A Rainy Day In St Cloud Florida - Downtown Progress & STC Lakefront Thoughts / Peghorn Park History
St Cloud Florida April 2024
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today's adventure is loading just wait
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for it's
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loading still
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loading this is the back side of Wawa oo
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that is piping hot I've now made it over
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to the Sint Cloud Lakefront fun fact
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right here in this parking lot a couple
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pivotal moments in my life happened this
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is where I did my first van dwelling
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video back in 2010 I believe when I
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announced I was quitting my job the last
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retail job I had the feed store was
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leading up to moving out of my apartment
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fact I don't even know if I even
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announced I was quitting the job yet I
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think I just was stating that I was no
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longer going to have an apartment and I
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was going to sell my possessions and
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move into my van and I started it right
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here look at this
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thing and then also right here it's
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where I first got the phone call that I
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was going to be the base player for
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gutter mouse sitting in the same van in
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the same lot right here and that turned
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down
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that is really loud it turned out to
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be really exciting time for a few years
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being in that band got to tour with
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bands like likes of Agent Orange did a
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tour with them did a tour with Authority
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Zero did a tour with Agent Orange play
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with a lot of other bands a lot of
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festivals this is this little parking
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lot right here I should probably do the
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intro it's going to it's like it's going
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to storm up there welcome everyone ad of
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the woo here
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as the recording of this Wednesday April
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3rd
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2024 pip Caffe beverage that I got back
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side of that wall well I got it on the
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front side but then I walked around the
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back and did a little
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intro family time in full effect my aunt
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and my first cousins are staying at
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Saratoga Springs have documented that
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the last couple of days they leave early
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in the morning so the boys are at the
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resort they're doing stuff around Disney
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Springs they're doing pool
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time I have drove down here to St Cloud
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Florida dropped my mom and her sister
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off my aunt for a little personal stuff
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that they are doing they have a couple
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hours before we all get back together so
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I thought since I am in s cloud a place
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that I hold near and dear to my heart in
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fact I have an STC tattoo right here
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lived in St Cloud for many years have a
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lot of memories first job was here
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Apartments here places I've
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resided core memories growing up I moved
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here at ' 91 I would have been 17 I
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first started driving here got my first
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car
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here lots of other things not everything
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will be shared but a lot of things took
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place right here I'm just going to roll
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around see what I can see share some
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memories show some changes talk about
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some thoughts and just have a good day
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the storm looks pretty evil off in the
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distance is roll join me let's get
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caffeinated that's good shall you now I
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can remember back in the day a few times
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I would take an
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inflatable raft blowup raft and I would
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swim out here me and some friends would
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go way out there sometimes during the
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summer times it gets a little busy here
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I wouldn't say a ton of people but
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people do swim here I don't know if they
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do as much as they used to there have
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been a couple instances in fact right
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over there on that little Levy that goes
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out right in that little cusp 10 15
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years ago an alligator got someone over
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in that
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corner but before that when I would swim
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out in here you weren't really even
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though there were Gators in here no one
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ever thought you know what a gator might
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Chomp down on my nether regions or my
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legs or anything pull you under but what
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the rumor was that there was brain eaing
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algae in this and if you submerge water
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could have been hearsay could have not
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been true it could have just been one of
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those rumors that you hear and if you
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got that in your ear your
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brain would be
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tarnished by brain eating algae kind of
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like Rath Aon that thing they put Czech
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hov's ear but a smaller version of that
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that's the way I always interpreted it
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but I can never confirm to deny that
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anyone ever got brain eing out but also
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heard that River Country the
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closed water park outside Magic Kingdom
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close for that reason too so maybe there
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is some shoot there corner of Dakota and
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Lakeshore I wanted to point this corner
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out
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because many years ago when I first
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moved here in ' 91 probably for the
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first 5 6 7 8 years of residing in this
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town this was not a sidewalk and a
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grassy area you can see it is level
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grass here now but back then this was a
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massive Ravine almost like a seage ditch
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that went down about 8 or 10 ft like a
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gully right here and they eventually
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filled it in so if you could go back in
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time if you walked this way you would
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have stumbled off into a
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ravine that is why there's a road on
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this side and a road on the other side
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and they did a heck of a job filling it
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in you would have never known and I
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would imagine anybody that has moved
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here since then has no clue that that
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even
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exists or it did exist I should
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say so those houses would have had a
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good view of a of a little Gully many
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years ago right on this corner I was on
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lunch break working at Publix me and
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another guy we saw a hit and run right
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here on the side of this Pizza Hut I got
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to thinking I have not been to Peg Horn
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Park and probably 10 or 12 years ago my
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dad and I popped in here and it's open
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today and the sign says rain or
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shine Nature Park and
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trail check it
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out a lot of St Cloud history here they
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moved a lot of the old buildings over to
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here 8 to 6 Monday through Saturday the
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only day they're closed and even if it's
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raining it's open they're closed on
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Sundays every other time 88 to 600 rain
