Central Florida Ghost Towns & Backroads - Talking To Locals About Forgotten History / Unusual Finds
Central Florida Ghost Towns
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today's adventure brings me to the city
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well begins in the city
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of Center Hill almost have this the
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center of City Hill but it's the city of
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Center Hill
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as the recording of us this Thursday
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January 19 2023
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doing some Central Florida back road and
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small town stuff I have never been
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to this community before
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and a dog is barking behind me
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this was established in 1842
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those could be sandhill cranes
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or storks welcome everyone out of the
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woo here
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world of mica
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also tagging along yeah
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last night we decided we should hang out
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today
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but we want to do something a little
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different
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and wanted to see some back road real
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Florida stuff yeah maybe not necessarily
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real Florida but because real Florida
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would be like the swampy areas It's a
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Small Town stuff historical historical
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in some way ghost town ghost town and I
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was looking stuff up online and both of
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us were looking at photos of this place
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and we were like holy cow this place
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exists yeah
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we've actually traveled this stretch of
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road before didn't make it this far so
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we're continuing going down the closest
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I've ever been was like a mile up that
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way but I didn't Veer off to go to this
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community same this should be pretty
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interesting and even pulling in and
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parking over there we noticed just on
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this little stretch not even towards the
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downtown is a lot of kind of desolate
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closed down buildings yeah a lot of
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playing today see what we can find
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inviting you to join me and world of
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mica shall you nailed it I was taught at
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church camp years ago you never really
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want to mess around with these you don't
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want to like hold those put scratch this
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on your face any of the any of the Moss
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the Moss the bugs the bugs that are in
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there you do not want to mess with I
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learned in St Augustine they used to use
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this to make pillows really they would
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Bunch it up so there goes my theory out
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the window no they had bugs but that's
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what they would use okay yeah I'm gonna
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make a pillow out of that I always call
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these wheel of Wheel of Fortune moments
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because some of the letters are removed
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over there
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Lu missing a letter b e so obviously
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that's going to be Lumber and Hardware
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that's it yeah look at that let me zoom
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in on that
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okay that was an easy one
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ah the old seven digit dialing
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I can recall when my family moved to
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Central Florida in the early 90s seven
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digit dialing being a thing and I even
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remember when everything went to 10
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digit dialing like it is now this is an
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impressive tree look how it went up
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through the sidewalking he'd just
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picture like 60 70 years ago someone
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riding their bike down this well the
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tree would have been here then too
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though so why is the sidewalk here
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because this tree has been here for gosh
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over 100 years probably yeah
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the sidewalk's not 100 years old no
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very interesting but you see it's just
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broken up here
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yeah maybe they put the cement around it
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you just had to walk around I don't know
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not Main Street but Market Street
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market and Maryland Ave over there is a
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gas station I'm going to walk over to
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that former gas station down there
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anything in there
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yeah
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some wasps yeah some mud daubers this
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kind of reminds me of the building
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that they go inside in Beetlejuice like
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the General Store Beetlejuice oh yeah
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you know when he goes in there yeah Adam
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Baldwin right Alec Baldwin it was Alec
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Baldwin uh Maitland Hardware
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kind of reminds me of that these old
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doors so door handles here it's all
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locked up but
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oh wow yeah
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storage area now
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that probably was a point when this was
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like a thriving little area down here
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old sign would have been sitting up
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there oh nice oh yeah oh no you know
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what that is it's not this is where the
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big metal door opens elephant door
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basically
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and look it's over look at this thing
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look at this
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oh yeah one thing I've always noticed I
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do travel a lot especially small towns
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like in the in the South kind of have
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that certain kind of vibe if you don't
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really get towns like this too much in
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Florida if you do you got to go pretty
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good distances away from things and even
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one town like this will be spread out
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from another town kind of former
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downtowns and things like that you get
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into Alabama Georgia Mississippi
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you could go in a town like this and
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then five miles up the road it's another
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town exactly like this so this is kind
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of a nice treat
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to see these kind of relics of the past
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here in Florida because they are few and
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far between for some reason Florida is a
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lot different than the other Southern
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States everything's a little more spread
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out at least that's kind of the the
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thought process I have
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on finding stuff like this
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ghost towns if you will
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not full on but kind of sorta there's a
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crow Landing over there
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Mike is looking for Jason Voorhees up
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there
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yeah I love this so are you supposed to
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stop right here where the sign is
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or are you supposed to stop up there
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where the corner is yeah if you stop
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here you can't if you stop here like
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yeah that's interesting so here's the
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old lift
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the car lift oh yeah the mechanic shop
