Rare Look In Heritage USA - Closed Christian Theme Park & The Upper Room / Tammy Faye Bakker History
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here as a
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recording of the Saturday November 12
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2022.
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Duck's Donuts I don't think I've ever
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had coffee from Duck's Donuts also
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today's adventure or should I say Todd
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Venture
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YouTube's own Todd Venture channel here
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Connie and Todd are here to show me
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around the greater Charlotte area and
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also into South Carolina right yeah sure
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what do you what do you have up your
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sleeves
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for today
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up my sleeves yeah where are you taking
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me oh we're gonna go to uh Heritage USA
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okay and then another place you've never
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been to Heritage Village yes which was
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where it all started pretty much as
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which is basically the PTL Club yeah and
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enamored by these Donuts here bacon
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bacon what you got Connie got the bacon
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maple glazed donut and a regular glaze
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regular glaze fabulous everything go
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goes better with bacon that's it you've
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got the line yeah yeah there was another
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there was another coffee place you guys
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were going to take me to but it was
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closed yeah we drove a thousand miles
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and it was closed you didn't I drove a
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thousand miles oh yeah you drove like
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two miles
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here all right let's get going I'm
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inviting you to join me Connie and Todd
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from the Todd Adventure Channel
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shall you all right before these are
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devoured I just want to kind of show
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these a little up more up close and
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personal that's just chunks of bacon
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right yeah and what's his maple on there
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maple glazed yeah and the bacon that's a
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regular regular glaze yeah I'm more of a
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regular glaze but this right here it
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looks pretty delicious yeah we're gonna
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try it
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okay we drove a couple miles away we're
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parked over here behind this very
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impressive church building even though
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this probably isn't the best view we're
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kind of around the back side
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of the steepo and everything over there
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but this neighborhood reminds me out of
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something
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out of a John Hughes film obviously John
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Hughes films were in Chicago but this
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kind of has that vibe
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the first spot of the day
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is the home of an old western star
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Randolph what was his name Randolph
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Scott Randolph Scott oh yeah
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he was big in the 30 40 50s who was
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really good friends with Cary Grant
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right oh yeah
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yep and you were saying Carrie Grant
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once visited here oh yeah so they were
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kind of like thick as thieves they were
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uh they were buds they were yeah they
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were like this
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yeah in a lot of ways and this was his
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home right here yep and I learned
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something kind of interesting too I was
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looking up a little bit about Randolph
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Scott on the way to drive over from the
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duck's Donuts also I should say this is
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probably the most scaldingly hot coffee
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I've ever had which is oh by the way how
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was the donut it was fabulous loved it
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yeah yeah and the coffee is good too
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very very good did you get a hot coffee
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or a cold coffee hot
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are you a piping hot guy too
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your team Hot I'm a popping all right
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nice very nice but this thing is warm
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also his name was mentioned in Blazing
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Saddles
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where they said you'll do it for
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Randolph Scott that was in blazing style
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so a lot of Pop Culture references but
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also
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the Oakland Raiders now the Las Vegas
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Raiders were the LA Raiders they use his
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face the gentleman he used to live here
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the Western Star
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and his face what is the logo of the
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pirate they use his face to model after
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the pirate that's pretty cool have you
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ever been to this house before you ever
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been driven by a pocket but I couldn't
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really see because it was nice
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this is a nice area it's very this is my
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favorite area
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kind of has areas of Cleveland that are
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like this too that have a lot of the
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brick houses and then obviously Chicago
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as well
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some caution tape this is probably left
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over from Halloween
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but there is no placard here there's no
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there's no info is there
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there's info of course I mean there's
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plenty of stuff online you can find out
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about Randolph Scott living here yeah
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and being from here he was what's weird
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is he's he's
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he was accidentally born in Virginia
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family went on vacation right and mom
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went on into labor and but he was born I
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mean he's from here but he's born in
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Virginia because all of a sudden boom
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but I see a like a historic little
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placard looks like up there yeah okay
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maybe there is one up there we're not
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gonna walk up in their yard but he
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passed away at Beverly Hills obviously a
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big famous Hollywood actor
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but he's got his I want to say humble
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beginnings this is a pretty nice house
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but he got his Beginnings we're here
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we're here yep part partially he wasn't
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born here but lived here a good portion
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of his beautiful home him and Carrie
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Grant having some having some good times
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right here on this property
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we kind of walked around the side back
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to yeah back to the car but look at the
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there's like even a
