Mount Dora is Someplace Special - Unusual Landmarks Tour / Starry Night House / Old Joe & MORE
A visit to Mount Dora Florida to check out all the interesting spots around town . Included are a golf cart tour of downtown with stops at the Starry Night House, Honky Tonk Freeway movie spots and Old Joe statue .
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welcome everyone Adam is the woo here
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coming to you from someplace special in
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Central Florida the community of just
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about 13,000 residents Mount Dora now do
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not be fooled by its name there's not a
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lot of elevation in this state where I'm
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standing is 200 or so feet above sea
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level there is no real mountain
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nonetheless I'm gonna roam around and
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check out the nooks and crannies of this
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particular town about an hour or so
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north of Orlando let's get in there
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I'm inviting you to join me shall you
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upon entering greeted by the remnants of
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an old mechanic shop there's even some
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tires just hiding there in the darkness
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under the shroud of shade the roof is
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caving in structural stability not
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really happening at the moment no longer
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an use for what it was originally
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intended it's become a pallet breeding
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ground
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John P Donnelly who was the first mayor
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built his home in 1893 a queen and style
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house Sartain to thunder a little bit I
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think we're gonna get some rain it
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really is a beautiful piece of
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architecture currently used for Lodge
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meetings
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unique style theater here called the
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princess
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here in this cobblestone alley there is
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an inscription stating butterflies can't
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see their wings they can't see how
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beautiful they are but others can people
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are like that as well
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classic neon the Simpson Hotel certainly
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love that
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train depot is now used as the Chamber
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of Commerce and stuff inside see if I
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get some general information on what to
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see in this neck of the woods but
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noticing down here is a rolling luggage
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cart but back in the good old days
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all aboard in the past could have gone
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down to Fort Myers or even all the way
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up to New York what a way to commute so
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you put your destination in there and
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turn the little wheel and it would just
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give you the mileage what year was hot
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like many things here this is on the
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National Registry of historical places
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up on the roof is a mechanism to let the
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conductor's know if they should go or
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stop it goes directly down through the
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ceiling to the floor and whoever is
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indoors operates it one of the train
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cars along the rails has been converted
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into the magical meet boutique clever
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idea if you don't feel like walking you
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can't buy happiness you can rent a bike
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just to get around a lot of animated
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figures painted here in this parking lot
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see if you recognize
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most of them starting on the left end
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and then I will just kind of meander
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down that direction some of these I
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certainly am familiar with while others
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I don't know a pretty neat idea to just
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take a paintbrush and inscribe all these
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classic figures
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you're on the ground oh I know that guy
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him too
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this is no ordinary concrete pole
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those the backside of minions they might
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seem friendly and destructible but in a
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head-on collision those would be the
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winner
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very solid that filming is where they
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would have processed pineapple that
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would have come up from my South Florida
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they like riding off on steamboats
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unloaded them down here up the lakes I
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didn't die now this is the lakeside in
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which is the oldest continually
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operating it and the whole state of
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Florida that taller center section was
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the original first section which is
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built by Colonel Alexander in the was in
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1883 and we've had some famous people
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stay here that I'm not allowed to tell
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you about I'm not supposed to tell you
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Henry Porter Thomas Edison
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and put off in the cutting joint outdoor
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and that famous banks turn alcohol but I
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can't tell you about those guys because
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it can't be documented but it says so on
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the internet but you know what's great
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it's gotta be charity it's gotta be now
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the Coolidge is staying here for five
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weeks after he left office and they
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quite enjoyed mount art and the
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Eisenhower's bring a dua but a week
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after they left office nice there until
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1948 1950 I believe then they ceased
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because I guess a lot of people have
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refrigerators they didn't need that Isis
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thanks for the ice box so I'm on tour is
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pretty original very cool fingers nice
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house
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now I have to warn you what's gonna
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happen next because right now you're
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only 40 feet above sea level
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and a golf cart with you so the air may
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be thinner so it's the third highest
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point I'm saying so from the Panhandle
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so pick some deep breaths confident in
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your blood I have to tell you in there
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there could be one coming together be
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prepared prepared for this and I just
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want you to be ready that's all I'm
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saying
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the apartment you aren't ready
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this is supposed to be 184 feet above
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sea level as surveyed by the
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in 46 so I know that's the elevation so
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at this cross street of Grandview and
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3rd it's the highest elevated point the
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third highest point something third
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highest point south of the band
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at this house oh yeah the windows
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turning the backyard today that's the
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house stuff mr. watt built in 1905 and
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he was a big citrus growing and he got
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wind of the irrigated citrus cup which
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was all the way back there now it was a
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food person who pays to have honest
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agency to have a swimming pool on his
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dad a breakfast person before that I
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know
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this alley was the original original
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Mount Dora the Main Street now it's just
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that's just an alley yeah
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in 1883 this is the oldest standing
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house and all of Mount Dora and of
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course that was a carriage house over
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there now they were here for a few years
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and mr. stone passed away leaving mrs.