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up there that's definitely not
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structurally sound up top right there
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got the one car going by got a dog
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barking off in the distance got the old
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gas station the mechanic lift there
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the former gas pumps over there
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awesome you think this is where the gas
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pumps yeah definitely gas pumps right
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here yeah
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a little fuel station
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gas pump spot
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two pumps yep
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probably full service yeah somebody pull
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up here pull over where you are yeah
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someone would run out of here
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just like you just walked up probably
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pull up here yep and then on you go fill
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her up can't get in the building but
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peeking in here
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yeah you see that something out of like
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Texas Chainsaw
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that kind of reminds me of the trailer
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for Texas Chainsaw the light and
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everything yeah
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there you go look at the uh
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look at the cobwebs in there too giving
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like the Ambiance oh yeah oh yeah
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even the floor a little breeze in there
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because their combos are moving now it's
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pretty obvious Mike and I are probably
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going to be filming 90 of the exact same
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thing but you can watch both you go over
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to Micah's Channel
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and see his view of this see his view of
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the cutlery and the painter supply
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one thing about Mike and we both have
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the same interest so
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it's kind of fun seeing this stuff
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together
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that is great right there
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yeah yeah it looks like it's painted
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this is glass and it looks like it's
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chipping I think it's painted like
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hand-painted
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even these kind of retro little
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stanchions here
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I don't even know why this would be here
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to get someone did not park over here
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yeah look at these
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bars being on these ones did you say
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that
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oh the other side I did we both make the
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same jokes
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Yep this is the content folks
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that's amazing that is awesome though
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like this right here would be kind of an
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antique on its own too if you like
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unscrewed that oh yeah
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it's heavy duty
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that's very interesting
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I've never really seen anything like
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that where the bars go that way and not
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up and down
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yeah this definitely has a Friday 13 5.
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it does totally does
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it's about as Florida as it gets right
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here
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it doesn't really translate to video but
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one of the neighbors we just drove by
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has a
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the burn of some trash in their yards
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it's a nice burning smell yeah through
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oh there's an old dish in front of there
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HD
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I mean people live here so you can call
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it a ghost town you can still be a ghost
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town still have some residents cactus in
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the front yeah look at that
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it's not bad luck if it goes to the side
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of the car but as long as it doesn't
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cross right in front of you or walk
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under a ladder I think that's enough of
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the ladder stopped at this gas station
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now I filled up the other day so I don't
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need any fuel but
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the pump next to me is working but this
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one here has been dismantled and Micah
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has found something really interesting
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over here a little relic of the past an
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old pay phone
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he's drawn to pay phones too just like I
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am and a vacuum
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I don't know if that works
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okay this right here is very valuable
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so not only is that a payphone sign but
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it's an illuminated pay phone sign you
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don't see those too often
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I wonder if it still works
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yeah that right there in an antique shop
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would fetch a pretty good penny yep
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hey that's great
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payphone's not on there anymore but yeah
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that's awesome
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and the name of this gas station is a a
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yeah just a a I don't even know what
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that stands for the double a no indoor
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bathrooms inside this convenience store
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they actually have
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a little porta potty called the Outhouse
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and you can send a fax from here where's
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the last time you saw something
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promoting sending a fax
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service here
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yeah it's called AAA the double A up top
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looks like it might have been neon at
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one point
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looks like there's like some neon bulbs
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in this yeah uh yeah or maybe some
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grooves of some sort yeah I think it's
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just because I can see through it
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I wonder what the AAA stands for or it
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may be two upside down V's with check
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marks what if they have the downtown
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like downtown what if they have my mug
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okay Loretta we got Gerald
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got Ernie we got Colleen we've got
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Fernando Tammy Lloyd
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I'm not in the mood for a snack quite
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yet but take a look at this a marsh
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Jello cone
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I've never seen that product before
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these you squeeze in your mouth and they
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explode the flavor
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all Pizza tables over here in the front
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let's talk to a local told us a couple
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things about the town that will kind of
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reiterate as we're driving around
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very retro the local we just talked to
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has lived here his whole life
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he was saying this place has been around
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about 30 years it's an old Fruit Stand
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of course the first thing I'm noticing
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is the you know the architecture of the
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building
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but other than that more importantly is
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this old signage
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so the sign itself has been ripped out
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but it still has the bulbs in there
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and illuminate what the sign would have
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said some sort of Fruit Stand
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right adjacent to
