Savannah Georgia Scooter Tour - Pirates House / River St / Historic District / Rainbow Row & MORE
Savannah Georgia Scooter Tour
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as
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the recording of this saturday january
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8th
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2022. got to make sure get that
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correctly old habits are hard you know
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saying 21 for so long you used to saying
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that 22 it's 9 00 a.m
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stayed in savannah georgia last night
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right here
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along the savannah
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river in fact
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i'm not even going to get in my car
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today i am going to be taking my scooter
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around
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some of the sights the sounds
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and maybe even the smells
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of savannah georgia a
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fantastic city
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starting off with the waving
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woman here
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see i'll be taking this around it's got
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a full charge there's a lot of hills
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here in town
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we'll see what happens
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florence mardis was her name
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and you can see they have her pictured
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with the
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like a towel of sort or a flag of sorts
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that she would wave for 44 years
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she retired
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from the job she gave herself
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a flagging down and waving out of
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friendliness to all the passing ships
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back in
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1931 passed away in 43 so
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44 of these years of her life
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she stood in this general vicinity her
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brother
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was a lighthouse keeper
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so she had a fondness for the sea
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and the river
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and the boats and it's just something
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she started doing and
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never really stopped
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savannah georgia it's happening
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i'm inviting you
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to join me oh yeah it feels good
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my lips are a little a little chapped a
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little chilly
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but that's okay i need to get myself a
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coffee
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i'm just going to venture around
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i should be able to cover some ground on
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this
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join me
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as stated there is a lot of cobblestone
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and rock roads
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through here
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right along the the riverwalk might not
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be technically called the riverwalk but
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it's a walk along the river
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and a lot of
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hills up and down a lot of stairs too ah
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yes the georgia queen
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right up there with the american flag
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waving briskly in the breeze
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not sure if i mention it or not but 40
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about 44 45 degrees at the moment i
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think it's supposed to get up to 50.
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i would be excited if it got up to 50
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just because right here along the water
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now once i get you know off the more
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inland
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it won't be it won't be as chilly with
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the breeze but yeah and this this thing
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is massive this riverboat is
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very
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big colony of georgia began on
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savannah's waterfront back in
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1733 the riverfront has always played an
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important role in georgia's weather
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or georgia whether
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as a colonial port an exporter of cotton
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or tourist destination
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and the first commercial house below the
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bluff
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opened in 1744
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not only got one boat right there going
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by with water being emitted out the back
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back out into the river but another one
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pulling into port over there in front of
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the big fairy river boat
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now this globe here right in the middle
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is titled a world apart
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with their names listed
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along the side on the inside of the
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globe on both sides
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old savannah chores
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quite a few of these around town
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this is city market right here off
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montgomery street
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see if i can find a piping hot yeah it
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needs to definitely be
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piping hot because it is
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crisp
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and cool
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down this road now it is very early this
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place becomes quite the beehive activity
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later in the eve i would imagine
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the grocery store used to be right here
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wholesale grocery
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you still see the remnants there on the
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side
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kind of painted on the wall faded out
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that's good
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trolley tour is another company
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goes through here
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yeah you got the right idea being out of
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the wind in there being out of the
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elements
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doing a little
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doing a little moonshining are you here
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in your
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model a i'm just looking at the
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information placard here ford model a
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modified for moonshining
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he just parked right here in the middle
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of the little shopping district he was
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not only the co-founder of capitol
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records
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but the president of the songwriters
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hall of fame johnny mercer wrote 1400
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songs
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most famous
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moon river
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i forgot that there was this little
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little statue johnny mercer here in
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savannah it's been a while since i've
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been through these parts
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found some coffee purchased it from the
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coffee fox
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right over here on the corner of
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whitaker
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there's the logo there
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pretty tasty i already already tried a
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little bit of some pretty dang good
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and
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they give away free stickers with every
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purchase
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corner of whittaker and probably should
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look up this other one
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rotten b-r-o-u-g-h-t-o
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that's the crosstreats
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yeah pretty tasty
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see if you could hear the enjoyment on
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my lips
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oh my stickers are going away stickers
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are flying away it's windy oh this one
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almost went down the sewer
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to pennywise anyways you down there
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with the church steeple and the bells
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ringing
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i'm not the only one over here there's a
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few other people walking to the area
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where tom hanks sat
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forrest gump life is like a box of
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chocolates right over there
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and i'm gonna go over that same area and
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drink my coffee
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it's kind of hard to
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kind of motor around on this when you
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have a camera in one hand and a coffee
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in the other so
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kind of kind of polish this off first
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and of course in real life there is no
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bench in the same spot right
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along where him and others were sitting
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right about here
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but there are benches all through the
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through the entire chippewa square
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steady flow of people over there getting
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a picture of this spot
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kind of doing a self-guided tour oh wow
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right here in the historic district i
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never realized this was right next door
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to the forest gump spot
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and even though we're well in past a
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week
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past new year's i still got the rocking
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new year's eve and there's plenty of
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tours i'm kind of doing my own
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self-guided tour the corner of drayton
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and east macon
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something pretty interesting
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this was founded here in savannah
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the very first headquarters
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in the united states
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back in 1912.
