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Photo X.
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Photox.
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Welcome to Photo Next Live again. I'm Mr. Daps. I'm Clocky. And we are so excited that we get to
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celebrate Thanksgiving with this episode. This was a inspired episode. Is that
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what we Yes. Um maybe loosely inspired. But what are we talking about today or
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looking at today? Today we're going to look at the tree. And we say the tree. It was Swiss Family
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Robinson Treehouse. It was Tarzan's treehouse. I think it's always going to be Swiss Family Robinson. It's Adventureland Treehouse now, but
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with the with the Swiss Family Robinson with a with a nod to the Swiss Family Robinson.
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It's got a funny name now, right? Yeah. Um, and why are we doing Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse today? Because in the
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in the book and in the movie, they include in that a Thanksgiving feast and
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give thanks for what they have, which is themselves and survival. And we've got photos that have survived the test of
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time. And we'll take a look at what's what's still there, what's changed, what's changed and changed
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back. And before you give us comments, we know that it's not the American Thanksgiving feast. They're heading to New Calonia,
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right? Ah, I think so. They This was a just giving thanks meal, but that's
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really what it should be about anyway, right? Yeah. It's November time to give thanks. Exactly. And eat lots of good food,
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turkey, ham, whatever it is you like. Anyway, we're thankful for you and uh hope you enjoy this episode as you hear
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the Montreal go by behind us. And in front of us, just right over that way, is the tree.
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Is the tree. Actually, can we see the tree? We might be able to see the tree. It's debatable. It's possible.
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Um, also let us know in the comments if you know where we are filming from today cuz this is kind of a fun little uh I
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don't know Easter egg. It's also something that we might have to take pictures of today because in a future
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episode this might be an area of the the resort that doesn't exist anymore. This would not surprise me at all. It always
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surprises me that it's lasted as long as it has. All right, should we look at some pictures? Let's look at some pictures. Here we go.
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After our really long intro wasn't so long. So, if you watched last episode, we actually had this same group in our
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last episode. So, this is a picture of the treehouse with four young people in
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front of it. We have reoccurring guests. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we have reoccurring guests. We have this group from July 1964, so June
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or July of 1964, enjoying the treehouse, which at that point would have been four
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60 60 or 61. treehouse was in. We'll look that up for the second part.
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So, that is the whole treehouse. I love it. I love that you can see the old entrance, the old staircase.
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It is interesting how the water wheel is is it in a different place now? Like it's moved because it's it's kind of too
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So, having done these photos before, I don't know how much the water wheel has moved. If it has maybe a foot.
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So just just how we walk up is different. Yeah. Not nearly as much as you would think.
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So yeah. Fascinating. Right. So that's And then what I was going to pull take a look at that. As always, I love their outfits. Like
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the guy with the checkered shirt is fantastic. There's a guy in the middle. He might be a cast member um that has a
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hat kind of on the back of his head, but there's actually quite a few interesting hats as you look um at this closer. And
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it it's such a wonderful snapshot, if you will, of time and
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fashion and also of the park when you look there is no way you could get this
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picture today. There's Yeah. Like it is never that empty during the day. Like maybe the first five minutes
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that the park is open, but you're not going to get a Oh, I'm just going to walk up with like four people on the
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entire attraction. The other thing that's interesting about this is notice the fence around the attraction which is
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kind of fun as well. And if you look very closely, let's see. Do we see it?
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Okay, you can see it there. The boy or possibly girl on the far
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left has the giant hat with the feather.
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The old feather hat. Oh, that's awesome. on top of the I mean there's someone in either a fedora or a
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trill beam. That's that's the one I'm wondering if it's a cast member. Could be because look at like he has a vest also and it looks like he might have like
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some sort of a pack on his belt and um that is very fun.
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I just also love how open it is. Oh yeah. Like when you look at how you could just walk around and you could
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just see everything like now it's kind of grown in and there's more I think fences maybe there too and
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and more directional. Yeah, it's it's it's more directional is a very good word to put for that one.
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All right. Should we look at the next one? All right. Yeah, let's go. We're going to go into color. We don't have a year on this one, but the world is a carousel of color.
