Day In Downtown Orlando - Empty Holy Land & Ernest House Update / Discovering Forgotten WDW History
A day In Orlando August 2022
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oh yes the fountain is effervescently
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flowing as the recording of this is
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thursday august 4 2022
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out for their morning jog a couple of
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residents here in town and with the
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celebration theater spires there in the
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distance and the fountain
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wanted to point out that there is no
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skating or grinding
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through this area welcome everyone out
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of the woo here in fact i believe
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that's what these are placed here for
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now it would be very difficult if you're
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on a skateboard to kind of ollie up on
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here slide along the side of that but
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can't think of any other reason
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why those
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would be there today will be a
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true
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sense of the word daily vlog because i
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really have no game plan i'm going to
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cover a wide variety of topics going to
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meet up with a friend about ready to
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head out of town here
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go meet up with him
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just see where the day goes inviting you
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to join me also
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wearing a new cap i got the other day at
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tropicana fields join me
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shall we but before heading out i just
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want to say hi to howard
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the duck not to be confused with
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the film
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not a real
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duck i also noticed there is a little
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change here on the lake ryan hard
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lakefront of course there is this bird
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with its wings outstretched now they're
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also hella taken off taking flight bird
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taking stork like
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creature into the heavens but right here
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like reinhard used to have
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so back well every other time i've
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walked down here this lake used to have
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a sign right here that said do not feed
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or
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mess with the alligators it's gone the
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sign
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has been erased
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from existence this was a staple well it
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wasn't a staple it was a sign but it was
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wedged in the ground right here it's
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either fallen down or been removed or
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someone got themselves a little souvenir
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and about to merge onto i-4 interstate 4
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towards orlando i have arrived at a
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place i haven't been to in a long time
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the mall at millennia very upscale
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mall when i think of central florida i
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think of two different malls florida
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mall and mall of millennia also
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micah from youtube's own world of micah
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is here he's the friend i was meeting up
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with
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oh i'm the friend
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you're the friend that i'm meeting up
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with today have you ever been in this
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mall i have uh used to come at this
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cheesecake factory quite a bit
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and there's a van store that used to go
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and buy shoes in here i have no real
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rhyme or reason to walk in here but i
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said let's meet up here yeah and then we
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could just traverse around to orlando
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after there's a student driver going by
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every time i'm in a mall i always get
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george romero vibes
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obviously this classic dawn down here
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looks like they have
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constellations down along the side here
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pretty neat looking mall though however
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also there are two starbucks a starbucks
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over here so i'm gonna get myself a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage and a
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starbucks down there which i will show
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when i get over here okay back
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downstairs got the coffee but wanted to
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show the second dairy
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to starbucks
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within i vision of each other heading
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out i also got a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage and micah ended up getting
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nitro cold brew we do got to cross the
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street at vineland and conroy
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i wanted to point out
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micah just stated that the nickname is
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the city beautiful this storm drain says
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the city beautiful and all honesty it
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doesn't look like they've done anything
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as far as brought any heavy equipment
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down tore this down i heard that advent
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health don't quote me on that but i've
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heard that a hospital
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had bought the property
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i'm just gonna try to peek in and see
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what i can see i was able to go inside
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here when they were open a couple times
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think twice
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once about five or six years ago and
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then once about a year year and a half
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ago or so and just since it's closed
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really this place has kind of fallen
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just like they removed a tree
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over here uprooted
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from the ground guest services close
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everything here
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it's closed
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i was going to document this kind of
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stuff before you know the wreckers come
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in and tear everything out
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yeah they have uprooted a lot of the
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trees through here
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so a lot of the big trees have been
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pulled up so they have been doing some
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work down in here
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and it's grown over there but
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that was the rock that rolled away where
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they would
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they would show the resurrection and all
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that you could kind of see
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if you look closely you can kind of see
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the hole there in the
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in the rock
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and somewhere behind where the
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the iv has grown over that foliage has
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grown over is the stone that rolled away
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noticing down here the tops of these
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benches have been removed as well
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i guess someone could utilize the tops
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of the benches but not the not the legs
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and the base of the benches
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i'm really curious what this place is
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going to look like in a few years
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when it's all leveled
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and walked up here on the side of this
