Don't be too quick to give up trying to read wooden grave markers. I had a lady friend who was blinded in an auto accident as a kid. She grew up with all the training a blind person gets. Then one day as a teenager her sight came back. I met her as an adult. We went to the Bodie Ghost town. I was saddened that many of the grave markers couldn't be read. She said to let her try. She began to trace her fingers over the wood, and was soon reading the names and dates from the badly weathered boards. It was almost like Spock, of Star Trek, doing a mind meld. It was amazing. I'd love to have someone with that talent go with me to any old cemetery.
Camped there way back in college days. Had an excellent geology field trip in that area. Didn't get to see much of Calico during daylight unfortunately as the park was closed when we arrived. There was an old miner playing solitaire in a lantern lit cabin. Was perfectly still. I thought he was real, some in the group thought he was a dummy. Some nitwit tapped the window. We all ran when he chased us! Sounded like our college was invited to never return.... (No vandalism, at least)
I’m named after a Cowboy myself and that person is Wyatt Earp and Wyatt is my first name and he stopped all the outlaws in Tombstone Arizona and did shootings at the O.K coral
HI! Gang: What you asked about is a stitching horse. You clamp your pieces of leather in it and then stitch them together. The one you showed is made onto a chair. More recent ones were made with just a single board across the bottom. That way you could stitch anywhere you could find to sit down. The clamp comes up between you legs and helps keep the leather pieces in control. And it is easily adjusted as you progress with your project. It is like having two extra hands, sometimes needed when stitching.
I just love Old West ghost towns! So glad Calico was preserved! Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!💕🥂🎉Just hope that alien beef jerky was made with real aliens😂👽
Happy Sunday History Hunters! The sun is up in Cheyenne, WY and it may warm up enough to water trees today. While we patiently await the arrival of some much needed warmth, we will stay warm inside with another fantastic episode! Cheers!
This is so wonderful that Mr. Knot’s refurbished this ghost town! Love seeing the old history kept around for future generations! Calico house is recycling at its best. 😊 Sarah has some serious dance moves! Congrats on 100,000 subscribers! 👍
Thank you so much guys for the trip down memory lane! We have such fond memories of Calico! Gordon’s dad worked as a reserve deputy at Knott’s Berry Farm long ago. We spent many, many hours at both Calico and Knott’s Berry Farm along with the kids. I’m a little teary-eyed so I’ll go for now. Thanks a bunch! Your biggest Tennessee (formerly California) fans! ♥️
Thank you so much for the heartfelt words. Sounds like U2 need to head on back to California but I certainly understand why you don’t. I’m trying to remain positive about California’s future, but it seems like at times it’s going the other way. You guys take care and a beautiful state of Tennessee.
Calico is one of our favorite places to visit. We were just talking about going back there for a visit, when the notification came through for this video! Thank you, Jeff and Sarah, for the history lesson - we learned some more details we didn't know about!
Sunday adventure. My GrandFather plowed Mr Knotts fields back in the day and I worked on the burro/mule ride at Knotts for a couple summers. Good memories. Thank you very much
In my earlier years, I was a tour director on bus tours out of Canada, on our California trips we would stop at Calico on our way to Las Vegas. Such a cool historical place! Thanks for the memories!
Me too, she was so cute dancing for us. Sarah makes History Hunters even more exciting than it already is. Sarah should be in every episode, she is too beautiful and spunky to miss even one episode!
Jeff and Sarah, History Hunters gets better and more exciting every time I watch it. Have Sarah dance some more for us. She always looks so pretty entertaining us.
I really enjoyed seeing this video. I actually was there about 11 years ago but I got a lot more info from watching your video. I couldn’t walk around the town very well because of arthritis in my knees. You all completed the experience for me!😁 Thank you so much!🤗❤️
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I really appreciate your love of America! It warms our hearts knowing that and how so many people in other lands despise America! Happy to know you watch History Hunters from Turkey!
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Oh man, so sorry to hear that you had a stroke. They can be quite devastating. We hope and pray that you can make a complete recovery. Glad to feature your awesome playing from time to time!
Excellent as always, Jeff and Sarah. As kids going on road trips with mom and dad on what seemed like every weekend, I very much recall visiting Calico back in the mid 60's. We also visited Rhyolite, Nevada which had more than one if my memory serves me right. Then, much later as a Hollywood High Schooler, I often went up over the Santa Susana Pass in Simi Valley to visit a cousin and would stop by to say hello to Gran'ma Prisbry at her Bottle Village. Just a real sweetheart of an old lady. I would always stop to grab a bag of chips or cookies to give her. There are some VERY sweet people out there who don't have much but light up the lives of everyone fortunate enough to know them. Gran'ma Prisbry was one - may God bless her soul. Great episode Jeff/Sarah!
