The Oldest Wax Museum in America – Potter’s Wax Museum – Classic Attraction – St. Augustine, FL

The Oldest Wax Museum in America – Potter’s Wax Museum – Classic Attraction – St. Augustine, FL

Hey you all carpet bagger here coming to you live from the south more specifically today we are in St Augustine Florida I uh drove up from Central Florida this morning about 2 hours North to St Augustine I’m kind of on my way back to the house I wanted to

Stop here in St Augustine and see a few things and we’re going to check out Potter’s wax museum see from the sign there it says America’s First Wax Museum it’s opened in 1948 here in St Augustine it’s gone through several different uh iterations I think it’s this is at least the Third

Location but it’s you know as the name says it is a very old school uh wax museum I I’ve been to to uh every Wax Museum in the United States and this ranks up there this is one of my favorit so it kind of has that real old school feel to it so

Please follow me yeah I’ve never come out here to the back of the museum before I didn’t even realize this display was here see some of the wax figures here looking out the window there’s like a giant snake there oh okay there’s a sword being stuck in

The snake by this figure here the Angels what Angel is that who’s the angel that stabs stabs the snake with the sword looks like we got the Mona Lisa in there and some disembodied hands playing uh playing a cello this is the uh the inside of the wax figure it’s made by

Gems a wax figure company out of London and I don’t know who this is here a gentleman here wearing a hat yeah very super spooky skeleton right there you can see through the reflection but there is a super spooky skeleton got a figure here in a suit of

Armor and then uh I don’t know who that is there with the freckles guys we’re walking around the back here okay says the entr to the wax museum is that way and look at that just sitting here looking out onto the streets we have Maleficent excuse me Thomas Gainesboro I

Am looking for the entrance of uh of Potter’s wax museum make a little make a little painting there oh I guess you’re the one that painted the uh this blue boy now the uh current location for Potter’s wax museum is this old 1886 drugstore it’s been repurposed as the

Wax museum there is a uh statue of Henry Flagler I know he’s kind of a big wig here in St Augustine the uh College here is named Flagler College says the facts are in the wax the mystery is in the history as you can see in here they

Actually do have some of the old Pharmacy items here kind of a cool old display the old different medicines and uh Pharmacy gear so the building is pretty amazing in addition to being a wax museum this cool old Pharmacy a prosthetic leg there as we enter the wax

Museum see a little display there on how wax figures are made the unfinished side right there in the side here with the makeup eyes put in maybe teeth if they would have their mouth open and this is George Potter he is the man who created this wax museum it was a

A work of passion in 1949 he uh opened the wax museum as called Potter’s International Hall of Fame and it says George Potter was inspired by visiting Madam tuo’s wax museum we don’t have a figure of Madam tuso but we have couple of her uh famous descendants here this is uh Louie tuso

He was uh he lived from 1869 to 1938 he was the great grandson of Marie to so and his chain of wax museum is actually owned by the Ripley company the Louis Tad’s wax works that you see around the world and then there is Josephine tuo she is the great

Granddaughter of Marie tuso and even mentions here that uh there’s a Josephine tuo wax in Hot Springs Arkansas another one of my favorite old school wax museums and we saw the uh statue outside here of uh Henry Flagler he uh it does explain a little more here

About his backstory he was an oil Baron says he was a founding partner in standard oil so back then uh that would make you a pretty penny and then he came down to St Augustine and did built a lot of built a lot of the uh the buildings

And uh institutions there luxurious Pon ston Hotel uh Flagler College and uh Hotel El Kaza elkaz which is now the litner museum litner museum is also a really great attraction here is the penny press machine I think I’ll take home a souvenir Penny trying to figure

Out a way to uh to not lose them before I get home trying to figure out a way to organize them Adam Adam gave me some tips he was collecting uh press pennies yesterday at Disney gave me some tips on how he um keeps them in an album so I’m

Maybe going to start doing that you can actually see the pennies stacked up there the device that smashes the penny there’s four design to choose from this is just a logo Potter wax museum this one’s got Elvis this one’s got uh Jack Sparrow this one’s got Harry Potter so

Harry Potter from Potter’s wax museum that’s slightly confusing there actually is no actual connection between uh Harry Potter and Potter wax museum although there may be a Potter here a Harry Potter here at Potter’s wax museum let’s go ahead and get a uh get a penny

Made I think yeah go with the original recipe there can watch it be watch it be crushed see our Penny’s laying in weight there until we get to the correct spot to smash it is it going to drop and no there it goes let see it just being pressed there smashed

