left the the pylons blue I don't know
33:39
why they changed it I thought it was
33:40
kind of neat that it was still like that
33:42
all those years later
33:50
but yeah the sun's about to
33:50
set this is really the only purple
33:52
that's left out here is along
33:55
the the side of the curb
33:58
Magic Castle no now called the developer
34:01
in how many times you think you've seen
34:03
the Florida
34:04
project five six times okay yeah so you
34:07
know know it pretty well pretty good
34:11
yeah one of my favorite indie films that
34:13
I haven't visited any of the locations
34:16
to yet so this is pretty cool yeah they
34:18
still embrace it they still uh inside
34:21
they have a little mural in the like a
34:23
little breakfast area and then also room
34:26
three 23 I believe it is is the only
34:30
room which was the you always call it
34:33
the hero the hero angle the hero
34:36
room it has a purple door it's the only
34:39
room in here with a purple door so they
34:41
embrace the film still even though it's
34:43
new owners and totally new hotel so I
34:45
was in here with my friend Chris bgos
34:47
who wrote the film and he was excited to
34:51
see the fact that they put a little
34:53
mural in
34:55
here we were here I a few weeks
34:58
ago they still have so the the used to
35:01
be the color of the Magic Castle was
35:03
purple so now they have a section of the
35:05
purple wall in here that's pretty neat
35:09
of course forward project the original
35:11
name of a Walt and Roy chose to call the
35:15
secret project but eventually would
35:16
become Disney World and then later Walt
35:18
Walt Disney
35:25
World this is right here in the main
35:25
check it
36:04
now the door is not painted purple but
36:04
they do have a purple stripe on the door
36:09
up on the top
36:17
there one of the few movies that's made
36:17
me cry
36:25
M you're the selfie selfie King
36:25
Man Three
36:40
three there's somebody else getting
36:40
photos down
36:43
there check that out even around the
36:46
back you know still looks the same
36:48
except the washers and dryers have been
36:51
removed where William defo and the other
36:54
actor are pulling the mattress out it's
36:56
right back
36:58
there I've covered all this before but
37:01
again
37:02
just showing off some of the
37:05
spots so I'm glad you like this kind of
37:07
stuff cuz I know some people really
37:10
aren't into revisiting locations like
37:13
this but I think you get just as excited
37:15
about seeing the little nozzles over
37:17
there that used to go into the washer
37:19
and dryer as I am
37:24
absolutely a little
37:24
things what happened to the washer dryer
37:27
washers and
37:39
dryers Sunset looks
37:39
awesome now just down the road down
37:42
192 I was noticing this I drove by
37:45
there's like some heavy machinery out
37:46
here and usually when there's heavy
37:48
machinery means something's going to
37:50
happen there was some bulldozers a few
37:52
months ago in front of the movie Rider
37:54
location now that's gone I stopped to
37:56
document that and I'm kind of wondering
37:58
if they're going to clear all this land
38:01
out as like some heavy equipment to get
38:04
rid of like brush and foliage and things
38:06
like that so I just kind of want to show
38:08
this in case they do can look back on
38:11
the fact of what it looked like before
38:13
now this used to be River Aventure go
38:15
where I used to work back in the late
38:17
'90s early 2000s I had a part-time job
38:19
here full-time job at Kmart and then
38:21
parttime at the River Adventure
38:23
Golf back in here I've done a couple
38:25
videos where I rooted around in there
38:29
but they're going to do some serious
38:31
something going on
38:33
or I don't know you look at this would
38:35
you think that this is going to be
38:36
something to like get rid of brush it's
38:39
getting rid of something or maybe this
38:41
is road work my other thought is
38:44
possibly this is just parked in here to
38:46
work on
38:54
192 but this looks like something like a
38:54
tree
38:55
Shredder doesn't it
39:05
absolutely oh yeah that's a full-on tree
39:05
Shredder yeah this is going
39:12
down I need grease to
39:12
live yeah for a long time we like a over
39:16
a year I worked well probably a little
39:18
more than a year I worked in here used
39:20
to be a miniature golf course back in
39:21
here you can still see some of the
39:24
lights
39:33
there's a fence up people do reside back
39:33
in here and they put this up to stop
39:37
people from going back in and disturbing
39:41
them but got to make way for Progress
39:44
noticing a lot of Renovations going on
39:45
on Highway 192 and this might be the
39:48
next in the assortment of different
39:52
properties that are going to get
39:54
leveled probably condos Andor businesses
39:58
go in I used to drive my car late ' 90s
40:01
used to drive my car back in here park
40:02
and go to work Viking Motel used to be
40:05
over here gone River Adventure Golf
40:08
right over in here and we're not going
40:11
to go rooting around in the woods right
40:12
now because probably not the wisest
40:14
thing because there's a reason this is
40:16
blocked off you know there's a reason
40:19
that these are placed
40:22
here oh yeah I just wanted just wanted
40:24
to Showcase it in the near
40:27
future could be it could be leveled
40:29
again I could be way off base maybe this
40:31
is just for road
40:33
work the one thing that is odd is that
40:35
wood
40:36
chipper you're not going to chip up a a
40:40
road what's your favorite memory Adam
40:43
was working here at the mini golf spot
40:46
so back over where the office was where
40:49
the way you'd rent the golf clubs and
40:51
all that there was a guy that worked at
40:53
time share you know how you do the time
40:55
share where you get the the free Disney
40:56
tickets and things like that right and
40:58
his instead of giving out cash for time
41:02
share people sign up for time share he
41:04
gave out beanie babies that's when
41:05
beanie babies were like a hot commodity
41:08
so I worked here in the era when beanie
41:10
babies were worth a lot of money so he'd
41:12
be like you want to get a free beanie
41:13
baby sign up for this time share and I
41:17
had to listen to a Spiel to all the
41:18
tourists who'd come to play mini golf to
41:21
get a beanie baby now those Beanie
41:23
Babies are worth like a dollar like a
41:25
50 but that's a hide of 9s memory
41:29
oh yeah the Bean babies man it was all
41:33
rage