James Dean Tour - Including His Abandoned High School
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welcome everyone when you think of
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legendary performers only a few come to
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mind
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one of them would most likely be James
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Dean he grew up and spent most of his
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life here in Fair Mount Indiana let's go
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around the old stomping grounds of James
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Dean join me shall
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you our first stop is a little town
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right outside Fairmont called Maran
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Indiana check out this parking lot right
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here look at this empty parking lot this
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might not look like much to you now but
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in 1931 this was the exact spot where
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James Dean was born come take a look at
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this right here on this rock is a
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placard look at this right
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here February 8th
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they used to have a barricade here
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stopping people from getting into where
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the apartment complex used to be but
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someone has busted down the barricade
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pretending to be James Dean James Dean
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was a
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smoker this might have been a
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remnant of James Deans
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on a side note morrisy filmed his very
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first music video after the Smiths broke
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up right here down this Main Road in
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fact you can see this sign and a camera
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shot a crane shot comes down and we can
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see morisy walking in the snow he filmed
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a whole homage to James Dean here in
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Fairmount in 1988 we're living
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vicariously not only through James Dean
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but also through morisy I love The
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Smiths
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ah Fair Mount Indiana James Dean's old
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Hometown it's safe to say that James
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Dean spent a fair amount of time
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here here on the corner of East Adams
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and Vine Street is a very historic
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spot his high school
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just think of the hours spent learning
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in this building the friends he made
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memory shared and now this building sits
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empty
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decrepit abandoned
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look up top up there that open window
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was Adeline null's classroom she was the
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teacher that taught James Dean how to
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start acting and the importance of the
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Arts in his life the window is still
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cracked and opened all these years later
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well as you can see you can no longer
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get up to his classroom the stairs
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completely fallen in
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near downtown they've actually erected a
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memorial with this bust of James Dean's
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face this Memorial used to actually be
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at the cemetery but when they first put
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it up at the cemetery people would
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actually
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steal this from the top of the monument
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so they've had to move it closer into
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town it's actually just rained out here
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and it almost looks like James Dean is
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crying it's a little tear right
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there see that little tear right
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there he's
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weeping this is where he first performed
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in front of a crowd as a small child in
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front of the congregation he did a short
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play
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right inside that door the birth of a
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legend it's pretty awesome to think that
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James Dean at one time as a young lad
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walked probably through this alley or
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maybe he was scared of this alley he
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wasn't quite a rebel at that age that
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came later in life he became a Rebel
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Without a Cause so maybe at a young age
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this alley terrified him but as he was
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older and he came back he might have
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walked through this alley so who knows
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this alley could have been walked
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through by none other than James Dean or
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something Indian
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Motorcycles this is the building where
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his first motorcycle was purchased right
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through those doors the building is now
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abandoned spent his hard-earned money
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pulled through that little bay door and
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sat on his very first motorcycle
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awesome we got some Ivy I'm not sure if
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it's poisonous but it is a form of Ivy
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going up the door leading to the
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original sign nailed against the wall
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and if you look closely up top you can
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see Fair Mount which is where we are
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Fairmount
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Indiana you got to wonder if there's any
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motorcycles inside there just waiting to
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be purchased by Future James Dean
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afficianados
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if that's even a word offici
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fans which do you prefer fish anado or
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fan whichever's easier to spell I'm
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going with
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Fan Fair Mount Indiana I think it's fair
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to say that James Dean mounted his
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motorcycle right here and rode off into
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the sunset
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you can see the fair Mount Bank building
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behind us and there's this famous photo
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of James Dean walking exactly where I'm
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standing look at
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this
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1889 the number still on the top of the
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Bank building right up there 1889
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the last picture of James Dean in Fair
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Mount Indiana would have been standing
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right behind us take a look at the photo
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down below here you can see two little
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water
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meter plates on the sidewalk those two
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water meter plates are actually right
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here he would have been leaning up
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against this glass window beside where
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he was has actually been bricked over
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and there's an awning that's new there
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as
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well a pretty historic spot he was
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standing here some onlookers coming to
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greet him he was talking to his cousin
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standing right beside him
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here very
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cool here on the corner of North Main in
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15th Street lies this Cemetery let's go
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across the road there's a picture of
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James Dean and his cousin standing right
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here on the left corner of the calan
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Grave you can see James Dean standing
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basically in the same spot that I am
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with his little cousin right beside him
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right
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there the reason I started off by
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showing you the address and the
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crossroads the cow Dean grave is very
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difficult to find so if you make the
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pilgrimage out here and you want to find
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the Cal Dean gravestone that's how you
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find
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it this is the fair Mount Friends
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Meeting church after the car wreck and
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after he passed away his body was
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brought here right inside of this church
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building in fact these are the exact
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steps that his friends and family
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members carried his casket down
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his aunt and uncle are buried right here
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the winslows he lived with them most of
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his life at the Winslow Ranch Uncle
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Marcus took him in when he moved back
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from California at a young age and most
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of his life was spent living with them
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as His parental figures how fitting that
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now he is
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buried right next to
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them this is the grave of James
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Dean people have left some motos here
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some rocks with some carving some
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flowers some
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cigarettes all right here on the
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gravestone as well as this
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rock down below people have carved and
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written their
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names in The Rock
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also women will kiss the gravestone you
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can barely see lipstick prints or lip
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marks on the gravestone people paying
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their respects to James
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Dean this is the Winslow Ranch this is
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where he lived almost his entire life on
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the second floor of that home home is
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where his bedroom was there's a lot of
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history and a lot of photos online if
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you do a lot of research in fact this
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side of the barn can be seen in many
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photos with James Dean right here on a
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tractor doing some work caring for the
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animals over in the
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pasture hey
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horses this whole area pretty much looks
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like it did back when he lived here the
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owner of the house is actually the
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little kid shown in the photos I showed
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you earlier at the grave site and also
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the shot in town where James Dean's last
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photo was taken in Fairmount that little
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boy now owns this property and is trying
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to keep it looking exactly like it did
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when James Dean lived here if you look
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carefully you'll also see this rock wall
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there is a remnant of the rock wall as
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well here to my right hand side the rock
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wall that went up the driveway the
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little awning is still the same you can
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see the rock wall right here
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and there's the awning looking almost
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identical as it did in
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1955 very cool very
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cool Hello horses do you get a lot of
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tourists out here wanting to talk about
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James Dean do you guys know a lot about
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the history of James Dean being in the
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pasture yes
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you're nodding your head
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yes yes or no yes or
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no oh now you're being shy do you know
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anything about the history of the land
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you are standing
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on do you like James Dean yay or nay
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got a car behind
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you what moving too fast
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stop can you see
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it can you see me in
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there crap this stupid freaking car in
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in the photo you'll only see two barns
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now there's four barns they've
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progressed with the barning issues
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this is the spot where James Dean why do
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I keep saying James Dean everybody knows
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what we're doing a video