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Hello, I'm Vince
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Wait, what?
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How does it go? I say hi everyone. I think yeah
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Hi, everyone. I'm Vince and I'm Emily and you're listening to the lighthouse lowdown
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Very good. Very good. Welcome to another episode. Our host today is wearing glasses and he looks really cute
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Biased
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You made the emoji face. That's like which one like slightly blushing smiley with glasses, of course
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I
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Just recalled at this very moment that I don't have a history buoy
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Oh, you're pulling to me. There's so much history involved in this here episode that we can just count
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you'll see so I'm kind of gonna tell two stories at once and
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Some of it is a little choppy and I've got to read a bit today. So
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Don't be afraid to interrupt me and ask questions and bring it back to conversation. Okay
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Okay, first off. Have you heard of Atlantic City? Do you know what that is where that is? Why I want to say, Georgia
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It's not in Georgia
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So wild guess out there. The answer is no. Okay, New Jersey Atlantic City is in New Jersey and it's an interesting city
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because
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To my knowledge. There's nowhere else like it other than Las Vegas as far as where you can gamble
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There are casinos and resorts and hotels
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I think it's in friends somewhere. Oh really? So it's kind of focused what obviously we're gonna talk about it
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I'm stepping on my own material. Okay, but it's kind of focused on the Northeast
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New York folks and
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I think Philadelphia is nearby. I have to look man. I might have to eat those words, but New Jersey highly populated area
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I have not spent any time in that area. So I don't know personally, but I found it fascinating
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And at the very end of the episode you're gonna see why I was fascinated with abscond lighthouse
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Did you look up that pronunciation? Yes
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Absa Khan
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I've heard so I watched YouTube videos and people say abscond. So I'm gonna say abscond. Yeah videos are usually pretty like
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I watched um, like a tribe video
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Tr fashioned of abscond
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sorry, we go back to talk about Hollywood
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Not
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eel
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Um and I've watched
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you how compared it is to Hatteras.
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Yeah, that's nice.
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I was gonna ask.
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This is the second tallest one.
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Ponce de Leon, which is in Florida.
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It's near, well, it's halfway between Orlando
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and St. Augustine.
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So Atlantic City is the story I'm gonna kind of tell
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about the history of Atlantic City.
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And then we're also gonna talk about Epsican Lighthouse,
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kind of mixed in.
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Most of my sources today are half of Lighthouse Friends
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talking about Epsican and half of a document
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talking about the history of Atlantic City.
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Okay.
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My interest in this lighthouse is the combination of the two
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because it's a very weird place to have a lighthouse.
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Oh, I like that.
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So Atlantic City is a landmass.
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At present day, the landmass is Epsican Island.
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Oh, okay.
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The city is the city.
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So it's detached.
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Yeah, early colonial settlers in Jersey, South Jersey,
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largely ignored the island because it could only be reached
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by boat separate from the land.
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While the exact date of the first permanent settlement
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has never been determined,
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it's said that a man named Jeremiah Leeds
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was the first to build and occupy a year round residence
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on the island.
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He built his house in 1783.
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Wow, he just moved right over there.
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Yeah, he's like, oh look, free land.
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I like to be alone.
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I did learn that there were other names for Epsican Island
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from the natives that had lived there before.
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Oh yeah, I always love to hear those.
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I think they had, I don't know them.
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Big eyebrows, I want you to pronounce them.
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You try.
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He tried to put me in that trap.
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So I can't, I don't need to write them down.
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But of course, like most of North America
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was occupied by Native Americans
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and then they had moved or had been forced away
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by the time settlers were in the area.
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So in 1820, Dr. Jonathan Pitney is another important figure.
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He arrived on Epsican Island seated atop a horse
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laden with saddlebags full of medical supplies
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and personal belongings.
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He was a doctor?
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Yes.
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He had just finished his first two years of employment
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at a hospital in Staten Island,
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very renowned developed area at the time for 1820.
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And following his graduation, he did medical school.
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So medical school in New York City,
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Staten Island for a couple of years.
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And then he was looking for a place to be his own practice.
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Yeah, start his own thing.
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So there was talk and I think he largely made up this talk
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that going to the sea,
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putting yourself in nature is good for you.
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Going to the coast, especially from the city,
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like New York crowded areas.
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So touting the health benefits of fresh air and saltwater,
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he encouraged his friends and patients,
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he built his own little group.
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To come where he was?
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To vacation to Atlantic City.
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So there's lots of weirdness going on
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with Atlantic City developing,
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but that was kind of the original push was,
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hey, come out here, it's good for you.
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Get away from the city.
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Yeah, it's not a bad reason to have people
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come to your practice.
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And it's gonna come up again,
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but being an island without a developed way
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of getting to the island is a difficult thing eventually
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to build a lighthouse as well.
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There's no docks,
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beaches are hard to land on with materials,
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let alone have people come out there.
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So he wanted to do a couple things
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to help build up Atlantic City.
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One was a railroad and two was a lighthouse.
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Wait, he had the idea for a lighthouse?
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Wow.
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He petitioned the government in 1830,
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so he'd only been there a little bit,
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for a lighthouse on Ipsicon Island.
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1837, Congress approved $5,000 to check it out.
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Which I don't understand, $5,000 in those times
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is a lot of money.
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Is it insane?
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Why is that to just check it out?
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You'll see.
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So at that time it was the Army Corps of Engineers.
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So Commander Vallette, I think it's his name,
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he came to the island and he looked around,
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he did a survey, he looked it all.
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There was a bunch of records that Pitney
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had put together to pitch his case.
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And his conclusion was that a lighthouse was not justified
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because Ipsicon Inlet had a bar across its mouth
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and mariners could avoid the shoals in the area
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by just staying offshore.
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The point was, well you can't have a dock here,
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so just stay away.
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Clearly there's a landmass that keeps people away.
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Based on his report, construction of a lighthouse,
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which may have saved some of 64 ships
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that were lost off the inlet between 1847 and 1856.
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So it was really necessary.
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Which is 64 ships in nine years.
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That's a ton.
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You'd think they would have definitely done something
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by that point.
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They canceled the project at that time.
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Shameful.
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So I don't know if there's more to it,
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money or personal, whatever.
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Lucy the Elephant.
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So Lucy the Elephant.
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Oh, unless you're gonna talk about it later then.
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I'm not.
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I actually left it out and it's kind of a big deal,
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so it's a good question.
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For everyone not watching,
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he just pulled up a map of Atlantic City.
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There's a big bubble that just says Lucy the Elephant.
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We're gonna go, I'm gonna pull up a Google page
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of Google Maps and actually take us over there.
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We're gonna start with no land here.
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It's no ocean.
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Just doxed ourselves, that's fine.
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No one cares about us.
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Hey, we're going up there soon.
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No one cares about us.
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Oh, this is close to Cape Cod?
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Hold on, give me a second.
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Oh.
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Finding my bearings.
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Okay, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, wow.
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Atlantic City.
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The city over here is Philadelphia.
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Thank goodness I was correct.
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And as we're gonna talk about,
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there was a railway that was developed
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between a town outside of Philly,
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think Camden and Atlantic City to kind of bring it to life.
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But I wanted to talk about Atlantic City first.
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So Lucy the Elephant, as you asked,
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is a landmark that is one of the things to see
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in Atlantic City.
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Do AC is the current city slogan.
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It's a house slash the largest elephant ever built.
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Oh my gosh.
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And you can go and get a tour of it.
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At some, I don't remember the history of who built it.
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I didn't focus on it, obviously, for this episode.
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But at some point, someone built this,
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Lucy inside. Wow.
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They built it as a real estate development.
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So someone built it as an art project.
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There's two famous woodworkers.
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I think there were a couple that built this and lived in it.
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And then someone after them, I believe,
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sorry if I'm totally freelancing this,
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bought it and used it to develop the real estate in the area.
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So beach houses and whatever.
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You can go to the top of this thing, that-
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Little overhang.
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I forget what it's called, this thing on top.
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Gondola.
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Yeah, you can go up there.
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Pretty cool.
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So you can go up there and you can look around
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and they actually used to like pick out plots of land
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from up there.
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It's actually pretty nice on the inside.
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I loved their, they had pointy top doors on the inside.
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The eyeball windows.
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Oh, I also saw there was a window booty hole.
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Is there really?
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I've got to see that.
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Let's go.
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Oh yeah. Square too.
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Classy.
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Tail off to the side.
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Like, yeah.
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So a bit of a sidetrack,
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but Lucy the elephant is significant.
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I couldn't skip it.
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Yeah, fun.
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But I also don't really know a ton about it.
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It's fun how there's just some really strange things
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you could find in cities.
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And like their water tower had a picture of it.
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So obviously it's like a focal point for the city.
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It's kind of funny.
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Yeah, you look up what to do in Atlantic city
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and you'll see golf.
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I just saw golf course.
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You don't see golf, although there is golf nearby.
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Thank goodness.
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You'll see beach going.
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One of the things that is unique about Atlantic city
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is the beaches are local and free.
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Free to attend, which is really cool.
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Yeah.
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Casinos, hotels, slash resorts.
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Obviously you can eat, you can shop.
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It's a big come visit place.
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Through history,
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it's been through a couple of different developments.