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a separate Chalet back around the back
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yeah this is this is a nice house
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and some old Hollywood Western history
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right here in Charlotte North Carolina
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who knew I'm riding in the passenger
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seat
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of the Venture mobile
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top Venture mobile where are we off to
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next
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we're hidden we're actually about to
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cross into Billy Graham territory right
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up here is Billy Graham the family
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owned a lot of this property at one time
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this is his farm
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all through here and uh the ball there's
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the Park Row shopping center which we've
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happened in just a minute see that right
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up here but we're heading towards
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Heritage Village where it's not Heritage
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USA it was the precursor yep to Heritage
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USA which I did not know about you you
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told me about it that's right so we're
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getting a little prehistory to Heritage
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USA exactly Heritage Village
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okay we're at the location where Jim and
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Tammy Faye Baker's home used to sit
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this is Heritage Village
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and where do they do they tear it down
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or they move it they tore it down they
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tore it down yep
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and then up the hill he'd keep driving
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up up the hill is the original building
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so this was the original
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spot yep where heritage
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Village was before it became Heritage
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USA
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so PTL kind of started here this is
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where it started
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to walk around and check it out
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and I'll tell you about this building
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here this is not the original building
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that was here I'm gonna tell you I'll
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tell you what was there I'll walk around
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cool so they would walk from their house
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up here and they would do the original
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PTL show and then of course as it got
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more popular they moved across the state
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line to South Carolina to Fort Mill so
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this is a newer building this is newer
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to the to the force
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church it's a new church now
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but what used to be here were the
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Williamsburg homes oh they were it was
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kind of like he won the model after a
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Williamsburg setting by Colonial period
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yeah so they had three homes here that
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you go into
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and they were like very historic looking
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they had little gardens just like
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growing rural plants and everything yeah
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right here they tore the homes down but
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this is the original mansion that was
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here yeah and I can't remember who owned
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it but that's been here since probably I
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think the late 40s is when this was
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built now back here tucked away is where
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they would do the original show so this
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is where the show took place so this is
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an original building back here
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he wanted to model it after yeah
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that's amazing this is where at all this
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is where it all began pretty much yep
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all right I found an old postcard online
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so this is the old postcard here before
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they moved down to Fort Mill South
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Carolina so this is like kind of
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there's the steeple and all that and
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then down here is some text
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of what the postcard says right here so
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see PTL Club Charlotte North Carolina
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28279
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right there that is so fascinating that
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it wasn't always down at Heritage it was
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up here across the state line of North
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Carolina years ago
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this doorway here
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a lot of people know about
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is a pool
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oh back here behind here yes you go in
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that back door
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and you go down the stairs and it was a
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Grecian romanist looking pool
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and I used to go there years ago really
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and swim in the pool it was an awesome
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pool and later they filled the pool up
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but you go down there and the all the
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walls were mirrors yeah around there the
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pillars and they had a couple statues in
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there so they they filled the pool up
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they filled the pool up but back in the
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80s when they first had this property
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you can go down there and go swimming
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long time ago all right from here I just
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looked up on the maps and it says it's
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19 minutes
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and you could actually still type in
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Heritage USA it's just south of
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Pineville right across the state line
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so it's about 20 minute commute
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when they moved from here down to there
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I'm surprised you could still type in
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Heritage USA because it's not in the
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call it hasn't been called that forever
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ever yeah okay we made it to Fort Mill
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well just a couple miles outside Fort
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Mill South Carolina we crossed over the
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state line Heritage Boulevard
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and the original entrance at the
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Heritage USA used to be right down here
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now I covered Heritage USA back I think
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in February or March I was through here
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but a lot of the stuff I'm showing I did
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not know until today
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with Todd showing me around and Billy
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Graham's home was moved a couple times
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and it sat here too so Billy Graham's
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home was over on that corner yeah right
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over there that's where it was and right
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there was a little Hill there in the
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department of parking lot was right
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there so it was moved a couple times
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yeah now it's at the the Billy Graham
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Library they do it piece by piece
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from the first time was from Charlotte
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and then they moved it over here yeah it
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was there for since 1983.
