The Inspiration For Disneyland Main Street USA - Fort Collins Colorado / Old Town Walk Thru & MORE
Fort Collins Colorado
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here
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to beautiful
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no cell phone service area
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next to
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the mountains going through the
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mountains past this river
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in colorado as the recording of this
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monday
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june 20th 2022
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oh it feels so good
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and i am heading to fort collins
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colorado it just so happens to be
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wearing and appropriate t-shirt now even
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though this is wdw there is a main
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street usa
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in florida and magic kingdom
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you know almost a bigger version of the
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disneyland main street usa which
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i've been to marceline missouri walt
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disney's hometown where he took that
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idea
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and also peppered in a little bit of
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fort collins colorado ideas
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i am excited i've never been there i'm
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inviting you
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to join me
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been to marceline
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missouri
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that main street usa
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never been to fort collins
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it's gonna be a good day
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i'm inviting you to join me
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shall you
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this drive through here really is
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something else very beautiful
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right through the middle of the
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mountains
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along the side of this river
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incredible
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there are a couple of sasquatches here
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i wonder if they know what if they're
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friends with big the foot i would
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imagine
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and they have a tower here it says see
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the falls
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free tower see the falls
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go through the store and climb up there
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i can't pass this up colorado has a lot
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of elevation already
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so i'm just adding to
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that elevation by going up these stairs
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it wasn't too bad of a
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little walk up here though
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oh yeah look at that
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waterfall over there in the distance
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to be honest i don't know if i would
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even notice there was waterfalls there
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if i hadn't seen this little lookout
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tower
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i was driving by it
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it's kind of disguised from road level
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you see the water pumping out of the dam
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there too
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pretty neat idea building this tower
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probably gets people into their gift
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shop
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a lot more than
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people just driving by and not stopping
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and i think that was worth a four dollar
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souvenir also i got something to go on
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my fridge
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when i finally get home whenever the
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heck that will be
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been on the road for a while
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i always like magnets it's a nice little
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souvenir so in the fridge made it to
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fort collins now and i felt it
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appropriate to start off here
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with the home located
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off to the side which is where
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the designer harper goff
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lived
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for a few years
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and definitely this area of fort collins
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resonated with him and when he started
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working for the disney corporation
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disney company
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and walt said i'd like some photos of
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places
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to create main street usa and he thought
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of his hometown
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so he returned back here
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and took photos of the downtown area
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here in fort collins colorado
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and the rest is history
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and once i get over to the downtown i'm
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gonna try to match up some of the
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stuff and just see if anything looks
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reminiscent of
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what i know from disneyland or walt
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disney world's main street but this is
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the address 612.
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south house street h-o-w-e-s
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a little piece of disney history here
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harper goff's house
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i have made it now about a mile away
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to the cross streets of college ave and
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mountain lab
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and this isn't going to be one exact
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stretch of road like you would consider
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how marceline has just one
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mainstream kind of like main street usa
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is but just an interpretation of some of
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the buildings that were photographed
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that turned into what we know as
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disneyland and magic kingdom
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where marceline missouri walt's hometown
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is just the one stretcher road
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and this is going to be kind of a
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mishmash of different buildings within
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this old town area on the right off this
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corner and this place is much busier
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than marcelino's
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i am loving the storefronts like this
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jewelers
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place right here
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even some ghost signs still exist like
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owl cigar company
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five cents and while nothing yet
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specifically matches up
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i am getting the vibes
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getting the vibes through here
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see what they were going for i like this
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retro
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northern hotel sign right there
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off the side of the wall
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a lot of these do look very reminiscent
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of what you would see at the parks as
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you enter around
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the historic district now this corner
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looks a lot more kind of like the
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facades
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that i'm looking for and take a look
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there is a starbucks here
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as well yeah you know what just like
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main street i get myself a starbucks why
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not it kind of fits the it's the vibe a
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little bit
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i don't know i just think that's kind of
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cool kind of a neat little tie-in
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yeah right there
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vanilla latte
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the largest
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from starbucks
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and what was one of the two major
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inspirations
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for the subject matter
