Retro Myrtle Beach Tour In Classic Car (1963 Corvair) - Vintage Motels / Secret Tunnel & Hidden Gems
Retro Myrtle Beach South Carolina Tour
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here is
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very sun sunny which is nice here at
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myrtle beach south carolina as a
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recording of this january 24th
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2022 and today i have no real game plan
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so i'm going to be
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shown around by the
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retro myrtle beach guy did i get that
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correct yes sir what's up
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why why did you give yourself that name
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oh it's like everything pretty much my
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clothes and car and everything in my
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life is pretty much uh old school i
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generally prefer the older right okay
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so do you know a lot about the area when
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it comes to vintageness and retroness oh
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yeah um i mean there
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actually where we're standing is kind of
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the old downtown area look at that
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classic car
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well it's not as old as yours what kind
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of car do you have over there it's a 63
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chevy corvair it was america's first
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rear engine uh car was supposed to
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compete with the imports the
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volkswagens and everything so we gonna
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drive around in that oh yeah we could
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cruise that would be pretty cool
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so what can they find on your channel if
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they were to go to your channel oh i do
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uh style fashion uh home decor and
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design stuff uh local events mostly
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local stuff okay uh news and stuff like
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that the retro myrtle beach guy anything
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that's uh old school within myrtle beach
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that's me r was to be r m
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r g r m b g
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that's a can i call you that rf
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and you said right over here used to be
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a internet cafe
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yeah remember that back before we had
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smartphones
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all right well i i'm in your hands today
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you show me around we're starting off
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here at city hall right over near this
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bus station
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we're not going to get on a bus we're
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going to get in a classic car you're
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going to show me around well and they
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also have uh
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flea markets and uh farmers markets and
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stuff like that over here on weekends by
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louisville
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they do a lot of them okay
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very cool
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so what were you saying was right in
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this area
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oh i like the shoes oh yeah nice
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deck shoes now see i would look at those
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and think they were bowling shoes but
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they're called deck shoes that's kind of
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they say i think they were like cruise
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cruise wares so i had the tennis shoes
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on i guess
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i guess these are like 90s
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90s
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you actually know what they're called
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nice
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okay i'm gonna zoom in your car finish
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the intro and then we'll get going
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all right i'm inviting you to join me
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and the retro myrtle beach guy in his
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classic car alert
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shall you before we get in the car he
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was just pointing out this maryland
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fried chicken which on its own is very
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retro
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looking but this used to be an esso gas
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station
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one of the first gas stations around
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but still very retro look and
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you can get some leg specials with
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fred pork chops
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what is a fred pork chop
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specialty is it supposed to be fried i
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think
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liver and gizzards i've never had a
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gizzard but i have had fish and shrimp
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as well
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that's wild like even the buildings that
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were placed our vintage buildings are
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vintage now they're so awful even the
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vintage buildings have a vintage history
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an esso gas station
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oh this is where the the pumps were
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right in the middle where the pumps were
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right here
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so maybe right over in this section yeah
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this is right about
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or everything you can still kind of see
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where they would be
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yeah that's pretty neat and then uh you
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got mr sub over there and that's only
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maybe about from the 70s or 80s i
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believe i do like the mr sub logo
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i always like how mascots want you to
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eat them right
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yeah i'm unsure of the the
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anthropomorphism
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that's something
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it's funny because i remember being like
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the best someplace ever when i came back
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as an adult it really isn't awesome so
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when you were youth you came here you
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said i gotta go to mr subs when i
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long return
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that vacation to go to mr subs yeah it's
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okay
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it does have a pretty sweet neon though
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that probably lights up at night oh yeah
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and a bunch of little light bulbs if
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they had t-shirts i would wear mr sub
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t-shirt though parked in the original
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downtown you were saying this is all the
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original downtown city hall here and
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these are some of the original stores
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the gas station on the corner this is so
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is this the old city hall or is this
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still used to city hall i i don't know
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if that's the original building but i
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think it's at least like the 40s or 50s
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i like the little weather was it weather
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main up top
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i never know what to say weather main or
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is it weather vape
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whether vain i always get the
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weather vane so your car is so give me a
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little info on your car real quick
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before we jump in here well yeah um this
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was america's first rear engine car um
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it was kind of assassinated by ralph
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nader when he wrote a book called unsafe
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at any speed
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so yeah enjoy the ride
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so it's not a safe car it was rumored to
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not be because of its uh rear swing axle
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and this and that okay i thought it
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would spin out
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but it really was more like a
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maintenance issue i mean i've been
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driving it for a while and i've never
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had any problems
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i mean it's 60 years old still on the
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roads how long have you had it for all
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right um we just got it uh at the end of
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the summer
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by 2015 it was full vintage wow so this
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is your daily driver yeah this is my
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only car do you feature in your videos
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oh yeah this is one of the main things
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we'll do is take cruises on the streets
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oh very cool turtle beach you gotta have
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a cool car it's like so during the
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summer you take this in the car cruises
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oh yeah we go to the car shows there's
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actually a lot of biggest car shows the
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run to the sun where they have a
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thousand thousands of cars here
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here i'll show you it's funny because of
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course the engine
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wow
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it's a six cylinder flat
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um
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it's called a pancake engine okay
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but it's uh what year is it
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i actually have an engine's office for
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1685 engines
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65 engine and a 63.
