Exploring Small One Traffic Light Towns in North Carolina - Boiling Springs / Mooresboro & MORE
Small Towns in North Carolina
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today's adventure brings me to shelby
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north carolina i am standing out of the
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inclement weather well kinda sorta
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as a recording of this it is february
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7th 2022
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shielded from the cool crisp raindrops
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it was sleeting a little earlier 33
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degrees
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at the moment so it has reached
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above freezing
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and this is one of those occasions that
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i have absolutely no game plan except to
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meet up
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with someone who's going to show me
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around
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the area
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should be interesting sometimes it's
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good just to wing it
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that's what's happening welcome everyone
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adam the woo here first order of
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business to get a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage from a local
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coffee stand across the way and then
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just see how things progress i'm
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inviting you to join me on this rainy
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north carolina moor
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shall you and just down the way here
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across from the courthouse is the lily
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bean
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hot coffee and cool people
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yeah this looks like a good independent
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spot
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hot coffee and cool people that's about
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it that seems like a good place to get a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage if ever
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there was one and over here around the
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corner looks like a little bit of
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flooding down here in this stairwell
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but take a look at the wall here there
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is an assortment you can have your
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choice
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of little photo ops here
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you know where you could stand against
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the wings
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even some bat wings down there this is
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just right across from the coffee place
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same it's the alley next door and i want
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to introduce you to chad who has a
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channel called coastal things
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and you grew up in this area i did i
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grew up in a town uh it's called bowling
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springs probably about 10 or 15 minutes
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from here we're at now in shelby we're
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in shelby but you were in bowling
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springs like it was boiling like boiling
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boiling
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so we're going to get a a hot coffee and
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then we're going to go to boiling so
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you're going to take me over to boiling
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springs yep kind of show me that area
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and then you also said across the way
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it's not open today is a museum
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to earl scruggs yep is that are they
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saying that pronouncing that right banjo
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player and he you say you were telling
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me off camera that he did the theme song
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to what the beverly hillbills he's the
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one that did the theme song to the
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beverly hillbillies
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that is pretty dang cool yep are you a
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coffee drinker uh
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not usually do you mind watching me
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drink a coffee that's totally fine
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all right let's go get some coffee you
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get a tea you get a hot tea yeah i don't
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think this clock
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this clock is not telling correct that
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clock is no longer working
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this is definitely the time with the
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weather like it is to get something warm
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though either a hot tea or a hot coffee
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so
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the lily bean
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okay so i have no i i i say that i have
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no game plan so i'm kind of just
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i'm kind of just leaving it up to you
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today from coastal coastal things is
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gonna have my itinerary for the day some
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nooks
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some nooks and crannies yeah i like that
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all right let's go in here all right i
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couldn't convince you to get a coffee so
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you went with a bottle of ice cold water
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it's 33 degrees out here
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you didn't even want a tee i'm a water
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guy i really don't do a whole lot of
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caffeine i drink a lot of water too so
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since new year's i've been kind of on a
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weight loss thing and all i've had is
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coffee and water with the exception of
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yesterday
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i had what did i have yesterday i had a
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soda yesterday and i had a coca-cola at
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the beginning of the month because i did
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videos about those sodas but other than
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that just coffee and water
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no caffeine
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okay that's some good willpower yeah it
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slows me down
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does it you're just you're just body
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does not need caffeine to operate
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do you drink mountain dew not anymore he
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was one of my favorite sodas back when i
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used to drink a lot of soda sprite
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ginger ale sprite has no
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caffeine peach knee-high like his mom
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peach knee high that's a southern drake
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right knee high yep
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so if you splurge you have like you have
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a cheat day you get a knee high making
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our way over there noticing this truck
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here
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then over in the window this antique
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shop this cowboy right here
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my reflections in there but there we go
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now it's tough to say well it's a better
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this way there's a cowboy
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right here behind the glass got his
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holster and everything he is ready for a
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showdown over here is the place called
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the chamber
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that has kind of a
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interesting name the chamber
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the earl scruggs center okay we got the
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we got the light
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i'm noticing there's also a mural behind
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us
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it's like a football player was from
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here no bobby bill bobby bell
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he got a name named a road named after
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bobby bell boulevard you just named your
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road after bobby bell
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earl scruggs who did the theme song for
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known and loved by many of that song at
