The Final Moments of John Lennon - Visiting The Dakota & His First NYC Apartment / Strawberry Fields
John Lennon In NYC
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today's adventure begins here in New
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York City as the recording of this
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Monday
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May 15
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2023 going under the glitter and
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Polished Nail and Spa
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to John's coffee shop American flag in
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the window Tampa Jay is in the
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reflection let's get some John's coffee
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get some coffee
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coffee you talking like a Boston
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Bostonian I've been here too long no I
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was trying to do a New York Times New
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York but I'm not that good at it welcome
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everyone
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woo here
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I noticed they did not put the cardboard
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sleeve around it and it is definitely
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piping hot very piping hot it's burning
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my head today we're gonna very warm
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today we're gonna take the subway over
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to an area you are familiar with Central
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Park oh Central Park I am going to go
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buy some John Lennon spots quite a few
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John Lennon spots and then just kind of
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see where the I've always wanted to go
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to Strawberry field the Imagine on the
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ground mural in Central Park and the
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Dakota and then possibly a few other
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things maybe that you have in mind we're
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just gonna have a mishmash experience a
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little sightseeing so apart beautiful a
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lot of iconic spots who knows what we're
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going to see along the way there's all
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kinds of things to see my entire life
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well probably the last 30 years of my
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life I've always wanted to go
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to where John Lennon had his last last
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moments big Beatles fan I'm a big
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Beatles fan myself I visited spots
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before but it's been a few years I'm
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anxious to see what what
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maybe you could share some of your
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experiences there before and I can have
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like kind of a somber moment and we'll
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have some good moments too I Can Only
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Imagine
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well done inviting you to join me and
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Tampa
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I like what you did there with the I can
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only imagine that's another song that's
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a different song though you know like
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there's there is a song a Christian
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artist in a song called I can only
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imagine and it ended up becoming
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a big top 40 hit yeah which is rare
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which is rare for a Christian artist to
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like have a
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yeah I know that's all very well doing
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the subway we've been doing some
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Rideshare stuff I did a taxi from the
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airport trying to do different modes of
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transportation today some subwayage
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celebrating 110 years of Grand Central
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as stated here there's some copies of
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the New Yorker and the Grand Central on
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the New Yorker like this vintage old
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letter box right here
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so we got to do a little more research
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on which of the trains we need to take
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so most of the trains up here go far out
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I do have an affinity for vintage clocks
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like this the Jay is inquiring over here
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at the Metro North train information
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which way we need to go for being very
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helpful
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good not to get on the wrong train
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I can never not be excited about showing
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this building
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it's incredible okay so the gentleman
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gave us a map said that we had to go up
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four blocks to another station that way
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we'll have to transfer that way we don't
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have to transfer we're gonna go to Ryan
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Park and get on the train do that direct
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route you know a lot a lot of New
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Yorkers get a kind of a negative
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connotation but I gotta say I've well we
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run into a lot of really nice people in
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the city I always say that every time I
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talk yeah
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yeah you know that stereotype needs to
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be broken I mean there's probably some
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a-holes yeah but there's a-holes
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everywhere evidently this is also known
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as Pershing Square and one thing there
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is no lack of through here are taxis
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taxis Ubers lifts ride shares Subways
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trains
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a plethora of Transportation no need for
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a car in the city in fact I didn't even
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rent one I usually have a big car rental
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guy
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no that's a that's a that's a big No-No
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don't do that yeah we're gonna go down
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here I love the vibe of the subway
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it just flashed back to so many like 80s
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movies think about think about Subways
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on film it never ends well entering
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through
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the B train
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talking to me
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you talking to me
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getting off at 59th Street
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right there
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Columbus Circle
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welcome to Columbus Circle I'm thinking
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of the state tough marshmallow baby is
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that spuds McKinnon oh never mind I
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thought that was like a Spuds MacKenzie
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type of dog but it's not
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where's Rick Moranis
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when you need them they are taking lawn
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maintenance to a whole other level
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got the lawn tractor over there
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turn this way you get a really good view
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isn't that awesome
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of the skyline partial Skyline here the
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Essex House
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man this is awesome
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okay wait for it
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I don't know if they call these the
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Columbus rocks
