Clinch Park – Trains, boats, Zoo Animals and the little city

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Mike Del's World number four nineteen

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for 11/13/2025.

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I think it's time for Mike Del's World.

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There it is.

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Some people say that under that hat, Mike

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Dell has a chip in his head.

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Unfortunately,

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it's a Dorito.

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And I don't even like Doritos. Anyway, good

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morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever the case

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may be. Today, I'm gonna be talking about

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Clinch Park

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in Traverse City.

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And Clinch Park, I I I guess the

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definition

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isn't

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super,

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intuitive.

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I I guess that's the right way of

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putting it.

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But according to

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the Brave Browser

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search,

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Clinch Park is a public park located along

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West Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, offering

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a large beach, a splash pad, concessions,

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and access to the city's municipal

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marina.

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The park is traversed by the TART Trail.

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That's the Traverse Area Recreational

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Trail System,

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making it a popular destination for walking, biking,

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and waterfront viewing or

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year round.

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It also features a well maintained grounds, shaded

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public

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picnic areas, a clean restrooms, and a shallow

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swimming area suitable for children.

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Yeah. So, anyway, I'm not gonna go into

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the ratings of the park, but Clinch Park's

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always been kind of the focal point of

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downtown,

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waterfront

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area of Traverse City. It's on West Grand

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Traverse Bay.

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Of course, I said that in the beginning,

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but

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I remember it as the zoo.

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You know, when I was a kid, there

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was a zoo there.

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The Clinch Park

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Zoo,

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you know, had an aquarium,

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had, you know, animals

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pretty much just, you know, local to

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Michigan.

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They didn't have, you know, like elephants and

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monkeys and zebras and all that stuff. It

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was,

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you know, buffalo, deer,

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you know, different birds, different,

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you know, different rodents and whatnot that were

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local to Traverse City, but the zoo is

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always kind of the, you know, a cool

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place to go when we were little kids

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and,

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you know, even a little later on, it

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was it was quite

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interesting.

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But one of the things that the, you

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know, the the park

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started, like, in the early thirties or at

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least that's when

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things started happening there. I believe the zoo

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was started in 1930

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or so.

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I'm kinda looking through some of my factoids

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here,

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they

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also had a thing called the Miniature City,

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and that started in

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the early thirties, it says, but,

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it had the park place. And the park

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place was built in 1930.

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let's see. Where's the Miniature

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on my list of stuff? Yeah. The idea

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for the Miniature City, sometimes called the Mini

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City or Miniature Traverse City,

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was in the early

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nineteen thirties. It was largely driven by Con

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Foster,

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and he was a local

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booster and civic leader

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who wanted to create a distinctive attraction for

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Clinch Park, partly as a way of providing

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work during the Great Depression.

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And my piano teacher and

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and for a short time violin teacher,

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Mozelle Bennett Sawyer, and she was in her

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nineties when I, you know, when I was

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a kid in the seventies.

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But her father,

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actually built a lot of these miniature buildings.

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let's see. Construction

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began in 1931,

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city workers building

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scale replicas of downtown buildings.

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Many of the models were quite detailed,

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built from original blueprints

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of the full scale structures. The miniature city

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included around a 100 pieces

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buildings

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the source. Now

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the miniature city was there, I wanna say,

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into the eighties.

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I don't remember

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it when it let's see here. Let's,

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look a little more on my factoid sheet

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here.

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The original installation was near Clinch Park at

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the Southern shore off of Grand Traverse Bay.

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1953,

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when the Grandview Parkway opened, the mini city

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was moved to another section of the park

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to accommodate the new infrastructure. Yeah. Grandview Parkway,

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by the way, is a,

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divided

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boulevard, I guess, would be or a parkway.

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that that,

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that makes sense.

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kinda separates

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downtown

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from the waterfront.

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that way originally. It was all part of

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the thing, but,

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yeah, the Grandview Parkway now cuts through

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between,

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the Boardman River and downtown

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and and the waterfront.

