1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 Start shooting 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,040 That's the sound of 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:11,100 Being mountain and ready Mountain Dew livewire. Oh, that's what you have. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's a shame that 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:13,500 It's orange 5 00:00:13,500 --> 00:00:17,720 What it's orange. It's an orange soda. Oh, well, that's gross 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,780 Wait don't look okay, are we gonna do some type of intro? 7 00:00:26,780 --> 00:00:28,780 Hi everyone 8 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:34,780 I'm Emily and I'm Vince and as you may guess this is the lighthouse lowdown 9 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:46,780 It's just gonna be Africa forever 10 00:00:48,780 --> 00:00:52,780 Unless you want to learn the tone that is our podcast intro 11 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:56,340 I will but it won't be intentional. It'll just be pretty 12 00:00:57,780 --> 00:00:59,780 I'll do it with spite 13 00:01:00,780 --> 00:01:02,780 You sip my diet DP 14 00:01:02,780 --> 00:01:04,780 so 15 00:01:05,780 --> 00:01:07,780 DDP I 16 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:14,260 Am NOT the host today. I am the co-host which I guess is always true, but I know it's 75% 17 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:19,540 False, what do we call it when I'm not hosting or when you're not host like what are you the host today? 18 00:01:19,540 --> 00:01:24,420 This is your episode. Yeah, Emily's episode today. I'm talking right now 19 00:01:24,420 --> 00:01:30,100 It's only it's more of like a special occasion whenever you do the opener and since I write 20 00:01:30,940 --> 00:01:32,300 the 21 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:38,020 You know the descriptions of the episode. I should be sure to mention that it's you it's a special occasion 22 00:01:38,020 --> 00:01:45,100 So it's not really that you're no, I say you're hosting. Yeah, so I'm the host for this and I'm the co-host or the secondary 23 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:48,620 tertiary the commentator junior host other host 24 00:01:49,260 --> 00:01:54,300 But I just alainia's it's Thursday. It's after work. So we got some sodas in us 25 00:01:54,300 --> 00:02:02,460 Yeah, as the Midwestern or sometimes say I've actually never heard that except for you. Sody. Oh, it's like I think I got it from some 26 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:04,420 like 27 00:02:04,420 --> 00:02:09,780 My 600 pound life or whatever. Oh, yeah, these two girls. Yeah, it's um thousand pound sisters 28 00:02:09,780 --> 00:02:14,380 Yeah, but there's one there's one clip that I've because I've never seen the show. Yeah one clip that was like 29 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:18,780 Our mama told us growing up that you know 30 00:02:18,780 --> 00:02:24,500 You eat a sugar and then you drink a diet sody and they cancel each other out and they're telling this to a doctor 31 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,500 He's like that is 32 00:02:26,540 --> 00:02:31,380 Inaccurate so maybe it's she I can't remember but the doctor is like that's not science 33 00:02:31,380 --> 00:02:34,380 I don't know who told you that but you're a thousand pounds. Yeah 34 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:39,580 I wouldn't trust it. It's not working so far, but so 35 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:45,140 But yeah, I just want to say it's Thursday after work got our sodis. It's snowing outside. Yeah 36 00:02:45,860 --> 00:02:51,140 Finally have some snow. We have a sponsor for today's podcast. We talked about later, but there's a lot of special things happening 37 00:02:51,140 --> 00:02:54,500 So I'm excited for this one. Hell. Yeah. Yeah 38 00:02:55,540 --> 00:02:58,980 So I'm just gonna jump in I'm gonna start with the history buoy which is a 39 00:02:58,980 --> 00:03:07,540 Promise in our last episode is on foghorns for those that don't know foghorns or fog signals are a sound warning 40 00:03:07,820 --> 00:03:12,500 to alert other people to danger I would say like marine 41 00:03:13,620 --> 00:03:17,620 You know voyagers. Yeah sailors, etc. Yeah 42 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:22,940 But it's also true for rail like railways trains and stuff really 43 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:28,100 Those are technically fog fog well, well they sorry they are used foghorns 44 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:33,340 It's not like a train horn is a foghorn, but it uses the same. Okay steam whistle. Yeah 45 00:03:34,060 --> 00:03:37,500 What I've heard on a train, but I get it's the well a lot of foghorn. Okay 46 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:40,060 Well, it's a good way to get into it 47 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:43,580 historically fog signals were whistles or 48 00:03:44,220 --> 00:03:45,420 gongs 49 00:03:45,420 --> 00:03:47,060 That people would strike or 50 00:03:47,060 --> 00:03:53,980 Blow later on with compressed air small cannons were sometimes fired as the warning 51 00:03:54,540 --> 00:03:56,540 But of course cannons were not 52 00:03:56,860 --> 00:04:01,620 Cannons had to be manually filled and fired by the keeper each time it needed to go off 53 00:04:01,620 --> 00:04:06,100 Which was sometimes you're short of like five minutes. So he'd just be standing there for ever. Yeah 54 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:07,900 so 55 00:04:07,900 --> 00:04:10,900 Obviously it was efficient 56 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:12,900 So it was a good way to get into it 57 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:18,260 So obviously it was efficient so they used it for a really long time 58 00:04:19,140 --> 00:04:26,600 Clockwork systems began being used to strike bells and this included a fun fact that I found a giant 59 00:04:27,060 --> 00:04:32,140 Triangle like a musical triangle in Maine that had four foot sides 60 00:04:32,580 --> 00:04:39,420 What? Mm-hmm. This was an 1837 so I couldn't find a picture but this so is there a record of like who made this I? 61 00:04:39,420 --> 00:04:45,580 Should look it up see if I can find like the patent for the giant triangle the commissioning. I 62 00:04:46,180 --> 00:04:50,740 Don't know. I'm yeah, it's been over some drawings here. I just wanted to check on the scale. I 63 00:04:51,340 --> 00:04:55,500 Just want to make sure this says four feet and not four inches 300 pounds of steel 64 00:04:56,660 --> 00:05:00,240 You'd have to hit it with a hawk, you know, there had to be a mallet to go with it 65 00:05:00,240 --> 00:05:03,740 That was also just as well. Yeah full swing good stuff 66 00:05:03,980 --> 00:05:08,700 The first automated steam powered foghorn was invented by Robert Fowless 67 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:13,460 Which his own his name almost didn't go down in history and I'll tell you why 68 00:05:13,860 --> 00:05:19,340 he says that he heard his daughter playing piano from a distance while he was working in fog and 69 00:05:20,260 --> 00:05:24,680 Noticed that the low tones were more audible than the high tones aside from cannon fire 70 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:31,100 Most of the time they've been you know whistles and giant triangles give off high frequency sounds 71 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:32,420 And so he is like oh 72 00:05:32,420 --> 00:05:39,700 What a revolutionary idea that we need to be aiming for the low frequency sounds rather than the high frequency. So we decided 73 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:45,380 Designed a low frequency sound device and was initially rejected by the commissioners of lighthouses 74 00:05:45,380 --> 00:05:51,580 Which is basically the lighthouse board for Canada. Yeah, he wanted it to be built on partridge island 75 00:05:51,580 --> 00:05:55,380 Which I'm assuming was nearby where he lived or something 76 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:59,860 you know test site or just yeah, just to see how it worked and 77 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:04,180 You know if it benefited the keepers at all, but he was rejected 78 00:06:04,900 --> 00:06:10,100 Doesn't really say why I think what they're saying is his proposal was not detailed enough. So they were like go back 79 00:06:10,740 --> 00:06:16,380 Add some more detail, you know, like really lay it out and then you come back 80 00:06:16,980 --> 00:06:22,540 So then the plans the more detailed plans that he made were stolen 81 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:28,300 by another Canadian engineer who passed it off as his own work and was 82 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:33,100 Accepted feisty engineers. Yeah, I didn't put out his name because I don't think he deserves it 83 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:35,660 Oh, you want to soil the family name? 84 00:06:36,860 --> 00:06:41,380 Is it an eight? Wait, is it a name that we would know like is it like no bows? No 85 00:06:43,140 --> 00:06:45,140 Sennheiser banging Olson 86 00:06:46,060 --> 00:06:48,060 It was the beginning of Apple 87 00:06:49,380 --> 00:06:54,020 Fowlis eventually got the credit but he never profited or patented his design. So 88 00:06:54,020 --> 00:06:59,300 Oh, at least we know that he was the one responsible for coming up with this idea 89 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:04,740 But he never gained any money from having his design out there. That's really interesting 90 00:07:04,740 --> 00:07:09,340 So he's literally he's literally listening to his daughter play a piano and he's at some distance away 91 00:07:09,980 --> 00:07:15,140 And it's like the what is it the Einstein the Apple the Einstein Apple moment? He's like, yeah 92 00:07:15,140 --> 00:07:18,700 Yeah, I don't know if that's actually true. Maybe it is. I don't know. I didn't learn in school 93 00:07:18,700 --> 00:07:25,500 But like he's sitting, you know sitting under a tree. Yeah, essentially and he hears all the low lower keys 94 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:29,420 I can hear them more clearly this must be what everyone else hears 95 00:07:29,540 --> 00:07:36,900 This must apply to the rules of physics like low frequencies across distance on air carry better with more intensity 96 00:07:38,140 --> 00:07:44,700 Yeah, it's interesting but that's the same reason like, you know, we're driving in kind of a different part of Kansas City, Missouri 97 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:50,940 And you hear like yeah, you hear the rolling bass coming from the 98 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:57,300 1991 Lexus coupe right next to us. Yeah, but you don't hear the you know, yeah high high piano notes exactly 99 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:02,620 Yeah, yeah, I felt bad for him. But foul is everyone remember and have F.o.w. LES 100 00:08:03,660 --> 00:08:08,980 F.o.u.l.i.s. I haven't been shown anything yet on the great big screen. Yeah, I'm not gonna show you my notes. Are you crazy? 