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just like they have it
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just there's no joffrey there's no
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joffrey's here in town i prefer
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joffrey's but actually disneyland
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doesn't have joffrey's either
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that's only a wdw thing
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i prefer joffrey's over starbucks but
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starbucks works too oh this is pretty
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awesome harper goff has an alley named
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after him
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you know because he was kind of roaming
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around here taking pictures about the
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design
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what now exists and at the end down
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there is a train station
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you know similar to how the train
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stations are
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in the parks harper gough alley
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and over here next to this
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oversized ice cream churn
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that's what that is over there through
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the exchange there is a little mural in
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dedication to the life of harper golf
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what the heck this is awesome
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right here painted on the side of this
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electrical box some of the works was
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done by chris bates
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right there and it just shows
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harper right up top that's kind of a
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neat kind of effect when you go this way
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you can't really tell who it is but then
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when you
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turn around the indentation there and it
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just
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shows his face
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perfectly that's awesome
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oh look down here here's ward kimball
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yes
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i didn't think i was going to see
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anything about ward kibble but there
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there's a ward kimball nod in there as
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well
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i love this kind of stuff
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i'm glad that they honor here him here
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in his hometown
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and they have a little bit
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of a connection to disney i like that
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they do that
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they're embracing that to some degree
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even got frank thomas down there
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walt
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i guess walter speaking from over here
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is to just imagine that there's like a
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force ghost of walt there and then
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harper here they're having a
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conversation so yeah walt is talking to
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harper
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who is in fort collins okay i'm getting
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the reference now definitely getting the
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reference now see if i can see anything
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else on here that's
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oh look at this
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jungle river cruise there's a knot in
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the jaw oh there's the there's the
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jungle jungle cruise boat
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right there it's tough to see
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yeah it's tough there's a jungle cruise
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boat right there about it around his
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neckline where a tie would be
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this thing is full of details i'm sure
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i'm missing a lot
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that i'm not really seeing
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while standing here probably catch it
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later as i'm
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watching this footage back
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let me get a little farther back and get
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a
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kind of across the way a little bit ah
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yes disneyland now i'm catching the
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disneyland right there with the railroad
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going by
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okay yeah i'm starting to see quite a
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few things in here but i'm gonna step
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across the street and just show what it
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looks like from
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across the way standing on the other
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side of the road
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you can just see how tall this is it's
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the entire
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entire you know tallness of the building
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itself
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i like that they did this
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chris bates was the artist and there
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were parking spaces but this place down
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here really is a beehive of activity
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there's a lot of people down here so to
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drive around a bit before i found
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parking so i guess harper gough alley
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would be not through the exchange but
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down this way so i'm gonna i'm gonna i
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gotta walk down in honor of harper goff
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i'm gonna walk down his alley where
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there are some robotic
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look some robotic engineer
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engineering some
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robotic individuals here holding tacos
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with their robotic hands i've been to a
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handful of different alleys that were
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named after different people in in honor
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of different people dave grohlowie is
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one of the first ones that comes with my
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flaming lips alley
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and i've been to harper golf alley now
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using some serious imagination and
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putting his interpretation into my mind
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i don't even know if that's what he was
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thinking but just imagine the castle
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down there where that starbucks is
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and then turning this way
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looking past these buildings so keep in
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mind again castle
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right down there
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again it's just not one stretch of road
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just three or four different streets
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that
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provided photographic
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you know photos and things that
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walt would use
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but azure we'd be exiting you know so
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i'm just kind of imagining i'm exiting
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either one of the parks disneyland or
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wdw
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and you go past the train station
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so
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castle down there of course
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there's real traffic here and then the
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train station here looks a little bit
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different but it's kind of set up the
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same now there are no steps you can't go
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up to the top to get to the train and
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you can't look down
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you cannot look down
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main street there
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for their interpretation of main street
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this is the way you would go out of the
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park underneath one of the tunnels
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either this tunnel or the one on the
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other side i really i really i'm really
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going out on a limb here because there's
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no because there's a limb right there
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there's a tree right there and was not
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certain if there'd still be railroad