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It was like a stop for a lot of shows that went to Broadway.
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So you could come out.
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Like part of their climbing to popularity or something.
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During World War II, it was a training camp for the army.
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I think they like trained and kept people ready to go
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out of here.
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But lighthouse, that's what we're here, is up here.
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So it's definitely in the city.
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It's in a central part and it's been there a long time.
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I'm gonna talk about all this stuff.
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But at one point, the lighthouse was almost underwater.
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Oh no.
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It's crazy, given what is there developed now.
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Yeah.
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So we're gonna talk about how they did that.
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Yeah, tell me all about it.
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I would say one thing I saw, if you wanna go visit,
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they recommended don't bring a car.
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Parking is expensive and the whole island
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is kind of occupied.
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I mean, it depends on your standard.
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For me, I'd be crazy because I'm from Kansas
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where parking is free and available.
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Yeah, everywhere.
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Everywhere.
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So in March of, I'm going chronologically.
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So you'll see some jumping.
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That's how I do it.
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March of 1854, the 18 voters of the city
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elected their first mayor.
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His name was Chalky S. Leeds.
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Chalky?
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Chalky, C-H-A-L-K-E-Y.
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His first name was Chalky.
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Chalky.
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His father was the Leeds man who built his house there,
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the first one supposedly, in 1783.
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Jeremiah.
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Oh, okay.
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That's more normal.
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Chalky was a man of the island,
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which I think was rare at the time.
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Also in 1854, the first public train left Camden,
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which we said is up near Philadelphia,
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for Atlantic City, arriving two and a half hours later.
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I think it's a lot faster now.
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Yeah, I bet so.
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But apparently that's the way to go.
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It's really cheap and it's the way to get in.
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So, but that really opened availability
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to get to the island for people
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and everything started taking off.
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So still intent on developing the land further,
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Mr. Pitney, Dr. Pitney,
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he was a huge advocate for the railway
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that we just talked about.
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He wrote a bunch of letters to Congress, petitions.
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He had tabling, he was going door to door.
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Surprised he wasn't the mayor.
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It was like a tight knit community
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because it was so small.
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And people really enjoyed in this era,
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the seclusion that they had.
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So there was a fight between, well, we need money,
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we need people to visit,
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but also look how great this is with no one else.
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So that all would change.
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Finally, 1854, he was able to secure 35,000
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for Epsiocan Lighthouse to serve the area.
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He is known for those reasons
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as the father of Atlantic City.
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Oh my gosh, he did it.
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Dr. Pitney.
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Here's the earliest picture I could find.
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We're a single strap dude.
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I really wanna visit this era in time.
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It just looks cool.
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Like all this was new.
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These are all new buildings, probably a church.
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Just be cool.
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See a new development.
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Parcel of land near the end that was acquired for $520.
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Work started in 1855.
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The work was overseen again by the Army's Engineering Corps.
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Three men, Major Meade, excuse me,
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Lieutenant Meade, Major Bach, B-A-C-H-E,
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and Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds.
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While Meade was supervising the construction,
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he complained, quote,
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I am not aware on what data the amount appropriated
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for this work was based.
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There is no doubt, however,
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that it was entirely inadequate for a work
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of the magnitude now being erected.
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The place, though within 40 miles of Philadelphia,
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is entirely without resources.
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There are no wharves or conveniences of any kind
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or landing materials, for landing materials,
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or for handling them after landing.
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Hence, it resulted from a reliable calculation
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that transportation on the railroad
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was the most economical route,
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notwithstanding its excess over ordinary water transport.
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So he's saying, typically, we build lighthouses with boats.
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We deliver all the materials on a nice dock and wharf
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where we buy all the hardware.
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Right next to where we're trying to go.
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There's rigging and cranes and steam engines,
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at least at the time.
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And he's like, we don't have any of that.
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So how are we supposed to build this?
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It gets worse.
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Oh.
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While excavating an eight foot deep trench
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for the tower's masonry foundation,
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water from the adjoining marshes would flood in,
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requiring the purchase of a steam engine powered pump
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capable of moving 12,000 gallons per hour.
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That's a lot of water.
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Meade requested an additional, I love the precision,
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$17,436.62 to complete the lighthouse.
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And this amount was provided in August of 1856.
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Wow, he really quoted it specifically.
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Yeah, I'm trying to read this accurately.
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No rounding up.
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Isn't that weird?
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First off, to get a quote down to the pennies.
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Right.
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But also, now we see why, I think,
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the first gentleman who visited was like,
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you don't really need a lighthouse here.
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Yeah.
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There's nothing here.
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Yeah, you don't even have the materials
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to bring in shipping materials and stuff.
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But you need a lighthouse to do that well
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when you have 60 something ships sink in nine years.
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I suppose.
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So I wanted to show you the three lighthouses
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that are the tallest in the United States,
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according to one article that I had read.
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Wouldn't you argue that the worst, the terrible lighthouse
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that we recently covered of Statue of Liberty is taller?
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Yeah, but it's not a lighthouse.
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Anymore or it was?
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It's not considered because it's,
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that's like the...
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Faro de...
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Faro's Alexandria.
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Oh, yeah.
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I think I could be wrong.
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You said that right, I think.
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I think that's right.
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We have our own podcast.
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We can do whatever we want.
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I said that right.
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No one here is objecting.
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Although that one would be considered
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because it's even taller than Statue of Liberty.
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So it's in this no longer here, it doesn't count.
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You can't really, I'm looking at the screen.
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If you're watching on YouTube,
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you can see that the three that we're talking about,
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Cape Hatteras, Ponce de Leon,
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which I said again is in Florida.
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Hold on.
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Epsiq and I went.
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Did you do this editing?
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I did not do this.
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Okay.
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This is from an article.
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I was like, oh my gosh, what is happening?
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Why?
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Did I do good?
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We'll just say I did it then.
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I did it.
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And you'll see the last slide is credits
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to other websites and articles.
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Oh, nice.
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Your results may vary.
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You can actually...
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Epsiqon?
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Epsiqon.
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Epsiqon?
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Oh, Epsiqon is what I would have said.
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Epsiqon is what it actually is.
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It needs some help.
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It does.
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Is that a current photo or something?
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It's a more current photo.
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Okay.
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So yeah, continue.
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And there's an article that says that that,
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we're gonna cover it.
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That day mark is yellow, black, yellow.
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No.
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Looks awfully white, black, white to me.
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It looks supremely white, black, maybe cream,
451
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but definitely white up top.
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But it had a bunch of cool day marks
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that we're gonna talk about.
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Oh, epsiqled. Very exciting.
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Okay.
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The top there, we'll see better photos later,
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but it's actually a caged in platform
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below what I would say is the lantern room.
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Okay.
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And that is where you can climb to.
461
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There's actually a live camera up there all the time,
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just so you can check in.
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I like when they do that.
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I would say it doesn't look like the best view
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because of the bars, but it'd still be cool to go.
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It'd be cool to go there, for sure.
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They have a whole museum and everything.
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It was the first lighthouse built under the supervision
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of the new lighthouse board.
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Oh, hey.
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Those gentlemen.
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And it was also the first of three similar towers
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that would be constructed in New Jersey
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in the next few years.
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It's a brick tower.
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It stands 171 feet tall.
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It was made of 598,634 bricks,
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and it contains a spiral staircase with 228 steps.
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The Fresnel lens.
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Gosh.
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Oh, it just never ends.
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Fresnel, Fresnel lens, Fresnel was manufactured in 1854.
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It was a custom order, first order.
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Love that.
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From a company called Souter and CIE of Paris.
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Someone can tell me how to pronounce that.
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It was installed and lit for the first time in 1857.
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So three years from the order to lighting, which is cool.
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Okay.
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The lighthouse board proudly wrote, quote.
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Probably.
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Proudly.
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Oh.
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They probably wrote this, quote.
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I think this was them.
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It is.
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Okay.
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It is a fact worthy of remark that on this part
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of the coast hitherto frequent and appalling shipwrecks.
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Gosh.
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Since the exhibition of this light,
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a period of about 10 months,
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there have been no wrecks in this vicinity.
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Okay, hey.
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So I can't speak today, but that's what they said.
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They're like, look at this.
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They stuttered through the whole thing too.
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Yeah, they, actually that's how they would have said it.
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Built in.
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My gosh.
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Atlantic city again, the pox.
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You almost made me choke on my coffee.
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The tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips.
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Atlantic city's proximity to major population centers
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coupled with convenient, inexpensive train access
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allowed thousands to flee hot cities
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and enjoy summer pleasures at a cool seashore.
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The city grew rapidly and offered lodging, dining,
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entertainment, and amusement for all ages, tastes,
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and incomes.
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Attractions such as the boardwalk, which is really cool.
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I always loved boardwalks.
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The boardwalk, it's huge.
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Amusement piers, like they have like a kids,
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basically a Navy pier just for like full of circus
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type of stuff.
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That there's couples of those, couple of those.
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Floor shows and beauty pageants drew throngs of visitors,
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including many famous people throughout the years
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with these masses of visitors, the lighthouse
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also became a popular attraction.
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So it was one of the first to boom in visitation
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because it was something you would do
534
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when you're already there.
535
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,600
And as we saw, it's right in the middle of the city.
