Filming Locations Inside The Worlds Biggest Dinosaurs - The Wizard / Whats Left of Large Marge Diner
A visit to the Cabazon Dinosaurs to check out some Filming Locations.
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welcome everyone out of the whoo here
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today's adventure begins a two possibly
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three day very short road trip to a
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place that is very time sensitive if I
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don't go now it will be erased from
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existence that's a quote from an 80s
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movie not has nothing to do or relation
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with where I'm heading for tomorrow but
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today I'm going to be swinging by the
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pee-wee's big adventures dinosaurs
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Cabazon California but I'm not gonna be
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focusing on that subject matter I have
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covered that a multitude of times as
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well as many others have I'm gonna dive
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a little deeper into other productions
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that have taken place on that property
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I'm inviting you to join me shalyah got
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all my accessories tucked away in there
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and even though I'm not going for too
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long and for too incredibly far I am
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bringing a suitcase with my laptop and a
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couple changes of clothes
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no truck parking thankfully do not have
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a truck South pit stop but this is where
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the large marge diner used to sit it's
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been bulldozed if you look over there
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there's Denny the dinosaur one of the
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two created by Claude Ville of Knott's
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Berry Farm Fame wait is windy out here
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the main entrance used to be right here
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you would walk directly in pass some
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phone booths and a statue of a miner and
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his mule right there which has also been
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removed and where Pee Wee said those
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words Large Marge sent me was right
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there and then just over to that corner
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was where he sat and discovered his
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wallet was gone right over there for
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whatever reason there is the fence just
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kind of discontinues right there so up
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on this this little ledge getting a look
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over here at the the damaged area
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I gotta go any farther in there is like
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no telling what kind of what kind of
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stuff is lurking amongst the weeds
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tagging along is Sean Clark how many
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years has it been since you've been to
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this despot I'm taking his office I
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haven't been here since 1994 when my
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band was poorly if we went to play to
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show in Phoenix and we stopped here and
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I immediately recognized it from
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pee-wee's big adventure freaked out I
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got pictures somewhere but I haven't
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been back since but I knew this was
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honor a road trip so we had to stop
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you want to you want a fact it'll blow
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your mind you're standing in the spot
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where the singer from Tears for Fears
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parked his car right here in the music
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video everybody wants to rule the world
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and walked right into here as well
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through the phone booths right here this
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is where this is where it happened in
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the music video that's a fun fun little
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back when I get over in the shade where
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there's no Sun glare I'll show on my
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phone some screenshots but this eat sign
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prior to the dyno in the middle can be
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seen when he's at the phone booth in
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this very spot as well as this angle
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with the mountain range in the
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background it's also interesting to note
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way back in the day this Burger King was
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not there I do not know the reason
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behind it but they elevated it almost to
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it's just Mike my thoughts on it but it
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almost seems like they wanted to block
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the Dinos from the freeway for one
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reason or another just to give a little
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perspective Tears for Fears right there
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in that parking lot that's a sweet van
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behind behind there also and then
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looking towards that mountain range I
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really wonder what happened to that
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claude bell statue final one looking up
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at the the each side which is right
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there
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above what was the large marge diner
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also very noticeable in the film paris
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texas when harry dean stanton is walking
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along the side of the diner
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you see both mr. Rex and denny in the
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same lots changed over the years a lot
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has certainly changed but at least these
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two iconic figures are still standing
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another classic late 80s flick the
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wizard which was more or less a a
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glorified commercial for the NES
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Nintendo Entertainment System the family
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of Jimmy was cruising along they have
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changed the parking lot and he kept
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saying California so they pulled over
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and what was the parking lot at that
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time and they went up the tail of the
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dinosaur and Jimmy head up hid up in the
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neck in the gift shop which appears to
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be open there he is
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scurrying in very quickly his family
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just a few steps behind quick detour
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gonna walk over to the museum and see if
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we can pay a couple of dollars to go up
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in mr. Rex you can't go by here without
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going up in the mouth it was a little
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more than a couple dollars the two of us