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to about 2 000 early 2000s and then they
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start building the Billy Graham Library
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and the original sign you see in all the
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photos of Heritage USA was down at the
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bottom of that hill we should walk down
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there let's do it
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so this is where the checkpoint was is
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to head in and that is original that
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Little Rock work over there yeah with
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the flag jar that's that was here
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and you had the Heritage USA flag up
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here the American flag up top yeah in
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the PTL flag
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oh so the same flagpoles yep wow
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that's the original
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oh yeah you can see this is definitely
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been around for a while
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little relics here
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I can't remember that fountains here or
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not
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yeah
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Heritage PTL in the American flag so
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Heritage was here yep and then PTL in
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the middle on the side side and then
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American flag in the middle
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just wooden sign here this Heritage USA
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wooden sign was down at the bottom of
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the hill
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kind of showing the photo here and where
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the sign was
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was right down at the bottom of this
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hill so those condos and apartments over
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there that was just a wooded area so you
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turn off this and go drive up the side
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of the Hill into Heritage USA okay I was
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incorrect it was not over there that was
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right there oh it was right here so
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these are the same trees that were
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behind it yep holy cow okay
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that's where it was so you pulled in
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that was the first thing you agreed with
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okay so it was not there I was assuming
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wrong it was right here so these are the
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trees you see behind that photo
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if there's any remnants of the
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of the pole look at this ant bed holy
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cow
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look at this thing
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that is a Monumental ant bed
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I'm not going to disturb I'm not going
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to disturb that at all
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holy moly that is uh yeah
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you see any remnants in there
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those Rock homes
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what is it honey the Ryland Homes thing
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yeah it was right in here check this out
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I've seen photos of that
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I've seen photos of that sign for years
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but never knew exactly where it was
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the ant hill right here should I get
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handheld there but this is where it was
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right here through this whole thing
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that's the trees all right we're now
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pulling on to the property this was the
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original guest Center like the Welcome
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Center where you get guide maps and
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things like that you can definitely tell
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the original architecture here of this
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building which I don't even know if it's
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even used anymore it's like a whole
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housing and apartment condo development
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around here but you can definitely see
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this is dated
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back to the Heritage days
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I mean that just looks like a Welcome
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Center yep
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I mean that parking lot was full all the
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time
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this is the first neighborhood to build
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here
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Dogwood Hills was called something
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different back then this is the original
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houses that were built on property and
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this is where Jim's parents lived you
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know maybe not in this one per se but in
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this in this development through here
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it's called Dogwood Hill and Tall Oaks
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yeah look at this place
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yeah I didn't even know all this was
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back in here either that's awesome these
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are not nice yeah this is nice well
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tucked away back in here oversized
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mailboxes yeah
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but right in here was the original
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and who else lived in here Uncle Henry
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Uncle Henry he was on the show also Ed
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McMahon yes
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but he was awesome super nice guy dude
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made it over to the main area of course
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here is the Tower
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that was never completed
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just sitting here kind of rotting away
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in the middle of the property
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now a lot of the former buildings that
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are here are still being utilized by
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another church
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in fact over here
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we're gonna be walking inside there
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but the Heritage Tower still sits here
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never completed
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huge building
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completely updated you getting your
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bearings now yeah
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yeah because you came out here a lot of
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times back when you were younger yeah so
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you know this area very very well pretty
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pretty well yeah it was like the besides
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one of Carowinds coming here was the
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other spot yeah did you come here when
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it was the theme park yep wow in the
