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TDW 1828 - Using My Columbo Like Research Skills

Date: July 03, 2017 Duration: 10m 23s
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0:03 Welcome everyone. Adam the woo here.
0:03 Just stepped outside of that door and I
0:06 am about to indulge. No, not in this
0:09 slushy goodness. I am trying a blueberry
0:11 thrill which has almond milk and almond
0:14 butter also inside. It's my second
0:16 channel, daily vlog channel. It's the
0:32 good. Nailed it. Fire who you [\h__\h]
0:32 bust. I'm off. Just ordered an Uber and
0:36 on our
0:37 way out of this area for now. We're
0:40 heading to the back side of Griffith
0:41 Park. Not the Hollywood sign side, but
0:45 the other the other angle to a place
0:48 called Travel Town that opened in
0:50 1952. A lot of history there. A lot of
0:52 old trains and television and movie
0:55 history. Should be fun. And while we're
0:57 on the subject of traveling, this would
0:59 be one way to do it. This old bug herby
1:02 style. There are some artifacts from
1:04 Northern California, San
1:07 Francisco to be
1:09 exact. I've always loved this old rail
1:12 car. After reading the information on
1:14 the sign, the first cable car was in
1:16 1873. There's still a few of them
1:18 around, but not as prominent as they
1:20 once were. You know what killed the
1:22 cable car? No. The Netflix car. But in
1:28 2009, this was carved out of a tree
1:32 stating Casey Jones, and he is looming
1:36 overhead right there. The one and only
1:38 Casey. Look at that guy. Cars have
1:41 definitely evolved and changed a lot
1:44 over the years, especially the price.
1:47 This one stated at
1:50 $485. And back in the day, he used to
1:53 get out of the vehicle itself and crank
1:56 the engine. She's over there. She's over
1:59 there cranking the engine. There's some
2:00 very fascinating stuff inside this
2:02 building, including this Shell Oil fire
2:05 truck that was built in 1918. Used to
2:08 put out a lot of fires all along the
2:11 beach line. Check out the date.
2:14 1905. This old dairy mobile. Here comes
2:18 the milk wag. I almost said meat wagon.
2:22 Meat is not there. Here comes the milk
2:25 wagon. I've always been fascinated by
2:27 trains, especially ones of this
2:30 magnitude. The size of these. Just look
2:33 at the the sheer size of that light
2:38 right there. You don't want to peek and
2:40 it's like looking into the sun. Wait a
2:42 second. That's a skunk right there. It's
2:45 a conductor
2:47 skunk. I knew something. And I knew
2:49 something was wondering what that smell
3:11 was. Okay. Okay. I think I have found
3:11 one of the items. I've been looking for
3:14 this Union Pacific car number
3:21 3669. This
3:21 exact car was used in the 1970s song
3:26 music video by Ford. You're as cold as
3:30 ice. You're willing to sacrifice our
3:34 love. I've seen it before. It happens
3:37 all the time. Especially when it's right
3:40 here. They were standing right there
3:42 playing their musical instruments. At
3:44 the very end of the video, the band is
3:46 sitting in the windows and the camera
3:47 pans by. Check out the placement of the
3:50 3669. The letter N and the letter P. It
3:53 still looks exactly the same. That's how
3:55 I figured out. Look at that. 3669 in the
3:58 same location as well as that N and that
4:01 P. And the camera panned by ending the
4:05 musical video. What a classic. This
4:08 caboose was created in 1900. It weighs
4:11 over 9 tons. In fact, to move it, they
4:15 had to use a crane. Look at this old
4:17 timey
4:18 photo. Pretty crazy. That's That's the
4:22 same one we're looking at right in front
4:25 of us. Using my Columboblike research
4:27 skills, that's Peter Faulk walking
4:30 across the train yard. The location of
4:32 this has been moved, but it's the same
4:34 one in that scene from Identity Crisis
4:38 is the name of the episode. still says
4:40 Pacific Electric. The door has been
4:43 boarded up, but everything else looks
4:45 completely
4:47 identical. Oh, yes. True Columbobol like
4:51 research
4:53 skills achieved. One of the many, many
4:56 things I love about this area is the
4:58 movie, television, and music history.
5:02 It's incredible. Ever since I was a very
5:04 young wee lad, I was always fascinated
5:07 the way things were filmed and made and
5:11 where they were where they took place.