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or shine
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got an old piece of farm equipment here
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next to an
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ouse back before there was indoor
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plumbing you would use an out ouse to
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use the
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facilities what got me thinking about
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this place I was closer to
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downtown and I was going to go by the
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old canery which was a couple blocks
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from New York AV I can't remember the
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name of the cross street it was on but
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it was close to downtown stcloud
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and I went by there and realized oh they
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moved it and then I recall cuz I'm
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thinking back you know in the '90s where
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the caner used to be and then I
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remembered that they mooved the caner
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right here so this used to be closer to
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downtown they have relocated said caner
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oh there we go it used to be at 901
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Virginia a right on the
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side nice little
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barn style right
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here very very cool
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can almost picture like Jason Vorhees up
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there in the little hay
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was yeah I vividly remember this thing
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being over there on the on
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Virginia well I didn't remember the name
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of the road I remember being over closer
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to
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downtown
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and it's called the canery cuz I where
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they did a lot of the
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canning see a lot of
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the canned good items up top
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there nice historical building if you
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haven't guessed this is probably going
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to be kind of a peaceful video today
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yeah up
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there get a little Vorhees action watch
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out for the
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Pitchfork oh this is for the St Cloud
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Tribune 1935 a newspaper also announced
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that due to extreme need of people in St
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Cloud the city has begun building a
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resident could bring their own Surplus
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produce put it in
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cans and that's where this idea came
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from for the canery oh starting to rain
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starting to rain
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now this an old
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is you got the Bell out
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front nice get out of the elements for a
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minute there's the Bell
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there this is the era of the McGuffy
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readers kind of reminds me at that
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Schoolhouse at notot Berry
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Farm also the kind of desk when you go
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to Marceline that Walt Disney who went
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to school in Marceline
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Missouri
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inscribed you know with a knife or a
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pencil or something dug the name Walt
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into the side of the desk same size desk
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that's what that reminds me of as well
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also something out of like Little House
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in the
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Prairie
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yeah the rain's coming down
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now oh this is the blacksmith shop take
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a look at this the blacksmith shop over
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here this was most likely Lo uh
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relocated woo get me get ins out of here
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oh my
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goodness
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there I'm going to Brave it I'm going to
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Brave it oh it's coming down maybe I
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shouldn't have braved it I should the
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bra also a little windy out here windy
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rainy there's the canery over there
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there's
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the bill School building behind
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me okay yeah it's it's it's
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precipitating but it's not like a
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torrential downpour or anything that was
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it it was the trail head Center this
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open in
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'92 when St Cloud knew knew they needed
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to preserve some of its Heritage the
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trail head Center here this build okay
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this building was built in
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1909 and it was a 100y old Pioneer
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structure give the educational look how
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the settlers want to live the blacksmith
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fully operational and fired up the
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original official blacksmith at Peg hord
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events throughout the
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year of the Sunnyside School used to be
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it was made in
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1890 it's a private school the corner of
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Maryland and 10th interesting that's it
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right there look at
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that that is how it looked back in the
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day and then there's the old
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canery built in 35 originally located on
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Virginia
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a that is so dang cool St Cloud history
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I'm going to get back in my car though
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it's raining you know in all the years
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I've stopped by here I don't know if
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I've ever seen anyone out here on a BMX
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bike using this these ramps these trick
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ramps there's a skate park right next
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door
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outdoor been by here a number of times
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it's been a while been a few years I've
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never seen anybody out here on a bike
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doing any tricks pretty good little
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course also the dump is right over there
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and it
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stinks this church building here or the
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building that used to have a church my
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dad used to minister here we first moved
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here in '
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91 in fact a few years ago my dad and I
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did a whole road trip across the us all
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the places that he ministered at we did
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a little Father and Son 10day road trip
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we started off with this one but I'm
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noticing the stained glass window that
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was right
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there has now been broken
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out the other side of that Su glass
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window it was the
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baptismal that's just a piece of wood
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see the water tower off in the distance
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the youth Minister's house used to sit
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right here where they tore it down that
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that house is gone eight or nine years
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ago give or take a year it might have
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been six or seven years ago kind of lose
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track of time after 2020 but they
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announced they even put it in the local
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papers they made a big to-do about it
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that there was going to be a skyscraper
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right here yes a skyscraper that's how
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they were promoting and labeling it a
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skyscraper and it was going to be around
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the back of the S Cloud Hotel which has
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been under construction for a few years
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but I can hear they're doing a little
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work in here obviously skyscraper is not
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coming to St Cloud it never happened I
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kind of figured that would be the case
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Moors Market over there which is a local
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staple as well well and then this place
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as well which was the first place that