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walk up a little closer here
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the building was formerly the stable of
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juliet low
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or low
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and there's juliet there
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this is supposed to symbolize on which
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ride you're supposed to take
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you know this this portion of the car
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could cost you up to eighteen hundred
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dollars
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or you take a cab like this
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not a lot of people in this day they
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just take cabs anymore but there's still
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there's still some cabs around
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yeah this has been here for years i
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remember this from years ago
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when i went through this area
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established 1854
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and this has a date stamp of 1953 on it
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city of savannah here this badge
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and the barracks here
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were erected back in 1869 to 1870.
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that is a historic building everywhere
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everything around here
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it's historic
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there are a lot of these squares
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throughout the town
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all kind of look the same but they all
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have different names and different
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history speaking of history over there
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on that corner that very large brick
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home
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is the davenport house finished in 1820
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historic building here in town
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so there's a few people
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over there discussing it
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and there's also a placard i'll go over
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there and read that as well this square
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known as columbia square was laid out in
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1799 facing it to the north
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is the davenport house
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isaiah davenport
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one of savannah's outstanding builder
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architects
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1956 it was restored by the
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historic society
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it'd be incredible to live in something
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like that wouldn't it be
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the owens thomas house
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and in this residence marquis
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de lafayette was living back in 1825
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in fact he gave a speech to the public
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right up there
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on the south balcony
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and it states all that information right
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here he was courted here as a guest
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of the city when he visited savannah in
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1825
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he addressed the populace
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i guess that would mean a crowd
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of the public
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from the south
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balcony
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there's a basement
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called tabby construction
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it contains the original trim of the d
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brom house
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which once occupied the site
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i like all these like information
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placards because they give you
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a lot of info this is one of the the
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major historic homes since i've been
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standing here has been a couple of
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horse-drawn carriage tours that have
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gone by
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a couple of fantastic looking structures
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here as well this s-c-a-d
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theater with the neon and whatnot
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new year new quarter
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leopold's ice cream has a sweet neon
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as well
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looks like this was an old movie theater
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that's been converted
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into something else as well as the
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savannah tap house
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looks to be relics of a theater as well
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with the marquee and everything still
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still in existence here
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up near the corner of drayton
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this is broughton
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b-r-o-u-g-h-t-o-n
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that's how it's spelled this road
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the cathedral of saint john the baptist
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with a little sun burst
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glimmering through there
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it's impressive
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the center point
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here in madison square
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commemorates the heroism of william
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jasper
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reading off of this
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little information here
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madison square was laid out in 1839
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and is named for the fourth president
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of the united states around the square
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stand notable
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examples of greek revival gothic and
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romanesque
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architecture
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including
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the old
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sorrel weed house
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right over there
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which some say is one of the most
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haunted
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spots here in town
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i'll walk over and get a better view
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completed being built in 1840 for the
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plans of charles b
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klusky a well-known georgia architect
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distinguished trend of savannah
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the original owner francis sorel
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a shipping merchant
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and was purchased later by henry d weed
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yeah that's
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that's an old-timey haunted mansion
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right there
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a little work is taking place over there
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i think someone might be vacuuming
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but wanted to point out where it says
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united states tire
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up there on the side of the brick an old
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old paint you know paint advertisement
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faded out but
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you still faintly see it
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this little restaurant here on the side
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of whitaker in west congress
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is owned by paula dean it's called the
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lady and sons
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and they have a retro looking neon sign
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up there but this place opened in 89
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but they're giving that that old-timey
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feel
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with the neon
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even though it's kind of modern on the
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corner of bull street
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is the u.s custom house
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and looking at this reading over this
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used to be a house on this site back in
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the day where james edward oglethorpe
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the founder of the colony of georgia
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lived for a time
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and in 36 john wesley preached his first
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sermon
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at savannah in a building which stood
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at the rear of the lot
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right over there oh here's another
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here's another little plaque
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that dates the oglethorpe's house
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on this site stood the house that
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oglethorpe within savannah his home he
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made
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to better protect the young colony
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adjacent to warren square
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corner of congress and
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habersham street
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is a very unique house which is
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kind of up for
