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hello walkers and welcome to windy georgetown colorado it is quite cold i'm gonna zip up over
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the microphone a little bit hopefully that'll help but not be too muffled georgetown
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is this little town on i-70 that i have driven past a lot looked down from i-70
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and thought wow that's a really cool little town i'd like to poke around so today i finally am my
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name is henry i will be your proxy walker your virtual travel guide through
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whereas i take you through georgetown today i've got a little zipper situation there
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love this mountain view despite the cold we are at 8 500 feet
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i think that's 2600 meters let me check that out looked it up
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come on you can do it henry yeah 26 12. uh 25 degrees
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negative three degrees celsius it is i'd say three o'clock in the afternoon and
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georgetown is a historic place it is i'll grab my gloves out
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known for it it started out in 1859 during the pikes peak gold rush as so
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many things didn't colorado and i believe
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that three o'clock community school
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um good lord got a lot going on here
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a lot of squeaky stuff huh
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that is cold um but it didn't really have any mines here at first until about 1860
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something when somebody found silver up in one of these drainages
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and this this became a cultural area commercial area sorry
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altitude is getting me um and central area at one point it was
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had ten thousand people living here currently has about a thousand
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it's kind of turned into a stopping off point for skiers going up into the mountains and
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coming back to denver we're going to look down the street real quick this is fourth
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beautiful beautiful views and settings dramatic location
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so cool and i love these old houses look at this one that is awesome excuse me it's the
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natural house 1870 love it
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love how well these are maintained
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at one point as i read from my wikipedia article
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there was an effort to make this the territorial capital instead of denver
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very cool now you can see i-70 over there
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and very slow traffic heading downhill i believe that is
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all the thousands of people coming back to denver from vale beaver creek keystone
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breckenridge loveland a basin etc those are ski areas
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but you can see they help give you a sense of scale of these mountains
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and i'm just going to kind of wander around here there's another town called silver plume uphill which is i
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believe south primarily south and there's a little loop railway
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loop railway park and so this is also a very popular place to
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come in summer because in winter apparently it's cold and windy
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pardon me and so i'm just going to amble around
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and we'll look at these houses and then depending on how much time we have i may break this up
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and have an additional part from the north end of town where there's a frozen reservoir
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but i will save that until i know more this is georgetown silver plan
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the sprunis love house 1870.
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we're on tao street did i mention that
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this is john a coulter house 1875. it says
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renewal for a short-term rental permit which makes me think you can rent that
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for the weekend or the week
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this really is pretty cool to imagine 10 000 people packed into this valley in the 1800s
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you know i like that like that idea you can also imagine how cold it was
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this is just the houses we're actually going to go downtown we started off and headed away from downtown and there's a couple neat little there's
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a bunch of little buildings down there including the old hotel hi there buddy that's 18.79
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coming up on rose street also up here there's a grinnell pass or
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something i don't really know much about that i couldn't find anything there's a gwinnell brewery in town
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i here [Music] up there i think if you go up this
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road a long way let's walk up there just a little ways we won't go all the way to a pass but we will
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go up and read this sign
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here's the rose street bed and breakfast if you're interested in that there's a restaurants in town a lot of
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little shops obviously vacation rentals and
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a couple hotels i believe yeah guanela pass
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scenic byway i suspect that that is a windy road
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probably really cool granola pass clear lake four mile silver creek junction 85
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miles 8.5 sorry grant highway 24 miles
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you can kind of see the highway up there
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but we're gonna head back down to the downtown area
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this house it says 1870
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just says rose street you can see the mountain stretching out
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into the distance there's another
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town somewhat bigger than this called idaho springs
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that's downhill towards denver from here looks even a lot more touristy but
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bigger they even had a starbucks i saw
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let's go down here we won't go quite to downtown just yet we will get there though i promise
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looking at how fast the traffic is going back towards denver i am
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kind of dreading it it's going to be a long drive back
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but that's okay i'm not in a hurry
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nice little picket fence here
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coming up on argentine street argentine of course argentina but
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argentina is named after i think silver
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all right this is the hamel house museum over there