Jeff, I'm so excited. A number of years ago, we went to Calico Gold Town. I'm from New England, so I don't often see personally, the interesting places you bring us. I recall how mobbed it was the day we were there. Thank you so much for this wonderful video, in every way, Jeff and Sarah. 👏🤠👏☀️ 100,000 so well-earned subs🎊👏🎉
How cool was the miner's cabin? Who would have thought that they had 20th Century kitchen designs, way back then? 🤔 No "Belfast sink" style. Was there an outdoor pump, did either of you see? You do get copper and silver in conjunction, but silver being the most valuable of the two, combined with the "get rich quick" ethic, then they'd mine the silver. The can-can was playing, but realise that for filming purposes, side to side flicks are better than the kicks out front and into the air. You have a lovely voice for narrating. I love history. Keep on searching, I can't get enough! 😊😊😊
😂😂. Alien jerky. Great episode. Been there several times and a must for any History Hunter. Thank you sir and ma’am. Oh yea, Happy Belated St Patty Day
There’s a cool funicular railway that leads up a hill from the West parking lot to Calico. Home built but really cool. No longer in use. When the Knotts attempted desert farming in Newbury Springs Mrs Knott once said: “All we could raise were children.”
Grew up in Orange County and when I was a kid we’d get a tour of Ghost Town at Knott’s Barn to learn about the early settlers. I was younger than 10 years old when my parents took us out to Calico Ghost Town. We got a tour I’m thinking from a park ranger but not sure. There weren’t any gift shops, just the old buildings.
Another great video. This makes me want to see places that I passed and didn't know about. I'm glad that people are trying to keep the older history alive.
I'll likely never get there as I'm always in a hurry to get to or from someplace, so I enjoyed this tour with you two. I'm a bit like Sarah in that I love visiting Virginia City when I visit my family in Tahoe, but it seems less commercialized when going in an off-season with fewer tourists!
"A bit touristy." Yeah, it's hard to strike that balance between tourist conveniences and what they demand, versus authenticity and what hardcore history buffs demand. There really isn't an easy answer because there are trade-offs either way.
So now we know that Sarah wants her nooks and crannies washed for 10 cents, and she's a great dancer, lol. Great episode, guys. You almost had Sarah show us her buster Keaton impression when she almost fell😂. Never a dull moment when both of you are in an episode.
We visited there in the early 60's and it was not as it is today, however, it was also touristy then, and windy. Fun seeing it again Jeff. Sarah, I think you were the only smiling jailbird in that cell.
Thank you so very much. We are so excited that we have reached 100,000 subscribers. 1 million would be nice but I think that would take a long, long time.
My family and I visited Calico 3 yrs ago. Really enjoyed the town and especially sharing history with my children. Did you happen to eat at the 50's diner across the highway? Very cool experience. Always enjoy going to Knots Berry Farm as well. Bless Mr. Knott for having the wisdom to save the old town of Calico, and bless you and your gorgeous wife for sharing your journeys with us!
Wonderful memories Jeff and Sarah I remember it was 1962 I was 6 years old riding in the backseat of my Sister and Brother in laws Corvair with my nieces going to Calico being a kid it was so much fun a great memory of my dear sister taking us for a day of exploring. The connection to Knotts Berry farm still exists. The farm was free back then boy I’m getting old I need a nap😂. Thanks you guys rock!
Very cool! Thank you so much for the nice words. Sarah and I were just talking yesterday about riding in the back of a pick up at about how long it has been. Those were the days, weren’t they?
Lol I went there from my childhood on... 60s, 70's and on until I left So Cal in 03. I also remember when there was no admission fee, you parked where Camp Snoopy was later built and tame chickens roamed the parking lot. I also went to the grand opening of the Independence Hall/Liberty Bell exhibit. I've been to Knott's many dozens of times. Mrs Knott's Restaurant was my mom's favorite. I was very fond of it also. Almost had a job there in maintenance back in the early 80's but it did not pan out... so I went and got a job at D Land! Do you remember the Alligator farm across the street? Also Japanese Deer Park a couple miles away...
My family went to Calico almost every weekend when I was a kid cause we lived in Barstow. Great times. I still have plenty of photos from the 90’s. I still go around the holidays Halloween and Christmas. Hope it survives many more years.
Good to see Calico as it is now. I was there in the late 60's and was a little touristy but now much more. If Knott had not rebuilt it there would just be splinter of wood and rust from tin cans left so thank you Mr. Knott.
Thank you, Jeff and Sarah! Enjoyed your tour of Calico. It looks like a neat place to visit, especially for us history buffs. Congratulations on 100K subs too!
Thankyou Both Very much! Be Safe, HEALTHY and keep on Going!!! Love these Ghost town History vids! Aswell as ALL History and Old BoneOrchard content. Cheers and please be well. ZACK DANIELS ~
Visited in the 1960s with my family--it was a lot more rustic back then! Remember a photograph taken of my siblings and I, pretending to burn our hands on a huge cast iron stove in the middle of the floor. Western nostalgia! 👢👢
@@jbenziggy Always look forward to your HH episodes, Jeff! Top job! :D 👏👏👏👏👏(Loved Sarah's sass in this one...and she was right about Virginia City's tourist trap status--sad, but true...)
I went through Calico Ghost Town around sixty years ago! To my memory, it wasn't updated much at the time. I don't remember an asphalt main street, it was still dirt. The thing I remember most is the white CALICO on the side of the mountain.