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tracks back here
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but there are look there are railroad
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tracks
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back here as well looking over this
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fence line
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an active railroad except
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they must have a new station though
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they're not using this one this is now a
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brazilian steakhouse starting to get the
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feels through here a little bit more
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just because you really are starting to
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see the interpretation of this
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this is something you definitely would
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see
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except here i keep i keep wanting to to
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see the names on the side of the windows
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know up in the windows like walt's
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father
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and other imagineers there are no names
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on these windows and these don't look
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exact
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but i'm definitely
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definitely seeing what they were going
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for
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okay crossing over jefferson now
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on to lyndon there's a theater there
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now called the artery and they're doing
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a lot of construction out here so you
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call this a construction update
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construction update
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what's new
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fort collins
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well they are really doing a lot through
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here
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this is one of the quintessential roads
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that were used and photographed
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that eventually became you know what
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and way down at the end down there is
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that mural of harper golf
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i walk back over here for a minute just
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just in my mind
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i'm picturing lining up
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right along here
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on either side of the street so just
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bear with me for a moment
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don't mind that jackhammer directly
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behind me making some racket
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but just imagine if you will
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lining up here on this side or on that
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side for the main street electrical
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parade it looks just like it
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kind of similar you kind of kind of see
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the dust kind of getting in my eye for
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that jackhammer but yeah i mean
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i cannot be the only one that's feeling
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this
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was it for say well the jackhammer's
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back
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wasn't one road per se it's just the
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entire old town area here in fort
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collins but
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i'm sensing it now in a roundabout way
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this kind of gives me train station
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vibes kind of
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it's a bookstore now
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but first impression of seeing this it
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kind of gives me some train station
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vibes yeah it's really tough not to
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at least acknowledge the fact that this
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is
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i mean
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look at that right there yeah
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come on
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okay this
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i would say this art are architecturally
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is more than marsali but marceline has
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more
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of the disneyland main street vibe
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than the this entire circumference of
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all these blocks
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but architecturally
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using the photos that harper took of
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these streets
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added in with
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the idea that walt had of marceline
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i mean honestly the rest
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the rest is history
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those two places fort collins colorado
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and marceline missouri just waiting for
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the electric light parade to roll
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through here and here's another building
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that kind of strikes the cord as well
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and just like you'd see near a coke
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corner
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there's a piano here there's no there's
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no piano player
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well it's called coke corner in florida
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it was called it disneyland
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where the
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guy will sit and play piano
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there you that's what that reminded me
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of
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corner and over here next to this
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brewery this pub and brewing company
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take a look on the side of the wall here
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you got angel's delicatessen and party
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service but there is a coca-cola mural
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ice-cold
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big king-size coca-cola
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right here on the side of this block
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that is a beautiful building and a nice
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kind of
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well you call that i call that a ghost
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sign someone told me that once it's kind
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of resonated with me a ghost sign and i
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had just mentioned coke corner so it
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kind of works out that this disappeared
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as i turned turned and saw this look at
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this this is a big 12 ounce king size
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ice cold and crossing this crosswalk
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here there are some remnants of the old
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railroad or street car
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stuffs
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going through here you see the brick
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look at this what this is exactly
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like i'm walking down right down the
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middle of main street
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usa
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remnants of the old streetcar was it
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horse drawn carriage streetcar i could
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just picture a horse-drawn
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carriage street car
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going down
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this very road it's been erased from
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existence but it's remnants here and the
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brick
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not cobblestone but brick i guess this
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would be brick not cobblestone
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but that is so dang
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awesome
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remnants of the past i was just looking
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on the fort collins
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website the city website they were
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saying the bank building was also used
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as inspiration
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trying to decide
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what building
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that would have become at the parks all
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right i stand corrected curiosity got
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the best of me i read a couple articles
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about you know some of the buildings and
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what they were inspired by
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and how this made me think of
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the train station in reality this was
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used
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as city hall because this used to be the
