The Day Woo - Day 142 - 11/20/2012 - Birth Of Mickey Mouse
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here.
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It's my second channel, daily blog
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channel. The
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Daily
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Woo. Where am I everyone? I'm in Kansas
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City today. And this over my shoulder is
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very, very historical, especially to
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Disney fans. This right here is the old
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Laugh Studios from the 20s where Walt
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Disney first got the inspiration for the
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notorious, stupendous, and spectacular
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character that you know as Mickey Mouse.
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That's right. It happened right here in
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this now abandoned building.
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had then he was a man with a dream and
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he started this business which
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eventually went bankrupt and he
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eventually after that moved to
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California and of course started the
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Walt Disney World Company which we all
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know and love today. Walt Disney
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Studios. You can see that some of the
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local artists have actually put up some
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of the some stuff up on the signs there
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thanking Walt Disney for all his work.
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Let's get a little bit of a closer look.
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You've seen the backside over there,
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which of course is uh definitely seen
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better days. Some bars on the windows.
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Walt Disney's offices would have
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actually been on the top floor. Check
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this
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out. That's Walt up there. Get a front
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view
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here. Someone here thanking Walt Disney
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Incorporated.
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Walt's office would have been actually
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way back there on the back end. There
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was a restaurant right down
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here. How old school looking this
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is. Basically, he had a pet mouse that
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he kept up in his office. He actually
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lived up in the office and used to bathe
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down at the uh the train station, I
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believe, down the road, a few blocks
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down the road. So, basically, he was
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living up there. He had a pet mouse
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which he trained became his little pet.
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That became the idea of Mortimer Mouse
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which eventually became the incarnation
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Mickey Mouse. Now all we have left here
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of the
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studios is basically an empty sad
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building. Memories of Walt
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Disney right up there.
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It's hard to believe most people that
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drive by here have no earthly clue what
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kind of significance this place had back
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in its day and still has to a lot of
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fans of the Walt Disney Corporation and
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of course even more for Walt Disney
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himself falling into quite some
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disrepair. Supposedly the city was going
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to fix it up. I'm not really seeing a
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whole lot of city fixing up progress
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going on.
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There's some pretty famous shots online.
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You can see some old pictures from the
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20 of this 20s from this building. We'll
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try to get the angle that you always see
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in the photos. It's kind of a farther
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distance shot away. You run across the
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street here running across the street.
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Try to get it over here. That's pretty
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much the shot you see in all the photos
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right there. That
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angle, there was a light pole right
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there. That's what the building looks
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like now. Kansas City,
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Missouri. Mickey Mouse started right
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here. The idea which became what you
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know and love as Walt
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Disney, the corporation and the man,
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started right
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here. Thanks, Walt. See you tomorrow if
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you subscribed up here. See you later.