A Very EMPTY Knotts Berry Farm / Riding In Front Of Galloping Goose (First Time Ever) - Ghost Town
Knotts Berry Farm 2025
Transcript
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Welcome everyone. Adam the Woo here as
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the recording of this Tuesday, September
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9th, 2025. I am entering the property,
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the premises underneath this archway
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here at the one and only Knots Berry
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Farm,
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soon to be scary farm in less than two
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weeks,
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give or take a day. I think like 9 days,
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10 days, I don't know. I lose the track,
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but Knots Scary Farm will be rearing its
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head. But right now, it's Knerry Farm on
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a weekday. And I, if you are so inclined
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and willing,
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I'm inviting you to join me as always.
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It's a wonderful day.
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Join me. Good to have you here. Cheers.
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I hear the coaster park open at 10:00.
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It's like 10:05 right now. Shouldn't be
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too busy on a weekday. Usually knots on
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a weekday is known for being well, not
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to use their terminology, a ghost town.
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Weekend slammed weekdays from prior
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experience, not as busy.
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Join me,
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shall you? Oh, look. They have the Scary
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Farm sign up right there. They're ready
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to rock. And this will most likely be my
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last time in here before Scary Farm
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begins.
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Always good to walk around Precary Farm.
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In the notsodistant future, this will be
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elbow to elbow. No personal space
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whatsoever. People crammed in here for
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the getting their haunt on. It's kind of
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nice to be in here during a non-event
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though right now. Knots is known for
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their events, but they're also known for
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just a really cool mellow theme park.
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Other parts of the year, Town Alive just
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ended and Not Scary Farm is on the
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horizon. And then the during the
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Christmas season, they have Knots Mary
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Farm. They also have Boys and Berry
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Festival. They just have a complete
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onslaught of events here and I love all
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of them. Yeah, just definitely one of
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the one of the spots I always like to
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hit up when I am in SoCal. They got some
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good merchandise, too. Look at these
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boots, these lanterns, and these little
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fanny packs right over here. Over here.
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Look at I mean, there's just like right
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now it is super mellow through here.
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Cigar Store Indian over in the corner
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there just chilling. And I can be one of
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the first people on the Calico Mine
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Company. Now, the train is not out here
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on non busy days. They have something
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called the Galloping Goose. And I got to
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be completely honest, I don't know if
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I've ever been on the Galloping Goose
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before. So, this might be my first time
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in the 100 plus times that I've been to
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Knots to go on the non-train Galloping
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Goose. What? That honestly might be a
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pretty decent way to start the day over
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here at the Calico Railway Ghost Town
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Railroad Station. Galloping Goose right
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over here. There's no one in line, but
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it says every 15 minutes this bad boy
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will uh do a loop around the park. So,
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let's uh let's check it out. See if it's
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uh see if it's boarding or not. The Rio
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Grand Southern Galloping Goose. And
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safely say, never have I been on the
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galloping goose before. It's like the
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driver sits there. The galloping goose.
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Only in the offseason and in slow times
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on weekdays do they run the galloping
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goose. You got a couple people that can
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sit up here. You got the person driving
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it right there with that chair that
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flips over to the side. Kind of weird
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not seeing the big train parked right
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here. Looks like the population here is
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93 here in Ghost Town. Elevation 65 ft.
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95. I think I'm going to ride up in the
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front of the galloping goose right here.
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You can ride in the front or you can
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ride in the back. And this is kind of
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like the regular train car, which I've
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done many, many times. So, I'm going to
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sit up here with the with the engineer.
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Only two other people in the front
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besides me.
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Here's a little info about it. Enjoy a
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fun ride. The galloping goose. unique
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piece of equipment was built in 1931.
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Purpose to supplement steam narrow gauge
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railroad service to continue a rail
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lifetime to many rural communities that
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serve.
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>> The galloping goose has a legend as well
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to it.
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>> It's gasoline powered.