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little berm
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kind of looked down yeah
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nothing has been removed other than the
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trees that have been uprooted
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a little traffic or congestion here
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got the top of the whale fin i'm
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guessing probably that was jonah and the
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whale also zaikis is over there sitting
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in a
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sycamore tree really
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yeah there's zykius and then i believe
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moses right there or
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it could be abraham i'm gonna say that's
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probably moses
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yeah moses are the ten commandments
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yeah zacchaeus
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you come down from there
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right there
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right over there tucked away all right
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made it over to downtown orlando now
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got a swing by for an update where the
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earnest house used to be
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from earnest saves christmas they tore
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it down a few months ago gonna see
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what's happening over there
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located right here on the corner of
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jefferson and higher
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and as we were going over to park we
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drove by and noticed they have really
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done a lot with the property even since
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we were last here a couple months ago a
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few well four months ago both of us
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documented that it was bulldozed and wow
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that right there is where the earnest
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house was
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looks nothing like what was there before
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makes the other houses look a little
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weird yeah so the earnest house really
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looked very similar to 118 over here
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yeah yeah very very similar you know a
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lot of jim varney's history and past
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kind of slipping away
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with the earnest house going away and
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john cherry who created the character of
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ernest just passed away
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what like two months ago around the same
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time the house is bulldozed kind of in
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the same time frame it was too much so
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john cherry was the guy who directed
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every episode
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of the earnest you know
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tv show the commercials they did brahms
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and
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wdbj7 your hometown station all that and
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then ernest goes to camp ernest scared
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stupid ernest saves christmas
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slam dunk earnest yeah
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but john cherry just passed and
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splash mountain's going away that's
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another one ernest was the very first
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person
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to ride and conquer space splash
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mountain at disneyland yeah
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he was the one that pulled the switch he
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did
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that's it and i understand why splash
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mountains you know is progressing to
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princess and a frog i get that 100
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percent but that is just another
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jim varney ernest that's just kind of
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going by the wayside memory
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there's like a mosquito or a gnat around
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me i think this house here
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is an original house on this street in
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fact when
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santa
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and ernest pull out here you can see the
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house behind there yeah
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yeah i'm just gonna go out on a limb
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because there's a limb right there
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that this is an original house this one
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might be as well but this is now these
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two these both of these are yeah
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and that one up here i know for sure
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because it says built in 1915.
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okay the cabin looking one
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original driveway this will probably be
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replaced all this will probably be
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replaced ernest is definitely uh
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remember the remember the vern house
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that used to sit on the back lot
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now it's at hollywood studios
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yeah fun fact yes fun fact thanks for
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reminding me i went on satellite view
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which i'm sure you have done many times
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as well and analyze where everything was
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on the mgm studio disney's mgm studios
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backlot
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back when you take the tram through
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there they have the golden girls house
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they have the empty nest house they have
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the earnest safes christmas burn house
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where he takes the christmas tree out of
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the back goes through the front door
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ho ho ho vern that is in the same exact
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spot
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as the cantina at galaxy's edge so if
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you're walking in the cantina at batu
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east you're basically standing in front
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of vern's house from ernest says
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christmas party punch and bing dip
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i think one of my favorite scenes in the
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whole movie which is similar to the
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commercial is when he like starts
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tearing out the wall the line from the
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wall he's almost like next level crazy
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in that scene
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but he lets it go and the chandelier
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falls down completely so and harmony is
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like
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a little more hyper than normal too she
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is it's like the whole rest of it she's
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like real somber yeah but that part it's
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like all bets are off yep they're just
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bombarding this burn dude we realize
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hardly anyone knows what we're talking
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about
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now one thing that would be really neat
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so
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in chicago the family matters house was
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bulldozed using the tv show family
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matters
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the new home
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similar
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to how this is being built
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they put
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an emblem on the side of the house that
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says family matters house the logo from
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the show that's right that's on your
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video could they be persuaded to put a
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little earnest homage maybe i should
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make one for him and just bring it here
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and be like just drop it off a little
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care package yep i didn't even notice
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but micah just pointed out speaking of
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the winslow's
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family matters