Cool place, kinda Funny how those Mystery Slanted Houses show up in Mining Towns. There is one like that one here at GOLDFIELDS GHOST TOWN, a Mining Town here in Arizona. Near the Supustition Mountains. Enjoyed watching. :)
This was very interesting I didn't know this was once a real town I have passed by it many times over the years and thought it was an amusement park Now I know it would be worth a trip Thank you for sharing
Well, I was employed by San Bernardino county regional park stationed at Calico Ghost Town. If you’re a hunter of history, then here’s some information you might wanna know. Mr. Knott actually grew up in the area and played at the town quite a bit when it was rundown and nobody there. Mr. Knott was able to restore some of the town that had been affected by a fire. At that time he also owned the town because he had purchased it before the restoration. Mr. Knott also owned Knotts berry farm at that time. After the restoration Mr. Knott began taking actual buildings from calico down to Knotts berry farm and that is why there is a town down there called calico ghost town and it’s an old western kind of same thing. Then him, not believing that the town would make much money he donated it to San Bernardino county. After that, there was actually another fire from the candle shop that burned down some of the buildings as well, and the county restored that. There is camping, festivals, ohv, and all of the shops that are out there are run by what is called concessionaires, and they rent the building from San Bernardino county. Nobody owns the buildings, but San Bernardino county. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of history that the park employees will tell because it’s really kind of turned into a tourist trap. There’s still a lot of history out there and it was a real place during of course the California gold rush, but in reality calico did silver. about 80 million in today’s dollars.
Well Jeff and Sarah another good video you guy put out thank you for that.. Two things I would like to say is , 1 congratulations on 100, thousand subscribers !! That cool ., now you can quit your jobs get a camper and go all across America and give us plenty of awesome videos ! 2 I'm not sure when I watched you guys video where you showed us a place where Steve McQueen made a movie , and John Wayne also THANK you Frank marullo ps. How can I watch that again ? .......
I always enjoy tagging along with your adventures. I haven’t been to Calico in years but I do travel to Barstow once a month to work on the military base nearby. Thank you!
My Brother moved to Vegas in 1975 to go to work for Hughes Airwest.. that Christmas we drove down from Sacramento... went down the Nevada side BORING!! But came back through Barstow.. my Dad was never one to want to stop on a trip except for gas! I was 15 so Mom and I convinced him to take us up there but I have very little recollection of the town.. I do have a map and maybe a business card or two from there buried in my junk... it is definitely on the list to visit again!
Is Alien Jerky green and does it glow? You guys go to Barstow a lot! You guys were in a crazy mood that day...flirting with mannequins and stuff. The couch in the museum looked like a Duncan Fife. Were all grades in that school house? It seemed small. The bottle house was cool. I don't think I would enjoy the Chinese Bath in a metal tub with hot water. Yikes!😂😂😂😂
Great video ! Thank you. We just made camping reservation last night for this coming weekend to experience their California Days. After seeing your video , I’m more excited to see everything in person.
I have been there in the the 1970s.Expected meet Doc Holiday doing the dental work! Great watching Sarah having fun there, she is a real explorer. I worked and lived in Buena Park in the 1960s. Alot more realistic than it was later.
I've been to Calico twice and never saw or recognized as much as is in this video. I don't recall ever being able to see inside buildings, i.e. museum, schoolhouse. I guess I needed a tour guide. But we did take the ghost tour at night. I've only driven by/through Pioneer Town, but with my inept skills as a tourist, I should probably just watch a video about it.
Walter n his wonderful wife buried in Loma Vista cemetery, Fullerton with great peeps there including some Nixon family n my father in law :( famous British author C S Forester also buried there :) u guys are great !!! Love ur videos :)
Hello Jeff and Sarah, wow!!! Your travels brought back so many memories of traveling with Grandma! We went to Calico so many times in my youth while living in Fontana, CA ! I absolutely loved going there! First we would visit Calico for a couple of hours then drive to Dagget, CA to visit Sister Meyers who was a missionary to the Native Americans who lived in the area and also In Arizona. Her and her husband, until he went home to heaven , and until she passed served tirelessly on the reservations for their entire lives. She was sold out to Jesus!!! Jeff thank you for the outstanding video I enjoyed very much! As always you guys are the best! Wether it’s our editor or historian you always show us what America was and should be! Tom in Ceres
I grew up camping there and the surrounding canyons, I even went to Death Valley Helen’s birthday party, so many awesome memories with all the people, Popcorn & Tumbleweed ❤
I've never been there because i was told it's for tourist I did win the gold panning championship at Knots Berry Farms, but only went there because of the panning. Well, i confess, i got some jam there also.🙂
At 5:45 that is a leather worker's sewing clamp called a Stitching Horse. The tabletop version is called a Stitching Pony and they held the two pieces of leather or heavy canvas and nowadays a synthetic fiber weave like nylon or Rayon. The 2 pieces were and still are commonly held together with contact cement while the leather worker did the stitching, most common was a saddle stitch. A saddle stitch would not unravel like the chain stitch made by a machine could and by using various techniques like doing a wrap around the second needle it would tie a simple square knot as you went along.
Another great fun and educational history video. Thank you Jeff & Sarah. Great way to spend my Monday lunch time, watching the weekly edition of History Hunters!
