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The Oldest City In America On Last Day Of Year - St Augustine Florida / Wax Museum & Old Jail Tour

Date: January 01, 2025 Duration: 40m 32s
St Augustine New Years Eve
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0:03 today's adventure begins right here at
0:03 The City Gate of St Augustine Florida as
0:07 the recording of this Tuesday December
0:09 31st
0:11 2024 also known as New Year's Eve the
0:16 last day the official final day of
0:20 2024 tomorrow is not only a new day but
0:24 also a new year welcome everyone Adam
0:29 the woo here the city Gates behind me St
0:31 Augustine I'm here for the day going to
0:34 explore around see some things drink
0:37 some coffee got my piping hot caffinated
0:40 beverage ready to go this will not be
0:41 the only coffee of the day I've kind of
0:43 noticed when it comes to localized
0:46 coffee places they never have anything
0:47 larger than a small but I like a large
0:49 coffee so I'm just going to do a little
0:52 little Coffee Day get as caffeinated as
0:55 humanly possible on the last day of the
0:57 year and go into go into the new year
1:01 full of caffeine I'm inviting you to
1:02 join me St Augustine a
1:05 haunted spooky very foggy last night
1:08 today it's overcast and rainy so it kind
1:10 of adds to the Ambiance City here in
1:12 Florida Town join
1:16 me shall you you got to start off with
1:18 walking directly through the old timey
1:21 Gates you just think about back in the
1:24 olden days everyone would walk through
1:26 here got a little oh they have a trolley
1:29 tour as well not sure if I'm going to do
1:32 a trolley tour but they do have a
1:33 trolley tour going by open at
1:37 1739 it was the only provided access
1:40 through a defense line okay that
1:41 explains it a little bit better also
1:44 past that construction over there is a
1:46 fort we go over there and check that out
1:47 also all right this building here is the
1:49 oldest Wooden Schoolhouse in the USA
1:53 located right here in St Augustine USA
1:55 of course spelled with the red white and
1:58 blue actually yeah red white and blue
2:00 the USA you got the looks like we have a
2:03 bell school
2:04 bell ringing right now and there's
2:06 someone up in the schoolhouse window the
2:09 oldest Schoolhouse in the USA that's
2:12 pretty dang
2:13 cool really when you think about it
2:15 think of all the school houses in
2:18 America this is the oldest freaking
2:21 one right let's see what this
2:23 says there's someone up in the window
2:25 look up there on the top of the
2:27 schoolhouse someone's up there looking
2:28 out saying Help
2:31 Me Maybe just getting their learning on
2:33 probably just getting their learning on
2:35 things are starting to open up out here
2:36 on this little Street kind of this area
2:38 kind of reminds me of Salem the street
2:41 in Salem kind of has that same Vibe
2:43 Essex Street I believe it is kind of
2:44 reminds me of that got this bag at that
2:46 coffee shop I've already down the first
2:48 one this is like me in the morning
2:49 drinking my drinking the cup of joe
2:52 right there this like goes right through
2:53 me very very quickly and I need another
2:55 one cuz that was that was not the
2:56 largest coffee I've ever had but it very
2:58 tasty City perks coffee ad mission to go
3:00 in the schoolhouse and to walk in the
3:02 courtyard $7.95 so $8 to get in you got
3:05 the bus back here this little section
3:08 around the back which is really neat
3:09 there's also this little says Cypress
3:13 clapboard I'm not sure exactly what that
3:15 is but on the side of the wall there's a
3:17 Cyprus
3:18 clapboard another bust over there school
3:21 bell got ouse back there and this is not
3:25 the backside of water but the backside
3:27 of the oldest schoolhouse in America in
3:30 the USA right here this is a little gift
3:33 shop next door that is not affiliated in
3:36 fact to purchase tickets you have to go
3:37 to the gift shop in this yellow building
3:38 to buy the tickets to go inside the old
3:40 schoolhouse have some
3:41 little figurines in here there's a boy
3:44 wearing a dunce cap I don't really think
3:46 you go to school these days if you
3:48 misbehave that the teacher will put a