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old fort collins city hall and fire
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station the city hall was over here on
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the on the left-hand side of the
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building and where happy lucky's tea
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house was was the firehouse but this
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building built back in 1881
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was
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so they say quite a few different
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sources say that this was the building
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that was modeled for city hall at
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disneyland look at this now i'm seeing
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it from this angle when i was over there
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looking from that corner the first thing
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i thought my first thought
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was that it was the train station that's
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that train station vibe too but now i'm
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seeing city hall 100 city hall
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another old advertisement on the brick
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up there too
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kind of tough to tell what that says i
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thought it'd be kind of cool to get a
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haircut
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down here at the inspiration you know
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yeah i've never gotten a haircut at
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magic kingdom which is on my bucket list
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to do too one day i want to get i don't
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say bucket list but it's all my things
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to do i like to get a haircut get a
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haircut at
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magic kingdom
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right next to the fire station and all
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that i thought it'd be kind of neat to
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get one here in fort collins because i
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do need a haircut except mccarty's
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barber shop
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is closed also this commercial bank and
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trust company building
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it's pretty awesome look at the
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architecture on this it's now called the
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high point bar
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there used to be a bank at disneyland
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true story bank of america
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it's now like a merchandise shop and
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here's another barber shop but they as a
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recording of this it's a monday
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closed on mondays
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sad trombone decided i want to cover
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some serious ground today so getting on
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interstate 25 north
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going to try to cover a lot of ground
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crossing over the state line to wyoming
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now
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but probably gonna cross another state
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line after wyoming i'm just gonna see
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how far i can get and not really stop
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too much
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try to make up some miles get northbound
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60 mile per hour wind gusts
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on the interstate pulled off here at
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this rest stop
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look at the flags up there they are just
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gusting in the wind
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okay i'm noticing this across the road
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says all entrances are closed to
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yellowstone park
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because of the flooding they've been
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having i wasn't going to yellowstone
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but it's very interesting that it's
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still closed
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all the entrances are closed
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and there might be animals
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out here as well leaping across
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the road
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we gotta watch for those two
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stopped off here at locomotive park in
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douglas
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wyoming and yes there are some
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impressive trains here
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but there's also something
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not equally impressive but pretty dang
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impressive
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jackalope
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junction
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there is a ginormous jackalope now i do
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not know
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if dave coyer has ever been to the
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self-proclaimed
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jackalope capital of the world
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but i feel like he would enjoy it
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because he voiced the jackalope on
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america's funniest people back in the
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day that's how i remember dave coulier a
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lot of people remember from full house
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but
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fast as fast can be
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you'll never catch me
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that was a bad impression oh and that's
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not the only one
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this place has a multitude
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of the famed jackalope
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how's it going jackalope holy cow look
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at that saloon and what the heck went
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ahead and decided to stop for gas saw a
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sign that said
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going on to highway 94
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there will be no fuel for the next 75
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miles so the grassland market
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is where i'm stopping off at
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fueling up at 4.70
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a gallon
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and this is a nice bonus i'm gonna go
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inside and get myself a free jackalope
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sticker
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yes i may have misspoke with whatever
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highway it was i thought i was getting
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on
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in reality i'm on highway 59.
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holy cow that was loud
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oh my gosh that was loud there was an
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overpass that went over the top of these
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two trains that were going by
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and i can't even explain how windy it is
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out there
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you can tell a little bit by the
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you know the wind kind of blowing
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the grass there but man just standing
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there
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very gusty i'm in my car
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with the camera kind of poked out the
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window you can see the
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window roll down there all right i have
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now turned eastbound
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onto interstate 90.
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so i went north for a ways on a highway
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and then turned onto an interstate
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i-90 east now oh there was a deer right
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in the middle of the road
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hello dear
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what are you looking for
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pulling through sundance now
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sundance wyoming
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there's the sundance kid
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right there
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here's a little information about the
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sculpture
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harry a longbow
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served time in our local jail
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and did take his name from sundance
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wyoming commissioned and donated by the
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sundance area chamber commerce
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and that's gonna do it
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for today
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i covered a lot of ground today
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about to cross over into another state
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i'll see you the next video the vlog
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is over