536
00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:04,760
Two dwellings were built for the lighthouse.
537
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,760
One for the headkeeper, one for the two assistants.
538
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,600
The headkeeper was actually connected to the lighthouse
539
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,360
by a 30 foot passageway that was enclosed.
540
00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:16,440
And the second dwelling stood the opposite side
541
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,480
of the tower, but they had to walk outside
542
00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:20,720
because they're lowly assistants.
543
00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,000
The dwellings, I cut this down.
544
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,120
The dwellings were remodeled several times
545
00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:28,960
to make space for assistants, mostly in their families.
546
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,520
Several times, five or six times.
547
00:21:30,520 --> 00:21:32,120
They had more than one assistant level?
548
00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:32,960
Yes.
549
00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:35,440
And we'll get to why.
550
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:39,280
Here's an image of the lighthouse in 1900.
551
00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,080
The Library of Congress had this photo.
552
00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:42,320
I thought that was interesting.
553
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,600
Nice, those houses are so neat.
554
00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:46,440
Aren't they cool?
555
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:47,280
I love the construction.
556
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:48,120
Love that architecture.
557
00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:49,280
It's hard to imagine today
558
00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:50,960
because of where the lighthouse sits,
559
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,560
but for several years, it was threatened by erosion
560
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:54,920
in the water.
561
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,960
So it was originally 1300 feet from the water.
562
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:02,960
In 1864, the sea was causing considerable apprehension.
563
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,000
Taking of regular measurements was instituted
564
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,240
to track the changing of the shoreline.
565
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,120
So that was just 10 years later.
566
00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,160
10 years after that, ordinarily,
567
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,640
the high tides were reaching the lighthouse lot
568
00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:16,920
and extreme tides were covering a large portion
569
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,240
of the reservation, which was not good.
570
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:21,480
You're gonna lose it.
571
00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:23,520
So they built seven jetties,
572
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,040
which are portions of riprap on land,
573
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:28,160
and they covered the distance
574
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,720
between the low and the high tides,
575
00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,760
and over time, that captured the sand
576
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,840
to help build up the shore,
577
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,120
and that's still what's there today.
578
00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:36,960
Okay, wow.
579
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,800
Still serving that.
580
00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,800
So they added one long one at the very end in 1878.
581
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,840
These works proved so effective that in 1884,
582
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,480
100 square feet of the lighthouse lot
583
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:50,680
was used to build a life-saving station.
584
00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:51,520
Nice.
585
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:52,360
So not only was it there,
586
00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,920
but they were really betting on it.
587
00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,640
So that was the time when it was almost underwater?
588
00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:57,480
Okay.
589
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:58,760
The 1850s to 1870s.
590
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,560
So 20 years of building the land back up,
591
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,600
and then 10 more years after that,
592
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:04,720
they built the life-saving station.
593
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:05,640
They had proved it.
594
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,480
Yeah, awesome.
595
00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,720
And still there's hotels and casinos on it now.
596
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,040
It's crazy.
597
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,160
Over its life, there was only six headkeepers.
598
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:14,720
The fourth, I'm gonna tell you a story
599
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,240
about Abraham G. Wolfe.
600
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:18,320
Wolfe is a good last name.
601
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,320
Yeah, he could coach a Formula One team.
602
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,320
Coach.
603
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:26,260
He made the following station, oh my God.
604
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,320
Made the following entry in the station's log book,
605
00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:32,840
952 p.m., August 30th of 1886,
606
00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:35,040
while he was standing watch on the tower.
607
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:35,880
Oh.
608
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,160
Quote, felt a shock of earthquake while top of the tower.
609
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:40,000
Oh no.
610
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,840
Pipes in the closet rattled as if a gale wind were blowing.
611
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,440
The tower swayed so I could hardly keep my footing.
612
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,200
The wind was north, northwest, very light,
613
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,800
and it was cloudy and smoky both.
614
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,480
Motion north to south, duration about one minute.
615
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,640
I was out on the gallery at the time,
616
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,080
came in and looked at the clock,
617
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,120
had difficulty in doing so,
618
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,620
could not have left if I had wished to do so.
619
00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:04,280
And I think I did at the time.
620
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,360
I think I wanted to get out of there.
621
00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:08,600
No kidding.
622
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:11,840
He called down to his wife using a telephone
623
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,360
of his own making.
624
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,480
Don't know anymore about that.
625
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,320
Okay.
626
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,760
Pretty dope though.
627
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:20,560
Connected the, dope, connected the tower's watch room
628
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,160
with the dwelling's kitchen.
629
00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:24,000
He asked his wife, did you feel that?
630
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,400
She said no, and told him that he must have
631
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:27,820
experienced vertigo.
632
00:24:27,820 --> 00:24:28,660
Oh no.
633
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,480
When an assistant keeper came to relieve him at 10 p.m.,
634
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,920
Wolf showed him what he had written in the log book.
635
00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,720
Not having felt the quake, the assistant suggested to Wolf
636
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,000
that he, such a record might place his sanity in question.
637
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,080
And perhaps he should expunge it.
638
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,800
I mean, if nobody else felt it,
639
00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:48,960
although he's pretty high up there,
640
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,400
so naturally he's gonna feel it.
641
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:52,800
But it must not have been a big earthquake
642
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:53,640
if there really was something.
643
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:55,720
He was certain that he had felt something.
644
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,720
Maybe he was being a little bit dramatic.
645
00:24:57,720 --> 00:24:59,720
He couldn't find anybody in the station
646
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,580
or even people living nearby to confirm his story.
647
00:25:02,580 --> 00:25:05,640
But when a paper from the big city of Philadelphia
648
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,920
arrived the next morning with an account of the earthquake,
649
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,520
Keeper Wolf's story was substantiated
650
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,160
and his entry remained in the log book.
651
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:15,720
He's, I'm leaving this in there.
652
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:16,560
I'm right, dang it.
653
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,760
He's like, this is written into history.
654
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,080
One man was right.
655
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,280
Besides caring for the light and the property at the station,
656
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:24,640
the keepers of the lighthouse also looked after
657
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,640
the throngs of visitors.
658
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:27,640
Whoa.
659
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,060
Might be having a stroke.
660
00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:32,060
That was a strong one.
661
00:25:32,060 --> 00:25:33,380
I worked out pretty hard.
662
00:25:33,380 --> 00:25:34,620
Yeah, if you're just not getting
663
00:25:34,620 --> 00:25:36,460
a lot of blood to your brain.
664
00:25:36,460 --> 00:25:38,580
Besides caring for the light and the property
665
00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:41,340
at the station, the keepers of Epsikan Lighthouse
666
00:25:41,340 --> 00:25:43,220
also looked after the throngs of visitors
667
00:25:43,220 --> 00:25:44,700
who came for tours.
668
00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:49,700
Climbing the tower was popular with the crowds,
669
00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:52,380
as were the ornamental plantings on the grounds.
670
00:25:52,380 --> 00:25:53,380
What does that mean?
671
00:25:53,380 --> 00:25:54,220
I looked into that.
672
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,940
Apparently there was vast gardens that had been built.
673
00:25:56,940 --> 00:25:58,500
Well, in this picture you have a picture
674
00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:00,140
of a nice hedge.
675
00:26:00,140 --> 00:26:04,140
Like a bunch of flowers as well as vegetable gardens.
676
00:26:04,140 --> 00:26:06,940
Oh, that would be like a botanical garden.
677
00:26:06,940 --> 00:26:08,300
And then the land built up.
678
00:26:08,300 --> 00:26:09,660
So it was very pretty.
679
00:26:09,660 --> 00:26:13,660
So I guess that will go away and then it'll come back.
680
00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:14,500
Oh.
681
00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:16,100
So, but they got an ump...
682
00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,300
An early jump on spring, thanks to the...
683
00:26:20,300 --> 00:26:25,300
I don't get it.
684
00:26:25,300 --> 00:26:27,100
I just need to take a minute.
685
00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:28,540
I just need to take a minute.
686
00:26:28,540 --> 00:26:29,620
You're just staring.
687
00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:30,460
It's too much staring at a screen.
688
00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:32,580
The tongue, the teeth, the eyes and the lips.
689
00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:33,900
Tip of the tongue, the teeth, the lips.
690
00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,900
Tip of the tongue, the teeth and the lips.
691
00:26:36,900 --> 00:26:38,980
Have you seen Anchorman?
692
00:26:38,980 --> 00:26:40,380
No, I saw the end.
693
00:26:40,380 --> 00:26:42,620
Oh, the very opening scene has Will Ferrell
694
00:26:42,620 --> 00:26:43,820
preparing to be on air.
695
00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:44,660
Okay.
696
00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:45,500
He does this.
697
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:46,340
He does this.
698
00:26:46,340 --> 00:26:50,580
That, yeah, that I saw in Just Go With It,
699
00:26:50,580 --> 00:26:51,420
Adam Sandler.
700
00:26:51,420 --> 00:26:52,620
Oh yeah, yeah.
701
00:26:52,620 --> 00:26:54,660
The gardens got an early jump on spring,
702
00:26:54,660 --> 00:26:56,740
thanks to the station's greenhouse.
703
00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:58,260
So they start things in the greenhouse,
704
00:26:58,260 --> 00:26:59,100
take it to the garden.