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pretty epic view there's actually a lot
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of footage of John and Yoko in the park
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walking around a lot of video footage
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they were always in this bar it lives
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right across the street from it yeah
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I'm also really glad this exists in the
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city because there is no square footage
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anywhere except Central Park
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I mean it's just amazing the value of
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this land to a developer would be
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astronomical you could build you could
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have 100 000 people just living in this
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one section right here and this is only
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one 100th of Central Park it's all along
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the Central Park
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truly is without this here the air would
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be pretty dirty this is all these trees
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this is like a just a giant filter to
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the concrete jungle I believe it yeah
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a little sculpture here someone with a
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falcon or an eagle or a bird of some
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sort I think it says the Falcon the
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Falcon oh yeah it does say the Falcon on
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it
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no honking over here no Sirens over in
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here just birds chirping up in the trees
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I like it
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say it there it's so beautiful
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some mind game Vibes in there of course
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Johnny Yoko used to walk around in there
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quite a bit they also filmed the video
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for mind games I love John Lennon solo
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stuff too I love the Beatles but later
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in my life I started really appreciating
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John solo stuff there he is
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Abraham Lincoln here
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I have arrived to a place that I have
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wanted to come
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for a long time to pay my respects
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I went through a big phase
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probably for a good solid three years I
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mean I've liked the Beatles my dad liked
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the Beatles it was his favorite band
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growing up in fact he picked up the
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guitar
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because he loved the Beatles
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And I always remember him talking about
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The Fab Four
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Me growing up
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and then later in life I really started
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to come into my L with my Beetle fandom
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this is the Dakota this is where John
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and Yoko Ono lived
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and John would frequent Central Park
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which is located right over here he
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would meet up with people take photos
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plenty of videos of him wandering around
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over in there and they lived here
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until his last moments
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December 8th 1980.
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it's when the event happened it was a
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very eventful day
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in fact there was a photo shoot by
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for Rolling Stone it was the front cover
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of Rolling Stone for Rolling Stone the
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cover of Rolling Stone with Yoko laying
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on the ground John in the nude in the
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naked laying on top of her of course
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concealed where you really couldn't see
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anything
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you know so it's a PG photo shoot and
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originally Rolling Stone knife from what
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I heard didn't want Yoko in it but John
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said no I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be
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on the cover Rolling Stone without my
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wife so that's how that happened those
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photos were taken on the same day that
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Mark David Chapman showed up here twice
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two times the Chapman showed up earlier
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that day December 8 1980 a day that will
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kind of live on an infamy but basically
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as the story goes as I've always heard
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it over the years as Chapman showed up
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earlier that day
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in the early evening got a photo taken
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by a guy named Paul gorish I believe is
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what his name was
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and he was an acquaintance of Linens who
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would take photos always in front of the
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Dakota
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and he took a bunch of photos in fact
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the photo is used on the single for the
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album from his buddy Paul not McCartney
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but Paul gorish of him walking right out
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of here on watching the wheels
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the single which is my favorites my
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favorite of John Lennon's solo
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yeah I just I really relate to that song
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so Paul was here taking a photo of John
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and Yoko walking out getting into the
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air getting into their car right here
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they went to the studio which the studio
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where they recorded
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Double Fantasy which is where
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David Chapman was over here in the
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standing getting an autograph the last
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photo one of the last photos maybe the
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last photo of Lenin still living
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with Paul gorosh over here taking a
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photo of Lennon
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with Chapman right there holding the
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Double Fantasy album getting you getting
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Goosebumps yeah oh you were saying it
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I've been here a couple times before
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it's just always so heavy man yeah it's
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pretty sad
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so then they got in the limo they went
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off they went over to the studio which
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I'm gonna try to figure out where that
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was where's Double Fantasy already been
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recorded but went over the studio came
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back around 10 50 I believe it was went
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in Chapman was here waiting and uh
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yeah the the Restless kind of History
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and this little this little sideway here
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this is the photo from the watching the
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wheels single final single that Paul
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gorish took so he's basically standing
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where we are and doorman is now but it
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still looks the same and here's a photo
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with John's acquaintance his buddy I
