Relaxing Tour of Old Town Orange California - Historic Houses & Movie Locations / Original Fountain
A stroll around Old Town Orange California
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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current time
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uh a few minutes shy of 8 a.m i am
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beginning today's adventure at this
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starbucks
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uh my caramel brule i believe it is
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called here in this holiday
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cup this was an old bank
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no it was an old daily news not really
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sure why i said buying but old daily
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news
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old town orange i refer to it as the
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orange circle some call it the orange
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plaza i am just going to meander around
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some of the blocks
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enjoy a piping warm caffeinated beverage
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oh yeah that's good filed this under
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relaxing
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video of the day as i just traverse
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the streets orange california
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meander around and there's already a
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beehive of activity over there
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those who are doing a little landscaping
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a little
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cleaning of where the fountain is
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you can see see how it's all set up
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the traffic is going around the loop
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here and they still
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based on regulations have it set up
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where outdoor
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dining is very prominent
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and the thing
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the signage all placed
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you see it's very mellow this early
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i like it nice
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let's take a stroll i'm inviting you to
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join me i figured because
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you know doing a lot of theme parks this
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month and
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spoiler alert next month going to
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florida walt disney world
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will be very heavy on the disney theme
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park
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content i'm gonna end this year
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on a good note with a lot of theme park
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visits so
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just this is a more mellow kind of
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something to a little
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to change the taste of the palette if
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you will here
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here and just kind of enjoy the day
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inviting you to join me
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shall you i always like to point this
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out it's a little difficult to see under
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the
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under the shadow there but you can see
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where it says owl
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cigars painted on the side of those
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bricks
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very quaint little area
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in the evening times it really the pace
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picks up
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a little bit you know these streets
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could definitely
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be seen very prominently in that thing
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you do
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when they first heard the song on the
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radio they're running
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past this store here and then they
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continue
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to a place called it's a place called
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tiddlywinks now
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and that's where the hardware store well
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the appliance store was
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down that way on the other side of
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fountain and
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all the workers there cleaning things up
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you see the fountain there and the
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coffee shop i just exited is
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over there on the far corner there used
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to be the same establishment
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right here in this wells fargo bank but
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they closed there were two starbucks one
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at the wells fargo
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and one over there but a couple years
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ago they closed the second
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of that franchise and as this guy leaps
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over that chain and runs
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towards my direction you will see the
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fountain that is not the original orange
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county fountain the other one i'll
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walk a couple blocks i've showed this
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before but it's worth reiterating
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it's pretty interesting how they have
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moved the fountains the original
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fountains around
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it's almost like a scavenger hunt of
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sorts as i pass
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watson's which was also prominently used
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in a
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number of feature films and commercials
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near the antique coca-cola signage
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it states some of those that were used
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established in 1899
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and showing it down there in the tom
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hanks movie as well as the
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the bench warmers i believe that's
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schneider
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talking to a lady out front oh and then
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down here it said it was used
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in gumball rally starring burt reynolds
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among others president bush
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even stopped off one stopped off here
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for
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a famous malt now that i did not know
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if you listen closely you might be able
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to hear
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as the traffic goes by you might be able
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to hear the orange county parrots
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up in the trees there
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as the bus goes by there's also a lot of
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historic homes i'm going to show a few
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around these parts that are very
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pleasing to the eye
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yeah the parents are hard to hear with
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the traffic going by
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out front of this little convention
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center
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where bicycles skateboards are
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prohibited
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is a signage that is a slightly
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incorrect
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based on what a gentleman who is a local
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told me
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a few months ago when i was pointing out
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he had seen some of my videos how i
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always stated
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that this was the original plaza
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fountain
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which would have been at the circle now
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that was moved here
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however i was incorrect in my assumption
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the original fountain is not this one
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nor is it the one
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down the way the original fountain is
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right over there
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you can kind of see it peeking around
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the side of that building oh yeah
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listen hear them
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they're very faint but they're i don't
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think they're in those trees
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you can kind of hear them they've
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they've slowed down on their
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squawking this is
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this is the original fountain that used
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to be in in front oh they're making
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noise again yeah they're up there
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oh there they go looking for parrots
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yeah have you been down to heart park
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heart park where they are
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that's where they're at they roosted
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heart park oh okay cool i'll walk over
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there
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thank you
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that guy just told me that they roost at
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heart park
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i know at the circle you can hear him a
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lot
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yeah they're up there there goes there
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goes three of them
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there it is i would not have known this
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fact
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if someone would would not have told me
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i would have just gone off that placard
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which is incorrect because it states
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here
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on another information area
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gotta walk just about a block over
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passing these
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very nice homes homes not
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homes homes h-o-m-e-s
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always reminds me of south pasadena the
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architecture of some of the buildings
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very similar to south pass around here
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even though this is orange county i
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really enjoy the the look of this
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brooklyn
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here on the corner of center and maple
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and by shifting this way just a bit up