Penny and here it goes there we have it there you go Potter’s Wax Museum in St Augustine Florida a preview of some of the things we’re going to see here at the Wax Museum greatness Brilliance skill bravery art invention character Spirit boldness courage Talent devotion Vision knowledge wit exploration resourcefulness resourcefulness wisdom

And Grace all this way of course you can’t have a Florida Wax Museum without this man here Mr Pon da on the Spanish conquistador who uh the legend is came to Florida seeking out the Fountain of Youth and you can actually visit the Fountain of Youth here in St Augustine

There’s so many fun things to do in St Augustine but you can actually visit where he found the Fountain of Youth you can even drink the water that will uh supposedly make you live forever I drank some of it and I haven’t done died so maybe it works I’m not as familiar with

This guy here this is Pedro Menendez de AZ he’s giving uh he’s giving Pon there a little bit of the side eye oh this is fun I don’t remember them having these interactive exhibits here you can uh try on a conquistador helmet is careful it’s heavy let’s try this one on get

The kador helmet here way is there we go you Buckle it Buckle it down here it’s really noisy in here it feels like having your head inside of a trash can this is Chief Oola known for his uh bravery says he is an American folk hero is’s the seminal leader of the seminal

Indians um apparently he at one point stabbed a treaty with a knife and yelled the only treaty I will execute is with this so a certified uh certified hero here and it says here they is actually um they offered him a truce over at the Castillo de San Marcos which is the for

That’s actually correct right across the street from where we are right now and uh they said they offered him there said that they would work out a truce but it was a it was a it was a trap they uh they captured him and held him there until uh

And uh and apparently he got sick in his in his imprisonment and ended up dying so a very dirty deed done by the uh done by the the US government on uh Chief Oola here and of course as I travel to different wax museums around the country there’s some figures that appear in

Almost every Wax Museum and this is one of them Martin Luther King Jr very deserving member to uh to any Wax Museum and this is this is a pretty good likeness here of uh of Dr King here we have the famed Cowboy Will Rogers now I often this is something I

Always constantly have issues with is I always confuse Roy Rogers and Will Rogers I’m trying to figure out way to help me uh distinguish the two and see him doing some rope tricks there that’s pretty amazing So This Will Rogers is American Cowboy fod Bill performer social commentator Motion Picture actor

And humorist and he never met a man he didn’t like so he lived in the Aira of 1879 to 1935 I don’t think I think I looked it up I don’t think there’s any actual relation between Will Rogers and Roy Rogers I think I think it’s just I don’t

Know guess just a popular last name for famous cowboys speaking speaking of people that I’m constantly having a hard time uh differentiating I always confuse these two this is Davey Crockett and this is Daniel Boone and just looking at them you can you I think you can tell why I

Have a hard time why I have a hard time differentiating you have uh they’re both dressed in in fringe jackets they both have skin caps and I think both have somewhat uh somewhat uh similar lives and uh and uh and histories but you know what I I want to right now

Right now I want to commit to being able to differentiate between Davey Crockett now Davy Crockett he uh okay so he he died at the Alamo he was a elected of the that the the House of Representatives served in the Tennessee militia during the creek war and he

Killed him a bar when he was only three and this is Daniel Boone now Daniel Boone lived kind of the same period kind of lived the same period as Davy Crockett but uh he CU he’s primarily known for um expanding he he he gu he plotted out different routes traveled

Out west kind of helped Forge paths out west says he I guess he originally from Pennsylvania then went out to North Carolina Kentucky exploring Uncharted Uncharted Territory so I guess Daniel Boon more of an Explorer more of a Woodsman explored new and uh an unseen territory B Crockett served in uh served

In Congress fought more of a soldier fought at the Alamo so uh there there are some differences I and I’m I promise I think this is the last time I’m going to confuse them I’m going from now on I’m going to try to keep it straight in

My head so here in the bar where Davey Crockett and Daniel Boon are hanging out in the saloon we have this cheerful bartender here he’s got the perfect bartender mustache he’s wiping down the counter getting ready to serve some drinks you can see in the mirror there

There’s some other patrons to the bar we have Buffalo Bill Cody actually went to the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum out in Colorado where they have uh one of his Graves yeah he famous for famous for killing Buffalo that’s how he got to start just massacring Buffalo but uh

Later started the Buffalo Bill Wild West show kind of a a you know kind of helped idealize and create that romantic vision of the wild west and then Annie Oakley who performed in the show known for her uh her trick shooting she’s got her gun already there to pull out some uh some