3:49 dunce cap on you it probably be frowned
3:51 upon
3:52 but yep that's the duns cap and this say
3:55 press button count to 20 and watch
3:57 professor and Johnny come to life and
4:00 tell you about school life in the early
4:03 days there it goes well well good to see
4:07 you welcome to the old school and to the
4:10 mid
4:11 1800s I say that because this is how the
4:14 nation's oldest wooden school house
4:16 looked at that time and our clothing is
4:18 of that period we was dressed this way
4:20 in 1931 by graduates of the class of
4:24 1864 during the class reunion that's
4:27 right Johnny and they also decorated
4:29 this little School the way they
4:30 remembered it when they were here as a
4:33 matter of fact on the back wall there
4:35 are some photographs of the class taken
4:37 at that reunion and the class role the
4:41 school itself was built sometime before
4:43 1763 during the first Spanish period
4:46 very good Johnny the school is built of
4:48 Cypress and Cedar with handmade nails
4:50 and wooden pegs this is the oldest
4:53 wooden structure in St Augustine and it
4:56 has never been reconstructed the first
4:59 pupils Oran they came here to learn
5:01 English now we learn arithmetic and
5:04 other stuff as well as reading and
5:05 writing H some boys and girls learn
5:08 their arithmetic Johnny Johnny did not
5:11 do his homework he hasn't learned his
5:13 six times multiplication table and
5:15 that's why he's wearing the dun cap but
5:18 Professor I had to chop wood last night
5:20 to bring to school I see it cost 122
5:24 cents a day for us to get our learning
5:26 if our parents don't have money that
5:28 kind of arrangement Johnny a bar system
5:31 that's correct well you do know your
5:33 economics however you'll wear that dun
5:36 cap until you learn your six times table
5:39 boy at this school T fishing I making a
5:42 easy young man this is no laughing
5:45 matter hold your tongue or you know
5:47 where you'll go yes sir sorry sir
5:50 sometimes the children are unruly in
5:52 class then they must spend time under
5:54 the stairway there until they decide to
5:57 behave we call it the dungeon the stairs
6:00 themselves are too old and narrow to
6:02 allow visitors IM wearing a Dun cap than
6:05 also being put in a dungeon when you
6:07 misbehave live while I strive to educate
6:10 children my wife keeps busy with her
6:12 duties upstairs in our living quarters
6:15 or in the kitchen outside she also that
6:18 was that was in the window which we hope
6:20 you will visit well you can now consider
6:23 yourselves graduates of the old
6:25 schoolhouse be sure to pick up your
6:27 diploma as you leave can I get too
6:30 Professor I think you have a few years
6:32 of school left Johnny but perhaps you
6:35 can move up to work with the older more
6:37 advanc student soon and have your own
6:40 quill pen wow thank you for coming to
6:43 visit don't forget your diploma and
6:45 enjoy your stay in the nation's oldest
6:47 city bye thank you now when you step
6:51 outside so they did not cook indoors
6:53 there is a little grill out here but I
6:55 don't know if they use that back then
6:56 that might have been the well to be
6:58 honest that looks like a a well of some
7:00 sort the cooking was done outside the
7:03 building in another facility called the
7:05 kitchen which I showed which is made of
7:07 the same material the kitchen was not
7:09 used for a cafeteria it was
7:12 used I guess for the people who live
7:14 there the kitchen was not used for a
7:17 cafeteria for
7:19 modern in our modern schools the
7:21 teachers who taught the older school did
7:23 their own cooking in this building
7:24 that's what it was the teachers would
7:26 cook in here
7:29 and these don't have a story to tell but
7:32 they don't talk but they have the little
7:33 mannequins in here symbolizing what it
7:35 would have been like you got the fire
7:37 place over there you got the table got
7:39 them making the bread the food really
7:43 awesome the reason they made the kitchen
7:45 separate is in case there was a fire the
7:47 only thing that would be destroyed would
7:49 be the kitchen and not it's time to ring
7:52 that
8:00 Bell schools in session
8:00 get your learning
8:01 on little school dust here the privy