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so, yeah, it was moved. The mini city

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ceased operations in 1973.

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Jeez. I think

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I think I've been there after that, but

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I don't know.

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Maybe it was that long ago because, yeah,

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it's been a

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long time.

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And after removal from Clinch Park, the collection

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of models was sold for or or transferred.

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In 1983,

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the city sold the collection to the Music

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House Museum in Acme. The Music House Museum,

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has some of the original buildings from the

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Mini City

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some are stored and, a few are displayed.

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I've been out to Music House in a

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while.

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But, for example, the original Saint Francis Church

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and the Pere Marquette Railroad Station models are

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are shown

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at the Music House Museum. You have to

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go out there. I haven't been out

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to Music House in quite a while.

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That's a whole another thing I could talk

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But anyway, it's it. That was kind of

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a neat thing. Another neat thing was a

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train,

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and the the train was a little miniature

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steam train.

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I guess I'm tied to it a little

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bit because I worked for

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a printing company here in Traverse City, and

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one of the magazines we printed was live

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and that's for,

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hobbyists that build

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real steam engines.

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And this train, I don't believe I don't

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believe I know when

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exactly the train

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built or put into

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use, but you could get a train ride

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around the Clinch Park Zoo. They had little

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miniature train tracks. I mean, not miniature. It

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was big enough for kids to ride on

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and even adults

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and like four or five cars and and

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all that stuff. And

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and it was really neat. You get a

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little thing. So, you know, some of the

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city employees

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train engineers.

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let's see. I'm trying to think I think

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I had this on my, on my sheet

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Anyway,

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no. Don't

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don't have that in there. I don't think

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but, anyway, the the train was pretty cool,

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and that was taken out,

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I believe, in 2007.

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brought out to the

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Steam Engine Showgrounds

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in Buckley, Michigan. They have a big steam

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engine show every year in the summer,

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and I guess you can still,

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ride on the,

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what used to be the city of Traverse

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City, I think was the name of the

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the train.

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Anyway, you can still ride on it out

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there at the, Buckley Steam Engine Grounds during

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the steam engine show

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every year. But, yeah, it was 2007

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when that was taken out.

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Clinch Park is also the, marina, the municipal

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So, you know, there's a lot of boat

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slips in there, plus there's some transient boat

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slips. So if you're cruising around the Great

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yacht or your,

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you know, sailboat or whatever,

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sometimes you can get a mooring there at,

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at the Clinch Park Marina,

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and you can get fuel and,

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you know, they have a clubhouse

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and, you know, we, those that live there

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or or not live there, but have a

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boat slip there, you know, also have access

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to power

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and and sewer and all that stuff that,

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you do at marinas.

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So it's and it's still a going thing.

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In fact, they expanded it not too many

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years ago and put up a new brake

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wall.

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But, yeah, a lot a lot of big

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yachts come in there.

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If they don't come in completely, they moor

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in the bay and

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and come in by dinghy.

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But again, you know, there was a zoo

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there. And then, you know, more more recently,

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they took out the zoo,

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and I believe that was also in

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2007.

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Let me,

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alright. So yeah, the

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1930s

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could try a small

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zoo and aquarium and other attractions.

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Let's see what else is in here for

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the zoo.

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There's a few.

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got taken out in 2007.

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I don't know what they did with all

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the animals. I can't imagine they just opened

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the cages and let them go, but

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you never know.

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But the zoo is no longer there and

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the aquarium is no longer there,

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But, what they did do is they put

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in a

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splash pad. What do they call it? The

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park's waterscape.

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And, you know, it's right on the beachfront,

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and it's it was just one of those

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concrete pads with water shooting up and kids

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run through it. Kind of like the sprinkler

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or whatever.

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The,

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kind of the the funny

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thing about the splash pad is they had

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a whole lot of issues.

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In July 2013, the splash pad had to

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be shut down after a sewer pump station

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failure

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caused sewage to back up into the underground

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reservoir feeding the water feature.

