The Memories Of Osceola Square Mall - Closed Movie Theatres / Empty Kmart & Forgotten Fun N Wheels
Osceola Square Mall Memories
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welcome everyone Adam Deo here as a
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recording of this it is Friday TGIF
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December 15th 20123 the weather is nice
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it's
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overcast I want to say it's cool and
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crisp but it's definitely not toasty and
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warm which I am a fan of anything when
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it is not scalding hot tonight I'm going
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to be doing some Christmas shopping in
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fact my family my mom my dad my sister
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who flies into town late tonight will'll
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be celebrating our family Christmas
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tomorrow considerably
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earlier than December 25th because my
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sister will not be able to be here on
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that day so I'll probably be celebrating
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a personal
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Christmas on that day but as far as the
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family Christmas goes we're going to do
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it tomorrow on Thanksgiving my mom my
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dad and myself we had lunch over there
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at that Golden Corral for for the buffet
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my mom did not want to cook so I don't
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want to cook want to go to a buffet so
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we went over there tomorrow she's going
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to do it upright she's going to just go
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all in make the full meal the turkey all
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that stuff we're going to open the
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presents in the morning I'm going to
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drive over to their place bright and
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early in the morning well probably not
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bright and early cuz there's storms
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rolling in to the central Florida area
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so probably won't be a lot of sun
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tomorrow in fact right now probably
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don't even need these on because it's
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starting to be considerably
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overcast so I'm going to do some
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Christmas shopping today also I'm going
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to do a
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giveaway throughout the course of the
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day I'm going to find something to give
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away on my Instagram Adam the woo atw on
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Instagram all you have to do is leave a
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comment on what I find and what I post
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after this video is up Adam the woo atw
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that's Adam the woo atw on Instagram no
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questions asked nothing really no real
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Rhyme or Reason to how to win just leave
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a comment on said photograph of the item
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it'll probably end up being a gift card
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that I purchased while I'm out this
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evening and you can win it if you so
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desire and need it all you have to do is
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leave a comment on my Instagram
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underneath the photo and I'll decide at
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random who is going to win it but I
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would like to give it to someone who
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could use it and is interested in the
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particular item so if it's something
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that you're not into you know maybe wait
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till the next one I'm going to go I'm
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going to get do some Christmas shopping
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I got to purchase a few things before
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tomorrow I'm inviting you to join me for
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a very early Christmas Eve it's my
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family's Christmas eve even though it's
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way before Christmas Eve join me long
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intro shall you oh dang speaking of
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tomorrow here at Joe's Crab Shack they
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have free crab
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tomorrow heck yeah I mean I know it's
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it's a clever it's a clever joke because
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that mural is always there because it's
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like one of those things where they say
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free beer tomorrow or free something
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tomorrow tomorrow but free crab tomorrow
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it's a clever joke I like it unless
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maybe they are really giving away free
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crab
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tomorrow be pretty dang
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nice I'm more I'm more into shrimp than
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I am crab I do like crab I like some
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crab think I'm going to head down to the
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Oola Mall haven't been there in a long
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time down here near downtown CMI
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traffic's probably going to be a little
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thick I probably should have jumped on
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the toll road but these the scenic views
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of Highway 192 I'm passing mile marker 9
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I'm excited that coffee's kicking in oh
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wow all the fences have been torn down
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over here it looks like all the
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construction is done at this former
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Resort that sat here empty and closed
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off and abandoned for years used to be
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not drive up in there but now it's all
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accessible everything's been torn out
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they even gutted the pool the pools down
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pool used to be right there the big
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Welcome Center was right
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there right here on seven dwarf's Lane
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just past seven dwarfs Lane sign lot cop
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I haven't been to this Walmart in years
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the closest Walmart to where I'm at this
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is a little farther down 192 than near
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where celebration is the other one's on
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535 I usually go to that one I used to
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go here all the time my roommate Rob and
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I back in the late '90s we lived on
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donigan might actually drive by the
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Donan apartment way back in the day late
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'90s turn into the turn of the century
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we would get our groceries here we come
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in here and get groceries to Super
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Walmart haven't been in here in probably
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5 or 10 years okay this is kind of neat
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so the parks they don't have you go to
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the Disney parks they don't have the
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yellow ponchos anymore but you can get
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them here they did away with the yellow
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ponchos now all the ponchos are clear
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kind of similar to these these are like
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offbrand ones but look at this Mickey
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rocking it but if you want the old
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school yellow Poncho doesn't have the
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Mickey logo on it they have them here at
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this Walmart all right ended up
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purchasing a few things in here and it