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>> It gives the appearance of being in
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flight like a goose.
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>> They have to go and get to film it from
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outside as well once they get going.
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This is very interesting.
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>> Halloween is so bad and we get all those
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candy. I've never been in here. Never.
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>> How's everyone doing today?
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>> Doing good.
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>> Good. Welcome aboard.
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>> All right.
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>> Is this uh everyone's first time on the
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Galloping Goose?
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>> First time in the front.
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>> Oh, then welcome to the front of the
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Galloping Goose then.
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>> Thank you.
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>> It's my first time on the Galloping
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Goose at all. And first time in the
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front.
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>> And a big welcome aboard indeed to you
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guys. This is our piece of American
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depression era history turned theme park
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attraction. So, a lot of unique mileage
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and galloping along for the past 90
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years.
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Uh we're actually sitting in a World War
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II military bus shell.
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And the the big kicker is to what makes
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it different from a school bus than a uh
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uh a military bus, if you will, is the
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double doors.
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Heat up
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here.
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Yeah, look at that.
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>> Winner winner chicken dinner on the
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first day. There we go.
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>> You said there's two
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double.
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>> I do my part on this one.
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>> The second one's for me.
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>> You make sure
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you're not
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I don't have any money. I don't have any
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cash on me.
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>> It's a gummy pineapple white.
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>> There you go.
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>> I'd steal one from you, but I guess
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you all are safe. What about you? You
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ain't got no money.
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>> I have no cash. Gold, silver, got robbed
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already by Starbucks.
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>> I valid point.
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>> Yeah, you know, you know the situation.
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>> A lot of money for water that.
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>> Yes, sir.
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But I guess you all enjoy your ride.
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>> Yeah.
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>> No eating while operating. Yes, sir.
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>> I got out of that one easy.
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>> Yeah. I was about to say I've seen these
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before.
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>> And Yeah. I was going to say from
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Hawaii, so that makes sense. Are we
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traveling from Hawaii? No. I just place
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front view here
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on the train
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cemetery over here.
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They don't close the doors. They leave
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the doors open.
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brief history lesson of what you're
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riding along in right now. Gall number
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three. There's seven gallops in total.
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They're all built by Denver Real Grand
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Train Line. They're all built with the
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same purp.
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Uh they're all built with various unique
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components of what parts they had
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available in the track yard. What this
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one features in the 1920s,
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we are sitting in a World War II from
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his industrial use during progression to
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more scenic travel afterwards. In the
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1950s, Walter was buying steam engines
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in the Merry farm and not only walks
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away with steam engines, but also walks
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away with this gallery goose. So, Gallop
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Goose number three has been on M's
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property for over 70 years now.
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We're going to pass the regular train as
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well coming up
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the train maintenance building here.
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All of our running stock can be seen
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here on your left. 326 and Durango are
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in the middle of a hefty bit of facelift
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if you will. We're really trying to get
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some footwork done on those but 325 that
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is our current rolling stock right now.
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And of course, if you look to your left
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here through the window of the steel
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building, you'll see engine.
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All right.
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And as we pull back into station here,
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if you guys got any questions about the
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railroad or anything uh very far
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related, I will do my best to answer for
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you guys.
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The stage coach is running today.
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Be cool to do this and the stage coach.
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>> The stage coach might be a weekend only
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thing.
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>> Pretty cool. First time I've ever done
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this scary farm preparation week, if you
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will. We are uh more than uh more than
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just getting ready for it. It's uh it's
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about that time for us.
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>> So ready. So ready.
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>> The uh employee night's coming up and
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that's normally their first test run, if
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you will, for a scary farm. So they have
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a dead man switch.
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So, um, if the driver were to ever be
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incapacitated or whatever may happen,
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um, the brakes would actually pull this
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way
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>> and this is locked and so when I'm
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operating, that's why I am holding that
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>> that angle. Yeah.
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>> Oh, I see. So, you have to actually be
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pushing it.