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it looks clean it looks good
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together
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all right i'm excited to ride around the
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classic car that's awesome
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much better than taking my vehicle this
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has a little more style oh yeah
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especially
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but we're definitely the two biggest
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people who've ever been in this thing
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i am not finn just so heads up
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yeah the work of the state goes there so
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what is this what's the what's the corsa
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uh this is the corvair club um it's one
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of the reasons why these things still
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run forever is there's local groups and
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everybody knows how to work on them and
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they're big enthusiasts i mean when i
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first got this thing i didn't know
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anything about it
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i contacted my local corporate courser
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club
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yeah no power windows
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you do have a you have a kind of an
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updated radio here
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safety i put the bluetooth in there so i
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can do the hands-free
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monza was that what does that mean uh
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manza is a uh racetrack in italy so they
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named it after this was supposed to be a
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sporty
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economy car i love this can i just crack
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this down oh yeah oh that's cool and a
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little side there too
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that was cool
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oh yeah that happened i'm making them go
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back to
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how they used to look so the old
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downtown they're trying to make it how
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it used to be
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a brewery over there which has
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apartments upstairs which is quite nice
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so what is the grand strand what does
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the strand mean well um
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this is one of the largest uninterrupted
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beaches i think in the country it's 60
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miles straight of beautiful sandy
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beaches
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they used to say that it was the uh the
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finest strand in america america's
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finest strand but it also has or we have
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very fine uh
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sand here it's extremely so strange is
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another word for sand uh well i think
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beach so it's like the strip of of
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beaches that run
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so i always see the word strand
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it also could be like the stretch of the
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road perhaps yeah i think it's just the
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beaches they call the people who live
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around here stranded
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stranders yeah grand strand news grants
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are not grand stands grand strands and
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there was a place called the grand stand
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back when we were probably kids um i
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think it had like shows and stuff like
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that how do i put this back on i just
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just put it on the floor
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put it on the floor yeah okay all right
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we're off to a good start hey look at
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the back seat here you can see a little
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it's not too icy today but there's a
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little bit of
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a little bit built up there about what
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about 35 degrees now 36 degrees
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something i had to to get the ice off my
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windshield this morning you did oh yeah
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crazy so this is a convertible that it
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is wow
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in the car shows you probably take the
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top down oh yeah
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see i would have a clark griswold moment
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with this i would not know where the gas
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goes in of course he was around the back
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and the license plate yanked the license
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plate off in vacation but that's what
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would happen with
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yeah everyone's always looking like what
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are you doing that is so neat man
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the best is when you go grocery shopping
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you pop the hood up and people see you
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start loading
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yeah right
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this is cool too
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they are nice
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yeah this thing is
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60-something camaro that fender down