5:13 Being out here, it really exumes me with
5:16 joy to know that there's so many items
5:20 and places that I can always search out
5:22 and find and research. It's It's going
5:26 to be cool being in this area and
5:28 finding little
5:29 tidbits. Tidbits like what I just
5:31 showed.
5:39 Don't fall. It's a contest. It's not a
5:40 race. Slow down.
5:41 Go. What are you doing? You enjoying the
5:45 shade out here? It is pretty beautiful
5:48 when you're under the shade of a tree.
5:50 Don't go too close. You're get You're in
5:52 the sun now. Come back in the shade. Do
5:55 not go towards the light. Do not go
5:58 towards the light. What's up with this
6:00 date here? What do you think? Why do you
6:02 think that is written 2022? Someone came
6:05 from the future. The future. They're
6:06 trying to warn us. What does it say on
6:08 here? They're warning us about the
6:11 cobwebs. We're going to be attacked in
6:13 the future by cops.
6:17 I am having a tough time finding this
6:19 train. However, behind Peter Faulk there
6:22 on the tracks. The only thing I can
6:24 figure is they have repainted it. And
6:27 this is the same one. No longer a red
6:30 one right there on the front, but they
6:32 have painted it black and have moved the
6:35 cattle guard. I think it's the same one
6:36 because I've checked out every single
6:37 train. Yeah, you you have you have
6:39 perused around. You personally looked
6:42 yourself and that's what we're thinking.
6:44 That's that's both of our consensuses.
6:47 Is that a word? Professional opinions.
6:49 Is that a word? Consens consensuses.
6:51 Consensus. Consensi. What?
6:54 Ah, I like that. This is showing the
6:56 progression of how the tracks were laid.
6:58 You can see back in 1865, instead of
7:01 using concrete to hold the rails, they
7:05 use basically pieces of timber and wood,
7:08 and then in
7:09 2012, 136 lb rails, cast iron ties, and
7:14 something called a pandrel plate and
7:17 clips. Oh, there he comes. I don't think
7:18 I'm over here. I got a whistle. I'm
7:20 going to I'm going to Where are
7:22 you? Oh, there you are, man. I couldn't
7:26 find you.
7:44 fail. If you look there in the distance,
7:46 you can see one slithering through the
7:49 canyon very slowly. This is going to be
7:52 awesome when it's finally completed. Oh,
7:55 there's another
7:57 one. I've always loved miniature
7:59 versions of trains. Big fan. Do not be
8:03 confused because it's spelled upside
8:05 down. We are clearly in an Uber in route
8:09 to get a little
8:11 dinner. Arrive now at the oldest big
8:14 boys in America,
8:16 established
8:18 1949. And looking over the menu, it's
8:21 hard not to get distracted by by that
8:23 guy right there. There is a heck of a
8:25 lot of history inside this building. the
8:28 most famous historical aspect. And I
8:31 don't want to make it super awkward
8:33 because they're sitting in this booth,
8:34 but right here to the left of it is a
8:38 little placard stating the
8:40 fact it was their help album that was
8:43 being released in the
8:45 US. Pretty freaking cool. I love the
8:48 Beatles. So, pretty amazing fact. I've
8:51 always stated it's never too late in the
8:53 day for breakfast food. And lately, I've
8:55 been really enjoying corn beef hash. A
8:58 club sandwich. Yep. You're part of the
9:00 club now. You're part of the big boy
9:02 club. You're part of the big boy club.
9:05 No pun intended because we're inside Big
9:07 Boy. Mission accomplished. And I got
9:11 another Can you see it? I got another
9:13 trucker hat there. Walk down the road
9:15 just a bit at the entrance or one of the
9:18 entrances, gate two to Warner Brothers.
9:20 Harvey Corman came running out of here
9:22 with pie on his face at the end of
9:24 Blazing Saddles. Ran across the road
9:28 right here next to this pole. There was
9:30 a taxi. Drive me off this picture. And
9:33 what an unusually awesome coincidence.
9:36 Here comes our Uber. Drive me off this
9:38 vlog. Back on the boulevard now. And I'm
9:42 wondering now that I see Steve
9:44 Gutenberg's star, do you think he ever
9:47 just shows up down here in Los Angeles?
9:50 and remembers the good old days of
9:53 cocoon and police academy and thinks man
9:57 three men and a baby those were the good
9:59 old day that's what I would do if I was
10:03 Gutenberg actually really like that guy
10:05 I don't think he gets as much respect as
10:08 some people give him I don't know what
10:10 See you guys tomorrow vlog you ever
10:14 heard of Steve Gutenberg