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water park that is amazing
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well I think it's interesting when you
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go in here it reminds me a lot of
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Disneyland's Main Street USA inside the
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building
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not outside inside the old cafeteria
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here the Grand Cafe obviously was
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inspired by the Crystal Palace at Magic
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Kingdom there's a few there you refer to
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it as a pew
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so this is very interesting as you walk
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in here you can definitely tell that Jim
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he's even said in interviews that he
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really wanted to create a disney-esque
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type of place look at this
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they're having a conference over here
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this is amazing
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Jim Kingman had theirs I believe over
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here is where some of the gem and Tammy
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Faye Baker's stuff artifacts are
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so I'm gonna go see if I can get that we
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saw some of the employees outside
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and they told us we could come in here
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but they're having a conference just
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don't disturb the conference over there
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all right so I recently watched the eyes
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of tabby Faye I highly recommend that
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movie the actress that played Tammy Faye
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Bakker did a great job and it really
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kind of puts things in a perspective
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of how Tammy Faye was just such a
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wonderful happy person
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and the story I believe even in their
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son who is a minister now approved of
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the movie now I don't want to put any
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words in his mouth but I think he really
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liked the way it was depicted as well
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here's some photos of how it was back in
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the day it almost looks like kind of Mr
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Toad's Wild Ride there
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you know just some of the history
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that is through here the PTL Network
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there's Jim Tammy Faye there Baker Drive
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all right
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oh there's the doll
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look at that you could buy a Susie mop
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and doll 1985.
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yeah I was showing all the stuff this is
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incredible it's like a little mini
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Museum
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there's Tammy there
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wow keepsakes
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from Heritage USA I just like the fact
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that they still have all this stuff I
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had some kind of partially figured that
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they want a lot of this era to be
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forgotten
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I mean for obvious reasons but yeah
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I still have it there's some of the
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photos The Passion Play photos there
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there's the barn where they would have
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the shows the PTL shows
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oh here's Uncle Henry right here
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we just saw where he lived
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and then the Wendy's this Castle was the
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world's largest Wendy's
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there's the train
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I just love all this history stuff
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you remember when that picture was taken
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yes I remember that I was there you were
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there when that yes
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no kidding nope I was behind the camera
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we had a we had a whole stage and I was
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there in that day
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and I remember that picture was taken
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holy cow that's awesome
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there's no map
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it's hilarious
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and this is in the building we're in
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right now right here there's the
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fountain that's the main building we're
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in yep we should walk together there's
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some shows there
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a lot of those are still on the internet
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you can watch all the Christmas shows
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that Jim and Tammy Faye there doing the
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Christmas shows and all that and you
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attended some of those yes I did and the
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rules were awesome they were from the
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bedrooms
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and where are these in this building
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that's right above us right above us
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above like the little Main Street USA
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area and they're Dino yeah who was Dina
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he was a piano player he was the
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Liberace of Christian music pretty much
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and take a look at this so there is Main
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Street look it actually says Main Street
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right there
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I want one of these shirts look at this
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retro shirt right here oh look at the
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little like lapels I have some at home I
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think you have some of those yeah I can
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send you one if I find it that's awesome
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Yep needs to hand those out popcorn yeah
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this looks like it'd be like a cart yeah
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I mean obviously it's I keep mentioning
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Disney but you can definitely tell there
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was a Disney inspiration for this
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the Main Street trolley
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look at this this is a Main Street USA
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it's like literally Main Street USA
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through here Heritage Transit
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an introduce it but it's all inside did
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you ever buy a hot dog from here Todd
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yes
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yeah look at this it's the re this is
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Club 33 right here
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we call that Easter eggs it's Club 33.