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there when we're pulling away from it's
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pretty awesome that is definitely
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old-timey looking i like that phenomenal
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yeah so that ferris bull has been there
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for a while
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and this is a theme park called family
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kingdom which does not open till spring
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i drove by the sign the other day
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most of the major attractions around
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here don't reopen until spring because
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you know the cold weather
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anything indoors does but a lot of these
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outdoor ones are so close well a lot of
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these rides are from the pavilion
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originally
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so what is the pavilion people have
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mentioned that what was the pavilion it
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was
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like you know when your carnival comes
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to town
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it's like that but permanent so it was
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just a whole huge bunch of rides and
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calliopes and
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you know like the old uh
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pipe organs and stuff
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and buffer i've noticed a few people
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have mentioned that that was kind of the
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beginning of the end of all the retro
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stuff for myrtle beach that's what they
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say the thing is is that unfortunately
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people you know they
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they get complaining about oh you know
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homelessness or this or that like it's
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you know downtown is dangerous or
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whatever but that was it was a big
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concentrated amount of people with very
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little oversight so they really
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dismantled it because it would have
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gotten much worse
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if they hadn't but they split it up into
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uh family kingdom has some of the rides
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there's pavilion west
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broadway some of those rides you saw
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yesterday
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or the other day um and then there's uh
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one up north at barefoot where they have
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a couple rides and they're all like very
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old so the rides still exist they just
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they're different spots yeah they just
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move the polynesian
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it's the sign is amazing look at that
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polynesian beach and golf resort oh with
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the little hula girl there too
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there's an old chevy truck right there
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too right yeah this is a chevy town
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that is so cool yeah this is a cool
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place but it's a really nice
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the structure is wonderful it's not the
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nicest hotel in the world but that's the
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problem instead of trying to bill it is
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hey it's a kitschy vintage fun hotel
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they're trying to cater to new tourists
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who are don't even really care about it
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right and they just lower the prices and
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go we're affordable so that's their main
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angle so unfortunately you don't attract
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always the best people it gets kind of a
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bad reputation but structurally that's
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actually one of my favorite passing the
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summer sands motel oh yeah that one's
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cool too oh yeah it's a beautiful
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building
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you said this is one of your favorites
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here uh the waikiki village yep
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yeah this is one of the ones that
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actually they took
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efforts to
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update and
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restore and bring back to its original
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glory look at the pool right that is
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cool
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over that little gazebo is the hot tub
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no diving obviously
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but i love the pool
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so would this be from the 60s uh
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actually the original
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i think it should be up here on the the
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historical plaque in the front but i
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think it's actually
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a brick down here it's been there for i
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think 80 years now
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oh 80 years the next one next door uh
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the one up in the north end on the north
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end so we're on the south end now yeah
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we're all about the village this is cool