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There we have the tree in full color. A little bit wider of a shot. Looking at
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this, I would guess I love that our full color is kind of sepia always.
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I mean, how old do you think this picture is? I would say this is probably 70s. Okay.
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So, it's 50 years old. Looking at the difference between the two, right? Cuz this is almost the same shot.
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Isn't it amazing that the two pieces of paper you're holding are miles older than us,
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right? For now. If only we look that good when we're uh
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that old. 50 and 60s years old. So, we have the blown up version here as
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you can look at it there. And nothing that we can see in detail.
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We can see the sign for the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse. The left is so much more open than it is today cuz now they
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have the uh I don't know what it's called, but it's got all the equipment and the the
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painting and stuff on the left. Well, and Indiana Jones butts up right
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to it, too. True. Yeah, that's that's also a huge difference. So, here we have this one. This in full
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color. We'll be able to kind of see this today. The thing I like about this, too, is it
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really leaves a lot of the story open to imagination. So, you can imagine the Swiss Family Robinson worrying about
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tigers and and animals and coming up and things like that. Like, there's a definite thought process to survival in
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the way that this was built and rebuilt. And um that is very fun to see, I think.
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All right, the next one. Again, we don't have years on this one. This one, this one amuses me a lot. And this one's interesting because we're
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going to I'm going to show you this. I mean, these little dots on the back aren't code for what year it is. No, I wish it's code for what kind of an
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album it used to be in. You see on the back? Careful. The glue you use. We've learned over time not to use certain glues
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anymore. So there we have uh two people enjoying I guess enjoying
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one looking like she's enjoying one looking might be enjoying slightly annoyed that she's getting her photo taken in the Swiss Family Robinson
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treehouse. And what's interesting is this scanned better than it Oh yeah, it totally did. We'll show this
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in the final episode. But um so this was the mother and father's
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Oh no. Oh no. We're on the wheel. Sorry. The wheel. Oh, this is We're on the wrong picture. the wrong.
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So, this was the observant like it would open. That was mother and father's room where it could open to the to the uh
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to the outside to the outside and you could look up through the ceiling and see the the stars at night, which I always thought
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was a very fun um idea for a house like
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just be able to open up the wall. Other than other than you think of now having traveled to tropical areas of the world,
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the bugs and the and the the lizards and the whatever.
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You can see you can barely see it there, but you can see the top of the building. This must have been taken late in the
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day cuz you can see a little bit of the sky right in the background, but it doesn't nothing looks bright.
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And they clearly used flash, right? And based on the outfits, I would say
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this is 70s. This has got to be mid70s at least.
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Yeah. Which will bring us to the second photo of the same two, which is where mother does seem happy
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instead of not ready. Um much happier in this photo. Yes. See if I can get that angled perfectly.
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And this is now the observatory or the the daughter's room. The upstairs room.
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It is now. Yeah, it is now. I'm actually forgetting what it is at the moment.
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Having just walked this for for I like to call pre-search because we've already researched this.
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This was pre-searching the episode. The
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the steps up there and that look still looks the same. Surprisingly, it is amazing how much of the structure has
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stayed the same through all iterations of this tree, which is gorgeous. And um
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I think the things that have changed so much is what's come up around it, grown up around it, you know, props, maybe a
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maybe a fence here and there. Well, and the addition of the addition of the Tarzan extra
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part of the tree, which is now gone, which is now gone. So, it's almost like they re
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they put it back to square one a bit. All right. A little bit, but like Yeah, it's it's
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interesting how which I think was a very good move. And our fifth photo
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is this one right here. Our favorite. No, I don't know if it's our favorite or not. Oh, yeah, that's right. We haven't even Man, this is going to be a hard one.
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This is going to be a hard I think I have a favorite. I like the back of this has written treehouse in Adventure Land.
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I'm glad you can read that. That's That's an N or 459F.
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Right. There you go. Um, so this is the the entrance/exit.