101 00:08:09,660 --> 00:08:11,500 back on to our 102 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:16,500 Foghorn so a couple of types it was hard to find it like I couldn't find a list of 103 00:08:17,620 --> 00:08:23,700 Foghorn types I think mainly because the kind that's used nowadays is pretty much universal 104 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:28,580 It's not like oh you can have this this this was this and here's the reasons you would use each type 105 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:30,580 It's just kind of like this is the one we've got 106 00:08:32,460 --> 00:08:36,780 Yeah, really I found two types one is a siren which is 107 00:08:36,780 --> 00:08:44,300 You know what you hear for tornadoes or winds hurricanes that kind of thing that's compressed air force through holes in a rotating 108 00:08:44,300 --> 00:08:51,820 Cylinder and then the other type which is what most lighthouses use today or you know for marine purposes is the diaphone 109 00:08:51,820 --> 00:08:54,740 Which is what you asked about in the last episode 110 00:08:55,820 --> 00:09:00,500 So the dive one was originally invented for the organ for sending compressed air 111 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:08,820 Compressed air specifically to each note on an organ it's compressed air force through slots under a pistol and I have a gif 112 00:09:08,820 --> 00:09:16,020 I wonder what the origin of pistol means. Is it a shape or a they say pistol? Yeah, that piston piston 113 00:09:16,020 --> 00:09:18,020 Okay, well you got me 114 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:26,280 There's a little animation so basically it's surrounded by compressed air all the time this like piston and as the 115 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,040 Compressed the compressed air builds it pushes down on this piston 116 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:37,520 Which then opens up these holes for air to escape out of and up here is where you're hearing the noise is the sound of this 117 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,160 Compressed air shooting out of the piston 118 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:40,360 Yeah 119 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:48,400 and then as this air pressure goes down and also air sneaks underneath the piston it pushes it back up and 120 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:54,920 Unaligns these holes. Yeah, and so then it's like the short bursts you hear whatever kind of physics 121 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:56,920 They have going on in here that 122 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,900 Keeps it in sound bursts instead of it just being prolonged noise or unpredictable 123 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:09,320 Yeah, that's what's the diaphragm really cool design and I really appreciate this cutaway. Yeah, so someone made it on Google 124 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,120 it's actually an 125 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:15,240 Animated it's like they took the patent design and then 126 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,880 Animated it in today. So this is actually the drawing that was in the patent and then they made it into an animation 127 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,560 Well on the pressure, it's just the pressure changes, which is cool 128 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:29,360 Yeah, but it reminds me it's a very similar in concept at least to like a natural gas regulator 129 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:31,600 I don't know who listening cares, but I'll say 130 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:38,520 As so as this piston moves downward and that channel opens up behind the piston to reset it 131 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:43,920 It's essentially you're playing with the pressure. So that's what makes it to to to move 132 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,360 Yeah, really interesting move rapidly. I would assume 133 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:53,160 For the bursts of air. That's cool. And so this piston design was for 134 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:00,880 Organ organ instruments like in a church. Yeah, so the pressure would rise and then that would cause the one 135 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,480 I don't even know what to call them like a chime in that like an organ 136 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,120 Yeah, I'm sure it was a little different before it was released for this purpose 137 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:13,080 But originally the guy that designed it that's what he was designing it for it was for use in an organ 138 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:16,680 I'm not sure if they actually used it there or not. Oh, I see 139 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:21,680 But then diaphone. Yeah, I don't know if I can post a gif on Instagram in our 140 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,800 group of photos that we posted so maybe I'll post it as like a I 141 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:31,160 Don't know a story you can reference back to look at how it works 142 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:33,600 I did have to do a little bit digging to find this so 143 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,760 Anyway, I'll get it to you guys somehow 144 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:45,080 There's a couple other really rarely used types, but the diaphone is like I said most widely used another cool thing 145 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,120 I saw is that you know in the modern-day age 146 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,280 Fog horns are activated by a laser that is shooting out to the sea 147 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:58,000 And if it's ever reflected back as it would be if there was fog something interrupts the beam 148 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,280 Yeah, or just it's the air is full of water. So it reflects it back to the 149 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,720 laser 150 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,240 origin 151 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,400 I don't know anything about it 152 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,600 So in my best terms if the laser is ever reflected back 153 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,760 Which means there's fog then the fog horn is activated so there doesn't need to be someone there saying oh, there's fog 154 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:24,880 Turn it on. Yeah, it's like always keeping track so it can turn itself on. That's really interesting 155 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:30,200 And uh, well, I'm guessing it's like an infrared laser because it would work day and night 156 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:34,520 It's not an optical laser. That's gonna blind somebody and that relies on 157 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:41,000 Obviously daytime light. Yeah, that's cool. It's only gone on fog horns. Very nice history buoy 158 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,560 Thank you. Okay, we're gonna move on to the lighthouse 159 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:50,680 Which lighthouse so this one's fun because for two reasons for you one is that 160 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:56,200 It's just funky and goofy and I think you'll appreciate that 161 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,200 Yeah, and also 162 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:04,360 You're taking a trip to Alaska soon and you're gonna end up in the town that has this so you 163 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:09,160 Will probably be able to go is it near Anchorage? It's Seward Homer 164 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,640 It's Seward Homer Hope Homer. Oh 165 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:20,040 We are going to Homer so you should definitely give this place a visit because it is hilarious and a lot of history 166 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,000 So I'm gonna put a picture. Here we go. Here we go 167 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:29,080 I feel like I looked up lighthouses in Alaska recently and I might have seen 168 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:35,400 Like an outlook maybe it was in Homer. I don't recall Seward. I want to say I don't pull this 169 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:41,800 Oh, no, Homer has to so we've been to Homer. Yeah, Homer is where we stayed on the spit at lands and resort 170 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:47,640 Which was really cool the very end of the spit. I am talking about this subject 171 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,160 I'm so excited. Let's go also gorgeous views 172 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:53,880 Here it is 173 00:13:57,640 --> 00:13:58,760 Okay 174 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,760 before you say anything else I 175 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:06,600 Didn't see the lighthouse but when we arrived in Homer, we're like we're on motorcycles. We're all dirty 176 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:12,600 We got to go eat somewhere. I saw the salty dog saloon on Google Maps on like 177 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,360 One of the top five options and I don't yeah, I can't tell you anything else 178 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:20,760 That's all I know but I was like that's a cool name and that was two years ago. I never remember that name 179 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:26,520 Tell us about it, please. So it has the appearance of a lighthouse, but it's not what you think 180 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,240 It's so for visually for people listening. It is a gray log cabin 181 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,880 And it actually has a two-part building that's like just connected in between they used to be separate 182 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:42,200 And then it also has a lighthouse connected to the back or I guess a light tower. It's like hexagon shape 183 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:48,920 Yeah, it could be octagon, but I'm gonna lean towards hexagon. It's got shingles all on the sides 184 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:53,400 Which is unique few windows. I'll go more into the structure of the lighthouse 185 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:58,760 It's covered in decorative. I mean it's got seashells and buoys and fish nets 186 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,120 There's like a crab. There's a lot going on. Trap there 187 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,040 There's a lantern coming out of the roof. Yeah, very nautical 188 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,880 Very fun. Very funky pretty cool when you see it 189 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:13,240 It's like you can't tell if it's gonna be a dump or if it's gonna be awesome 190 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:20,200 But yeah, it's so as you can guess by the name it the salty dog saloon 191 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:27,240 It's actually a bar slash pub dive bar, but its history is goes a lot deeper than this just being a bar 192 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:34,440 So okay, so let's go in is estimated to be built this this main building that has the sign in the front door and everything 193 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:39,720 Is estimated to be built in 1897. This is kind of an estimation because they don't know 194 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:45,160 For certain when it was built, but during a cleaning in 1970s 195 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,520 They found newspaper insulation in the walls from the late 1800s. That is cool 196 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,400 Yeah, so they're estimating that's probably when it was built 197 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,400 It started out as one of the first cabins built in homer just after homer became a town site 198 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:04,680 And this makes the salty dog the oldest surviving structure in homer city limits 199 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:11,160 And also the last original structure of the town. Wow 18 late 1800s 200 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,760 also newspaper insulation, it's pretty hard 201 00:16:15,880 --> 00:16:20,600 In Alaska, you're like, you know what? It's gonna be cold. You know what let's put some newspaper in there 202 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:23,880 