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san Francisco in a party mood. Everybody is out on the street, you can hear people yelling from up here on the roof in Sherman house and we understand that traffic is beginning to pick up on the Golden Gate Bridge where Doug Murphy has been standing by

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since very early this morning and doug. What's the situation right now is getting ready for the fireworks show? Well, Wendy, we understand the traffic is building up at the ends of the bridge, but on the bridge it's moving just fine. This is a shot of some

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of the people who are lining up, even the workmen, you can see him down there in anticipation of the fireworks. A little girl came up to me a couple of minutes ago and she said, make the fireworks start now. That's about how we feel. David Wendy

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back to you. This is jim. But up in the chopper, we're going to take a look at some some of the first traffic problems we've had in since the well we've been up here for 15 hours now. So let's take a look outside here. What you're

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looking at is the Waldo grade heading toward the Golden Gate bridge. There's the Golden Gate bridge in the upper right hand corner of your screen. We are looking at a three mile backup and it is building rapidly as people are trying to come in for the

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last minute to make the fireworks display. It's gonna be a problem because these people are being turned off at the alexander drive exit ramp. They're winding up going across the bridge and doubtless they will wind up heading either to Lombard or the Doyle drive somewhere down

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in san Francisco and there's not much place for them to go when they get down there. So traffic is beginning to build and the problems that we anticipated earlier today are beginning to come to light. Let's go down on the bay now and find out how

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things are with Mike. Hagen is mike Yeah, jimmy. The, the boat situation down here on the bay is about the same as it was our last report. There are not that many boats out here getting ready for the fireworks. The boats that are here however, are

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the most important ones, those are the fireworks barges. Now there are six of them. There will be three lined up which you can't see over my shoulder but take my word for it. There are three lined up in front of chrissy field. There are two more

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down by the Golden Gate Bridge and then a special one off to the one side towards the north tower. They will all be at one time or another throughout the evening, simultaneously firing between 10 and 20,000 fireworks shells, not to mention this fantastic 4200 ft waterfall

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that will cascade down off the lower deck of the, of the Golden Gate Bridge itself. Now, in case you missed the fireworks or in case you want a little sneak preview, we've got one for you. Everybody else may have trucks and busses and bridges, but maybe

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we've got the fireworks that are yet to be seen. Are these wonderful fireworks. Here's a little preview of the Golden Gate Bridge fireworks. And there's the grand finale. You heard it here first on board the Jacqueline out of marina Bay and Richmond folks. Now Mac and

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Wendy back to you. Well, we'll have the real thing for you shortly. $400,000 worth of fireworks. One of the biggest shows ever and one of the most dramatic and innovative shows ever. And we're just a moment or two away from Tony Bennett who's going to sing

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his signature song. I left my heart in san Francisco. He's just about at that point in the program, down on chrissy field. The, you know, Tony Bennett Is the best singer in the business. You know, who said that Frank Sinatra. You peek? I read that some

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place he did. He said it. And the son of a grocer from Astoria Queens, Antonio Benedetto grew up singing and drawing pictures. He said that his scuffling years began to end in 1949 when he auditioned for a review, Pearl bailey was in at the old Greenwich

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village in bob Hope hurt him in the show and asked him to come up and sing at the paramount theater and he said he didn't like the name. He said, I think we'll call you Tony Bennett and the rest as they say is history. There's the

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bandshell on crissy field in the crowd watching the san Francisco symphony. And here comes Tony Bennett. Mhm I left my heart. Mm hmm. In san Francisco on a hill. It calls to me. Mm hmm. To where? Little cable cars. Mm hmm. I'm halfway to the stars

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in the morning. May chill there. I don't care. My love waits san Francisco up above the blue And when they see when I come home to you Francisco, the golden sun will yeah me. Mhm, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They're

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calling for more, but there's not going to be more from Tony Bennett. There are now about to go into the grand finale which should be quite a show in itself. That's right. We're expecting carol channing to come on stage as well as the star of beach

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blanket. Babylon Parks Parks and also 42 kids who are members of the event of the year. We don't know about Karen parks. He may wear one of those beach blanket, Babylon hats. If the wind isn't too strong. So you'll know how windy it is down there

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by whether or not you see the big hat on Karen as she comes in san Francisco. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm France san Francisco. The place is only make me love you tell me you're