Thanks for showing off Calico…. Another great episode! At 14:03, was that Seldom Seen Slim and his burro? Is the train ride still available? I thought it went thru a mine or something…
We first visited Calico about 1955 or 56. The school looked new. Most of the buildings were still in ruins; dirt main street, no train mine ride or souvenir shops. etc. More ghosty then, not touristy.
I have lived up here over 25 yrs and we were told Knott bought Calico and then took some of the buildings for Knotts berry farm. Then after the State got it, they rebuilt some of the buildings that were taken. Hmmmm
Drove up to Calico in 1972. As I recall it wasa dirt road to town and the main drag was dirt. A dozen or buildings on the west side and not much on the east. There were buildings for sale. If Lucy had made it two more years she could have claimed to see the end of the open range, when fencing began and into the atomic and space age. But she was really close!
In the early 90s there was an original bottle house there! It was different colors and sizes of bottles, roughly made, and did not have the town name in it lol. It must have succumbed to time, I’m sad that it’s gone. It’s what I most remember about Calico.
I remember Knott's Berry Farm when I was a little girl I am from Fillmore California we moved from there in 1972 it is really cool to see it again thank you so very much I haven't seen this place since I was 7 years old
I remember coming to this town in the late 50's as a kid when in was truly a ghost town. You had to climb stairs up to the town from the parking area below. After I was married and had children of my own we visited a couple of times but by then it was so commercial that it took away from the "ghost town" feeling. I haven't been back since.
Don't be too quick to give up trying to read wooden grave markers. I had a lady friend who was blinded in an auto accident as a kid. She grew up with all the training a blind person gets. Then one day as a teenager her sight came back. I met her as an adult. We went to the Bodie Ghost town. I was saddened that many of the grave markers couldn't be read. She said to let her try. She began to trace her fingers over the wood, and was soon reading the names and dates from the badly weathered boards. It was almost like Spock, of Star Trek, doing a mind meld. It was amazing. I'd love to have someone with that talent go with me to any old cemetery.
Love your story! 👍👍👍
The stitching horse was used for stitching leather.
Camped there way back in college days. Had an excellent geology field trip in that area. Didn't get to see much of Calico during daylight unfortunately as the park was closed when we arrived. There was an old miner playing solitaire in a lantern lit cabin. Was perfectly still. I thought he was real, some in the group thought he was a dummy. Some nitwit tapped the window. We all ran when he chased us! Sounded like our college was invited to never return.... (No vandalism, at least)
"Here lies Lester Moore. Took 4 slugs from a 44. No Les, no Moore" 😉
I’m named after a Cowboy myself and that person is Wyatt Earp and Wyatt is my first name and he stopped all the outlaws in Tombstone Arizona and did shootings at the O.K coral
HI! Gang: What you asked about is a stitching horse. You clamp your pieces of leather in it and then stitch them together. The one you showed is made onto a chair. More recent ones were made with just a single board across the bottom. That way you could stitch anywhere you could find to sit down. The clamp comes up between you legs and helps keep the leather pieces in control. And it is easily adjusted as you progress with your project. It is like having two extra hands, sometimes needed when stitching.
That’s correct, it’s a stitching horse, for sewing leather pieces together.
I just love Old West ghost towns! So glad Calico was preserved! Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers!💕🥂🎉Just hope that alien beef jerky was made with real aliens😂👽
Thank you so much!! We just received our celebratory Play Button today!
Happy Sunday History Hunters! The sun is up in Cheyenne, WY and it may warm up enough to water trees today. While we patiently await the arrival of some much needed warmth, we will stay warm inside with another fantastic episode! Cheers!
May the warmth come soon for you guys up in Cheyenne!
Sundays are always much better with a History Hunters episode . Thank You.
Our pleasure! Thanks Dana!
Jeff would you fulfill my suggestion by visiting the grave of john philip sousa please and you have a sweet caring wife on youtube ♥️
I just love all your videos!! Congratulations on reaching 100K!! It's well deserved. 👏
Thank you so much!! We appreciate the support!
This is so wonderful that Mr. Knot’s refurbished this ghost town! Love seeing the old history kept around for future generations! Calico house is recycling at its best. 😊 Sarah has some serious dance moves! Congrats on 100,000 subscribers! 👍
Calico gets better every year. All things considered it’s in remarkable shape.
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for the congratulations! It’s a fun milestone to hit!
@jbenziggy can you do a video on Bodie in Mono County, Ca, its a ghost town
Thank you so much guys for the trip down memory lane! We have such fond memories of Calico! Gordon’s dad worked as a reserve deputy at Knott’s Berry Farm long ago. We spent many, many hours at both Calico and Knott’s Berry Farm along with the kids. I’m a little teary-eyed so I’ll go for now. Thanks a bunch! Your biggest Tennessee (formerly California) fans! ♥️
Thank you so much for the heartfelt words. Sounds like U2 need to head on back to California but I certainly understand why you don’t. I’m trying to remain positive about California’s future, but it seems like at times it’s going the other way. You guys take care and a beautiful state of Tennessee.
@@jbenziggy ♥️
The kids where wore out after a day there .they loved it .we loved it
Wow, I haven't been to Calico Ghost Town in about 40 years. You've helped motivate me to go again.
Thank you for the video, Jeff and Sarah!