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This is the entrance from the exit. Okay. the entrance from the exit. So, you still walk over this body of
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water. I would say the water is less from what is here,
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but I love how much water is there. It actually makes more continuity for that
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that um little waterfall you see towards the current exit. I think
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maybe Yeah, that it was the water flowing. And this I would Oh, this says 63. This is
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definitely 1963 August. So, this is July or August. We see a gentleman in shorts and and shoes
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and a hat. And a hat and a hat with a with buttons. Yeah, those are pins. That's awesome. I'm sure he wasn't pin trading, but he
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definitely enjoyed his travels and predecessor to a pin trader, right? Wore wore his uh
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Once again, look at how open this area is, though. I love that. You can see people in the background
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here. So, that would have been the the bizaar. Mhm. Over that way. And yeah, 63.
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And and what's fun about back then is Adventureland really does feel like it was kind of this adventurous
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you could go anywhere. You could you could have any experience. You could have a truck backing up right in front
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of you. Um maybe not. But uh with squeaky brakes. I wonder if you
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sorry about that. But I loved back in the older days when it truly did
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feel like you were walking right into Swiss Family Robinson or you were you were truly walking into was it the
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African Queen? Right. Um and it's still an incredible land, but it
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doesn't have that kind of wilderness jungle feel that it used to have. Mainly
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just because it's so darn crowded now. and and as they've filled it in more and as people also all want to go visit
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Indiana Jones or Jungle Cruise or Tropical Hideway or whatever, it it's definitely
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changed the vibe a bit and and that's cool but also kind of a bummer. But, you
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know, whatever. What do we got? So, for for Doug, who is yelling at the screen right now? Yes. Sorry, Doug.
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Swiss Family opens Swiss Family Robinson the movie opened in 1960. The attraction opened in 1962.
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That's right. So, also within a year or two. Yeah, within a year or two it was up. The interesting thing I learned today
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from my own podcast listening to my episode about Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse when it opened C Attraction,
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which makes sense with the fence and within a year B ticket attraction.
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So, was that Huh. So, they took it down from C to a B ticket. You would wonder. I guess that makes
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sense because you think of the movie being fairly recent originally as it gets a little bit further from the
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consciousness and you don't have Disney Plus, you don't have DVDs, VHS even,
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you could see it not being having the same staying power as, you know, things
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that that are front and center to people as they uh get to go around. Um, this is going to be interesting.
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All right. Favorite photo. That's why I'm looking at cuz this is this is where I always have the conundrum of do I go
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with the one that amuses me the most because of people's faces and reactions or outfits
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or do I go with the one that's like oh yeah I would frame that and put it on my wall. I mean this that's that's what I'm that's the frame
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and put on my wall. Yeah, this is frame and put on your wall. Like if you had uh I'm going to say this. I I have I've had people
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contact me about hey can you share your photos? I'm trying to do an Adventureland themed bathroom and I want
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some old Adventureland photos. Yeah, I've had someone do that and I would say this. This would go into an adventure
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room in a heartbeat with an old wood frame even. So would So would this one? Yeah,
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these ones maybe a bit depending on how much even that one would be very amusing cuz it's got our our our family.
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It's almost like carousel progress if we keep finding this family.
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Quick question before we decide. For people that have pictures like these at
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home, what is the best way to store them for posterity? Oo,
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one, keep the negatives. Two, scan them digitally and then like as far as holding on to
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these photos, would it be good to put them in like a slide in thing? A slide in vest. I mean, you you can tell from now that one's not. These ones
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definitely were in some kind of an album. any of those sticky albums, taking them out is the absolute worst.
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It everyone thought it was going to be great, but it but even I would think having the when you slide them in that would protect
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them a little bit from the right and keep them flat elements and flat that would help too.
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Um and probably what do you think about like scrapbook cuz that's that's kind of glue and stuff too and tape.
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I mean I with old photos I wouldn't do it. If you were going to reprint a photo, put in a scrapbook, go for it. Okay, there you go. See, you got a you
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got a photo next tip today. Um, all right. We are going to pick our favorite.
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This is hard. Um, it is funny. We have a picture of mother and daughter. It
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appears one of them. Both of them look zoned out and the other one at least mother is smiling. And that amuses me
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for the two of them. So that is that one. That's the smiling one. Yes.