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don't know if they were friends but they
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were definitely acquaintances who took
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the last photo and the photo with
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Chapman
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not sure if this this this uh was on the
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same day that's probably that might have
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been the same day as Paula Boris and
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then in here look how happy this doorman
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is here the only the only people that
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had any clue this was going to go down
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was Chapman who
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yeah he just he had kind of pre-arranged
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in his mind that was going to happen
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this is not Chapman as far as I know
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like that is Paul gorish because you'll
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notice Chapman did not have a mustache
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warsh did but this is the photo so this
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is right in front of that Archway so
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this is John Lennon signing the the
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album for Double Fantasy
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was always kind to the fans that would
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show up here in fact when he showed up
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later that night and Chapman
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you know it was
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did his uh
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horrific deed
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linen could have easily just pulled in
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the archway but he didn't he wanted to
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get out and sign some autographs and get
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some photos with those who those who
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liked him so he could have easily
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protected himself but he didn't so this
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is this is one of the last moments
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here here's another photo yoko's on the
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other side of John there
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still see the angle of that building
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still looks the same now the photos I'm
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showing did not happen at 10 50 p.m that
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night when linen showed back up would
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have got out of his car
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walked in
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and Chapman was over there waiting he
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had seen him earlier earlier that day
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and as he was walking I said the cars
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the limos could have just pulled right
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inside of here would have been no big
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deal for the doorman to just opened up
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they could have gone in protected and
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everything
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I believe it was five
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into the back of linen so not even in
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the front Linden was walking away
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and you know pretty horrible
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definitely horrible I think Chapman's
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still still in jail to this day pretty
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cowardly to shoot some shoots on the
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back and of course once the news broke
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it was just worldwide
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I mean just a
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I mean I don't know what it was like
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when Robin Williams died in my
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generation and I would imagine it
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probably would have been kind of about
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the same Vibe for a lot of people
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definitely cried a lot with Robert
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Williams passed away and I would imagine
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a lot of Tears were shed
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foreign
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here's another photo by gorish
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across the way with Leonard
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what I was kind of reading that gorish
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was kind of the Dakota linen
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photographer like John and Yoko got to
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know him by name we're very friendly
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with them they we definitely liked
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having him take him take photos and once
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the news broke a shrine immediately
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popped up in front of us you can see the
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little stanchions here you can see all
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the flowers that were left right in
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front of there you see the
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lanterns there and all that still looks
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the same
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I mean this is exactly it's very eerie
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Eerie how precisive and yet another
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photo here that the Cruisers out front
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blocking all the people
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taking in his prime you gotta wonder if
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he would if he had lived another few
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more decades what kind of songs what
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kind of theories what kind of opinions
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what would have happened to John Lennon
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so here's a couple of artistic
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renderings of kind of what went down so
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you could see Lenin walking away in the
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back there
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Chapman is the first there Yoko I
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believe probably up towards the top
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and then here's even more detailed kind
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of given the info here so the car was
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parked at the curbside right in front
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next to the century post
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72nd Street
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in the pass way to Dakota Courtyard this
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States
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car
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right in front
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so the car was not off where that other
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car is the car was like right here
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would have happened right there
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right basically where the gate is going
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into the different brickwork the
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concrete onto the blocks and kind of in
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that general area there
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we're just saying it's probably the most
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uh
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most photographed doorman of all time I
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was saying yeah these guys probably in a
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lot of videos and photos I would imagine
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so there's even been standing here
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there's probably been 30 people stop by
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yeah and there's always a doorman there
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no one's ever not on shift all right I
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was looking online I found a few photos
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there's one of Yoko out on the kind of
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the not the balcony but with the door
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opened and it's faced over into the park
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so guessing either probably this one or
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that one there with the little Veranda
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there and the wrought iron around the
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side
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probably that one but it was it was
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something on this side right here a
