The Hidden Gems and History of Downtown Kissimmee - Main Street Quirkiness / Monument Of The States
A visit to downtown Kissimmee Florida to check out the history and unusual items located on Main Street and lakefront .
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today's adventure brings us to Kissimmee
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Florida starting at this magnificent
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tree at the threshold of Main Street
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we're heading downtown
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welcome everyone a demands the woo here
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as nice as it is under this shade got to
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get moving
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I'm inviting you to join me shall you
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little hotel here with an American flag
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waving in the breeze in its courtyard
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very quaint
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each room equipped with free HBO there
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is vacancy
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a little bit of that retro neon still
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exists here on the pole
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very noticeable are the pink flamingos
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one of them with his head tucked down in
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the shadows going for some food but
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notice the metal fish it's not a fish
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but a piece of equipment almost looks
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like a fish with a mouth the shadow
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makes it look like a fish mouth or maybe
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it's just me in front of the main street
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welcome station is a rather large
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horseshoe a piece of art called luck of
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the cowboy made out of pressure-treated
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lumber weighs a hundred and fifty pounds
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stepped inside for a bit some photos
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from a bygone era of the main drag
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simpler time if you will built in 1926
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this filling station was part of the
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1920s automobile boom brothers Hal and
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Ben key purchased it in 1967 and four
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decades
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was a gathering place for some of the
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men in this area in 1998 there was talk
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of widening the road and demolition
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could have happened but it didn't it was
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saved and still stands
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around its back it's a very nice mural
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with a sunset and some birds just
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hanging out on the lake adjacent to the
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parking area just above the hedge line
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is this very detailed tree
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it's like protruding out of the wall
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itself root system spilling out onto the
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pavement they went the extra step seems
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like
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four truths out quite a bit that's neat
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why are you sticking your tongue out at
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me
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if she got your reasons
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retro-style air pump
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fascinating architecture here at the
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former sapphire in no longer
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accommodating any residence pretty
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fantastic looking antique door handle
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with the push inscribed there on the
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front portion signage in front of the
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art supply structure might have had some
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neon at one point welded into the holes
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there I believe most of it is made of
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metal except the top portion the
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paintbrush area from wood perhaps
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this goes back a few years
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States the fire mark was first issued in
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1835 by an insurance company however
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that fire mark no longer exists
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this one does however issued in 1805
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I like this one a lot also Eagle hos
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number two date stamp way up there 1915
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named rivers
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this was their building notice down here
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it says drugs this was a drugstore
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brandishing a weapon there I say you got
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your trusty saddle all right partner
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I'll leave you about your business
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placed here to honor bet sprinkle passed
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away in 2004 her love of downtown
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Kissimmee always shine through States
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the Lord gave her many talents and she
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used them to assist others
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that's a wooden hand made of planks of
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lumber
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a little tidbit of Americana here in
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Central Florida certainly would be a lot
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of upkeep but only one of these homes be
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nice just sit on the wraparound porch at
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night relax
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sort of hiding away back here
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just about walk right by it it's the old
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truck
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it's good that something's being done
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with this area you can see the tile down
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there where a business once stood burned
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down gosh probably 20 years ago or so
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there are some remnants of that of the
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past who's going to have a lasso coming
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off the hand yeah and then going over to
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that almost looks like a Trojan horse
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kind of yeah
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something used to be dangling up there
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from that wrought iron metalwork
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protruding from the wall this gourmet
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cookie store at one point was a place
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called robber since you can tell from
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the tile work on the ground there's
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little mementos everywhere one block
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over considerably faded but this mural
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is still hold and strong after all these
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years
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the way the windows were worked out that
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nice touch in a general store and
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blacksmith shop not not in real life
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just part of the painting the best I can
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tell 1998 is the date stamp when this
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was created barber shop on site a clown
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waiting for a haircut with his balloons
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Karlie's candies and cakes Lou Ella's
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diner people lined up for some homestyle
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cooking it's busy in there not
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interested in Angela's fine apparel is
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this child who needs his red wagon fix
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hey mister can you fix the tire I sure
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can boy everything on the ride is old
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school everything on the left is brand
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new that parking structure used to be an
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area where bets sprinkle the statue used
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to sit it was a city park but not
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anymore progress very clever with the
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water system very clever
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some hullabaloo is ensuing up top a card
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game gone awry the guy's so angry just
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throwing the whole deck up in the air
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that cat wants nothing to do with it
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the cats leaving given the title flowery
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bull