Yeah, I know I wonder 203 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,520 If it was just it was like I think 204 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:32,120 I can't remember if it was built originally to be a tool shed as you can guess since we don't know the exact date 205 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:37,400 It's kind of just like it was a structure that was built and nobody knows what it originally was used for 206 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,920 But it has a ton of history changed hands a ton has all this 207 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,760 Like had many different purposes in its lifetime. So 208 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:49,320 It was built at the very very very end of the spit 209 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:55,720 Where lots of coal and oil activity was happening, especially because of how accessible it was over there 210 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,480 And for those that don't know what the spit is. I'm gonna open an alaskan map 211 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:03,240 to homer 212 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,480 And the homer spit is just like a four. It's like four and a half mile 213 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,760 jut of land out into the 214 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,840 Kachemak Bay 215 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:17,320 I looked up there's a couple different ways they say to pronounce it, but I think it's Kachemak 216 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:21,800 Homer spit. Yeah, I think there's a Kachemak National Park 217 00:17:22,360 --> 00:17:25,720 Kachemak area up there with a bunch of bears pretty sure 218 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:28,440 Homers spit. Homers spit 219 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:30,680 Nothing particular 220 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,880 No, it's awesome. Here's Lanzan Resort. I'll talk about that 221 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Kachemak Bay 222 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:42,600 Here's Homer over here. So it's just this long jut you can see that they have ferry routes over here 223 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:49,160 Connections, especially maybe cruises would go to Lanzan Resort. I don't know. Is it that nice? No 224 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:51,480 Sorry, I mean 225 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,080 It's uh 226 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,160 I don't think they have ships that large coming into the the Kachemak Bay 227 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:01,160 Yeah, um, and Lanzan Resort is 228 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:06,280 I don't know. I don't mean to be insulting. It was a great. It was awesome. We really enjoyed our time there 229 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,280 I wouldn't call it a resort in typical fashion. Okay, you know, it's not like uh 230 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,440 It's not like we're talking about in Nassau, Bahamas. Yeah. That's what I was thinking 231 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,080 There we go. Salty dog 232 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,640 So originally it was actually further down over here 233 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,320 Um and moved during its lifetime which i'll talk about as well. Oh 234 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:31,400 Would you entertain me and go up to the left on this bit a little bit looking at restaurants? 235 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:36,600 I just want to see if I can recognize where we went. You pass an RV park on the way. I don't think we went that far 236 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,120 I think it's still 237 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:41,080 Up on the I want to say there's a woman's name 238 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:47,080 I don't know. Well, I'll have to look it up. Maybe I'll comment. There was a couple of restaurants 239 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:52,200 And I want to say it was a woman's name and it was really good very good seafood. Um, oh, that's fun 240 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,320 Yeah clam chowder off the hook 241 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,960 Some of the places out here are a little touristy and there's nothing wrong with that 242 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:02,120 But some of them you can tell have been there a long time 243 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:08,440 So salty dog da wg just say one knows maybe you were around here 244 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:10,440 Oh pat patty's patty's 245 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:16,760 Oh temporarily closed. Oh, it's because it's probably seasonal but yeah 246 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,640 Also, that's something else. I'm sure you can talk about it, but that's awesome that a building's been out there so long 247 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:26,680 When I was riding I rode a motorcycle out there on homerspet. I was just thinking man 248 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,880 Everything out here has got to be gone in some enormous storm because it is not a lot of land 249 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,680 It's the road which is a two-lane and then maybe 30 to 50 feet 250 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:42,520 Of land on either side maybe 100 I guess but it felt small you felt like you're on the water. It's really neat 251 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:44,920 I have something to talk about with that as well 252 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,920 Sorry, I'm very i'm excited this is a good one. Yeah, I I was hoping you would 253 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,600 Have heard of this which is hilarious that you actually stayed 254 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,400 In a place that actually has history with this place. Obviously they are so close together 255 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,920 So for the first 20 years of its history 256 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:09,880 It was served as the first post office in homer a general store a railroad station and a coal mining office 257 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:14,680 So it had a lot of different purposes and if you if you look at this picture, it's just 258 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:21,960 This is all that there was it wasn't yeah, there wasn't a lot going on. It was just a room 259 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:27,400 12 by 12 room. Yeah, which is probably true for a lot of general stores in early 1900s 260 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:33,000 At one point it housed three adults and 11 children. There was like some kind of renting happening 261 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:39,000 And they partitioned it with just like a tarp in the middle. Yeah, and like heated one side 262 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,840 And then the other side was maybe still the post office or something 263 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,720 But I don't I didn't have a lot of history that I could read up along on that 264 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:53,000 In the late 1940s, it was bought out by chuck abbott who used the post office as a 265 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,800 Standard oil company right next to an oil tank farm. So right at the end of the spit. So actually this 266 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:06,520 It was used as an office and then he's the one that opened the salty dog saloon. It was just kind of like this fun 267 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,520 Like they never planned on making any money out of it 268 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:16,120 It was just kind of a fun thing that they were just like we should just open a bar because only crazy 269 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,520 They said in the book like it was like a little bit of a fun thing 270 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:24,600 That they were just like we should just open a bar because only crazy they said in the book like only crazy people would open 271 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:30,440 A bar at the end of the spit. I can't tell you how many conversations dudes have where they're like, let's start a bar 272 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,320 Yeah, because we could do this man. You brew beer 273 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,040 We could make this happen. Yeah 274 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:42,280 Yeah, but it said that he just wanted to quote make a buck and increase the value of his company. Hopefully by making it 275 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,180 more 276 00:21:44,180 --> 00:21:48,040 Visitable down there, you know like yeah get some get some folks out 277 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:51,320 Yeah, just get some life going at the end of the spit. That's so cool 278 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,280 So he opened it in 1957 279 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,720 He chose a pirate theme as homage to the quote original salty dogs 280 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,200 His wife talked about how she like tried to talk him out of it doing a pirate theme 281 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:06,520 She's like we're in alaska. Why would we do a pirate theme? 282 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,880 uh, wait 1957 1957. Yeah 283 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:16,040 And uh, he just really wanted he just so badly because he'd go along. Um, catch em at bay and 284 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:24,280 And a lot of the decorations that were inside the saloon were things that he found which included old ship bells 285 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,480 Portholes red and green lights like all kinds of cool fun nautical stuff 286 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,200 So I think he was kind of just like i'll just dump all this stuff in there and it'll be the salty dog 287 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:41,720 Yeah, philis hit which was his wife said quote we never made a scent out of it until we sold it 288 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,720 But it was a fun time while we had it 289 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,720 I 290 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,680 Don't know why I love that the sign is on the roof 291 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,800 I just for some reason that's unique. Yeah instead of like hanging where the 292 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,520 The lantern is or something. Yeah 293 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,200 Yeah, it's very unique looking and those dollar bills play a role as well 294 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,240 So, okay. So yeah. Yeah, when did they sell? 295 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:09,560 57s when standard oil man and philis 296 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:11,800 philis 297 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,880 Owned it they bought it and they sold it when they they bought it in the 40s as an office 298 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:20,780 But then they converted it. Yeah opened it as the salty dog saloon in in 1957 299 