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magnificent view of Central Park and
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someone has placed a John Lennon sticker
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right here too
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there's also a photo of John and Yoko
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right here on this very street corner
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pretty impressive building
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the spot I wanted to come to for a long
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time
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the place in Central Park called
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Strawberry Fields
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it's just in the same area in fact it is
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very close to here it's just within very
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short walking distance right into the
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park itself I believe in the mid 80s
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they did this in honor of John and they
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placed the Str they named it Strawberry
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Fields in honor of him and they have the
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whole setup and they have the Imagine uh
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you know template not a mural Where They
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Call It Whatever whatever they would
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want to call that the tiling and whatnot
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and where the Mosaic is is within eye
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view
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of the Dakota right there look at that
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that's how close it is
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after the occurrence or after the event
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took place
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John Lennon was taken over to the
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Roosevelt Hospital which is one mile
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away it is now
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Sinai West Memorial
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one mile that direction now while we
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were back there at the little Memorial
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there was a guy playing guitar he
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started playing Strawberry Fields
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started to get a little choked up yeah
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me too man that's heavy it's hard to get
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a little chilly man just like John would
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have wanted it yeah I always think about
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it from a doctor or a nurse's
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perspective
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you know because yeah the Beatles were
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the biggest
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biggest group in the world like who
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didn't know
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John Lennon when they're brought in
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famous people are brought in
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they go about their job and they take
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care of their business
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but they must have to think wow this is
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this is who I have this is it this is
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the spot see this is the original
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building here
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this whole area you can even see how
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dated it is almost looks like something
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from that generation
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to be the the newer building up top here
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do not know what room it was
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and obviously we're not going to go in
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film inside but I wanted to show the
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exterior made it down into the Hell's
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Kitchen District corner of West 48th and
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9th Ave down this way used to be the old
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Studio where Yoko and John collaborated
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on Double Fantasy
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right down here which is the album that
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Chapman got signed John signed for Mark
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David
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before everything else kind of
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culminated in that horrible moment
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so it was one of these so this is 353
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West 48th let's see if I can match up a
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photo there used to be an awning
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okay it probably was right here see if
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this brick wall looks the same
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no placard no info of any time no
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historical significance documented other
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than the the 353 up top
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I believe was on the top floor okay
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here's a photo so there was an awning
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it's like the entrance has changed a
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little bit but if you look over here
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there's these very interesting gray
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boxes that are still there they have
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removed the metal grates and whatnot and
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place mirrors there so they would have
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basically walk in right below where the
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353 is and there's an elevator when you
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look inside and I did confirm that it
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was on the sixth floor
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where they recorded the album double
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fantasy and just just a weird sad tie-in
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to Chapman now also there used to be a
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step up right here now there's like a
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little slanted area so there's no step
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leading into it but definitely see those
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gray squares are still there the
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elevator would lead from floor one
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two three four five and six being the
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very very top floor right up there and
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there's a rumor that Yoko ended up
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utilizing that for other recordings but
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it was a different company it wasn't hit
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hit Central or hit Studios
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that was the same but even though she
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ended up utilizing the same Studio space
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and another Studio moved in and she
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later later in life utilizes okay very
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interesting I just mentioning the other
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place called Seer sound moved in like
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two decades after
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the Hit Factory did and they're still in
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there offices look at this offices sixth
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floor
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sear sound right there
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that is wild
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I swear they would have walked in
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yeah so it was right in there on the
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sixth floor with a recorded
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tracks for that album just like starting
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over on that
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beautiful boy which he dedicated to his
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son
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and watching the wheels very interesting
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tie-in because of the Chapman tie-in I
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was mentioning but also in the songs
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that were recorded up there for watching
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the wheels
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the photo was taken and used for the the
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single
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from devil fantasy that was recorded in
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here over at the Dakota so just kind of
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some weird tie-ins that just kind of all