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the heart of all the golden san Francisco. Mhm. What a hat. What a song. And what a city. We will be right back with the fireworks extravaganza in a minute. No, well we thought we were going to have just about a minute before

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the big fireworks show. Now we find out it's going to be more than any minute. It'll be several minutes. A little bit of a delay. Yes, we just got word from the command post. This is a very technical and complex system of firing off the fireworks

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when they call the people that do it. Yes, the boomers, the boomers are in position on six barges on the bay and they'll be booming in just a moment. But while we're waiting for the boom and by the way you'll you'll hear the countdown, they're going

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to be for the 50th birthday. There's a big drum down there and they're going to beat on the drum 50 times and that will trigger the salute. Yes, but before we do that. What do you think Jim bun, is that where we're going? Jim bunning the

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helicopter check checking in with Mr bun and chopper five to see how things are up there. The traffic getting thicker and thicker as we get closer to the fireworks, Jim you bet Dave what you're looking at right here is a wall of traffic now, this is

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traffic heading southbound from marin across the Golden Gate bridge again in the upper right hand corner. That line. Just jogging to the right that is the Golden Gate bridge and cars are beginning to stop on the bridge even as we speak here. Cars trying to get

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on the bridge from the north heading south are not going to be able to do that. Most of them are lined up trying to get to that first exit ramp and that exit ramp has been closed has been closed for quite a number of hours. Now

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the traffic backup is at least a good 3, 3.5, maybe even four miles. It's building quite quickly as you might expect. Traffic northbound on the bridge, northbound on the bridge is also beginning to slow up as people try to anticipate their position on the bridge and

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frankly, I think most of them are just going to win the day as they actually are stopping on the bridge. Now I'm getting word from one of our crews down on the bridge so everybody's getting ready. Things are going to grind to a halt here as

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everybody is in position wherever they are. This is where they're going to wind up for the fireworks tonight. Mac and Wendy back to you once they start it's instant gridlock. The same thing that happened november 15th at the Bay Bridge celebration while we wait for that

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palpitating moment as they call it. When the fireworks show starts, we're going to take a break. We'll be right back here we are back at Sherman house. Just seconds away from the fireworks show. Now we're told the golden Dream, the biggest firework show the west coast

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has ever seen twice. As big as one for the bay bridge here. You can see the pictures right now of the city as it gets ready for the big show. And while this isn't as larger expensive as the Liberty Weekend fireworks show, the show is more

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dramatic in his presentation and review here. We're just eight seconds away. The countdown continues for three. He's doing it perfectly too. And here we go. Yeah. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Mhm, mm hmm. Right.

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Yeah. Mm hmm, wow. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mm hmm. All right, mm hmm, mm hmm. The Golden Dream. A dream of bridges between lands and between people. This is the story of the dream and of the men who created

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it. Mhm, mm hmm. The year is 1776. While a new nation is being forged. The little village of El Para de Yerba Buena is founded near a beautiful day in the West by a group of Mexican settlers.

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Years later, U. S Army captain john c Fremont describes the bay as the Golden gate and the name catches on. Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm mm hmm mm hmm. It seems the tiny bay town of San Francisco might remain that way forever. But

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then one quiet day in 1848 there comes a discovery that will change the city faster than anyone can know one. Simple discovery gold. Yeah. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Thanks. Mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. San

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Francisco is transformed into a boom town. Mark Twain becomes the first of many celebrities to fall hopelessly in love with the city California is the land where Aladdin's lamp lies buried. San Francisco shall summon the genie in the lamp and command its treasures. Still the coldest

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winter I ever spent was a summer in san Francisco. Yeah. Right, mm hmm. As the population grows, people devised new ways to get in and out of the city and to conquer the hilly terrain, the ferryboats, the railways, the majestic clipper ships and the world famous

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cable cards. They bring the people together in this city on the move, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm, mm hmm. Okay, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. It comes without warning. On the morning

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of April 18, 1906, the great earthquake touches off a fire that levels the city. It is a nightmare come to life, mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, mm hmm. Mhm mm hmm, mm hmm, mm hmm. But from the

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ashes, the city rises again. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. One in the years that followed, san Francisco emerges as a city of individuals with a legion of lifestyles and interests, interests that are reflected in the music that drives the city. All

