My Last Day In San Francisco At Lombard Street & Top Of Coit Tower - Fisherman’s Wharf To Pier 39
San Francisco August 2023
Transcript
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today's adventure brings me to San
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Francisco California Union Square Off in
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the distance
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gonna try a new coffee spot for the
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intro today right down here there is no
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one driving this car there's no one in
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it's a ghost car it's a ghost car
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this Beacon
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of a blue bottle is the name of the
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coffee shop called
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blue bottle
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we're gonna get a little San Francisco
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area coffee
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start today this is right on the corner
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of Kearney Kearney
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welcome everyone out of the wood here as
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a recording of This is Friday August
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18th
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2023 Daphne is here if you have an OJ it
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is I have a cardboard sleeved item here
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with their logo on it with the blue
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bottle a San Francisco based company
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talked to the Barista so they are
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expanding out of the city but they
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started here yeah they're pretty good
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it's I uh put a little of the granulated
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sugar in a little some kind of a syrup
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some simple syrup So today we're going
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to go to the tower wait Tower yeah boy
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Tower Lombard Street down to the piers
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down to the pier and a seafood place
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that you really like by the name of I
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love Tony's lighthouse
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actually a couple of two years ago we
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were here right yeah so we're gonna
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revisit Tony's Lighthouse and just see
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what else where else we could find
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throughout the course of the day yeah
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I'm inviting you to join me
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it's good
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it also signified that this is called a
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hot pour over we are going to take the
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45
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towards Lombard
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wait it just stop right in the middle of
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the road
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we have to board down there no we board
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up here
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and now we're gonna make our way
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to Lombard Street clearly we are not the
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only ones here with the same idea there
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is a real beehive of activity out here
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people driving up and down
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this iconic Street taking photos of the
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road as well we will not be driving up
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and down the street because I don't have
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a car with us
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but there it is people running out on
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the road getting their photos
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draped with flowers
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looking the other direction you go to
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the top there's a trolley stop at the
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top
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as well and one of the other spots we're
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going to end up going to should be able
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to see right over here Coit Tower
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we're gonna end up heading up there you
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can see it right there
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off in the distance
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uh looks like there is a VW bus coming
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down the side of the Hill there
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foreign
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at some point we're going to make our
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way over there and go up to the top of
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Coit Tower
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and if you look the opposite way
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towards the bay you can see Alcatraz off
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in the distance
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oh
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I thought that was one of those
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self-driving cars there's someone in it
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now there's someone in that one
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not a self-driving car what it is but
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there's someone that
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just like Bob Saget in the Full House
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going down the hill there on the bikes
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you live on this street pretty much
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prepare for people to always be in your
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driveway
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head on the road
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I can't even imagine living on this
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street just just like constant stretch
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of cars
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I hear you up there cross
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a very unique looking house right here
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also this incline walking down
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incredibly distinct here we got some
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stained glass windows up there in the
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home
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we're now walking up past Pizza Zone
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where there is a big pair of pants this
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building used to be and probably still
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is
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owned by Tommy Wausau
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how do you pronounce his last name
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here I feel like I pronounce it
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different everything yeah every time I
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say his last name I pronounce it
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differently
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oh there it is
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who created and starred in the room he
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owned this building he still has the
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room poster up top right here look at
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this there's a big tomato here holding a
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pizza pie and a Diet Coke bottle one of
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the random moments I had when I lived in
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Hollywood there used to be a Denny's
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right on the corner of the 101 and
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sunset it's been torn down
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there's another one that's on Sunset
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close to Gower Gulch I believe is still
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there known as The Rock and Roll Denny's
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it's not that one it's the one that's a
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couple blocks away it is now an empty
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lot but when I lived at Hollywood years
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ago for Jordan the lion and I we had a
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late night snack at that Denny's and
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Tommy was in there eating sitting in the
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booth next to us
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super random
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anyway there goes the seagull going by
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this is Anchorage square and there's an
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anchor right there that's spinning
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around very very slowly it's like on a
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little dial
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so it just kind of spins with wherever
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the way the wind blows
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right next to the pants