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>> Yes, it is a it is a true dead man where
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it's uh if I'm not holding it, it will
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break.
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>> Oh, great.
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>> So,
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>> okay.
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>> Yeah. Here, folks. So, please uh watch
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your step and watch your head on the way
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out. All
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>> right. First time. First time for
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everything. Even Even for people like me
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who've been to a place a h 100 times.
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Maybe 200 times. Maybe 300 times. Never
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been here. Gone on the galloping goose.
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I'll try to get a shot of it a little
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bit later as it's as it's going around
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again. But who knows if they'll run it
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again. They got to wait for somebody
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else to load it. And there's no one in
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line right now. So you got the little
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cow. It's called a cow plow on the front
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there. And there's the bell. Man, that
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thing's awesome. It kind of started off
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the day really well. From one train ride
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to another one. Now it's time for the
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Calico Mine Company train. No one in
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line. Well, two people just walked up in
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front of me. All right, going in just
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like that. Instantaneously.
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Well, I can wait like 2 minutes.
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My top top 10 top 20 dark
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top 20
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glory. Yes sir. That's the world famous
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gold mine glory. the site of one of the
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richest gold strikes in all of the
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border history.
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Now we're heading over an underground
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lake in the mouth river. We were not
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paying for
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You'll hear me mining in here. Mining in
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All right, back into the animatronics
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now. They're everywhere.
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Hyped up.
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That's one of my favorite animatronics
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in here. Guy with the pickaxe.
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Back into the glory hole.
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That's what they call it.
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This guy's face always always gets me
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too.
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Up ahead there.
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Ladder. That means progress. And
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progress means blessing.
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Look out folks. We're heading straight
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to party.
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Love it. Love it.
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>> Looks like we all made it out just in
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time. Look at this. Your engineers died
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on my driving. Y'all get along now. Oh,
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>> that was awesome.
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Kind of was hoping the Calico Logging
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Company log ride would be working, but
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looks like they're set dressing it for
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the Halloween and everything because
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it'd be nice to just walk right on that
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too cuz there's like very few people
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here. Like how they set dress this for
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the Halloween time. So that that's
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probably why it's closed down. They're
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probably set dressing it for the spooky
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season. Setting up over here for the
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Carnival Deg Grotesque, which is going
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to be the stage show at Scary Farm. So,
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going to show a little some Scary Farm
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updates as well. Not a not a complete
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update cuz obviously I'm doing other
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things too, but I mean passing by this
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obviously this is for Scary Farm. So, so
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I'm showing it. There goes the Pony
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Express
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going around and it does like an abrupt
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stop right here.
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Right there. That's it. Done.
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Short and sweet. Should be a show back
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in here. Now they only use this building
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back in this direction for not scary
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farm. But if you look over in here,
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they've got all the pumpkins set up. But
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down where are they? There are some koi
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fish. Maybe they're over here. Right
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down over here. You can see there are a
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few koi down in the water swimming
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around down there. Where they going? I
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scared may have startled them. Maybe
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they heard me coming up. Maybe they
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don't want with a camera shot. There's
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some koi down there. There he is. Right
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there.
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the galloping goose. Not goose, the
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galloping goose from this perspective.
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So, you can see what I was on a little
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bit earlier. I guess they do leave the
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doors open for every ride through. This
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guy's This is the guy panning for gold
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down here.
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Got a couple few cobwebs on them down
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below. Go over here to the Bootill
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Cemetery momentarily. I do want to show
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the Pony Express ride. I always call it
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the precursor to the same ride system
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that Tron has at Magic Kingdom,
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but obviously Trot is a little more
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elaborate and longer and inside and more
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theming and all that, but if you kind of
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look at it, it's the same kind of when
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you're when you're on the the horses
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themselves, watch how the way you're
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sitting on them. See, leaning forward
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kind of like Tron is same kind of same
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kind of ride system. Now, there are no
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shows in the Bird Cage Theater today,
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but you can walk around the little lobby
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here and show some of the some of the
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old photos that are in here and what
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they call birds that have flown, famous
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celebrities that used to work inside and
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perform inside the Bird Cage Theater.