Tricky shots some trivia here what Greek woman became an Egyptian Queen at the age of 17 I think it’s Cleopatra yes now it says Potter’s wax museum welcomes home Pocahontas so this must be a newer figure put on display or an older figure put back on display the

Legend of uh of Pocahontas there of course uh somewhat different than the uh the Disney movie it said uh she was uh kind of an uh in between between The Paton Native Americans and the English say she uh negotiated for the release of the uh

Patons okay let’s see how we do on these these quiz these quizzes what English author were Oliver Twist and great expectations that is Charles Dickens yes what English king had Six Wives two which he headed Henry VII Henry VI eth I’m getting better at these must be because I visit so many

Wax museums I definitely see they have rearranged uh this uh Museum quite a bit this displays have been moved to different areas there’s different figures on display it looks like we’ve stumbled here into the into the War Room the war section starting out here with uh Sam

Houston of uh of Texas and we head into uh World War II here this is Charles dull the president of uh France during World War II and Bernard Montgomery who was a uh British Field Marshal during World War II we see The Ultimate Showdown going on

Here in the World War I section on uh this side you got the Allies on this side you got the axis the uh the evil dictators from World War II and um you know the Allies which which which we were on we had an evil dictator on our side too Mr Joseph

Stalin uh he uh you know even though he was a horrible person you know we needed his help and uh you know he actually uh was greatly responsible if you look at it Russians actually uh played a huge part in winning uh in winning World War II we probably couldn’t have done it

Without them even even though Joseph Stalin’s definitely a piece of garbage well let’s look at these villains here there’s uh AI Tojo the general of the Imperial Japanese Army down here Bonito musolini one most awful uh human beings ever live the fascist dictator of Italy and a true

Thug and Bully and then you know pretty much accepted as being the worst man that uh that ever lived Mr Adolf Hitler here my only criticism of this wax figure is Hitler has blue eyes which is inaccurate Hitler may have wished he had blue eyes Hitler probably would have

Worn blue contacts if they’re available at the time but he had brown eyes despite the fact that he believed blue eyes to be superior and you know what there’s just a lot of bad things I could say about Hitler but um what what can I say he’s he’s an absolute piece of crap

I should punch him in the face but I don’t want to damage their wax figure here is uh some of the military figures from the United States George S Patton here Douglas MacArthur and then our president at the time Franklin Delo Roosevelt taking a seat right there good job guys good job uh

Defeating these fascists oh yeah and I didn’t forget about you Mr Winston Churchill and let’s not forget about the uh Civil War here we have these uh Confederates here looks like this actually maybe maybe the end of the war right here a surrender going down where

Uh where where General Lee here is uh surrendering to ulyses S Grant and ending this horrible War hopefully hopefully once and for all figur crossed here we have our founding fathers including Mr Ben Franklin there fun fact was never president I don’t know I remember just as a kid just

Assuming he had been president and then uh being being shocked as I got a little bit and realized he had never been president I heard someone else say I forget who said this but that uh Ben Franklin is the most president most president person to have never been

President and we don’t have uh we don’t have all the presidents in here we do have uh George Washington back there oh look how yeah he’s got that puffy face because he because his uh teeth were constantly infected we saw his uh his Dentures recently at the uh national

Museum of Dentistry cuz he was just constantly in tooth pain his entire life maybe tooth pain is what made him a great General we have some more presidents over here we have uh George W bush here along with Dwight D Eisenhower so kind of an interesting selection an interesting

Smattering of presidents lynen B Johnson here with her uh with his wife Ladybird Johnson we thought that was an interesting name ladybird and it is in it is in air quotes So I’m guessing ladybird was her nickname but uh yeah and then I guess uh Hank Hill named his dog ladybird after

Uh after Mrs Johnson here then you have Richard and Pat Nixon and uh Gerald Ford back there the only unelected President how did he make his way into the wax museum that’s what I want to know You’ at least like have that be the criteria you have to be

Elected to be at the wag Museum and then FDR didn’t we just see you a second ago is FDR why you just yeah it’s right around this corner you have uh FDR right there he’s right there as well look at that you can actually see both fdrs at

The same time isn’t that breaking some sort of wax museum etiquette to be able to see both figures at the same time kind of like you never see two Mickey Mouses together at Disney I don’t know if you should be able to see two fdrs at once I don’t know maybe maybe this is some conspiracy theory here that there was actually two fdrs some other presidents over here John F Kennedy and uh our two most recent former presidents Barack Obama there and uh Donald Trump they don’t have the current president uh Joe Biden here but maybe