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tv show country music hall of fame and i
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think he's won like four or five
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grammys this is his hometown also 15
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minutes from your hometown
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of boiling springs is where you grew up
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i do now is it called that because
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there's boiling springs there yes there
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is it's somewhere near uh there's
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actually a university there called
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gardner-webb
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and i think it's uh right near their
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campus and for what we can tell it is
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closed off not open today
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you also just told me that this used to
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be well this town is the county seat but
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this is not the courthouse anymore
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used to be the courthouse now it's just
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the museum
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they just built a new courthouse
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now most of the stuff on your channel is
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a lot of hiking stuff you're like big
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into hiking in the mountains going to
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waterfalls and stuff like that a lot of
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destination hikes like waterfalls i got
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some plane crashes that are out in the
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woods i found oh wow there's like five
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of those i've been to so far and then
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that sounds interesting yeah fire towers
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and lookout towers there's a challenge
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i'm doing for those we're not gonna do
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any hiking today it's not hiking today's
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hiking weather won't be too pleasant
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ah so it's only close it's closed
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yesterday and today because as a
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recording of this it is a monday it's
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monday morning that's why they're closed
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but usually it's ten to four
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today's monday right yeah today is
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i could have monday you a belly shirt
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but
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is that a belly shirt it wouldn't be on
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you
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that's just a valid point
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all right give me a run down all right
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i kind of know
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so the wheel up there is the water wheel
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just at the uh fairgrounds here
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that's still there it's still here yep
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it's at our fairgrounds okay just a
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couple miles from here
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can we drive by and look at the water
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wheel uh this was gated off can't get in
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can you see it from the road possibly
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maybe okay maybe we could try that and
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that i think that's bobby bell that was
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on the other mural with the number one
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there yep
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and this the carousel is at the uh city
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park they had it years ago and then uh
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they removed it and then they rebuilt it
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so that's there now i see earl up there
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yep with the banjo yep and this theater
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has gone with the wind plague yeah
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that's roger's theater it's right down
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the road it's actually for sale right
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now i think the theater's for sale yep
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you know i've always wanted to buy an
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old theater fix it up in a small town
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kind of like the movie majestic the
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majestic with jim carrey
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and that's one of the two uh bridges
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barbecue restaurant there's actually two
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two different families and sets of
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bridges
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two different bridge families yep
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yep pretty a pretty good barbecue both
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of them i prefer one over the other but
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that's the one i prefer the least
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okay and there's the cleveland county
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courthouse we just walked past right
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there yep and then up there it's called
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the uh banker's house
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pretty well wealthy family owns it and
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they ran it out for different events and
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things
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and that's earl like you said i'm not
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sure who the golfer is i did have some
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golf courses around here but i'm not
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sure who that is
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and then
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the rest of these i'm not sure about
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but this is the veil tower that's at a
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garden web university just sitting bull
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springs but we're gonna hit a little bit
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excellent
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we got one of the local fire engines
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pull it through
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i think they're waving
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i can't tell if he was waving or
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scratching his ear
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but right up here it says bobby bobby's
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music and record shop a little
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painting on the side here and here is
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the historic
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rogers theater wow this has like
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some hollywood vibes a lot of you know
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you see a lot of theaters across the us
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that have that kind of hollywood
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architecture
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this is very hollywood
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in north carolina
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this is nice and it is
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for sale
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700
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seat theater right here for sale
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best offer i would imagine i'm not
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seeing any
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price tag
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but look at this
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nice
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do you ever go see a movie here never
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never been in there how long has it been
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closed for if you had to guess
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uh several years
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right here you can see where they
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removed the ticket booth
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we got a picture of bobby's records
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right here i guess that's how it looked
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before
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so it became a record store after the
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theater
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jay-z on there
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and this is awesome i love this
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architecture so much
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and these doors just scream old
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hollywood
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north carolina
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version of old hollywood
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i feel like i'm on the corner of
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hollywood and highland right now
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go to mel's diner
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that is so cool
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the old rusted out signage spelling
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rogers up there
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i love it
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all right we're now approaching
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look at this beauty
