Traveling Thru Central Florida Backroads to Small Towns - Richloam General Store & Uncle Kenny’s BBQ
Richloam General Store and Florida Backroads
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this thursday october 14th
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2021 starting here on market street and
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downtown celebration and i will be going
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to a destination that is about 54 55
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miles
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from this point through the florida back
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roads by the name of
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richlome general store
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place i've been wanting to go to for a
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while it is an old-timey establishment
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that harkens back to a an earlier era
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when times were a little
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simpler and to get there kind of makes
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sense to take the off the beaten path
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thoroughfares so i'm gonna head there
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hit some of the small towns here in
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central florida and then head back it
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should be quite
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an exciting day i'm inviting you to join
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me
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shall you now i've been heading down
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highway 33 towards grove land and i
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pulled off
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off the side of the
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small road here this little restaurant
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and i'm not going to stop and go in but
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i wanted to show this
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old coca-cola signage
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this restaurant called the red wing
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red wing restaurant
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i was like a little old-school
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paraphernalia up on the side of the wall
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there drink coca-cola enjoy that
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refreshing new feeling
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and located behind the diner
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there's this barn in a very unique
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looking tree
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and some animals they drew my attention
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and so i decided to walk back here
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there's some pigs
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off behind that fence line
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yeah look at these
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these pot belly pigs over here
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oh there's quite a few pigs one of the
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pigs has escaped
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hello piggy
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must be a hole in the fence because
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quite a few it's like a family
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of these pigs a couple of them outside
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the
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fence here a couple of the adults
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waiting in the mud over there
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and if you look off in the distance next
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to that signage
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a couple other little
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a couple other little smaller ones
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and as a truck goes by very quickly i
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want to introduce world of micas with me
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today kind of tagging along
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here made a friend
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likes being petted he does oh there's a
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group of motorcycles go i thought it was
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a train but it's a group of motorcycles
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going by
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it's like a cavalcade of motorcycles
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maybe going to biketoberfest oh yeah
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biketoberfest is starting in daytona
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the small community of grove land
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downtown
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right over that direction
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but wanted to show this relic
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this amazing structure here
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florida select citrus
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incorporated still have the sign out
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front
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it says sound horn if the guard is not
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present the guard is not present because
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this place is no longer open
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speed limit 10 miles per hour
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this is a
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this is a throwback to the past
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that is for sure
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oh there's a whole lot of corn
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that trucks like hauling corn right
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there
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a lot of bushels of corn this place is
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awesome billy's meat market
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the shopping carts out front a little
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grocery
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store now i just passed one
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old-timey fire truck but there's another
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one next to this dragon's head
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take a look
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the east district fire department has a
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little
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little memento of their past out in
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front here and it appears as if the
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dragon has a taste for
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for a keg
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of brew
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yeah look at this dragon head
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this is some sort of vintage store so it
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has the texco food mart
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signage up top
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a phillips 76
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gas station signage
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over there as well railroad crossing i
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even see a
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wooden torso of superman over here
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against the side as well now probably
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back in the day this is probably at
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another another place where you could
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stand behind and put yourself
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you know
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have your head pop out of superman's
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head
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as well there's a little stop stop sign
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there not a stop sign but a stop light
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right there it says come in y'all but
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the place is not open gotta love signage
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from from the good old days
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it's like it says kerosene it's a
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cheerleader you can put your head
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through the cheerleaders face
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as well
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dr pepper
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what is this this is like a a space pod
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helmet
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as well right there ooh bat crossing
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going down here this is just a real
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treasure trove
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wow look at this look at this
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advertisement up here a little
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little michelob
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beach party
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beach ball party there or volleyball
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that's that's the word i'm looking for
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volleyball and then up top here above
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the door
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as you walk in
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and it does say closed
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right here says we'll return at a
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certain time
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i don't believe that's today though it
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doesn't appear to be open
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oh you're curious to see how much these
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weigh
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you can just do the reading right there
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so that weighs 970 pounds
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i guess i guess so
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i don't know if that's correct i don't
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know if that's correct either they're
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about to they're about to duke it out
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yeah this is a pretty neat little
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stop-off wasn't you know the best thing
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about some of these back road endeavors
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is you never really know what you're
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gonna find
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as you go past them
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like this right here i had no idea i was
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going to be seeing this
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today it is called an ergo bath a
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professional
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ergo bath it's like a it's like a space
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pod a futuristic space pod and there's a
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gentleman there with a beard a very
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decent size impressive beard
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in the ergo bath machine
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looks kind of like almost like a casket
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now the business that is adjacent
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is called the sweet nothing marketplace
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i don't think i've ever seen a vehicle
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that looks quite like this before this
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is a very unique
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vehicle to say the least and they do
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sell items here they sell sod
