Small Town Life In Dubuque Iowa - Fourth Street Elevator / Incline Railway & Historic Clocktower
Dubuque Iowa April 2024
Transcript
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today's adventure begins by looking at
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these two cute
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puppies here on the porch in debuk Iowa
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as a recording of this Saturday April
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20124 starting off at Cable Car Square
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Downtown debuk which is an incline
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railroad that's very similar to Angels
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Flight in Los Angeles
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I'm in
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Iowa who
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knew weather's
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nice supposed to get up
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to low 70s today it's not there yet but
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it feels pretty good out right now yeah
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I might have to come back some point and
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do that I'm going to be in this area for
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a series of
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days five or six more days five more
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days I don't know I lose track but here
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for a little while
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there's also an incline railroad I
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believe in
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Chattanooga if I remember
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correctly there's an incline miniature
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golf course Railroad in Gatlinburg i'
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always think of angels flight a lot of
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murals in this town too the dungeon here
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the dungeon
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LTD has a mural there's a mural over
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here a lot of newer
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murals mashed into Old buildings
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is obviously no shortage of paint in
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this
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town now there are a few untouched
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unpainted walls and some ghost signs
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here in town I want to show those before
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doing the intro though I want to point
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out the hotel Julian where Sylvester
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Stallone stayed during filming the movie
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Fist from 1977 right after Rocky came
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out in fact the rumor is he stayed here
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and was riding Rocky 2 when they were
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filming Fist and I wanted to watch the
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movie Fist but it's not streaming
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anywhere it's like nowhere to be found
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so if you own a copy of fist consider
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yourself
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lucky but parts of it were filmed in
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debuk he was riding Rocky too while he
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was filming in here welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here actually a pretty
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pleasant day I thought it was going to
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be a little colder here in Iowa however
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in the tri state area Ryan's here
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also this known as the tri state area
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because across that bridge is Illinois
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is that way right yes and then illo is
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right over there Wisconsin's just right
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over there so Illinois Wisconsin all a
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couple miles from here we're now in
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debuk and we're just going to peruse
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around and see what we can see I'm
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inviting you to join me shall you skates
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skateboard scooters and motorized
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vehicles prohibited sounds like a song
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title Mississippi River the old
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man Deep
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River lot of rules around here Iowa's
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got a lot lot of
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rules that's Illinois right there right
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mhm uh East debuk
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Illinois over here at the Port of debuk
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is the Shot Tower you said what they
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make what they make what did they use
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this for lead bullets kind of
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oh I hear a train coming we might get a
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good train train view going past this
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look at the windows leading up yeah they
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would uh have hot molten lead I think on
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top they drip it down it would turn into
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Spears or balls and a pool at the bottom
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wow
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all right I thought it was going to be
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walking or going across this bridge but
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in fact it's going over that
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direction so it's not coming down this
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bridge
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dang that have been
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epic it's over on the Illinois side all
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right going to try to read this it's a
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little far off I'm zoomed in built in
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1856 Lumber Company to guard against
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fire as a
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watchtower also uses a watchtower for
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the lumber company to guard against
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fire the interior
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Woodwork and top were destroyed by fire
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in 1911 and restored in
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1961 by the citizens of
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town when you're at the base definitely
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tell how tall this thing
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is pretty cool theyd start at the top
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with the molten lead then it would turn
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and go through a perforated
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pan and then there's the lead falling
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and then the water cools the lead balls
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right
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there
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policy I'm not going to open that ah
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here it
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is little train footage
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I knew I'd see a moving
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train and I
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debuk I've said the word debuk more
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times today than I've said said it in
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the last 10 20 years of my life like I
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don't know if I've ever said the word
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til to die
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great old buildings through here the
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Kirby building up here very unique
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looking and then the courthouse right
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here with the
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steeple a lot of ghost signs through
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this area which are old advertisements
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that now kind of bleed through the
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relics of the past drink more
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milk ice
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cream top of the Kirby building I was
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showing there an office side
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fan it's not even working anymore it's
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just pure rust and Ryan was just
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mentioning you can picture Fisk
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happening through here you can see
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Stallone I don't know if this was part
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of it but yeah you got the Cobblestone
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brick right there and on the side of the
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wall here at the Smoke Stack where that
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ice cream is there's a California Orange
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a mural on the side there yeah that's
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that's great
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I definitely prefer this style over the
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the brand new murals but nostalgic
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nostalgic guy what is this here looks
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like a chain going through a or no it's
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a a bottle porn orange out oh it is
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you're right there's the bottle top
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you're
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up Kirby building established 1876 went
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on to
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1909 it used to be the FL quality
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building or quality FL this is kind of
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neat too top of this factory look like
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lightning rods shaped like
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birds look at that interesting looking
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building right here this is a cultural
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Family Center kind of looks like the
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quena building on Hollywood Boulevard a
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little bit with that little pylon there
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in the
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middle there's a garage it's been around
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for years it's kind of where you play
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The Wheel of Fortune
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moments ghost
