Final Look At Warner Bros Ranch As It’s Leveled - Hollywood History Gone Forever / My Last Day In LA
Warner Bros Ranch Sept 2023
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today's adventure
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brings me well begins
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to my hotel room as a recording of the
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Sunday September 24 2023
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supposed to be on a plane heading to
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another destination today
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however my mom and I's flight
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did not happen
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late last night
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check my email thankfully I didn't get
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up this didn't get up this morning and
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head to LAX and then realized whoa the
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flight's not happening
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but about 12 hours before the flight was
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depart out of nowhere was really not a
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whole heck of a lot of explanation they
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said your flight's not happening so I
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had to rebook it for tomorrow
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so I had to
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extend the hotel one more day change
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some rental car stuff around etc etc
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so I'm in L.A one more day welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here so I just
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basically spent the day here in the
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hotel standing in this parking structure
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of the hotel that I had to book another
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night because we were not leaving this
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morning if all goes well early in the
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morning we'll be getting on a plane
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going to the next spot yep you just
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never know how things are going to go
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what you check your email and you think
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what the heck no explanation just the
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flight's not happening and I called it
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was on hold for a short while if there's
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any Silver Lining and
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good thing about any of it is I got
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through to the airline pretty quickly
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and they handled it then I had to you
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know book another room change rental
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cars things like that trying to decide
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what I want to do today is a little bit
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later it's about 6 p.m I think I'm just
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gonna drive around Burbank and check
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some stuff out my mom's relaxing in the
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room preparing for the flight early in
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the morning
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and I'm just gonna go out see what I can
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find I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you from this angle you can see
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the sun glistening through the trees you
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got the Hollywood Hills right there it's
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a really good Overlook up here called
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Universal City overlook
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kind of up near those houses on a road
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that stretches across there and from
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here perspective is interesting because
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when you're on ground level looking up
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it looks pretty tall but it doesn't look
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as high as it does when you're up on
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something looking down the view up there
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looking down is more immense and
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expansive than looking up at it I mean
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it seems like it'd be something that
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simply be explained but it always kind
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of is interesting to me random thought I
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pulled over here and parked on this
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street in Burbank
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where the Warner Ranch was is no longer
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the Warner Ranch even though there are
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still some buildings back in here I was
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lucky enough twice to be able to get
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inside once like a year ago and then
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once like four months ago since then
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from what I am hearing there are no
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employees
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of the company of Warner it's not even
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title that anymore and there's just a
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demolition crew in there so I'm gonna
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see what I can find
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will not be able to go in but can walk
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along
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the sidewalk
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so you can see wow
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wow they are definitely tearing some
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stuff down there's the pool
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some of the main buildings are still
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there but you can see they've knocked
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some of the facades down they've ripped
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all the trees out
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all the shingles are pulled back and
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it's kind of caving in
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and you can see a lot better from the
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road here than you used to because the
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trees have been torn out
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so there is a tree on this side of the
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Hedge but on the other side of the
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property I don't see any trees over
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there
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now I do not know when the next time
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I'll be in La is
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I have no immediate plans to be coming
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back after this trip to La anyway I will
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be having a stop off in Orange County
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Upon returning for where I'm heading
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tomorrow
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La proper so the reality is all this
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will be gone by the time I finally get
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back out to Los Angeles so I want to
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document it
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I do this with a lot of places where
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I'll kind of show it on his last days
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it's definitely a lot more torn up and
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starting to get ripped out than when I
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was in there just a few months ago and
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got
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access inside
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now I believe this is the back of the
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Lethal Weapon house they filled the
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Interiors inside there the fireplace
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over there the little dining room which
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would mean that the Griswold house from
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Christmas Vacation was right next door
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to that
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you can just see the piles
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I think that's the Griswold now that I'm
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looking at it I believe the Griswold
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house is this one right over here
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either way you get the idea
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yeah that was the house that's across
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from the Griswold so in fact it's that
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right there that's the garage
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right there that Clark is in
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just a while to think about it's like
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movie history
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gonna be erased existence
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and the Rumor word on the street is all