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and grass and maybe some feed for
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animals and whatnot
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this is a u.s mail box from back in the
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day kind of rusted out
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amazing what you find when you're just
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traversing the back rugs
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you see this store is open the name of
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this town is
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either moscotti or moscow
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m-a-s-c-o-t-e
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says it right there on the side
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oh
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crocodile down here this gentleman up
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here carved out of wood is holding a
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holding a
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i don't know what he's got moonshine
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definitely worth stopping off passed by
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had to do a little u-turn turn around
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parked my car just had to show this this
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is the kind of stuff i really love
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up there's another advertisement
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coca-cola advertisement and look back in
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the back there's another fire there are
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fire engines aplenty
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around these parts
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i believe this whole property is owned
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by sweet nothings marketplace
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antiques home decor
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and more
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right there you can even
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get some of these for the yard if you so
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choose
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all right gonna move on
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carrying on on the way to the to
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richland
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right there on that awning it says and
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meets
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so they obviously had other supplies
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but then and meets
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right there on that wooden side that's
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kind of falling over on the awning
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now over this fence line just past that
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berm of dirt see a lot of trees here a
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lot of
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chopped down trees
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like thousands of them a lot of logging
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in this area
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and always like to say hello to the farm
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animals
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more cows over there and
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some foul birds making friends
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with the cows
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this is the real florida right here
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and even though the highway wasn't too
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busy
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i much prefer roads like this
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that are a lot less
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traveled
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this is next to some murky waters here
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look over there check out all that
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murkiness
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swampy goodness
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down in there
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i have arrived
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at the rich loam
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general store
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used to be a post office back in the day
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rich loam general store and post office
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in 1921 the atlantic coast
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line railroad decided to relocate the
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depot to richland
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soon after in 22
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the postmaster
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created this general store
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and it was placed on the national regis
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register of historic places in 2017
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and is the only remaining building from
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the rich lone community that still
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exists
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all the info can be seen here
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oh man
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yeah this coffee crunch whatever i
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ordered
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is really good
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it doesn't have an overpowering coffee
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taste but it tastes like a mussel
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okay made it inside i kind of figured
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they would have moon pie they also have
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the old-fashioned hard candy
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licorice as well and a lot of canned
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goods over here
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as far as mild chow chow they have mild
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chow chow
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sauerkraut some jalapenos metal easy to
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play metal slide
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as well as a jaw harp and a harmonica
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check it out tivoli winks they have
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tiddle dee winks now i've seen this they
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sell this at wizarding world of harry
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potter i've seen this this little
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elephant the metal elephant here and
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actually you know what i have one of
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these as well one of these sparkling
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mics right here i believe i got it in
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pigeon forge at an old timey store there
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you got the lincoln logs no not lincoln
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logs that's a different name i used to
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have lincoln logs when i was a youth oh
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yeah the duck on a bike right there i
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had that my friend natalie bought that
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one for me
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right there from from universal yeah i
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own this and i believe this is some sort
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of a like a gourd right there with a top
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on it you could store items inside of it
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and there's some apple butter some
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coffee in the barrel here and boiled
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peanuts cajun boiled peanuts over here
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oh and there's some canteens and this is
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a coffee grinder here enterprise mfg
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company out of philadelphia so you can
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grind your own coffee
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right inside there that's pretty neat
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and they got the the hard candies over
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here
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behind the counter also
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and an assortment of beverages
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and little guitars up top
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this is pretty this place is pretty
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pretty neat i've been wanting to stop
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off here for a while just never made the
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trek over to this area i gotta say that
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is yeah that is very spiffy i've never
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had a spiffy cola before okay now here
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is the post office right here's the old
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post office area that they used to have
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at the at the spot right here you can
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see the
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hell you go up here slide your letters
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through there talk to the postmaster
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through this little window here as well
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and here's some of the how the mail was
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kind of stored
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off to the side if you check your number
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and you could get
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you could get your local mail now
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there's definitely an acquired taste but
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i enjoy pork are these pork rinds i was
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gonna they are pork rinds yeah
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definitely an acquired taste salt and
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vinegar pork rinds
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but i do love some pork rinds you know i
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think i'm gonna i think i'm gonna add
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this to what i'm one of the items i'm
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gonna buy you can even purchase some
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country ham here
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little smoked dinner steaks country ham
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applewood smoked bacon
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and very decorative gifts if you would
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like to get some oh even some cheese
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some sharp chips that's a block of
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cheese
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right there and even some beef sticks
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next to there
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mild pickled okra
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you know i'm just going to get i'm also
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going to get
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i'm going to get a mild pickled okra
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let me get one of these too i spend a
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little money here they were just saying
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that up here were some of the items that
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were found in the original store before
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they kind of renovated it all of these
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items the castor oil the peppermint