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was kind of nice I was went back to the
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electronics department and they bring me
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up out there and have to wait in the
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long line up front when you do walk up
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front there's lots of impulse buys like
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look at this little Santa Claus mug here
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little toy soldier mug that's not the
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backside of water that's a backside of
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Santa right there greeting everyone as
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they walk in a gingerbread trash can oh
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this is the dollar shop section of
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Walmart there's the VIS Vision
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Department too and an American and and
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Florida flag
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there okay I am going to get a gift card
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here there's a of different ones but I'm
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going to go
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with a gift card over here I'm going to
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go with this one right here and it's
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going to be a $100 gift card right here
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this holiday cheer Walmart gift card
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someone could use at
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Walmart there going to be $100 on it for
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the giveaway all right moving on look
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look at Santa holding a little tiny
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Christmas tree right there it's a giant
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maybe that's a fulls size Christmas tree
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and Santa is the size of Godzilla that's
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what I'm thinking probably that's a big
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Santa I me see how tall he is in
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comparison to the entry there I remember
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when there used to be a whole arcade
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section at Walmart's now there's
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these these little claw machines they
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used to have arcade games in here used
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to have like the plugged into the wall
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over here ah the good old days I used to
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work at the St Cloud Walmart in fact I
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opened the St Cloud Walmart in the '90s
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they used to have Cruis in USA the Cruis
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in
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USA game used to be in this little kind
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of Al Cove area at the one in St Cloud
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not this one and on our breaks the whole
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stock crew we play Cruis in USA we spend
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like half our paychecks that we were
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earning for the evening just playing
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video games on our
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breaks oh what is look at this goo slimy
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gooey and stretchy that' make a good
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Christmas gift for
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someone treasure chest down
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there and now just on the way a bit over
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to the Plaza Del Soul which used to be
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the Oola Square Mall hasn't been called
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that in years but that's how I remember
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it in fact where this Ali's Bargain
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Market is and the Zara Furniture and
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Mattress used to be the original Walmart
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the non Super Center
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Walmart a lot of traffic in the next
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parallel Road over that's what all that
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honking
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is this used to be the original Walmart
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before it moved over to the Super Center
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that I was just at Super Center was kind
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of a thing back in the '90s it started
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to really spring up especially in the
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mid to late '90s where they added the
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grocery stores to them but this is the
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former fashion not Fashion Square mall
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that's a different Mall acola Square
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mall and then years later in the early
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2000s when I still lived in this General
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vicinity there used to be a store in
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here it was like a I don't remember
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exactly what kind of store it was but in
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the back they had a United States Post
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Office sub station and I would mail out
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stuff on eBay I used to sell on eBay way
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back in the day and I would mail stuff
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out of there it was easier than going to
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the post office but when it was a
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Walmart all this was the Walmart and it
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was attached that's back when Walmart
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used to be attached to small malls like
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this we used to call it the small I
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think a lot of people who lived in areas
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that had small malls would just call it
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the small yeah I thought my friends and
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I were being original by calling it that
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but now since then I've been to other
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areas where people be like oh our mall
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we called it the small also oh even the
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Planet Fitness that was in here years
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later has pulled out of here too the
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Planet Fitness was right here oh look
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over here it looks like Santa has a
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little sleigh over here man this brings
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back thousands of memory oh the old food
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court sign is still there look at that
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vintage Relic that like screams like the
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80s right there that old food court sign
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is still the same look at that I am glad
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to see that this pizza place is still
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open it's been here forever I've got
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many slices of pie right here at this
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place they also have cheese bread and
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other things too get a couple slices of
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pepperoni for Old Time sake I don't know
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these look pretty good though right here
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a little rolled up pepperoni called Z
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bolies oh yeah two slices of little
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pepperoni here they serve the finest
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pizza and
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Specialties yep the food Court's been
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updated a little bit but the vibe is
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still the same all the stores in here
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completely different than how they
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were back in the mid late 90s this place
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is a staple I've visited a lot of times
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since but
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yeah shano's Pizza Italian eery check
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out the Wake Buster wake
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Buster this thing's been here this
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thing's been here a while and so has
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this Ross down here too this Ross has
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been here for as far back as I can even
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back from the Walmart days back here the
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far end used to be an arcade there was a