705
00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:00,020
It was a whole effort.
706
00:27:00,020 --> 00:27:00,860
Yeah.
707
00:27:00,860 --> 00:27:02,220
The lighthouse service questioned
708
00:27:02,220 --> 00:27:04,660
why three keepers were needed.
709
00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:05,980
Oh, oh, I thought they were gonna question
710
00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:06,900
why there was like,
711
00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:08,980
why do you have all this frou-frou garden stuff?
712
00:27:08,980 --> 00:27:11,100
Like, why do you need three keepers?
713
00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:15,020
Because the station never had a revolving lens,
714
00:27:15,020 --> 00:27:18,100
or also it never had a fog signal,
715
00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:19,100
which I think is kind of weird.
716
00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:19,940
That is strange.
717
00:27:19,940 --> 00:27:20,780
Just didn't have one.
718
00:27:20,780 --> 00:27:22,900
Maybe they didn't have a lot of fog.
719
00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,460
Maybe not, on the Atlantic coast, I don't know.
720
00:27:25,460 --> 00:27:26,620
Yeah, that would be weird.
721
00:27:26,620 --> 00:27:31,220
So an inspector visited in 1912 to check this out.
722
00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:34,500
And when he got back, they asked him if it'd be wise
723
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,460
to reduce the public visiting hours and cut one keeper.
724
00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:38,300
Oh no.
725
00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:40,740
Because the keepers were mostly busy with the guests.
726
00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:43,540
The instructor adamantly responded no,
727
00:27:43,540 --> 00:27:45,940
admitting that while giving tours could be a nuisance,
728
00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:48,980
it also served as good public relations for the service.
729
00:27:48,980 --> 00:27:49,820
Yeah.
730
00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:52,060
Over 10,000 people a year were visiting
731
00:27:52,060 --> 00:27:53,020
in the visitor's log.
732
00:27:53,020 --> 00:27:54,500
They were signing it, which is cool.
733
00:27:54,500 --> 00:27:55,620
Awesome that they have a record.
734
00:27:55,620 --> 00:27:56,780
I love that.
735
00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:57,940
The lighthouse service, however,
736
00:27:57,940 --> 00:27:59,740
did order the greenhouse removed.
737
00:27:59,740 --> 00:28:00,580
Oh.
738
00:28:00,580 --> 00:28:01,900
It's frivolous, I guess.
739
00:28:01,900 --> 00:28:03,980
It's somebody's hobby.
740
00:28:03,980 --> 00:28:05,740
The country's most visited lighthouse
741
00:28:05,740 --> 00:28:07,460
lost its impressive gardens.
742
00:28:07,460 --> 00:28:08,340
Oh no.
743
00:28:08,340 --> 00:28:10,020
We're talking 1900.
744
00:28:10,020 --> 00:28:10,860
This is happening.
745
00:28:10,860 --> 00:28:11,700
That's a disaster.
746
00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:15,020
So 1922, regardless of the gardens,
747
00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:17,300
the lighthouse service noted that Epsikian Lighthouse
748
00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:19,820
was visited by the public more than any other lighthouse
749
00:28:19,820 --> 00:28:20,780
in the United States.
750
00:28:20,780 --> 00:28:21,620
My gosh.
751
00:28:21,620 --> 00:28:22,460
So.
752
00:28:22,460 --> 00:28:24,380
I mean, it's right in the middle of everything anyway.
753
00:28:24,380 --> 00:28:28,300
I found this while I was doing the research, that quote,
754
00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,300
and I thought it was really interesting,
755
00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:32,660
especially we recently talked about lighthouse tourism.
756
00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:34,020
We kind of always do, right?
757
00:28:34,020 --> 00:28:34,860
Visit the lighthouse.
758
00:28:34,860 --> 00:28:35,820
It's cool.
759
00:28:35,820 --> 00:28:40,100
But this one had one of the first eras
760
00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:41,780
for lighthouse tourism being popular.
761
00:28:41,780 --> 00:28:44,700
It was the golden age, we'll say 1920.
762
00:28:44,700 --> 00:28:47,460
History makes lots of changes through the 30s and 40s.
763
00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:48,300
Yes.
764
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:50,900
And it had another golden age,
765
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:53,460
I will say we'll get back to it in the early 2000s,
766
00:28:53,460 --> 00:28:54,700
which I think is awesome,
767
00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:55,820
which is kind of the golden,
768
00:28:55,820 --> 00:28:58,260
most recent golden age for all lighthouse tourism
769
00:28:58,260 --> 00:29:00,860
is these renovations we keep hearing about in the 90s.
770
00:29:00,860 --> 00:29:01,820
Big ones.
771
00:29:01,820 --> 00:29:06,100
From the 1880s to 1940s, the city was staying busy.
772
00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:10,340
In the 1920s, it was considered a premier tryout town
773
00:29:10,340 --> 00:29:13,820
for theatrical productions headed to Broadway and beyond.
774
00:29:13,820 --> 00:29:16,220
Beginning in the 1930s, the dirties,
775
00:29:16,220 --> 00:29:19,140
is continuing for the next decades.
776
00:29:19,140 --> 00:29:22,180
Kentucky Avenue was renowned for its nightlife.
777
00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:24,260
The club Harlem and other venues
778
00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:26,300
attracting the best talent and biggest stars
779
00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:29,860
from the world of jazz and then World War II.
780
00:29:29,860 --> 00:29:32,140
The city offered much more entertainment
781
00:29:32,140 --> 00:29:35,020
as it served as a training site for military recruits
782
00:29:35,020 --> 00:29:38,740
and recovery rehab center for wounded soldiers.
783
00:29:38,740 --> 00:29:40,980
They had built up so much housing and lodging
784
00:29:40,980 --> 00:29:43,980
that the government was like, so now we're in war.
785
00:29:43,980 --> 00:29:45,820
We could plant you guys here.
786
00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:47,140
It's on the coast, it's on the East Coast.
787
00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:48,220
Oh, that'd be nice.
788
00:29:48,220 --> 00:29:50,380
I mean, when you imagine where you could be placed
789
00:29:50,380 --> 00:29:52,540
if you were like all of a sudden like an amputee
790
00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:55,940
or something and they put you in like a beachy town
791
00:29:55,940 --> 00:29:58,340
where like there's lots of people.
792
00:29:58,340 --> 00:29:59,820
It would be so much better than.
793
00:29:59,820 --> 00:30:04,300
Coming home from World War II to a beach would be great.
794
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:05,540
Maybe not, I don't know.
795
00:30:05,540 --> 00:30:06,580
Maybe you'd wanna be home instead.
796
00:30:06,580 --> 00:30:08,140
At least you're home back in the States.
797
00:30:08,140 --> 00:30:10,260
Yeah, man, that is a tall lighthouse.
798
00:30:10,260 --> 00:30:11,580
Yeah, and over time.
799
00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:12,540
It's just so strange.
800
00:30:12,540 --> 00:30:15,500
It's just right in the middle of all of these houses.
801
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:17,340
It's like in every direction.
802
00:30:17,340 --> 00:30:18,180
What?
803
00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:19,100
It's gonna get weirder.
804
00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,180
This is why, so you're gonna see the modernization
805
00:30:23,180 --> 00:30:24,460
of this urban area.
806
00:30:24,460 --> 00:30:25,580
The lighthouse stays.
807
00:30:25,580 --> 00:30:26,420
Yeah.
808
00:30:26,420 --> 00:30:27,260
She stays.
809
00:30:27,260 --> 00:30:29,420
So like that's why I first found this one
810
00:30:29,420 --> 00:30:32,100
because I looked for is there a lighthouse in Las Vegas,
811
00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:34,220
which is a ridiculous thing to look for.
812
00:30:34,220 --> 00:30:36,540
But there wasn't.
813
00:30:36,540 --> 00:30:37,940
Thank goodness there wasn't Margaritaville.
814
00:30:37,940 --> 00:30:39,140
It's now gone, sad.
815
00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:40,180
Parrot heads sad everywhere.
816
00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:41,020
Tragic.
817
00:30:41,020 --> 00:30:43,900
But this, you know, Vegas took me to Atlantic City,
818
00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:45,980
took me to Epsic and light, so.
819
00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:46,980
Oh, just a side note.
820
00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:51,380
In this photo, you can tell that the quote unquote
821
00:30:51,380 --> 00:30:53,060
white parts of the lighthouse that we saw
822
00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,380
are darker than the white parts of the buildings
823
00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:56,220
that are next door.
824
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:57,180
So was it yellow?
825
00:30:57,180 --> 00:30:58,940
I think it was yellow in this time.
826
00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:00,380
It's so, how did they,
827
00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:04,860
what would make them choose to make it yellow and not white
828
00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:07,260
when white was so much easier?
829
00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:08,100
We're gonna talk about it.
830
00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:09,220
Oh, okay.
831
00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:10,580
It needed to be differentiated.
832
00:31:10,580 --> 00:31:11,740
It was one of the reasons.
833
00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:14,020
What else is so tall with a black band?
834
00:31:14,020 --> 00:31:15,380
There's another lighthouse up north.
835
00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:16,220
What?
836
00:31:16,220 --> 00:31:17,500
There's another one down south, it's interesting.