8:04 also known as the ous the necessary the
8:07 ouse different words before Plumbing
8:10 generally went indoors this building was
8:12 necessary part of everyday
8:13 lot adequate for most
8:17 homes you would sit your highe down on
8:19 there take care of
8:25 business and now that seems like such a
8:25 far-fetched idea but I've heard stories
8:27 of older people they would tell me that
8:29 they or their grandparents or parents
8:32 when they first got indoor plumbing
8:34 hearing stories that they knew people
8:36 that were older when they first remove
8:38 started not using ouses had indoor
8:40 plumbing and people would say why would
8:42 I want to smell up and use the bathroom
8:44 in my own home which really it kind of
8:47 makes sense I mean I it kind of does
8:49 make
8:50 sense leave the house and take care of
8:54 it outside I mean I don't want to do
8:56 that but I could see the philosophy when
8:58 it first started we used to First
8:59 started having indoor plumbing on why
9:01 why would you want to do that and
9:03 defecate inside so evidently these are
9:05 some of the teachers that taught
9:11 here I could be misinterpreting that
9:12 from what the ticket when I bought the
9:14 ticket in the inside said so this is
9:17 Jose
9:18 Marty educator writer poet Statesman
9:21 Maybe not maybe he wasn't I don't think
9:24 so I don't think that's I don't think
9:27 that's correct I don't think these were
9:29 the
9:31 teachers n this is a liberator of Peru
9:34 well worth the $8 admission I also got a
9:36 magnet some other souvenirs as well but
9:38 I also got my diploma the oldest Wooden
9:40 Schoolhouse Museum and Gardens in the
9:41 United States of America directed by the
9:44 Spanish occupation St Augustine Florida
9:46 this certifies that
9:48 I have graduated from inside the oldest
9:52 Schoolhouse in America thing about
9:54 taking a guided tour you get to learn a
9:56 lot but you don't really get to stop and
9:58 see a lot of things so going to walk
9:59 over to the wax museum now all right I
10:01 got to stop inside Potter's wax museum
10:03 now right here America's First Wax
10:05 Museum go look here's Lou Tad you always
10:07 think of Tad's wax museum so this is the
10:10 oldest active Wax Museum in
10:13 America and I end up signing up for the
10:16 tram tour which also includes a few
10:19 other attractions so I am going to jump
10:21 on the tram and go to some tram some tra
10:24 stops Pon Leon right here also got Pedro
10:27 Menendez
10:29 you have the oh you can even try on
10:31 props like some other wax me you can
10:33 wear this Conquistador
10:35 helmet if you so choose here's Chief
10:40 Oola right here got Martin Luther King
10:43 some of these some of these wax figures
10:44 I think they were saying were like 80 80
10:47 years old oh here's Will Rogers speaking
10:49 of Alaska when I was in Alaska in Barrow
10:53 when of the northernmost places in
10:54 America is well where Will Rogers plane
10:58 crash where Will Rogers passed away man
11:02 himself Samuel Clemens right here also
11:04 known as Mark Mark Twain I was born
11:09 modest fortunately or thankfully it wore
11:13 off my goodness there is Walt Disney
11:15 right there with Steamboat Willie in his
11:17 pocket visit to wax museum you will
11:21 Albert Einstein right here doing a
11:23 little bit of thinking I have cannot
11:24 make heads or tails of the little
11:26 mathematical equation he has over there
11:28 there's also so Galileo over here in the
11:31 corner right here looking up at the
11:32 stars doing a little he's got his
11:34 telescope down here a little astronomy
11:37 trying to figure out
11:39 space like you can see he's looking deep
11:42 intently look into his eyes he's looking
11:44 up there at outer space this is God
11:48 walked into this is that's a that's a
11:49 nightmare on El Street quote we got the
11:51 creature for the Black Lagoon over here
11:54 you also got some Pirates over in this
11:55 area this is like the haunted area you
11:58 got Frankenstein monster I'll call him
12:00 Frankie right here in this little chair
12:02 yes Hitchcock death mask would be proud
12:06 so also it's a price right there
12:08 castanza got
12:10 Kramer right here I think that's
12:13 Kramer walk down to a spot that included