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this does have a winslow-esque
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type of vibe to it
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getting sidetracked here
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getting sidetracked all right so we'll
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get some food let's do it have now
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arrived at the one and only beefy king
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they're celebrating 54 years of being
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open right now this summer they love
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orlando and i love beefy king
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it's kind of becoming a tradition for me
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and my could eat a beefy team we've
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eaten here before a couple times it's
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located in an area known as the milk
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district because tg lee
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milk is right over there i think a
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couple other milk factories looks pretty
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busy and i'm going with the extra large
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sandwich sandwich platter does not come
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with the drinks had to purchase the
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drink
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you get coleslaw beefy spots it's
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basically like tater tots and a kosher
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dill
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and i almost wore my beefy king t-shirt
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today but i didn't but i have one of
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those
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i love the vibe of this place
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so retro
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even these lamps kind of reminds me of
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the old pizza hut lamps all right and
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this is what we're dealing with with the
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xb
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extra large
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with i can't tell what all the other
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ch so it's got cheese onions and lettuce
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and i went with the pickle i got the
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platter so i got the coleslaw the pickle
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the tater tots they call something up
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they'll call it tater tots but spuds
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where'd you go this is the i think it's
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ham and beef yeah the double meat yeah
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ham and beef
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double meat got the spice buds
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i went with the horsey sauce little
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horseradish sauce and this which is
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horseradish and a very hot barbecue
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sauce called a jax jack sauce that is
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there's a lot going on with this thing
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the lettuce i've never gotten with the
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lettuce and the cheese before
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you ever heard the seinfeld bit about
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big gulps
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no but how i'm paraphrasing but had
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something to do with going to get a big
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golf this is this size it's a huge
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beverage yeah not a big goal but a lot
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of drink
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do we really need this much mountain dew
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i probably messed it up though i just
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now realized it directly above me
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is a clown
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sitting there on a little
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trapeze wire
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and take a look jimmy fallon once ate
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here
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while he was in orlando
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and jimmy fallon and also
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daniel tosh from tosh.0
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look at that
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famous faces in orlando
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okay accomplish that meal
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i am not hungry at the moment
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far from hungary also orlando sentinel
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readers voted this a foodie winner with
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the best cheap eats honestly it wasn't
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too bad i got the oversized gargantuan
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soda and a full meal everything came to
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like 16 bucks with tax if i wouldn't
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drink a water it would only been 11
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bucks for all that food that was a large
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sandwich
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she beats
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and have made it to downtown proper
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found a parking spot
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a block or two away
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at lake eola which is right over here
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well lake eola's over there this is the
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walt disney
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amphitheater
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signs states so right over
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i always there coming out here with you
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christmas
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that one year we did this one oh we did
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the swan boats years ago out here me and
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you yep
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now the swan boats last time i went out
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here were under construction
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but i think they might be back
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now yep it appears as if
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they are back
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the swan boats are back and look at this
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down here we step off the stage
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there are
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there you go this is dedicated to the
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first band played at lake eola park in
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the late 1800s
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orlando has enjoyed this
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performing alice's talents in the
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community site
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back in 1924 construction of the second
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one in
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1962 and now this site
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state-of-the-art amphitheater built in
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1989
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which bears the name
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in honor of mr walt disney
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and there is a goose or a duck don't get
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too close to those i have learned in the
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past
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also there is a lady protruding up out
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of the ground over there
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kind of like a little silhouette
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of a woman now here it says right here
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the amphitheater get a little history
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dedicated october from 1989
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which i mean i knew this but micah just
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kind of reminded me that was the same
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year that
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mgm studios yeah probably about the same
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i mean that's the reason why they did it
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i guess probably around the same time
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frame yeah bill frederick was the mayor
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at the time there is no mention of
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eisner anywhere on here
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so this is an eisner-less
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homage and take a look over here there
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is a turtle up on this log and a couple
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other turtles swimming around now right
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here on lake eola also is this apartment
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that
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fun fact i've been here once before i
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was in here with adventures in design my
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friend bricky
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six seven months ago when he was
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visiting florida he wanted to see where
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the florida project where walt and roy
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announced to the governor and to the
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world they were going to build walt
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disney world