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gas station over there the AAA the
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double A
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329 for regular 469 for diesel looks
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like this lights up too
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the signage I don't think I've ever seen
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Deli spell with two L's
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found the water tower
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I mean it's like a beacon so it's like
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easily findable
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there's a tornado so I guess it's a
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tornado siren there
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right to the base there the
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eight or nine or ten Sirens then the
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corner right over here probably for
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tornadoes but maybe just also to alert
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everyone that the fire trucks
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going out of the building
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we just discovered that this is the city
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hall
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probably should look up the amount of
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people that live or how many residents
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are here
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it's probably more than we would imagine
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it is
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but the city hall looks like a newer
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building probably was an older City Hall
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they tore down to build this one and
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there's that water tower again
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flagpole it's a very unique looking the
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church steeple is on the ground
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it's not on the top of the building and
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the bell the church bell huge church
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bell it's like wedged in the steeple
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there but it's not on top of the
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building anymore maybe it never was
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saying how many people are in here here
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in 2010 there was a 988
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um population like a thousand people
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yeah I think the foot is very confused
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by this tree right here in the middle of
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the road okay had to pull over again
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just to show this I would imagine this
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street got its name
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from the trees
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and as stated
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this tree's right right in the middle of
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the road
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right in the middle of the road
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growing up out of the concrete
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is this tree sprouting up from the
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pavement
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yeah the roads there kind of obscuring
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the stop sign in a way
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that's what we need we need a golf cart
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do a little golf cart tour around here
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all right let's move on see what other
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kind of little towns we can find in Back
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Road stuff
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quite an assortment of chickens and
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roosters out here
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would you say the population was a
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thousand fourteen hundred in 2018. so
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2010 it was a thousand thousand eight
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years later in 2018 went up to fifteen
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hundred almost fifteen hundred
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but this one's all boarded up mm-hmm is
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that a gun rack
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kind of back there too and a rooster
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back there
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another satellite dish
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look house
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see those cows are in the sun I would be
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this cow over here in the shade
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how's it going shade cow
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yeah this little stretch this is about
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as real Florida as you can get right
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here well besides going like the swamps
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of the Everglades yeah
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that's what I was saying earlier in the
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end of the trees and
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okay there's a goat
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a cat
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and then two other goats oh I see them
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in the corner over there in the corner
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and a couch on the porch
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make it some serious eye contact over
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and turned away
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as we're back on a little busier Road
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car just went by a little bit of traffic
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going by this old newspaper
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bought for the Daily Commercial it was
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called
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disgusting is like do you think anybody
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lives back in here obviously someone did
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at one point
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but now it's kind of tough to tell
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there's no signage or anything
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and it doesn't look like anyone's driven
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back in here for a while
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I never know if I should eat something
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or not I don't want to have like an into
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the wild moment yeah because that did
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not end well for that guy yep I don't
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think anybody lives back in here
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you just never know though
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you don't want to go rooting around in
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someone's property
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and that door
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is completely busted open over there
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yeah the screen that porches for the
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mosquitoes yep just sit out there and
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take in some of the cool air because
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maybe they don't have air conditioning
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I think it's smart to not go in yeah
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it doesn't look
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safe yeah well you just never know who
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could be living in there
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truthfully there's another antenna right
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there old school antenna we see some
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satellite dishes we see some old school
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antennas like there's another satellite
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dish over there
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and as I'm looking at this door
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I can picture Victor Crowley
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running out of here ripping my face off
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do you ever see Hatchet you ever see
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them the movie Hatchet can't you picture
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Victor Crawley coming out of here
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absolutely
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okay we passed this place over here that
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has like a bunch of doors it's like a
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door
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salesman place used to be like a
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barbecue spot though over here
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did you used to own the barbecue place
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oh really okay
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but it's not a barbecue place anymore
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right
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how you sell doors okay yeah
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my grandfather was the one that opened
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them up oh he did yeah just talking to
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guy that owns the property and he was
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saying that across the road they're
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building a lot of shopping centers and
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condos and housing developments and
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things
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right over there
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he said at some point because where he
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lives and he has this his dad's barbecue
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place which is right here now it's the
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four store that he might have to sell Us
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sell the property at some point
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I always love little stories like that