12:16 with the trolley tour that I
12:18 got was like a grouping of three
12:21 different attractions old
12:24 jail stuff walk down there oh look at
12:26 that there's even a train tour that goes
12:28 through here right right past the old
12:31 Gates oh there used to be a drawbridge
12:33 according to that person driving yellow
12:35 fever epidemic of 1821 Halfacre plot was
12:38 set
12:40 aside Pioneers to the Florida territory
12:42 are buried here made a public expense
12:45 went unmarked presan church has owned
12:47 and maintained this property since
12:50 1832 right next to the Fountain of Youth
12:52 which is two blocks that
12:55 way is the old
12:58 jail but also the oldest
13:07 store I don't know what that guy was
13:07 saying but he was saying something
13:08 through his helmet and it sounded very
13:14 muffled there it is right there the
13:14 Fountain of you drink from this water
13:15 you will lose a few years of your life
13:18 and you become a lot younger right here
13:19 the Fountain of Youth Pon Leon's world
13:21 famous Fountain of Youth right here this
13:24 is it my foot is going to my foot is
13:27 going to lose a couple years get young
13:29 the store
13:31 Museum you got this old piece of farm
13:34 equipment right here little
13:36 Machinery the old experience Museum not
13:38 only is a regular store but also an
13:41 experience a complete experience also
13:44 got some wax figures out here got
13:46 Grandma knitting her sweater there got
13:48 the gentleman playing the guitar and you
13:50 got another guy with a little bucket
13:52 style cap smoking a corn cob
13:56 pipe it's how it was done back in the
13:58 day you don't see people smoking corn
14:00 cob pipes too much anymore so the
14:02 trolley drops off here too opted to walk
14:04 down here and I'm going to take the
14:06 trolley this is the number one stopping
14:08 point and the last place I want to go to
14:10 is the number 15 stopping point so
14:13 walked quite a bit of a ways from where
14:14 it just was definitely stretch the legs
14:16 and going to take the trolley back this
14:19 is a cracker horse cracker
14:22 horses brought to the mainland here in
14:29 1521 animal
14:29 right we also have guys
14:31 cocacola that's right next to the
14:34 Welch's grape juice you do you kids see
14:36 that little bottle of coke Coca-Cola
14:39 right there right there there you go you
14:41 see that that bottle of coke is a 3
14:44 cents it's 25% pure cocaine the
14:48 ingredi it is 1908 there is no no um
14:53 yeah there was there's no
14:56 regulation okay so um it really
14:59 advertising Wild West you need a
15:02 biscuit all right now I'm glad you're
15:06 over there because when we go to the
15:08 warehouse you're going to look over here
15:09 and you're going to see Mr cheum he's
15:11 our accountant but what I really want
15:14 you to look at here is that is actually
15:16 our roll top desk that is our actual
15:18 typewriter that is our actual Ledger uh
15:22 from our accounting office those are all
15:23 the real deal and then we're you're
15:25 going to see Sam the butcher when you
15:27 walk in so come on in guys
15:33 there you go that's Sam you can see how
15:33 much things cost if you want to oh yeah
15:35 spring chicken 7 hey folks we got some
15:38 smoked hams for y'all
15:40 today they come from Jacksonville and
15:42 the only 7 cents a pound it's a price
15:45 you won't find anywhere but H we got
15:48 need to set this chair is Avail wow
15:52 power gas don't go power so you're going
15:55 to put your clothes and everything in
15:57 this tub you're going to want fix this
15:59 on here now you're going to put your
16:01 goat on this
16:03 treadmill you're going to put a little
16:05 harness on the goat little harness
16:07 really cute um the reason why you're
16:09 putting a harness on him is because you
16:11 don't want him to reach his incentive
16:14 which is going to be molasses with some
16:16 meal and some cheesecloth oh a lot
16:18 louder he's DEA go
16:20 ahead say it
16:23 again
16:25 okay High wheel bices excuse me darling
16:29 but High wheel bicycles were all the
16:31 range in 19 awes these things were so
16:34 popular look at this thing that Mr um
16:38 Flagler opened up a bicycle Academy just
16:41 to facilitate the demand for the look at