Glad to hear it! Check it out next time you’re there!
Calico is one of our favorite places to visit. We were just talking about going back there for a visit, when the notification came through for this video! Thank you, Jeff and Sarah, for the history lesson - we learned some more details we didn't know about!
Sunday adventure. My GrandFather plowed Mr Knotts fields back in the day and I worked on the burro/mule ride at Knotts for a couple summers. Good memories. Thank you very much
Very cool! Mr. Knott was one hard working decent man! What an incredible experience!
Cup of coffee and History Hunters! The perfect Sunday morning. Thanks Jeff and Sarah😊
Good morning!
In my earlier years, I was a tour director on bus tours out of Canada, on our California trips we would stop at Calico on our way to Las Vegas. Such a cool historical place! Thanks for the memories!
I’m really enjoying more of Sara’s humor and silliness
Oh she’s a card at times! Thanks for appreciating her!
Me too, she was so cute dancing for us. Sarah makes History Hunters even more exciting than it already is. Sarah should be in every episode, she is too beautiful and spunky to miss even one episode!
Jeff and Sarah, History Hunters gets better and more exciting every time I watch it. Have Sarah dance some more for us. She always looks so pretty entertaining us.
I really enjoyed seeing this video. I actually was there about 11 years ago but I got a lot more info from watching your video. I couldn’t walk around the town very well because of arthritis in my knees. You all completed the experience for me!😁 Thank you so much!🤗❤️
Very fascinating place. Appreciate you taking us on the tour of the place! Great Video Jeff & Sarah!
Merhaba bu son paylaşımınızı büyük bir zevkle takip ettim bir mucize olmadığı taktirde gidip göremeyeceğim yerleri sayenizde göre biliyorum size bir Türk olarak ama amerikaya cok seven bir insan olarak çok teşekkür ederim tanrı amerikayı korusun
I really appreciate your love of America! It warms our hearts knowing that and how so many people in other lands despise America! Happy to know you watch History Hunters from Turkey!
fANNTASTIC lOCATIONmAGICAL spot. Thanks for using my Music. An Honor to appear in one of yorr lovely Videos. UIUnfortuunately i had a Stroke last September and can not play at all right noww. . So hearring me poppin u p in your Video is some ggreat Motivation for me to hopefully come back at some point.thanks alot and all the best to you lovely People
Oh man, so sorry to hear that you had a stroke. They can be quite devastating. We hope and pray that you can make a complete recovery. Glad to feature your awesome playing from time to time!
@@jbenziggy thank you very much. It means a lot to me😀
Excellent as always, Jeff and Sarah. As kids going on road trips with mom and dad on what seemed like every weekend, I very much recall visiting Calico back in the mid 60's. We also visited Rhyolite, Nevada which had more than one if my memory serves me right. Then, much later as a Hollywood High Schooler, I often went up over the Santa Susana Pass in Simi Valley to visit a cousin and would stop by to say hello to Gran'ma Prisbry at her Bottle Village. Just a real sweetheart of an old lady. I would always stop to grab a bag of chips or cookies to give her. There are some VERY sweet people out there who don't have much but light up the lives of everyone fortunate enough to know them. Gran'ma Prisbry was one - may God bless her soul. Great episode Jeff/Sarah!
Jeff, I'm so excited. A number of years ago, we went to Calico Gold Town. I'm from New England, so I don't often see personally, the interesting places you bring us. I recall how mobbed it was the day we were there. Thank you so much for this wonderful video, in every way, Jeff and Sarah. 👏🤠👏☀️
100,000 so well-earned subs🎊👏🎉
Loved this one Jeff, I would so love to go there. Thank you Jeff and Sarah
How cool was the miner's cabin? Who would have thought that they had 20th Century kitchen designs, way back then? 🤔 No "Belfast sink" style. Was there an outdoor pump, did either of you see?
You do get copper and silver in conjunction, but silver being the most valuable of the two, combined with the "get rich quick" ethic, then they'd mine the silver.
The can-can was playing, but realise that for filming purposes, side to side flicks are better than the kicks out front and into the air.
You have a lovely voice for narrating. I love history. Keep on searching, I can't get enough! 😊😊😊
😂😂. Alien jerky. Great episode. Been there several times and a must for any History Hunter. Thank you sir and ma’am. Oh yea, Happy Belated St Patty Day
There’s a cool funicular railway that leads up a hill from the West parking lot to Calico. Home built but really cool. No longer in use.
When the Knotts attempted desert farming in Newbury Springs Mrs Knott once said: “All we could raise were children.”
Grew up in Orange County and when I was a kid we’d get a tour of Ghost Town at Knott’s Barn to learn about the early settlers. I was younger than 10 years old when my parents took us out to Calico Ghost Town. We got a tour I’m thinking from a park ranger but not sure. There weren’t any gift shops, just the old buildings.
Another great video. This makes me want to see places that I passed and didn't know about. I'm glad that people are trying to keep the older history alive.
Well said! Thanks!
I'll likely never get there as I'm always in a hurry to get to or from someplace, so I enjoyed this tour with you two. I'm a bit like Sarah in that I love visiting Virginia City when I visit my family in Tahoe, but it seems less commercialized when going in an off-season with fewer tourists!