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because it is a bucking bull made of
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flowers nice tie-in is this brand-new
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piece of art work that's being done
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right here at the Broadway Plaza
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no crossing this line until completion
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one of my favorite things down here is
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the Epcot omnibus that used to use
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around World Showcase it still exists
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just been repurposed used for a
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character cavalcade they would load up
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on the top portion and make their way
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driving around the different countries
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still have the flags on the side as well
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as some emblems one on the front portion
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one on the steering wheel and how
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unmistakable is the staircase up to the
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top level a staple of business in this
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area
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forever known as the store with the
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horse out front back in the day every
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night and morning its owner
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dick may consent give it a little
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petting just be located on the sidewalk
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but since then been moved indoors with a
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new paintjob behind the glass just for
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protection reasons just watching the
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traffic going by just mind in his own
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ease and cues they have a depiction of
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downtown as well in mural form
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get old days nineteen twenty five to be
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exact
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sunrise on Broadway
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had some automobiles back then but also
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bulls see a wagon going down the
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sidewalk or even a gentleman on a horse
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visiting a tax professional is not the
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most pleasant experience at least this
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establishment tries to make it soothing
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with a beach scene here and some
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fishermen and palm trees next door are
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some farm critters
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trying to get my attention I see you
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there waving
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they're all looks so happy you must be
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Big John but I don't know who you are
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you're just holding a sign that says
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your name beep John had a desire to go
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out to the White House on the lake
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you're doing some construction though
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they pulled up the sidewalk area it's
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all dirt and there's a fence around the
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entry point so can't get over there
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the mamas are feeding the baby birds and
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the water they're taking care of them
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everything I'm showing is more or less
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within walking distance of each other a
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lengthy walk but a walk nonetheless Main
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Street right over there
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no lakefront here where one can enjoy
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the wildlife searching for food what
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about their business if you're wondering
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what this is it's a stormwater quality
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improvement project just off the
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lakefront just a few feet showing what
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happens after stormwater rain off medium
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flow high flow and after a rain event
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after reading a bit more looks as if the
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debris and trash will get caught up in
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those grates down there captured in a
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screen system that are kept separate
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from the static water
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that looks tasty oh man that looks
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delicious
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you're just maling down on that
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since 1943 the monument of the states
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has been a landmark here on Lakeview
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Drive very impressive
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at its base at a 50th anniversary a time
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capsule was placed along the brick well
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I should say under the brick do not open
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until 2043 even though it was official
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in 43 the donor started rolling in and
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41 their names are inscribed here near
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the ground all of these people
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contributed to make it happen
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well this goes on and on and on a little
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bit of everything wedged in here from
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all over the world
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I'll point out a few that that caught my
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attention
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on either side of the US map or two
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pieces of coral one from Key West and
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another from the Gulf of Mexico
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center of the screen some meteors from
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Norwalk Connecticut way up there looks
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like First Christian Church here in town
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took the highest point just under the
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sphere barely make out the lettering
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also in the center from Missouri some
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lead and zinc stuck in there
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Vermont contributed some
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hundred-year-old bricks
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next to them Arkansas some tiny rocks
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spelling out the letter a commuting all
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the way from Virginia Lookout Mountain
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scratched in the boulder Brigham Young
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1801 his birthplace from Illinois a
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human shoe it doesn't really does look
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like the shoe starfish of some sort I'm
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seeing as well petrified wood from
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Colorado and an inscribed bull
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am i reading this correctly Illinois has
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given a human skull
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look closely human skull
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huh I feel like I've been here more
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times than I can count
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and each and every occurrence I see
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something I never noticed before that's
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right like this stogie I'm smoking this
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stogie here come on it's not really it's
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just a piece of it I have to say I think
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my favorite item is the one given two
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decades afterwards and it's not attached
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it sits behind it
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Walt Disney Studios in Burbank
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California January 21st 1966 nearly five
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years before the opening of Magic
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Kingdom if you make it out here and
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that's something you find very
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interesting don't hesitate to walk
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around this direction it's located right
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there just a few feet away
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made of steel and recycled concrete
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Granite Gator you do have to be very
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attentive to notice the tail the feet
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the torso and the head not sure about
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this one it's up for interpretation no
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signage a dinosaur perhaps
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