Where Gold Was First Discovered In California - Oak Of The Golden Dream / Placerita Canyon Park
A visit to Oak of the Golden Dream in Placerita Canyon Park . The site of where gold was first discovered in California .
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welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here today's adventure
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takes us about 30 m North give or take
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from the hustle and bustle of City Life
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of Los Angeles into the desert and the
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mountainous
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regions just heading over the hill just
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a bit to show you a little bit of could
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be forgotten or maybe even some of you
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might not know about this history tucked
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away
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right over there I'm inviting you to
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join me shall you this will also be my
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first time visiting this spot so we're
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going to experience it together let's
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learn some stuff here in
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placerita Canyon Park also down this
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road is a studio back lot known as
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Disney's Golden Oak Ranch it is off
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limits to the general public but you can
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see some of the vehicles down there now
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keep that name in mind
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because it's very similar to where we're
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heading fact is on the back side of this
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property it's pretty neat looking
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downward in there you can see some of
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the facades that are built where they're
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constantly filming TV shows and movies
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you can see why they chose this location
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looking at the roof line of that fake
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home cuz the mountains in the background
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provide some pretty good Ambiance the
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fire danger today is pointing at high
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kind of right in the middle just above
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moderate and Below very high nonetheless
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still got to be very careful I'm sure
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that's a major concern constantly on
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whoever's watching over all those sets
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you can see the barb wire kind of mixed
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into the foliage down there off limits
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if you had a good baseball arm you would
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just be a Stones Throw to those
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buildings here at the Natural Area it is
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run by the department of Parks and
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Recreation this is accessible to anyone
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willing to visit gates are wide
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open between sunrise and sunset of
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course all features are protected and
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some just so happen to be historical
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landmarks this is the Walker cabin the
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family raised 12 kids that's not
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counting the parents they had a bigger
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residence on the other side of the
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Waterway but when it would flood they'd
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all have to cram into here built in
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1920 it's been restored and still still
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sitting out here I didn't know much
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about this till I saw this information
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here it states that they were able to
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supplement their income by allowing
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their home and land to serve as sets
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like the old western hard ombre which is
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where the porch and shingled roof came
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from they were added for Productions
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originally it had a a tar topping front
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door is locked but I'm peeking through
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the SP spiderweb induced window just to
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give you a side view into the homestead
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cobwebs everywhere it's being attacked
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it's being attacked by
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cobs down in this Pond there are some
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tadpoles swimming around there in the
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water you have to look really closely
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Little
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Fishies down in there teeny
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tiny see them this tree trunk was a
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Seedling back in
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1826 there are color coordinated
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dots along the pattern just to symbolize
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and to give the date stamps the green
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one was when California got its
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statehood in
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1850 and then moving up along you'll see
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a light blue the yellow one is when
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Disneyland open in 55
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and the red one is the Nature Center I'm
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now standing at that's when that
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officially opened wandering along the
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Frank McDaniel botney Trail which was
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dedicated in 2001 A pathway surrounded
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by rocks leading through some plant life
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I'm looking for the wild
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cucumbers in this little this little
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patch here but I'm not really seeing any
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that have come to fruition yet off to
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the right
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some white sage they've covered it with
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this netting to protect
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it garden gnome and a little little
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waterfall bubbling up
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here if you think that cabin was humble
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accommodations this is made out of
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Willow branches and
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reads the Native Americans who lived in
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this area were called tavium which means
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people who face the Sun
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bunch of different paths you can
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take you do a little hiking if you so
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choose dried up riverbed right over
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there with a
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small Bridge one could get
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lost out here if you so choose or even
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by
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accident at times this
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bridge goes over a
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Waterway but by looking at it you can
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definitely see where the fire danger
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comes into place very
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dry let me rephrase that as you glance
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up slightly as this
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Sunburst EES its way through the
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branches that was a stream
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this is the
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river some slight gust of wind out here
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as well I'm not complaining it feels
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good
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nice and
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Breezy few of the trails are blocked off
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either for safety or for one reason or
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another
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up until the 1940s the oil industry was
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very prevalent here in the canyon here
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is a relic of those days sitting next to
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this piece of pave pathway which leads
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to what I came out here to see
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everything
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else I just stumbled upon
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to get there to make your way through
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this little tunnel equipped with some
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pretty fantastic
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murals and very
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echoey
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hello artistic representation of the
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river I'm walking parallel to and
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there's those
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mountains off in the distance
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hello that's pretty cool and most
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importantly painted here on the wall is
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Francisco Lopez who at the age of 40
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took a little snooze under those
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branches and when he awoke pulled up
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some
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plants and on the tips of the bottoms of
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them was
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gold the first in this neck of the woods
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mural was dedicated in May of
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1976 for posterity to preserve a little
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bit of
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history of not only what happened but
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also that
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very bizarre shaped
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tree and there it is an all its Glory it
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still
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exists surrounded by this wooden
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barricade don't want you to get too
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close but you can just take a peek you
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can take a gander
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on March 9th 1842 while napping under a
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Great Oak Tree he dreamt that he was
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surrounded by gold and was very rich
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upon Awakening he picked a bunch of wild
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onions growing around some sycamore
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trees just
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north of the oak attached to the onion
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Roots were several small pieces of gold
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what are you doing you trying to catch
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some z's down there as well
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I see you
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hiding getting a getting a getting some
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shuty 40 Winks you get a lot of tourists
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out here a lot of passer buyers stopping
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to see the
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history is that a yes or a no I I I
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don't understand what you're
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saying all right I'll leave you
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be I'll leave you be notice how it's
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located right here at the exit of that
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tunnel
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the spot that's honored is where he took
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his nap not the precise location of
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where he found the onions with the gold
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if I read that plaque accordingly it's a
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little bit north so just to the left of
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where I'm standing or in other words
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behind it into this open field somewhere
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amongst This Grass once the word hit the
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street
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people showed up in droves this whole
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area was excavated and lots of that
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precious metal was found campfires were
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set up pickaxes and other tools of the
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trade were being used even a little
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panning was taking place right here in
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this water
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bed once they got their Fortune you guys
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could buy a water bed except those
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don't those don't come around for a few
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more years see them up there chiseling
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and chipping
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away riding their horses and setting up
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tents the fascinating thing is Lopez's
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fine predated James Marshall strike at
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Suter Mill by six
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years also keep in mind this was 8 years
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before California got its statehood Jed
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clampet had even thought about moving to
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Beverly Hills yet and people around here
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just rooting
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around I can see why they don't want
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anyone traversing through or climbing
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around on not too structurally sound
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very unique looking but you can see
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directly through the core of it we want
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this thing around for years to come to
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protect
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it this where Lopez laid his head maybe
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on that rock
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there that could have been his
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pillar it's very picturesque
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Ambiance and just shy of is the property
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line and double barb
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wire of Golden Oak
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Ranch see the connection of the two
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names the Disney facility back lot is
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right over
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there decent amount of no trespassing
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signs just in case anyone was
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wondering if they were allowed to Cross
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or not None Shall
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idea just teetering
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here who W oh my God was going to get an
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up close personal view of that signage
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but the more I think about it
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this this works
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too incredibly close in proximity Golden
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Oak Ranch versus the oak
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of the Golden
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Dream just super close and that's not
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something I made up that's its official
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name that's what it's designated as
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directly below it is a molded melted
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version of
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itself it also has that very
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unique shape on the trunk there
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cheering someone must have struck
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gold that's going to do it for today if
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warning poison oak that's not good at
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least they designated where it was I'll
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