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right, paul. Horn, mm hmm mm hmm, mm hmm mm hmm. If you Francisco, it's your favorite radio station and your favorite radio city, the city by

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the bay. The city that rocks the city never sleeps. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Many people, many nationalities. In 1945, the leaders of the world chose to meet in San Francisco to draft the charter for the United Nations soon after Osaka. Japan

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was selected as the first of several sister cities tonight as a salute to their sister bridge, the Golden Gate. Many of the people of Japan have joined in donating a special collection of fireworks with our thanks to them. We now honor the thousands who have come

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from all over the globe to make san Francisco their home. Mm hmm mm hmm. Mhm. Okay, mm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm mm hmm. Yeah. Thank you. Mm hmm, mm hmm. All right. Mhm,

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mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yes, mm hmm, mm hmm. Okay, mm hmm. Yeah, mm hmm mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Okay, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.

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hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Thanks. Okay. Mhm, mm hmm. Yes. And now ladies and gentlemen to light the Golden gate bridge, please welcome the mayor of san Francisco, the honorable Dianne Feinstein beauty grace dignity. Those were the qualities joseph Strauss and his

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colleagues found in the people of the san Francisco bay area. And they included those qualities in their designs to build a span across the bridge. They envisioned a suspension bridge that would be lighted at night. A gateway to welcome home all who saw In 1933 there

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was nothing across that expanse and the task before them must have seemed nearly impossible. But a diverse family of tireless and talented laborers gathered here and the work began. Now please welcome some members of that family. The original men who actually built the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Yeah. Also with them are people who have helped make this moment possible. Our thanks go to gym bronc um of the friends of the Golden Gate Bridge and charlotte mayor who put on this wonderful extravaganza. Right Yeah. To Gary Giacomini, the president of the Golden Gate

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Bridge and Highway and Transportation district to Richard Clark the Ceo of PG and E, whose firm gave one half the money to light the bridge. We're delighted all of these men and women could be with us tonight. The construction of the bridge proceeded at a remarkable

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rate. But when the project was nearly complete, death struck twice, 11 builders of the bridge were lost in a pair of tragic accidents. Please rise and join me and the members of the original construction crew in paying tribute to their friends who died half a century

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ago. They gave their all, none could give more beauty, grace, dignity. That was their final gift to us. What more fitting way do we have to honor those people living and dead Than to complete the task. They began 50 years ago to create, create

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a living monument that would be beautiful both by day and by night for them and for the generations to come let the golden gate bridge light the way home. Okay. Right, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm Right, mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm.

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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Mhm, mm hmm. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm. Mhm. Building bridges between people. That is the golden dream tonight. The dream lives on. Mm

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hmm. Thanks. Right, thank you. Yeah. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mm hmm. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.

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Mm hmm. Yeah. Right. Thank you. Mhm, mm hmm. Thanks. Mhm. Yeah. Mm hmm, wow. Yeah, that's it. A pyrotechnic phantasmagoria breathtaking. We'll be right back to the misters are you well they're chanting and still reacting to the fireworks show. The lights are on the

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bridge is glowing and so are the people, they're going crazy all around the bay and we have a couple of special guests with us who have just been watching the show and have dropped by Bill Cosby, star of television author. You probably recognize him right away.

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Yes. And enjoying the bridge and this is the size of Wendy's and you have a very special person here. The owner or the manager of this is just a beautiful, beautiful oh, I loved it. It was just spectacular. I've not seen better every Bastille day. My

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wife and I are in France and they tried to shoot off stuff, but this was the best I've ever seen in. Congratulations! I think anyone coming to san Francisco has always had a special part and a special feeling about the bridge and san Francisco itself in

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your heart for a long time. It's been a long way from the hungry. I haven't oh, the hungry. I hope they don't like that up tonight. Movies going just fine in the city of Oakland. Berkeley san Francisco. No, it's not a spoof at all. It's just

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funny. You're going to love it. You're gonna be proud. We did it here and right now we're going to go up to David Jackson and we were, he has been watching this firework display from the top of the south tower. He's not there anymore. I saw

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him, he blew away and let's find out if he is Bill David Dave. Yeah, I'm here. I almost blew away in that. Not quite. It was really a thunderous thunderous display as you heard down there in that last round that took place on the barges right