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,600 They actually sold it in 1960. I want to say okay, and i'll talk about that 300 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:30,680 But first I have the weirdest story that ever happened to the dog and actually 301 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:39,320 Was so like just outlandish and gross and weird that it showed up in newspapers as far away as new york after it happened 302 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:46,280 And so chuck installed an outhouse behind the bar because what else are you going to do people visit your bar? 303 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,000 you have to have a place for them to go to the bathroom and 304 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,680 Just a note that at right both like the day before this happened two men 305 00:23:54,920 --> 00:24:00,360 Came by the saloon asking for work and chuck turned them away because they didn't they didn't have anything for them to do 306 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,920 Yeah, and then literally the next day there's a backup on the men's side of the outhouse 307 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:09,080 And it was it was just split up by like a partition. It wasn't two separate buildings 308 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:13,240 It was like once again a tarp in the middle and a men's and a woman's side 309 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:19,560 And there was a backup on the men's side and for some reason he enlisted the help of bruno 310 00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:27,080 Agostino, I think it is. I'm sorry if i'm pronouncing that wrong, but he was a demolitions expert at the nearby coal mines 311 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,280 And he's like, hey, can you help me unclog this? 312 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,320 Bet she could do something like 313 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,720 Um, what a demolitions expert 314 00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:38,360 So here i'm going to read it out of this book 315 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,080 There's an excerpt where it talks about what happens 316 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:47,880 It's pretty short, but it's from the dog's tale the story of salty dog saloon the homer spit and the town of homer alaska 317 00:24:48,360 --> 00:24:51,080 By diane diane ford wood, which is an awesome name 318 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,840 Go to page 125. I can tell you exactly what happened 319 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,800 So harold billups who I think was a local that was there around this time 320 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,920 He wrote a book called in those days and he said 321 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:08,600 Quote if one stick would be good two sticks would be better referring to dynamite 322 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:16,120 So chuck touched it off. It didn't just blow down as bruno had said it would it blew that stench and 323 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:18,660 effluvium around like you couldn't believe 324 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:22,280 Some of it blew on chuck's oil tanks and on the salty dog 325 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:27,480 And in fact it pretty well covered the entire end of the spit. Oh and that is referring to poop 326 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,280 Two sticks of dynamite. Mm-hmm 327 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:38,040 The book also says that by some accounts from people the raw sewage hit the sides of buildings the laundry the land end resort 328 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,840 And a warehouse and a good portion of the end of the spit. Oh 329 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,080 It's like chuck what are you thinking what year is this this is 330 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:52,100 1959 I think 331 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:57,700 Or maybe 58 it was just a couple years before they sold it and the guy that they bought 332 00:25:58,100 --> 00:26:03,540 That that bought it from them was earl hillstrand who was the one that developed lands and resort 333 00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:10,260 Sorry covered your construction site and shit the 334 00:26:11,380 --> 00:26:13,700 The outhouse would have to be gone, right? 335 00:26:14,580 --> 00:26:20,260 It says that philis went and put a sign on the outhouse that said out of order and i'm like 336 00:26:20,260 --> 00:26:24,980 Did they just not have a top on it or forgive my language, but it blew the shit sky high 337 00:26:25,940 --> 00:26:28,420 There was shit all over the spit. That's what I was like 338 00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:33,540 It said she put a sign on it and I was like a sign on what like you're telling me something survived 339 00:26:33,540 --> 00:26:35,940 What well can you what's left to hang a sign on? 340 00:26:36,980 --> 00:26:39,380 Also, you're walking up to it like 341 00:26:40,100 --> 00:26:45,940 You really gotta go. Yeah, the sign says not to not all the evidence around here. Yeah 342 00:26:45,940 --> 00:26:52,980 Yeah. Oh looks like I can poop anywhere actually people complain about port-a-potties on construction sites and football games 343 00:26:54,420 --> 00:26:56,420 So bad 344 00:26:56,580 --> 00:26:59,300 Yeah, just the most wild story like who? 345 00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:05,780 Really was like, yeah, just put some dynamite in there set it on and um, it'll just blow down 346 00:27:06,180 --> 00:27:11,140 I want so what path of least resistance it's gonna go. I don't 347 00:27:11,140 --> 00:27:15,380 I i'm guessing I have no idea. I'm guessing this is a 348 00:27:16,980 --> 00:27:24,020 Latrine it's probably not like piping. It's probably like a steel cylinder. It's or something some in ground 349 00:27:24,660 --> 00:27:26,820 And they're like, let's make more room like 350 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:32,020 With dynamite. It's not like oh a pipe is clogged. Yeah, you know 351 00:27:32,580 --> 00:27:34,580 Let me pour some dreino in it. It's like 352 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:37,860 It's like we're out of room salty dog style 353 00:27:38,580 --> 00:27:40,580 in the the fecal 354 00:27:40,580 --> 00:27:45,220 Influence got all the way to the land's end resort. Mm-hmm 355 00:27:46,020 --> 00:27:48,020 Can we scale that real quick on google maps? 356 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:52,660 Yeah, although it's moved. It did move so we can't really know for sure 357 00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:59,700 But i'm assuming it must have been pretty close for the land's end resort guy to actually fourth of july for his own use 358 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:02,100 fourth of july 359 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:04,100 That's awesome. I just want to go back 360 00:28:04,180 --> 00:28:09,140 It's funny chuck went in search of the two guys that came by asking for work after this and was like hey 361 00:28:09,140 --> 00:28:11,140 I have a job for you 362 00:28:12,980 --> 00:28:17,860 Still need a job. They actually did it and phyllis said that she participated in the clean up. Mm-hmm 363 00:28:18,580 --> 00:28:23,460 Oh, so gross. I can't believe it business is booming literally 364 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,100 Back end business. That is awesome 365 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:32,980 So anyway, I just thought that was that was probably did you go a one stick or did you go a two stick when you went to the bathroom? 366 00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:37,140 Number one or number two that was the most interesting story that I read 367 00:28:37,140 --> 00:28:42,100 There's a lot of stories in this book if anyone wants to read more about the salty dog saloon. It's called the dog's tale 368 00:28:42,180 --> 00:28:44,180 They don't have it. Um 369 00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:46,260 It's from 370 00:28:46,260 --> 00:28:53,460 19 let me see 1997. I think she wrote it nice 1995 good year. So, um, it's not 371 00:28:54,420 --> 00:29:01,060 Available for you to read on ebooks or anything like that. It's uh, it's only paperback. So yeah, they're like 372 00:29:01,060 --> 00:29:07,460 Oh, you know if the walls of this bar could talk well these can in the salty dog. Uh, 373 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:12,740 What is it the dog's cafe dog's tail dog's tail? Oh man, I can't read upside down 374 00:29:14,020 --> 00:29:19,300 It's kind of swoopy. It's swoopy for my own credit. But yeah, if these walls could talk they'd complain 375 00:29:20,180 --> 00:29:22,100 Wow 376 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:23,220 That's awesome 377 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:26,600 Alaska became the 49th state of the union in 1959 378 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:31,080 1959 and so that's about a year after this happened and a year later 379 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:37,080 Earl hill strand who was actually a member of the alaskan house of representatives at the time and was also 380 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:44,760 Developing the lands and resort. Yeah, he purchased it and it was like apparently a big stink that he was an anchorage resident 381 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:49,080 And was buying the bar. Oh, he's one of them city folk. Yeah 382 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:56,200 He had business ventures money talks. Yeah, especially because phil said they didn't make any money on this until they sold it 383 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,800 So it was probably a good chunk a good hefty sell. Yeah 384 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,720 was that i'm interested to learn more about that perspective because 385 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,040 i've i've 386 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,180 Been on many roads in alaska 387 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,800 The furthest north we went was to the arctic circle sign on the the nollie highway 388 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:15,800 Um, it's really 389 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:17,800 or dalton highway, sorry 390 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,960 It's interesting. Um 391 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:20,760 but 392 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:27,240 People like i've talked i listened to a different podcast. It's about hunters that had gone to alaska for some hunting expedition and they're saying 393 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:33,160 Oh, yeah, where have you been? Oh, you've been to anchorage and fairbanks. So you haven't been to alaska 394 00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,280 Yeah, like those are the those are the cities like I think there's maybe 395 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,440 I'm gonna misquote but like a million people in anchorage. Yeah, and 396 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:44,600 It's it's a city. It's a very small city, but um 397 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:51,320 Um, it's not alaska to get to alaska. You have to fly in a bush plane, you know, there's no roads that lead to alaska 398 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:53,400 Oh my gosh, that's what people say so 399 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:59,160 Well, it's kind of cool. Oh, it's yeah, it's gorgeous, but that's a really interesting story salty dog 400 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:05,480 Yeah, so so earl bought it. Yeah hillstrand and he ran it for about four years and then march 27th 401 00:31:06,180 --> 00:31:10,760 