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overload it's like AC of some sort then
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you got replace with original
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equipment this one's a little tougher to
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make out I love this though he just
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trying to figure out what the heck that
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says Automotive Parts something G
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Automotive Parts walking up to St Luke's
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Methodist Church big Brick Church
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house really look paying attention to
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the bells up there Bell
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look at them all up in there we have
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turned onto Main Street debuk Iowa Main
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Street wow this is interesting Iowa's
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first
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church St Luke's United Methodist Church
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is the outcome of the first church
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organized on what is now the state of
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Iowa
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1933 go inside say can we go in I don't
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know all right I've been wandering
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around a lot looking for coffee here's
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Jitters Coffee and
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Cafe welcome to
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Jitters it's a good name for a coffee
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coffee
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place
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wow they are not open late
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all right ended up acquiring inside
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jit's Coffee and Cafe cup of coffee Ryan
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got a
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smoothie they feature Badger Brothers
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Coffee never heard of badger Brothers
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Badgers we don't need no stinking
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badgers I don't know if I ever seen a
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coffee shop that closes at noon also
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there's a bowling alley upstairs right
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eating that right go up the stairs to
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the bowling
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alley I guess no one in town drinks
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coffee post
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noon could there be a bowling alley
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upstairs
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interesting want
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try you want to try and see if it's
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open there's another one as
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well look at the carpet
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interesting it's a possibility the
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carpet is very nostalgic and retro like
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something you'd see in a bowling alley
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going up the stairs maybe it is a
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bowling alley upstairs there's a clock
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tower right in the middle of the
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Thorofare there you go around it oh can
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you drive through or you go around it
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it's like a
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roundabout there's an old restaurant
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sign right there Mandarin Cuisine
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Restaurant Mandarin Cuisine Chinese
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cuisine and and an old style sign here
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as
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well dang I missed that classic truck
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see if I can get it from
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it D that was cool didn't catch what
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kind it was though top of the clock
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tower it is officially about 8 minutes
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until there is no more coffee in
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town well at least at the one place cuz
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it's almost no the look in that way oh
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interesting you got the flowers or the
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trees bloom in here these are cherry
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blossoms I think these are cherry
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blossoms I think so
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too just to show the magnitude of the
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Clock
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Tower and the cherry
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blossoms probably completely incorrect
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on what that is and the Midwest One bank
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has a very inter interesting structure
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up there I don't really know what that
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is what's this guy on the bike riding
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with he's riding with another bike rack
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I don't know what that is up
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there lights up light
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up don't really see clock towers like
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that in the middle of the street like it
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check out the Five Flags
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theater this place has been around for a
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while still hosts newer bands and things
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however on the corner of fourth and Main
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Street hosted lots of public
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entertainment since the
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1840s take a look at this superstars of
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the day have performed here including Al
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jolon
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himself Al freaking
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Jon
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right from the National Registry of
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historic places
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oh I hear the clock tower ringing or a
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clock that means church bells ringing
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yeah church
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bells get the murals through here it's
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like a bird
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cage The Vault Restaurant is in an old
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German bank that's cool
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looking that's where the church bells
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are coming from
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perched up on the side of that brick
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building looks like a waving skeleton at
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least that's
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my repres artistic representation I am
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soaking in right up there Miracle Car
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Wash that's a great old side
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like how it has the arrow pointing
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down this is a great old building right
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here the Shot Tower in cocktails
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sandwiches and pizza they've been
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serving for 56 years and meatloaf Monday
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is
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back is what is today today is Saturday
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Saturday yeah still a few days till
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Monday well I know what I could do on
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Monday
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I probably won't but yeah all right I'm
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hearing this place Oddfellows has
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something in the
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window which window is it in it's front
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one is it a comedy club it's a bar
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Tavern
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Mountain oh my gosh look at that Ernest
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P warl Jim Barney right there
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there home of the swamp water and mini
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me with a sweet
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mustache somebody painted somebody
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painted the Jem Barney oh yeah you're
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right it's on a canvas that's pretty
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good know what I mean
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Vern that's
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great take a look at the front
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here wkins welcome
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interesting trades are considered
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there's a creepy clown up top and back
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in 1897 on this site nothing
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happened all right that's interesting
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that's a fox riding a horse and the
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horse's heiney is a
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hand this must be the police department
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all right we ended up going over to a
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downtown store and they said to come
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back over here to Star
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Brewery and to check out some of the
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Fist items that are in here they also
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filmed take this job and shove it in
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town Robert Hayes from airplane as well
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take a look at that wow holy cow man the
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Federation of Interstate Truckers
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fist the man who wanted to win at any
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price right now down there you got
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Stallone walking with the stick he
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walking with like a bat right there and
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they were saying maybe they have the DVD
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here possibly maybe look how young
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Stallone is right there there's a little
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paraphernalia down here a couple of the