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off the bridge towers. Here was just well, it was magnificent. It was powerful and it was fitting for such a wonderful structure as the golden gate Bridge. One thing we wanted to mention to you might not be able to see this down at Crissy field with

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the lighting that is coming up from the ground here on the tower itself. We can take a look up here in the fog. It doubles the size of this bridge. It is so beautiful because you can see the bridge reflected up off the fog here and

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it's just such a stunning, spectacular sight. Needless to say the bridge was effectively closed during the fireworks display. No traffic moving and everybody just crammed along the railings and looking at what was certainly the most wonderful fireworks that any of us have ever seen in a

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wonderful, wonderful fitting birthday. As I say, for the Golden Gate Bridge, privileged to be reporting live on the south tower. I'm David Jackson. Now. David Wendy back to you. Well, you know, here we are. Let me grab a couple of people here. This is quite an

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awesome display. Was that the most spectacular fireworks and celebration you've ever seen. Yeah, The most spectacular. Are you from the bay Area? I was born here in san Francisco. Do you know how you're getting home? No, not yet. We're going to walk a while and then

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we'll see what happens. I finally have some space. This is great. I can go anywhere I want and it's the first time in the whole day. Does anybody here know how they're going to get home. I don't think so. I don't think so at all. Let's

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go to Doug McConnell and see how he's doing. Well, john blue, we've been having a great time up here. How was the reaction of marin headlands? This is really great. They were mellow over here in America, but this is really exciting folks in stinson Beach. What

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did you think was terrific, joe! You've been here long, spectacular, spectacular Nicholas McConnell. You're right down here. Did you like it? Alright. Listen, Mike will be back at the 100th anniversary. 50 years from now. Mike Hagen as hell wasn't on the boat. Yeah. Yes, we're here

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on the Jacqueline. You guys may think you have the best seat, but we were right underneath those things. I can still feel the concussion in my chest. It was fun being on the bay and being this close to the fireworks. A reaction minds well, what's yours?

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It was amazing. Made all the braving the winds and the weather well worthwhile. Would you come back? Let's say another 50 years from now and watch them do it again. I'm still around. I'd be happy to be still around you. Bet you come back and I'll

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come back. How about you? Absolutely spectacular. Wonderful, wonderful emotional experience. A beautiful advantage point on the Jacqueline. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. And speaking of gorgeous. Now we'll go to Mac and Wendy at the Sherman house gorgeous and cold. We will have a cheering section for Bill

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Cosby up on the roof over here. They've gone crazy, Bill! It's a carry over from the bridge and on the bridges Doug Murphy has been there since dawn. In fact, before dawn. Let's go out to murph and see the reaction there. We thought it was gone

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again. The way those lights was beautiful. These guys have one thing to say. Everybody here loved it. It was like the bridge was on fire. It was gorgeous, matt back to you all right now all day long. This has been a party that just wouldn't quit

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and it's not stopping stopping now just because the fireworks are over from sunup to sundown. The people around san Francisco Bay have shown that they can celebrate with the best of them. And if you have any doubt about that, let's take another look Here it comes.

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Yeah. Mm hmm. Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah. My love Witch. No san Francisco above the blue. And when they see when I come home to you. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mm hmm. At

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the moment we're going to light the candles and blow out the candles. But in this wind it's just too windy today. You need a blowtorch to keep them going. Get the idea. It's been a spectacular birthday party for the Golden Gate Bridge. Its 50th. We've had

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a delightful time. We're delighted to have you here? The city is having a great time. Everybody's having a great time. Are you ready to cut the cake? This is it the man who let us use his neck all this day And we thank you for that

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here at Sherman house, A truly beautiful hotel is going to do the honors. We'll cut the cake and away we go And we want to thank all of you for joining the celebration. Remember to drive safely and we'll see you right back here at 11:00, my

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son. Yes, I believe it. So. That's the kind you get homemade. It's got stick to everybody. Goodnight. See you on nightcap. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Golden Gate Bridge. Happy birthday. Do you know what A night? Mm hmm, mm hmm,

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mm hmm. Mhm. Right, mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Building bridges between people that is the golden dream tonight. The dream lives on. Mm hmm. Okay. Mhm. Yes. Mhm. Right. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.

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hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Right. Mhm