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what was it
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oh no kidding
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they still use it they were talking
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about trying to put something else in
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here because the other one up north has
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a uh
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has a shuffleboard
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i just love this right so these are
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original i know from theme park stuff
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they put these here usually so people
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won't sit yeah but i just love the decor
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of that
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accents yeah
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i also like how they have the rock work
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down on the sidewalk there yeah these
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used to be bushes back we went to the
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restaurant these were where the bushes
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were yeah there was a couple bushels in
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the front and you have the grade on sign
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obviously yeah i got to say your car
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looks pretty epic just parked right next
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to this thing
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that's why i hang out these places so
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much as i've always taken video
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well yeah this used to be a whole
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hawaiian restaurant that was attached to
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the hotel and then they broke it up into
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like seven or eight rooms or something
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like that
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so the restaurant itself
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became rooms yeah and they just use them
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for individuals you see even the old
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lanterns and stuff hanging out yeah
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that's so neat so this was the
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restaurant but there still was this part
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of the hotel was adjacent to the
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restaurant so that you could go to
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dinner after here and yeah
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not have to drive home
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i have a check-in area this is located
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at 1500 south
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and one of the little slogans is a fun
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hip vibe
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i can see that i would say a lot of
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these places through here this is an
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executive suite up here it has the porch
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that overlooks the beach and everything
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ah it's not
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an executive suite this is located on
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the corner of ocean boulevard and 15th
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avenue south
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it is classic car over there beach is
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just right behind me
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pretty neat
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love all these old hotels
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those walls could talk
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and in the parking lot of the sand
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castle
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is this old sea mist sign which the sea
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mist is not here anymore it says office
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has been moved
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but the sign is still there so drove
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over here parked the car in front of the
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the sea mist
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the thing i like about it is the sign
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itself
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the old neon you can even see some of
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the old neon at the top of the branches
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is a palm tree
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so this side over here broken the neons
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removed but you can see where the holes
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where the neon went in but there's still
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a piece of the
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neon on the other side
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as well as up at the top
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it's like even some holes down here but
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there could have been some as well
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the south seas
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sign says walk-in specials and then
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ocean plaza
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and this is what we passed earlier the
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polly
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such a cool sauna
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the coral sands and this one's gonna be
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so this was gonna be bulldozed soon yeah
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they just condemned it actually very
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recently
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very tiny little spot in the house
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behind it too yeah that was where the
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owner manager was
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that was just informed this is called
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breeze block he taught me something new
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i didn't know i just said the concrete
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design that you can see through the air
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blows through so it's called breeze
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block i never knew that till now
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this whole pool
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just showing this because it's going to