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the residents stayed at when they came
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into town while the first houses were
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being built everyone stayed right here
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in this building this is this is around
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the back side of it the front side you
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can see is featured right here I'll go
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around and show the front I've showed
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this before I like to give little
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construction updates on things that are
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taking place you can hear they're in
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there working on it at this very moment
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oh dang this is supposed to be the
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finished product right oh what the heck
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they're going to have a light here
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they're going to have a light right here
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on the corner of tenth in New York that
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would kind of blow my mind I don't I
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don't know if they ever have a light but
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maybe they will that'll be wild right if
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that ends up being the future they would
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have predicted something pretty amazing
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for Downtown St Cloud I don't know
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though I don't see a light there but you
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never know progress this is a very
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familiar
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stoop right
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here I think the apartment numbers have
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changed but there's two apartments up
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that door used to have a key to that
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door go up the stairs there's an
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apartment there there's an apartment
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there that used to be my bedroom I used
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to park my van over here if there were
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street cleaning I'd park the van over
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there and this was the last apartment I
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lived in when I moved out of and I did
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that whole van dwelling video now since
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then obviously I moved back into other
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apartments but for a few years I just
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was in my
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van kind of changed changed the
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trajectory of my life was work at the
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feed store get home from work at 6:00 I
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work 8 to 6 4 days a week 10 hour shift
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40 hours a
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week and sometimes I just sit right here
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on this little this flower bed that
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never had flowers in it and I would just
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sit here in the evening and I would
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watch people walk out of here late at
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night there was a bar over there called
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Big
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D's people walking down the sidewalk
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they had a few too many adult beverages
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lots of things happened right here in
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the road a lot of fights and
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altercations not with myself but just
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witnessing some of the some of the
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people from the bar out here because
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there was another bar around the corner
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over there and you get the crosshairs of
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each bar meeting on this corner and I
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would look out the window sometimes
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really late at night around 2: when the
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bars would close sometimes the officers
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would be out here and yeah if this
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corner could talk it could tell it could
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tell some Tales right here corner of
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11on Pennsylvania wo tires missing
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missing
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Tire what the heck they left the bike
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took the
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tire sorry
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Tire
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again here's an artistic rendering of
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the old St Cloud
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Hotel and then you got the investment
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company here when everyone was
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purchasing their homes they being
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they're building the first houses and
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you can see off in the distance there's
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the hotel Artic artistic rendering there
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on the side of the building and the real
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thing over there to the left also this
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Jammers was the second Jammers to open
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there was another one in downtown CMI
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and the one in downtown CMI which is now
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closed this one's still kind of open it
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gives lessons I don't think they sell
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musical instruments anymore but the one
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in downtown CMI was the one I bought my
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first base I bought a pey base kind of
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like a starter base and that ended up
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you know teaching me how to play the
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instrument moderately play the
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instrument enough to be in a couple punk
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bands before joining a SoCal punk band
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by the name of
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Guttermouth and it kind of all started
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because of the jamers in CMI which is
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this is the other one right here that
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opened
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afterwards lots of memories the sugar
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belt railroad opened in November of 19
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or 1890 grandic CMI through St Cloud
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Plantation to
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nusi in
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fact there a little mural here but also
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over here is the train station the train
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tracks were on the other side of this
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building and they run down so everything
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in St Cloud close to downtown is on a
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grid of streets where you got this with
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this this and a grid across almost like
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a checkerboard however 10th Street runs
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at an angle this way not on a grid
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instead of going straight or across it
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goes at an angle like that and the
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reason 10th Street does that is because
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the pavement is where the old tracks
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used to be this is interesting there's a
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completely new oh I guess may call like
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a strip mall or
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something all available there's one or
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two businesses behind where I just was
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but this whole stretch space for lease
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space for lease for rent
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right here along
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192 East side of 192 in St
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Cloud whole new complex just everything
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just keeps
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growing new buildings everywhere you
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look
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weather
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not
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dry it's been raining most of the day
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still raining the back up to get on I4
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westbound is always such a mess it's
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even worse when it
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rains look at that over there
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woo had an enjoyable time with my family
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that is now ended for the series of
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days my aunt and my cousins are flying
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home early in the morning and I also
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tomorrow we'll be boarding a plane and
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we be departing Florida for the first
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time 2020 4 this is the longest I've
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gone in years that I didn't leave a lot
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of it had to do with the fact that I
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purchased a house and getting things
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dialed in and getting prepared this
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didn't feel like traveling but now I do
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so
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tomorrow leaving the
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state thanks for watching I'll see you
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