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connects with the subject
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subject matter man
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okay have wandered over here to the
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first spot that John ayoko
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moved to in August of 1971 they lived in
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the Saint Regis
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hotel in fact there's an interview
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there's not a lot of photos
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of them here but there is an interview
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that John did of course we're asking
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about the breakup of The Beatles the
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court case and all that
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pretty descriptive interview of his you
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know unhappiness with how a lot of it is
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happening and couldn't just just a quick
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search I couldn't find what room number
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it was or anything it probably
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would be allowed to get up to it either
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way but I kind of wanted to throw this
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in as well just because when you're out
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to the breakup of The Beatles and all
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that and he just kind of wanted to get
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to you know do some different things
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came to New York
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Yoko before they got the house they
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lived in one other house which is in
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French Village before going over to the
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final place that he ever lived but first
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it was over here of the Saint Regis
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John and yoka Yoko and John and I
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believe Yoko met him
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in New York
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remember right and from this area oh
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well pretty much all this area there are
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a lot of really ornate beautiful
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churches that are down here look at this
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one it's kind of silhouetted out with a
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little
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Sunburst against the window
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I'm gonna go over to a spot that's not
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beetles or living related but Midnight
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Cowboy yeah I'm walking here spot this
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is going to be kind of tough to match up
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because the scene is really zoomed in
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for Midnight Cowboy
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okay if you type in 1414 6th Ave
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Manhattan blue dots a little office
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there's big buildings around but you can
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see up here down sixth so here's Central
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Park up there 14-14
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is the building I'm standing right in
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front which now has ivy around it it's
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more of an upscale restaurant
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but they were walking right down here
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down the sidewalk
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long zoomed in shot and they're walking
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that direction
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Central Park is over there there's a
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taxi right there so basically if I was
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to walk across here so I'm just doing
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this if I was to slam my hand down on
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that cab that's the exact spot
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Dustin Hoffman did and yelled out
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I'm walking here I'm walking here right
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there
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coming right down here super zoom it's
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almost like they had the camera probably
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all the way down there with an
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incredible lens zoomed in
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for that now iconic ad-lib it wasn't
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even expected as the rumor goes they had
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a barricade down that direction and the
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taxi driver didn't want to wait because
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they're so annoyed with the filming
24:41
going on in New York it went through the
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barricade went around it and ruined the
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very very long
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you know the long shot that was
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happening so taxi comes by
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goes right through here right about
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where that gray van is Dustin Hoffman
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walks across slams his head down on the
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thing and slams his hand out on the
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thing does the ad-lib yelling he really
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was upset and they kept it in hey I'm
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walking in I'm walking here right there
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you can go put your hands down on the
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the taxi right here yeah it was right
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here and when you watch the clip in the
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movie the camera is a little farther
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back and zoomed in you can't see the
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14-14 or the Spiros
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floral shop but evidently there was a
25:22
photographer on the scene so the camera
25:24
was like just a little bit farther over
25:25
to the right it zoomed way in and they
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thankfully they were able to get this
25:29
address this is the proof that this is
25:31
this is where this happened which you
25:32
know that restaurant across the way
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1414.
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1414 6th Ave
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corner of West 58th all right we're
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gonna get back on the subway
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and head
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South
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other area
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down
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Down Columbus Circle station down the
25:52
hill in elsewhere
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one downtown
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got the sun glistening upon the Water
26:45
in fact the wake is so heavy
26:47
but this dock is like kind of banging
26:50
around over here
26:52
but off in the distance the Statue of
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Liberty I've never been onto the island
26:57
or up in the Statue of Liberty that is
26:59
on my to-do list one day I don't know if
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I will be able to do it on this
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New York trip but I'll be I'm gonna
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definitely be back to New York this is
27:07
not my last day I'm still here for a
27:08
couple more days but
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got other things uh on the list
27:13
but I've really enjoyed the last few
27:16
days that I've been here
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and we'll be coming back on a very
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regular basis but across the way
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a very important Landmark for many many
27:25
reasons but there's a little bit of a
27:27
tie-in
27:28
with this episode also
27:32
a photo of John Lennon in front of that
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one of the most famous photos of him at
27:36
New York to be honest now it's going to
27:38
get a little grainy and blurry when I
27:40
zoom in and I am zooming in from the
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Lady Liberty
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right over there
28:13
that dock is really just
28:13
bolted up and down up against the side
28:15
they're making a lot of racket
28:17
here's the photo I'm talking about
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given the peace sign
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in front of Lady Liberty
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I just I guess you could call this dusk
28:33
I've covered some serious ground today
28:34
and didn't think I was going to make it
28:36
over here but we've been walking a lot
28:38
we've been going commuting around the
28:39
town and just decided you know what I
28:42
should head over to bank Street which in
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October of 71.