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kind of fascinating to talk to people he
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also said that this sign is not his but
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he allowed the church
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to put it on his property it's right
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next door
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oh look at the clothesline over there
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how often do you see a clothesline
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it's got an old building there
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the sign for North 301
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right here
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and then going this way
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there's an Old Homestead across the way
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and the gentleman we were just talking
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to they had the door business at his dad
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who said his grandfather built that
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barbecue joint and his dad ran it and
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now he owns the property and sells doors
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was saying that they were planning on
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expanding this road to a four lane and a
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lot of the residents refused to sell
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their houses he was saying that there's
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not a lot of empty empty houses along
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this street
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but definitely are a few that are not
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you know other unoccupied yeah so they
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probably could widen this but some of
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the houses down there are occupied so
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maybe they have to reroute the road
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Central Florida is expanding and a lot
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of these
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kind of small communities there's not a
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whole heck of a lot going on one day
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will be
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pretty busy and thriving again
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was this a house or was it a business
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almost like a train station yeah it does
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it does have a train station
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I didn't even notice until Mike
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appointed it out there's like almost a
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newer roof up there I almost say newer
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but definitely a lot newer than the the
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base of the building it's been
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re-shingled probably in the last 20
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years
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that old old hinge there
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the old metal works
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door frame inside there
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definitely not structurally sound
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and then the old barn back here
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look at that it's usually used for using
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for advertisements on the front there
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but this relic of the past
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with the porch out front
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it's just a screams old Florida
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got the caving in of the wood
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on the porch itself here
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facing the road
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hard to hear it with the road traffic
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with the insects over here making some
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interesting noises
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see if I can hear it now
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nah
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it was like a locust or something making
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like a chirping noise over there
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I was kind of camera shy
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kind of hear him
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oh yeah it's like a locust right
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ah someone's setting off fireworks or
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something else
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we are here on the way they are open
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come visit the historic village
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boutiques those are the hours there
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approximate hours approximately
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approximately nine to four ish ish I
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like to like that you noticed that I
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would I would have thought nine to four
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and you're like no there's an ish on
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there yeah
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this is the town of Coleman
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where they have the old city jail down
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here which has been converted into a
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little gift shop yeah this is a really
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this is a really good usage of these old
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buildings
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yeah Knott's Berry Farm a little bit
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this little section back in here you've
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got the library stable you got the old
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jail you got the post office here in
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Coleman all converted and now used
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four shops and whatnot back in here
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tucked away I'm just talking one of the
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vendors that was in the schoolhouse she
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was saying that the old railroad they
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used to have like bunks up top on the
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upper level where people back when they
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would take the train also these were all
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moved down the way a bit so these are
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not originally in the same spot even so
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the jail was moved as well but the old
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train station there were bunks I've
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taught the people that were waiting for
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the train the next day could stay up
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could stay upstairs
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and then she also said that the jail
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itself used to not have any bricks
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around it used to just be an all barred
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up jail so the elements if you were you
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know if you were in jail you would get
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wet and people could see you in the jail
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before they built the brick all the
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Rocks all around it how interesting
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the road okay the post office is all
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made out of Cypress and it's the oldest
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post office in Florida right there the
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oldest post office in Florida post
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office in Florida they're all made out
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of Cyprus okay we've carried on about 20
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miles or so to okahumpka
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now I've been to the okahumpka Travel
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Plaza on the turnpike but never to
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community of okahumpka before
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they pulled over in this nice
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man's yard who sells and makes these
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swings
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take a look at these we asked if we
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could pull up on this property and take
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a look at his swings he said sure have a
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seat in them
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look at these wind chimes right here
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one thing I was noticing is that
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windmill over there too
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he said he hasn't made any in a while oh
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here's like a little
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check Cola airplane
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got the Oklahoma
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bird feeder here there's a lizard
27:04
on the front of the roof just with a
27:06
lizard hole now a pole hole worms and
27:10
there's a Coca-Cola
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emblem there too
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this seat has got a drink got the drink
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holder on it
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for 15 years you've been swinging on
27:36
that one because I would look at that
27:38
and say I don't know if it could hold my
27:39
body weight like it could yours
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is that a sloth
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oh it's a monkey
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stuffed monkey there
27:57
almost looks like a carving here
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like a tiki carving almost there
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I remember I retired I was working
28:13
17 hours a day
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and I had to have something to do so
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first I made guys
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then I'm 18.