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arcade here for many many years inserted
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a lot of quarters into machines place
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that's like alterations place sant's
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over there in the corner was an arcade
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and this place called Innovation beauty
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and spa right here that used to be a CD
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and cassette tape store and back in the
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mid90s I purchased a lot of cassettes
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there and then when CDs started to get
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kind of popular couple years after the
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mid90s I bought a lot of CD in there too
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and here's the old movie theater one of
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the two movie theaters there was one
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here and then there was another one
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across the way while drive over to over
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there get fit nutrition has taken over
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the back half of the old arcade but I
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used to pull up here this is probably
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gosh
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90 2 93 I pull up here cuz I got I moved
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here in ' 91 when I was 17 got my
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driver's license when I was 17
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drive up here pull Park out here go in
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here go to the arcade walk in here go to
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movies inside this building right
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here and I'm drawing a blank on what the
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name of the theaters were but there were
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two of them I think they were called the
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Oola twin theaters I think it was
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something like
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that they have repurposed this building
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but last I saw the other part of the
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twin complex which was over there was
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just sitting there empty you know what
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it might have been torn down over there
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I'm going to drive over there when I
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head out of
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here
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man this brings back some serious
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memories I on a couple my first dates in
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there I can't tell you what movie I saw
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but
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yeah freshly had my license had a car
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there was a movie
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theater ah good times
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called Plaza Del Soul now no longer the
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aola Square Mall no longer the
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small man I would walk this just brings
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back so many MERS walking in here and
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going over here and buying cassettes and
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CDs right inside there I don't even
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remember what the name of the store was
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specs maybe or music I don't know music
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something jewelry claw machine right
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here the jewelry box claw CL machine
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look in the jewelry claw machine they
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have Harry
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Potter they have a Harry Potter
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DVD down in there as well oh they have a
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post office substation here too it's in
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a different spot than it was before take
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a look at this yeah that's pretty neat a
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bunch of mannequins in this shop a very
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unique architecture the roof all still
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looks the
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same as it did back then just a
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different name them alls changed names
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oh yeah I forgot they created this thing
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called The Marketplace at Plaza Del Soul
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through here so they kind of did the
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theming of all the different storefronts
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in this section they got a Christmas
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tree up too all this property right next
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to the mall used to be fun in Wheels
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this is back in the '90s also and they
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haven't developed fun and wheels
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property into anything else over there's
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some over there but this whole plot
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right here used to be fun and
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wheels now I'm going to go by the second
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part of the theater see if there's
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anything let's see if the building's
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still over
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here curious to see if it is looks like
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they have it all fenced off now but it's
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back still back
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there saw some movies in there too just
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depending on what you were seeing was
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playing on either either theater the one
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that was detached from the mall or one
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that was at the mall this apartment
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complex right here it's called Laguna
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now it used to be called something else
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I lived here for a
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year 2002 into 2003 is I believe it
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was yeah live right here I was working
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at Office Max across the street Office
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Max now is uh Planet Fitness I believe
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this is the way I would walk to and from
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work during that time I did not own a
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vehicle at least a good portion of the
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time I lived in here I didn't have a a
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vehicle but it was right here on the
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right hand side this top Corner
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apartment right
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there that was my apartment and my
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girlfriend at the 's apartment 20022
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2003 is right there wow man I'm still
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really sad that the Japanese Steakhouse
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Osaka never reopened it tried reopen
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after 2020 but they ended up closing for
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good that place was a staple of this
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area made there many times Planet
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Fitness used to be office m worked there
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five plus
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years five or more years the front door
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is now here but it used to be right here
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where these poles are those are the same
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poles and this pawn shop believe it's a
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pawn shop now you can still see the
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drive-thru window there from when it
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used to be a
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FIS man I miss FIS I me there's still
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some around but not really in these
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parts yeah it's an insul it's an insul
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place now yep old fi is building ate
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many a meal inside had many unlimited
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bread sticks inside those those windows
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The Big Lots over there used to be a
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Publix for a short while and the
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Public's moved to a different spot and
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this used to be a Kmart converted into a
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big K which is basically their attempt
