The Nautilus Facilty - CLOSED - Compound Of Arthur Jones

0:28 welcome everyone I'm in Central Florida

0:28 today in a small town called Lake Helen

0:33 that's the water tower right there why

0:35 am I here you might be asking yourself

0:37 well this was the home of the beginning

0:40 of

0:41 Nautilus working out without a

0:45 barbell but what's left of the Nautilus

0:47 facility here in Lake Helen the original

0:50 1970s 1980 Nautilus facilities and the

0:55 home region of Arthur Jones join me

0:59 shall you

1:07 it's the ultimate American Dream story a

1:07 man begins with very little and creates

1:09 a multi-million doll company no barbells

1:19 needed a front view of one of the

1:19 buildings could have been one of the

1:21 offices for the Television Studios okay

1:24 Harry you want to bring it up on number

1:26 three I wonder if there's anything left

1:28 in there

1:30 and the equipment any Nautilus stuff

1:33 inside these

1:35 doorways inside

1:47 there here's some rubble and some debris

1:47 from an old

1:49 driveway some remnants back when this

1:52 place still existed back in its Heyday

1:54 lots of celebrities would come out here

1:56 from the bodybuilding world to check on

1:58 the property and see what was happening

2:01 here at Nautilus one of them you might

2:03 know as Anie anold Schwartz goes right

2:07 here on this property maybe even right

2:09 over I don't know why I'm trying to talk

2:10 like this right here behind this fence

2:13 was Arnold whoa what was that here you

2:16 can see some remnants some fencing

2:18 here's a hole in the fence

2:28 here palm tree Decor out here on the

2:28 property

2:30 these posts look like they were here for

2:32 decades imagine the amount of people

2:34 that were out here workers family

2:37 friends celebrities out here witnessing

2:40 the magic of Nautilus when it All Began

2:43 it all began right

2:44 here now it's all grown over with dead

2:47 weeds boards being yanked from the

2:49 inside tree stumps all kind of remnants

2:53 and goodness from the old Nautilus

2:57 property pretty cool

3:08 keep going keep going keep going that's

3:08 what you got to say to yourself just

3:09 keep going and you'll get in shape

3:12 fit we're walking up to one of the two

3:15 lakes that were on the property here if

3:17 you watch some old video footage on

3:19 YouTube you can actually find some 2020

3:21 interviews Nightline ABC NBC News a lot

3:24 of footage of Arthur Jones out here on

3:26 these Lakes just out here in this little

3:29 Lake look looking for Gators with sticks

3:32 G to poke my stick looking for a gator

3:35 is that a

3:37 gator gator in here Gator starting to

3:41 dry up grow over let's see what we can

3:44 find

4:10 he had a lot of snakes a lot of

4:10 alligators a lot of creatures of the

4:12 wild he was an animal lover and they all

4:15 resided around the lake not only on the

4:18 lake area but he also kept snakes and

4:21 alligators inside the Nautilus

4:23 facilities there's actually some stories

4:25 you can read online published back in

4:27 old newspapers about meetings he had

4:30 with Executives and he would let

4:32 unpoisoned snakes nonvenomous snakes go

4:36 free in the meetings just to scare the

4:38 living snot out of the executives in the

4:42 actual Nautilus buildings the guy was

4:44 crazy it's my money Roger I made it and

4:48 I'll spend it any way I

4:56 choose you'll see behind me that's the

4:56 original buildings for the Nautilus

4:58 facilities

5:00 I'm a naous truck they found over $1

5:04 million worth of video equipment in

5:06 there I'm the

5:08 cameraman little did he know in the

5:10 future we would be filming on a little

5:13 camera that I'm filming here that I you

5:15 get it any store you don't need a

5:17 million dollars to film all you need is

5:20 a credit

5:21 card this is one of the secret alleys

5:24 here between the two buildings Arthur

5:26 Jones was a smoker I wonder if this was

5:29 one of his secret smoking areas right in

5:32 here sh don't tell anybody he's smoking

5:35 drip hallway that's a word I just made

5:38 up this is where water flows from this

5:42 from upward to

5:44 downward come on

5:47 water it doesn't

5:57 work this area here is now used for

5:57 schooling but back in the day

6:00 people are being schooled in

6:02 Fitness no pain no gain

6:33 looks like one of the former Arthur

6:33 Jones wild animals is still ravaging the

6:36 property and look the wild animal left

6:39 is Tire

6:54 here this loading dock area definitely

6:54 is original back from the 70s and ' 80s

6:58 especially that metal rusted out fence

7:01 area there what the heck is

7:05 that so just imagine with me now he

7:07 would leave his home on this beautiful

7:09 Lake up this stairway right into there

7:13 into his offices to work some

7:21 magic now there's a dumpster out here

7:21 let's see what's in the oh my gosh look

7:23 at this what is this

7:38 I found a giant hamburger inside the

7:40 dumpster in fashionable with your

7:42 muscles and your body but also with your

7:44 diet get out of here hamburger get out

7:47 of here hamburger get out of here

7:49 hamburger go away who needs you

7:52 hamburger die die die

8:01 thanks for joining me today here at the

8:01 old Nautilus facility I wasn't really

8:03 sure what we would find when we got here

8:06 but I'm glad you joined me anyway also

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8:18 Channel thanks for watching I am

8:21 educated the fact that I didn't do it in

8:23 school is utterly

8:25 irrelevant could this be the region

8:27 where Nautilus once began

8:30 bingo

The Nautilus Facilty - CLOSED - Compound Of Arthur Jones

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