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and i stepped in here
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and showed this and this is your first
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time in here micah yeah and you are
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seeing this i've been in this room
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before but they didn't have years ago
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but now they embrace it fully
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so stuff like this like you were just
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stating in your video that this doesn't
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really exist that places around here
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will kind of embrace the history a
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little more info here cherry plaza hotel
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now is the mma parkside
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city beautiful orlando 1968
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and this was the egyptian room it's like
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a conference room they had in here not
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sure exactly where it is but they went
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on an elevator which was down there yeah
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and when bricky and i were here we kind
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of decided it's probably going to be on
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the upstairs floor however
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i found something i did not discover
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last time i was here
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right above the waterfront refillable
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water fountains whoa look at this
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holy cow man right
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so that's like for disney cast members
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back in the day
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yeah walt disney world news that's from
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nice these wall stamps they sell these
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in marceline right here
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they sell those in marceline yeah here's
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an original probably a 71 yeah like
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pennant right here
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so it is really cool look at this the
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omni boss here yeah there's 1971
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b
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and d
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look at this there's a contemporary
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right there all right this is the
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outside of the building they had a
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banner stretching across i've covered
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this before but discovered a few new
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things i did not know until today now
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world of beer which is over at the end
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was the egyptian room talk to someone
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inside one of the employees that was
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very knowledgeable about history and he
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was saying that world of beer was the
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egyptian room
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right over there where the florida
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project
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press conference they did not call it
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walt disney world then they did not have
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a name for it
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then walt past roy's brother decided
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we're going to call it walt disney world
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not disney world like disneyland and
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anaheim but walt
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disney world to honor his brother
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so the conference took place over there
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they did not go in an elevator they
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built a fake partition well now they got
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another wall blocking
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the maa park side and world of beer
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which is where the press conference took
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place the florida project
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pretty cool and i always found it
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interesting that there well there's a
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lounge here which kind of looks like
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tomorrowland and then you got like an
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adventureland tiki bar
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at the same spot you know there's a lot
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of little references you know it's kind
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of it's kind of a stretch but you know
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what i mean so what the employee was
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telling us is over here
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this wall has been built since they did
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that news conference and you cannot go
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in this way but if you're kind enough
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you can just go up to the lobby so this
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is the guest the people that live here
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going through here but if you go up to
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the leasing office they will let you in
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to look
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over there which is where we were that
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has all the the walt stuff so just go in
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and ask they're very nice here we were
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also informed that a u.s president
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stayed here
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up on the top penthouse floor right up
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here lyndon johnson stayed over here
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overlooking
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lake eola on top of what is now world of
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beer and where
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the announcement took place which we are
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pretty convinced it was not over here in
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what is now the active bar but in the
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storage room
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right over here where it says wob right
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down here
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as we peeked in the window it's
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completely remodeled but i'm going to go
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i'm just going to say that that's where
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it took place would you be with me on
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that one yep that makes the most sense
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where they would go and i mean
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walk down the hallway and walk right
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into there geographically it makes more
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sense than anything else now it's not
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open until the evening hours so we're
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not going to stick around that long we
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were also informed by someone over at
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the world of beer that there is a mural
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from way back in the day of walt shaking
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hands with mickey mouse
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down in the stardust which is down this
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little
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little walkway down here it's kind of an
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old-timey painting mural
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so one day
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i got to go down here and see if the
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stories are true
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and see what the what my assumption
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would be on how old a mural painted down
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inside here is i'm just learning all
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kinds of stuff today i feel like i'm
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going to a lot of places i've been to
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before but i'm learning a bunch of new
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stuff exactly
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stardust lounge look how look at that
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rot like
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wrought iron metal rusted out thing that
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is a thing of beauty right there okay we
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stepped into the library now and we
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asked the employee at the library
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i said go to the fourth floor and they
20:13
have a whole disney archives we were
20:15
asking if maybe they had
20:17
newspaper clippings of the florida
20:19
project so we are just i didn't know
20:21
where the day was going to go
20:23
but this day is taking a fun turn okay
20:26
i'm going to state something that to
20:28
some watching and some that are standing
20:30
here at the moment myself and micah
20:32
included are going to have their minds
20:34
blown
20:35
all of these file cabinets
20:38
is disney history
20:41
all of these file cabinets are full of
20:43
retro
20:44
disney it's like a miniature archives of
20:48
sorts and an immense collection of books
20:51
as well
20:53
now one of these celebration books now
20:56
this is dated 91 celebration opened in
20:58
94.