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a little bit of conversation around town
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by the owners it was stated for years
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that this was a a sears
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kit house
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that you could get from sears and put
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together and it was stated that the
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person that put it together way back in
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the day put the windows in upside down
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so you could see how the windows there
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on the little protruding awning next to
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the upper porch
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look like they're upside down well i
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guess this has been disputed over the
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years and no one really knows the answer
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if the windows are put in upside down or
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if it is supposed to look like this
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now at first glance
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you would assume that those windows
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right there are upside down
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talking about this right here
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and for a while
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a few years ago supposedly there were
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signs placed
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on one of these balconies from the owner
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saying this was not a sears kit house
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and to be perfectly honest with you i do
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not know the answer to said question to
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me it looks as if
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the windows are upside down but i'm not
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an architect
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nor
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do i know a lot about sears kit homes
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but that's what a lot say the majority
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say those windows
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are put in upside down
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it's up for artistic or interpretation
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builders artistic or interpretation
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it's kind of chilly and i'm having
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trouble speaking my lips are nub
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my fingers
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i'm riding around that scooter and the
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wind chill
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definitely
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a nice little wind chill here down about
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a block or so is another square
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they all kind of look very similar
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but this was incorporated back in 1843
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this is the international
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siemens house
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operated by the port society
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across this street is the old
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pirates house
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oh we're getting a nice little breeze
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off the water right over there the
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water's right there oh nice little gusty
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breeze
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going across my face
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you got the sightseeing tour going by as
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well it is now a restaurant
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but according to this
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it was associated with savannah's
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maritime history and robert louis
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stevenson's
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treasure island built in 1754
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very fantastic block
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of buildings as well
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kind of co-joined up to the pirates
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house
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take a look at these
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going through here
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originally built and opened as an inn
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for pirates
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seafaring pirates
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oh look over there across the water
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across the savannah river
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look at that
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it's the back end of a large barge
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going down the river
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costco
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c-o-s-c-o
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pacific
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and the tugboat behind it
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that thing is massive
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i had to hurry to catch up with it i was
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scooting along pretty quick
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to get to this little open area to even
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visually show it
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notice around the backside here some of
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these businesses
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they have these bridges that go over the
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cobblestone that you can walk
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from the main road and the parking area
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over to these other buildings without
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having to go down there upon the
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brickwork and there's some pigeons
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walking around down there
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on the cobble
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these little walkway bridges
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that's different i ended up going back
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to my hotel for a few hours just to kind
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of
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warm up
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but now i'm over here at a place called
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rainbow row
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kind of reminds me of the painted ladies
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in san francisco there's another tour
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you're pretty neat to look at one of
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these
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these are private residences there's
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little
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signage on the front of the doors
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it's pretty cool though
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very beautiful i'm heading back over to
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the pirate house where i was earlier
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before i got distracted
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by that barge going down the river
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you're just kind of getting a view here
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of the road
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but the pirate house
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right up ahead there
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oh it is still nice and crisp and cool
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out here
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it feels good but i had to take a little
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bit of a break from the
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the wind and the coldness
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go relax in the hotel for a while warm
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up
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got a few old relics here around the
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back now this is a restaurant i will not
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be getting a meal
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at the moment but just i wanted to show
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here around the
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not the back side of water but the back
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side of the pirate house
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and if i'm reading this correctly the
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trustees garden at this site
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was the first public agricultural
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experimental garden in america
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that's something i didn't know learned
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something new every day
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10 acres the garden gets consisted of
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the site was developed as a residential
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section
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that was a long time ago this is an
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interesting contrast
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this relic of the past
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this old building there in front of
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those new apartments condos hotel
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right along the water
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out with the old and with the new except
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it's not out with the old savannah keeps
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a lot of if not all their old buildings
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which is nice another square by the name
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of green square
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i really like the houses through here
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look over there the
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the beautiful houses across the way
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and then this purple two-story one as
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well
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and then down that
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road as well which is york street
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and there's some indication of why it
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was named york street here on the side
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of this
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fantastic looking
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brick building