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GE Bell, Susan Hoffman, John Stewart.
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Let me go up here. You said Steve Martin
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right up here. It says, "Best of luck to
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all who've passed through the bird
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cage." Steve Martin performed in there
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as well as all these other people. Jenny
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Senior and Dean Jones.
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>> Oh, Dean Jones. Pretty interesting.
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Disney legend Dean Jones. Never
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realized. Everyone always talks about
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Steve Martin, which is very impressive,
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but Dean Jones also perform performed
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inside the Bird Cage Theater. How cool
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is that? Susan Langford, Laura
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Patterson.
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She was on Private Benjamin and
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Airplane. Oh, and then Kim Langford was
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on Knots Landing. She also performed in
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there. Very interesting. Up at a Ghost
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Town. You come over here and see another
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handcarved cigar Indian right here. Got
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the cigars. Then you got John Wayne. And
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fitting in with the ghost [music] town
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theme. You got 3PO and R2 right over
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here, which all right. Got one over
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here. For $2,400, you can buy this 5ft
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one, which is kind of neat. Look at
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these. Is a rubber band. You're getting
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like uh fire road v r rubber bands off
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of these. You get these wanted posters
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for $6. Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid.
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Believe I'm going to go in the old
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Calico Saloon. Get myself a beverage.
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Cold beverage this time. Years ago on
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these off slow days, you used to be able
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to go up top, but I guess now they have
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it. They have the top closed off. Got
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the old bank over there. It's got some
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set dressing skeletons there [music] for
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the spooky season. The shack of Judge
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Roy Bean. Justice of the Peace and the
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Law West of the Pay Coast, the Jersey
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Lily Shack right here. And over here's
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the stage coach area, but it looks like
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it's roped off. I don't think it's open.
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No go on the stage coach today. Fenced
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off. It's kind of neat to see a stage
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coach little area and then the coaster
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going directly above it. Butterfield
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stage coach closed. Stage coach closed
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today. And a little more of the set
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dressing for Scary Farm coming up here
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in the stage coach. And this is going to
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take you over through this little tunnel
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to an area that is called Forsaken Lake
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right there. There's the Forsaken Lake
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sign little getting ready for the old
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scary farm. Soon we'll be going into the
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fog.
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Then you walk through here,
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you got these little photos. There's
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Juan Cabrilla. He was the first European
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to lead the expedition to California.
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These two ships sailed in the San Diego
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Harbor September 1542.
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This is the only portrait, the only
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authentic portrait of Wanapro
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painted in 1773.
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I've never stopped to look at all these.
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Hernando Cortez named California after a
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makebelieve island that he had read
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about in a book. The island was supposed
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to be a magic place. I did never knew
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that.
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I never knew that that was where the
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name California came from.
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And here's all the different missions or
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at least a percent some of the missions
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all down the coast.
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Wow, that is interesting. Fernando
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Cortez named California after a
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makebelieve island they read about in a
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book. Who knew? Oh, I think this thing's
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going up. Oh, it is. It's elevating up
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here
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above what will soon be
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Forsaken
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Lake.
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It's definitely a nice vibe being empty,
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but there is a lot of stuff not open.
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Obviously, my favorite area of Knots is
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Ghost Town. Hard to beat Ghost Town.
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I'm not really a big coaster guy. I ride
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some coasters, but
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extreme coasters of me don't really get
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along too well. Have to pick and choose
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my my coasters wisely, but I'm more of a
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theming. I'm more of a dark ride kind of
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guy and a ghost towny ambiance kind of
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guy than I am a thrill ride amusement
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park. I'm more of a theme parky. So,
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it's interesting how Knots is kind of a
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combination of a theme park and also a
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combination of an amusement amusement
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park theme park and an amusement park.