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on the corner past these hedges is a
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filming location
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from the movie big mama's house
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and you guessed it it is the house it is
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the facade the exterior
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seen in that movie right up here at the
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end of the sidewalk
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there is a crow right there strutting
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its stuff there going up up up it's
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getting a little snack there and the
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puddle
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this is it
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sprinklers are on
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big mama's house i can't see why
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they utilize this because it is is very
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impressive looking and it was not only
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this home
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but also a couple others around these
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parts in fact this one right across the
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way can be seen prominently
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on more than one occasion through the
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course of that film
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so this one and this one
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and that martin lawrence comedy
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camera okay there it's stabilizing it it
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almost looked like it was shifted
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camera was confused for a moment it is
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very beautiful through here oh a
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dog there
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yeah some of these homes are really
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really amazing
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i always thought it'd be neat to own a
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home down here
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it probably never happened but it's fun
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to think about
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this almost reminds me of the
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architecture you'd see in
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you know a salad southern cal state not
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a salad california southern california
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fast food establishment the original
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buildings of taco bell
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kind of resembled this with the
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brickwork and the roof line
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for the cactus out front i point this
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out because
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it's neighbor is a home that has a lot
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of
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historical significance this this right
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it's been here for many many years
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restored back to how it looked
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circa 1910 it's the ainsworth
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historical house louis and persis
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ainsworth resided here
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well lewis lived from 29 1829 to 1914
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him and his wife
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chose the city of orange as their home
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in 1901
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they raised their three sons louis frank
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mitt and two daughters
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eva and ena right here in this
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very place the restoration of this house
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was
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initiated by the town's bicentennial
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commission
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and councilman don smith it is
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listed on the national register of
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historic places
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pretty cool i've always walked past us
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but never stop to read the info
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sometimes it's good to just slow down
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and
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take in the sights it's good to have a
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peaceful day
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a tree is very very prevalent blocking
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a pretty good portion of the view from
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the road i just did a little quick
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research very impromptu of
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other places that are on the national
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registry here within a couple blocks and
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there's one just up here about
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you know two streets or so oh check that
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out at the fire station they have the
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they got the hood up like that that's
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pretty neat
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the time on that clock is incorrect
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way off
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maybe he got struck by lightning and
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sent someone
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to a different time time frame
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no that would be 1004 that's not 1004
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either heads
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okay i'm very confused turned on to
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palmyra
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i believe that's how that is pronounced
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there's a porta potty
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in that yard and right over here
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is the cv culver house
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also getting a gentleman with a leaf
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blower
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they've done some mowing this was placed
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on the
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national register back in 86 and there
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should be a placard designating that
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that's a nice garage right there
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adjacent
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to the homestead wow
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the cz i made a mistake the cz
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culver house
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very very nice under the shroud
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of these rather large trees
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beautiful is an understatement
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yeah that is nice
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i always seem to find anyone that's
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doing
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yard maintenance of any of it if if i'm
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if it's anytime in the early
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early time and i am filming there will
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be someone
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doing yard work that's just that's my
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lot in life
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okay this is interesting
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this former baptist church which
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now is a restaurant says margaritas to
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go
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is also on the national registry
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means it cannot be torn down i think
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that's the the rules
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but it can be converted into another
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establishment so it's no longer a church
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so 192 south orange street
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built back in 1893
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yep state so right there july 11th 97 is
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when it was placed on the
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do not change list in fact this entire
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area this one square mile radius
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known as the plaza district is on the
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national registry as well the entire
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orange circle back in 1981 it was a
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historic landmark but it until it was a
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year later when it
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became completely official
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established in 1886 is when the plaza
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also known as the orange circle
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began whoa i thought i was back in
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florida for a moment you know i do go
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coast to coast pretty often
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and these are these are often seen
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lurking these gators here and they have
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this is just some yard art decor
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but they almost look pretty real this
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one is referred to as the parker house
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and designated as one of the oldest
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in town dating back to 1886
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a victorian style home
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even has the directional
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north south east west rustic look
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right out front here the beautiful
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butterfly
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and the plaque can be seen from a
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distance
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it's right there on the porch
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that was a nice little archway a little
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foliage
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archway
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a very nice neighborhood even the post
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office
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has that small town feel
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wait however i don't think it's very
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nice that this crossing signal is asking
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how much i weigh even though this facade
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has been redone
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its former entity signage has been
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placed back you can see they have the
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plastic on the
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light bulbs there because they are
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redoing all of this
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and this neon was taken down but happy
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to report
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that the neon is back in all it's the
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retro neon
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has returned just as the rumor
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stated nice
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it is very faint
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but there were church bells down there
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that were ringing for a moment and now
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they have stopped there's also
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a bunch of birds yeah look at all those
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those crows there in the yard a
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hitchcock would be
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yep
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