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yep yep the little Easter eggs you have
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to look carefully we'll find something
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so all those rooms are up here
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I mean they were like they went perfect
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incredible
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I'm gonna decorate this like crazy with
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Christmas time you see Garland all over
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so it should be decorating it soon I
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hope so
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am I in Anaheim right now am I in
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Central Florida right now am I at
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Disneyland Paris right now nope
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I'm in South Carolina
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right now
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eerie
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it is so eerily
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like a Disney
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Main Street USA look at this
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I just love this this is so it's wild
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and because there is a conference going
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on down here
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they do have a store if anyone wants to
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buy something
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over here next to this Con while the
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conference center is not in the
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conference well the conference is not in
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this conference center it's at the other
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one or the other end but there's a
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little store here called Goshen
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groceries
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I'm not sure who Goshen was
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one little store open right here 50
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years
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wait I thought it was somewhere else I
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thought it was somewhere else I can tell
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you one thing though you look good in
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that jacket yeah I love it I like it
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I love this Main Street Little Theater
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look at this
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so they would change the coloration of
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the roof yeah the ceiling would be like
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different don't see clouds and one would
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be nighttime
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yeah it kind of has like obviously it
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has the Disney Main Street vibe it also
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kind of reminds me of like inside some
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of the buildings in Vegas yes
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kind of has those indoor Vegas Vibes oh
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what's funny is I think this was before
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Vegas did the inside stuff really this
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is done what year do you think what year
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was this built 84 84 okay so that's
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about right because they started
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enclosing a lot of the whole strip of
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Vegas have you ever been in here before
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this is the first time what do you think
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what's your initial thought walking
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through
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yeah it really is it's hard to seeing
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pictures it's like a Hidden Gem in here
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Jim a Hidden Gem it's a hidden Tammy
23:06
it's a hidden Tammy in here and there
23:08
are people that are Easter eggs here
23:09
there are Easter eggs like the 33 we saw