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the window stop so now the anchor has
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stopped spinning the seagull though just
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flew by a gun all right we are now up at
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the base of Coit Tower looking across at
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the Golden Gate Bridge a little less fog
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today than there was yesterday
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we're trying to look at the bridge
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we're gonna go to the top of the tower
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itself which is way up on the very top
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of the hill so she should get a pretty
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good view
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from up here
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there's a little stand parking area up
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here and the little stand that you
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purchase tickets
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to go to the top
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somewhere over that direction is where
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we just were
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at the top of Lombard Street
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trees are kind of obscuring the tower
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behind us if you encounter a coyote keep
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yourself pets and the coyote safe by
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leaving the area very slowly you never
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feed
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a coyote
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and walk
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do not run
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you see a coyote leave the area quickly
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but not too quick no leave the area
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slowly okay um leave the area slow do
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not leave the area quickly
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slow pace up towards the top we're gonna
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go
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right there
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got the flag wave it in the breeze
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the sun glare up there a little Sunburst
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210 foot
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built in 1933 with Monies
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bequeathed
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by Lily Hitchcock Coit Hitchcock quite
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would be proud to beautify the city she
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loved
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interesting and this placard is placed
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here in October of 1983 on the 50th
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anniversary
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this designated historical landmark and
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if you walk out here it can get a good
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view no no
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as soon as she loved the tower
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commissioned by San Francisco
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it's closed at 5 PM every day
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how to get in
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into painted on the side of the wall
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that's a lot of murals in here
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we've been over here
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got the railroad workers got the train
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at the iron workers
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here's some historical photos of the
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tower itself
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that's 1933 there so this is when it was
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under construction and this is 1933 when
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it was finished
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they go into the main area without
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tickets but to get to the top I'm going
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to follow the handwritten sign here it
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says tickets
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story you said that there's a little
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hearsay some rumor first but the lady
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that built it was in love with the fire
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bench having an affair with a fireman
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and it looks like a firehouse yeah like
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that's why the top of like Coit Tower
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looks so unique that's supposed to be
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that's always what I heard it's supposed
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to look like the top portion of the fire
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hose yeah and so that's what I created
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every race but I'm not it's some kind of
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a cool story you know it's like an
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homage I'm like her lover which he would
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see it would go oh that's for me yeah
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and your other your significant other
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doesn't know about it
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once you say something enough it has to
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be true yeah all right let's go get our
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tickets
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do not touch the murals or lean on
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barriers this guy's just trying to
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squeeze out of that tube the little man
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hole there
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all right elevator tickets it's like
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they're ten dollars each all right the
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cost was ten dollars per person
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so they take an elevator but the guy
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that sold us the tickets and the lines
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are so long they might open up a walk up
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to the top I'm gonna be a little patient
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there's a lot of people foreign
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he's making a little phone call here
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a sailor right here's got a little
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cigarette he's giving me the side Eye in
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the Sky
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some malted milk for a quarter no you
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get a whole lunch for a quarter malted
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milk was even cheaper a can of soup or a
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soup was five cents
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right this is the cowboy Clifford Wright
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who made this mural
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there's a photo of Lily right there so
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we're doing a little research and
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there's a lot of conflicting stories so
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it all depends on who you talk to one
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thing's for sure she'd love firemen
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she loved a man in the fireman youth
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uniform
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it's like a little uh smaller version
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right here this is like a miniature
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version
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and the cost of this is ten dollars was
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also a little donation station here if
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you want to contribute more to other
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there she is look at this that's her
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father
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all right we are bypassing the elevator
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line we're gonna walk the 13 stories up
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the stairs there we go thank you so much
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I'm coming I'm taking the stairs
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all right let's take the stairs here all
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right stairs stairs right through here
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13 floors 13. we got we'll do us we'll
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go slow
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pace we're just going to take our time
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and look at each little area we've got
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the archery over here you got this
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gentleman really getting into it with
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this bow
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just really loving the bow there
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baseball player yeah
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so it looks like every level is just
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decked out in artwork the stairs up