837
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:18,340
Okay, tell me all about it.
838
00:31:18,340 --> 00:31:19,180
And another one down south, it's interesting.
839
00:31:19,180 --> 00:31:20,940
We'll talk about in a different episode.
840
00:31:20,940 --> 00:31:22,300
Oh, oh my God.
841
00:31:24,220 --> 00:31:25,060
We're on an adventure, folks.
842
00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:26,100
I have to wait?
843
00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:29,860
You know you only post once every two months.
844
00:31:29,860 --> 00:31:30,740
I have to wait.
845
00:31:30,740 --> 00:31:33,180
Yes, you'll love it.
846
00:31:33,180 --> 00:31:34,020
All right.
847
00:31:34,020 --> 00:31:35,260
Maybe I'll cover it first.
848
00:31:37,900 --> 00:31:38,820
Listen. It's kidding.
849
00:31:38,820 --> 00:31:41,700
As you said, as seek and light
850
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,980
was Atlantic City's tallest structure for several decades,
851
00:31:44,980 --> 00:31:48,300
many decades, but by the dawn of the 20th century,
852
00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:51,700
nearby buildings and hotels were obscuring the lighthouse.
853
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:52,540
Oh no.
854
00:31:52,540 --> 00:31:54,900
Mariners clamored for a new light.
855
00:31:54,900 --> 00:31:57,500
July 11th of 1933,
856
00:31:57,500 --> 00:32:00,860
so we're jumping back in time a little bit, forgive me.
857
00:32:00,860 --> 00:32:04,260
There was a new light exhibited atop a steel tower
858
00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:08,060
erected on the boardwalk near New Hampshire Avenue.
859
00:32:08,060 --> 00:32:09,780
Epsicum Lighthouse was discontinued
860
00:32:09,780 --> 00:32:14,020
in the keeper, Nudd Hanson, K-N-U-D,
861
00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:17,260
who arrived at the station in 1896 as second assistant.
862
00:32:17,260 --> 00:32:19,540
It was made headkeeper in 1914,
863
00:32:19,540 --> 00:32:21,940
retired at the age of 66,
864
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:23,340
though he did remain at the station
865
00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:24,900
as a caretaker for a period.
866
00:32:24,900 --> 00:32:25,740
Oh, nice.
867
00:32:25,740 --> 00:32:28,620
The two keepers' dwellings were demolished in the 1940s.
868
00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:31,220
The only Atlantic City agreement
869
00:32:31,220 --> 00:32:35,020
to adopt the lighthouse in 1946 saved it from being wrecked.
870
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:38,780
Oh, Coast Guard wanted to take it down?
871
00:32:38,780 --> 00:32:41,220
Yep, because they had replaced it with another beacon.
872
00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:43,100
Now an early beacon, but.
873
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:43,940
Yeah.
874
00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:44,980
That's how it goes history.
875
00:32:44,980 --> 00:32:48,580
The city managed the lighthouse until 1966
876
00:32:48,580 --> 00:32:51,100
when they sold it to the state of New Jersey.
877
00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:54,900
So that kind of sums up the end of it,
878
00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:56,940
but it doesn't go away
879
00:32:56,940 --> 00:32:58,740
because even though it's no longer
880
00:32:58,740 --> 00:33:00,260
the primary means for navigation,
881
00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:02,740
there's another light built near the coast,
882
00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,020
steel tower.
883
00:33:05,020 --> 00:33:09,260
It remains a structurally significant thing to see.
884
00:33:09,260 --> 00:33:10,540
So the day marks are still important.
885
00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:11,380
Yeah.
886
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:13,140
And of course the local culture around it.
887
00:33:13,140 --> 00:33:16,740
It's shocking to me that the city would sell it to the state
888
00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:20,100
when it's been such a huge source of tourism
889
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:21,780
and income and things.
890
00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:24,420
Yeah, I think Atlantic City,
891
00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:26,420
and we're gonna keep talking about how it's developed,
892
00:33:26,420 --> 00:33:28,100
they have other struggles,
893
00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,540
especially with the economy going up and down.
894
00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:34,540
City, like Vegas can live on,
895
00:33:34,540 --> 00:33:36,020
but Atlantic City is smaller
896
00:33:36,020 --> 00:33:38,580
and it requires people to come out on trains.
897
00:33:38,580 --> 00:33:40,060
So it's not quite as grand.
898
00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:42,860
It's not we're flying in, spending all the money.
899
00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:44,620
So to keep people going,
900
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:47,460
I think the city had to focus on itself.
901
00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:49,740
And maybe this is one of the things that was costly
902
00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:51,380
or potentially gonna be costly.
903
00:33:52,220 --> 00:33:55,220
So we're gonna talk for a second about the day marks.
904
00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:59,140
So the tower went up in plain brick.
905
00:33:59,140 --> 00:34:00,820
It did not receive its first coat of paint
906
00:34:00,820 --> 00:34:03,540
for 20 something years, 1871.
907
00:34:03,540 --> 00:34:05,260
The tower was painted white
908
00:34:05,260 --> 00:34:08,180
with a central 52 foot red band.
909
00:34:08,180 --> 00:34:09,020
Oh yeah.
910
00:34:09,020 --> 00:34:10,980
The day mark changed in 1897.
911
00:34:10,980 --> 00:34:13,180
Montauk point.
912
00:34:13,180 --> 00:34:14,100
This is cool.
913
00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:18,180
The tower changed in 1897 to orange with a black band.
914
00:34:18,180 --> 00:34:19,020
Halloween.
915
00:34:19,020 --> 00:34:19,980
Yeah.
916
00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:23,060
To help mariners distinguish it from the red and white
917
00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:25,500
Barnegat, Barnegat?
918
00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:26,340
What's that?
919
00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:27,180
It's another lighthouse.
920
00:34:27,180 --> 00:34:28,020
Oh.
921
00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:29,300
Located several miles to the north.
922
00:34:29,300 --> 00:34:30,140
Okay.
923
00:34:30,140 --> 00:34:31,300
Chameleon like.
924
00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:33,660
The yellow, ah.
925
00:34:33,660 --> 00:34:36,460
The lighthouse changed its official color scheme
926
00:34:36,460 --> 00:34:40,380
just a short time later to yellow, black, yellow.
927
00:34:40,380 --> 00:34:44,220
As someone in authority found orange distasteful.
928
00:34:44,220 --> 00:34:46,020
Oh, good grief.
929
00:34:46,020 --> 00:34:48,260
After the lighthouse was deactivated
930
00:34:48,260 --> 00:34:49,660
and control passed to the city,
931
00:34:49,660 --> 00:34:52,300
the tower was painted white, blue, white.
932
00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:53,140
Oh, blue.
933
00:34:53,140 --> 00:34:54,380
The city's colors.
934
00:34:54,380 --> 00:34:55,580
Oh, I really like that.
935
00:34:55,580 --> 00:34:56,420
Isn't that cool?
936
00:34:56,420 --> 00:34:58,140
If it's not official, then yeah, make it blue.
937
00:34:58,140 --> 00:35:01,180
The state then restored the tower
938
00:35:01,180 --> 00:35:04,020
to its earliest white, red, white day mark
939
00:35:04,020 --> 00:35:05,420
after it purchased the lighthouse.
940
00:35:05,420 --> 00:35:06,260
Okay.
941
00:35:06,260 --> 00:35:10,220
Quote, the tower now sports yellow, black, yellow.
942
00:35:10,220 --> 00:35:13,100
Day market had for the longest period of its active service.
943
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:13,940
Okay.
944
00:35:13,940 --> 00:35:14,780
I wanna see it actually yellow.
945
00:35:14,780 --> 00:35:16,260
I don't see it as yellow.
946
00:35:16,260 --> 00:35:18,940
I see it as a really faded.
947
00:35:18,940 --> 00:35:20,140
Yeah, like.
948
00:35:20,140 --> 00:35:21,740
And that's where we're gonna go,
949
00:35:21,740 --> 00:35:24,460
unfortunately with the coverage is
950
00:35:24,460 --> 00:35:26,820
it's had hay days and it's been really quiet.
951
00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:30,260
And right now, when I'm looking at the images,
952
00:35:30,260 --> 00:35:31,300
it's really quiet.
953
00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:32,660
Yeah, really beat up.
954
00:35:32,660 --> 00:35:35,300
There was even, it's a shame I didn't write his name down.
955
00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:37,020
There's a whole article on a gentleman
956
00:35:37,020 --> 00:35:42,020
who served as an honorary keeper into his 90s.
957
00:35:42,020 --> 00:35:42,860
Oh my.
958
00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:44,220
In like the 2000s, early 2000s,
959
00:35:44,220 --> 00:35:46,060
he passed away, I'm pretty sure.
960
00:35:46,060 --> 00:35:47,620
But he would be here every Friday.
961
00:35:47,620 --> 00:35:50,340
He would climb all the stairs to take tourists up.
962
00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:51,180
He was an old dude.
963
00:35:51,180 --> 00:35:53,700
He would dress in old fashioned lighthouse keeper,
964
00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:55,540
full suit, people loved him.
965
00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:58,340
He lost his wife and he's like, this is what I do now
966
00:35:58,340 --> 00:36:00,300
is I'm just the volunteer here.