1964 was the good friday earthquake. Do you remember or have you heard anything about that? 402 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:15,880 No, I don't know anything about all these earthquakes. Apparently. I know it's another earthquake. I'm being sensitive. I can't help it 403 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,760 So it's a last week right now 404 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,840 Right now that just happened in turkey or something 405 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,560 No, and the death toll is like 40 000 people. No way now. Yeah 406 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,920 Isn't that insane? That's not good. I don't know the details of it. I might not even have the place correct 407 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:35,720 Yeah, do you not get your news from the lighthouse lowdown? Yeah, we don't really know what we're talking about 408 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:40,040 Unless it's about lighthouses and then we do and then you can trust us 409 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,720 So the good friday earthquake the reason why I ask is because a lot of 410 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:49,720 People that live like locals they refer to it as a time stamp. That's like, oh, yeah before the earthquake 411 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,680 You know pre-covid yada yada exactly 412 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,400 So it was a 9.2 413 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,840 On a scale of 10 414 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:07,960 9.2 that's wild magnitude earthquake and I think the fatalities were only like 150 people because nobody really lives there 415 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:10,840 At this time 416 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,960 Um, well the structures aren't very tall but the earthquake originated from the elution trench 417 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,360 Uh, which is that weird? 418 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:23,080 It's characterized by that tail of islands that connects alaska to russia 419 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:25,880 Yeah, well, is it the scott islands? 420 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,880 Those are the ones triangle island was on no, that's further south. Okay 421 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:36,440 Um, I think i'm it's the elution trench is the fault line that caused the earthquake 422 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:43,080 And those islands I think they're called the elution islands are projecting upward from this fault line, right? 423 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:50,280 That's where that show we watched an episode of a show or a couple episodes where they're looking for treasure. Mm-hmm salty earthquake 424 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:53,240 so 425 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,200 salty earthquake here is 426 00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,600 Oh my gosh showing colorful 427 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,220 Like this is a this is australia 428 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,640 Like it's not like oh, we're zoomed into alaska. Whoa 429 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,120 Here's the trench 430 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:15,320 And this star is uh, I think it is 75 miles. Let me see. I did not realize what we were looking at 431 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,440 I know I think that is crazy 432 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:23,960 The epicenter was 75 miles away from anchorage and so and since there's the most people that are the most buildings 433 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,880 It took the most damage from this earthquake, but still relatively low 434 00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:33,480 Casualties from such an enormous earthquake that was felt all the way in antarctica like it said 435 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:38,840 That it detected this earthquake in equipment. That was in antarctica 436 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:43,900 Well, it looks like from the radius there. It looks like seattle would feel a 5.0 437 00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,080 Which is not close 438 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,080 Canada is in between those two. Yeah 439 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,200 Canada is not small 440 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:57,400 Wow, the earthquake released they estimated 500 years of built-up tension 441 00:33:58,180 --> 00:34:03,640 Uh 600 miles of the fault line moved all at once so it displaced 442 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,160 There was like areas that were displaced up or down 60 feet 443 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,720 So some areas like kodiak were raised permanently by 30 feet awesome 444 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:19,240 Um kodiak island is awesome and the seward highway had to be reconstructed after the areas southeast of anchorage dropped eight feet 445 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:24,040 Permanently only road that goes out to homer really is one. Yeah. Wow 446 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,960 Must have been a rough time, but tsunamis from the earthquake affected 447 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:35,720 Uh alaska, of course, and then hawaii japan oregon california peru antarctica and many other countries 448 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:41,240 The largest tsunami recorded was 220 feet tall in chute bay alaska 449 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:48,280 I'm just surprised that only 150 people died like this isn't there's no one there 220 feet tall, especially in those times 450 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,480 Alaska like was became somewhere to go 451 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:58,440 An adventure in the 70s and 80s. I think like that's when it was like oh you can go there like, you know, you can go 452 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,480 See kodiak island see the kodiak bears 453 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:07,080 You know, there's one bear per square mile like that that type of that type of tourism became possible. Yeah 454 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,960 Late in the 1900s. Yeah, that's true 455 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:10,840 Yeah 456 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:17,160 Just for reference this is the strongest earthquake to ever happen in north america and the second strongest in the entire world 457 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:22,440 In the history of the entire world. It's a great. I mean, it's hard to say this is great, but it's great 458 00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,200 um 459 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,680 For that rather than today in 460 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:33,080 In you know a high populated area anywhere. That's just awful. Yeah, the poor spit so close 461 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,660 It was 8.0. Is that right 9.2 9.2 462 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,520 I can't I can't believe it. Where was the uh, the greatest 463 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,760 In the world, yeah, I don't know. This is the second greatest. This was the second greatest in the world 464 00:35:47,780 --> 00:35:49,780 valdivia earthquake 465 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:54,780 1960 was it also up there a great chilean earthquake 466 00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:56,380 uh, it's 467 00:35:56,380 --> 00:36:00,640 1960 9.4 to 9.6 on the magnitude of magnitude 468 00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:07,500 The salty dog didn't actually sustain a lot of damage, but its location on the spit was not good for the fact that 469 00:36:08,140 --> 00:36:12,620 The spit lowered by 11 feet after that happened. Yeah, so 470 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:17,900 The tide which was about 18 feet or something when it came in 471 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:24,140 And then meant that the only thing that wasn't touched by water was the road for a long time. It's incredible 472 00:36:24,860 --> 00:36:31,020 So this was actually when they moved the cabin from the very end of the spit just inland just a little bit 473 00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:33,580 just so that it was 474 00:36:33,580 --> 00:36:37,180 Like it sunk eight feet and not 11 feet. Yeah, that's 475 00:36:37,980 --> 00:36:41,580 Why and where they moved it? Yeah, there's you mentioned the standard oil 476 00:36:41,580 --> 00:36:48,380 Uh tank battery, you know a set of tanks and i'm thinking well, it's a lot of oil 477 00:36:48,860 --> 00:36:53,500 Um, I was like, I don't know if there's room for that. Yeah, that makes sense. What a cool place in the world 478 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,740 I know kind of scary, but it's all right. We can just go back to the nice picture of the salty dog 479 00:36:57,740 --> 00:36:59,740 Nature you scary 480 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,940 So nature is metal. I keep interrupting you know, what else can you tell us about the salty dog saloon? 481 00:37:05,020 --> 00:37:10,140 Well, so actually right after this earthquake happened. They added the lighthouse tower 482 00:37:10,140 --> 00:37:12,140 That's what I was wanting to know 483 00:37:12,700 --> 00:37:14,700 And it was originally 484 00:37:14,940 --> 00:37:18,300 A facade to hide a water tank 485 00:37:19,100 --> 00:37:21,340 Which is what supplied the saloon with fresh water 486 00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:24,140 And actually this water 487 00:37:24,540 --> 00:37:30,060 This water tower was like 5 000 gallons and it shipped to them in pieces 488 00:37:30,540 --> 00:37:35,260 Huh pretty big. Yeah, and they had to put it together themselves. I'll talk about it in a second 489 00:37:35,260 --> 00:37:41,260 Okay, just a breakdown of the rooms because then we have the main cabin. We have another structure that was connected 490 00:37:41,580 --> 00:37:46,540 After a little while the one back behind in the photo. Yeah, and then the water tower and then another tiny 491 00:37:47,660 --> 00:37:52,080 Thing that i'll talk about so we talked about the main room already, which was in 1897 492 00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:59,660 And in 1909 a barn was constructed on the wooded homestead. I don't know if you know what that is 493 00:38:00,140 --> 00:38:02,860 I didn't look at it. I haven't heard that uh, i'm assuming it's just 494 00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:06,140 Just land not on the spit nearby or something 495 00:38:06,860 --> 00:38:09,580 later this structure that was built is a barn 496 00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:13,580 Would be trucked to the spit as the second structure for the salty dog 497 00:38:13,820 --> 00:38:18,140 So it was built in 1909, but it wasn't moved over until maybe the 70s 498 00:38:18,460 --> 00:38:22,460 Okay, so it had lots of years on it before it was reconstructed at the salty dog 499 00:38:22,620 --> 00:38:28,540 And this one before its life with the salty dog was originally used as a school a grocery store and a post office 500 00:38:28,540 --> 00:38:35,180 Before now it has like a jukebox and a piano and like lots of benches for people to sit on cool. Yeah 501 00:38:36,140 --> 00:38:38,140 the other thing is um 502 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:40,700 They have another little building. It's a tiny 503 00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:48,300 Teen tiny little log shanty