good morning and welcome to exit thru the gift shop today we're exploring Pike Place Market
in downtown Seattle Washington including a visit to the world-famous giant Shoe Museum
as we explore the floors below
down here there's a collection of unique shots with a variety
of very interesting wears check out these ventriloquist dummies your sweeties you can
get Seattle candies or right down here look at the size of those jaw breakers
here's the Pike Place magic shop
complete with a Swami fortune teller out front I
found this little guy Simon Says hiding in the magic shop window
now I love the collection of different magic items available
in this shop get your own straitjacket for someone special get your palm read
or you've got your Elvis the rock star today we're at the world-famous giant Shoe Museum
this museum was put together by a collector who is inspired by one of Robert Wadlows giant
shoes and went on to amass a collection of other giant shoes let's take a look
down here there's a real clown shoe this it's like a vintage clown shoe doesn't look like
quite the correct dimensions of a real foot but I guess for clowning purposes that'll
do oh my goodness Seattle shoes of mystery while you're here you can read aloud about
the missing pair of Robert Wadlow shoes which were offered $1,000 reward for their
return Robert Wadlow is the world's tallest man was 8 foot 11 inches tall it's hired by
the international shoe company to go on a nationwide promotional tour in the mid-1930s
traveled through 40 states including Washington and spoke at the Pantages Theatre here in Seattle
see here it says that voilá visited the shoe shop and left a pair of his shoes as a memento to the
shop they sat there for over thirty years right in the front window of the shop in late 60s during a
move to a new location the shoes were lost and they remain unaccounted for to this day did
they get thrown out on the move where they stole them has some family member secreted them way,
were they given away where are they now the giant shoes of mystery is offering a $1,000
reward for the recovery of these shoes this next shoe is billed as the greatest
shoe on earth says Oxford beats Guinness by half an inch we're gonna see the Colossus
no no and there it is
world's biggest shoe can't quite even see the bottom that is a big shoe I'm not sure if you
can tell for scale but that is a shoe that's about four feet tall here you can see a shoe actually
worn by the world's tallest man Robert Wadlow this is him an actual size of 8 foot 11 inches
tall known as the gentle giant from Alton Illinois let's take a look at his shoes there he is actual
shoe worn by Robert Wadlow that's how big a shoe would be for an 8 foot 11 inch tall person and
here's the piece de resistance is the world's largest collection of giant shoes so this is the
only one that actually takes 50 Cent's to see so we're gonna pop this in here oh and there it goes
let's see a little hard to see but you can see some Giants look at that some giant betas okay
well those are certainly some giant shoes I'm not sure that those are actually ones worn by
a real people but it is huh it is what it said it's a collection of giant shoes
that's it for today from a world famous shoe museum it's a miniature diversion tucked away
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