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be torn out
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or a skater could have a field day with
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them and down here on the ground is like
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a silhouette of the lettering of the
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place
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right along
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and someone who worked for the property
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owner walked over asking what we were
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doing and said that this specific
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building so this one might be saved
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yeah that's surprising yeah the sea cove
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might be saved but this one
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is on the chopping block and checking
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out a local coffee stand get myself a
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piping hot beverage from the hi-fi
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coffee
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bar pretty neat very retro a lot of
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vintage stuff in here
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old relics from the 80s and the 90s a
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lot of 80s stuff even maybe even some
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70s stuff stretched along onto the walls
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and an assortment of different coffee
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this is a this is a pretty cool pretty
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cool vibe for a coffee shop the hi-fi
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coffee shop
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here right in the kind of the downtown
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touristy section
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of myrtle beach pretty close to the fun
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wheel like right
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within walking distance of the final in
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fact there is the fun wheel how's your
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coffee very good very good i like that
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place you said when you first moved here
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you thought it was a chain i assumed it
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was like some corporate chain because
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it's so well put together and then i
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asked them one time they're like
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they're attached to the milkshake place
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next door there's a milkshake place next
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door
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the
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gift code gay dolphin there
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as well and
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fun wheel right there and they even had
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a
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porky's had a porky's
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atari
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that's a deep cut i don't know what
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exactly would be required of you to do
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in that game so the old hotel called the
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aquarius
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so basically just turned it into a
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parking lot yeah they tore it down but
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they kept the sign so at least you still
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kind of have some remnant of what used
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to be here okay
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parking lot's pretty pretty available
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right now there's one guy with an rv
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over there walking his dog and then your
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car's parked but that's about it we're
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the only two down here besides this
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garbage truck that's driving by
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the demo crew is making their way in
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original post office right there you see
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the wheel popping up over the top of it
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i like this
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it's an old-timey theater
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it's now a christian facility
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all right we have arrived
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on broadway
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so this you were saying this is
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basically the the downtown back in the
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day yeah back in like the really early
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days like the 40s and 50s this would all
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be lined up with old
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chryslers and everything this would be
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where all the restaurants and bars and
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clubs and stuff were this was the hip
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downtown area
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what is it
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uh it used to be a massage
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a massage parlor
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but i think hippie massage stuff because
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it was like this little crystals and
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stuff like that
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what is it now it's empty now and it's
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it's probably about to be my store
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i've been looking for a place because i
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need vintage meds accessories and all
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kinds of videos oh so do you sell stuff
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yeah i collect basically okay so you'd
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like to have a store on broadway
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oh yeah this is one this is going to be
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the next spot that the city is going to
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be uh turning to for development
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kind of look at this camaro here
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walk down the way a bit