21:00
maybe there was a different project with
21:01
disney called the celebration but here's
21:03
a book i've never seen before
21:06
as well as this one
21:08
the celebration chronicles
21:11
look at this
21:13
even the art of
21:14
disney i know right i know exactly what
21:17
you're thinking right now micah your
21:18
mind is thinking i don't know what to
21:20
start with right now we're going to have
21:21
to come back yeah there's no way we're
21:23
going to be able to get to this today no
21:25
but yeah i just wanted to put this out
21:26
there anyone that's researching anything
21:29
for disney this place is a treasure
21:31
trove and i will be venturing back up
21:32
here and spending a lot of time
21:35
in the library here this is
21:37
awesome
21:39
dude
21:45
remembering roy what remembering roy
21:45
disney
21:47
the file cabinets behind me i don't even
21:49
want to dive into those yet
21:52
all the different versions of the hidden
21:53
mickey books i have one or two of those
22:00
it's every park
22:00
poster
22:01
in every disney park different
22:02
variations so this this is great i've
22:04
seen a lot of these books even though
22:05
they have a good collection but what i'm
22:07
really
22:08
enticed with is behind us all those file
22:10
cabinets it's insane okay we're starting
22:12
to look at some stuff they said we could
22:14
just look at anything we needed to we
22:16
have to sit here at this table we can't
22:17
go into other areas of the library
22:20
the cross show the thing where it said
22:21
the new disneyland resort
22:24
so this is phase one
22:28
interstate four
22:29
and then
22:31
vacation land i'm gonna go back there's
22:33
the contemporary
22:35
yes
22:36
that is awesome look at that right where
22:39
it says the new look at this
22:42
i know what
22:44
i was not ready for this today
22:47
look at that okay this is about the
22:48
oldest file we could find dating back to
22:51
october
22:53
of 65.
22:55
so all these would be from 65 to 1970 so
22:59
let's see what we got in this first five
23:02
also this archival box we're going to go
23:03
through
23:04
and then also some from january to
23:06
february of 71.
23:08
this is all we're going to get to today
23:09
i don't even want to go down the rabbit
23:11
hole yet but i will be returning here
23:14
a multitude of times
23:16
now i don't know what artists doodled
23:18
this
23:19
but take a look at this so disney
23:20
world's quote main street so see walt
23:23
was not listed
23:24
on there yet just disney roy had not
23:26
made the announcement
23:28
cinderella's castle will be the largest
23:30
building in disney world it hadn't even
23:31
been built yet
23:33
in the lagoon near the golf course i
23:36
don't think it was called the seventh
23:37
wasn't even seven seas yet
23:39
okay this is a copy of the orlando
23:41
sentinel from october of 65.
23:44
now this lady emily bavar was the one
23:47
who kind of convinced walt to come out
23:49
here because she broke the news
23:51
that walt who was keeping it a secret
23:54
had purchased all this land for a
23:56
disneyland east
23:58
of sorts look at this it says is our
24:00
mystery industry disneyland they did not
24:02
know what was happening out here this is
24:05
a copy october of 65
24:07
so less than a month later on the 15th
24:10
of november is when walton roy announced
24:12
walked or not walking went in and did
24:15
the florida project announcement less
24:17
than a month after the sentinel kind of
24:20
broke the story yeah she spilled the
24:22
beans and so they had to come and clear
24:24
up all the the rumors so i can't
24:26
remember the man's name but he's like
24:27
he's sitting out there right in front of
24:29
lake iowa and he's drinking his coffee
24:31
he sees this and he literally calls roy
24:34
goes up and asks for the phone calls boy
24:36
and he's like
24:37
that girl spilled the beans on your
24:38
brother we need you guys to come down
24:40
here wow this is the paper he was
24:41
reading yeah and and clear this up
24:44
because a lot of people were kind of
24:46
angry
24:47
sure yeah they didn't you know they
24:48
didn't want their little town to change
24:51
and of course a lot of these aren't even
24:52
reprints these are actual
24:55
newspaper articles on the original paper
24:57
this is
24:58
look at that little doll
25:01
foreshadowing yeah definitely look at
25:02
this this came out one year before the
25:04
oak this is probably in october of 70.