23:12
you think that's intentional
23:14
I don't I don't know man the only thing
23:16
another thing that didn't stop
23:19
that could have been it yeah true
23:22
the age of Jesus yeah it could be uh
23:25
I like to think it's Club 33. I I think
23:28
probably not but I'm just going to say
23:29
that to be a restaurant up here as well
23:30
and they throw a few times too the grand
23:33
entry
23:34
so where we're going now I don't want to
23:35
disturb their conference but they have
23:37
this is where all the Christmas stuff
23:39
took place over here and you can see a
23:41
lot you can just easily search PTL Club
23:43
Christmas stuff from back in the day and
23:45
see a lot of videos around this corner
23:53
they just need an Emporium in here sweet
23:56
they had their own so this was their
23:57
Suite yeah it was here I don't think it
23:59
was that one I think I'm pretty sure
24:00
look at that door's open that door's a
24:02
jar up there yep
24:04
man so are these still you these rooms
24:06
are still used I think they are for
24:07
conferences right
24:13
you could go down a deep Rabbit Hole
24:13
looking up footage and photos of this
24:14
place in the history of it
24:20
'd be cool to be able to get back inside
24:20
there once again like I said I've
24:23
covered a little bit of this but
24:25
covering some stuff I hadn't done last
24:27
time I was here tonight or 10 months ago
24:28
over here this used to be painted
24:31
all along the side there you can see the
24:32
Heritage Tower off in the distance
24:35
and the famous photo of Jim Baker
24:42
it was ABC news or someone did like a
24:42
whole article on him he was right here
24:44
against this railing sitting right here
24:47
and the bridge is only like a half
24:49
bridge now this is like an original
24:51
building over here and then the water
24:53
park was over there
24:59
and he was Jim Baker was right here
24:59
against this railing probably like right
25:02
more or less and it's just been
25:04
repainted but that's the spot just to
25:05
show for some context here the Gazebo is
25:08
gone now it's all just like a
25:11
it's like a housing developer like
25:13
condos and like apartments and whatnot
25:14
over there across the water you see the
25:16
water slide where Jerry Falwell went
25:20
down the slide
25:27
did you get to witness the Jerry Falwell
25:27
water slide moment I wouldn't hear that
25:29
you were here that died
25:30
that would have been a historic moment
25:32
in PTL history yep
25:37
that's where it used to be the side
25:39
where the house is yeah right over there
25:41
in fact that's the train used to go
25:44
across this bridge and in the movie eyes
25:46
of Tammy Faye Jerry Falwell was played
25:49
by the same guy from Full Metal Jacket
25:52
the the guy from Full Metal Jacket
25:53
played fall well it's a pretty good
25:55
movie
25:56
oh it's a tamifi and that's the original
25:57
building oh we should walk over to the
25:59
world's largest Wendy's that used to be
26:01
right over there in the form of a castle
26:03
we should walk over there okay yeah even
26:04
since the last time I was here they
26:05
haven't really changed too much you can
26:07
see the train track turned that corner
26:09
there
26:10
went right along there
26:13
the remnants of the past theme park
26:15
history this was a very popular theme
26:16
park for the couple years that it was
26:19
very very busy it's said to rival some
26:21
of Disney's numbers as far as crowds
26:23
seems kind of hard to believe but yeah
26:25
it's very busy
26:30
it's full-on Crystal Palace from Magic
26:30
King from Magic Kingdom
26:33
no no no the Wendy's was a little bit
26:34
farther over
26:36
there was a big castle over here that's
26:38
been torn down
26:39
and they put the I don't even know if it
26:41
ever even opened they never completed it
26:43
but it was going to be the world's
26:44
largest Wendy's okay so here is a photo
26:47
of the castle it has since been
26:48
bulldozed but this is what the castle
26:50
looked like and you can see the pillars
26:52
are still here or where the where the
26:54
pillars used to stand on the concrete
26:56
if it only it was still open or it had
26:58
opened so here was the tower we could
27:01
have gone inside here and got ourselves
27:03
a
27:03
junior bacon and just to talk about the
27:06
Disney tie-in once again even though
27:09
technically this is was not they didn't
27:12
quote say that it was inspired by Disney
27:14
World or anything like that the castle
27:17
does resemble you know Sleeping Beauty
27:18
or Cinderella castle that used to sit
27:20
right here my mom has a photo album my
27:23
grandpa who was a minister
27:25
Southern member Minister that came out
27:28
here back when all this was being built
27:30
and my mom has a photo of my grandpa
27:34
standing in front of what my mom assumed
27:36
to be a Disney castle and put it in with
27:38
the Disney World photos when in fact it
27:41
was right here in front of
27:43
this Castle underneath the uncompleted
27:46
Tower kind of wish I had that photo I
27:48
gotta at some point
27:50
I'll try to find that photo of my
27:51
grandpa on my mom's side standing in
27:53
front of this Castle here
27:55
probably back in the early 80s maybe
