TDW 1699 - Stomping Grounds of Al Capone

0:03 starting my third and final day here in

0:03 Hot Springs

0:04 Arkansas it's going to be a good one

0:07 welcome everyone Adam the woo here now I

0:14 cannot that's what happens when you try

0:14 to speak before

0:17 coffee oh that's good warm but good it's

0:21 my second channel daily Vlog channel

0:23 it's disregard what I was trying to say

0:24 earlier the daily W I wanted to check

0:27 out this place called Tiny Town Depot

0:30 they're not open this time of year

0:33 however that's slightly unfortunate and

0:35 also for whatever reason the alligator

0:38 farm is also still closed today so I

0:41 must save those destinations for another

0:44 time but thankfully there are a plethora

0:47 of other wonderful

0:49 things to see I briefly showed this

0:52 location in yesterday's Vlog and a few

0:54 people commented saying the name of this

0:57 hotel was The Majestic

1:00 so I think I need to get a little bit

1:03 more intimate view with this piece of

1:06 Hot Springs history it was one of the

1:08 first brick buildings built in town way

1:12 back in the day trolley cars would take

1:14 the guests from the lobby down to the

1:17 bathouses it's a very large property I

1:21 imagine in its Heyday it really was

1:25 something to see and there are still a

1:28 few remains included

1:31 this walkway I like the fact that even

1:33 though the bulldozers have taken their

1:35 toll there still are some

1:39 remnants of the past the old Greenhouse

1:43 is still here

1:46 and the metal

1:48 stairway

1:50 railings leading

2:10 dilapidated lighting and telephone

2:10 poles strewn all along the back of the

2:14 premises you can see what's left of the

2:16 different levels of the hotel and over

2:20 here sitting against the wall are two

2:25 old soda bottles

2:28 cocacola and I can't make out the other

2:31 one but they're just hanging out there

2:34 reminding us of what once was I just

2:36 learned right down Whittington Avenue

2:39 Straight Ahead used to be an ostrich

2:42 farm and they would have ostrich

2:45 races if I rode an ostrich it would

2:48 probably Peck my eyes out those things

2:49 do not like me there is an auditorium

2:52 and

2:54 Curiosity Museum I do love these type of

2:56 places let's check it out this is an old

2:59 magician prop where you stand

3:02 up and then your torso your middle

3:05 section is slid over that part of the

3:08 wooden box is removed I never could

3:12 figure out how they did that now this is

3:14 what I'm talking about these items are

3:18 slightly

3:20 mindblowing the man fish and above him

3:24 is

3:25 TomTom the two-headed turtle and

3:30 Marina a Fiji mermaid that's a human

3:35 femur bone used as a smoking device in

3:39 Tibet that's freaking weird I'm sure a

3:42 lot of us are familiar with Marie from

3:44 Louisiana who was really into Voodoo but

3:48 I've never seen a voodoo doll with that

3:52 many pins in it before holy cow

3:56 literally hundreds of Nails in his body

4:00 these are items from the collection of

4:02 the great grandson of Edgar Alano's

4:05 friend Mr Moss that is his ink well an

4:09 ink

4:11 pen that is rather mindblowing he used

4:15 that to write some of his famous stories

4:18 Harry Houdini was one of if not the most

4:22 famous magician of all time and this box

4:27 was something he treasured highly he was

4:29 given to him as a gift it was donated by

4:32 a relative of Houdini himself this hand

4:36 is the mummified remains of a pirate

4:39 named Ben Quinn who as The Story Goes

4:42 had it cut off by Blackbeard the Pirates

4:46 because he stole a ring Ripley's used to

4:49 own this artifact but got rid of it and

4:52 now it's here there are still a very

4:54 slim handful that remain but way back in

4:57 the day circuses would have some

4:59 something called a freak Show and they

5:01 would promote them by banners like this

5:05 and I personally on a number of

5:07 occasions have seen a man and a woman

5:10 drill a nail into their nostril with a

5:14 hammer it's quite the experience some

5:16 creepy head plasters up top but look

5:19 down below on the shelves there are

5:24 animals in mason jars

5:28 snakes why did it have to be snakes it's

5:32 stated that this was a prop From Dawn of

5:34 the Dead one of the zombies I don't

5:36 think it was the remero version I think

5:39 it was the Remake but right there it

5:41 states it directly below a huge Clinton

5:47 coin the gentleman pictured in the frame

5:50 there his name was meu you might know

5:52 him from the character of Alf and he

5:55 toured with Ringling Brothers for a very

5:58 long time when he was younger

6:00 unfortunately passed away about a year

6:02 or two ago but I had the pleasure of

6:04 meeting him on several occasions when I

6:06 was living in Los Angeles in 1954 this

6:09 cat named Felix was lost 3 years later

6:13 his family found him mummified from the

6:17 cold and they knew it was him because he

6:19 still had his tag around his neck the

6:22 question is are we watching them or are

6:27 they watching us it's interesting how

6:30 toys from horror films are scary even on

6:35 their own when they're not in the movie

6:37 Just looming behind a piece of glass