25:06
but they still rep referred to it as 27
25:09
000 acres as the florida project look at
25:13
it's gonna be built around the magic
25:15
kingdom park a la disneyland back when
25:17
they still call disneyland magic kingdom
25:20
also speaking of foreshadowing uh
25:23
they're mentioning epcot way before it
25:25
was built and it even states that all
25:27
capitals experimental prototype
25:28
community of tomorrow
25:30
described as a blueprint of the future
25:32
and perpetual showcase of american free
25:35
enterprise all right mike i just found
25:37
this about the visitor center that used
25:39
to be still is over there now it's the
25:41
athletic club
25:43
january of 71. yeah so this is
25:46
10 months
25:48
before the park opened
25:50
and they stamped at 72 so it was a year
25:52
old they were kind of documenting it for
25:53
history but check out the prologue
25:57
written
25:58
and stated through the eyes and words of
26:01
winnie the pooh and owl and owl
26:05
what the talking about
26:07
looked like a dragon in cinderella
26:09
castle he's talking about how it was
26:13
yeah there's that same wow
26:16
through the looking glass through the
26:17
looking glass they wouldn't even exist
26:19
yet
26:23
okay we're nerds michael yeah we are
26:24
look at this all highways how many times
26:26
i've done that yeah how many times i've
26:28
i've grown a gun across the tent
26:34
look at there's not even anaheim on that
26:34
don't even know they don't even signify
26:35
anaheim
26:42
opening day look how it all faded out oh
26:42
that's the preview center
26:44
no that's the grounds of magic king but
26:45
that's when they had the topiaries out
26:47
by the monorail
26:48
yeah look how faded that is yeah
26:51
i don't even think that's opening day i
26:53
don't even think the park had opened yet
26:54
that was the time i think that's the
26:55
rendering
26:56
of the horse yeah there's a rendering of
26:59
look at the car parked in front of the
27:01
city hall there you go eventually
27:02
frontierly liberty square fantasyland
27:04
tomorrowland yeah there's like this
27:07
mustang in front of the there's a
27:08
pontiac this is the pontiac magazine
27:10
makes sense
27:12
so pontiac was teaming up with disney
27:15
from the christian science monitor now
27:17
referred to walt disney world was
27:19
disneyland east earlier i didn't know if
27:21
i really had the ability to say that but
27:23
now it's confirmed right here it was
27:25
also referred to as super disneyland and
27:28
they hadn't even named the country bears
27:30
yet they just called them bear band
27:33
anna animatronic bears
27:35
so this is in february of the same year
27:37
the park opened they had not even
27:39
they hadn't even named the bear band yet
27:40
no it just says country bear band
27:43
super
27:44
disneyland
27:46
and here's a quote by
27:48
joe fowler
27:51
the brief known as the orlando mayor or
27:53
the mayor's style
27:54
okay the mayor stated this but fowler
27:56
was also quoting quoted in this article
27:59
but the mayor
28:01
stated the preview center for wwe is
28:03
just a hot dog stand of what we're gonna
28:06
have and check this out
28:09
according to our most conservative
28:10
estimates no one seems to be worried
28:12
that the golf courses and the haunted
28:15
house are about the only things nearing
28:17
actual completion
28:20
the haunted house it wasn't even haunted
28:22
mansion yet
28:23
okay we stumbled on a script from a
28:25
newscast
28:27
talking about the opening talking about
28:28
the paddle boats and
28:30
things like that and we discovered an
28:32
island which we think alludes to what
28:34
became discovery island
28:37
pontoon boat over to just to
28:39
blackbeard's island next to the
28:44
a contemporary of tourists will take
28:44
advantage for a picnic lunch and a brief
28:47
respite from the hustle and bustle
28:50
of the part of the magic kingdom or was
28:53
going to be tom sawyer's island could be
28:55
dude it might have been tom sawyer's
28:56
sawyers on the return trip passing close
28:59
by the selection of the contemporary
29:00
hotels that that's gotta be discovery
29:02
yeah that's gotta be it
29:04
and they had a pirate ship out there i
29:06
never knew it was something that was
29:08
gonna be called blackbeard's island
29:11
does anyone know that
29:12
have you ever heard that i've never
29:14
heard that but it makes total sense
29:15
because it was a pirate ship out there
29:21
you can see it in the christmas
29:21
a family vacation visits the magical
29:23
world of disney rising out of the
29:24
flatness of the florida landslide near
29:26
orlando
29:29
look at this next on news 90s news90