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was twenty six dollars or thirteen
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dollars each and I've been here quite a
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few times but you have never been into
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the new if they knew within the last
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decade museum so you've never been up in
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the t-rex mouth before no I'm not I'm
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excited to get in that mouth you can
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almost pretend like you're peewee with
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Simone I'll be Simone you could be P
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wait there's no saying ov Hwa this time
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though
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we're sticking together it's happening I
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hadn't planned on doing this but Shawn
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this is the first time for him so I'm
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gonna be gonna be tagging along you know
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I probably would do this even if you
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weren't here to be honest
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you know I'm hurt no well as far as you
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know I wouldn't but I honestly I
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probably would it was down in that area
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where Andy saw his girlfriend and peewee
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exiting out of the stork I've always
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heard that the tale was going to be
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originally it's going to be created by
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as a slide would slide down the tail but
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had never happened to see it yeah joists
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are the only ones I was kind of wonder
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if it was going to be a lot of people so
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this is a good thing we're all alone to
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the dine out there because how small it
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is are you saying that is yeah well I
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knew they didn't tell me but now you're
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seeing with your own eyes you're on the
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present sure yeah I mean because they're
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like sitting in a chair like you know
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there's no spot being sit whenever I'm
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up in here I think about some of the
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dreams if they ever ask me if I've ever
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had any dreams I'm all alone and there's
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a roll in a big donut and there's a
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snake wearing a vest so tell me what
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you're thinking right now after all
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these years decades of loving the movie
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now you're here I'm thinking I don't
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know years of buildup it's not
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disappointing but I'm sad it's over
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but it's pretty awesome did you expect
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to hear a lot of freeway traffic down
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there while you were up here no
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get the highs up there
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they leave the lights on so from the
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ground floor has the red eyes kind of
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creates an interesting ambiance pit
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going back down back to the wizard
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none of the wizard in here only Oh only
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over in the gift shop and out front of
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any the dinosaur not the team it truly
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is a magnificent creation just
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overlooking the Overlook in the
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thoroughfare and the mountain probably
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about a total of 10 minutes we spent in
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this section what do you say about 10
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minutes in this we're gonna spend a lot
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more in the other areas and you're
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saying you wouldn't have done it if he
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couldn't have gone up in the up in the
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mouth you want you want the peewee dinos
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these are like not peewee dinos
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this kind of sums up what I was saying
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about how the BK was built to obscure to
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obscure them for whatever reason from
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the main road well competition from
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other businesses I suppose I got some
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military trucks out before I walk back
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over there I'm gonna mention that Oasis
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film their US version of their video
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supersonic right here as well
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yep true and there was one point and one
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of the and part of it part of the music
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video they were sitting on the foot
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there towards the bottom yes they're
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just checking out some dinos
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not the best quality I think maybe they
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were just swinging by on tour and just
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decided it's get a quick shot here at
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this place
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there they are and they also walked in
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front of Denny as well unusual filter on
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that Frank when I go up into the gift
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shop the the scene in the movie from The
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Wizard when Jimmy is like holding the
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family album full of photos but there's
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a car alarm going off
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you see fred savage there you see Beau
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Bridges you see Christian Slater they
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were all sitting right here on this foot
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under the backdrop of that yeah right
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there just imagine
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Christian Slater perch right on this
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little pinky toe it was also under here
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where Andy was chasing peewee and took
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the paper mache bone smashed into the
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side of that leg back to the wizard
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again you can see how the parking lot
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was a lot different when he ran out of
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the vehicle both the families pulled
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over parking lots a lot different I'll
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go over here and match this this angle
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up kinda sorta more or less from this
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perspective you know the concrete and
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pavement has changed considerably but
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this is this is about where that was
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turned inwards like this way like
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or dinosaur doing this they might have
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it's a good question I never met it a
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dinosaur but what and all your adventure
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all my years one not one dinosaur I've
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ever met yeah he's not walking that why