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stall with three small children in the
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1880s that was very difficult for a
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widow with two small children well she
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met up with Captain Don Lee and they got
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married and he built that house I just
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explained to a cracker house we designed
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to have at least three sides screened-in
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porch to get air fall before dr. carrier
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infinity
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so they would get the breeze through
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there now they're called tractors but I
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don't looking over whether they're
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called Packers because in the south
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quarter many years
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what happened was
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the cattlemen had me strictly whips and
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those cattle we've been stuck in all the
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areas off on the grill
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they snap the clips in fact and move the
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camera along listening Florida crack now
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when a kids would come up to school
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school in 1913
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it's not uncommon for them to find two
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or three alligators in that hard
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and that building everybody wants to
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cover
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that house was a dwelling for the
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pre-service that we wait on the people
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on the main instruction we can pretty
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well tell that but they tried to build
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on the scenes today with columns as you
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can see at the front but if you look up
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the roof to see what's left for the
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chimney that tells me another quarter
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some years ago somebody put it over his
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garage door
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this was dental bunk over now
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this is our little Museum here this
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building which was originally a
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firehouse later became a jail you see
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those two two double doors that's for
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the 1926 American LaFrance partly pillow
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these little doors we have no fire
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protection you know moms aren't the most
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part of town burned down we went up to
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Elmira New York and bought an American
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will transpire truck from that fire
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truck up above 91 we saw that the
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Sorento a little hamlet easier and they
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used it up till 1960 to these little
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brown doors here just replace what eight
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years ago the weather not exactly the
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best conditions today but a big thank
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you to local resident who does tours in
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his golf cart just showing me around the
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streets pretty interesting in 1981 a
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movie was filmed downtown they painted
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all the buildings peak and to this day
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from this angle you can see that shot
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and some of the remnants of the
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coloration still over there on the polls
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obviously faded quite a bit since those
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days but there's the original color and
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still a few layers of paint on there not
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as bright as it was an 81 a little bit
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of it seeping over into the next
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storefront as well
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congregation was organized in 1883
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making this the oldest church building
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in town no matter its age or historical
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significance was also doused in pink
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paint up to the steeple
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there once was a fifteen-foot that's
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right 15 foot alligator they used to
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romp around in these waters named old
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Joe he's since passed on but his memory
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remains he's been honored in the form of
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a statue right here along the lakefront
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oh my gosh where'd he go
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it was amazing certainly getting the
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full Florida experience even though I'm
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utilizing an umbrella doesn't help out
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the bottom of the pants region soaked it
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was said he would not only eat fish but
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sometimes wild deer old Joe you were
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ruthless goodness gracious
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he's big word of warning
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no no not he's not gonna bite you this
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is just a statute this is not a real
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alligator but word of warning has been
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planted here in the grass
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caution surface may be hot not today not
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with this right
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a little shower never hurt anyone right
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Joe
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refreshing at times
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these cars that are passing by are
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looking at me like I'm out of my mind
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talking to a metal creature while it's
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down boring
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but I couldn't pass this up thunder or
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not had to see you old Joe
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a few years ago the residents of this
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home decided to paint the wall outside
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their house just like starry night by
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Vincent van Gogh
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the City Council did not like that idea
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and told them that the home must also be
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coordinated with the wall so instead of
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repainting the wall he just painted the
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whole house like starry night
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