The Real Life Swiss Family Robinson Tree is Outside Disneyland - Inspiration For Disney Attraction
A visit to the real tree that helped in the design of Swiss Family Robinson attraction.
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure
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will take me around to a couple of
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locations
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corresponding and tying in to an
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attraction
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that sits at the disneyland resort and
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one that stemmed no pun intended because
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it
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is based on a tree can be found at walt
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disney world
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as well and some say the inspiration
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and if not that a deep rooted
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documentation has been put out there
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on how it was created in orange county
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california
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that was there's a long-winded intro but
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i'm inviting you
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to join me shall you
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you read my mind big the foot you know
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exactly where
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i'm heading
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you called it decided to swing by here
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the harbor boulevard entrance of
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disneyland to give a little perspective
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before going over to the other two spots
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even though the theme parks are not open
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here in southern california
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downtown disney is but cannot get in the
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gates and walk back to adventureland and
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next to pirates of the caribbean
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swiss family robinson treehouse which
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has changed its name
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here to tarzan's treehouse
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can't get back there but this is this is
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about as close
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as i can get for now here on the west
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coast
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just have to use our imagination we're
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up at the top of it
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okay moving on now heading back this
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direction
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a couple miles or so not too far of a
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commute
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you would think by looking at it
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that this very impressive tree that sits
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next to a church building
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here in orange it's been rumored that
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this was also utilized
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by those in the creation of disneyland
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for the attraction that you could walk
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up into
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depending on who you talk to some say
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that this very tree
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was one but i can't find a lot of
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documentation of that
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just hearsay more or less the other spot
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i'm heading over to
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has way more info and is stated to be
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more prominently than this one but this
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is one heck of a beautiful
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a beautiful tree is it not
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right here off the side of the road
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i love it about four or five miles to
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the next spot
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i think the foot's excited because he
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saw the matter worn from the freeway
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kind of went by so quickly i didn't
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capture it but
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trust me he saw it in anaheim now and
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had to find
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street parking which was not too
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difficult
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because this section is closed off
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currently
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here at founders park
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and the subject end question is
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right here this expansive much taller
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version
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of the one i was just at
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look at this thing
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monumental
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provides quite a bit of shade you could
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get lost
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in its root system
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now there is an information placard
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right over there that i'm making my way
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towards but getting distracted
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this is something else
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carol's pride nursery man tim carroll
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would be proud but hardly surprised
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a one-time resident of australia he knew
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the potential grandeur
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of the morton bay fig trees that he sold
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to anaheim residents
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at the evergreen nursery back in 1868
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if you continue reading states here walt
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disney drew
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inspiration from many places but in 1962
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he modeled the swiss family robinson
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tree house
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now tarzan's home after the
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fig tree here at founders park
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very interesting
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now i've been here before many many
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years ago and did not document this
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properly
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standing here i am reminded of
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just how impressive this thing really is
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sits on the same premises as a lot of
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other
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historical buildings
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dating back to 1894.
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that is quite a homestead
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the modest mother colony house now the
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oldest wood frame
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structure in orange county
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i never knew that
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and if you're building a attraction
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based in a tree
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drawing inspiration from this would be
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very easy to do
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noticing a lot of similarities
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in the real deal here versus the
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one that was constructed on disneyland
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property
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certain things just like the little
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nooks and crannies that go along the
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side
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and some have carved their names and
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initials in here which
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is frowned upon i would not suggest or
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recommend doing that
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you want this to stand the test of time
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way up there gosh there are a lot of
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carvings in here
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some most likely recent oh there's some
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some of the carvings most likely recent
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and some might date back
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i've also heard that walt himself was in
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this neighborhood many times
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stopped by to take photos
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had others swing by and also take
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photographs just to
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to match up you know for the future
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project that was happening
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i'm fairly confident that he didn't just
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drive by this
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and immediately came up with the idea it
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was already floating around
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it was already out there but he did
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hear about this in some fashion
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came by here and utilize this
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in great detail for things to come
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almost like a model of sorts
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should also be noted that the city of
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anaheim
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stated this as its first
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city tree with first city landmark tree
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this thing's huge i've also heard that
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they took
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molds of the knots that are
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all around the base and they use those
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molds transferred them
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over to the disney property and you can
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find
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you can match up some of the knots
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from the base of this on the attraction
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in the park
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that's pretty dang cool while standing
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here
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these are starting to drop out of its
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limbs
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these little items here are falling