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in a major planes
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and
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I made pulpits with the churches and
28:34
pulpits for the church okay
28:39
so you've lived here your whole life and
28:39
you're 90 and you've made a lot of
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I one time I had 30 spring
28:48
and my class we'd get together here in
28:51
good cop dogs
28:57
and the biggest
28:57
one of the biggest lawyers in Orlando
28:59
Charles great
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Charles Gray yeah okay you know Charles
29:05
I don't know him okay he's he's a
29:08
criminal lawyer
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no no like Morgan Morgan that's the one
29:14
I know John Morgan I know everybody
29:16
knows John Morgan yeah
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show you about our Outhouse I'll show
29:25
you what I did with it
29:26
this South House was built in 1941 by
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the WPA that was a work program over
29:35
here yeah that was a work program the
29:37
government did to give people jobs
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okay and uh
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this one is down in the quarter
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and only the foundation part of it
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does it actually have a real pump system
29:58
or yeah
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I got it every Revolution that time to
30:13
turn of course it's locked off now
30:16
every Revolution is important water
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every full turn is a quart of water yeah
30:23
one turn and a quarter we'll give you a
30:26
quarter of water where does the water go
30:28
into that into that Reservoir all right
30:31
I had to I had Tangerine trees here
30:35
and that's what I wanted to grow with
30:38
yeah they're good
30:40
that's kalamander what is this calaman
30:44
kalamundin yeah okay you take the seed
30:48
out of there and plant it and it'll be
30:51
wild yeah and then you take it when it
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gets up say about that high
30:58
cut it off or you can put a Graft in it
31:02
or you can take computer
31:06
we have to own rain
31:09
yeah it's a honey Bale that's the best
31:12
there is oh really honey Bell
31:15
I like this
31:17
What's this called again yes calabone
31:34
is that a grapefruit or an orange yeah
31:34
this is orange
31:39
as you can see I don't know my fruits
31:39
very well
31:41
bike pretty good
31:43
just thank you
31:48
can I can you cut me a little piece off
31:48
you don't want me I don't want to eat it
31:50
no so just lick it just run yourself
31:59
it's tart
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it's tart it doesn't feel like
32:02
good pie makes a good pie it's tart
32:13
it's Tarter than a regular orange oh
32:13
yeah right yeah
32:17
Fountain it is sour that is
32:24
killed it that way
32:24
look at this oh wow that's amazing if
32:28
you
32:29
had all the photographs in here and
32:30
everything yeah if you read that it'll
32:33
tell you what
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life what about
32:36
outhouses wow you have a do you ever use
32:38
the oh you well you have toilet paper
32:40
yeah you didn't you ever use the Sears
32:42
Roebuck catalog yeah never did I had one
32:44
I always hear that but the big we used
32:46
to use is a serious robot catalog you
32:48
needed to cross there and of course it
32:50
has the lid there that closes but I just
32:53
stuck everybody's picture in here that's
32:56
neat I like that these are all your
32:58
friends and family through here
33:11
oh wow how cool
33:11
if you notice it's put together with
33:13
wooden pigs
33:14
yes sir
33:17
look at these tikis he's carved up here
33:19
too
33:25
I love them I love that one the tall
33:25
skinny one guy there yeah
33:33
which one Micah this one right here oh
33:33
yeah the big chin
33:42
that's where we are yeah he was saying
33:42
when back in the day Oklahoma had 600
33:45
houses and Tampa had 30. way back in the
33:48
day oh how things have changed oh yeah
33:52
so he's lived here his whole life he's
33:53
90 years old
34:01
do anything you want to if you want you
34:01
won't be bad enough
34:06
that's it
34:06
oh it was right there the train depot
34:09
yeah it was right there where those
34:11
trees were at and it's in the Tampa
34:14
fairground now no yeah I've seen it
34:26
so where were the train tracks in
34:26
correlation to the where we were
34:28
standing back there
34:30
the train tracks went right through your
34:33
yard
34:38