16:44 this thing it's huge this is actually
16:46 called a safety bike what the heck is
16:48 think about this
16:50 right okay ladies and gentlemen let me
16:52 present to you the portable Pantry this
16:55 thing fits very snugly on the back of
16:58 your Buckboard Your Wagon with the horse
17:01 your horse and Your
17:10 Wagon washing oh my gosh these bubbles
17:10 just came out of here bubbles just came
17:12 out of these washing machines right
17:13 there really good tour she was awesome
17:15 here's a cigar store Indian I always
17:17 like a good cigar store Indian I always
17:18 think of jimly at Disneyland which is
17:21 also a cigar store Indian they going to
17:24 make our way over the old jail
17:28 oh my goodness got a escaped inmate here
17:32 have you escaped oh no what's called a
17:35 trustee a trustee okay a know
17:38 violent offend okay fair enough thank
17:42 you Sheriff Joe Perry right
17:47 here this is our first share our best
17:50 share the man the this is the man who
17:53 put a in law and order the man who put
17:57 sting in s
17:59 Austine our Sheriff Mr Joseph
18:04 Perry hey yeah I don't get I don't blame
18:07 you it's just a statue that's true you
18:10 guys want to hear a joke though I told
18:12 you I like the
18:13 joke what did the two shotgun shil say
18:17 when they got
18:19 married let's go make some
18:22 BB's gosh oh hey yeah that's a life-size
18:27 statue this man stands 6'6 350 lb that's
18:33 a man you don't want to mess with sister
18:35 if he gives you deci side ey you'll find
18:39 yourself in his
18:40 playground hey how you
18:47 doing you know about his playground no
18:47 otherwise known as the attitude
18:51 Readjustment you may find yourself in
18:54 the stalks that's
18:56 Stockade being there for an hour maybe a
19:00 day straighten your head up not your
19:03 back oh and if you'reall real ruian you
19:07 may find yourself in the world I said it
19:10 world famous bird
19:13 king what kind of a bird do you get out
19:15 of
19:16 jail hey yeah you know the first thing
19:20 they tell you in jail each and every war
19:23 of you guys are going to get a a
19:26 mattress filled with
19:29 Spanish moss oh she knows mattresses
19:32 full with Spanish see uh Spanish moss is
19:35 famous for red bugs chiggers mats so
19:39 when you go to bed tonight you're not
19:40 going to be lonely oh and if you guys
19:43 think you're going to be on the pretty
19:45 side jaale here forget that no no no you
19:48 guys are going to be over there behind
19:49 them bars and if you think you see glass
19:54 behind them bar give me a sip what of
19:57 your drink
19:59 this what's called an open air jail
20:02 tonight when it's raining it's going to
20:03 be cold and rainy air in there oh and
20:08 tonight you're going to be visited I'm
20:10 picking on you a lot yeah you're going
20:13 to be visited by the official Florida
20:19 nightbird mosquito Charlie's a local man
20:23 went into town why because there's a man
20:26 that was talking sass up about his wife
20:31 mostly
20:32 true anyway they went into a bar decided
20:35 to have a little conversation you know
20:37 I'm talking about conversation right yes
20:40 sir yeah well in the State of Florida if
20:43 you kill a man congratulations State of
20:46 Florida is going to kill you the word
20:48 went out everywhere from Jacksonville to
20:49 poac right here where you standing over
20:52 300 men as far as the sheriff's
20:54 concerned he just sees 300 votes today
20:57 we're going to have Justice so he tells
20:59 his Deputy go inside there that's death
21:01 row right there go get
21:03 Charlie Charlie was
21:06 unconscious and that's when the sheriff
21:09 completely went off the rails you see
21:12 there's a rule in Florida if you cannot
21:15 stand the man up put his heading that
21:18 noose can't hang
21:20 him did I forget to mention the sheriff
21:22 is 6'6 350 lb and there 300 votes forget
21:29 he goes in there grabs old Charlie pal
21:31 unconscious drags him out grabs a couple
21:34 of these big boards stands him up stiff
21:37 as a
21:37 board no he's not going to be bored to
21:42 death goes and drags him up there puts
21:46 his head in that noose pulls that
21:48 trigger you guessed it with the extra