29:31
this is their script
29:33
larry cooper wtdr news
29:40
25 000 per day will pass through the
29:40
entrance gates of disney world in his
29:42
first year of operations
29:47
all right
29:47
this is just the tip of the iceberg by
29:49
the way we're not going to go through
29:50
every file today but
29:52
this won't be my only time i'll be
29:54
visiting this library
29:56
wonderful world of disney september 26th
30:00
five days
30:02
before the opening date of 1971 five
30:06
days
30:07
before
30:14
oh man look at that four giants disney
30:14
dream
30:15
there's roy
30:17
mayer look at that
30:19
wdw do soup special souvenir edition
30:23
10 cents
30:41
this was free to visitors i have never
30:41
seen this photo ever
30:44
in front of florida's haunted mansion
30:46
pluto goofy and mickey
30:49
holding hands
30:52
i don't think i've ever seen that
30:53
particular photo before
30:55
what'd you say
30:57
the jungle cruise criminal lands
31:00
chattering parents
31:01
are crap trapped by ever hungry crocs
31:05
okay this was opening month about three
31:08
weeks after opening day
31:10
check out the mad hatter here a
31:11
tweedledee tweedledum over there
31:14
mickey
31:15
snow white
31:17
monday was an important day for roy
31:18
desney brother of the dreamer roy disney
31:20
was presented with an american flag from
31:22
president richard nixon
31:25
i just the more stuff we look through
31:27
the more
31:28
the more i'm just blown away by this
31:32
of the old contemporary pool before the
31:33
new one has changed that's right when
31:35
you get off of the boat those barrels
31:37
are just about opening day special yep
31:40
the time is now is that what he's saying
31:42
yeah the time is now
31:44
fess
31:44
parker look at this fred mcmurray over
31:48
bob hoe how the day is mine the day is
31:50
by the day today's money yeah yeah
31:51
that's what the dairy song that's it i
31:54
forgot that that's a jerry reeve song
31:56
yeah this is so great
31:59
let's see what's on this next page
32:02
it's a map
32:10
look at those spires there
32:10
one of the first vloggers he's got his
32:12
camera
32:14
do you remember those spires i do
32:17
and this is before it was covered
32:20
oh yeah and it had like the disneyland
32:21
look to the floor
32:24
look at this the water all going by from
32:26
the aristocats you never see those
32:28
characters and
32:29
they have the canoe yeah just like
32:31
disneyland still has i am not an expert
32:34
of
32:34
you know the vast amount of wealth of
32:37
knowledge that's on the internet as far
32:38
as photos go
32:40
but some of the stuff i'm seeing today i
32:41
do not ever recall seeing online like
32:44
this photo of alice and the rabbit here
32:47
with the fire
32:48
department in the back there
32:55
10 cents oh this is the day after this
32:55
is october 2nd
32:57
that's why it's talking about traffic
32:59
flowing smoothly
33:05
some people got an early start by
33:05
spending the night in their cars outside
33:07
of the fantasy land
33:09
so we're so we're not the first to ever
33:11
do that
33:12
fantasyland photo that i've never seen
33:15
the flower there we go
33:18
brayer bear
33:19
is kindly and won't use a club
33:26
oh there's this there's the pigs over
33:26
there
33:29
this skunk smells sweet dance is good
33:31
too with terry matthews tampa
33:34
i just love that every time we turn a
33:36
page there's something good turn the
33:38
page let's see what's on the next page
33:40
i said oh look at the advertisements
33:46
now you were kind of saying that
33:46
jokingly but look at this the tabernacle
33:49
baptist church had a disney day they
33:52
would give tickets for everyone who
33:54
brought seven visitors
33:56
that is incredible
33:58
if you showed up and you brought seven
34:00
visitors
34:01
you would get free tickets to disney
34:09
that's almost kind of like a church
34:09
version of a timeshare yeah
34:12
this one's titled the disney year disney
34:14
year but the monorail was made united
34:16
states steel probably for the beam yep
34:19
and that's the skeleton inner workings
34:21
of the contemporary there and look at
34:23
the
34:24
railroad going underneath the monorail
34:26
beam there
34:27
oh here's the dedication black
34:30
out front
34:34
i've seen the dedication flat picture
34:38
but look at this angle
34:44
now the summit might not seem
34:44
like much and that exciting but you know
34:46
just to look at something like this we
34:48
have the apopka area chamber of commerce
34:50
saying welcome to disney
34:52
saying oh welcome to the neighborhood
34:55
disney and then also over here this
34:57
irrigation company
34:59