27:57
yeah mid 80s put some of the tile work
27:59
here and none of this has changed in the
28:01
last year since I was here
28:09
topic of the ground
28:09
is this the last time I was here I kind
28:10
of went down like I said a rabbit hole
28:12
of watching a lot of the old PTL
28:13
telethons and whatnot and they really
28:17
were pushing this Tower very heavily
28:18
almost like a timeshare well it was a
28:21
time share
28:22
of sorts and people did invest in this
28:24
probably a lot of them probably didn't
28:26
get their money back because this thing
28:27
was never completed but the way it was
28:29
going to work is people be able to come
28:31
here a couple times a year and have one
28:33
of these rooms to go to the theme park
28:34
go to the water park ride the train go
28:37
to the Main Street USA all that they'd
28:40
be able to stay right here on property
28:42
but obviously knowing the history of it
28:44
it was never completed and the whole
28:46
thing just fell apart crumbled
28:48
and this thing sits here empty
28:51
all these years later
28:53
this does anyway the other building is
28:55
still being used inside for Morningstar
28:58
Church
28:59
different church now there are people
29:00
who camp out here still and there are
29:02
Apartments obviously so what was over
29:04
here where these apartments were now
29:05
this used to be where there was a roller
29:07
skating rink here there was tennis
29:09
courts here and they had Log Cabin
29:11
shaped vendors stores that were you go
29:15
up a hill and
29:16
gotta go shopping there were a couple
29:18
restaurants there uh as you it was all
29:21
you know just entertainment and there
29:23
was a did you ever use the roller
29:24
skating rink oh yeah and this here I
29:27
remember this last time I was here this
29:28
was an old tram stop right here that is
29:31
now used for propane for the RV but you
29:33
can see that's an old tram stop from the
29:35
Heritage does and where that fence is it
29:37
went straight
29:46
we're now passing where
29:46
we show the original spot that the PTL
29:48
was recorded at
29:50
but over here was a place they called
29:52
The Barn
29:53
and it was right inside there where it
29:56
moved here at Heritage and it is now the
29:58
Antioch International Church it's
30:00
another tram
30:02
stop right there
30:04
you can see a lot of old photos of this
30:06
call you can see how it looks like a
30:07
barn
30:09
that's why they called it it's called
30:10
The Barn or
30:11
the Heritage bar and something Barn
30:14
and Jim and Tammy would enter from this
30:16
area this is where they would walk in
30:17
yeah this is what we would park back
30:19
here all the television people will park
30:20
back here so this is inside the barn
30:24
this is where they had all the stands
30:26
kind of going up at a staircase style
30:28
and the stage was over here
30:30
this is where they did all those PTL
30:32
shows we're kind of noticing too they
30:34
added on this front section to where the
30:36
barn is and I was stating how the seats
30:38
were in there the elevated seats but
30:40
anything that you could find online of
30:42
the show taking place was not really so
30:45
much in the barn portion it was farther
30:47
back over in here so a lot of the
30:49
televised stuff was in like the studio
31:02
yeah okay so last time I was here I
31:03
didn't even peek in this little window
31:04
yep so this is where the main Studio
31:06
entrance was when you walked there and
31:08
there'll be the chairs the seats for you
31:11
and then the
31:12
actual stage and they'd have the Gemma
31:15
Tammy portraits were right here on these
31:16
yep here and they also had some pictures
31:18
where we went earlier for the village
31:23
Heritage Village they'd have them on the
31:25
wall too okay where it all started but
31:26
right through there is where the
31:27
insurance took place you enter here and
31:29
I think on the other side I can't get in
31:31
this section but right through there is
31:33
where the original Sound Stage was
31:44
right through those doors where all the
31:44
chairs were set up in the stage and all
31:47
those episodes took place
31:49
that were recreated in pretty good
31:50
detail on the eyes of Tammy Faye the
31:53
movie we're kind of walking the
31:54
perimeter here it's kind of interesting
31:55
so there's some loading docks over here
31:57
but notice this little doorway up here
32:01
and these individual garage doors over
32:04
here almost
32:05
I could see them pulling their vehicles
32:07
in here so I don't have to go through
32:08
any like this would probably lead into
32:09
the stage area right over here I mean
32:12
look at these garage doors that has to
32:13
be
32:14
what that is
32:17
just very unique individual style garage
32:20
doors here
32:26
fascinating
32:26
and there's a little hidden door over
32:28
here too
32:30
and it kind of works out the fact that
32:31
we're here coincidentally the upper room
32:34
which is not always open
32:36
is open today until 6 PM it's my shadow
32:41
so you'll be able to go inside the upper
32:43
room when I was here
32:44
last time you know nine ten months ago
32:46
could not get up to the upper room it is
32:49
a rarity that is open
32:52