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it's like quite the mansion compared to the rest of this these houses they're super cute but
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they don't look well insulated i mean i'm sure they've been modernized
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but i bet they're hard to heat and just smaller than modern houses
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that's an interesting one this green one or if it's an old hotel or something
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this one could use some paint on the fence it's been a while i imagine these things
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are very difficult to maintain let's go over here
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this is the cornish house 1892 thomas cornish this is uh
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and i don't believe i can get through up there well maybe but we're still going to go
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one more block down argentine
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can you almost hear the piano playing wagons rolling horse's name
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the tumult of a mining town this is finance office clear creek clear
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creek county finance office this is actually the county seat from what i understand of clear creek county this house was 1869
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this building over here was somewhat later
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i there's like a lighthouse or a bell tower i guess over there next to the school not quite sure what
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that building is we'll head up there there in a minute maybe we'll find out
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i suspect that there's not a lot of people stopping off at least in the winter in the uh
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to stop here maybe on the other end of town that's modern with gas stations and that sort of thing
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but for now i think people bypass it
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looks awesome though you had a good brewery or good restaurant here it'd be
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sweet this looks like a jail
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it is amazing oh how uncomfortable
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that wind is outlaw jail 1883.
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700. they used to build that
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coming up on the georgetown post office
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so let's go see this mining equipment
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it's pretty cool and then this must be clear creek right here
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mostly frozen but still flowing
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i'm depending on how this audio turns out in post may just uh
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let me just turn this all the way down
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there's an end down there let's go here uh up 6th street this is the georgetown
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community center and visitor information train tickets
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looks like an old train depot over there
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look at this kind of view into the sun
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that's a library over there
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a little band stand but that's fun in the summer
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better times anyway all right this is rose street again
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that's a pretty sweet building too bad to see it out of business
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grizzly creek gallery a lot of galleries in here and this is interesting i like this kind
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of this outdoor seating it's obviously been here for a while but
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it's like little stalls maybe they're not seating maybe it is a little fair or market
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christmas market but that's fun let's go out in the middle of the street because that's the best place to walk
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and see some of these buildings and the mountains stretching up
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look at this just the scale of these mountains is incredible
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and that wind is brutal and it can't quite make up its mind to
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which direction it's going to come from
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okay we're coming up on tao street kind of where we started this is also a public parking lot
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i think this is the police station up here on the left but over here the hotel paris museum
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it's a cool looks like a cool old hotel
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i'd love to go in there and uh explore in better times let's go over
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there and read the plaque
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oh 1875 to 1890 frenchman louis dupuy came to georgetown
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it's in the old building i like how you can see as we go along the uh
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size of the mountains the parallax of the view
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i have to be honest with you i'm all excited to put the wind at my back here the georgetown
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i'm not sure i have an interest in that one but surely others might here we go another
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so cool all right we'll keep going don't
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smell the pine trees spruce trees we're on griffith i think it is griffith
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yeah and this is seventh
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i just can't get over that view it's so epic and like a romantic painting and that's kind
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of what intrigued me coming down i-70 looking down into this valley and there's this like little gingerbread
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town look at this place i'm not sure that's historic it's beautiful though
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there's another notice of short-term
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look at the the siding has been blasted not today obviously but over years the
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paint has been blasted off the siding
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all right we're gonna make our way down there yes let's do that
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we get to keep the wind in our back a little bit i think that this is rose street again
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a quilted pearl it's a fabric shop i think gifts yarn
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this is kind of interesting the silver painting on the porch but also below the
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window looks like some pressed metal siding kind of things decorative
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to remember that sometimes people want to drive down the streets 1872 even though i'm using them to walk
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on towel street not rose street my apologies
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this is the georgetown heritage center interesting building used to be a public
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school 1874. now that's impressive building for 1874
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in what was basically a territory i still believe i don't know when
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colorado became a state
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but where i live in montana not a lot was going on in 1874.
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all right this is the first presbyterian church on the right and that's 1874.