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That's the I can't believe you made me climb this whole tree when we could have gone I' I've got I've got to go with this one
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just because that the the faded color but also just the overall look and it'll be an adventure to figure out when this
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was taken cuz there's probably something to do
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with that sign and the fencing and nope
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that's the same. Yeah. Uh yeah, I think I'm going to have to go with the same one. like I'd already picked it before I
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I talked about everything else. I was trying to change my mind if it didn't work. Um, this one could almost be like
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one of those really pretty drawings, you know, like the the pencil sketch. Like I would love to see this as a pencil
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sketch or just printed like blown up like 8 by 8 by 10 or something and and
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that would be very cool. Um, I'm also wondering if the tree heights actually in the
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background give us. So, this is similar time period because look at how tall the
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tree is here. Mhm. And there. It looks similar to me.
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Yeah. This although they also could have been more proactive about keeping trees from being too tall around. This was Family
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Robinson treehouse. making sure the treehouse looks as tall as possible because it today it does not look nearly
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as massive as it did when I was a kid when it kind of just stood out among the trees. And
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we don't have this photo with us, but I've seen a photo of No, actually it's not a photo. It's a postcard. It's postcard of the Jungle Cruise, and you
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can see them building the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse. That's a cool picture. That would be very cool. Uh future episode, huh?
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Always. Absolutely. All right. So, now we're going to do the the All of this is fun,
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but what's the next fun part? Oh, but we use the uh camera flash snap magic and we will see you on the inside
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and the outside of the treehouse. There we go. We have made the long track. We are now at the non-Swiss
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Family Robinson treehouse, the Adventureland Treehouse with uh Walt Disney's
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inspired by Walt Disney Swiss Family Robinson. Disney has a very unique way of coming up with long titles, don't
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they? Um, so we are going to I guess we could start with that first picture right now because we are in the
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right place. We're going to flip this around in a second, show you what we're seeing, and then show you how that picture is different. So, this will be
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fun. I think that kind of works. There we go. All right. This is actually about the
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right spot cuz there's the stairs. Stairs stairs. very different now.
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Much more uh ADA compliant and safe and uh
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planned out. It's interesting how these stairs went
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down more like out instead of around more a little bit more compact.
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Yeah. So that's the first one of this location
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also. So this is when we talk about the water wheel. Mhm. It may have moved a bit.
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Yeah, it did. Cuz look at how So, it's off to the left more,
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but that's also cuz the uh the little river is is smaller, too. And now it's
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just off the center of the uh of the tree itself.
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I will say this, I feel like they have cleaned out some trees around it because it does look more open than than
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previous years. All right. Do we have another one? We have another one in this same area,
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which this is this is actually negating what I just said about the wheel, right?
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Cuz the wheel wheel I'm going to back up just a little bit. There you go. We look
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up. I mean, obviously, we noticed the two pylons that were part of Tarzan's
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treehouse that are there now that weren't in the original picture.
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The old sign had the uh the little roof over it. But the new sign is very
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similar. Oh, dude. When you look at it stylistically,
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that is fascinating. Uh the the the decks or the uh
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the rails almost identical, right? In fact, there too.
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Like it's amazing how much this is structurally stayed the same.
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I guess the um when they added Tarzan's ship at the front, right, that that
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changed that significantly. And the crow's nest too wasn't there,
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but still very similar. One thing I don't have that I remember
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reading about. So, so they changed at some point from green
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to red leaves. So, this is an older photo. Yes. I was like, I actually remember
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seeing pictures of that now that you mention it. And mostly because the the green would fade and the red wouldn't fade as
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they can hold it together longer. And thankfully, uh, technology has improved through the years. Yeah. Right.
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Well, should we head in and take a look? Let's head in and see if we can find I'm tempted to just keep this running and let people see what we're seeing
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just because it's not every day we come here and maybe you don't get to come here every day as a viewer.
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And it's leg day. So, let's start walking. And it's leg day. So, you can hear us huffing and puffing up this uh wonderful
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however many stairs it is. Cuz I'm already lost count. That was nine. Okay, that was nine. But see, as we were
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talking about earlier, you have all these walls now and a ostrich
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and a studio. Do you take away steps through this?
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I don't know.
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Is this the back side of the water? Back side of waterfall.
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All right. So, our first room that we really need to go to is the
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Which one is it currently? Flocky.
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It is quite popular today. as is everything.