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going to be sound stages
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everything that's on this property
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everything from the animation Builders
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the offices all leveled
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big sound stages going in here so the
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pool is going to be ripped out houses
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are going to be bulldozed
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end of an era even the the exterior of
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this building
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has been kind of shredded down
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there's Bare Bones
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if I remember correctly there were vines
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all across this too
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that have been taken down
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I could I might I mean I might not be
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remembering correctly but
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in my mind there were vines all the way
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down
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let's do the loop
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corner of Oak Street and Hollywood Way
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from this angle
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the WB signage is gone taken down
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sun setting over there curious to see if
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I can see anything over
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the top of the fence
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okay
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gas station's still there for now
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this building right here so the friends
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Fountain used to be right over there
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more or less now they've moved that over
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to Warner proper what I was just zoomed
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in on over the fence that gas station
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thing was a diner in a lot of movies a
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gas station a car mechanic shop he's
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using Gremlins it was using Monster
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Squad it was also used in the music
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video of Cyndi Lauper Goonies are good
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enough but they had all the WWF
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wrestlers right in front of it changed a
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little bit but it's still there for now
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probably not too much longer that is on
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The Chopping Block classic
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car alert
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I mean I would imagine in the next
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couple of months it'll all be gone trees
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are out
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buildings the roofs are getting ripped
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off
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it's also very interesting how the
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Interiors of the facades are so gutted
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out it looks like there are lights on
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but in fact you could just see all the
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way through them for example let me zoom
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in
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so it looks like there's lights on in
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there so friends Fountain was over there
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it's also used in a brief moment from
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Hocus Pocus where they walk past the
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fountain
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it's a pretty good angles here through
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the fence you really can
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oh wow yeah
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look over there wow
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it's coming down
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there is a car in there so there are
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people on the property
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other than the construction workers of
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course right now
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this time of day and as I'm recording
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this it's a weekend
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it might not be doing anything it's a
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little later in the day too obviously
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okay there's the church off to the
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distance there
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so there's the side
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of the gas station Diner I was just
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mentioning
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and you see this building in the side of
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Lethal Weapon as well that's also
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from One Division there that's the road
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there in one division it also I Dream of
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Genie and countless others
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that's a very famous Road just this
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right here
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has been seen you know it looks in quite
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a lot of disrepay right now disrepair
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right now
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but that pavement has been seen in
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hundreds if not thousands of Productions
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just that right there in fact on that
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corner somewhere in the middle there
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near that driveway because the Cousin
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Eddie scene where the you know what was
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full
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just in the neighborhood thought I'd
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swing by
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it's really not anything of the WB left
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I mean they still have the font on the
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gate 11 right there you don't really see
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anything that states the name
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as well
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Griswold house
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wanted Visions house
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at least a weapon house
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Pretty Fly for a White Guy Offspring
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music video the guy's strutting his
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stuff down in front of those two homes
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Agatha's house Bewitched house right
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and many more
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to extend it out this way but I don't
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know what any of this stuff means but
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I would imagine it has something to do
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with doing some construction out to this
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point too
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all right Gladys stopped by one last
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look for me
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next time I can't get here it'll be
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level though there already has started
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building the sound stages at the pace
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that they are working at
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just so wild seeing this about the trees
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like in Gremlins this house was shown
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when the
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the VW Bug won't start in this cold
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and there was a tree right there with
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that heavy machinery is
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well not a heavy machinery but just
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right there next to that little
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section there
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and now it's gone so it doesn't even
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look the same anymore
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I think I said Grandma's
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if I said Goonies I was wrong Goonies
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wasn't here all right short and sweet
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wanted to check this out I'm glad I did
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end of an era glad I got to cover glad I
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got to go inside and glad I was able to
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return today
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kind of pop over here real quick and
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just show what it looks like
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thanks for watching
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I'll keep it short and sweet I'll see
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