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Whats Inside St Louis Gateway Arch ? I Went To The Top

Date: April 10, 2018 Duration: 12m 21s
Day number 10 of my Route 66 road trip . Today I went to the vacuum museum , lots of wonderful roadside things and ended up at the St Louis arch . Heck yea ! Help Fuel The Woo http://www.patreon.com/adamthewoo https://shop.spreadshirt.com/AdamTheWoo Follow my Route 66 journey Day 1 - https://youtu.be/u8ALrsPAdo4 Day 2 - https://youtu.be/-0xxiWMdgiI Day 3 - https://youtu.be/3DZNW02vmeY Day 4 - https://youtu.be/CUWTKsLDvlg Day 5 - https://youtu.be/WUj33SIlt0I Day 6 - https://youtu.be/q6A4NYF2e_o Day 7 - https://youtu.be/6fw46xSZRnA Day 8 - https://youtu.be/Nhx751NOD3g Day 9 - https://youtu.be/poWPG4tGFJk
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0:11 welcome everyone Adam Zulu here with
0:11 Jacob sick carpetbagger gay number of
0:16 our route 66 adventure coming to you
0:20 from the starting point of Devil's elbow
0:23 bridge Missouri join me at the base of
0:32 this tree is a full cart installation by
0:35 the name of Trail of Tears and off to
0:40 the left to your screen is a statue a
0:43 self-portrait of the former owner who
0:45 passed away a few years ago by the name
0:48 of Larry Baggett sign states no
0:51 trespassing I will abide by the rules
0:53 even though technically this place was
0:56 abandoned for a long time it's currently
0:58 under renovation to reopen on site is a
1:01 wishing well some very beautiful ornate
1:05 rock work be interesting to stop back by
1:08 in the future when it reopens maybe one
1:12 day I'll see you again his whole body is
1:15 plaster except his feet the boots are
1:19 real but for now gotta be moving on take
1:23 a look at this guy he's waving an
1:27 amazing piece of roadside signage even
1:32 has a pipe in his mouth his arms used to
1:35 spin around rapidly but it's no longer
1:37 working nonetheless he's very patriotic
1:41 got the American flag embedded in his
1:44 hand never in my life did I think I
1:47 would ever be visiting a vacuum-cleaner
1:50 museum
2:01 a lot of these do look like the
2:01 traditional style but then some of them
2:04 are very futuristic for the time period
2:09 the Electrolux this one down here
2:13 resembles like a crock pot on wheels
2:17 check out that old blender I am a vacuum
2:22 I am a it looks like a robot does not
2:26 8-track cassette and shag carpeting
2:30 could only mean one thing the 1970s and
2:34 this is what they were utilizing in that
2:37 era the 1930s if you were to have one of
2:40 these current day you could almost put
2:44 it together with your steampunk costume
2:46 it would you could clean your house as a
2:50 steampunk
2:50 thanks for getting sucked in oh you're
2:54 welcome
2:55 right around the corner should be oh yes
3:00 it does exist the massive rocking chair
3:06 of 66
3:24 leaving almost like an oasis a virtual
3:24 oasis of classic signage wait for it be
3:31 patient wait for it wait for it wait for
3:34 it
3:44 Bob's Gasoline Alley a treasure trove of
3:44 roadside relics and donkeys how you guys
3:49 do it you scratch it you scratching your
3:52 head I'm not so hidden Mickey and Pluto
3:55 over there is this usable see what's
4:00 inside huh oh my gosh just get up out of
4:11 it win at driving your tents win at
4:17 driving your your tit huh do you
4:22 understand that there are some problems
4:24 with that sentence well President Nixon
4:27 it's been fun but gotta hit the old
4:30 trail see you next time it's bit what
4:33 wait a second see putti approaching what
4:37 looks to be guess it's a roadside
4:41 attraction some teepees here yeah some
4:44 teepees
5:16 very strict no filming policy indoors
5:16 they did allow some pictures from
5:18 outside but once we set foot inside the
5:22 gift shop no cameras allowed huge chunks
5:26 of rocks to the left Park train to the
5:30 right and some grain silos straight
5:34 ahead that's it the st. Louis Gateway
5:38 Arch gonna cross something off my bucket
5:42 list today I'm about to go up inside
5:47 that ever since I was a kid I wondered
5:51 what it would be like to go up way up