I never knew about Calico. Thanks Jeff for the tour. I will check it someday after I'm retire.
"A bit touristy." Yeah, it's hard to strike that balance between tourist conveniences and what they demand, versus authenticity and what hardcore history buffs demand. There really isn't an easy answer because there are trade-offs either way.
The thing you were asking about is a vise for hold leather while it's being stitched. Shoes, for instance.
Very interesting. I loved your dance Sarah!💃🏼
Former SoCal gal here, fun to see places my parents and I either visited or whizzed past on the way to other places. Thanks for your content.
Our pleasure!
So now we know that Sarah wants her nooks and crannies washed for 10 cents, and she's a great dancer, lol. Great episode, guys. You almost had Sarah show us her buster Keaton impression when she almost fell😂. Never a dull moment when both of you are in an episode.
Awesome happy Sunday Jeff and Sarah
Thank you Racca! One of our longtime viewers!
@@jbenziggy very welcome
We visited there in the early 60's and it was not as it is today, however, it was also touristy then, and windy. Fun seeing it again Jeff. Sarah, I think you were the only smiling jailbird in that cell.
CONGRATULATIONS ON 100k SUBS!!! Next stop, one million!!!
Thank you so very much. We are so excited that we have reached 100,000 subscribers. 1 million would be nice but I think that would take a long, long time.
My family and I visited Calico 3 yrs ago. Really enjoyed the town and especially sharing history with my children. Did you happen to eat at the 50's diner across the highway? Very cool experience. Always enjoy going to Knots Berry Farm as well. Bless Mr. Knott for having the wisdom to save the old town of Calico, and bless you and your gorgeous wife for sharing your journeys with us!
Wonderful memories Jeff and Sarah I remember it was 1962 I was 6 years old riding in the backseat of my Sister and Brother in laws Corvair with my nieces going to Calico being a kid it was so much fun a great memory of my dear sister taking us for a day of exploring. The connection to Knotts Berry farm still exists. The farm was free back then boy I’m getting old I need a nap😂. Thanks you guys rock!
Very cool! Thank you so much for the nice words. Sarah and I were just talking yesterday about riding in the back of a pick up at about how long it has been. Those were the days, weren’t they?
Lol I went there from my childhood on... 60s, 70's and on until I left So Cal in 03. I also remember when there was no admission fee, you parked where Camp Snoopy was later built and tame chickens roamed the parking lot. I also went to the grand opening of the Independence Hall/Liberty Bell exhibit. I've been to Knott's many dozens of times. Mrs Knott's Restaurant was my mom's favorite. I was very fond of it also. Almost had a job there in maintenance back in the early 80's but it did not pan out... so I went and got a job at D Land! Do you remember the Alligator farm across the street? Also Japanese Deer Park a couple miles away...
Congr...huh? No special vid for reaching the milestone?!? Well, you certainly deserve it.
Thanks! 😃 we will do something special in the coming weeks!
Congratulations🎉😊on getting 100,000 Subs. You always do a gr8 job.
Thank you so much!! Much appreciated Philip!
My family went to Calico almost every weekend when I was a kid cause we lived in Barstow. Great times. I still have plenty of photos from the 90’s. I still go around the holidays Halloween and Christmas. Hope it survives many more years.
Thanks for sharing!
Good to see Calico as it is now. I was there in the late 60's and was a little touristy but now much more. If Knott had not rebuilt it there would just be splinter of wood and rust from tin cans left so thank you Mr. Knott.
Enjoyed the luaghter on the walk round Very good video and very interesting Thankyou Jeff and Sarah
Thanks 👍 If you're delighted, we are happy about that!
I was there in my youth and would love to go back
I was there once about 50 years ago I always wanting to go back. Thank you, Jeff you save me a trip.
No desire now? Lol
Thank you, Jeff and Sarah! Enjoyed your tour of Calico. It looks like a neat place to visit, especially for us history buffs. Congratulations on 100K subs too!
Our pleasure! And thank you!!!
Haha...CHINESES BACK SCRUB....funny how that marketing is still used today .... if u know u now... great video...
And I always thought it was a real ghost town, not a tourist trap
It was a real ghost town turned into a tourist trap!
Thankyou Both Very much!
Be Safe, HEALTHY and keep on Going!!!
Love these Ghost town History vids! Aswell as ALL History and Old BoneOrchard content.
Cheers and please be well.
ZACK DANIELS ~
Thank you, Zack! We appreciate the friendly wishes! We wish you health and happiness! Jeff & Sarah
Thankyou both,
Godbless ~
Another fond childhood memory brought back courtesy of Jeff & Sarah. It's an interesting apostrophe to the Walter Knott legacy. Thanks,Jeff & Sarah
Nothing less than another amazing video! Thank you guys.
Thanks again! Makes us happy reading your comment!
Thanks for making this episode on Calico! I enjoyed it. I always liked going to Calico, also a big Knott's Berry Farm fan.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Visited in the 1960s with my family--it was a lot more rustic back then! Remember a photograph taken of my siblings and I, pretending to burn our hands on a huge cast iron stove in the middle of the floor.
