Tearing Down Roadside Attractions In Orlando - Progress On Former Mystery Fun House & Holy Land Spot
Roadside Attractions Tear Down
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday December
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27th 2023 Celebration Florida and angle
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I don't usually start the intro from
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right here in this parking lot near
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where my apartment is which made it very
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difficult in moving things the last
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couple of weeks and most of it in the
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last couple days but I'm here to say I
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got the last bit of stuff out of my
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small
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apartment and all I have to do now
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tomorrow or the next day is do deep
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clean on it and turn in the keys before
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the end of the month so that is kind of
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nice I've got everything crammed in the
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car but you can see the parking lot is
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always full down here at least in
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December during the day everyone going
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to the restaurants the shops and it is
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good that people are coming down here
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but the parking when you're trying to
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move things from an apartment in this
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area or over in here or over in here if
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there's no parking in this section you
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got to park way over there and move
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stuff stuff at a tremendous distance but
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this done at least today I'm going to
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start over on Highway 192 and then I
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might go over to a couple places on
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Interstate 4 just kind of winging it
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today got to run some errands and I
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figure while I'm out running them I can
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also put together an episode and as
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always I'm inviting you to join
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me good to have you here shall you
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restricted area no one permitted on
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stairs
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oh they got the Stans and pull back you
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can drive up in here now sometimes I'll
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oversaturate stuff and I'll film
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something that's kind of relevant to my
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life or a certain spot multiple times
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within a short time
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frame sometimes I feel like I'm
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overdoing it or maybe running a subject
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matter or a life update into the ground
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but then I realized
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that down the road you know a month two
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months 3 months a
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year certain things that are happening
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in my life won't be happening and I can
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always look back on certain things or
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places that I kind of you know I'll
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document for as I say posterity so I'll
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probably be hitting a couple of those
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type of spots up
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today places I've been before places
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that were torn down are now being placed
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with new places kind of little updates
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on those
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sometimes even when I cover something I
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think man I've covered this through the
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three or four different stages of
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Demolition and then I look back when new
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items pop up in those places I think man
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I'm really
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glad that I covered it I don't know
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maybe I'm the only one that cares but
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yeah you can always tell where cool is
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cuz he has quite the congregation of
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people leaning over the edge looking at
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him he was right over there against the
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railing see everyone's just gu finger
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pointing
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it's funny like how you know I'm guilty
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of it too see people are all looking at
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the same thing but yet you pull your
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finger out you're just like there he
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is excitement is contagious when it
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comes to
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pointing right over oh he's
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there say of this yesterday and I'll
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reiterate it again even though I am
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moving out of the downtown celebration
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I'm still still in this General vicinity
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still in
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town I just won't be parking my car down
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here I'll be riding a scooter riding a
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bike or if I do drive my car I'll park a
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couple blocks away and walk in if the
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parking is too
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hectic so I'll still be seeing cool
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still be cool updates I am going to me
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Miss in a way the parking kind of stinks
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down here but I am going to miss being
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right here in the belly of the Beast
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with all the all the stuff going on
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during the holiday so I got my piping
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hot caffeinated beverage here from the
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Starbucks I am loving mobile ordering
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mobile ordering Starbucks that's a game
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changer also I'm surprised I never
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noticed these before these are
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little obstacles to keep people from
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skateboarding on doing a little rail
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slide down the concrete that would be my
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guess
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anyway also keep in mind that everything
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I'm saying about the parking situation
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down there is only pretty much during
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December some during Halloween time too
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but the rest of the year it's pretty
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mellow downtown it's just one or two
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months it's pretty
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brutal in in certain events looks as if
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my assumption that's all it was was an
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assumption at first until pulled over
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and read the
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signage before
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Christmas and it is now officially
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confirmed they have already this is 2
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days after christmasday the 27th as I'm
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filming this so post Christmas 2 days
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yes yesterday there's no activity out
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here
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today this sucker is coming
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down the anti-gravity theater
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originally this was used as a movie
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riter location originally built for a
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movie
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riter not to be confused with the Great
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Movie
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Ride at Hollywood Studios well
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originally MGM Studios this came a few
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years
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after this thing is being torn
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down and I missed must have been early
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this morning they tore down the building
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that was right over there the time share
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building they are just hauling this
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stuff off like nobody's
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business watch out
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sir I'm going to lurk over the edge
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actually I'm just got to go right up
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here isn't locked off
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here holy Lord look at this goodness
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gracious feel like Miley Cyrus right
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now wrecking ball it's not a wrecking
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ball it's a wrecking machine right
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there dang I was kind of on a whim I was