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right there that's the bedroom oh it's
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the same fender you got on yours
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sure is
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this flower shop
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oldest building at oldest oldest store
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in town uh it's one of the oldest
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structures for 80 years lazelle's flower
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shop has been selling flowers
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look at the greenhouse there seem better
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guys i like this tree next to it
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that's awesome
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well you know that
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towns like this in this area were so big
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with the nautical stuff
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is with these live oaks you know most
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times if you're planning uh uh some
21:30
boards for you know uh your house or
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anything
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having a a piece of wood that goes like
21:36
this
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is bad
21:38
but when you're building a boat
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you need pieces that go like that all
21:42
right so this is where most of the
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nautical stuff would come from live oaks
21:46
sorry okay i never realized that that
21:49
makes sense now that you say it yeah
21:50
it's like conway out the way so
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big in that whole timber industry
21:56
just kind of walking around going over
21:58
this bridge here
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you know
22:08
somebody got to be here
22:19
oh thank you
22:19
yeah thanks man
22:21
yeah i've been putting these back and
22:23
stuff on the pins out here
22:37
and he took pictures all that stuff
22:37
outside she got evicted got some ducks
22:40
kind of paddling down the stream there
22:43
but i'm noticing too when i walk over
22:49
to this vintage car wash look at that
22:50
sign right there all rusted out
22:52
that has seen some years still operating
22:55
you get your car wash there oh yeah
22:57
the only place i like that
23:15
so this is a marsh what's the proper
23:15
name of this they call it a swash it's a
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swash marsh a salt marsh the salt water
23:22
instead of fresh water
23:24
so yeah when the tide comes in from the
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ocean this all fills up and it knows
23:29
everything and there'll be crabs walking
23:30
around in here yeah you'll probably see
23:32
them
23:33
that's not a crab that's a squirrel up
23:35
there but there is an animal and the
23:37
tree oh there's another one going up the
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side of the tree
23:39
it's kind of hit around the side there's
23:41
a bunch of couple squirrels
23:50
yeah there's three swashes in myrtle
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beach three of them yeah there's one
23:52
here there's one in midtown
23:54
and there's one up by uh barefoot lane
23:58
i wonder if there's any correlation to a
24:00
pirate swashbuckler i always wondered
24:03
i'm not sure how buckling it would
24:06
maybe it has to do with running aground
24:08
and noticing this hardware store
24:11
well appears to be a hardware store at
24:13
one time
24:14
got the bay door over here on this side
24:16
yeah i think it was an auto part an auto
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parts plus
24:19
that bricks and stretch
24:22
here at 301 what's the name of the road
24:24
again broadway this is broadway this
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mural kind of looks like where we just
24:28
were
24:32
over there in that little section there
24:32
with the the marsh
24:34
there's a motorcycle there too
24:41
the swash looks like there's a little
24:41
apartment up there there's a planter
24:43
outside the window but i walked across
24:45
the road here to times square
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a watch repair
24:50
shop called times square
24:53
i like that
24:55
i don't really wear a watch but
24:57
if i did i need to fix it i come here to
24:58
times square master watch and clock
25:01
repair man cleaning up the city
25:04
so i i'm from out of town i'm telling
25:06
him he was a local he didn't he's never
25:08
been down in the tunnel before
25:12
can we go down there
25:15
have you ever been down there you've
25:16
never been down there okay we're gonna
25:19
go down the tunnel
25:20
all right see you later
25:22
so you've never been down the tunnel
25:23
before
25:24
this is the only tunnel
25:26
i have heard this is the only tunnel in
25:28
town that you can walk underneath is it
25:30
boarded up
25:31
it is boarded up maybe the other side is
25:33
maybe the other side's not
25:35
let me walk down here real quick and
25:36
look that's crazy maybe they're
25:38
renovating it too many squatters down
25:40
here probably they're doing the whole
25:43
hotel up top today probably
25:47
wow even the city worker has never been
25:48
down in the tunnels
25:54
dang i saw some photos online and it
25:54
looked as if it had been repainted
25:56
but the roof of the tunnel the ceiling
25:59
upward was still had that kind of
26:01
old-timey
26:03
like mural style yeah maybe they
26:05
remodeled it it's going to the other
26:07
side
26:10
so in all the years you've been here
26:11
you've never walked underneath there i
26:13
didn't even know about it until fairly
26:14
recently it goes directly under the road
26:16
what's the name of this road uh this is
26:18
ocean boulevard ocean boulevard
26:29
oh so this is the sea mist
26:29
so yeah they must have moved the sea
26:31
mist yeah
26:35
well that's a bummer if we can't walk
26:35
underneath here
26:36
yeah that stinks
26:44
24 hours it goes right underneath the
26:44
road over to the sea mist
26:47
you know because probably during the
26:48
summer it's hard to cross the street
26:58
i was excited about that
26:58
see my shadow down there hello
27:00
now here's a photo of what it looked
27:02
like back in the day
27:03
i believe the sides have been painted up
27:05
but the the ceiling up there would have
27:07
still looked the same
27:09
it'd be pretty cool to walk through
27:10
there hopefully by summer when this area
27:11
picks up
27:13
as far as tourist-wise they reopen it
27:15
and just to give kind of a wide out
27:17
perspective so you have an entrance and
27:19
an exit on both sides of the road
27:21
we tried walking down there into this
27:25
boarded up and across the way on this
27:28
also boarded up so the only
27:30
tunnel underground here in myrtle beach
27:33
is no longer accessible
27:35
sad trombone
27:37
i also just learned something too
27:39
about these little side pools the
27:41
shallow pools you don't see this anymore
27:42
for insurance reasons
27:44
so to find like a you always see hot
27:46
tubs but you'll see a big pool
27:48
and then a small pool for youth over
27:50
here
27:51
you don't see these anymore now they all
27:53
build these with you know into a shallow
27:55
end
27:56
so you taught me all kind of neat stuff
27:57
today i didn't know
28:03
it's got that like second floor
28:03
lobby or whatever
28:05
restaurant at some point yeah
28:07
i love this south seas annex over here
28:09
to the side
28:24
old mini mart right there
28:24
there was a picture of the lady on the
28:25
sign originally
28:27
and i guess they have painted over all
28:29
that
28:46
and you can just hear the three's
28:46
company theme song playing right i feel
28:48
like santa monica
28:54
does kind of give some sand well it's a
28:54
beach community just like santa monica
28:56
california
28:58
this atlantic view right here is a
29:00
lovely spot
29:02
another one of the older ones yeah it's
29:04
got that red show office
29:09
so is this still used as a hotel or as
29:11
an apartment it's basically apartments
29:13
wow look at this truck yeah this guy
29:15
loves jesus the holy ghost healer
29:19
this is the fountain
29:21
if you notice it's not the fountain blue
29:23
b-l-e-a-u
29:29
i guess
29:29
but um
29:30
this place is to be torn down is it real
29:33
let's shut this place down
29:35
as well as the oasis hotel behind it
29:38
this was a monthly say too judging by
29:40
the sign there
29:41
and you know beautiful glazed brick you
29:44
literally can't make that anymore no one
29:46
will make plays brick you can't find it
29:49
right the oasis will also be torn down
29:51
they're going to tear the oasis down
29:53
yeah this is all going
29:54
data city bought this for like 15
29:56
million bucks just last week a couple
29:58
weeks ago
30:00
so even this building's going to be torn
30:01
down
30:05
crate myrtle over here this is one of
30:07
the oldest hotels that we have in town
30:11
the largest
30:12
uh luxury resort hotel in uh in the
30:15
entire south
30:16
the building still stands no this is it
30:18
getting demolished
30:19
getting down getting to my there's the
30:21
photo of it getting demolished yeah
30:27
oh my gosh
30:27
look at that
30:28
so we have arrived at the shop
30:32
of jack thompson you said mr myrtle
30:34
beach
30:36
and then this broadway theater they're
30:38
going to be remodeling it and putting it
30:39
back they're actually going to open a
30:41
theater again i didn't want to show too
30:42
much in there obviously
30:44
a lot of that artwork
30:46
sells in the book but showed a couple
30:48
couple a couple photos it does have a
30:50
few books for sale
30:52
jack thompson made a book and it's for
30:53
sale inside the shop with a lot of the
30:56
vintage stuff from around myrtle beach
30:58
but it used to be city law
31:00
that you had to wear a bathing suit for
31:02
the festival oh so if you didn't wear a
31:04
bathing suit they'd put you in the sun
31:06
fun jail
31:07
and there's like famous pictures
31:09
actually of this cop right here he's
31:11
wearing a bathing suit all the cops are
31:12
wearing bathing suits in full uniform
31:15
with short saw no kidding oh here's the
31:17
broadway cafe yeah
31:19
so this over on broadway um that's
31:21
probably right over here actually
31:23
because this connects to broadway okay
31:25
this is a very unique building this is
31:27
the cozy corner and this was the
31:29
wonderbar
31:36
the only basement in myrtle beach
31:36
the wonder bar can we go down there
31:42
hey how you doing
31:42
hey
31:43
very nice
31:57
is the basement bar still down there i
31:57
can hear you are you guys opening
32:08
yeah you never see basements around here
32:08
you want to come down
32:10
thank you
32:12
we really appreciate it be careful
32:14
we will there's nobody coming this is
32:15
the first one i see it yeah yeah he was
32:18
telling me the story this used to be
32:19
called the wonder bar yeah
32:22
oh look at the steps
32:25
this still have the wonderbar stuff on
32:27
oh the painting
32:30
look at this just a little makeup that
32:32
way whoever rented to fix it you know
32:34
this is great yeah
32:36
yeah it's got two bathrooms in the back
32:39
the space little bar
32:41
i love it my buddies they remodeled a
32:43
lot of this back in the day when they
32:44
were originally going to do something
32:46
nothing ever happened
32:47
one of the only basements in all of
32:49
myrtle beach
32:50
so you got the tunnel that was closed
32:52
off then there's also this basement he
32:53
was telling me about
32:54
that's so neat
32:59
yeah thanks for letting us look around
32:59
all right
33:00
appreciate it
33:03
thank you so much
33:23
tile work this is so awesome it's so
33:24
funny you were talking in the car off
33:25
camera about this place and now we were
33:27
able to walk in there
33:30
sometimes things just work out
33:34
yeah they wouldn't have done anything
33:35
like that recently this is all from like
33:37
the 30s and 40s
33:39
oh this is the old broadway theater
33:40
there's that photo
33:42
yeah they're going to put like a
33:44
performance theater in here because we
33:46
have a performance school too
33:51
you can see where the marquee probably
33:51
used to stick out there
33:52
look at these doors
33:55
wow look at this
33:57
look at the computer look at this old
33:58
doorbell
34:00
even says doorbell
34:02
they got like a
34:04
zenith laptop
34:10
look at that that was a club this is a
34:12
great so this is broadway well this i
34:15
think actually it might be it whips and
34:17
turns into broadway down there either
34:19
way just turns into it it must be i
34:21
guess because this was the broadway
34:22
theater
34:24
i love it
34:26
okay they're going to be pulling all
34:27
this new facade off
34:29
restoring it back to the original brick
34:31
because you can see it's all just
34:32
plastered on top of the brick yeah like
34:34
and you can even see
34:42
you know it's like you can touch the
34:42
original facade it's right there
34:45
that's all gonna be coming
34:52
no longer an active pizza place but this
34:52
is a very
34:56
looking structure walking up to the
34:58
train depot
35:00
still got the little cross switch here
35:07
turn
35:07
no longer moves
35:13
trains still run through here no we
35:13
don't have any trains around no trance
35:23
but all this is original that's the
35:23
original porcelain sign the myrtle beach
35:25
that you saw in those photos
35:27
from the 30s and 40s
35:34
they just renovated this not that long
35:34
ago it's pretty expensive but
35:37
you can um rent it too they have uh for
35:40
events yeah
35:41
they even have one of the cars set up
35:43
for office meetings and stuff like that
35:50
yeah original sign up there
35:50
that's great
35:51
and if you are in town you can just uh
35:53
you contact them don't send someone over
35:56
let you in they will nice
36:04
look out for train this is super vintage
36:09
wow look at this thing it's bolted in
36:13
the ground for good reason
36:14
yes that is a relic
36:18
got the old tracks down there
36:21
see the fun wheel off and it's called
36:23
the fun wheel right uh sky wheel
36:25
skywheel
36:30
skyway
36:30
and one of the cars though
36:38
see we got the little
36:38
you can hear the ac's on right
36:41
the city planters will meet inside these
36:43
trains
36:45
well especially this one over here
36:47
they have a little office area inside
36:53
you see i mean it's a really nice area
36:53
you can do nice little events here
36:55
people get married here that's great
37:01
old train station and we've about
37:01
completed the retro tour
37:04
in fact here's jack thompson's old
37:05
studio
37:08
i saw a lot of retro goodness
37:11
with the retro myrtle beach guy one and
37:14
only
37:16
there's no other
37:17
retro myrtle beach guy near the one and
37:20
mr fish seafood grill he misses fish mrs
37:24
fish i don't even know he misses fish
37:25
there was a contentious
37:27
divorce okay
37:30
mr fishes uptown are you serious
37:33
no way
37:34
they divided and i believe where we
37:36
started here at city hall is a good
37:38
enough to place to end this episode as
37:41
any
37:41
a lengthy fun time around myrtle beach
37:46
weather vane
37:51
i always want to say maine
37:51
but maine is like
37:53
mane and tail for a horse
37:55
well you'll have to come back when it's
37:56
actually nice i'll come back one summer
37:59
when everything's open but i got a nice
38:01
little tour that's a car show we'll do
38:03
the whole thing yeah
38:04
all right i'll see you the next video
38:05
the vlog
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is over