we're out here at Nevada City
it's a museum but it's a replica of a real old western town in Montana
Hey you guys! Thanks for joining us on another journey today we're in Virginia city and
Nevada City we're ghost town--Montana--ghost town exploring. of course to be a miner this is the pre-boarding
house you must pay with twenty dollars a week in gold dust we don't take any green bags
pallets go upstairs two meals a day breakfast and dinner they would have had dill pickles pickled
beets and that on the tables and that's to get any nutrition that they could out of that vinegar
because after the long winter they just have root crops left of course no fresh greens they are not
in yet and anything would have been canned i was one of the wealthiest in town i bet you were
as long as i kept a clean boarding house and had good food i could charge what i want to. how many boarders could you have? about 20
wow... what's up sheriff? dealing with that old Wayne Berg again that'll get you every
time causes trouble every turn got to chain him up to one of those beds again tonight
the post office go get some mail neat i wouldn't have thought they would have
had the actual post boxes back back then some of these are not original oh this
has been restored remember i read that to you yeah yeah and she said that well
they've dragged them all over from all over the state yeah and there are a couple of
original parts what you're making for us today i'm gonna try my hand at some hinges
but we're going to make a or we're just going to make a really nice small
loop kind of something like that this would be put on a the door for chicken coops i'll punch holes
down here on a plate okay and then we'll cut it down we can obviously attach it to
the woodwork and then we'll make another one to match can't a guy get some peace around here
had to sit on the john so if you're out at Yellowstone National Park and you want a good
day adventure and see some old western history i highly suggest taking a short ride up to
Nevada City and Virginia City there are two living ghost towns
for all you kids that complain about going to school you didn't have to go into a house like
this what you building a cup handle it's going to look like that cup handle over there wire reinforcement nice and
rigid tin plate which is templated steel the 1860s the way you got templated steel was you took your
steel sheet to the molten pin back and pulled it out
it's called hot dip tin so originally all tin work was done using these forms called stakes
because all everything a tin smith makes starts on my flat sheet like this
okay if you want any kind of anything besides flat he needs to shape it himself canning
as an industry while it's invented in France
in the early 1800s the first tin cans are made in England at that time 1820s they're using
instead of steel they using iron to make their cans look how the stuff's growing on the actual roof
you know probably kept things cooler oh yeah i'm sure it did and maybe even warmer probably worked
both ways you can even bring your puppies along and explore the town of Nevada City
two different seats look you can even slide out the poop his and hers oh oh we can go poop together
see it's a double seater oh now that's romantic that is not romantic reminds me of the Pendleton Underground
tour learning about Hop Sing oh yeah that was so awesome check out the card above i'm the resident
basket weaver most of the material i work with is rattan which is a vine that grows in Asia it has a
hard outer shell which is you can come feel it if you want this is what becomes caning which is what
you see on chair seats and this is the inside portion which is what i make most my baskets
out of i have some examples of different materials this one is made out of cedar sedge and bear graft
this is a sweet grass basket all the materials came from South Carolina this is done in the
traditional fashion of the gullah it's sweet grass palmetto leaves and then for added decoration
we have bulrush and long needle pine willow's most common material to be weaving with because
willow grows pretty much anywhere in the United States so you want shoots they're about a year
old they're no bigger than a pencil in diameter can weave with them green but then you wind up
with a problem like i have on this one this one was woven green but now that's dried all out
uh it's loosened up nice oh you're welcome. Whether you're in Croatia or Mexico or Virginia City
you got ice cream don't you April? pretty much. what you got today? rare is the time that i can
avoid the temptation and this is homemade we were just watching it yeah
i've got huckleberry and strawberry i'm all about the berries. you're a berry. i am
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