is how it was described behind the salty dogs that's shown in its early day photographs 504 00:38:48,620 --> 00:38:51,420 I think it's still there as a storage area 505 00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:55,900 But I I didn't have a picture. Hang on a second. I might be able to pull it up 506 00:38:55,900 --> 00:38:58,380 I guess i'll share here. I just came to my mind 507 00:38:59,340 --> 00:39:01,340 I have an opportunity maybe to go back here 508 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:06,060 It's a little unsure if we're going to go to homer this time. Oh, no, we're not staying in homer 509 00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:09,500 We changed we're going on a different route to see more things in alaska 510 00:39:10,540 --> 00:39:11,420 but 511 00:39:11,420 --> 00:39:15,980 Something I like to do when I travel is collect pairs of glasses drinking glasses 512 00:39:16,540 --> 00:39:17,660 um 513 00:39:17,660 --> 00:39:22,380 And I have I don't know 20 sets from different places. I've been able to go over the years 514 00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:28,380 Um building up a new collection. So I see if I can get some salty dog glasses. I think they have cool ones 515 00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:34,300 I'm going to show the merchandise at the end of this and i'll give you a little taste of what they have shout out 516 00:39:36,300 --> 00:39:38,380 But yeah, so this is the picture that's from the book 517 00:39:38,380 --> 00:39:42,540 I just took it with my phone and then brightened it so you could see it better. Oh, that's good 518 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:47,420 It's horrendous, but uh, this is good as it can get so this is the salty dog saloon 519 00:39:47,580 --> 00:39:50,940 I'll talk about this one in a second and this is the little building 520 00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:52,940 it's just like this tiny little 521 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,220 What would be a um little storage shed today? 522 00:39:56,220 --> 00:40:04,220 But in this picture you see it's called the salty pup cafe awesome. Nobody has any history on this tiny building 523 00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:10,460 But philis wrote about it and she said that it's speculated that it used to be a tiny restaurant 524 00:40:11,020 --> 00:40:13,340 And it's called the salty pup cafe 525 00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:16,380 Yeah, but there's no history of that happening and the only thing that they have 526 00:40:16,380 --> 00:40:20,940 Is that a couple of local old timers say that they remember getting bowls of chili? 527 00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:24,460 Quote at a little place at the end of the spit 528 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,300 Towards the end of the 50s, but they can't recall what the name is 529 00:40:28,860 --> 00:40:33,580 And so it's just kind of like that's very likely it. Yeah, but there's no proof that 530 00:40:34,380 --> 00:40:40,300 They actually used to uh, I know the salty pup cafe. I know is awesome 531 00:40:40,860 --> 00:40:44,860 Also salty dog saloon on the left with the sign on the roof 532 00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:49,900 Yeah, the dog and its original location so before it got moved so cool 533 00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:55,900 Yeah, so prior to 1927 it was used as a post office in beluga slow 534 00:40:56,620 --> 00:41:01,980 Slough, I don't know. It's a place but now it's just a storeroom that's used for the dog 535 00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:07,260 But it's kind of a fun history that it maybe possibly used to be a tiny restaurant that served chili 536 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:12,060 That's all we got. Yeah, take it or leave it also the logs 537 00:41:12,060 --> 00:41:19,420 For this building have evidence of shipworm damage which hints that at some point the wood or the structure had been underwater for a really long time 538 00:41:19,740 --> 00:41:22,060 Oh, I thought you're gonna say it was made of a ship 539 00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:27,980 Well, that could be one of the explanations for the logs having shipworm damage. What are shit? 540 00:41:29,980 --> 00:41:33,100 What are shipworms images 541 00:41:34,860 --> 00:41:36,860 Whoa, oh wow 542 00:41:36,940 --> 00:41:41,420 Okay, holy cow like uh kind of like termites ocean termites, I'd guess 543 00:41:41,420 --> 00:41:43,420 Yeah wreaking havoc for centuries 544 00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:46,140 Wait scientists still can't figure out how 545 00:41:46,860 --> 00:41:49,660 How what how this worm turns? 546 00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:53,100 We don't need to go too deep out how it turns 547 00:41:54,380 --> 00:41:57,420 You need to go too deep into that right now. Come on Jenkins get some data 548 00:41:57,740 --> 00:42:01,260 That's what I took away from it is that it's either that it used to be underwater 549 00:42:01,260 --> 00:42:07,420 Which seems unlikely or that the logs that were used to build the salty pup cafe used to belong to a ship 550 00:42:07,420 --> 00:42:11,340 Both are interesting. Mm-hmm. So here's this other structure. Let's talk about 551 00:42:12,140 --> 00:42:16,300 This bad boy right here. You can't really see but there's someone standing in the window creepy 552 00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:21,660 Uh, and it was called the rum locker. It no longer exists, but you can see it in this picture 553 00:42:22,380 --> 00:42:26,460 It was yet another part of the dog in its early days before it was moved 554 00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:30,140 It was possibly the first liquor store to exist on the spit 555 00:42:30,380 --> 00:42:36,380 And Phyllis said the bar manager ran such great deals on liquor that it helped attract customers to the spit itself 556 00:42:36,380 --> 00:42:42,860 It burned down in the 60s. So it no longer is a thing burned down on a rum fire 557 00:42:43,580 --> 00:42:50,540 Possibly a liquor fueled fire it when it when the earthquake happened it was moved but it didn't follow the salty dog 558 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,700 It was kind of like separated 559 00:42:52,940 --> 00:42:54,940 and was just a place where 560 00:42:55,500 --> 00:43:01,420 They the owners stored liquor the rum locker the rum locker, but you could buy you could buy 561 00:43:01,980 --> 00:43:03,980 Like bottles. Yeah 562 00:43:03,980 --> 00:43:07,980 It makes sense. Sadly, we don't have it anymore, but it did exist. We have a picture of it 563 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:10,300 It's also a good name for a bar 564 00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:16,940 Yeah, the rum locker the rum locker we can make that pirate themed. Yeah also rum kind of interesting 565 00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:19,980 They chose that of all the spirits they could have chosen 566 00:43:20,060 --> 00:43:23,820 Yeah, well we're going for a pirate theme and as we mentioned before pirates don't drink champagne 567 00:43:25,020 --> 00:43:27,740 Anyway, the last building we're talking about is the light tower 568 00:43:27,740 --> 00:43:34,060 I don't I couldn't find any pictures of the inside except for the bottom layer, which we can look up but uh 569 00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:38,700 The light tower was added actually officially marked on marine charts 570 00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:45,740 Which means that it's a true nautical landmark. It's a point of reference. Yeah, so it's not a lighthouse 571 00:43:46,060 --> 00:43:47,740 It's not technically a lighthouse 572 00:43:47,740 --> 00:43:53,420 But it is marked on marine charts and people that pass by this area a lot use it as a point of reference 573 00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:57,820 It's so kind of cool and the only reason that it can't be labeled 574 00:43:58,140 --> 00:44:02,780 I think the way that it's labeled is whatever the uh, the acronym is for 575 00:44:03,340 --> 00:44:06,700 Tower with a light or building with a light or something like that 576 00:44:07,260 --> 00:44:10,540 and it's because the light is turned off when the bar closes, which is 577 00:44:11,420 --> 00:44:14,380 Which varies per season but that is cool 578 00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:14,700 Yeah 579 00:44:14,700 --> 00:44:19,340 It's like you can't really rely on it at night time because it's not the bar is not always open 580 00:44:19,340 --> 00:44:25,580 But if you see the light on that that means the bar is open. That is really cool pretty cool that they put in a lighthouse 581 00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:32,620 Yeah, that's not a saloon. That's not a small deal. Mm-hmm. I know it's five stories tall. Well, i'll talk about it has five floors 582 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:33,980 Okay 583 00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:39,980 The first is a pool room where you can play pool. It's for the bar. There's a picture of it. I know it's wicked 584 00:44:40,140 --> 00:44:41,100 That's awesome 585 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:46,700 The second is john l's hobby room who is I think the current owner of the lighthouse john l 586 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:52,940 Warren and his dad is the one who originally bought it john moran. Yeah, so john l. Warren is the current owner 587 00:44:53,820 --> 00:44:58,940 The third and fourth floors are an apartment that's left vacant for when they have family visiting 588 00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:04,300 And that's awesome and they even talked about like they they could have rented it out, but they just haven't ever 589 00:45:04,940 --> 00:45:08,780 They just couldn't ever do it. Yeah, just like a space that they keep saved 590 00:45:09,420 --> 00:45:13,340 And the fifth floor is the lantern room and I haven't I I didn't get to see 591 00:45:13,340 --> 00:45:17,580 What light is in the lantern room? I'm assuming it's some fixed all-way 592 00:45:18,140 --> 00:45:20,700 I'm sure it's not just a lamp, but that could be true 593 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:24,540 I don't know if you can see it out far enough that people traveling can see it. Yeah 594 00:45:25,260 --> 00:45:30,300 It's got to be a little bit more powerful and if they want to play into the fact that it's a lighthouse 595 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:35,100 Yeah, that they might put something they might dish out the cash to put something powerful in there 596 00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:36,860 man 597 00:45:36,860 --> 00:45:37,980 That is so neat 598 00:45:37,980 --> 00:45:43,820 Yeah, especially because it used to have the the water tower inside and it was so I said it was 5 000 gallons 599 00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:46,380 And he said it was built 600 00:45:46,940 --> 00:45:52,540 Quote like an old whiskey barrel what yeah, like a wooden water tower that they put 601 00:45:53,340 --> 00:45:58,780 The slide house around the slats together and like put the metal bands around it. Oh, that's cool 602 00:45:59,740 --> 00:46:05,500 Yeah, and he said that they had to dismantle it like bit by bit in order to get it out and some of the wood 603 00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:12,140 They said was used in like friends homes to be built because they didn't have any idea what to do with all the pieces 604 00:46:12,140 --> 00:46:15,340 Yeah, that's so cool. I would love to uh play pool there 605 00:46:15,340 --> 00:46:19,820 I know it looks and the pool table is really well taken care of it's not like a dumpster fire 606 00:46:19,820 --> 00:46:21,820 I bet you this place is so busy 607 00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:29,660 It apparently is like a hot spot. Yeah, I mean the spit was busy. Yeah, it was july 4th weekend. But yeah 608 00:46:29,660 --> 00:46:31,660 Oh, it's so much fun. I want to go 609 00:46:31,660 --> 00:46:35,900 They sell patches. You should give me a patch