21:50 weight of those boyss you know the sharp
21:51 edges instead of a man hanging there
21:54 Charlie pal bounced out into the crow
21:58 the doctor goes up to him Sheriff this
22:01 man's neck is broken but he's still
22:05 breathing that's when the sheriff
22:07 completely went
22:09 nuts yeah he he down to his Deputy go
22:12 get another rope Deputy yells
22:15 back
22:18 what
22:20 no no sir the act of God Clause you know
22:25 it I know it everybody here knows it for
22:28 God God's sake Sheriff this is a free
22:31 man a free man you're going to get
22:35 another rope or else I'm going to throw
22:37 you in jail for obstruction and Justice
22:40 he's going to hang that man twice and
22:43 throw his Deputy in jail well on the
22:46 time it took for them to get a new rope
22:47 for old Charlie yeah he died sorry
22:50 Charlie ladies how would you like to see
22:53 your
22:54 bedrooms not kind of people oh uh ladies
22:58 you might think I was being rude I
23:01 wasn't being rude these are the
23:02 conditions of this jail but don't worry
23:04 this jewelry is not it's it's clashes it
23:08 clashes this jewelry is for you you
23:12 forget about that just you yeah you see
23:16 uh you guys are fresh meat which means
23:18 you're going to get the worst job in
23:20 this entire
23:21 jail CH gang
23:39 yourself talk to
23:39 you do what I did find yourself a corner
23:43 that way you you know where to do your
23:46 business you don't want to sleep in your
23:48 own business do you sorry about
23:52 that lot of disease yellow fever
23:56 tuberculosis so please I am inviting you
23:59 to touch with your eyes not your hands
24:20 me that's it kids to come to the United
24:20 States of America came from Scotland
24:23 Yard that's over in London England
24:25 there's one just like it in New York
24:27 City another one in building in
24:29 Washington DC it's called the
24:31 Smithsonian and that one you see right
24:33 in front of you oh and a sheriff's hey
24:37 this is what the sheriff's real proud of
24:38 this that there is an alete Al excuse me
24:44 alet number nine typewriter you're
24:47 saying Big W a
24:49 typewriter a typewriter 1908 is like a
24:52 year
24:53 salary uh this is how us old folks text
25:00 and this typewriter not one like it has
25:03 killed eight
25:07 people every Florida hanging death
25:12 warrant was created on that typ this
25:27 way yes it's a battleship inside of a
25:27 building
25:29 this is general population uh this is
25:31 where you're going to be tonight yeah oh
25:34 and I know what you're thinking you're
25:37 thinking hey Clarence T has anybody ever
25:40 escaped from this jail you know the best
25:43 way for me to answer something like
25:50 no no one has and no one ever will
25:52 escape from this jail let me give you an
25:54 idea this jail was Lot years ahead of
25:56 its time 1891 the the floor solid
25:59 concrete and steel keep going it's 4T
26:04 thick the walls are 2 ft thick and have
26:07 extra steel get used to Steel cuz you're
26:10 going to be surrounded top bottom and
26:12 all sides by half in
26:15 steel this is notary steel this is
26:19 called Low carbon steel the same steel
26:23 they make battleships
26:26 out when Mr Flagler buys himself a jail
26:31 he buys the best this year jail was
26:33 built and designed by the Paul Le jail
26:35 Manufacturing Company of St Louis
26:39 Mis in fact the poly system this is the
26:43 oldest standing in the United States is
26:46 still used today in every jail in the
26:48 United States in fact this jail was so
26:51 far ahead of its time they used it as a
26:54 blueprint for another jail they're going
26:56 to build in California
26:58 Al
27:04 Ela remember that bucket
27:04 business they Ed the bucket for
27:07 sanitation every day oh that means pee
27:10 and
27:11 poop every day from the first day in
27:14 1891 and every single day to the day
27:17 they were forced to close this
27:20 jail for cruel inhumane
27:24 conditions
27:29 1953 oh don't get me wrong with all the
27:29 protests and demonstrations they did
27:32 Plum one
27:34 cell one in the back they put in two
27:37 toilets in a shower lasted a month well
27:41 with the dietary habit of 72 men on
27:43 beans that plumbing was doing that one
27:46 you're going to be in big trouble so