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have a nice day
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coke and a smile
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right there on the side of this auto and
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truck repair business
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you said this has been retouched up
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recently yep probably about a year or so
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ago about a year ago was retouched up
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that is a thing of beauty oh i hear a
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trade
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you're the trade a coming
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all right we're now pulling down this
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road that was used in the hunger games
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was it the first first hunger games yep
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the first one very first one
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they used this
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red building that now says p m
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merchandise
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i don't know the films very well so i'm
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just kind of going off of a little bit
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of memory but i don't have them
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etched in my head
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scenes that were filmed here were
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towards the beginning of the movie
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and that building we just passed the
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beginning of the first film yeah how
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many there were three right this one too
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yep there were three total
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district 12 i think was the name of the
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area that they were filming the scenes
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from
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look at all those
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birds up there
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a bunch of vultures or crows or
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something
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a little hunger impromptu hunger games
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filming location somebody'd be proud of
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them
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who would be proud
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you don't remember your own line no wait
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i tried to get you to say it who would
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be proud
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there you go hitchcock would be proud
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i was hoping you would say it i thought
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you forgot i
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tried to get you to say it didn't work
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okay we've now arrived at the earl
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owensby studio since 1973
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and appears they are tearing this out
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so what happened here what's the
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significance of this place when it goes
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to what was filmed here uh so the movie
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the abyss parts of uh parts of the movie
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just a couple scenes i think were filmed
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actually down this road right here the
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james cameron movie the abyss other
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parts were filmed in south carolina
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about 20 or 30 minutes from here
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yeah i know the one place in south
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carolina was like an abandoned like
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reactor where they filmed like the
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underwater scenes
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but i don't i don't which scenes were
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here do you have any idea not exactly
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sure
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but james cameron was on this property
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property is no longer accessible and no
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longer a studio on the other side of the
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game
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there's actually a small short plain
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landing strip down there and there's
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some other buildings that he kept all
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the props and things in
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and these buildings up here
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one of them i think that they uh they
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did some filming in and the one passed
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it
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was one that they did uh that they had
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like actors they could stay in like
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rooms almost like a little hotel
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who knew so much how much movie history
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was here oh here look up here those are
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some of them rottweiler
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rutherford county that sounds like a
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tear i never seen rottweiler that sounds
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like something i could really sink my
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teeth into
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because this you know it's a dog with
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like vicious fangs
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also
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chain gang
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hyperspace the beginning out of all
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these i see up here i am going to look
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up rottweiler because that sounds
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amazing let me zoom in on these
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okay hyperspace
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had chris elliott in it
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from cabin boy
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and paula poundstone the comedian
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so that sounds familiar to you
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i know the actresses and the actors the
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actor
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and david allen co was in country girl
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wow
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yeah a little movie history here in
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north carolina didn't even know about
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this place
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this was the main office and there
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probably was some sort of a sculpture
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there that's been removed
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so down at the bottom you were saying is
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a landing strip
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where he'd fly his plane in and out and
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have the actors fly in and out
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oh this is open
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you see that's like they've like taken
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the doors off i think that building that
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part of it they've been torn down
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now it's just a cow pasture
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it does make sense that that road is the
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landing strip
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yeah this is like a whole complex
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so you're just going to tear all this
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out
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a framed home
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so you think james cameron probably flew
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in and landed right on that landing
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strip
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right there
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i would imagine so i would highly doubt
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that james cameron drove all the way
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from los angeles
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out here did a a trip yeah
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probably flew right into here
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because the next main airport would
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probably be charlotte or greensboro yep
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but even that's kind of a waste
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like 1990 89
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somewhere in there
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the abyss was probably
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early 90s
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maybe late 80s i'm gonna say if i had to
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guess if i was like on a game show i'd
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probably guess early 90s and these rooms
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is where
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the actors and actresses would stay
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after they landed here
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all the different productions and of
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course we looked it up and the abyss was
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1989.
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that's close
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this is all being demolished
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a little cherub here
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it's angel
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hey you can see they've torn down that
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side of the building over there already
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they've already started
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either that or a strong gale force wed
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came through and tore it out
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either way it's gone
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now this is slightly unusual this light
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is on but it is like permeating a green
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aura
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around itself very green
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it's during the day it's overcast so you
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can see it pretty well
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but this light is illuminating green
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right there on the side of the building
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at this now closed
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movie facility
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i don't know why i pointed that out but
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i found it interesting
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it's like a tractor beam but pulled me
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in that's some good attention to detail
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all right we're down over down
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i cannot speak we're we made it to the
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town
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of boiling springs
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your hometown yep 25 years you've lived
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here 25 years you're gonna give me the
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inside
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scoop one town one university one
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community left off one thing one one
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stop light
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this one there's only one stop light yep
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we got to see the stop light i want to
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see this one stop light
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got the water tower there
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there's the post office zip code well
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area code 28017
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could be a zip code not an area went
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ahead and parked looking at this mural
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here of this cow head
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and horns
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on the side and then over here
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at the base of the water tower is this
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classic bug alert
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all painted up
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it says shop at the mill
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this is a restaurant across the street
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what was this before it was a restaurant
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it used to be an old movie theater
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back in there's the seating area
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and then there's this ramp you go down
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and you can kind of tell where the
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screen would have been and there's more
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seating around there now but it used to
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be
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you could you could definitely tell that
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was a movie theater just from the style
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of one screen theater so it has the if
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you were to go inside it has like almost
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like the incline
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going down towards the front of it
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italian garden they have a pizza hot
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oven and
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subs pretty good food too
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did you ever go to a movie there i
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didn't it was before your time yeah it
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was before my time how long have you
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lived in this town
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uh
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born in 1985 and lived here 25 years
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but 25
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lived in north carolina your whole life
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yeah
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you were also telling me that these this
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used to be a dry town until a couple
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years ago so two years ago you got your
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first bar here yep it's just right down
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the road and uh the convenience stores
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they sell beer finally finally not a dry
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county or just town just a town right
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here bowling springs
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just boiling spring because the
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universities here is a christian school
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okay but they've overturned that and now
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you can get yourself a
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alcoholic beverage if you so choose the
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bar right down the road it's just just
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one bar so they're pretty successful i
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believe i would've
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imagined stuff and directly in front of
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us is the one traffic light
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just the one well the one traffic light
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intersection a couple different lights
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just going this direction in that
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direction but this is the only
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intersection in town
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that has a traffic light
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directly across from the traffic light
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is the snapchat that bell tower up there
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is the one that was in the mural earlier
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when we were in shelby
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it's the same one the one over there
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just through the foliage of the trees
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i'm excited about seeing this boy the
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real life boiling springs where the town
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got the name i would imagine this is it
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just gotta go around the little standing
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water in the mud here
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don't know for certain but this is the
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only thing that looks like where a
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boiling spring would be boiling up from
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just looks like standing water yeah
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i'm pretty sure this is it the water's
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standing because it's rained so much
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so it's not as bubbling up as i thought
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it would be i was expecting it to just
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be kind of
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gushing up
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it is moving though
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you can see a little movement down in
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there
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now do you think it's actually warm but
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you think it's boiling probably not
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do you think it's it's got to be some
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sort of warmth to it
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i'm gonna fall in this that would not be
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good
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this is it
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it's not springing up
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let's see if it's to see what the
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temperature's like
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you know it's warmer than i thought it
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would be but it's definitely not boiling
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is it moving right there it is moving
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kind of over through here
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looks like it's kind of underneath oh
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right there yeah
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yeah it's not warm
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but it's not cold it's definitely not
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like room temperature it's warmer than
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that that's bubbling up from right there
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okay that's one of the points
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that's it we found this we found the
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spring
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the boiling spring i'm going to attempt
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to lean over
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okay it's actually warmer coming out of
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here really yeah it's warmer coming out
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of here
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that's not boiling at all
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you're right it is a little warm but it
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is warmer
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that's pretty neat
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we've discovered the boiling spring
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thanks to the sign telling us where it
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was with the clock tower up there
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and the slowly
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effervescent boiling up springing up
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from the ground boiling
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well lukewarm water
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so it's not like a hot spring
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hot spring that you could you know
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like a hot tub style nothing like that
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that's where the town got its name
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right here right there
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and right here by the flagpole
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is a little information plaque
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the boiling spring
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natural springs have always been
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gathering places when people began
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settling in the area in 1847
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a couple
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kind of dilapidated buildings here on
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the outskirts what's the population here
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if you had to guess
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a couple thousand well with the
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something like that with the campus
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probably more
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five to ten
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could have been a garage sale boy that's
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a nice
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little tiny house right there
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look at that with the porch front they
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painted the bikes here on the side of
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the brick
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many years ago probably 15 to 20 years
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ago
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15 to 20 years ago
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all the town folk would be
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standing right along here or sitting in
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their chairs
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watching all the bikes go by
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with the freshly painted mural here
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of the bikes
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see i would have just assumed that this
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was a bike shop but there's more to the
23:57
story
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that you knew about that i would i would
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have just guessed and gotten it wrong
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you got the three bikers up there
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they no longer do that bike race through
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did it go all through the state or just
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to the town
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uh no they went straight through the
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all the way down this way they probably
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continued on to the state line
24:22
not sure where they went after that but
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it was definitely right through here
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because people had their chairs out and
24:27
they were all lined up on both sides of
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the road yeah that's neat
24:32
and over here you can kind of tell what
24:33
this was a building was established in
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1875.
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take a look up here
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dated
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1875 this building right here
24:45
yeah first it looked like a 1975 but
24:48
closer inspection 1875
24:51
and this is up for interpretation on
24:53
what this says
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cj
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cj something right there
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his great-grandfather's name cj what was
25:06
his last name hamrick c.j hamrick
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have you guys still alone he says 18
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1875. i know that's awesome so it's
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still on the family yes sir we actually
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just
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just sold the
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property a few months ago at the outside
25:24
we're now pulling into mooresville
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mooresborough moore's borough
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mooresboro right here this is the
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downtown
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just one block of downtown
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mooresboro take a look at this
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how did the locals pronounce it
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mose
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now i would say mooresboro but the
25:52
locals say moseboro with a z
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and got the town hall here
26:01
says hope peace love and joy still has
26:03
the happy new year up even though we're
26:05
into february and parked over to the
26:06
side is this mascot here frederickson's
26:10
good old-fashioned service got the box
26:12
and says rush
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on the side
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not the band but i've rushed to beat you
26:18
got to be in a rush to
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you know to deliver the package
26:24
no need for a rush around here
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no one in russia rush here in mosbert
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mossborough no
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is it marsborough moses moseboro not
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moe's
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with the moes but moz mozi even though
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it's mooresville
26:41
it looks like there's a former gas
26:43
station maybe right there next to this
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junkyard
26:46
going back by what i just showed
26:49
old chevy truck
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there is a long horn steer
27:05
longhorn cattle all through here
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a lot of them
27:09
look at that
27:10
was making eye contact staring right
27:12
having a little staring contest
27:15
how's it going
27:19
you don't really see too many
27:19
long-horned cows like this
27:21
sure don't
27:23
is that pretty common in north carolina
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no
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i don't remember seeing any anywhere
27:29
else right on top of my head it's like a
27:30
whole herd of them a couple dozen
27:34
now off to the side over here is a grid
27:36
of solar panels
27:38
very large grid of solar panels
27:46
heading back over into shelby now
27:46
heading back that direction kind of
27:47
where we started
27:50
this is a huge
27:52
grid of solar panels
27:54
is it ever going to end
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just when you think it's over
28:07
it starts
28:08
again
28:10
i may eventually do the other side of
28:12
the road too
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for the rumors to go on the other side
28:17
of the road with
28:18
they aren't but they might okay i think
28:20
that's the end of them
28:22
that was a big solar panel group going
28:23
by the shelby water tower now one of a
28:25
couple shelby water towers here in town
28:29
and we're going to end up going by the
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fairgrounds
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see if we can see the big ferris wheel
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by the fairgrounds
28:37
that we talked about at the beginning
28:39
it's called the shortstop
28:45
none the
28:45
gas
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we have
28:49
am i reading that correctly
28:51
i think i read that question arrived now
28:54
at the cleveland county fairgrounds
28:57
celebrated their 95th anniversary
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back in 2019
29:06
the biggest annual event and i meant to
29:06
say water wheel
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not ferris wheel
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and also the second water tower is over
29:12
there in the distance
29:14
okay can you see the water wheel from
29:17
if it's still here
29:18
if it's still here see it oh yeah it's
29:20
right here
29:25
this was on that mural we started at the
29:25
beginning of the day
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the water wheel yeah if you're here when
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the fair is going on
29:30
and someone's looking for you
29:32
back in the day before there were cell
29:34
phones and all that yeah they would page
29:36
you please come to the water wheel your
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rods waiting on your whatever oh no
29:39
kidding yeah all the time
29:42
that's pretty late
29:44
please meet you at meet your party at
29:46
the water wheel
29:49
there's also some bottles there little
29:51
bottle trees under the base of this
29:53
and the stadium here is is made up for
29:55
the demolition derby
29:59
i was thinking rodeo grounds
30:01
you said it's for the demolition derby
30:04
you ever witnessed the demolition derby
30:06
several times
30:07
that's pretty fun
30:15
i was thinking it was going to be way on
30:15
the property we wouldn't be able to see
30:16
it but you could see it here from
30:18
from the gate
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old timey
30:25
entry point
30:27
into the fair this is gate one
30:36
now i would not have guessed this but
30:36
you stated that this was a pickup only
30:40
pizza hut
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not the traditional style pizza hut
30:44
which they don't even make anymore
30:46
you know from the 80s maybe even
30:47
pre-dated that you couldn't eat inside
30:49
you just go through this drive-through
30:51
window
30:52
what did it become after the pizza place
30:54
after that it was a store that sold
30:56
cigarettes and beer
30:57
and uh the last business it was was a
31:00
bail bonds business i don't even know if
31:01
it's still still even active
31:04
now you say had beer because we're not
31:05
in the same town
31:07
we're in a different town that sold beer
31:09
unlike williamsburg boiling springs
31:12
which only until two years ago so you
31:14
had to drive all the way over here
31:16
to this
31:17
what was a pizza hut
31:19
to get your brewsties
31:23
yeah i would have never guessed this was
31:24
a pizza hut interesting
31:26
i could see it now
31:28
all right back where we began or at
31:30
least in the same vicinity the coffee
31:32
shop
31:33
is over there
31:34
and that's going to do it for today
31:37
big thanks to coastal things yep two
31:41
words on youtube check it out
31:42
two words but i say it as one coastal
31:44
thanks
31:47
next time when i come through this area
31:48
when it's warmer you got to take me on a
31:51
hike somewhere show me some waterfalls
31:53
and things like that that's what you
31:54
focus on mostly
31:56
so i appreciate you showing me around
31:58
maybe i'm seeing what's we'll see some
31:59
plane wreckage out in the woods maybe
32:01
that would be awesome see some some
32:03
history like it like that
32:04
has to be a little warmer though and
32:06
non-rainy it cleared up but
32:09
it is still cold
32:19
is over and one
32:19
last look at this beautiful
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coca-cola mural had to show this one
32:24
last time that is a thing of beauty