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I'm kind of dipping over into the
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amusement
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park ride or side of it coaster side.
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does not appear as if the entire ride
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vehicle on Jaguar is full. That means
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that it's a complete walk-on.
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Look at that. That was only one, two,
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three, probably onethird of the entire
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ride vehicle on Jaguar was full.
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Walk on.
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Look like they're coming along with the
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construction on that. That thing's been
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down for a long time. Oh, look at that.
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You go right through the middle of it.
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That's new, I think.
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I always like to pretend that these two
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animals right here were trying to piss
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up. Nearly doesn't get more old school
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as far as coasters go than the Jaguar.
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They just accomplished it. Been on it
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many times. Went on it again.
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Old school.
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I love the I love the structure here as
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well, too. It is just so chill through
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here. I mean, it's just couple people
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walking around here and there. Oh, this
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is open. This hasn't been open for a
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while, also. Scary farm stuff.
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They also do a combined scary farm with
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daytime spooky farm, which also happens.
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This was under construction for a while,
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but now you can walk back underneath the
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waterfall here next to the Grizzly Creek
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Lodge. So, I think I'm going to do that.
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I think I'm going to take this
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opportunity to walk back through the
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waterfall. Haven't been able to do this
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for probably a year, maybe even more
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than a year, where you walk across the
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barrel bridge and you go over inside the
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barrel bridge, kind of Tom Sawyer's
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Islandish
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in a lot of ways. And then you go inside
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the cave
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itself.
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Oh yeah, I'm glad this is reopened.
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Very cool. Got
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two different entrances,
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four exits. I think today it probably
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doesn't matter. There's no one else in
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the cave.
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Pretty fun. There's a lot of water
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effects. In fact, when you go on the log
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ride, the Q- line goes through something
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like this where there's water pouring
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down as well. Similar to this, this is
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not the log ride, but the queue at the
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log ride reminds me of this a lot.
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All right, heading back out. Going back
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into the park.
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This thing's bumpy. Here you go.
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Fun little thing that just reopened.
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Can also file these props under scary
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farm preview as well. Oh, is Jaguar
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about to go over?
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No, I think that's Sidewinder over
29:31
there. Maybe. I hear something. There's
29:34
just so many different attractions that
29:36
could be. But yes, file this one under
29:39
more props over here.
29:41
the scary farm props.
29:44
I'm delaying it a little bit because I'm
29:46
going to get coaster going by again. And
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show these.
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There it goes
29:58
up and around. All the blood rushing
30:01
down to your feet. Done this one a few
30:05
times. Not my favorite. Kind of throws
30:07
your equilibrium off a little bit.
30:11
That's a cool Oh, wow. Wow.
30:19
Look at this over here. Look at her over
30:19
there. Hiding, lurking in the shadows,
30:23
if you will. The casket over there. My
30:26
remains. Oh, my remains. Okay, I get it
30:29
now. And you got this ghoulish creature.
30:33
There's another old vehicle.
30:36
Check this out.
30:38
There's a cowboy skeleton cowboy in
30:41
front here for the haunt season. This is
30:44
like an old train. Well, piece of a
30:46
train something or other. Maybe not.
30:48
This looks like a I don't know, one of
30:50
those things you see on the road to like
30:51
flatten the road. Like a rolling rolling
30:54
device maybe. I don't know if that was
30:55
that might have not been on a train.
30:58
These look like train wheels, but I
31:00
think these are just wheels to ride on
31:01
regular concrete.
31:04
Look at this carving here on this pole.
31:07
Got this buffalo here. Got this
31:09
gentleman with a beard.
31:12
One thing about knots, it's kind of neat
31:13
to just walk around and just look at
31:14
stuff. I mean, it's that way with any
31:16
theme park, even like Disney and other
31:19
places that have a lot of theming. There
31:20
just little things you miss unless you
31:22
just take the time to just pace
31:24
yourself, soak it in, and not be in a
31:26
rush or even have a game plan.