967
00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:01,860
So it was his thing.
968
00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:05,820
But so people like him and then tourists coming
969
00:36:05,820 --> 00:36:08,820
and then tourists going have put the city
970
00:36:08,820 --> 00:36:11,380
and also I think the lighthouse is a good reflection
971
00:36:11,380 --> 00:36:13,860
through a bunch of ups and downs.
972
00:36:13,860 --> 00:36:16,140
Right now, I feel it's probably down
973
00:36:16,140 --> 00:36:19,820
because the most recent entry in the history
974
00:36:19,820 --> 00:36:23,740
of Atlantic City is shut down in March of 2020.
975
00:36:23,740 --> 00:36:24,580
Yeah, I forgot about that.
976
00:36:24,580 --> 00:36:27,420
It was 2019 due to COVID.
977
00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:29,940
And as we know, the East Coast had a rough time
978
00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:31,340
with high population and COVID.
979
00:36:31,340 --> 00:36:35,140
So I don't know that it's come back financially.
980
00:36:35,140 --> 00:36:35,980
What are you supposed to do?
981
00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:38,580
Especially when most of the income for the city
982
00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:39,980
is probably tourism.
983
00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:41,820
Nobody's traveling.
984
00:36:41,820 --> 00:36:44,740
Even if like right now the economy is kind of rough
985
00:36:44,740 --> 00:36:48,380
and like people are feeling poor.
986
00:36:49,380 --> 00:36:53,140
So it's hard for cities like this to thrive
987
00:36:53,140 --> 00:36:54,900
when there's so much going on
988
00:36:54,900 --> 00:36:56,740
in people's lives financially.
989
00:36:56,740 --> 00:36:59,340
Let me tell you that story in the last 50 years.
990
00:36:59,340 --> 00:37:03,980
So 1950s air travel to vacation spots in Florida
991
00:37:03,980 --> 00:37:06,740
and the Caribbean became more widely available.
992
00:37:06,740 --> 00:37:09,180
Atlantic City's popularity as a resort destination
993
00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:10,700
began to decline.
994
00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:13,780
By the 1960s, the city was beset with the economic
995
00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:17,460
and social problems common to many urban centers at the time.
996
00:37:17,460 --> 00:37:19,540
With an economy entirely dependent on tourists
997
00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:22,140
who are now shunning the decaying resort,
998
00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:23,740
the city reached a low point.
999
00:37:23,740 --> 00:37:26,340
All the meanwhile, the lighthouse in 1954
1000
00:37:26,340 --> 00:37:29,220
was lit to honor Atlantic City's centennial.
1001
00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:31,980
And again in 1963 to celebrate the state's
1002
00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:34,740
tercentenary.
1003
00:37:34,740 --> 00:37:35,700
What is that?
1004
00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:36,540
The 300 years.
1005
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:38,940
Oh okay, wow I've never heard of that before.
1006
00:37:38,940 --> 00:37:40,980
1976, time goes on.
1007
00:37:40,980 --> 00:37:42,860
Something called the Atlantic City Gamble,
1008
00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:45,140
which I think is a bill or a proposal,
1009
00:37:45,140 --> 00:37:48,900
was launched when New Jersey's voted to approve
1010
00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:52,140
that legalizing gambling in the city of Atlantic City
1011
00:37:52,140 --> 00:37:53,300
was okay.
1012
00:37:53,300 --> 00:37:55,980
Oh I forgot that gambling would have been illegal.
1013
00:37:55,980 --> 00:37:57,940
Through all of history.
1014
00:37:57,940 --> 00:38:01,780
Through all of history here until 1976.
1015
00:38:01,780 --> 00:38:04,180
But nowhere else in the state is it allowable.
1016
00:38:04,180 --> 00:38:07,140
So if you wanna gamble, go to Atlantic City.
1017
00:38:07,140 --> 00:38:10,380
And so in the 80s they saw a revitalization.
1018
00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:12,620
Many critics questioned this back and forth,
1019
00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:14,340
urban development.
1020
00:38:14,340 --> 00:38:17,180
But the first casino was called Resorts International,
1021
00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:19,620
opened in 1978, two years after the bill.
1022
00:38:19,620 --> 00:38:21,940
I'm sorry, that could have been a lot cooler of a name.
1023
00:38:21,940 --> 00:38:24,580
Resorts International, that's the dumbest name ever.
1024
00:38:24,580 --> 00:38:26,220
It's like prestige worldwide.
1025
00:38:26,220 --> 00:38:29,220
What, like it's the first gamble,
1026
00:38:29,220 --> 00:38:31,460
like it's a casino. Resorts International.
1027
00:38:31,460 --> 00:38:32,700
It kinda sounds cool.
1028
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,100
No, it sounds bland.
1029
00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:38,700
Well, no one could have predicted the rapid growth
1030
00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:40,460
of the gaming industry in Atlantic City.
1031
00:38:40,460 --> 00:38:41,300
Oh yeah.
1032
00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:42,540
Or the tremendous impact it would have
1033
00:38:42,540 --> 00:38:44,380
on the city, region, and state.
1034
00:38:44,380 --> 00:38:46,940
So once again, money comes, things go well.
1035
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:48,180
Lighthouse as well.
1036
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:52,220
By 1988, 10 years later, a dozen casinos were open.
1037
00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:56,740
And the annual visitors had grown from 700,000 in 1978,
1038
00:38:56,740 --> 00:38:58,980
the year of the bill, or the year of the opening,
1039
00:38:58,980 --> 00:39:00,620
to over 33 million.
1040
00:39:00,620 --> 00:39:02,780
Oh my gosh.
1041
00:39:02,780 --> 00:39:05,460
Wait, what decade is this?
1042
00:39:05,460 --> 00:39:08,420
70s, yeah, 78 to 88.
1043
00:39:08,420 --> 00:39:09,380
Okay.
1044
00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:11,780
700,000 to 33 million a year.
1045
00:39:11,780 --> 00:39:12,620
Geez, that's wild.
1046
00:39:12,620 --> 00:39:16,140
Because gambling is cool and fun and no risk.
1047
00:39:16,140 --> 00:39:17,860
Gambling is fun.
1048
00:39:17,860 --> 00:39:20,260
So by the year 2000, which,
1049
00:39:20,260 --> 00:39:22,380
and now we're jumping to 80s to 2000,
1050
00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:24,660
the city's tax base had skyrocketed
1051
00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:29,660
to more than $6.7 billion, up from $316 million,
1052
00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:32,700
when the bill was signed in 76.
1053
00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:34,580
So it worked.
1054
00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:36,580
The positive impact on Atlanta City residents
1055
00:39:36,580 --> 00:39:38,940
could be seen in revitalized neighborhoods,
1056
00:39:38,940 --> 00:39:42,180
new housing projects, and public service facilities,
1057
00:39:42,180 --> 00:39:44,860
and an economic, social, and cultural program.
1058
00:39:44,860 --> 00:39:48,300
So everything was busting with the new money.
1059
00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:52,060
It was good for the residents, apparently.
1060
00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:54,980
An effort aided by the IPPA,
1061
00:39:54,980 --> 00:39:58,180
the Inlet Public Slash Private Association,
1062
00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:02,980
was launched in 1997 to rebuild the Headkeepers' Dwelling
1063
00:40:02,980 --> 00:40:05,460
as it appeared after 1903,
1064
00:40:05,460 --> 00:40:07,060
restore the lighthouse and the lands,
1065
00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:09,260
and reopen the station to the public once again.
1066
00:40:09,260 --> 00:40:10,100
It had closed.
1067
00:40:10,100 --> 00:40:10,940
Oh, I didn't know that.
1068
00:40:10,940 --> 00:40:12,740
So this is the money that's finally coming back.
1069
00:40:12,740 --> 00:40:14,340
More tourism.
1070
00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:19,100
$2.75 million were raised in 97.
1071
00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:19,940
Geez.
1072
00:40:19,940 --> 00:40:22,220
And the effort was progressing nicely
1073
00:40:22,220 --> 00:40:24,780
until early morning July 6th of 1998,
1074
00:40:24,780 --> 00:40:26,820
when a police officer on patrol noticed
1075
00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:29,260
the nearly complete dwelling was on fire.
1076
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:30,580
No.
1077
00:40:30,580 --> 00:40:32,380
The fire department responded quickly,
1078
00:40:32,380 --> 00:40:34,460
but the dwelling was a complete loss.
1079
00:40:34,460 --> 00:40:36,740
The lighthouse itself escaped without damage
1080
00:40:36,740 --> 00:40:38,940
and was opened in the following April.
1081
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:40,180
Who did it?
1082
00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:42,260
Doesn't seem like nature.
1083
00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:43,100
So.
1084
00:40:43,100 --> 00:40:43,940
I'm pissed off.
1085
00:40:43,940 --> 00:40:44,980
It was July.
1086
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:49,980
No, there's no radiant heat ignition going on here in July.
1087
00:40:51,620 --> 00:40:52,460
This is like when somebody.
1088
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:53,300
This is a fallen power line.
1089
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,220
This is like when that kid shot at the Fronelands
1090
00:40:56,220 --> 00:40:57,500
at St. Augustine.