be able to get inside here do we go up
32:53
this
33:01
it's also free stuff day
33:01
take a look at this free stuff done got
33:04
some prayer rooms over here
33:07
this room this is called The Upper Room
33:11
inside this building look at this this
33:13
is awesome and this is an exact replica
33:15
of the last supper table in Jerusalem
33:17
over here next to these like stained
33:19
glass windows so Jim Baker went to Korea
33:21
came back and said those did not have
33:23
prayer room so Jim Becker wanted prayer
33:26
rooms being built here so that's why
33:27
there's prayer rooms it looks like there
33:29
might be someone in there that door's
33:31
shut there this gentleman just informed
33:33
us on the history of why there's prayer
33:34
rooms in this one and here's a photo of
33:36
Pastor Aubry Sarah the first pastor at
33:39
the upper room and there's a lot of
33:41
different articles up here about the
33:42
upper room as well okay it says free
33:44
stuff today I'm definitely going to
33:46
throw throw a little money in the uh in
33:48
the offering donation play because look
33:50
at this this is I'm gonna yeah some of
33:52
the stuff I need like need to have is
33:54
like a souvenirs Jimmy Tammy program
33:57
I'm sure they have like a little it's
33:58
right there yeah a little donation box
34:00
over there yeah that's right because
34:01
this stuff look at this this is vinyl of
34:04
the PTL this is this is vinyl this is
34:06
yeah that's original oh the real deal
34:10
okay yeah you need it yeah I need some
34:13
of this this is but definitely legal
34:14
donations oh yeah 100
34:16
for sure and look at this 10
34:19
to Mother's Day 1991 on VHS
34:23
yeah so I'm gonna go ahead and get one
34:24
of those get one of these here it's free
34:27
stuff dad so that's over there so you're
34:29
building adjacent right to where we were
34:31
over in the barn yep that was the set
34:34
yep one of them
34:36
they change it out yep and the first
34:38
Minister here at the upper room
34:40
Aubry Sarah is laid to rest here passed
34:44
away in 1982
34:47
over here next to the little Memorial
34:48
Garden
34:55
it's so cool like so I've been here
34:55
before out of state I keep reiterating
34:57
that but everything I'm doing today is
34:59
new stuff I wasn't didn't have access to
35:01
before wasn't able to see before so
35:04
pretty awesome okay heading out of the
35:06
property now wanted to show this
35:08
building which is now titled Laura
35:11
Ashley
35:12
this was the original offices
35:15
Jim and Tammy Faye and PTL and a lot of
35:18
the other Executives and whatnot and
35:22
from what Todd was just telling me he's
35:24
very informed
35:25
here on the area because lived here in
35:27
this area his whole life
35:28
and a lot of memories here on site
35:31
that up here was where
35:34
Jim and Tammy Faye's offices were on the
35:37
very tip top
35:38
of this pyramid looking structure
35:49
some planters it's like stepping back in
35:49
time looking down this hallway
35:51
and look at this camera up top here
35:54
look at that Relic right there that like
35:57
screams 80s yes it does something out of
36:00
like an 80s film
36:01
all right back in the Todd Venture
36:03
mobile
36:08
We're stopped here at the light but I
36:09
wanted to focus in
36:10
on downtown Charlotte over there
36:22
kind of hard to disregard it actually
36:22
just right there
36:24
in that motorboat but that's a good
36:25
Skyline
36:27
motorboat yeah in here
36:31
where do you see a motorboat
36:33
oh it's Messiah it's now time for a very
36:37
late lunch well early dinner late lunch
36:40
this place that is recommended called
36:42
Midwood Smokehouse I'm noticing over
36:46
here the salt and pepper and old
36:47
Coca-Cola bottles and this is what we're
36:50
dealing with I went with the burnt tips
36:52
over here there's a little broccoli and
36:54
cheese with a little mac and cheese and
36:57
I went with broccoli and cauliflower as
36:59
well and then they got the burnt tips
37:01
down here and then some like pickles of
37:02
some sort this is like a honey mustard
37:04
is that what she said a honeymoon
37:06
mustard sweet barbecue sweet barbecue
37:08
and you got the chicken and you got the
37:10
uh the Brunswick stew Brunswick steel
37:13
cauliflower and broccoli and then this
37:16
is those are a little Hush Puppies over
37:18
there yeah it says right here the
37:19
Midwood Smokehouse team is full of
37:20
barbecue nerds our expert pit Masters
37:23
stay up all night to tend to our Hickory
37:25
Embers we got the experience there's no
37:27
gas here just true Wood-Fired BBQ I also
37:31
should mention I also got some Hush
37:32
Puppies down here as well I've realized
37:34
I got a lot of cheese so I got the I got
37:37
the broccoli and cheese and then I got
37:39
mac and cheese all right that's gonna do
37:42
it for today gonna end it here
37:44
Midwood Smokehouse it was very good
37:47
I think some rain some precipitation
37:49
might be rolling in
37:51
into the evening hours
37:57
make sure you check out Todd Venture
37:57
Todd
37:58
venture
38:00
on YouTube
38:02
I'll see you next video the Vlog
38:04
the car's leaving too probably has a
38:06
full belly just like we do
38:07
the Vlog
38:09
is over