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I think clocky is counting steps. I hope
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was this one of them. This This would have been one of them. So, this would have been right here.
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Let these people go by. We'll move over here.
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from back in the day. Is this about the angle? I think so. So,
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you got this here and this is kind of the view today.
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They've obviously updated the organ and added musical instruments, all that jazz.
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What do we think? I think I think that would have been it. I think so, too. cuz this is all new for the tartan stuff,
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which is weird now having the flashbacks to my childhood of being up here and looking out the other way.
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That's really cool.
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Have you been counting the stairs? I lost count. Me, too.
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All right, this one's easy. But all right, here.
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There. Which this one has changed quite a bit.
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Go for it. And uh this has got a more mystical
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whatever feel you want to it. Should we walk around the corner?
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And uh this used to be a bedroom, right? Right. There's a bed right over there
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and then you could open up and look at the sky. Now there's uh
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fancy equipment in here.
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All right. Now we're going to go look out for fire ants apparently.
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So, my question for you, Clocky, did you have a favorite room
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when you were a kid walking up here? I mean, and why was it the brother's room? No.
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No, I mean, it it probably was cuz it just seemed like the most fun, the best lookout.
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Did they have hammocks back in the day? Do I remember that? I think it had hammocks.
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I mean, now we can look into outer space, right? Absolutely amazing. It is fun seeing how many people are having
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fun here today though, right? Because there was a while where I just didn't feel like people really came up here.
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It's also funny watching people going up the wrong way. Always. All right. Should we go look at the the
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final exit? The final exit. I'll follow you.
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And as this is our Thanksgiving episode, we should give thanks that from now on we're going downhill, right? Cuz
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downstairs are much nicer than going upstairs.
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We are on the
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very fun just as you go through here listening to the story being told as you see the different buildings. rooms,
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whatever this is up here, and then hearing the music, the sound effects,
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and then looking out and seeing the Mark Twain or the Columbia.
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It's a very unique experience that only could happen at Disneyland.
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One worth being thankful for. You can even look closely and see a uh
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temple rising in the jungle.
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Apparently the tea is ready. At least I think that's what that is.
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All right. So, where do we need to go for this one? I think we need to head towards the accessibility ramp.
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We almost need to like Oh, yeah. We can do that. Yeah. Yeah. You're you're right on that way
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cuz this would have been that. We're getting close.
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It would have been here.
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Maybe a little bit to our right. Let's go like Oh, it's two more steps backwards.
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Yeah. No. So, that bridge is basically where it used to be, right?
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There used to be more water. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how well
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these microphones do with this water, but uh it's amazing to me how similar that is.
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Obviously, the the staircase staircase came out
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further. Yeah. So, it would have been above us. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Or above or to the right
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possibly coming back around. Okay. So, this part might have I wonder if originally it actually came out over
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there like to the right more instead of the left. Oh, from Oh, from there. Yeah.
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Cuz you can see where those chairs were as we were coming down basically in the middle of the screen right now.
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That could have been a that could have been the turn and then come straight out and then that would make this picture work easier.
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I think I I think you're right. I think that was the old turn cuz that looks like it was something now
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that I'm looking for it. And if you know, let us know in the comments. We're
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looking at you, Doug. Uh, that's very cool. All right. Well, this
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has been our Thanksgiving episode. We hope you've enjoyed it. What should people do, Clacky? You should like,
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subscribe, comment where you can. Let us know if there's anything you want to see next. This is two in a row. All of
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November in the parks in the November in the parks with photos. Maybe this will become a thing, right?
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It's not going to become a thing next month because uh somebody isn't coming back doesn't like hanging out with us
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anymore. And we got we have a lot of Christmas to get through a lot of holidays. We might have a special episode coming
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up as well that hopefully you will enjoy. If you do enjoy these, also on top of everything that Clocky just said,
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please share this as well. the more people that hear it, the more people that'll have insight and knowledge that maybe we don't have or maybe even
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pictures that we don't have that you'd like us to to talk about and explore. And that just makes this that much more fun. But happy Thanksgiving everybody.
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We look forward to uh geeking out with you on our next episode of Photoics.
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Have a great one. See you next month.
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