31:32
Like these tepee's over here. The teepee
31:32
right there. There a tepee right there.
31:36
up here. There's like there's like some
31:38
cactus growing on the roof. Look at all
31:41
this cacti up here. Growing up on the
31:44
roof. I've never noticed that before
31:45
either. This is the backside of the
31:47
bottle house. So, the bottle house is
31:49
over there. See door that leads into
31:50
this exterior around the back of the
31:54
bottle house. You see, back in the day,
31:56
people inscribed their names in here.
31:58
Probably frowned upon, but they did it
32:00
anyway. So, all these have names. And
32:01
now been weather warned. You can't even
32:03
read the names anymore. You can kind of
32:05
read what the names say, but but not
32:07
really. You see these on a lot of the a
32:09
lot of the bricks dating back years ago
32:11
all through here. Maybe the most unique
32:14
tree I will see today. All the knots
32:16
here on the tree. No pun intended cuz I
32:18
meant knots, but didn't mean to do that.
32:21
It's got knots on the brain. But look at
32:22
the little lumpy knots going down the
32:24
side of the of the trunk here.
32:31
I got funnel cakes. You know what I
32:31
think I might do? I might get some
32:33
takeout. Not Mrs. Not chicken dinner. I
32:36
love Mrs. Knots chicken dinner. I think
32:38
I've said this before. I think Plaza in
32:40
at Disneyland takes the cake for the
32:43
number one theme park chicken meal,
32:46
but Mrs. N chicken dinner is probably
32:48
number two. They call this the bottle
32:50
house because it is in fact made out of
32:53
bottles. You see here, these are the
32:55
bottles. They go into the other side of
32:57
the the building. So you look at this
32:59
way and then you come inside. Once you
33:01
go inside here, you'll see the other
33:02
side of the bottles right here, making
33:06
up the inside of the bottle house, which
33:08
is now used as a gift shop.
33:12
The bottle house.
33:15
Pretty neat, right? And if you look at
33:18
it closely, when the sun's coming from
33:19
the other direction, you can almost get
33:21
this like neat little the different
33:24
color bottles there. Oh, here we go.
33:26
Bottle house. Here's a little info on
33:28
it. Bottle house. Although building
33:29
materials were often scarce in the old
33:30
west, liquid bottles were always
33:31
plentiful. Enterprising miner would
33:34
sometimes build himself a house out of
33:35
bottles and mud. Not the one here at KN
33:38
was built in 1944 and is similar to the
33:40
one in Nevada. Well, Rio Riyolite.
33:45
>> Hello.
33:45
>> It contains 3,82 wine and whiskey
33:48
bottles.
33:48
>> Right before heading over to the chicken
33:50
takeout place, you can go in the
33:52
restaurant or you can go to a takeout
33:54
window, which is what I'm going to do.
33:55
Kind of pop inside Virginia's gift shop.
33:57
Check out some merch. There's the bear.
34:02
He's just by himself today alone with
34:03
his thoughts. Probably could probably
34:05
enjoys the peace and quiet to be honest.
34:12
This is what I just went through right
34:12
there. Calico Mine Company.
34:16
Here we go. After five years of
34:18
operating smaller attractions around
34:20
Knots, Bud Hurlebert or Hurbert
34:24
constructed a new concession in the form
34:26
of enormous sevenstory tall dark ride.
34:30
360° theming, a trip into the Calico
34:33
Mine Company mountain was unlike any
34:34
other attraction at the time, and its
34:37
hidden switchback queue and track layout
34:39
were groundbreaking and inspirational.
34:48
Knots is a game changer.
34:48
>> Open before Disneyland.
34:52
>> Think about that. In fact, it is said
34:55
that Walt Disney himself was friends
34:57
with Walter not and even visited here
35:00
and obviously took some inspiration from
35:02
this place.