27:47 make sure you get
27:48 one yeah oh in fact I'd like to invite
27:51 you to go into one of the deputies sleep
27:53 or the sheriff's sleep or if you're rest
27:55 more of that execution stuff there's
27:56 graphic stuff in the do he real so it's
27:59 PG oh and ma'am you think your sale is
28:02 small go in the
28:05 men's get turn around I'm not kidding 6
28:08 to8 men oh and ma'am
28:12 ma'am this poll is not for
28:16 entertainment folks have yourself a
28:19 great day my name's CL you are
28:25 free if you have any questions I'll be
28:25 right here thank you thank you small
28:28 children you want
28:34 traum a great
28:37 guy pretty interesting that this was
28:39 used as a template for
28:42 alcatra you kind of really looks like it
28:45 look at it from that front angle
29:23 here wow oh wow look at this oh this is
29:23 cool
29:36 oh this is great little wax figures here
29:36 gu holding a
29:40 rat awesome that was amazing I got my
29:43 official and lawful pardon sheet right
29:46 here that was that was amazing that
29:47 guide was great here on site is another
29:49 little Museum which has some wax figures
29:51 and things it's called like the history
29:52 museum where you can walk through time
29:54 another attraction going first people
29:57 here with their
29:59 accommodations got the Arro
30:02 heads got this turkey flying through the
30:05 air got the canoe Cared by the Indians
30:08 there you got the fch
30:10 roof early Florida na
30:17 natives stepping into some the Spanish
30:17 period with some Pirates a cool little
30:19 pirate ship in here this little replica
30:21 pirate ship right here kind of all
30:24 busted and broken up you got the Cannons
30:27 down here you got some gold seashells
30:29 down
30:38 below got the colonial era here in St
30:38 Augustine looks like you have a horse
30:41 here there's a pirate here here's the
30:44 city Gates I started the day at Circa
30:47 1880s this is how the city Gates look
30:49 behind this horse here you got this
30:53 pirate with his sword and the lantern he
30:57 train going around the top of the tracks
30:59 the top portion I'm not seeing one down
31:01 the okay yeah you can push here to do
31:05 trolley okay you got the steamboat over
31:08 here got the
31:11 steamboat that's cool is that train
31:13 again about ready to go over the bridge
31:15 by the
31:16 fort see you lat what's going to happen
31:18 hits the end oh it
31:20 stops okay it stops at the end that's it
31:23 end of the
31:24 road it's always fun going through these
31:26 old western style saloon doors here at
31:29 the exit this has like some interesting
31:31 little cat artwork fish artwork I'm
31:34 going to push my way through and did a
31:36 little clanking of the sounds the
31:38 clothes behind me got some more little
31:41 mannequins here showing the homesteads
31:44 hanging the clothes up on the tree and
31:46 their old classic car alert here 40
31:49 minutes roughly depending on
31:52 traffic there's 22 different stops you
31:55 can hop on and hop off at any one of the
31:58 22
32:05 stops now as we're going here you'll see
32:05 to your right that portable convict
32:08 manly car it's some metal that's where
32:11 Sheriff Perry put you it's over to your
32:13 right here that's where Sheriff Perry
32:16 put you if he had no more room in the
32:18 jail that's behind us an 8T tall weighs
32:21 more than a
32:23 ton that is where Pedro Menendez landed
32:28 here on September 8th
32:32 1565 that was on an Easter
32:39 Sunday he was given three the base was
32:39 lightly
32:41 guarded so he asked the soldiers after
32:43 he took over that base Hey where's all
32:47 the French at where is everybody coffee
32:49 of the day much needed it's going to be
32:51 here at St Augustine Coffee
32:54 House Augustine Coffee House
32:58 second cup of J if I if I had I got
33:02 a very busy here in St Augustine today
33:06 last day of the
33:08 year walking by the fort
33:38 it always amazes me these places that
33:38 are now kind of you know just tourist
33:40 attractions everyone up top taking
33:42 selfies getting photos of the
33:45 water you just think of like the history
33:47 of people that were here before like for
33:49 example this wall right here was used as
33:53 a backdrop for the demise of many many