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instead it's about 13 stories
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but there's a lot positive all right
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there's not murals on every level okay
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that was the murals
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yeah
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step seven okay be careful of the last
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step yeah
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have reached the top koi Tower 13 floors
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up
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yeah so this is closed but this one's
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open so every middle window you can peek
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out
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look at the open air
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all right so right down there is where
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we started walking up whatever you do
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look at all the lane clear little things
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there so look it out at the pier we're
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going to go down to the piers
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shortly we're going to end up down there
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for some seafood that he got all the
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other all the other Piers there and then
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you got Alcatraz off in the distance and
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of course the San Francisco
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well all iconic I mean Alcatraz is
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definitely very iconic
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but also the Golden Gate off in the
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distance
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see the
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transportation going by all the trolley
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cars really good view of Alcatraz there
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and you can even see the ferry yeah
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Alcatraz boat going across
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is it
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you think ant-man's ever been up the top
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of coin Tower
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possibly
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he was he was in San Francisco
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Treasure Island
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and Oakland over there
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other side of the Bay
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in the skyline right here it's awesome
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I think one of the coolest views of the
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skyline is from Alcatraz living near
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Allen Alcatraz either looking across
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pretty dang amazing as you can probably
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get the same kind of view if you're over
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on Treasure Island over at Oakland
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or Alameda yeah just pretty cool this is
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the step we were warned about and they
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have double warned it by putting us
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double painted it here in the last step
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careful that last step it's a doozy all
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right I gotta go back down
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thank you
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do not allow any open Foods Foods or
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snacks
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littering
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chips oh look at this they're even
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looking they even have the the name the
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Red Bull on the side of it there
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probably would imagine other other
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companies too but they just use that as
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an example
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wear the backpack on the front
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second floor do not touch
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the murals are about to head back down
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into mural territory right over here
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from the second floor down do not want
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to scuff up the murals by having your
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backpack on
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so they suggest that you don't do that
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all the ladies are all bundled up look
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at this little kitty there's a cat oh
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wait so the cat is a dog
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and oh there's nothing
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here oh there it is though maybe that's
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Georgie
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looks like she's seen Pennywise we all
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float down here you float look at this
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that little little puppy you know what
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now that I look at it from here it does
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kind of look like the the tip of a fire
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hose I could kind of see that
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I could kind of see the fire hose
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kind of look at it from there so if you
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kind of pan up that would be the top
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portion and then you got here across the
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Bay Bridge
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so it's up for interpretation fire hose
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or not a fire hose I think it's
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definitely a fire hose right the story
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is very
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I could see it from here yeah I can see
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it walking back down the hill from Coit
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Tower
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take a look up here in this window
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Chucky
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that American flag very patriotic Chucky
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Barbary Coast Trail this guy panning for
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a little gold right there
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passing the Lombard Heights Market
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and we're going to continue down to the
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shore and when you walk over to
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Fisherman's Wharf there is the classic
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sign you can see in the beginning of
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Full House and just like a you know I
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always think of like Bob Saget and the
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Olsen twins and all of them even though
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it really wasn't even them it was just
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extras that were utilized for the the
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opening of that but I always they always
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think of TGIF when I think of that but
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there's a place over here called Nick's
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Lighthouse over tucked away in the
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corner and gonna start off with two
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appetizers with some clam chowder over
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here you put a little pepper in yours
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and I always like to put the oyster
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crackers and put a little oyster
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crackers in here all right the next
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platter has arrived we have a dozen
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oysters on the half shell half a shell
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there we got the lemon all right you're
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gonna give them a little drench in the
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lemon there just like douse it up and
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the main course has arrived we got the
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crab what a lobster roll I should say
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you got the fries over there and then I
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ended up getting it with the little
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ranch on top of the salad so this is
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what we're dealing with right here and
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now stepping inside
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Museum of old arcade games uh take a
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look at this this is like The Laughing
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woman right here it's like laughing like
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mocking anyone that's like standing in
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front of her right here
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nothing's sad originally located at