Western nostalgia! 👢👢
The great thing about places like this are the memories associated with them! Thanks for watching and leaving the comment, Rando!
@@jbenziggy Always look forward to your HH episodes, Jeff! Top job! :D 👏👏👏👏👏(Loved Sarah's sass in this one...and she was right about Virginia City's tourist trap status--sad, but true...)
Love love love these stories and history of the Old ghost towns. Wonderful presentation.
Glad you enjoyed! Thank you!
I went through Calico Ghost Town around sixty years ago! To my memory, it wasn't updated much at the time. I don't remember an asphalt main street, it was still dirt. The thing I remember most is the white CALICO on the side of the mountain.
Well thanks for sharing your experience! Have you ever wanted to go back?
@@jbenziggy Yeah, actually I have! To be honest, I figured it was long gone by now until I saw your video!
Cool place, kinda Funny how those Mystery Slanted Houses show up in Mining Towns. There is one like that one here at GOLDFIELDS GHOST TOWN, a Mining Town here in Arizona. Near the Supustition Mountains. Enjoyed watching. :)
Another interesting and educational video. I’ve traveled I-15 several times and never knew about Calico.
You should visit next time!
This was very interesting I didn't know this was once a real town I have passed by it many times over the years and thought it was an amusement park Now I know it would be worth a trip Thank you for sharing
Well, I was employed by San Bernardino county regional park stationed at Calico Ghost Town. If you’re a hunter of history, then here’s some information you might wanna know. Mr. Knott actually grew up in the area and played at the town quite a bit when it was rundown and nobody there. Mr. Knott was able to restore some of the town that had been affected by a fire. At that time he also owned the town because he had purchased it before the restoration. Mr. Knott also owned Knotts berry farm at that time. After the restoration Mr. Knott began taking actual buildings from calico down to Knotts berry farm and that is why there is a town down there called calico ghost town and it’s an old western kind of same thing. Then him, not believing that the town would make much money he donated it to San Bernardino county. After that, there was actually another fire from the candle shop that burned down some of the buildings as well, and the county restored that. There is camping, festivals, ohv, and all of the shops that are out there are run by what is called concessionaires, and they rent the building from San Bernardino county. Nobody owns the buildings, but San Bernardino county. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of history that the park employees will tell because it’s really kind of turned into a tourist trap. There’s still a lot of history out there and it was a real place during of course the California gold rush, but in reality calico did silver. about 80 million in today’s dollars.
That brings back memories! I’m almost 60 now. The last time I visited Calico, I was probably 12 or 13 years old.
Well Jeff and Sarah another good video you guy put out thank you for that.. Two things I would like to say is , 1 congratulations on 100, thousand subscribers !! That cool ., now you can quit your jobs get a camper and go all across America and give us plenty of awesome videos ! 2 I'm not sure when I watched you guys video where you showed us a place where Steve McQueen made a movie , and John Wayne also THANK you Frank marullo ps. How can I watch that again ? .......
I always enjoy tagging along with your adventures. I haven’t been to Calico in years but I do travel to Barstow once a month to work on the military base nearby. Thank you!
Thanks! Happy to hear you liked it! Are you in the military or a military contractor?
A contractor…..
My Brother moved to Vegas in 1975 to go to work for Hughes Airwest.. that Christmas we drove down from Sacramento... went down the Nevada side BORING!! But came back through Barstow.. my Dad was never one to want to stop on a trip except for gas! I was 15 so Mom and I convinced him to take us up there but I have very little recollection of the town.. I do have a map and maybe a business card or two from there buried in my junk... it is definitely on the list to visit again!
Is Alien Jerky green and does it glow? You guys go to Barstow a lot! You guys were in a crazy mood that day...flirting with mannequins and stuff. The couch in the museum looked like a Duncan Fife. Were all grades in that school house? It seemed small. The bottle house was cool. I don't think I would enjoy the Chinese Bath in a metal tub with hot water. Yikes!😂😂😂😂
Great video ! Thank you. We just made camping reservation last night for this coming weekend to experience their California Days. After seeing your video , I’m more excited to see everything in person.
I have been there in the the 1970s.Expected meet Doc Holiday doing the dental work! Great watching Sarah having fun there, she is a real explorer. I worked and lived in Buena Park in the 1960s. Alot more realistic than it was later.
Thank you for the tour Jeff! I haven't seen there in many years and it's good to see it again. I remember buying popcorn from that very cart. Lol
Very cool! The place probably hasn’t changed much, has it?
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Thank you for the reply.
It looks pretty much the same, just a little older. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Thank you Jeff and Sarah for another fun video. I really enjoyed seeing that old Calico town and I'm a history buff myself so thank you so much.
Our pleasure!
Love some Sunday morning History Hunters, you should check out Cerro Gordo, they are rebuilding now like Calico did in the 1960’s. Cheers!!
I've been to Calico twice and never saw or recognized as much as is in this video. I don't recall ever being able to see inside buildings, i.e. museum, schoolhouse. I guess I needed a tour guide. But we did take the ghost tour at night.
I've only driven by/through Pioneer Town, but with my inept skills as a tourist, I should probably just watch a video about it.