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thinking man are they going to like tear
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this thing down when I drive by
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yesterday I drove by it wasn't being
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torn down today look at
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this holy cow it's got to be hurting
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that guy's ear standing so close to
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it loading it up hauling It Off by the
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end of the night this bad boy will be
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history that's already gone goodness
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gracious
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what if they're going to tear this down
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this old signage right
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probably I think it opened in '96 I was
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looking up some info on it the other day
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early 90s obviously Hollywood Studios
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MGM Studios I should say open in '
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89 kind of shared a similar name Great
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Movie Ride This was the movie Rider
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pretty wild I don't know if that's the
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owner of the property there in the truck
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or if it's just the guy that's the
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foreman of the demolition crew probably
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Foreman of the demolition crew maybe I
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don't
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know like they're starting over on that
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side so I'll try to walk around the
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back wow I timed this
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perfectly a loop around the side here
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get a different
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dear I was thinking maybe the tape would
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go that way but it's already already
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come down I'll go over here off to the
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edge I don't to get too
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close here's an image for
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you at the Big Orange over there
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thankfully salvaged and saved from the
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fire that broke out 9 months
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ago
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or this could be happening to
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that and I've also learned as goes with
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mystery fun house that sat empty for
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like 20 years
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empty even though it was repurpose and
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used for other stuff it was pretty much
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not mystery fun house for over two
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decades
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and also where they're building the
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Advent Health Hospital which should be
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holy land for many
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years once those were torn
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there but once those were torn down they
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immediately started building so I'm
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guessing according to what the other two
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things that were recently torn down in
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the Orlando area that were sitting
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stacked maget for so long could see some
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progress popping up here soon probably
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another restaurant like this
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one doubt there'd be any apartments or
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condos right here this direct long 192
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but
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maybe use a new retail establishment
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would be nice that guy's having a field
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day in there I was like cheering them on
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it's like a sporting event out
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hate to see a piece of 192 history go
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away I'm a big fan
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Advocate connoisseur of Highway 192
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history the road that Disney World
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pretty much built or at least brought to
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fruition you know made it plentiful and
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bountiful and the reason it fell into
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hard demise a lot of it has to do with
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the fact that when Disney World first
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opened people would come out here they
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would stay along this stretch of road at
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all these
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motels and that you know progressed over
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a couple decades cuz there weren't a lot
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of onsite hotels first at Disney World
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and then later
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Universal but now there's over two dozen
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or more on on Side Hotels now there's
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value resorts at Disney so no tourists
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would not know but very few tourists are
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staying off property and in my opinion I
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mean I don't not no expert on the matter
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but in my humble opinion I think that
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has a lot to do with the
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demise of this
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area it's just fascinating to watch
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though this could take a while
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most likely this one went first the old
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time share building right
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there which just a few days ago well
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more than a few days three or four days
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ago I was
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documenting walked up and look in the
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windows and all
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that they got probably a good quarter of
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the building already
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gone see right up inside there
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interesting thing is less than two weeks
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ago my friend world mik and I were doing
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a after dark on 192 video we walked
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through
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here I was kind of showcasing it he's
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out of town at the
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moment I let him know the other day that
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there's a good hunch that they were
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gonna tear this down he goes man what a
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weird
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coincidence what a weird coincidence we
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were just
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there and of course I did another video
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talking about how I was assuming with
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great uh great accuracy in my mind that
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this thing was going to be being leveled
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soon
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and update it
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is reverse construction
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all right I think I'm going to go do
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some other stuff check back a little
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later prob tonight when I come back by
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here this thing will probably all be
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gone or at least not vertical anymore
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slowly but surely some of of the icons
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of Highway 192 are biting the
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dust at least the Wizards are still
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around the two different gift shop
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Wizards the Big Orange the flea markets
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Medieval Times there's a lot there's
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still a
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lot and even the ones that have changed
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ownership changed hands and are sitting
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empty a lot of the structures are still
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standing for
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now for now this is also interesting I
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never noticed this before so obviously
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they built this more
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fluid sidewalk years later but here's
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the original sidewalk or one of the
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original sidewalks that runs parallel to
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the other sidewalk interesting I don't
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know why I never really pay much
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attention to that but yeah the both
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sidewalks are still here they made that
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more for bike PA you know bike path
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pedestrians walking things like
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that took a little commute up to
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the I almost said Florida mall but the
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Millennium Mall which is up on I4 The