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at being a super
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Walmart worked here for a little while
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worked at the other Kmart corner of
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Simpson Road in Highway by 92 for half a
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decade five or six years I worked a lot
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of places for 5 years he a lot of retail
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places places but sometimes they needed
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help here they would say go work at the
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CMI store the deep in CMI store so I'd
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show up here most of the time I was over
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at over at the other one the corner of
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Simpson I might pop in that Big Lots I
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don't know if I've been in that Big Lots
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since it changed from publ to Big Lots
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and then I'll go by the donigan
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residence used to live on donigan did
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lived there the name of the road was on
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donigan and I lived in that apartment
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for many
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years I used to be a Hooters right
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there in fact I lived at a house when I
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moved out of that apartment I just
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showed at Lisa live in a neighborhood
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cross 192 over there one of the oldest
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neighborhoods first neighborhoods built
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in CMI kind of an old house moved out of
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that apartment and lived in that
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house and you can see across the road
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you can see the Hooters over
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there got a lot of ties to this area
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I've lived in a lot of places and worked
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a lot of
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jobs in Oola
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County which is the county of St Cloud
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CMI all that general area it's kind of
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started off as a Christmas shopping
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video and turned into a walk down memory
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lane for me obviously I can't show what
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I'm
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buying you know for obvious reasons
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but welcome to your community Big Lots
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they really do not want anybody driving
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up here there's some big old stanions
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here the Christmas trees up
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front I Like Big Lots it actually used
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to be a lot less inexpensive I mean a
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lot of places used to be less expensive
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yeah soothing sounds of
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sirens at this time of the year
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definitely remembers back I going to say
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fondly on my retail years a lot of good
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good memories work in retail I worked at
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wind Dixie I worked at Publix I worked
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at Walmart worked at Cash and Carry for
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a very very short time worked at Office
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Max worked at a feed store worked a lot
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of retail for a couple
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decades inde definitely the worst part
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stressful part was during the
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holidays so you got to give a got to
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give a little love to the retail workers
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during during the holidays cuz it is
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hectic it's weird this whole place is
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just sitting empty just not even been
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utilized been probably empty 20 years
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maybe even more than 20 years this empty
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Kmart not a lot of Kmarts left I don't
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know if their downfall happened because
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they tried converting into the Big K
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which was like a super center type of
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thing with the grocery store in fact one
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of the last things I did at Kmart the 5
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years I worked there I was the grocery
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manager over the grocery department
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when the Big K conversion happened at
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the other Kmart down on the corner of
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Simpson Road ah yes good times check out
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the garden center used to be the garden
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center now it's just basically a pathway
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around the side here for people to
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connect from 192 over to the back road
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around
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oh look at this now Walmart they call it
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the tle Tire Lube Express Kmart also had
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their version of the mechanic shop
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there's the old mechanic
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doors forgot about
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that the one on the corner of Simpson
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the one I was at most of the time didn't
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have that version but they had the one
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always Sirens around this
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area soothing sounds of sirens it's
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7-eleven here on the corner of John
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Young in Donan not only did I get a lot
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of fuel and gas
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here but I also would go up here late at
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night on my night's off cuz I worked
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third shift at Office Max on my night's
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off I would play video games and walk up
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here at like 3:00 in the morning to get
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food when you work third shift somewhere
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on a stock crew when your nights off you
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know you're two nights off a week also I
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lived in this apartment right here on
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the right it's got the Christmas lights
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up on it that was it well above it it
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was above the one with the Christmas
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lights on it when your night's off you
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just couldn't sleep because you were so
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used to being awake all nights of all
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hours of the night thankfully that
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7-Eleven was open 24 hours I remember I
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got the Sony PlayStation I played
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Diablo maybe it was Diablo to I think it
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was the original Diablo for hours and
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hours and hours and days on end also I
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don't think this car wash over here is
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working at this gas station it's like
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someone's just using it for parking
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there's like a car in there it's all
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ConEd
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now it's been kind of a hectic
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week just for preparing to move be
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moving
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soon taking care of some personal stuff
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like
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that also doing some shopping preparing
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for the
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holiday seasonal stuff everything will
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pan out
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soon I appreciate you watching thanks
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for watching thanks for tuning in
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