1091
00:40:57,500 --> 00:40:58,780
Yup, with a rifle.
1092
00:40:58,780 --> 00:40:59,620
He's like.
1093
00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:01,980
An insurance policy.
1094
00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:02,820
Woo hoo.
1095
00:41:02,820 --> 00:41:03,660
Oh, hey.
1096
00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:05,180
Allowed the work to,
1097
00:41:05,180 --> 00:41:07,700
of rebuilding in the dwelling to begin again
1098
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:09,580
in the fall of 2000.
1099
00:41:09,580 --> 00:41:13,740
The complete station was opened to the public October of 2001.
1100
00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:14,580
And once again,
1101
00:41:14,580 --> 00:41:16,980
Ebsiegel Lighthouse, New Jersey's tallest,
1102
00:41:16,980 --> 00:41:19,540
is a beacon for tourists coming to enjoy the fresh air
1103
00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:22,940
and salt water and now the gambling offered by Atlantic City.
1104
00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:27,300
The long anticipated second wave of development
1105
00:41:27,300 --> 00:41:29,180
is now underway.
1106
00:41:29,180 --> 00:41:31,540
This is an old quote talking about the city.
1107
00:41:31,540 --> 00:41:35,060
The Borgata, the first new casino to be built here
1108
00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:37,260
since 1990 opened in 2003.
1109
00:41:37,260 --> 00:41:40,500
So once again, resurgence in 2000 with lighthouse,
1110
00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:42,500
with casinos, let's go.
1111
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,060
The prospect of increased competition for the gaming market
1112
00:41:46,060 --> 00:41:48,780
as well as success of Atlantic City's convention center,
1113
00:41:48,780 --> 00:41:50,500
also new, have been catalysts
1114
00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:52,460
for the development of other projects.
1115
00:41:52,460 --> 00:41:54,900
Several casinos have embarked on major expansions
1116
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:56,820
of their hotel and retail spaces.
1117
00:41:56,820 --> 00:41:59,180
An enormous new retail and entertainment complex
1118
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:01,540
was built in the center of the city.
1119
00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:03,380
That's been renamed a couple of times.
1120
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:06,220
In recent years, more than $1.8 billion
1121
00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:08,820
in new investments were planned and underway.
1122
00:42:08,820 --> 00:42:10,820
Most of the new projects are devoted to broadening
1123
00:42:10,820 --> 00:42:13,500
the appeal of the city beyond gambling.
1124
00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:15,340
Back to lighthouses, let's go.
1125
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:17,340
Offering visitors a wide range of attractions
1126
00:42:17,340 --> 00:42:19,980
is considered key to a successful future.
1127
00:42:19,980 --> 00:42:21,140
Yeah, for sure.
1128
00:42:21,140 --> 00:42:25,060
And there's a timeline of Atlantic City.
1129
00:42:25,060 --> 00:42:27,300
And like I said, March 16th of 2020,
1130
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:32,140
the last entry timeline when this was written before 2020
1131
00:42:32,140 --> 00:42:35,500
was Atlantic City is shut down due to COVID-19 pandemic.
1132
00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:38,820
So I have a feeling looking at photos
1133
00:42:38,820 --> 00:42:39,900
and looking at Google Maps,
1134
00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,500
there's some huge casinos that were just built
1135
00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:45,900
that are closed or they're empty
1136
00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:48,780
or the streets aren't clean or people,
1137
00:42:48,780 --> 00:42:52,340
the views are no crowds.
1138
00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:54,420
So I wanna go to Atlantic City
1139
00:42:54,420 --> 00:42:55,500
and I got a couple of pictures.
1140
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:57,500
We can single-handedly fix their economy.
1141
00:42:57,500 --> 00:42:59,300
We can bring it back.
1142
00:42:59,300 --> 00:43:00,140
Oh, this looks nice.
1143
00:43:00,140 --> 00:43:01,940
But I did-
1144
00:43:01,940 --> 00:43:03,300
This is not yellow.
1145
00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:04,140
You can't convince me.
1146
00:43:04,140 --> 00:43:05,580
It's not yellow in this image.
1147
00:43:05,580 --> 00:43:08,500
There's like a tint of yellow around the gallery.
1148
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:10,980
Maybe it was yellow, I don't know.
1149
00:43:10,980 --> 00:43:13,100
But perhaps it's faded.
1150
00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:15,140
You can see there's spots with no paint at all.
1151
00:43:15,140 --> 00:43:18,020
So once again, it needs restored.
1152
00:43:18,020 --> 00:43:19,860
Lighthouses have a tough life.
1153
00:43:19,860 --> 00:43:22,100
They're right on the water.
1154
00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,900
The ocean water especially, it's difficult.
1155
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:29,380
But this, all housing developments in the background,
1156
00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:31,260
some type of hotels it looks like right here.
1157
00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:33,900
I think that's a casino hotel right on the edge.
1158
00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:36,660
I looked at all of these, spent way too long on Google
1159
00:43:36,660 --> 00:43:38,700
just looking at this.
1160
00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:40,340
But here's a view out to the ocean.
1161
00:43:40,340 --> 00:43:42,260
Oh, so the first order lens is still in there.
1162
00:43:42,260 --> 00:43:43,100
It is.
1163
00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:45,140
Stationary first order lens is still there.
1164
00:43:45,140 --> 00:43:45,980
Still lit?
1165
00:43:45,980 --> 00:43:47,180
I don't know if it's lit.
1166
00:43:47,180 --> 00:43:48,580
No one mentioned it.
1167
00:43:48,580 --> 00:43:52,180
It sounded earlier like they light it periodically
1168
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:53,700
for special occasions.
1169
00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:54,540
I think that's it.
1170
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:56,300
But then why would they leave?
1171
00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:58,020
A Fresnel lens needs to go in a museum
1172
00:43:58,020 --> 00:43:59,420
if it's just sitting up there.
1173
00:43:59,420 --> 00:44:00,820
It is a museum in a way.
1174
00:44:00,820 --> 00:44:02,020
I mean, people still visit.
1175
00:44:02,020 --> 00:44:03,980
I thought that you only got to climb up to the gallery
1176
00:44:03,980 --> 00:44:04,820
and not.
1177
00:44:04,820 --> 00:44:05,660
You can't go to see the lens.
1178
00:44:05,660 --> 00:44:06,660
Yeah.
1179
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:08,860
There's actually, I saw a video,
1180
00:44:08,860 --> 00:44:11,260
I spent way too long researching,
1181
00:44:11,260 --> 00:44:13,260
of a guy going up on a tour,
1182
00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:15,620
climbing and looking out here.
1183
00:44:15,620 --> 00:44:18,220
There's a staircase that goes up to the inside,
1184
00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:19,060
it goes up to the thing.
1185
00:44:19,060 --> 00:44:21,300
It says, if you cross this alarm, it will sound.
1186
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:22,140
Oh.
1187
00:44:22,140 --> 00:44:24,300
It's like, people have tried.
1188
00:44:24,300 --> 00:44:25,140
Yeah, right.
1189
00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:26,780
I have no backup for this.
1190
00:44:26,780 --> 00:44:29,020
But I think if the other beacon,
1191
00:44:29,020 --> 00:44:30,260
which is on the boardwalk,
1192
00:44:30,260 --> 00:44:32,060
screen right in this image,
1193
00:44:32,060 --> 00:44:33,340
maybe half a mile,
1194
00:44:33,340 --> 00:44:35,660
if that were to fail, this one's a backup.
1195
00:44:35,660 --> 00:44:36,500
Okay.
1196
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,500
It still has an electric beacon installed
1197
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:40,300
in the Fresnel lens.
1198
00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:41,780
Fresnel wall alarm.
1199
00:44:41,780 --> 00:44:44,220
Oh, also look at that nice little mural
1200
00:44:44,220 --> 00:44:46,100
on the trash dumpster.
1201
00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:46,940
Oh.
1202
00:44:46,940 --> 00:44:47,780
Or bathroom, whatever that is.
1203
00:44:47,780 --> 00:44:48,780
Yeah, a little bit of the ocean.
1204
00:44:48,780 --> 00:44:51,020
I didn't mean to insult that little tiny building.
1205
00:44:51,020 --> 00:44:51,860
Dumpster.
1206
00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:56,060
There are, there's some beautiful images
1207
00:44:56,060 --> 00:44:59,220
that show sunsets and the casinos,
1208
00:44:59,220 --> 00:45:00,500
which are to the right.
1209
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:01,860
I'll do my best to show you in a moment,
1210
00:45:01,860 --> 00:45:03,700
but some gorgeous images.
1211
00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:05,340
I contacted the artists
1212
00:45:05,340 --> 00:45:08,020
and I couldn't afford them for this episode.
1213
00:45:08,020 --> 00:45:10,500
So if you want to support the lighthouse lowdown
1214
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:13,220
for future content, please.
1215
00:45:13,220 --> 00:45:14,180
Send us money.
1216
00:45:14,180 --> 00:45:16,700
Do something, like follow,
1217
00:45:16,700 --> 00:45:18,580
tell your friends at church, whatever.
1218
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:19,420
I love this photo.
1219
00:45:19,420 --> 00:45:20,420
Lighthouses are so cool.