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Container Store which sits just outside
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of the Millennium Mall one of the
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greatest organizing places ever and I
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have purchased a big
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bag of items from The Container Store
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this is just on the outskirts of the
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Millennium
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Mall things that you never would think
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you need they have in there for
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organizing and for a new place I got a
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little bag I'll be frequenting this
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place over time kind of like how I was
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at Home Depot yesterday The Container
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Store will definitely be a spot I mean
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this place is like like again this is
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something that you never thought that
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you stuff that you never thought you
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would need they have in
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there and since I'm right here over
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I4 right down there is the new
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construction where holy land used to be
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stopped here at the
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light right down there was the old hole
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Holy Land which I've covered quite a few
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times and it was finally torn down and
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now it's being rebuilt with a whole new
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property nothing left to the Holy Land
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again doesn't take long once once
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something is torn down for new
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construction to start being
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built that's what's happening over
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already going full vertical moving quick
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there were rumors that they were going
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to keep one of the main amphitheaters
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from the former theme
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park but evidently that rumor did not
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pan out correctly they bulldozed all of
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it and now building all new buildings
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for Advent Health not got to spend too
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much time showing this but did just want
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to pass by since I was was in this
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particular neighborhood and I'm kind of
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on the subject matter of things that sat
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empty for a long time and then finally
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torn down thinking that they would never
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go away and they finally go
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away something else pops up kind of like
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I just showed earlier I'm going to swing
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back by 192 and a bit see how much
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progress they made since I was over
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there earlier in the movie riter ah this
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is interesting too this used to be a
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parking lot across the
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street for holyland theme park and is
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now fenced off too as well so evidently
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the new property owner also owns this
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which was the Overflow parking for what
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was once
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there now over just about a couple miles
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from where I just
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was a lot of progress taking place here
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where mystery fun house used to
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be look at
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this yes it's stagnant and empty for so
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long and finally I caught it as they
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were bulldozing it and then months later
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few months later well I don't know 5 6
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months later it is already gone
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extremely
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vertical look at
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that wow the only real Landmark that you
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can kind of match up
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is right around this back corner this
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piece of art right
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there that little like piece of art
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that's like going to the sky it's like a
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bunch of people stacked on top of each
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other see it look at that
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wow not a shred left to the old mystery
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fun house days classic Roadside
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Attraction here in Orlando Gone Forever
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they're not messing around man they are
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really going to
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town taking care of business on this
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thing so just think eventually someone's
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going to rent one of these apartments or
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condos maybe they're for sale I don't
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know but they will be living on the same
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spot as the
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animatronics from the movie Parenthood
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starring Steve Martin and they might not
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even realize us where they're living now
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made it back over to 192 looks like they
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have finished up for the
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day so evidently going to be at least a
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two-day deal they got half of it down
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they got the front half including the
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Marquee is gone and they just have the
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back portion left which I would imagine
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if not tomorrow in the very near future
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we'll be up next you can see part of the
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Marquee is now right there on the
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ground you can see in the
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building that's all this left basically
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it was a two-part building here you had
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this big section and then a smaller
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level that came off this way and then
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the Marquee was right there you can see
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this little smiley face right there on
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the side of that
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beam yeah it's yall just sitting here in
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rubble at least for one more
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day a shell of what it once was sitting
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here for all to see driving along
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Highway 192 I don't think many people
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care there was no no onlookers really
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besides the the the company that was out
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here earlier taking care of it you can
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see everyone driving by probably
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wondering what in the heck was that well
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it was movie
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Rider and then it was an
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anti-gravity theater for a while now
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just Rubble all it
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is soon to be
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removed
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progress
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place your bets on what will be here
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next hospital going up where holy land
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used to be condos
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apartments Etc going up where mystery
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funh house once was what will be here
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time will tell time will tell I would
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imagine something will pop up soon one
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thing's for sure when a demolition crew
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comes in they don't F around they take
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care of business look at
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this
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one day is worth of work two pieces of
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heavy machinery and three or four guys
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taking care of it it is halfway leveled
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just like that a piece of History
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today sometimes you got to remove some
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stuff to have a little progress
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sometimes you got to change some things
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to move
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forward sometimes you have to give
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something up to get something
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else I get
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it thanks for watching I'll see you the
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