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Diversion

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The diversion system that was supposed to protect

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the facility failed

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and the construct or the

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contamination

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potentially

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exposed children to human waste. That's not great,

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but in 2014,

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they got it figured out, but

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they figured out that there was 18 major

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design flaws and construction flaws, and

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and, they did get that

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good, you know, they got that all set

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in early twenty sixteen, a settlement

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discussion

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around a lawsuit

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and all that. So and and there's a

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store here in Traverse City called Roy's General

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Store. I think I mentioned it before.

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And the sign lady puts out funny signs,

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and

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and I believe there was something in there

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about,

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if you need any plumbing parts such as

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to fix your splash pad, you know, come

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to Roy's or something like that. It was

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quite funny and made

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made the local news and a lot of

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social media around it, but that was back,

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like I said, 2013,

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2014,

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stuff like that. But

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but Clinch Park's still quite the thing. And

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now, you know, when they took

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they took out the, Morgan McCool plant there

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at,

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at that location

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and,

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came up with the open space. I guess

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that's part of the park.

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And then later on, they took down the

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coal fired electric plant and expanded the open

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space. So,

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you know, Clinch Park's quite

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a quite quite a thing and, you know,

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it's kind of fun to walk out on

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the break wall. You can

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you can go out there and

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check that out. Like I said, there's a

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boat launch

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there as well and parking for your boat.

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If you wanted to put your boat in

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the water there, you can.

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So it's kind of a a nice

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attraction.

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There's also a museum there. There was a

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museum there, the Con

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Foster Museum. You remember Con Foster from also

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pushing for the miniature city,

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but he had a a museum there. And

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that building,

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when it ceased to be a museum,

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turned into

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a

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little independent

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movie theater

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called the Bijou by the Bay,

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and that was all part of the Traverse

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City Film Festival,

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which is no longer.

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But,

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so now I just heard on the news

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tonight they're looking for a new use for

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the Kahn Foster

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Museum building,

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but that's right on the edge of the,

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what used to be the zoo

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at the park proper, and then it's between

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there and the beach.

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And there's also a tunnel that goes from,

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I don't I guess I don't remember exactly

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where it goes. I think there's like

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a bridge

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over the river and then there's a tunnel

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that goes under the parkway to get to

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the park and that's still a thing.

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And when I was a kid, we used

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to ride our bikes through there because the,

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Tarte Trail, the Bark Bike Trail,

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went through the tunnel.

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And,

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it was a, you know,

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a way safer way of going across the

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parkway to get to the beach.

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But, yeah, and I'm sure I'm missing all

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kinds of things about Clinch Park, but,

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it's,

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like I said, it's kind of the main

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waterfront

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in Traverse City and, you know, a lot

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of the municipal land and

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county land and everything runs all along

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that whole stretch of beach from what used

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to be the Holiday Inn, now called the

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Delamar Hotel on West Bay,

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and it goes all the way down to

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the intersection of M 22,

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M 72,

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and the Parkway.

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That whole stretch is public beach.

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And there's volleyball courts, there's, you know, swimming

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areas, and a lot of people, you know,

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in the summertime

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mow their boats right offshore along the beach.

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So there's usually a bunch of boats there

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in the summertime.

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It's,

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it's a very nice,

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nice little area, especially you don't be in

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right close to downtown like that.

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So it's easy walking distance for

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people visiting Traverse City.

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And those of us that live here, we

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sort of avoid it like the plague in

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the summer.

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Mostly. Mostly. It's also the best place to

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watch the air show for the Cherry Festival

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because center

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center of the air show box is there

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at the open space right next to Clinch

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Park Marina. So,

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if you can

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get yourself

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down there for the airshow, that's the best

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place to watch it.

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And with that, we'll call this a podcast.

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We'll catch you tomorrow. I'm not sure what

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I'm doing tomorrow, but I will do a

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podcast tomorrow.

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Catch me

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later.