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Playland beach in the 40s to 72 also
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known as the fat lady right here look at
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her just continuously laughing
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as an old bumper car from the Playland
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days
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I'm putting my second quarter in for 50
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cents
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wizard will predict my future what do
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you have for in store for me Wizard oh
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you're looking around looking very very
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confused you're gonna like put oh oh
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you're telling the future you're gonna
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give it a little tap there on the
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counter give it a little tap my future
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looking good wizard it is my future's
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looking good do I need to wear shades
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this is so bright I Gotta Wear Shades do
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I just give me give it a little tap give
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it a little tap and give me a nod yes my
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future looking good yeah this one is
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called end of the trail
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I'm gonna put the quarter in here and
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see what happens with the oh it's the
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old dusty trail look at this
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the old dusty trail does not end well
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for some of them down there the symbol
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theater so I'll put a quarter in this
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one and watch the oh they're gyrating
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right there doing a little dance for me
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all four of them dancing in complete
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sink right there this guy's doing a
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little head banging too almost like he's
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at a Metallica concert of sorts ah so
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here it is this is the one right here
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this is the arm wrestling one that Julie
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Andrews did the little arm wrestling on
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right there you could tell he's wearing
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kind of the Luchador mask oh take a look
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at Jolly Jack over here he is just
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chuckling it up having a little laugh
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right there Jolly Jack having a little
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belly laugh I am easily offended do not
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play this machine called song of the
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Prairie listen closely this is like I
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think this is going to be like a Blazing
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Saddles moment listen
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are you I think you've had enough wow
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yep more beans I think you've had enough
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got the Sawmill now for a quarter
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there it is The Sawmill was working
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High over here is moving the law he's
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got the waterfall down here and the
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wings probably very nauseous if I was on
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those wings right there that seems a
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little bit too fast
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am I taking ride em cowboy dropped 25
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cents in the slot and there he goes he's
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got a [\h__\h] Bronco right there
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oh hold on harder
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come on
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all right Uncle Sam I'm gonna put a
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quarter in I'm going to squeeze once
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he's going to let me know what if any of
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these things I might be right here so
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I'm gonna put the quarter in
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and then I'm gonna squeeze once all
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right I'm squeezing it and Uncle Sam
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says that I am shy now on to the Belfry
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There It Is Gonna ring the bells look at
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this we're ringing the Bells
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dance Mountain Boys give us a little
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dance by the mountain foreign
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's going up slow he's going up slow
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what's he doing
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dropped 25 in to buy Dan a drink there
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you go Dan wait your whistle right there
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Dan wet your whistle get a little get a
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little uh booze it up
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how's it taste good it's good right this
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one has me really curious
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your father up late at night
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tending to his child
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yeah this is one of the coolest places
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ever
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antique Relic arcade game
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games
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soon
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EST dance the can-can
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what sort of career will I have the
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career pilot will tell me for a quarter
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let it spin let it spin I am gonna be a
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nudist
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ah I hear
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seals
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okay
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this is one of Ruth's asawas San
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Francisco for this is ruthless San
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Francisco Fountain visitors come from
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Far near to see the fountain that tells
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a visual story of San Francisco and it's
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just all these little etchings and
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carvings all along here there's Abraham
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Lincoln right there there's city hall
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right up top there see what else I can
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find
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the port down there that's where we just
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work kind of near the piers in that
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general area this looks like a conductor
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some sort
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trolley car here kind of turned on its
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side
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see the palace right there yeah Palace
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of Fine Arts
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oh we're just hitting all the landmarks
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that we did this last few days there's a
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pumpkin right there up there is uh it's
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a tiger or the lion or some sort or some
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snakes and there's the fountain itself
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there's a little skeleton
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right down there this is right over near
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Union Square Union Square is right
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around this corner
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it's interesting if you listen you can
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hear the cables pulling underneath the
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ground that connects the cable cars and
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pulls the cable cars around
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there's no one in that car there's no
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one driving that car wait there's
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someone in the passenger seat though no
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one driving it up hello pigeon and
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that's gonna do it for today from San
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Francisco it's very getting a little
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little cool and crisp at this hour
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flag here downtown is waving kind of
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sort of in the breeze
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thanks for watching I'll see you in the
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