the next time I go to the fairgrounds in
34:38
Tampa I'm going to look for that that
34:39
building that used to sit right there
34:41
that's been transplanted
34:46
Hotel
34:46
is right up here where the house is at
34:49
the house and Harley Firestone and
34:52
Alexander Graham Bell
34:54
and Henry Ford would come down here in
34:58
the wintertime and fish in her
35:02
also here's a picture of the school back
35:03
in 1829 or 1929. that's what it's going
35:07
to look like they've got a 600 000 new
35:10
smoker T Washington
35:12
and uh
35:19
20 years ago I got a gram
35:19
from a company
35:21
here in North County
35:23
so they are you back here that hasn't
35:25
been used in a while with this swing
35:27
some empty buildings back in there
35:30
some more swings over here
35:33
take a look at this dinosaur
35:48
gotta say this guy's very very nice
35:48
showing us around giving the given the
35:49
tour of his homies live his whole life
36:38
there'd be rude but it was always
36:38
when you come in with the Riverboat and
36:41
the Riverboat only went to here how to
36:45
let you down to here yeah and
36:52
and get out there and if you enjoyed the
36:52
Tampa this is the road that you in case
36:54
if they built it's called Stagecoach
36:56
Road
37:05
there was about three or four houses
37:05
down here again these houses of course
37:08
were they spent later on
37:17
okay Irene call Reed and red they have
37:17
three black people
37:19
they lived
37:21
right here in each one of them had their
37:24
little side house
37:26
and shotgun house you know what a
37:28
shotgun house is I don't
37:30
stands but we're ninjas out the back
37:33
you stand in the front and shoot out the
37:36
back yeah
37:37
okay Elvis was born three houses was
37:40
right there
37:41
okay they got in the bus didn't argue
37:44
the two women did over
37:48
over
37:50
red there's another black man they were
37:53
in their 70s and 80s and
38:00
they went down to the store and they got
38:00
to bust it in there and demanded on the
38:02
store running outside and Irene cut put
38:06
a Reed's head off what
38:15
we saw it Oh we made about three steps
38:15
oh my God you saw someone get their head
38:17
cut off yeah
38:19
the blood flew
38:22
oh my God
38:28
what year was that
38:31
I'm 90
38:36
.
39:10
we're getting the grand tour today I
39:10
mean that's why I have this honor
39:11
because I do make and that's your
39:13
YouTube channel
39:15
let me make sure that's what it is
39:17
I mean I have a lot to learn
39:20
so on your YouTube channel you show how
39:23
these boxes are made oh yeah I have a
39:25
video on making boxes
39:31
you say you were the first person to
39:31
figure out how to cut the Box around no
39:33
how to how to use a CNC and make boxes
39:36
there was nobody else doing it so I went
39:39
okay I made a video on it
39:44
so it is the same as this yeah so if you
39:46
just search that you'll find your
39:47
channel yeah I only have 46 subscribers
39:51
but all right
39:53
check it out
39:56
clean product
39:58
and we'll remove everything extra except
40:01
what's inside you know there's there's
40:04
something there inside there's a there's
40:06
a product there's a a piece of art you
40:09
know we make a lot of signs like I made
40:11
that sign that's going to be going out
40:12
front uh in front of the property but I
40:15
also do Welding and Fabrication sheet
40:18
metal work
40:19
um
40:20
pretty much I can work with them almost
40:22
any material vacuum tables oh okay
40:25
that's a 10 horsepower compressor
40:28
outside record compressor
40:30
you can take an aluminum can and crush
40:32
it with your hand that can take a 50
40:34
gallon drum if you crush it like that
40:37
it's this is uh
40:40
like MDF all right it's like particle
40:44
board yeah air sucks through this wow it
40:47
sucks so hard that it pulls air through
40:50
this to hold pieces down to the machine
40:52
so I don't have to use any fixtures I
40:54
don't have to use any clamps turned out
40:56
to be a pretty interesting day
40:59
and James the guy that showed us around
41:02
nicknamed red
41:09
has lived in Oklahoma his whole life
41:09
and there's this is the book that he
41:11
wrote called tall Sawgrass he gave me a
41:14
copy a little glossary on some of the
41:16
terms
41:17
on what things are like
41:20
terminologist Skeeters mosquitoes shine
41:23
or swamp water moonshine
41:26
a serving dish of Swamp Cabbage and
41:28
steak
41:30
yeah it's pretty interesting I wrote a
41:32
book
41:33
on Oklahoma
41:34
there's a bird up there crowing that's
41:36
gonna do it for today
41:38
full day
41:41
I think there's a bird up there
41:49
see you the next video the Vlog
41:49
is
41:55
you never know how a day's gonna turn
41:55
out
41:56
let me get in the car and go somewhere
41:58
the Vlog
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is up