6:40 this building formerly was an old

6:44 Mortuary and the interesting fact is

6:46 this window that leads to the alleyway

6:50 outside you could drive your car

6:53 Outdoors peer through the window and pay

6:57 your respects to the Dead

7:00 who were propped

7:01 up right here you didn't even have to

7:05 get out of your car to say your goodbyes

7:10 I stand corrected it was pre-

7:13 automobiles it was back in the horse and

7:16 carriage days just imagine that

7:24 though very bizarre I've been to quite a

7:24 few of those places in my day some are

7:26 good some not so good that one was

7:29 awesome I learned yesterday that Al

7:31 Capone himself would stay at this hotel

7:35 let's see what's inside the stage is

7:37 very

7:39 festooned with

7:45 foliage pretty cool in here kind of

7:46 reminds you a little bit of The Shining

7:48 doesn't it oh if Blood starts pouring

7:50 out of those things I'm going to run for

7:52 my life if you want you can get yourself

7:54 a piping warm glass of water from the

7:58 fountain

8:09 good going up to the fourth floor we're

8:09 going to see the room that Capone stayed

8:12 in there it is they even have a placard

8:17 on the

8:28 door what the heck was that noise

8:28 they're doing some construction up here

8:30 and this wasn't his room but that's

8:33 basically what the rooms look like

8:35 that's the type of room he would have

8:37 stayed in and he had access to the bath

8:40 house whenever he wanted he could just

8:42 hop in do a little relaxing in a warm

8:47 Hot Springs tub that reminds me of Tower

8:51 of

9:01 Terror going down

9:01 for the price tag of $390 a night you

9:04 could lay your head in the room where

9:06 Capone did be cool to do it one night if

9:09 you got a group of people feel like a

9:11 gangster and giving us a little theming

9:13 the Ohio Club next to the plaza hotel

9:15 has placed a vintage vehicle just like

9:19 it was back in those days very

9:28 cool you're riding in style you're

9:28 behind the wheel of this bad boy it's

9:30 Arkansas's oldest bar inside these walls

9:34 the likes of May West Babe Ruth Al

9:37 Capone Lucky Luciano Bugsy seagull oie

9:40 Madden Tony Bennett Sammy Davis Jr hung

9:45 out Decay is headed your way that's what

9:48 it looked like back in its Heyday a real

9:52 swinging place I like the vibe in here

9:54 in fact I'm going to get some lunch and

9:56 eat eat next to this dude I don't know

9:59 why do you have to hold a gun I just

10:01 want to eat wow check this out this

10:03 stick this club belonged to him himself

10:07 taken from his hotel suite in Illinois

10:10 in 1926 we all behind that F panel wall

10:14 so this is one of the one of the old

10:15 casinos yeah from our the Ohio Club One

10:19 the original Ohio Club roulette Tes you

10:22 spinning it it spin slowly yeah that's

10:24 pretty awesome though but it still spin

10:26 I mean that's pretty cool I was reading

10:28 here about out the back of the bar which

10:31 was made in

10:33 1870 and brought in by barge from

10:36 Cincinnati and it's so old before

10:38 electricity you could see the holes in

10:40 it where the gas lamps used to hang up

10:43 top where I'm sitting was the old

10:45 original casino and you would walk down

10:48 the

10:48 stairs grab yourself an adult beverage

10:52 and I'm certain plenty of other adult

10:54 activities went on here as well I have

10:57 ordered the Reuben sandwich

10:59 and I was talking to the server and I

11:02 also was incorrect about where the

11:03 casino was the casino was up this

11:06 stairwell directly above my head and

11:10 there's a Tommy gun mounted on the wall

11:13 above that light there's a couple things

11:15 hanging in the restroom this

11:18 license and a photograph of Bill Clinton

11:22 I talked to a few people and dug a

11:24 little deeper and the top two floors

11:26 were the casino this is also the same

11:28 stretch of road where Bugsy seagull

11:31 learned about gambling before he went

11:33 out to Las Vegas and started that Empire

11:36 unlike how Vegas's current day gambling

11:40 here was illegal and eventually shut

11:42 down you ever see movies where someone

11:44 goes up to the door knocks on it and a

11:47 Gentleman will open up a slot ask for

11:49 the password and if you know it will let

11:51 you in that's how it was here that's how

11:54 you got up to the second floor

11:56 Casino I found this pretty obscure your

11:59 parking area at the edge of town plenty

12:02 of room for Large Marge and I didn't

12:05 have to pay a parking fee I'm really

12:08 glad I stuck around for a while

12:10 originally I planned on being here one

12:12 day was going to just pass through but

12:15 stayed three days all together and I

12:17 learned a lot about a place I had never

12:19 been before and that is what life is all

12:22 about exploring things learning things

12:25 documenting

12:27 things it's a good way to live in my

12:30 opinion I'll see you guys tomorrow

12:32 Moving on but where will I be where will

12:36 I be tomorrow it won't be Hot Springs

12:39 Arkansas I assure you but where will it

12:43 be I'll see you then Vlog over

TDW 1699 - Stomping Grounds of Al Capone

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