Walter n his wonderful wife buried in Loma Vista cemetery, Fullerton with great peeps there including some Nixon family n my father in law :( famous British author C S Forester also buried there :) u guys are great !!! Love ur videos :)
Hello Jeff and Sarah, wow!!! Your travels brought back so many memories of traveling with Grandma! We went to Calico so many times in my youth while living in Fontana, CA ! I absolutely loved going there! First we would visit Calico for a couple of hours then drive to Dagget, CA to visit Sister Meyers who was a missionary to the Native Americans who lived in the area and also In Arizona. Her and her husband, until he went home to heaven , and until she passed served tirelessly on the reservations for their entire lives. She was sold out to Jesus!!! Jeff thank you for the outstanding video I enjoyed very much! As always you guys are the best! Wether it’s our editor or historian you always show us what America was and should be! Tom in Ceres
Congratulations on 100K subscribers! Well deserved. Always like seeing that you've posted a new video.
Thank you very much, Jim!
I grew up camping there and the surrounding canyons, I even went to Death Valley Helen’s birthday party, so many awesome memories with all the people, Popcorn & Tumbleweed ❤
That fire engine is similar to Papete in Columbia State Park, however Papete is more ornate. Proud to say I have pumped Papete in competition!
Wow another fantastic episode showing some history of Calico, 😊😊😊😊
Enjoy your channel. You use an I phone to film?
I did on this one. Entirely on newest iPhone. Normally use a GoPro but had microphone issues and said the heck with it! Lol
Interesting thing about cemetery is there are some recent butials
A lot of recent burials are there, yes indeed!
Loved everything about this one! Great to see Sarah, funny outtake, loved the music, and congratulations on 100k!!
Can't stop whistling that tune!! 😗
You have no idea how I have been whistling that tune all week! 😂 it is a catchy tune, isn’t it?
I was to little to remember my family's visit to Calico in 1956 or57 but my mom had pictures of us looking at the different buildings
Thanks Jeff
Hey Sarah
Nice to get out of town once in a while, just remember you can't come back unless you leave.
Central California watching
I've never been there because i was told it's for tourist I did win the gold panning championship at Knots Berry Farms, but only went there because of the panning. Well, i confess, i got some jam there also.🙂
Great California activity. Lots of fun.
Thanks for visiting!
At 5:45 that is a leather worker's sewing clamp called a Stitching Horse. The tabletop version is called a Stitching Pony and they held the two pieces of leather or heavy canvas and nowadays a synthetic fiber weave like nylon or Rayon. The 2 pieces were and still are commonly held together with contact cement while the leather worker did the stitching, most common was a saddle stitch. A saddle stitch would not unravel like the chain stitch made by a machine could and by using various techniques like doing a wrap around the second needle it would tie a simple square knot as you went along.
Another great fun and educational history video. Thank you Jeff & Sarah. Great way to spend my Monday lunch time, watching the weekly edition of History Hunters!
Thanks again! Did you mean Sunday lunchtime?
@@jbenziggy Nope, Monday. It is now 11:49 Tuesday here. 😅
@@WayneKline oh yeah! I forgot where you live! Lol
Thanks for showing off Calico…. Another great episode! At 14:03, was that Seldom Seen Slim and his burro? Is the train ride still available? I thought it went thru a mine or something…
We first visited Calico about 1955 or 56. The school looked new. Most of the buildings were still in ruins; dirt main street, no train mine ride or souvenir shops. etc. More ghosty then, not touristy.
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I have lived up here over 25 yrs and we were told Knott bought Calico and then took some of the buildings for Knotts berry farm. Then after the State got it, they rebuilt some of the buildings that were taken. Hmmmm
Drove up to Calico in 1972. As I recall it wasa dirt road to town and the main drag was dirt. A dozen or buildings on the west side and not much on the east. There were buildings for sale. If Lucy had made it two more years she could have claimed to see the end of the open range, when fencing began and into the atomic and space age. But she was really close!
i love that instead of just giving the “official state gold rush town” name to Bodie, they gave Calico the “official state silver rush town”
I love Calico went there several times I also liked Alf's Blacksmith shop on 1st street in Dagget they worked on the mule train wagons for borax
Silver at .57 per oz.!?! I silversmith and man that'd be great right now.😂
In the early 90s there was an original bottle house there! It was different colors and sizes of bottles, roughly made, and did not have the town name in it lol. It must have succumbed to time, I’m sad that it’s gone. It’s what I most remember about Calico.
I have vague memories of being there when I was about 5 years old (approx 50 years ago) . I remember getting scared of the prisoner in the jail.
Blasted by 100's of times and never checked it out.
Thanks for taking us !
Any time! Thanks for your time watching!
I remember Knott's Berry Farm when I was a little girl I am from Fillmore California we moved from there in 1972 it is really cool to see it again thank you so very much I haven't seen this place since I was 7 years old
Calico was selling off items in the late 50’s, early 60’s. Our house had one the Ghost Town’s original western bars
I remember coming to this town in the late 50's as a kid when in was truly a ghost town. You had to climb stairs up to the town from the parking area below. After I was married and had children of my own we visited a couple of times but by then it was so commercial that it took away from the "ghost town" feeling. I haven't been back since.
That’s a cobbler leathersmith’s stitching saddle, thing you asked about.