35:04
There's John Wayne right there. The
35:08
Duke.
35:10
So much history here. There's the burrow
35:12
ride. Can't ride burrows anymore.
35:17
At least not here. Look at that right
35:20
Look at all the people on the burrows.
35:24
It's a great train robbery at Knottberry
35:26
and Ghost Town.
35:29
The old barn.
35:32
A bewitched village. Sounds cool. They
35:36
even had a cable car at one point.
35:39
Oh, knots California chicken restaurant
35:42
bloomed around our marketplace bloomed
35:44
around the chicken dinner restaurant.
35:47
The Knots family friendship with
35:48
Hurlebert would change the farm forever.
35:52
So Bud, who also designed the mine train
35:54
ride, also did the carousel
36:06
dating back to the 50s. Looks to be an
36:06
old guide map right here of what it
36:08
looked back
36:10
back in the day. See if I can see a year
36:13
on this. Don't see a year. Chicken
36:16
dining room down here. Gift shop.
36:18
There's Walter himself.
36:22
Boot Hill. Haunted Shack. Burrow R. Oh,
36:24
they don't have the Haunted Shack
36:25
anymore. And here's Ghost Town School
36:28
Road. Bird Cage Theater School. That's
36:30
still all the same layout. Then you go
36:32
through here down Main Street. That's
36:35
where the Claude Bellen is where you get
36:38
the photo with the
36:49
There's also a museum on site in Ghost
36:49
Town. Really fascinating. A lot of good
36:50
stuff in it. It was closed today. Look
36:51
at this. They used to have an arena.
36:54
It wasn't Everything wasn't open today,
36:56
but the stuff that was open.
36:58
>> Yeah, I'm having trouble with my credit
37:00
card. Successful meal for Mrs. Knott's
37:03
chicken dinner. Been around for a long
37:06
time. Cordelia KN,
37:08
wife of Walter Knot, the one that
37:10
started it, named it after herself.
37:12
That's why it's called Mrs. Knott's
37:13
chicken dinner.
37:19
>> The one of some of the best best things
37:19
about the meal for me personally,
37:21
chicken's pretty good, but the sides I
37:23
think are a little bit better,
37:24
especially the mashed potatoes and
37:26
gravy. Really good mashed potatoes. And
37:29
then also the
37:32
the biscuits that they have are really
37:34
really good
37:41
top tier biscuits. You kind of sop them
37:41
up in the in the gravy
37:45
if you so choose. On the way out they
37:47
have a photo of Walter and Cordelia.
37:50
They also have a photo of back when the
37:52
place first opened or at least the early
37:53
years. Maybe not right when it opened
37:55
but the early years. And Virginia's Gift
37:58
Shop was still right next door. So,
37:59
still all these years later, Virginia's
38:01
Gift Shop and Mrs. Notch Chicken Dinner
38:04
Restaurant. And the line was out of
38:06
control when it opened back in the day.
38:08
Wasn't too out of control today. In
38:10
fact, the service was so quick and so
38:11
fast. Very happy with the meal.
38:16
It's one of those things when you're at
38:17
knots, you kind of have to do it. I
38:20
don't even know if the wooden coaster is
38:22
running today. I I was kind of standing
38:23
here waiting to
38:26
maybe see if I could get a little final
38:29
clip here of the coaster going by. Ghost
38:31
Rider.
38:33
Maybe the coaster is not running
38:34
tonight. That would be weird.
38:37
That would be very peculiar. Such a
38:39
popular attraction. On a normal day, the
38:43
wait time for this is, you know, like an
38:44
hour or more long.
38:53
I don't think it's running to be honest.
38:53
All right, that's going to do it for
38:54
today. Thanks for watching. Man, I'm so
38:57
glad I got to go on the goose.
39:00
I'll see you in the next video, the
39:02
vlog. I appreciate it. Thanks for
39:03
watching. A vlog is utter.