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one just kind of perused its way or
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cruise down to the ground there
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narrowly missing my noggin
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this kind of stuff is always really
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fascinating to me i love the history
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of the theme parks especially disney and
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you know just knowing where you know
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items that were used
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real life places that were used for
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things that
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you've gone through hundreds if not
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thousands of times
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memories of our youth and adult
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life and then you just realize just a
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couple miles down the road
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is what is the reason it exists in some
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fashion to me that just it's a pretty
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neat thing
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add in the fact that this was imported
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over 150 years ago
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keep wanting to look up there and see
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the sweet see the robinsons
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but they're not there
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i guess you could say its own little
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scars but not really scars so much
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i mean just just right here this is
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about three feet well that's probably
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two and a half that's probably three
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feet tall
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this is like nearly six feet right there
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then to the base of that
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maybe eight nine feet
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the thing is it'd be very tough
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to be very tough without a ladder of
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some sort
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to get up there
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as you figure just from that section up
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to that section is another
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20 feet talking about 10 or 15 20 feet
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between the roots and the branches at
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the top
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i'm noticing just with an eye vision of
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here the street sign says
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cross streets of sycamore street
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that's another that's kind of fun
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sycamore is also a tree reminds me of
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the song in
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in sunday school when i was younger
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about zacchaeus
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having to climb up in a sycamore tree
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he'd have a tough time climbing that one
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though
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that would take some doing
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although once you were up there you
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probably see for a
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long way off on the horizon states here
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no one has a bill of sale
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from the purchase of what is now here
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but the facts point to carol's nursery
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as the source
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and right down here is one of the
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nursery wagons
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a few years after it was transported
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here but maybe something similar to that
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was utilized
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to get it into its the spot it's at now
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i believe the one on property in the
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park is between 70 and 80 feet tall
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pretty close in proximity if i had to
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guess to the height
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of this one also
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and this one pre-dates by 100 years
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about 100 years this is older than the
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the one that was that was built
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based on this i'm no expert on
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a bird's-eye perspective you know as far
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as being 80 feet up in the air
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but since disneyland is only one mile
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from this point
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give or take about a mile could you see
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any of that property from the top
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limb up there that'd be that would be
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very interesting i did not realize it
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till now
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because i've never been to those
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overseas
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parks but tokyo disneyland and
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disneyland paris
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also have an attraction based on this
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more than just walt disney world and
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disneyland
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so total of four are counting that right
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walt disney world had magic kingdom
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tokyo and here in anaheim
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a total of four the one located just
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down the road
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open on november 18th of 62 and the
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father from the movie
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showed up to kind of to kind of do a
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grand
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opening celebration on that day
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150 tons of concrete are used for that
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one this
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is not made out of concrete or steel
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just wood gosh that is a long branch
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and now that i'm now that i'm looking at
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this there might have been a branch
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equal in length going off that direction
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that
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could have either fallen or been cut
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down over the years
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and you can see even parts of that up
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there
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it extended even further out at one
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point
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wow and just like the attraction
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versions
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which those have a base that go well
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below
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the ground for structural stability
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roots go
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i do not have a green thumb so i'm just
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kind of saying this off
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the top of my head but isn't the root
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system of a tree
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equal in length to the height
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of what is above
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but never fully fully looked it up to
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see if it's true
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it makes sense though to keep this
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a shape and
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growing strong you would think it would
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have to have something underground
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equal
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so the roots could stretch all the way
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over here or maybe not in height but
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maybe in link because the roots probably
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go all the way underneath this
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parking lot that's not in use sometimes
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you'll see roots kind of
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bury up through concrete they'll appear
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way over there
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when the rest of the trees are over in
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this area
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one fun thing about living in this area
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is you can always find photographs of
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you know walt around town or you know
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him doing the construction of his
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park and you can match up
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for historical sake no matter how much i
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searched i could not find a photograph
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of mr disney here but it would be neat
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if there was one him just tucked away in
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this root system
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who knows could have been this very one
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that i am leaning against that he
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sat for a spell relaxed pondered
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looked up into the branches
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i like to think it was this root the one
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i'm the one i'm on
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right here kind of nice to do a a
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relaxing
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the vlog you know i just keep wanting to
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pan upward
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is over i thought there was i thought
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there was one of those acorn things
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falling but it was just a leaf
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off to the side frame of the but it
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wasn't i was like oh man this is gonna
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like
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plummet right down hit me in the
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forehead
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but it didn't that was a leaf