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extract philips milk of magnesia and dr
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lane's mineral oil and then look up here
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look at these little items right up here
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yeah look at this
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poultry
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prescription
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and transmission oil
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as it goes all around here they're
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explaining to micah all the stuff that's
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original through here and there's some
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writing on the wall here next to the
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phone that's been scribbled so they can
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remember they can know who to call on
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the television and the lantern here on
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this end is original as well as
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fireplace down here too so this is what
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it looked like back in the day what year
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was this 1940 1940 photograph you could
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even get a skillet here to cook do a
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little cooking on the stove
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stove accessories and whatnot the
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smaller skillets and the bigger skillets
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and pots and pans and a
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big gem sack of idaho potatoes
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and above that you can also get ice
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cream yeah little scoops of ice cream if
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you so choose and if you look over here
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you can see here they got
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your this home is for hoover
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keeping cool with coolidge
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herbert hoover is the heart of all of us
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and of course some roosevelt
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signage as well as
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yeah fdr up there as well and marita
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bread company
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they really did they really kind of went
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all out with the theming of this place
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also got pickup sticks
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and some jacks over here jollies jacks
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yeah pecan logs oh you got a pecan log
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right yeah
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peanut butter peanut peanut
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peanut log yeah yeah they do have a
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pecan log
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with a peanut log i've got a couple
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things i'm gonna grab a few more items
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through here as well and i'm purchasing
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this dr pepper here and this is the
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original
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right here opening it on the original
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opener this reminds me of going to my
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grandma's and my grandpa worked for the
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coca-cola company and they had one of
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these on their kitchen counter and
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there's some shoe oil
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she was just saying the snuff right
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there is still a full the rainbow free
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sample yeah free sample rainbow sweet
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snuff
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also there's some bob white items up
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here i don't think bob white is a
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company in florida anymore they did
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canned goods from back into that all
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right got my items that i purchased and
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now i'm gonna head
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back out here
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pretty dang neat yeah man from the 1920s
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in the same spot as it always was the
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photo i showed inside
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documents the fact that adjacent to this
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used to be the train station
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around the side over here putting the
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depot for the train station right back
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there the train station has been removed
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but if you follow this road here
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that's where the train tracks used to be
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it'd be pretty neat if the tracks still
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existed
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however
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it has they've been not paved over but
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torn up
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this is where the railroad would have
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gone down
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this
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dirt path
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is where the old railroad tracks were
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adjacent to the rich loam store
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that still exists but the tracks are
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gone did you get a beverage also or just
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just the pecan log or peanut butter
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i got a root beer
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we're drinking root beer now yeah
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sarsaparilla oh it's not called
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sarsaparilla little carousel progress
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nod we're drinking root beer
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you ever go to a place and you say do
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you have dr pepper and they go no we
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have root beer
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dr pepper's not root beer no it's not i
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think mr pitt is probably the closest
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thing to dr pepper even though it's a
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little different too and now it's called
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pib extra
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this is the same formula it's just in a
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unique bottle
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dude
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peanut log is good do you like it
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yeah there's like
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nougat or something in the middle and
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then caramel caramel or caramel
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like we said on the weekends on
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saturdays there will be someone sitting
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where you are playing the guitar
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pretty cool and there is a dragonfly
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right here on this
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top of this
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little dragonfly there
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i'm just going to get up close to your
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dragonfly
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and if you ride your horse in you are
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not allowed to park here
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with your horse no no horse parking
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definitely we're stopping off here it's
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a little bit of a hike from
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you know other areas maybe an hour from
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the theme parks and whatnot but you
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really get into the real florida
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and a general store that has stood the
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test of time
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nearly a hundred years old think about
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that
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now a moment ago i said the tracks were
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kind of over there near that fence line
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but part of me thinks they were possibly
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right here
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so this runs parallel to the other kind
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of dirt section
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that's straight behind me
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it's kind of up yeah it is kind of
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elevated a little bit so
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they probably tore them out but these
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pine trees have grown over
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it's tough to tell yeah
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and in the grand scheme of things there
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probably are no tracks remaining anymore
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so it really doesn't matter all that
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much
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yeah i'm going to say it was right
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through where these pine trees are that
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was 100 that was almost 100 years ago
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because it does kind of veer off so it
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could have been right here
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could have gone
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along this area
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because in the photo yeah it probably
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was right about there
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i don't know why i'm so fascinated by
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the olden days
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in january of 28 the store was robbed
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and burnt
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likely from arson but was rebuilt soon
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after in february at the same year
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the store and post office continued to
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operate until late 30s
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when the great depression forced the acl
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to close the depot
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in 36 brenson closed the store in post
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office and relocated to sarasota rented
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the building to a residence to the mills
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family
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until the 50s
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after sitting vacant until 73 his nephew
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john acquired the property
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and the rest is history it reopened
