We had--
were pulling the Cabbage Patch out in Oregon and
Fifth gear started slipping so my clutch is going out
We're not gonna be able to make it on the rest of the journey
Not sure if we're going to even be able to make it back to Salt Lake without fixing it
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Thanks for joining us on another journey. Today, we're in Pendleton, Oregon at the Pendleton Underground Tours
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Now before we go in the underground, I'm gonna ask you all to do an exercise in
Pretending and some of you are gonna have an easier time with this than others because I've been asked all of you to pretend that
You are young men
Sorry ladies, you're about fifteen or sixteen years old
You've been up in these hills for the last four to six months now, it's your first
Trip to town all the guys have told you the things you need to see and do there are buttons on sidewalk
Well curiosity gets the best of ya. you step back and look up
What do you suppose is hanging out of those windows there?
Ladies
Exactly. As we head down the stairs, please be careful. Now we're going to continue this in the underground
So come on in, let your eyes adjust
You heard the piano playing
You heard men laughing and bragging you heard girls giggling and you found yourself walking through that door
You're the young man looking for a bath you come in here and you notice the sign here
is advertised as baths are ten cents you come in here--Hop Sing, I need a bath and he nods at you and he says
Okay two cents
well any idea why he's only gonna charge you two cents instead of the advertised ten cents?
The first bath is both hot and clean. Remember I said there's no indoor plumbing here
Everything has to be hand filled. So it has to be hand emptied. So he's only gonna do that once a day so every bath
After the first bath you subtract one cent from the bath prior
Second bath nine cents third bath eight cents and so on
He will take two bucketfuls of dirty water out of those tubs and throw them into the alley and he's going to put one clean
Bucket full of hot water and one clean bucket full of cold water and refresh it
By the time here at the third or fourth bath
It is neither hot nor is it clean because think about this it has been four to six months since every young man
most of them miners or sheep herders have had a bath prior to you. and you have
wagon trains of families moving west
Seeking better farmland. We don't have enough laborers the big railroad companies find out that in China
They're in a state of chaos
There are political wars there are opium wars a huge famine and people are dying by the thousands. They were paid as
Little as five cents a day and a bowl of rice
Many of them didn't survive the first three to six months they were here
because they were given the hardest jobs. What they did in many places in the West and that is retreat into
The very undergrounds that they were building. So there would have been
More than 70 men living
In this small small space. at this time
These men know that they're never going to see their families again never see their wives or their children again
They're doing the hardest jobs and the most dangerous jobs. They're not valued as human beings here
And now they're living in this dark, damp confining space
Were they freemen or were they slaves? Well...
They were basically indentured servants-- right--so they were slaves, but they were free. They could leave or they couldn't leave?
Well, they could if they could afford it but they didn't have enough food or money
So did they dig these out underneath the buildings that were here? some of them
They would have been dug out once the buildings were already here
but many of them the basements and the
Tunnels would have been put in first--first or at the same time as they were building
so just like most towns in the world with fire and
fire tends to burn down towns, Pendleton burnt down
And so when the founding fathers decided where they were rebuilding they were decided bricks and then they thought you know
Let's go ahead and do the underground at the same time
And so that's basically how it worked
But it was over a time span and so it would have been different for different buildings at different times
Now there was nowhere you couldn't get in Pendleton through the underground
They went everywhere. and you're gonna get in there nice and tight
so in this room
We also talk about the prohibition between 1916 and 1933
The US had a prohibition on alcohol
Said you couldn't make it you couldn't distribute it and you were not supposed to drink it
well
Pendleton has always been a little progressive and we had a prohibition since 1908 with one exception one week a year
Ten businesses could sell right out here on Main Street. Yeah, Round-Up
Mardi Gras of the west. anybody ever been to Round-Up? Oh, yeah. I was born & raised here. See?
Mardi Gras of the west. before I moved here, I remember I came to Round-Up
I remembered getting here and I remember going home and everything else is pretty blurry
This is of Main Street was considered the red light is dristrict of Pendleton and proper ladies would have walked on that side of Main Street
But today you get to have a little extra fun. So again, I am Judith and I have been your tour guide today
That's just a teaser taste of Pendleton
Underground Tours, I highly suggest coming out this way and taking the tour
It is
Amazing! We made it to Pendleton, Oregon--when we were coming over a couple of the passes on my motorcycle
the fifth gear started slipping and we're trying to figure out
how to
Get it fixed and get back on the road...
Got an update for you, we've been to two motorcycle shops trying to get the motorcycle fixed
Obviously because I own a Japanese bike, the Harley guys wouldn't touch it
just went over to the Suzuki dealership in Pendleton and
They don't have the parts. So now we're trying to figure out
if we can find a Yamaha dealership
To get this thing back on the road. What do you do when your motorcycle breaks down and you're in Pendleton, Oregon?
You drink Pendleton whiskey. What are you drinking?
Something pink and girly, as you would say. Pink and girly
It's the Huckleberry Lemonade
We're at what bar? Fast fresh local. OMG! Burgers and Brew
There's your mom
That's your mom. That's your mom
Mine was a bad girl. Just joking
What happened with the African American paratroopers? They actually were training at Fort Benning, Georgia
They pretty much were self-taught
Because they were not allowed to intermingle with the whites
They kind of taught themselves how to do it--how to be a parachuter. Yes
They watched the white guys doing they thought well, we can try this. We'll do it
So at nighttime when nobody was around that's what they would do. They were jumping at night? Yeah there without any skills
They were jumping off the towers
Oh, ok
They were doing their own training at night
Training until one of their commanders from advise saw what they were doing. And you know said, how do you think you're doing?
They thought how we're doing pretty good. He says well, let me help you and so he started working with him
Well, then the base commander saw what was happening and he called him in and it was because they had
Operation Firefly was what they were working in so they came here
Specifically to be trained to jump and be smoked jumpers. they were trained by the u.s
Forest Service and they were also their own self-contained unit. They had medics they had cooks they had
this gentlemen that could disarm the bombs
Full Infantry crew they basically made their own
Department, yes
they came in as the triple nickel and
We're about ready to get a marker to signify them and they were pretty showy type guys
They liked putting on their uniforms and doing parades downtown and people loved it
Well they had to be Class A personalities jumped out of a plane to begin with
Just a quick update
So we decided to wait for the rain in
Pendleton it finally stopped, we jumped on the motorcycle and
started heading back towards Boise instead of our original route and
somehow--I don't know why--but fifth gear's not slipping so...not so far
Not so far. We're not too far in yet. Yeah
And Wayne went crazy sitting around doing nothing for how many hours was it? Yeah
He had ants in his pants
I should have gotten out the camera and film that I just
Not feeling a hundred percent. So I didn't even think of it. on some back roads, but it's beautiful--Tollgate Oregon--check out this b-roll
*Music*
So this is Ginger
Our Airbnbeard--air B&B dog
Our beer beer beer, where are we at April?
We are in Cove, Oregon. This is giant town in the middle of nowhere that has amazing views
Freezing cold on the motorcycle in the rain
Oh my gosh
Yeah, it is beautiful
So, this is our Airbnb room tonight. we're staying with Thomas
and Ginger we just showed you the
cool, puppy Ginger and
How much did we pay for this room tonight April?
Uhhhhmmm
It was less than $50
Less than 50
I think $41 and change? perfect. I
Think. what a bargain Yep, you always meet cool people in Airbnbs as well
and yeah, it's a little off the beaten path, but
It's beautiful. Well, we are out here in the country
Yes, we were on some awesome dirt roads--slick ass gravel
To quote Wayne
There's some slick ass gravel in these parts. this is gravely gravel
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