welcome walt disney world is this place
35:00
even still a business anymore right
35:05
okay you could get a swimming pool
35:06
installed for three grand oh my gosh
35:08
take a look over here you got wally
35:10
bogue
35:15
with the dancers there
35:15
yeah i was at the diamond horseshoe
35:17
frontierland you have the golden
35:19
shoulder out here disneyland this one
35:21
california diamonds well disney world
35:24
there's even an article up here on j
35:26
thaddeus toad leading the wild chase
35:29
uh as toad at disney world
35:31
also we were just disgusting we don't
35:33
think this was ever built
35:35
up
35:37
like i said it reminded me of a progress
35:38
city lake eleanor drive i don't even
35:40
know where that is
35:42
i know where lake eleanor is but i've
35:43
never seen anything that looked like
35:44
that completely it looks like progress
35:46
city and of course one big theme park
35:48
comes to town and others follow suit
35:52
coming our way
35:53
sea world shamu the whale
35:56
will be appearing
35:57
demonstrating jumping ability at san
35:59
diego and then on their way over to
36:01
florida of course seaworld
36:03
a big piece of
36:05
the landscape here now current day and
36:07
definitely the sky ride i miss that too
36:10
the small world
36:13
this is now the rapunzel tower you can
36:15
still see where the beam was back in the
36:17
day there's a circle
36:20
yeah that's hall of presidents
36:22
after basement construction was
36:24
completed on main street there's the
36:27
liberty tree
36:28
there's the haunted mansion
36:31
and look at this massive full page
36:34
shader brothers office furniture major
36:36
supply out of oss furniture walt disney
36:38
world ammo
36:40
you're kind of wondering if that's river
36:41
country there look at sail boats over
36:44
here yeah sail boats on seven cities
36:48
yeah
36:49
and then the main lobby the front lobby
36:51
has been renewed the contempo
36:53
rari hotel this is classic
36:56
this kind of gives me like a wilson vibe
36:58
from home improvement
36:59
howdy hi neighbor these parade photos
37:02
look at this this old maxwell is the new
37:05
maxwell going down main street what the
37:08
heck is that
37:09
the jungle land steel drum band
37:12
those made the stairs jose at a place
37:14
called zary not zayers
37:17
but zaree
37:19
look at that classic logo but you could
37:21
get a mickey mouse phone for five bucks
37:29
all of us 36 cents
37:29
you could get disney balloons with a
37:30
pump
37:36
they were just eating up the marketing
37:36
mm-hmm
37:40
now that now a place wouldn't even be
37:40
able to sell the stuff they made all
37:41
this stuff themselves this wasn't even
37:42
sanctioned by wdw right this is all made
37:45
by this company over here it says
37:47
mansion is full of
37:49
999 retired haunts and something you
37:52
don't hear too much of the goblins
37:54
the goblins
37:56
and again here's the the teacups before
37:58
they have the enclosure because of the
38:00
rain
38:01
and there's the grand prix raceway now
38:03
called tomorrowland speedway oh look at
38:05
this 20 000 league sub
38:08
jungle cruise
38:09
the river both the admiral joe fowler
38:12
riverboat
38:13
so there you now it's just the liberty
38:15
bell but there used to be three river
38:17
boats back in the day from what i heard
38:20
this this was one of the ones that
38:21
doesn't run anymore
38:22
that's the joe fowler riverboat
38:25
there they are playing a round of golf
38:27
never seen that photo before either
38:33
at some point we're gonna have to pull
38:33
ourselves away from this and come back
38:35
another time because the day is getting
38:37
away from us we got jonathan winters
38:38
down here fred mcmurray up there
38:41
all right heading back to the vehicle
38:43
now
38:44
downtown gonna cruise on but i will
38:46
definitely be returning
38:48
to that library that will not be the
38:50
first time you or i set foot in that
38:52
library no way man no way that was
38:55
awesome yeah
38:57
yeah it's like a secret club well
39:01
hang out it's not so secret anymore no
39:02
it's not and that's gonna do it for
39:05
today looks like there's a storm cloud
39:06
of brewing up there had a good day
39:08
didn't really know which direction the
39:10
wind was gonna blow or what we were
39:12
gonna see but it ended up being a really
39:13
really good day and i found a new place
39:16
to do a little research for
39:18
for future episodes
39:19
and a little history
39:21
who'da thought they would have such a
39:22
deep dive of stuff
39:24
at the library in orlando love it i
39:27
think it's gonna rain see the next video
39:29
the vlog
39:30
is over