33:55 people who stood here
33:59 and their life ended in an
34:01 instant just an instant with
34:09 the firing Squadron
34:09 there and they were standing against
34:11 here you could even see holes in the
34:16 wall hundreds and hundreds of holes in
34:19 the wall still
34:21 here and those people in no way shape or
34:25 form
34:26 thought that
34:29 multiple years later people would be
34:31 standing here this would be viewed as a
34:34 tourist
34:35 attraction always fascinated by that
34:38 aspect of things what we're doing now
34:40 what happens to us and where we
34:43 are different Generations look at it as
34:47 not only historical but also look at it
34:49 it serves a different purpose and as
34:51 long as you don't think
34:53 about what
34:55 happened at a spot how those people felt
34:58 at those
35:22 wow the discovery of Florida Pon Leon
35:22 Juan H Leon landed near the
35:25 spot 1513
35:28 so somewhere near this very
35:30 spot Mr
35:32 delion Juan
35:40 Pon who was shown here a little homage
35:40 he's pointing that
35:47 direction near this spot not at this
35:47 spot but near this
35:49 spot 1513 pretty
35:53 awesome pretty cool he is from a
35:56 distance pointing Maybe maybe he's
35:57 pointing towards the spot which I think
35:59 is closer to the Fountain of Youth which
36:00 is the direction he's pointing to be
36:02 honest I don't know exactly where he
36:03 landed
36:04 but nonetheless this is the cross
36:07 streets it's out a it over to the one
36:10 only oldest house as shown by the sign
36:15 here and this little
36:17 marker the walls of this authentic
36:20 example of early Spanish Colonial
36:22 home were built soon after the town was
36:25 burned during 17702
36:28 changes and
36:29 additions per generation reflects the
36:32 city's history architecture intercage
36:34 continuous occupancy of the site
36:36 European since the early
36:39 1600s the oldest
36:55 house the Gonzalez Alvarez house more
36:55 than three centuries this site has been
36:56 occupied by St August
36:58 St
36:59 augustinians beginning in
37:05 1650 the oldest House Museum and Gardens
37:05 is open till 5:00 every day 10:00 a.m.
37:08 to 5: and this is quite the fire alarm
37:10 right
37:18 here I'm wondering if it'ss open today
37:18 here on this holiday though this stinks
37:20 it's after 2:00 it's 3:00 right now on
37:22 New Year's Eve they have closed up GNA
37:26 head out so that the
37:28 employees can do their thing but man I
37:31 was kind of disappointed I wanted to
37:33 tour the grounds in fact paid Tram Tour
37:38 I paid to do this should have probably
37:40 checked the hours s Trum B
37:44 moment don't don't pay for admission to
37:47 something if you're not going to check
37:48 the hours that my bad very quaint little
37:51 area down here this is the street it's
37:53 on here's another old home not
37:56 designated the oldest house oh hear a
37:59 train in the
38:01 distance very old area St Augustine the
38:05 oldest
38:18 trolley wonder if people are going to
38:18 get off here thinking that they could go
38:20 in the oldest house but it's a holiday
38:22 thing is no one's going to get off the
38:23 tram because it's closed so the tram is
38:26 completely full
38:28 there's the oldest
38:43 house one person got a full tra back to
38:43 the mar I got make a right turn but I
38:46 can't go right I go
38:49 left
38:50 VI well CR
39:16 be St Augustine seaw
39:19 wall doing a little construction on this
39:22 building however there's a pirate ship
39:25 right over there
39:32 that someone canoeing by going canoeing
39:32 plaza building was built in
39:34 1888 a surprise store quote the largest
39:38 and leading department store on
39:39 Florida's East Coast became the Plaza
39:42 Hotel in
39:44 1934 it used to be Potter's wax museum
39:47 the wax museum I was at earlier was
39:49 originally in here up until 1986
39:52 interesting very interesting those wax
39:54 figures are like 80 years old over at po
39:57 used to be in here it's very
40:00 interesting very very
40:15 interesting this building here was the
40:15 governor's house at one time in fact it
40:17 still says Governor's house Cultural
40:21 Center do love this little road though
40:24 this little thin Thorofare Road leading
40:26 to the