5:54 there inside this iconic structure it is
6:05 happening good oh man that's up there
6:05 you have to go underground before you
6:08 can get on the elevator to take you to
6:10 all the way the tip-top
6:30 the answer is
6:30 we are basically two full stories under
6:33 the surface of the earth we have to wait
6:37 for we have to wait for everyone else to
6:40 exit and then we're going to make way
6:43 into our pod
6:49 go again
6:49 we're going in
7:08 there's no Larry oh we're moving we're
7:08 moving it might be hard to gauge it from
7:10 the video but this thing is shifting to
7:12 and fro and down here are the old stairs
7:15 before they have the elevator system you
7:18 just have to walk up to the top this is
7:20 quite quite an experience what the heck
7:24 whatever you do don't look
7:28 taou rapidly increasing speed we're
7:34 going slow at first and our like we're
7:36 really moving kicking it into high gear
7:40 as we go up we're not going straight up
7:42 we're going like up and they kind of had
7:44 an ankle it's kind of awkward sensation
7:47 a normal elevator goes completely
7:49 90-degree angles straight up this is
7:52 going like kind of perpendicular in a
7:54 way
8:02 something out of the Twilight but swear
8:02 looking like this thing is like this
8:04 little pod like we're the space pod
8:07 hey shiftable you doing all right back
8:10 to bed correct just - it fro
8:12 doesn't stay level they're just kind of
8:15 like I can't even know how to school
8:17 feel that yes
8:21 it's like being on the end of a gimbal
8:22 yeah oh we've stopped stopped what
8:26 shifted it shifts it now what now what
8:29 now what now what now what oh there we
8:31 go over again oh come to the top of the
8:34 Gateway cars everyone please watch their
8:36 step addressed the turning concert
8:37 headed up the stairs they are unevenly
8:39 faced when you get to the top please
8:41 continue past the first four windows so
8:43 that everyone else does B we thought
8:44 that he hasn't theirs as well oh my gosh
8:46 we made it we made it we made it
8:50 let's take a peek let's take yeah you
8:54 totally can't look at this you can see
8:56 everything from up here
8:58 the thing that's slightly terrifying is
9:00 I'm standing pretty much on a stable
9:02 platform when you lean over you're
9:04 actually dangling over the edge to get a
9:07 bird's-eye view
9:09 Oh like I kept my stomach is like Hall
9:14 that's scary
9:17 630 feet above the ground
9:28 oh I'm just noticing there is a step up
9:28 so you put a foot here you put another
9:31 foot here and that gives you the angle
9:34 to basically look down and if you really
9:38 pay attention you can see the pillar
9:41 look that's how far I'm hanging up
9:44 that's the that's the archway itself I'm
9:47 standing in the archway but I'm looking
9:50 at the archway this is a
9:53 kind of scary moseying back down to our
9:56 station they told us to wait at number
9:59 eight which is at the very bottom we'll
10:02 take the elevator back down or as I am
10:06 now gonna refer to it as the wonkavator
10:10 I knew I shouldn't have drank that fizzy
10:12 lifting drink Grampa Joe help me grab
10:16 Joe
10:35 just simply look around that's enough
10:35 I should also mention there's no air
10:37 conditioning in this heart it's just
10:39 slightly just a little bit on the toasty
10:42 side open cool air oh heck yeah I did it
10:48 I stood right up there just to give some
10:54 perspective the Washington Monument is
10:57 555 feet tall Mount Rushmore 465 and
11:04 towering above them is the arch it's big
11:10 it even has its own root beer
11:14 nice or take-home a miniaturised version
11:17 I don't think it has the same the same
11:20 effect however that's yes not not as
11:25 impressive as I think about what I've
11:26 done outdoors looking upward can barely
11:32 see barely you have to have a keen eye
11:35 to see the windows that I was perching
11:38 out of oh man that was an experienced
11:42 one I'm very glad to have done that's
11:46 gonna do it for today if you have not
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