1220
00:45:20,420 --> 00:45:21,780
There's just nothing like them.
1221
00:45:21,780 --> 00:45:23,380
Yeah, especially tall ones.
1222
00:45:23,380 --> 00:45:24,220
Something about it.
1223
00:45:24,220 --> 00:45:25,040
Yeah, and like we were showing
1224
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,620
that there's like casino, hotel or whatever
1225
00:45:26,620 --> 00:45:28,540
in the background and it's taller than this lighthouse,
1226
00:45:28,540 --> 00:45:31,500
but it's still like seeing a lighthouse is so neat.
1227
00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:33,740
When you, if you were going here for a casino
1228
00:45:33,740 --> 00:45:34,580
and you see the lighthouse, you'd be like,
1229
00:45:34,580 --> 00:45:35,820
oh my gosh, look at that.
1230
00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:37,180
Yeah, check this out.
1231
00:45:37,180 --> 00:45:38,540
So we're gonna rotate.
1232
00:45:38,540 --> 00:45:39,540
There's a scene we just saw.
1233
00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:41,540
We're gonna rotate again out to the water.
1234
00:45:41,540 --> 00:45:42,380
We were just looking here.
1235
00:45:42,380 --> 00:45:43,540
What is that building?
1236
00:45:43,540 --> 00:45:44,980
Those are all casinos.
1237
00:45:44,980 --> 00:45:46,740
I mean, grand, big.
1238
00:45:46,740 --> 00:45:48,620
These are older hotels, smaller hotels.
1239
00:45:48,620 --> 00:45:49,620
Yeah.
1240
00:45:49,620 --> 00:45:51,460
The more the money is down this way
1241
00:45:51,460 --> 00:45:53,100
and then back behind us in the screen
1242
00:45:53,100 --> 00:45:55,580
is a huge development that's new to you.
1243
00:45:55,580 --> 00:45:56,900
These vegetables?
1244
00:45:56,900 --> 00:45:58,700
Yes, the gardens are back.
1245
00:45:58,700 --> 00:46:00,940
These are much smaller than they were.
1246
00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:03,620
I think the whole two acres was covered in gardens.
1247
00:46:03,620 --> 00:46:05,840
This should just make it into a botanical garden.
1248
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:09,060
People always visit botanical gardens when they travel.
1249
00:46:09,060 --> 00:46:11,580
It's like, oh, we could go see those.
1250
00:46:11,580 --> 00:46:12,820
When we went to Spain, we went to-
1251
00:46:12,820 --> 00:46:13,660
Yeah, they're pretty.
1252
00:46:13,660 --> 00:46:14,500
Botanical gardens.
1253
00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:16,380
I think right here might've been
1254
00:46:16,380 --> 00:46:18,420
the second assistant keeper's house that burned down.
1255
00:46:18,420 --> 00:46:20,020
It looks like a house layout.
1256
00:46:20,020 --> 00:46:21,820
Because here is that pathway.
1257
00:46:21,820 --> 00:46:22,660
Yeah, the 30 feet one.
1258
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:24,500
So this one was restored.
1259
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:26,900
If you're a head keeper, maybe that's your house.
1260
00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:28,380
It would be pretty fancy.
1261
00:46:28,380 --> 00:46:30,300
So Trevor is the artist I talked about.
1262
00:46:30,300 --> 00:46:32,740
I won't show the photos because I didn't pay for them,
1263
00:46:32,740 --> 00:46:33,820
but there are beautiful photos
1264
00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:35,380
and you can view them on his site.
1265
00:46:35,380 --> 00:46:36,220
Oh, good.
1266
00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:37,040
If you want to.
1267
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,300
Epsican Lighthouse of Atlanta City.
1268
00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:39,140
Very nice.
1269
00:46:39,140 --> 00:46:42,900
A sad story in a different way.
1270
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,100
Sometimes we end off on bad news, but I think-
1271
00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:47,340
Well, at least it's still there.
1272
00:46:47,340 --> 00:46:48,740
Yeah, everything can come.
1273
00:46:48,740 --> 00:46:50,580
Anything can come back around.
1274
00:46:50,580 --> 00:46:51,540
Yeah, think about it.
1275
00:46:51,540 --> 00:46:54,080
If you want to develop something for tourism,
1276
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:55,500
it's already there.
1277
00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:56,980
The hard part's already done.
1278
00:46:56,980 --> 00:46:58,140
It already has history.
1279
00:46:58,140 --> 00:47:00,540
You don't have to make new history.
1280
00:47:00,540 --> 00:47:02,820
Try to be a city developer and go
1281
00:47:02,820 --> 00:47:04,420
and see what we're going to do.
1282
00:47:04,420 --> 00:47:08,700
But Atlantic City, go click around on Google
1283
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:09,780
and kind of check it out.
1284
00:47:09,780 --> 00:47:12,300
To me, it's weird because I think if we visited,
1285
00:47:12,300 --> 00:47:15,060
we'd be out of the normal visitors
1286
00:47:15,060 --> 00:47:18,660
because it's still today more local,
1287
00:47:18,660 --> 00:47:20,860
large city folks who are getting away.
1288
00:47:20,860 --> 00:47:23,740
I feel the same when we went to the Outer Banks.
1289
00:47:23,740 --> 00:47:27,020
Most of the people we met there were from somewhere nearby,
1290
00:47:27,020 --> 00:47:30,420
but we were the oddballs from the middle of the country.
1291
00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:35,100
Just trying to see some ocean, any ocean.
1292
00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:36,620
So what do you think?
1293
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:39,060
Anything else to say about Epsican, any questions?
1294
00:47:39,060 --> 00:47:41,540
I can say the lighthouse, the Keepers House
1295
00:47:41,540 --> 00:47:44,820
is looking very nice compared to the lighthouse.
1296
00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:45,940
The restoration did a good job.
1297
00:47:45,940 --> 00:47:48,620
It's kept up really well.
1298
00:47:48,620 --> 00:47:49,460
I think it's-
1299
00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:50,900
Do you remember Point Lookout?
1300
00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:54,420
I covered it really early on, like episode five or something.
1301
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:55,260
It was haunted, but it looks-
1302
00:47:55,260 --> 00:47:56,500
Is it Outer Banks?
1303
00:47:56,500 --> 00:47:58,620
No, I can't remember where it was.
1304
00:47:58,620 --> 00:48:01,300
But it looks a lot like this.
1305
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:02,740
That's what I thought of when it came up.
1306
00:48:02,740 --> 00:48:05,060
Cool house, nice porch.
1307
00:48:05,060 --> 00:48:06,300
Nice wraparound porch.
1308
00:48:06,300 --> 00:48:08,380
Yeah, that's where the museum is located now,
1309
00:48:08,380 --> 00:48:09,220
is inside of that facility.
1310
00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:11,180
So they should put the lens down there.
1311
00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:14,260
You have to get it down though,
1312
00:48:14,260 --> 00:48:15,100
and then it's not up there anymore.
1313
00:48:15,100 --> 00:48:18,140
I guess it is very expensive to get it out of there.
1314
00:48:18,140 --> 00:48:20,820
Big piece of first order glass.
1315
00:48:20,820 --> 00:48:23,220
First order non-rotating,
1316
00:48:23,220 --> 00:48:25,860
which I don't know that I've seen that yet in any other-
1317
00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:27,620
I think it's probably been around.
1318
00:48:27,620 --> 00:48:30,300
Well, I know we haven't seen these color schemes.
1319
00:48:30,300 --> 00:48:31,420
No. Orange and black is pretty cool.
1320
00:48:31,420 --> 00:48:32,900
Yellow is very strange.
1321
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:34,780
Yellow and black is cool.
1322
00:48:34,780 --> 00:48:36,620
White, blue, white.
1323
00:48:36,620 --> 00:48:38,660
This image is obviously photoshopped.
1324
00:48:38,660 --> 00:48:39,860
It looks almost bluish.
1325
00:48:39,860 --> 00:48:42,060
I think that's just the adjustments they've made
1326
00:48:42,060 --> 00:48:43,540
to see the sunset.
1327
00:48:43,540 --> 00:48:44,860
That's all I have.
1328
00:48:44,860 --> 00:48:47,780
Absinthe Lighthouse, Atlantic City, New Jersey,
1329
00:48:47,780 --> 00:48:50,140
still standing, rock and roll.
1330
00:48:50,140 --> 00:48:51,740
That's all we can ask.
1331
00:48:51,740 --> 00:48:53,900
That's really all we can ask.
1332
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:55,940
It's been around a long time.
1333
00:48:55,940 --> 00:48:57,260
So you want to close this out today?
1334
00:48:57,260 --> 00:48:58,100
Sure.
1335
00:48:58,100 --> 00:49:00,820
You can check out our website,
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thelighthouselowdown.com,
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where we have links to our YouTube
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and you can listen to all of our podcasts,
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links, Spotify, and et cetera.
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Oh, and you can leave us a review there too.
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That's always fun.
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We love to get reviews.
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And you can check out our Instagram
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at the Lighthouse Lowdown,
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where we post some pictures from each of our episodes.
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So you can come and check it out
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if you're not wanting to watch a YouTube video.
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And I guess that's it.
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So we hope to see you next time on The Lighthouse Lowdown.
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ahh