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2016. any place that has rocking chairs
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a nice vibe
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is not blaring top 40 music
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has my vote to visit
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yes
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i wonder if that's the original sign
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right there it's a possibility it looks
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like it even has a couple of little
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little uh those who are up to
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oh he's taking a little practice there
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yeah
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it might be because this could have been
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from the train depot yeah
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well the sign states that this is the
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last relic of richlow and one of my
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favorite beverages also mountain dew
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their slogan used to be it'll tickle
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your innards
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true story
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all right gonna move on see what else i
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can find in the taking the route back
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maybe try to even take a couple of
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different
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some different roads back towards
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celebration
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kind of do a grand circle tour almost
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and this is cool the rich loam
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general storm post office and if you're
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looking for cross streets and you would
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like to pay this place a visit
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riverland road
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and
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rich loam
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clay sink road
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are the coordinates
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next to all the murky
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water there
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and now over to webster
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there's a big
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chicken a very big chicken or is it a
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rooster
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it's one of those
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and even though this is all fenced off a
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lot of old good signage here including
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diet right cola
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mr goodwrench works here montgomery ward
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even an old phone booth
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something superman would
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change from clark kent into
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now when i first over walked over this
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way i saw the golden arches and got
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excited
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little did i know that
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an incredible amount of fast food
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establishments are documented here
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look at that deep road fast food road dq
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kfc
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well i guess just two two fast foods and
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a lot of gas stations
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but that's awesome look at that
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never know what you're gonna find
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driving around
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oh sure is
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little bk right there on the side
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now this looks like it could have either
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been a gas station or maybe a an ice
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cream stand at one point
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kind of like maybe a dairy queen or an
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off
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an off-brand dairy queen
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that's a relic right there i'm really
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liking the artwork here on the side of
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i guess it's like a
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like a bar of some sort jukebox
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and there's also a classic car directly
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in front of me classic car alert
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this is webster you can see
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the webster water tower peeking up there
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over the tree line pulled over to this
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area it's a flea market now the flea
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market's not open today obviously
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but it's in the the spot where an old
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drive-in movie theater used to be
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and the projection house and snack bar
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still exists right there
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current flea market is on the other side
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the screen is gone
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but all the cars would have been here
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and right about over there where that
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little trailer is
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is probably where the screen used to be
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back in the day
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that's pretty neat
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back in the when drive-ins were very
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prevalent there still are a few around
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this one's still here but not open for
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movies anymore hey
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where those round bales are is where the
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screen would have been
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that was a that's a bad joke but yeah
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i heard i've said this joke before many
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times but they're thinking
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hey mike as you know they're thinking
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about
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outlawing those round bells of hay
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really yeah
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they're afraid horses and cows are
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getting a good square meal
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goodbye drive-in
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hello flea market
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and decided to stop off for an early
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dinner late lunch
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at the base of the citrus tower in
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claremont florida
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place called uncle kenny's barbecue
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which i've been to many times
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definitely recommend stopping off and
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getting a little snack and a bite to eat
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if you've never tried it at the base of
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the claremont citrus tower
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this has been here for quite a while
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i think the first time i ate here was
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probably
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six or seven years ago or maybe more
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award-winning bbq
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i have an assortment of different
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different items
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these are today's specials ooh they have
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cheese grits
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and these are the hours of operation
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and for my main course i got catfish
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i also went with potato
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salad fried okra a little texas toast
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over here
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thank you
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got some tartar sauce on the side micah
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what you got this is brisket chopped
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brisket chopped brisket i'm gonna make a
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little sandwich on the texas toast beans
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and fries nice and before we have the
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the entrees some appetizers came out we
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had some some mac and cheese
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little fried mac and cheese bites
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and what was the other item we have
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besides the mac and cheese pulled pork
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the pulled pork they are known for their
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pulled pork egg rolls they had the
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pulled pork egg rolls as well and i got
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a sweet tea and i was trying some of
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this mustard bbq sauce as well which is
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pretty tasty the chopped brisket french
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fries
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some beans here i forgot to show your
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baked beans they look good they're
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they're hot you can see the steam coming
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off yeah
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and you went with catfish you know i
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could have got i had pulled pork egg
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rolls but i went ahead get with the with
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fish this place is award-winning they
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have the trophies right up here for many
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years they have an award-winning
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barbecue in this area also at the base
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of the citrus tower
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oh over here
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if you want a better view of it that's a
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little viewfinder
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kind of good to go off some of the back
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roads of course in claremont
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a little more bustling area than some of
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the other ones i was
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i wanted to end with
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a nice meal from uncle kenny's
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bbq
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i'll see in the next video the vlog
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is
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over