for my jacket salty dog sells them. Yeah 610 00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:38,220 All right. Well, i'll try to get there. Okay 611 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:41,900 Well, so the light tower made it a well-known landmark in the area 612 00:46:41,900 --> 00:46:46,700 But they're also known for their dollar bill tradition, which you can see by the the front door here 613 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:51,900 I'm gonna pull up a couple pictures. Oh, that's cool. The inside looks like you have some underwear with some 614 00:46:52,700 --> 00:46:53,580 some 615 00:46:53,580 --> 00:46:56,140 People's numbers on it. We have a bra 616 00:46:56,140 --> 00:47:01,180 Booy's lots of pictures a license plate going on here a hat 617 00:47:02,300 --> 00:47:04,700 People just come in and they just tag 618 00:47:05,500 --> 00:47:08,940 Their names on a dollar bill and then tack tack it on the walls 619 00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:15,420 Yeah, or anything else they have around underwear. Whatever. Yeah. Yeah, i'm pretty sure this kind of looks like maybe somebody's id 620 00:47:16,140 --> 00:47:18,140 here 621 00:47:19,260 --> 00:47:23,260 Yeah, so the tradition started um, I'm gonna grab grab my notes away from this 622 00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:30,300 Nice grab. Thank you dollar bill tradition. There was a couple different things that I read about but mainly it's just that 623 00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:32,940 many many years ago a 624 00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:35,500 Visitor tacked a dollar on the wall 625 00:47:35,980 --> 00:47:39,020 Because he knew that his friend was going to be coming by later and he's like hey 626 00:47:39,020 --> 00:47:41,180 This is for this person to buy them a drink 627 00:47:41,180 --> 00:47:46,940 So that's how this whole tradition started is that he tacked a dollar bill on the wall and it became like a big thing 628 00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:49,740 Where people write their names and numbers and whatever else? 629 00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:53,500 Yeah on a dollar bill and leave it behind to leave their mark 630 00:47:54,060 --> 00:47:58,540 Like bondo bozeman, montana bozeman montana. Yeah, I can 631 00:48:00,140 --> 00:48:01,900 Bob 632 00:48:01,900 --> 00:48:03,340 South dakota 633 00:48:03,340 --> 00:48:10,140 Have you ever seen a restaurant that does this or a bar? No, but I saw lots of other places. Well 634 00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:12,780 Lawrence 635 00:48:12,780 --> 00:48:14,300 right 636 00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:16,940 Jefferson's on master not ringing a bell 637 00:48:16,940 --> 00:48:21,820 I mean, I know jefferson's I don't remember dollar pills. I was gonna say estes park colorado 638 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:24,940 We haven't been there together, but i've been there 639 00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:30,460 Many many times growing up and there was a my favorite restaurant in this entire world is now 640 00:48:31,180 --> 00:48:33,180 No longer the same 641 00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:37,100 Um, but I won't it's a good place still but it's been moved 642 00:48:37,420 --> 00:48:42,220 But it had a tradition of dollar bills on the walls and I was you know, everything is magic when you're a kid 643 00:48:42,220 --> 00:48:44,220 I got to draw 644 00:48:44,220 --> 00:48:47,900 On a dollar bill with like a marker and leave it and then put it on the wall 645 00:48:48,220 --> 00:48:52,220 I think what what the one in estes park did was after a period of time 646 00:48:52,220 --> 00:48:54,620 They'd clean them all off and donate them to some local cause 647 00:48:55,260 --> 00:48:56,700 So I just 648 00:48:56,700 --> 00:49:01,260 Yeah, I think it's a common thing very fond memory for me. Yeah, but it is fun. Yeah to see it 649 00:49:01,260 --> 00:49:02,860 I can't remember anywhere in lawrence 650 00:49:02,860 --> 00:49:03,340 Yeah 651 00:49:03,340 --> 00:49:08,380 It was some place that had dollar bills all over the wall and they they did take them down the next time I had visited 652 00:49:08,380 --> 00:49:11,980 They had started over cool. So anyway, I don't know. I don't know 653 00:49:11,980 --> 00:49:15,580 I haven't heard that if if they do that to this place, but the current 654 00:49:16,140 --> 00:49:21,180 Manager of the saloon estimates there's anywhere between 50 to 60 thousand dollars on the wall 655 00:49:21,660 --> 00:49:27,180 Business ever dries up. Yeah, they got insurance policy on the wall. Look at all of this stuff and 656 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:34,380 This is a real human skull. What they put a sign the last man who wrote a hot check 657 00:49:34,940 --> 00:49:39,180 Oh, that's cool. But yeah, they found a real human skull. I think in the bay 658 00:49:39,180 --> 00:49:42,780 And they put it up here the last man. Yeah, it didn't turn into the police 659 00:49:42,780 --> 00:49:45,980 Yeah, we're gonna turn it in the police but then we thought hey, we have a bar 660 00:49:45,980 --> 00:49:49,900 We put it on the wall. We have crazy stuff on the walls, but look at all of this alcohol 661 00:49:49,900 --> 00:49:56,940 It's a full stocked bar. I've got it. It's too cool. It wasn't quite this cool. I'll be honest, but there's a place I went on the 662 00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:03,580 Denali Highway, which is also in Alaska. That was a bar in a 663 00:50:03,580 --> 00:50:08,300 Cargo ship container one cargo ship. That was the whole bar. It was like five seats 664 00:50:08,300 --> 00:50:13,020 Oh, it's called the sluice box. Oh my gosh. It's uh, I can't remember where we were at 665 00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:16,620 Clearwater Mountain Lodge is the place we stayed 666 00:50:18,140 --> 00:50:24,540 Um, sluice. Yep. There it is. Oh, that's Alaska State Fair sluice box comes from 667 00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:28,540 That's the one 668 00:50:28,540 --> 00:50:35,580 sluice box comes from uh, yeah, that's the one that's a term having to do with 669 00:50:36,460 --> 00:50:41,820 There it is. Oh, come on. I'm losing my brain here. But when they're excavating an area 670 00:50:42,620 --> 00:50:45,820 I think looking for gold. It's the sluice box. It's like a slushie 671 00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:48,620 Yeah, my understanding someone's going to correct us 672 00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:55,340 But so we went to this bar because it's the only thing at the we stayed at this like kind of cabins area 673 00:50:55,340 --> 00:51:01,580 Um, it's the only thing out there and we were the only customers and the only person working the bar was a person 674 00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:06,700 No, but you can tell we weren't the first ones there. Yeah, the only person working the bar was this 675 00:51:07,260 --> 00:51:10,060 The son of the person who owns the cabin 676 00:51:10,460 --> 00:51:15,260 So it was like, you know if you need anything, it's just us like there's no one else around 677 00:51:15,740 --> 00:51:17,100 middle of nowhere 678 00:51:17,100 --> 00:51:22,220 Really beautiful. There's a rainbow in the morning. We woke up. Ah, i'm so excited to go back to alaska 679 00:51:22,220 --> 00:51:26,700 Here I sit in smelly vapor someone took all the toilet paper 680 00:51:27,340 --> 00:51:31,420 Late for work, but still I linger look out ass. Here comes my finger 681 00:51:34,060 --> 00:51:36,060 You're not accepting that 682 00:51:38,860 --> 00:51:42,300 I'm gonna stick with salty dog. All i'm saying is alaska's got some cool bars 683 00:51:43,420 --> 00:51:48,140 It is pretty cool. I love that the dollar bear dollar beer. I mean hey 684 00:51:48,140 --> 00:51:54,780 Eight eight dollar bill tradition lives on in many other places. I i've definitely it's not 685 00:51:55,340 --> 00:51:57,900 Original to this but maybe it's the first place to ever do it 686 00:51:57,900 --> 00:52:03,260 We don't know but yeah money's not the only thing that ends up on these walls that we saw from the panties and the license plates 687 00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:05,500 There's also like business cards 688 00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:08,460 uh bras lanterns hats, um 689 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:14,700 And lots of other stuff alaska alaska besides the decor. You'll also find like 690 00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:21,660 some like rustic wooden tables a fully stocked bar and a pool table their signature drink is called the duck fart 691 00:52:22,060 --> 00:52:25,660 Which is a shot that's layered with baileys and ca-caula 692 00:52:26,220 --> 00:52:28,220 Kaluha 693 00:52:28,220 --> 00:52:30,220 With some crown royal whiskey 694 00:52:31,660 --> 00:52:37,820 That is interesting. Oh there are pictures baileys and kaluha is like a creamy coffee combo 695 00:52:38,540 --> 00:52:40,540 Baileys irish cream shout out 696 00:52:40,540 --> 00:52:44,300 Let's just go kaluha coffee liqueur i'll get those two and then 697 00:52:45,260 --> 00:52:46,700 Canadian whiskey 698 00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:50,140 I want to go so bad. I'm so jealous that you guys are going 699 00:52:53,660 --> 00:52:55,660 You're welcome to come along 700 00:52:55,660 --> 00:53:01,020 You take a motorcycle class you guys would not i'd be going so slow i'd be like just we don't go that fast 701 00:53:01,020 --> 00:53:05,100 You'd be surprised there. Well, there's times when we burn like the wind but most of the time 702 00:53:05,660 --> 00:53:08,700 Uh, I think the average speed we're going was like 40 to 50 miles an hour 703 00:53:08,700 --> 00:53:12,380 Are you guys taking a new route this time? We're gonna go some of the same roads 704 00:53:13,020 --> 00:53:17,980 Um, but we're gonna try to see some new things. We're actually gonna cross over into canada. Oh neat 705 00:53:18,540 --> 00:53:20,540 You need your passport? Yep. I do 706 00:53:21,260 --> 00:53:23,260 Just put in a request for a new one 707 00:53:23,580 --> 00:53:27,580 So much fun. I can't figure out where I saw this picture of the picture of the 708 00:53:28,220 --> 00:53:30,220 the duck fart 709 00:53:30,220 --> 00:53:37,180 Can you can you look that up duck fart drink? Yeah, there you go. Oh, yeah. Okay. It's an article 710 00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:39,180 an article 711 00:53:39,660 --> 00:53:41,660 There it is 712 00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:48,700 It looks yeah looks like a duck fart. Yeah, we got baileys and then we've got whiskey and uh, kula 713 00:53:49,900 --> 00:53:51,260 Kaluha 714 00:53:51,260 --> 00:53:56,860 That is a strange combo. I know but you know if it's their signature drink, it's got to be something good 715 00:53:57,820 --> 00:53:58,940 maybe 716 00:53:58,940 --> 00:54:01,340 Or it's just like it's like a shot of malort 717 00:54:02,220 --> 00:54:03,660 Oh, yeah. Oh 718 00:54:03,660 --> 00:54:05,660 tastes like pencil eraser 719 00:54:05,660 --> 00:54:09,180 So the lighthouse I did see a photo of it kind of as we scrolled by 720 00:54:09,900 --> 00:54:14,140 Um, oh, yeah, they have a really cool good ones on their um instagram, which 721 00:54:14,860 --> 00:54:19,420 You can follow. Yeah, they're so they're they're actually open during the winter that used to not be true 722 00:54:19,500 --> 00:54:21,340 But now their normal hours 723 00:54:21,340 --> 00:54:23,340 Are 10 a.m. To 5 a.m 724 00:54:25,020 --> 00:54:27,020 So they're only not open for five hours 725 00:54:27,900 --> 00:54:33,980 Uh, and in the winter it's open 12 p.m. To 8 p.m. Okay, not open very late. Yep. Yep 726 00:54:33,980 --> 00:54:37,740 It says spring hours opening at 11 and staying until midnight or so 727 00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:42,460 It's cool. I did read in the book that winter months 728 00:54:43,100 --> 00:54:48,380 At least when it was first opened were reserved for like fishermen and and people to actually come and use it 729 00:54:48,380 --> 00:54:50,380 And then the rest of the time 730 00:54:50,620 --> 00:54:52,620 the