28:47
Johnny Yoko moved out of that hotel I
28:49
showed a little bit earlier over near
28:51
the hey I'm walking there I'm walking
28:54
here that area and moved over to bank
28:56
Street into their first New York home
28:58
that is right down here a very modest
29:01
accommodations for one of the lead
29:04
singers in the biggest rock groups of
29:06
all time I think he probably could have
29:07
afforded a little more but he lived in a
29:10
little little walk up over here
29:12
near Greenwich Village
29:15
so it's this one right here it's it's
29:16
this kind of
29:19
this whitish huge building wow this was
29:23
where they lived probably not going to
29:25
be a plaque of any type
29:27
on the front of it
29:29
so there is a basement down here
29:31
it says not an entry so there's one
29:34
there's like a basement floor then
29:36
there's this floor I guess it'd be a
29:38
four-story building actually someone
29:39
lives up there the window is open there
29:41
are photos this is crazy
29:43
of them in the front there's like some
29:45
photos of them in the bed up there
29:49
and evidently they probably I guess this
29:51
is probably the entrance that you would
29:52
have gone in here
29:54
and headed up to the top
29:56
the one thing
29:59
the neighbor just one of the people on
30:01
the went came by and said he knew what
30:03
it was but Jay was just noticing this
30:05
thing might be on the on the destruction
30:08
block here put out the destruction block
30:11
but it might be on the chopping block if
30:13
you will the wrecking ball might be
30:15
coming in you know just a figure of
30:17
speech
30:18
this might end up yeah they've already
30:20
got the permits
30:22
wow look at this construction area no
30:26
one lives here
30:28
okay that's a bummer yeah
30:31
wow so this thing might be gone soon
30:36
really soon
30:41
I'm glad I came over here yeah
30:41
so their loft apartment it was the top
30:44
floor of the building I just showed
30:45
that's going to be torn down
30:47
it's like a baby even condemned
30:50
either way
30:51
there were three there's three sets of
30:53
Windows two sets of Windows you can see
30:55
in this photo where they're watching TV
30:56
and the other set would be behind the
30:59
television
31:00
right there I'm not sure who took this
31:01
photo
31:03
but there is a photo I mean yeah people
31:05
kind of follow them around they were
31:06
friends with them would take photos of
31:07
them from magazines and whatnot
31:10
but this photo is inside that building
31:13
in fact it looks like the windows are
31:14
the same it has the
31:16
nice I don't know almost they may have
31:19
changed out the windows
31:21
yeah maybe they changed the blocks out
31:23
on them
31:25
tough to tell
31:26
yeah probably so because those have two
31:30
sets of three yeah but this just has the
31:32
three so evidently they opened up the
31:34
window probably just air it out there's
31:36
no one living in there at the moment but
31:39
you could picture them just walking out
31:40
of that basement area there probably
31:42
wasn't even an elevator and they're just
31:44
stairs you probably had to do a walk-on
31:46
just
31:50
John Lennon
31:50
biggest music star in the world not
31:54
taking an elevator up to his fourth
31:56
floor apartment right up there
31:59
which is you know just it's kind of hard
32:01
to wrap your head around that
32:14
and the reason he moved out is a former
32:14
tenant that lived on one of the other
32:16
levels maybe even the one that was in
32:18
where his apartment was returned I
32:21
evidently had some accomplices with him
32:23
and robbed him of some possessions his
32:26
address book the television that was
32:28
shown in that picture that they were
32:30
watching up there he was really
32:31
disappointed that they stole his TV and
32:33
his address book it's a whole back story
32:36
on the address book
32:38
as well we got the address book back
32:39