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pens the local 302 pens there's also the
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Federation of Interstate Truckers belt
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buckle right there now it doesn't say if
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it's screen used but this looks like the
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big stick like the bat that Salone was
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holding right there maybe I think they
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might have played the movie right here
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but now you can't even watch it on the
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screen it's like impossible to find that
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thing yeah it's also amazing that you
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can't find the movie anywhere especially
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on streaming any streaming platform and
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then the the DVDs are very rare because
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the only recent American movie even
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comparable to fist is the
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Godfather dang this area over here is
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pretty awesome engine house number
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one Old Firehouse
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even has the bell tower up top so when
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you're driving this
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way you don't really
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notice this behind
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you unless you look the rear view so
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check it out city of debuk got the flags
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waving in the breeze over there got the
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bank off in the
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distance you got a real just a random
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numbered stick right here
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this is
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awesome probably not us as a firehouse
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anymore engine house number one the very
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building classic car alert
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that worked out well only caught it for
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a moment down a little ways here at the
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Blue Room got the old Pepsi sign up
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there and a mural of who the town is
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named for corner of East 6 in
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Central right there Julian
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debuk take a look at this does meals and
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lunches Cafe this old neon nice little
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signs here the paintings on the side of
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the brick work here
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this old factory
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district relocated and rededicated in 71
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interesting
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I won all right made it back over here
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to the inclined
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railroad mom and my sister have joined
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the
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party excited to do
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this oh they were here earlier when I
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did my intro right here there's still
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here they're the incline railroad
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again how do you pronounce this name
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felon felon what is it felon I think
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felon Place elevator company it's
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interesting they called it an elevator
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also I've never seen an inclined
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railroad called an elevator that's what
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they call it very big tourist attraction
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here in town oneway trip $2 round trip
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$4 debit and credit cards not accepted
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the shortest and steepest inclin
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Railroad in the world in the world cable
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cars operated from above get in and sit
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down Pull Bell cord when ready operator
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will signal car will move you want to
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tell the history behind
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it tell the history behind it the lawyer
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I don't know the history behind it they
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do what's the history behind it a lawyer
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lived up there in that Mansion he had
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his offices down here and he had this
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built so it didn't take him the whole
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time to go around down the hill okay so
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a lawyer built it make it easier for him
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to get to work yes did we get in that
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yep we ring the
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buzzer and then they bring it up from
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they pass by
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here
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hello nice view up
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here doesn't seem that high up till you
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get up here then you get a really good
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view of the Town look at that out there
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yeah oh the boat yeah that's the first
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one I've seen since I've been here big
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Tugboat out there on the River
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Mississippi
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River I don't have anywhere anything I
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have
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little Wisconsin's over there that
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bridge goes to Wisconsin that one goes
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definitely a good view from up
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here see the area it's kind of neat cuz
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we walked around there earlier and then
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drove around walked around and drove
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around now I'm getting a bird's eye
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perspective so now I know exactly what
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I'm looking at from up
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high Fourth Street elevator built in
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1882 by JK
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Graves for his own convenience and
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rebuilt in after the fire in
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1884 originally operated by Steam and
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then electricity in 1893 a
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fcy in 1912 CB treein acquired control
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to date his family owns and operates of
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use and enjoyment to the public I that
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was a long time ago so I don't even know
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if that's even still happening has been
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described as the world's steepest
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shortest Scenic Railway 296 ft in length
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elevating passers 189 ft from Fourth
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Street to Finland
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Place great view of the Mississippi
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River in three states door's
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yeah well that's not
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good definitely is one
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way yeah take a look at this bunch of
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satellite dishes up there
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town where there's this rather large
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placard historic debuk the key city of
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Iowa formed a part of what became French
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Louisiana when Joliet and Marquette
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paddled by in
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1673 there's the mighty Mississippi
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River way off on the other side of
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town this is interesting all these bees
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live in the
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ground the little nests in the ground
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weird or maybe they're flies they look
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like bees could be May
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flies Julian debuk and the mines
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of Spain saw the mural with him
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earlier he was born in January
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1762 there's an artics artist depiction
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of Julian debuk
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I didn't realize this is where he's laid
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to arest is it he actually there or is
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it just a I don't know if it's like a
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memorial or not there's longer
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Trail found over our city March 24th
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1810 passed away got this little gate
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here can't get
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in he's inside there or at least that's
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the little Memorial
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all right that's going to do it for
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today oh I hear the train going by
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looking down at debuk
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Iowa been a nice day doing a little
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exploring thanks for watching I'll see
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you in the next video the
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Vlog is over
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all right one last thing there is a bold
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Durham ghost sign here on the side of
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wall that is awesome you don't see those
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too
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often Tobacco Company side not the Kevin
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cner
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film although there was another Kevin
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Coster movie filmed in Iowa about
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baseball