fishermen respectfully 731 00:54:52,860 --> 00:54:58,620 You know turned it down so that the tourists could be using it in the summer months and not be scared away 732 00:54:59,020 --> 00:55:01,580 That's so funny the locals gave it a break 733 00:55:01,580 --> 00:55:08,080 Yeah, they have uh, their instagram is at salty dog saloon if you want to go follow them their website salty dog saloon.com 734 00:55:08,940 --> 00:55:11,820 And they sell a ton of merchandise including thongs 735 00:55:12,460 --> 00:55:19,100 No comment. Let's see if we go to stuff. There's like glass and drink where everything we got bumper sticker drink koozies stickers 736 00:55:19,580 --> 00:55:25,340 Playing cards. Those are pretty dope. Here's the patch bandana for you motorcycle riding men. Yeah 737 00:55:26,140 --> 00:55:27,660 Yep 738 00:55:27,660 --> 00:55:28,700 joke 739 00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:32,540 Really cool. Also good website as well. They they write a lot about 740 00:55:33,420 --> 00:55:41,020 Sawdust on the grounds of the bar, which I think they still do and it is just put down like this inch 741 00:55:41,820 --> 00:55:47,740 Layer of sawdust or more which collects any spilled drinks or anything. Yeah, and then at the end of the day they 742 00:55:48,380 --> 00:55:53,420 Scoop up all the sawdust and get rid of it and they will check, you know through it for like 743 00:55:53,420 --> 00:56:00,700 Money or they find like wedding rings and it's like all kinds of stuff. They talk about there's been stories of people that come in 744 00:56:01,260 --> 00:56:06,940 Lovers spats heated arguments and the woman throws her ring down and says I am no longer married to you 745 00:56:06,940 --> 00:56:12,700 Like the book is hilarious. Like if anyone wants to give it a read it has a lot of cool stories about this saloon 746 00:56:12,700 --> 00:56:18,700 It's like a litter box floor. Exactly. Yeah, and it's just like turns into like a sludge that they have to pick up 747 00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:24,220 Pick up it's part of the experience man a quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem 748 00:56:24,300 --> 00:56:30,140 I've heard that quote before toby keith known to toby keith. Oh my gosh, toby keith. Yeah toby smith 749 00:56:32,060 --> 00:56:36,300 Of uh of the bomb has told us that oh that's the same comment that's funny 750 00:56:36,700 --> 00:56:40,300 But yeah, that's all i've got on the salty dog. So now i'm just browsing but 751 00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:47,180 Yeah, it's just um, it's a faux lighthouse. I thought it would be a super cool super fun. Yeah, no, it's super 752 00:56:47,180 --> 00:56:53,580 Oh, and it's good. There's no like big stories about it, you know some ship crashing or yeah, no some explosion 753 00:56:54,380 --> 00:56:59,420 The earthquake was a lot but right but the yeah lighthouse was after i'll definitely try to get there 754 00:56:59,420 --> 00:57:06,300 I might reach out to him. We'll see so two days the second to last day. We're coming across into wittier 755 00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:11,340 Um on a on a ferry on a boat. That's the plan. So it's like an eight-hour ferry 756 00:57:12,220 --> 00:57:15,020 And then we go through this tunnel which is only a one 757 00:57:15,020 --> 00:57:21,580 One lane tunnel. Oh gosh traffic only goes one way weird. You could wait apparently you could wait hours to get through it 758 00:57:21,900 --> 00:57:25,180 No way, and then and then that spits us out towards 759 00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:31,180 Uh, I believe it's towards seward if I remember right and so to get to homer that night 760 00:57:31,420 --> 00:57:33,420 We may have 12 plus hour day 761 00:57:33,660 --> 00:57:37,660 Um, and we don't we can't predict the boat times and in the tunnel times 762 00:57:38,220 --> 00:57:43,340 So if we don't get there then which i don't think we will the very last day 763 00:57:43,340 --> 00:57:51,180 We'd be going from seward to homer all the way back up to anchorage, which is all of the seward peninsula. Yeah, or uh 764 00:57:52,780 --> 00:57:55,900 Man, my memory is just not confident but that that whole peninsula 765 00:57:56,860 --> 00:57:58,860 So that's what we're planning to do 766 00:57:59,020 --> 00:58:03,820 Maybe we hopefully we can get here, but we may not get to homer. It'd be sad. Hopefully you can 767 00:58:03,980 --> 00:58:07,500 You got to give this place a visit. I'd like to a full house that 768 00:58:08,060 --> 00:58:09,500 Lives in in our hearts. Yeah 769 00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:14,300 I wish I wish we were staying at land's end again because I just go down here for the evening 770 00:58:14,540 --> 00:58:17,260 Yeah, you know try to fight the crowds live it up 771 00:58:17,980 --> 00:58:22,300 Very unexpected salty dog saloon. Thank you for that. I'm gonna like seeing that title in our 772 00:58:23,020 --> 00:58:25,980 Our next episode did you sponsor? Yeah 773 00:58:27,100 --> 00:58:28,140 might as well 774 00:58:28,140 --> 00:58:29,180 uh 775 00:58:29,180 --> 00:58:35,280 I don't i'm not good at this. So we'll just put it in but um, our sponsor for today is newegg.com 776 00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:41,920 Um, I contacted them i've actually ordered from them before so it's a mostly technology 777 00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:47,120 But if you I mean you can go on amazon sure but newegg.com is a tech mecca 778 00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:51,760 So if you need a computer mouse a keyboard if you're gonna look at laptops, you want to learn some more? 779 00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,320 It's a super nerds website and I that's what I am and I love it for that reason 780 00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,120 But they've they've connected us with a link 781 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,360 So if there's anything that you've had in your mind on your christmas list that you didn't get 782 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,880 Um, if you use our link to go purchase that we'll get three percent back 783 00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:12,320 Towards uh towards the lighthouse lowdown. So just thought we'd give them a mention. I think it's active 784 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:19,200 We'll post how long it's active but like yeah april so we'll include it in the show notes for this episode 785 00:59:19,200 --> 00:59:22,320 So anyone that wants to order something and give a little bit 786 00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:29,120 Yeah, I mean inadvertently to the lighthouse lowdown or anything. We appreciate you just listening. That's that's why we're here 787 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:34,480 But if you do need something watch our listener numbers like a hawk. So if you really want to gift us 788 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,840 Just listen to our episodes. But if you want to do it in a way that 789 00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:43,760 You know, you don't have to go out of your way. Just click on the link. Yeah, so we're new on linkedin this week 790 00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:50,240 Um making some posts on there. We're big on youtube now is our big our big launch a couple weeks ago. So 791 00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:55,840 Uh, we're just gonna keep going. We appreciate everyone listening in and chatting with us. It's been fun 792 00:59:55,840 --> 01:00:03,120 Yeah, and we had a an instagram comment from mum's oh mysteries and murders. Is that what it was? 793 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,120 It's another podcast. It's um 794 01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:13,600 A pair of moms from oh australia in the uk edinburgh. Yeah. Yeah, and they just cover true crime very laid-back 795 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:19,760 Casual I haven't listened an episode but vince did and he said it was very enjoyable. They had like fun stories. I listen 796 01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:24,320 I listened to one um, and it was regarding this is gonna sound 797 01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,760 Just listen to it. It was it was a dog suicide bridge 798 01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:32,080 And they were talking there's not a lot of story there, but there's this bridge 799 01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:38,560 And over the years many dogs have decided to jump off this bridge in out of nowhere instantly 800 01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,200 And a lot of those dogs have passed away 801 01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:48,800 So that's what their episode is about but they get into some commentary that their accents and their perspectives being moms 802 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:49,600 Yeah 803 01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,920 That's the gold. I really I really enjoy 804 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:59,120 Oh, I'll have to listen. I was excited. They just commented on our um, flannel island mystery and said we just we just covered this 805 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:04,240 You know, we really like the story of binging your podcast. It's super fun because I love lighthouses and all that 806 01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:08,640 So I just sent her back a message said we'd go ahead and listen and if they had any lighthouses 807 01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:15,120 Around australia or the uk or anything that had spooky stories, then we would totally cover it because 808 01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,080 I it's been a long time since I did a spooky lighthouse 809 01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:18,640 Spookspook 810 01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,640 I've been doing fun lighthouses. My next one is also a fun lighthouse 811 01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:24,800 There's more spooky 812 01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,440 There's more in our potential cards for you 813 01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:31,520 Uh, I haven't started work on one, but I know I know of one 814 01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:33,600 Oh, yeah 815 01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:37,440 Yeah, I have the next episode and then vince will be doing the next one 816 01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:42,400 So yeah, i've got a couple different ideas and i'm not sure which one i'm gonna move forward with next so 817 01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,100 I'm gonna do some shuffling. Yeah, it'll be fun. Every day i'm shuffling 818 01:01:46,100 --> 01:01:51,140 Follow us on instagram at the lighthouse lowdown where you can see pictures 819 01:01:51,460 --> 01:01:53,060 Uh, and then follow us on youtube 820 01:01:53,060 --> 01:01:59,620 I'll put the link in our show notes where you can watch possibly the screen share of this episode or if it's just too much 821 01:02:00,180 --> 01:02:03,220 Then it'll just be a slideshow of pictures, which will probably be more 822 01:02:04,820 --> 01:02:10,020 I don't know. I didn't do a very good job of the screen work. It's too much stress. We'll just see what happens 823 01:02:10,020 --> 01:02:12,020 Whatever we post we'll post 824 01:02:12,020 --> 01:02:13,620 Okay, sounds good 825 01:02:13,620 --> 01:02:18,840 But yeah and go to our website or uh, you can send us an email at lighthouselowdownatgmail.com 826 01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:26,100 If you want to talk to us about any buoys or lighthouses you want us to cover we've had a couple and um 827 01:02:26,660 --> 01:02:28,980 They're in the works. Our next episode is a 828 01:02:29,620 --> 01:02:34,260 Has a history buoy from someone that requested it. Nice. We'll get to do that 829 01:02:34,260 --> 01:02:44,040 So thanks for listening and we hope you catch us next time on the lighthouse lowdown