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Okay, cool. Cool. Yeah, I, Danielle and I was talking yesterday. I have a passion of history anyhow, you all know that. And I know a lot about my little area here, you know, the county and the city and the buildings, except my dad, my grandfather was into. So that big Baker Hotel, tell you a little, tell you a few stories about it. You might, the way that you like to write and everything, you might want to look it up. Oh gosh. So, first off, my great, let me see, great, great, great grandfather. I'd have to look it up on the genealogy thing. Anyhow, he is one of the bricklayers on that. So he worked laying brick on there. And my grandfather and grandmother both worked in there. My grandfather was a bale hop. My grandmother was a waitress. Bonnie and Clyde stayed there, as did Judy Garland. There's a picture, three are pictures, I mean, the whole town has pictures of all this stuff. Judy Garland stayed there. It was a favorite place of a few presidents, believe it or not. It was a popping place back in the day. The 30s and the 40s, and I would say probably part of the 50s, man, it was a place to be. They had old time radio shows. You can find them on YouTube and stuff. We had two big hotels. The Crazy Water Hotel, I think it's six or seven stories tall. The first two iterations of the Crazy Water Hotel burnt. And so the one that we have now is actually the third iteration of the Crazy Water Hotel. Let's see, the Baker Hotel is 14 stories tall, but they don't count the 13th story. My grandmother's cousin was a bale hop, and him and a boy decided to race through the top. One was going to take the stairs, and one was going to take the elevators. Back in those days, the elevators, well, the elevators are still the same. I'll try to get pictures of those next time I go there. But they just had that little gate that you close, and it's not like modern elevators, right? Well, apparently my grandmother's cousin, and you can look it up, it's validated, he didn't make it. He only made it about halfway on the elevator before it went up to the next floor. You can imagine what happened to the middle of his body. Let's see, oh, Mr. Baker's mistress was so distraught over the fact, I think, that he decided not to leave his wife. She flung herself off the balcony. That's just a few of the stories I can make off the top of my head. And that's just one building. I mean, we got a lot of buildings out here. So yeah, I have a pretty cool little town. It was world famous for its crazy water, mineral water. We still sell it. You can buy it. You can order it. It's pretty cool. KJ5ILQ.