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york street was laid out in 1733
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named in honor of the duke of york
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and houston street houston street
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was named in honor of john huston the
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governor of georgia back in 1778 and
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the first mayor of savannah in 1790
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and speaking of san francisco style
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and painted lady of course these aren't
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painted
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but yeah i could just picture
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uncle jesse and joey and the rest of the
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crew in here
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a totally different state i know but
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just reminded me of that
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used from 1750 oh there was a
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classic car alert a bug over there look
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at that
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used from 1750
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until it was closed in 1853
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okay we got the classic bug and then
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here goes another horse drawn carriage
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tour that's going by as well
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the carriage company going by there
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give it a lot of facts trying to kind of
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learn on my own as i go around by using
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all these little information signs
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among the distinguished who rest here
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are archibald bullock the first
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president of georgia
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and james
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habersham there's a road here in town
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named after
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that family he was the acting royal
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governor
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of the province
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also
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joseph who was a relation who was the
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postmaster general and i've kind of
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noticed that quite a few people that are
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walking through here going from the
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direction i just walked in and the other
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direction walking past me
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are just using it as more of a
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thoroughfare
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than a paying respects or
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curiosity to learn about history type of
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thing you don't see that too often it
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goes over into other little areas and
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neighborhoods
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of savannah which is pretty fascinating
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so it really is a park you know uses
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obviously used for what you're seeing
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but
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that's that's rare you don't see that in
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a lot of
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a lot of other towns
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where you just walk
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directly through
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to another area of savannah
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you know when you go over that way you
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can see everyone heading out
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they're just kind of bee lining it out
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the other way from one end to the other
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but if you really start to get down into
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the nitty-gritty you find the stuff
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really fascinating
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william scarborough was the promoter of
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the first
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trans-oceanic steam ship
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and he is here
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duelists
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you always hear about duels but to read
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and realize that they were a real thing
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it's very interesting
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james wilde
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was bested by captain roswell p johnson
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and james brother
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wrote this poem in honor of him of his
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passing
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in a duel
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oglethorpe avenue runs in two directions
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one way through heading towards me and
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one way the other one so there's two
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oglethorpe avenues and right here in
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this median is the original 19 well 17
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1733
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burial allotment to james edward
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oglethorpe a name you probably heard
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a couple times through this episode
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very well known around these parts
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former governor of georgia and the
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building over here the home across the
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way also shares a historical
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significance
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from this marker that you see here
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within eye view nice courtyard around
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the back and
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look at that little second floor porch
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there
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very beautiful
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and this is up kept
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by the organization that juliet
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low started
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she was born in 1860
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and her home until her marriage there in
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1886 to william lowe
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back over in the neighborhood now where
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lady and sons restaurant is
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i had to look it up but back in 2010 i
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did a tour
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with my band tnt in the scar that we
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played right inside this pizza place
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which is now called kay's pizza but back
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then it was sweet melissa's and in the
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basement
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was where
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the shows took place right across here
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from this building at these this pizza
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place and i kind of went in and talked
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to them and the stair well behind the
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counter still there
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they wouldn't let me go down in the
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basement but yeah brings back some
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memories here
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also a year prior back in 2009 played
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here so played here twice 2009
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with
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different tour and then 2010 with
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discard on the dna energy drink tour and
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this was from 2009 this little alleyway
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they've gotten rid of the bricks and
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paved it and they painted the windows oh
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yeah well well over a decade ago
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sitting right down there
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chowing down
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on a piece of pie
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and they no longer do shows in the
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basement according to those that are
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working in there but check this out you
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could see all the stickers
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all the old punk rock stickers i was
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looking for
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either my band or bands i was familiar
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with but all the way up the pole are
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remnants of where stickers used to be
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i put the scooter away
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walking back down to the riverfront
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once again yeah the scooter
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has a hard time
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on these rocks
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this is the the lower level of what i
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was showing
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earlier from up top there these historic
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steps
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as
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well i just love all the rocks that make
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up the road
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oh yes certainly slightly brisk
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at the moment out here
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wind is really
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kicking up a gale force well not a gale
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force wind but
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a win nonetheless
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as i look over at the riverboat down
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that's gonna do it for today
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog