Staying Overnight In A Christmas Story House - Entire Place To Myself / Film Location Props & Tour
Staying at A Christmas Story House in Cleveland Ohio
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welcome everyone adam the woo
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here i have i put on a jacket it is a
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little brisk
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i have driven almost 450 miles leaving
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very early this morning
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it's currently after 2 p.m made pretty
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good time but
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drove in the pouring rain for many many
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hours to arrive
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up is now starting is now starting to
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come down again
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in cleveland ohio at just in time for
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halloween
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a christmas story house
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it is the christmas story house however
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the movie the name is a christmas story
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i have been here before it was well over
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five
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years ago or so that i stopped off here
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passing through but i'm here for a
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little longer this time in fact
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i have booked the entire homestead
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by myself i will be staying here for the
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evening
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i'm inviting you to join me oh yes
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shall you check-in is not for another
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half hour or so
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and you can see it really fits in
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to the neighborhood i'm gonna go inside
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the gift shop get everything arranged i
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believe a tour also comes with
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the accommodation price and i believe i
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could go upstairs
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until 5 or 5 30 when the tours end and
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then
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after that the whole facility is mine
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made it inside here and there is quite a
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bit of merchandise
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for 24.99 you can get a cut out they
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have
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blankets towels plenty of
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leg lamp accessories oh my gosh look at
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this right here this says
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pink nightmare themed pez dispensers
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as well and keychains
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good old cleveland street
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right there there's just yeah there's a
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plenty of
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triple dog dare you merchandise
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i'm not seeing a price on the entire
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outfit the cap up here's the 16.99
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i'm just going to opt for the magnet
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4.99 for my refrigerator nice little
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souvenir i can take home with me
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oh my gosh look how stinking cute these
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are down here
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all right all checked in go to the top
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of the stairs
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and give you not a room chore but a
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third i've already put some of my stuff
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here on the table
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the third floor loft
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which i have accessibility to
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until about 5 30 and then the whole
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house
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actually i guess it would be three and a
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half floors up there because that's the
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that's like the attic area the kitchen
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is as follows got a microwave
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here you got the stove right over there
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it has a keurig which is very very nice
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sink a fridge
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with the with the bottle opener there
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you can look out at the other facility
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there which is also rentable
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across the way and the second floor
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is right out there but since they're
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doing the chores i'm going to show you
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that in a moment
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go up to up the stairs
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it gave me a rundown of some of the
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rules
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once i have access to everything a
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little later they
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they say the main leg lamp downstairs do
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not turn
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that off i would imagine they probably
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have the film on
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dvd over there step up from that it's
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blu-ray well that's
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now that's christmas story 2.
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hey that's the sequel oh there we go dvd
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christmas story and some other christmas
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films
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as well as the games down there
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got the poster here on the wall and
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this is where i will be slumbering in
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here
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very very nice oh let's see what this
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does
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see what this is out here oh out to the
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street
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there's the tree down there's the
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mailbox
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very nice
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all right i gotta get back and meet up
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with the tour
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the 3 15 tour see the rest of the house
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just get a little information and then
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later it'll just be me in here
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they gave me this when i checked in as
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well this is the ticket for the tour
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it's included in so the 15 is included
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in the price welcome to the christmas
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story house now have everybody seen the
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movie did
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everybody actually enjoy the movie do
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anybody know who the writer and the
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director is of this movie
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can you guess it now gene shepard was
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born in hammond indiana between
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1930s and 40s real life situations of
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stories that was based off real-life
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situations
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he soon later decided to turn his
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stories into print
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so he's most um famous for his book now
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and how we trust all others pay cash
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which is available in a gift shop if
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anybody will go ahead and read it i
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don't like doing so
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go ahead and read that book now we do
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have our
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um director who is bob clark john bob
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clark
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is known for his b rated horror films he
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actually
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um producted black christmas as well as
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children should play with dead things
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and of course you might know porkies if
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anybody's seen porky
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i was not supposed to yeah now this was
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a low budget movie
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of about only three million dollars ntm
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studios agreement to give him 2.5
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million dollars with only an agreement
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of doing a porky sequel
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bob croix said okay i'll give you your
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porky sequel
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and i'm gonna use about approximately
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100 150 000 which he did make from the
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porky sequel he used it towards the rest
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of the budget for
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a christmas story film one was finding a
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great location that reminded
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jean shepard of his steel town like home
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now when he seen them when they seen
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this house
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they instantly fell in love with it
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because for one everybody jean chef
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of his childhood home and secondly it
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was the only house on the street that
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still looked like it was about in his
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30s and 40s between 30s and 40s
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it's pretty amazing that not only that
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is there in the window but also over
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there the
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fireplace still you know obviously it's
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in the same spot like everything else
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but
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still still intact now they were saying
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everything in here
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is a reproduction but we're going to go
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over to a museum after this
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and see some some real props from the
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film in the winter
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of 1983 and between january and march it
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did not smell in cleveland
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not one time so they had to use
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key ingredients to be able to create the
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smell for the movie and the key
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ingredients were
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fire fiber foam um soap suds an instant
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mashed potato flakes
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so when you see the scenes where it's
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snowing outside that is somebody on the
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roof shaking the mashed potato plates
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now that is because 15 of the movie was
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filmed in this house
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45 in cleveland overall and the rest was
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filmed in toronto canada on the sound
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stage
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okay so next time when you see and when
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you're able to see how any of these
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windows in the movie
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out the front door on the back door
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that's um seeing what's them here in the
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house when you are not able to stop the
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windows it was filmed in toronto canada
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on the south stage
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they just mentioned that this is the
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original shed as well that's still
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standing
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go around the other side here
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you come up here like what are you
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looking at yeah yeah so that is bob
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clark the director
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about all these properties the contents
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on as well which is available for
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brandon's anybody
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you know everyone to be there is very
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beautiful on fire the christmas story
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house is always available for so
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so how are we feeling how are we doing
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feeling good yeah
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all right so welcome to the christmas
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story museum home to all the original
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props and costumes from the movie
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now before we start do anybody think
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this is the original lap from the movie
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no probably not why do you say no i
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don't know
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oh yeah that's right i don't know yes
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they are
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right though it is not the original app
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you are right there were three made for
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the movie tool when were broken which we
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do see in the movie and the other one
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has went missing and if you do know
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where it's at
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they're sending near your basement's
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closet sell it back here i'm talking to
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you
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i know you got in your closet you can
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bring it to us
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and also some things you might not find
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in here
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is the bunny suit and the cowboy suit
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andy kaufman because peter billingsley
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decided he wanted to keep them as well
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these are the screen used props and
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and even though inside the home itself
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or recreations it is pretty awesome that
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they have
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a lot of this stuff still over here and
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a separate
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little museum
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three attachments which are the
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confidence
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the sundial engraved on the side and the
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tassel that's on the left hand side
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because here billy
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was left headed and there were six
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actually made for the movie peter
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billingsley has one
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a director who does not want to be named
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he or she has one
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and we have one it's an exact model
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pretty neat it's even even neater to
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think that i'm going to be
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slumbering in this this evening
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right
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it's kind of tough for me to wrap my
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head around they also rent out the
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bumpus house as well which is just next
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door
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one of the guides was saying when they
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were scouting for the film
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i could not find the owner and went
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inside the rowley inn
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this bar here and eventually found the
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owner
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offered him i believe it was 10 grand to
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rent it
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for production he didn't want
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his house to be used they said after a
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few drinks
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he accepted the check and the rest is
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history
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i kind of wonder throughout the course
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of the evening how many
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how many people will either drive by
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here i think the gates will be closed
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there's a side entrance over there that
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i'm parked out through
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the fence i can go in through the back
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entrance but i believe these
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these here will be locked i'm sure a lot
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of people probably pull up here
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jump out the porch is allowed even
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without paying for the tour
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anybody can walk up here get a picture
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with the leg lamp
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i'm sure throughout the course of every
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day
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plenty of people will drive up here get
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a photo
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back upstairs i brewed some coffee
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and sitting here on the couch
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for the next 90 minutes gonna watch this
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just need to press play on
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the remote
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there it is after re-watching the entire
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film
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noticed a couple things like the intro
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with the credit sequence
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at the beginning you can see
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in the distance there that factory
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see it still looks the same with the
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smoke stacks as well
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and the neighbor's house even though
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it's been repainted
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was seen in a couple of the couple of
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the frames
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as well there was a old broken down car
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right there parking lot has been cleaned
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up
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quite a bit this tree
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is the same one even though it was much
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smaller then but the
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way the branches angle and it was from
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this perspective
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that the credit showed the narrator
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gene shepard which a fun fact also
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narrates the carousel of progress
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disney's carousel of progress
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same guy and co-writer
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of the of a christmas story also at the
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at the start when they run across what
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is now the
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gift shop was also seen and
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the side of this angle building two when
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they run down sidewalk over on that side
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same houses even down the block
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still remain the same take a moment to
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focus in there but
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yeah even the structures identical to
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this day down the sidewalk aways is
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where the brother fell
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over right here in the snow and rolled
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around couldn't get back up you can
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really tell because
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of the staircase leading up to both of
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these
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and the bottom of that porch over there
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which was like kind of an empty hole
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just to match it up just a bit
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the two stairs there
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on a couple of occasions he would run
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down check the mailbox
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i believe in that empty lot between
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these two homes used to be another house
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also the mailbox was originally right
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at this this side of the front of the
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next to the hedge it was about at this
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angle on the front porch where the dream
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sequence was when
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ralphie went back to to see his parents
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the front door is directly behind me
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and the father comes home pulls his car
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up right here
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ralphie was looking out of that window
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and the angle is looking down you see
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the top portion
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of the overhang here looking down at the
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vehicle with the dogs
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running all around and then still using
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the exterior
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the father goes in through here with
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the dogs
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yelling and screaming at him the
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neighbor to
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come get his dogs also the wraparound
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porch
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well three quarters of the way wrapped
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around could be seen when
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the delivery man brings in
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the leg lamp right through here
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and goes through the through the door
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brings it in and places it right on the
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other side of this during another dream
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sequence the camera angle
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pointed out of the back screen door
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and over here to the shed which is still
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the same i mentioned that
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a little earlier but there used to be a
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pole like a power pole
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right here where that kind of where that
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smaller tree is
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and one of the bandits well there's one
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that's like
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kind of dangling on top of a of a tire
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swing
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but then there's another one that's
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crawling down
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upside down on a pole
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that was right there the pole's gone but
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this is kind of what i'm referring to
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you can see how
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just right there and then as the as it
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pans out
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to the right is the the shed going out
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of the accommodations
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kitchen you go into
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the restroom
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as well as a recreation over here
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of the brothers room
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which in reality they didn't film
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anything in here
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it was much smaller but they have done a
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heck of a job
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with all of this really giving it the
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the proper ambiance it looks out over to
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the main road the porch would be
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directly
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below i am assuming that this window was
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used
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where ralphie was looking out
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at his dad arriving maybe either out
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this window or that one i'm going to say
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probably probably that one there
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when you see the neighbors dogs yeah
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this is totally the angle
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pulled up right there neighbors dogs
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over there running around they were they
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were loose
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just uh around out of there that's the
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that's the angle
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be sure to drink your ovaltain
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he took a seat
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right there now this was this this was
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not where they filmed that that was on a
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set however you know if you watch that
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back carefully
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the sink would have been over here this
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wall would have been extended
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the way they built the set but looking
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into here where
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she's on the telephone over there looks
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really close they
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might have used
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just out there into the to the staircase
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a little bit that could have been a set
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as well because
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when it pans back and you see all that
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uh
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i've done my best to decipher
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what was a set versus what was a real
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the realistic location
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and i believe i've got it figured out
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when the dog's ear gets shut in the door
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that was here and then turning this way
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into the living room in the same frame
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that was
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awesome here as well as when the
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delivery
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of this particular item took place
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and he climbed inside the box which was
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much bigger than this
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that was also here on site
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in cleveland however the kitchen
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was not here as well as the dining room
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which would have been where this wall is
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that would extend
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in also where he was going to work on
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the furnace around the closet there
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that was back in that way which would
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have been
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a set and i'm also leaning towards
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when he walked down in the pink suit
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which you would assume would have been
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right here but i also believe
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that was a set and not
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in the physical location because if
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you angle it up you could see this
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section up here
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was open with another railing and the
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over here was closer to this
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it could be but my first impression is
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that they did that in a studio even
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though dang that looks
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really close the giveaway
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is there's no door here this is the end
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of the home
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and you watch the movie that extends out
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another section like another 10 feet
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into the dining room
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but where you see the fireplace
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and christmas tree would have been here
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where
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the lamp is later on throughout the film
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this would have been moved in the
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christmas tree also there's the
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the debacle there of all the
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all the different outlets also this
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window here if you notice a couple times
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there's
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the three one two three sections
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another window over there but if you
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watch back
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this middle portion dividing them is
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about four feet wide
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in the set they built
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that wants to open on its own and the
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brother is like hiding down in there
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but he can't keep that door closed also
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the tile
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is the same design
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as well nice
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if you would have told me years ago in
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my youth that i would be standing
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in this home holding a full-size
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leg lamp in where they filmed the movie
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i don't know if i would have believed
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you pretty dang
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awesome they really have gone the extra
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mile
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with this place even with the chore
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which is you know
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tours only 15 you don't have to do like
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i did and stay
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on site stay in a room overnight which
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is a little pricey
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in a way this was it wasn't planned for
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me to stay here i looked to see
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if they had anything available and they
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did
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and the price was better than it would
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be if i would have waited
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until december so i said
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heck it this is i heard about a year ago
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that they were doing this
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and i thought like you know why not
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just go ahead and do it so i did
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i'm glad i'm really glad because they
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they have done a heck of a job
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there's the radio where they were camped
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out there
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yeah this is awesome and in this in the
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time i've been here
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the last few hours there's been probably
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20 to 30 groups of people after hours
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standing on the road getting photographs
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it is
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they're probably all thinking how did
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that guy get in there
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well they might know but
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i forgot to mention i did get i did buy
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some of that fudge
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and look how they have adorned the
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cabinets in the kitchen
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out in the backyard again noticing the
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the tippy top there
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of the shed but you see he was standing
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right up there
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fell off and also one of the others
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jumped over this fence the fence has
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been redone and hopped on the back of a
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horse
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rode off there's a factory in the
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distance there
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and could not could not end this without
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showing
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around this point where ralphie
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broke his glasses right down here and i
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was also noticing
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that the the backside not the backside
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of water but the backside
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of a christmas story house used to have
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a double window right there and you know
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obviously
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this is all new however
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down here into the basement
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that still remains and if you
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look at the correlation of those
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those bricks you'll notice there's a
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kind of a longer one and a shorter one
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and those can be seen if you re-watch
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where ralphie is right down here and
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starts crying about how the icicle fell
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off the roof and
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broke his glasses and his mom comes out
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right before the dogs ran off with the
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meal it was right about there and they
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have recreated this
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little archway and the signage there
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that are ricocheted off bounce back
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towards them oh yeah there used to be a
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double window right there
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that's what i was referring to with the
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brickwork and the window there
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the base of the door and the double
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window
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right there it used to be there at one
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point this angle was taken
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out of those double windows at the shed
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a little awning right there that's the
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same awning
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right there the side of the shed
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take it a step further ring that
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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