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you know maybe this is a brontosaurus
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right maybe it's a brontosaurus though
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it looks like a shark fin up there but
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it's really the neck shadow of diti
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here is where he's coming up the stairs
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right there the very brisk pace as he
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kind of jaunts upward railings are the
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same same stairs same glass cases on
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either side yeah and you can see down at
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the bottom there is not that there is
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not the little SAP and then once he
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reached the top he disappeared no one
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knew where he was and all of a sudden
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the rest of the family appears stopped
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at the top of the staircase kind of
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looks around and bewilderment from this
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precise spot had a hunch that his
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brother would have been maybe up in the
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neck which would have been sealed well
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kind of hidden by this curtain going
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over the display area which still kind
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of remains of its own way you can see
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the windows on the side all that still
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remain and if this drape was not here
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nor the merchandise you would be able to
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see right up into the neck for both
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brothers sat and looked at the pictures
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the picture that was taken down on the
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foot and noticed earlier I was looking
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at my fridges I do not have a magnet
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from this establishment so got two
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magnets and the sticker looks like a
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magnet but there's two magnets here and
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the one on the far end is a sticker and
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keep in mind if you ever swing by here
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if you're ever driving down the the
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interstate freeway that you can come up
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in the gift shop don't just look at it
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from outside but it is allow it's free
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to walk in this one you just come right
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up to the door and enter in and out
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the wizard now the dinosaur is not the
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wizard and all the years I've been
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stopping off here I'm always enamored at
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the amount of links they will go to to
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get people to stay off of climbing on
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the tail just don't do it I would really
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enjoy I don't know if it'll ever happen
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or if it's even possible but I would
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really enjoy going up on the second
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floor well technically the third ground
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level be the first floor second floor
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would be the gift shop you see there's
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from this side around the back there is
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noticeably other another room at the top
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almost at the peak of the tail where the
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tail meets the top of the back maybe one
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day I'll get up there one can dream
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going back to Tears for Fears for a
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moment you can see as he's driving off a
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really good faraway wide shot almost
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obstructed by that 18-wheeler
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tractor-trailer you could see them off
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in the distance with the mountain range
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would be virtually impossible to get
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that precise angle current day however
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because not only the Burger King is
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elevated for for the purpose of blocking
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or maybe it's just a coincidence but
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also this building
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it'd be kind of neat to sit under here
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bring a bring a little meal sit at this
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picnic table with only one bench and it
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maybe have the movie downloaded or no
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you're on your smartphone or other
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device and watch the wizard right here
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underneath where it took place most
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notable from pee-wee's big adventure to
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tie in a little bit of that obviously
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but there was not just that I've come to
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find that with a lot of places are
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really well-known for one particular
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film he dive a little deeper and there's
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other things
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that's a hungry snake he just wants to
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eat
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I don't know putting words in his mouth
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he might not want he may have already
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eaten a meal but he misses that diner
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like a lot of us do so much history and
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I can see why they put this chain-link
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fence up even though there is a hole on
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the other side so you don't want to I
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did didn't make the mistake of wandering
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through here because I've done it in the
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past when the fence wasn't here but none
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of the fence is there it kind of draws
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attention that there are holes in the
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ground they're very deep that are
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covered by these wood patches and as
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much research as I've done the interiors
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of the former diner were only used in
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that one at least from what I could tell
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I was lucky enough to have a meal here
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when it was still open only one time
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though every other time it was closed
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when I pass by and then just a couple
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years ago bulldozed at least we have the
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memories of Harry Dean Stanton Tears for
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Fears and of course Paul Reubens here
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kind of roam in the place back in the
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day gotta end with the road that runs
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parallel to the freeway
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the same one Jimmy and his family took
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and he looked out the window and he sees
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the dinosaurs off over there which
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reminds them of happier times remembered
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