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another creek coming through town here
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that's probably a nice place to hang out in the summer
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oh native plant demonstration garden that's cool i like that
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somebody's heating with wood i like that too 9th street
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again people trying to use the road for their cars just kidding just kidding
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uh this is a church of some sort 1873 for the green building
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it's a pretty house too huh
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i've been filming a bunch today and i think my voice is getting a little raspy
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that looks old but it doesn't have a sign so must be new kidding again no i think that's probably
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another old one uh this looks pretty old too i think all of these are of course
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but 1879 getting into the new section of
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okay so that's 1882 over here as is this 1882
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and but that one's 1872.
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i love this sign up here speed limit 15 mil miles an hour but the funny part and
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this is 10th street is it's got a teeter-totter sign like watch out for teeter-totters
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all right it's a sweet playground though
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hip hop old missouri that's all front no rear looks like a
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ooh sleigh rides there's a sign that's advertising that at least i suspect they
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need a little more slip a little more snow
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all right we got down to park street and we're gonna make a left on park street
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oh fun but first we're gonna look at this baseball field this is this
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is great uh what is normally a i guess a baseball
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field or a little league field has been turned into a hockey rink
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put up some low walls flood it with water and let it freeze you've got hockey gear
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skates i'm guessing you can use those skates
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and you can play hockey or skate super fun i wonder if they have size 13.
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i'm not insured well enough to go ice skating by myself right now
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so here's a vietnamese noodle soup bar and
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grill faux bay pho bay i don't know how you say that
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it's kind of nice they have these barbecue facilities out here you come out and
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have a cookout not today though cook in today
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there's some clouds just sort of hanging out a little bit up the
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valley been there for an hour or so they haven't really moved i think they
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dissipate as soon as they get down low
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that's obviously in not 1875 more like 1975
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but right next to it is a good one
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you know walking around out here i just cannot help but think one how rough it must have
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been here in the winters in the 1870s you're probably heating with wood
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which is accessible but a lot of work to get and split and
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repair for the furnace or coal probably not in the 1870s
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and the manure and the smoke and the sounds
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and plus it was probably you know a little ice age back then so uh probably pretty cold even colder than
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now uh it's pretty actually pretty mild it was in the negatives here
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and uh you know here back then these houses weren't insulated
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particularly well you just wear a lot of clothes i guess i
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guess if you're out of the wind it's not so bad it's that wind
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pretty interesting ornate work around the edges here
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interesting door the bowman whitehouse white bowman white house 1892.
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i like this iron fence
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a little hitching post
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i'll need to hold uh i don't i doubt this works but it's an old gas lantern let's take a look real quick
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just to see that i don't know they've got modern wicks in there
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maybe they fire that thing up
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i brought a cooler with me with one of those little freezer pack blue things that has
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obviously thought and i left it out on top of my car hopefully it'll
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freeze back up a little bit this is 8th street
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so an old buckley garage
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the dusty rose tea room and ophelia's antiques in that yellow
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house pardon me we're gonna go over here
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and check out i thought there was like an end this is it
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the clear creek in hand blown glass gifts
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says they're open oh well the gifts are open the
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are no vacancies in the hotel [Music]
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can hear the semis in low gear coming down the
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little hill now you see those i'm gonna walk over here uh
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these just next to the left of the tp is uh canada geese
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silhouettes and my dad back in the 50s or 60s
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with a friend made some of those silhouette decoys
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these are fun little chairs in this cool log cabin you know you put those out when you hunt
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for geese i don't know if those are more decorative or not but
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definitely an eclectic yard kind of fun
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what happened up here
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okay back to 63 this is kind of the main drag again
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we walked down it earlier so i will just uh what how many how many minutes are we
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at 37 i've been out in this cold for 37 minutes
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um i will sign off i'm not going to take you by the lake sorry it's just a bunch of cars driving
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around on a lake i mean that's pretty cool and unique but only so much uh time and content
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and probably for those of you on treadmill not as interesting so anyway thank you for joining me
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