because he kind of put out some some
32:42
threats out there that he was going to
32:44
send some people to find it so whoever
32:47
took the address book returned it and
32:49
then he said you know what this place is
32:51
not safe I'm going to move to the Dakota
32:53
and even though a lot more secure
32:56
we all know how that ended
32:58
but that could have happened here too
33:08
if you would just walk by here and think
33:08
oh this would be like where maybe John
33:11
Lennon grew up this was like before he
33:13
got famous no he was the most famous
33:15
person you could imagine in here right
33:19
up there this is like my old Saint Cloud
33:21
apartment you know like but I mean
33:23
probably a little more money to rent now
33:24
but yeah it's just like a little it's
33:26
just a loft yeah it's so practical yeah
33:30
it's amazing
33:31
all that was that got him to go
33:34
somewhere more expensive was for safety
33:36
yeah
33:37
yeah it's interesting in a Chapman's
33:40
been interviewed on why he did it and
33:41
all that and the I believe I might be
33:43
paraphrasing but it was said that he
33:46
didn't like how John Lennon was uh quote
33:48
unquote hypocrite when it came so I'm
33:49
paraphrasing so I don't know why I'm
33:51
quote unquoting it but it didn't like
33:53
how he was a hypocrite when it came to
33:54
his money he tried to like kind of have
33:56
this this attitude where he wasn't all
33:58
about that but this kind of proves that
34:00
yeah he was pretty he was a pretty
34:02
modest guy you can hear it in his music
34:04
yeah you could even say
34:06
there's a Working Class Hero A working
34:08
class hero is something to be
34:11
I didn't know you're wearing the button
34:13
Give Peace a chance yeah I've had the
34:15
I've had the button on the hold the
34:16
whole time
34:17
there you go
34:26
yeah it's gutted out I'm looking inside
34:26
they have already have the construction
34:27
lights Jay also noticed there's the
34:29
staircase so like I said no elevator
34:31
they would have walked in this door
34:34
and then walked up those very stairs to
34:37
the next set of stairs
34:38
up to their fourth floor Loft
34:41
up to the next one oh you know what
34:43
here's interesting this
34:46
so okay so you got one floor two floor
34:49
maybe those two windows
34:51
are those windows that are in that photo
34:54
and maybe each apartment only had yeah
34:57
this is the stairwell that is a
35:00
possibility it's more than we thought I
35:01
mean it's tough to say for sure but
35:12
so those could be the exact two windows
35:12
that are in that photo with the bed
35:14
behind there and the TV
35:27
upstairs and this leads to the second
35:27
third and fourth yeah so one apartment
35:29
two apartments there's four apartments
35:31
in here
35:32
and it was just two windows
35:35
incredible
35:39
glad we stopped by here because this
35:39
probably won't be here next time I'm in
35:41
New York okay we cannot confirm we tried
35:43
to make heads or tails of all the stuff
35:45
it could be that they're just fixing it
35:47
up hope so hopefully it's just a
35:48
restoration I guess we'll find out soon
35:50
enough there is a date on there for the
35:52
end of June 27th that they have until
35:56
they have those permits because that
35:58
could be a demo or I don't know let's
36:01
look at this does that look like a demo
36:04
or does that look like a refurb I don't
36:06
know
36:11
I'm gonna stay positive but if they
36:11
refurb it means no one's living there
36:13
right now which means maybe it will be
36:15
for rent
36:24
I could lay in bed and watch TV in the
36:24
same spot
36:26
that Yoko dish
36:27
and that's gonna do it for today
36:31
lengthy day cover a lot of ground
36:35
back up in the room
36:38
Nightfall is reared its head
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thanks for watching I'll see you the
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