They’re still maybe they’re still working on him maybe he’s is still uh being waxed together and Harry S Truman down here fun fact the s in Harry S Truman is just an S it doesn’t actually stand for anything um I I don’t I guess I guess

The story is that uh the the that there was two people his parents wanted to name him after and both their names started with s so instead of making it just one of them they made it just s Harry just S Truman and here we have some famous

Writers there is Mr William Shakespeare looks like he’s writing writing his own biography there this is uh voler here bestn word candid I don’t I I guess I don’t know all that much about uh about voler here um this is who’s this guy this is oh Hans Christian

Anderson yeah he made he wrote he wrote The Little Mermaid and if you read the original Little Mermaid very different very different than the Disney version much more dark and twisted here we have Ernest Hemingway famed lover of cats I actually love going to his house in uh Key West cuz

You just get to pet all these six toad cats there here’s Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who wrote the uh Paul Riv ride and then this here it says Rudyard Kipling the picture there looks different so I’m not sure that this is Rudyard Kipling does anyone know who

This is if you know who this is leave a comment in the comment section okay this is Rudyard Kipling here and who is that other guy sitting in his spot I guess he’s he’s here uh writing uh writing the Jungle Book yeah you see the jungle there behind him I guess he’s

Imagining he’s in the jungle as he writes uh writes a story about talking Bears another cluster of great authors here in the middle we got Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn this is Victor Hugo right here he wrote The Hunchback of notredam and lay israels I

Think I’m saying that wrong um this is oh this is Charles Dickens right here didn’t know what Charles Dick Dickens looked like wrote uh Christmas Carol Of course probably his most famous work then Robert Stevenson here wrote Treasure Island and uh Dr Jackel and Mr Hyde this is the music section here you

Can see the floating instruments the tambourines the flute there hovering on the ceiling there’s Elvis Presley there the Beloved figure and you know what these figures I will say these figures do look do look pretty good it looks like they have a lot of uh love and care put into

Them you they’re well cleaned well maintained and here are some other famous musicians Johan Sebastian Bach Steven Foster wrote Camp Town Camp toown races blah blah blah D dah D dah Claude Debussy um not sure he wrote uh not famili not familiar with any of his work uh George Frederick

Handle uh I I guess I just don’t know a lot about uh classic music there’s uh Frederick shopen chopan shopen and gppi verie now there’s Frank list there I actually for some reason I know that Frank list was uh considered to be one of the first rock stars lived in the uh

1811 to 1886 and apparently like he was one of the first person to just have a major major fandom that that would come to his shows and get excited and love him so Frank list the first rock star there and then uh oh look at this we got

Uh this Ray Charles and Beethoven playing together I’m I’m I bet each one of them is happy that they finally got a chance to uh to put their piano work together finally Rembrandt there famed uh famed Dutch painter Anthony van dick also a he’s a Flemish Baroque

Painter and though I do not know what uh those words mean and Michelangelo here one of the artists that they named the uh one of the Ninja Turtles after Leonardo da Vinci here it says genius painter sculptor architect musician mathematician engineer inventor anatomist geologist cartographer botanist and writer now I remember

Watching a YouTube video where where they made an argument that uh Leonardo D Vinci could legit be legit be considered the greatest genius that ever lived just because he excelled in so many different fields like you read that list there like usually people nowadays are kind of good

At maybe one of those things he was a master in all of them so I guess one of the only true Geniuses you know heads and heels above uh above everyone else I El going to think of bigger genius leave a comment in the comment section okay and so they do technically

Have a Potter at Potters there is Harry Potter um here at Potter’s wax museum with Dobby his good friend the house elf and his a terrifying Nemesis Voldemort I guess you’re not even supposed to say that name but uh yeah the man with no nose and Johnny dupp as Captain Jackson

Sparrow I noticed like in in wax museum I mentioned figures are in almost every wax museum I think as far as like contemporary modern um people I think Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow is one of the more common wax figures you’ll see he’s he’s in almost every Wax Museum oh

About to head into the dark side of St Augustine Herman monsters here he’s warning us beware the horse depicted within are not for the faint of heart seems of Mayhem and Misfortune from this ancient City’s past provoke the senses enter at your own Prudence all right I

Think I’m going to make the decision to enter at my own Prudence go to the curtain here and uh see the oh my gosh there is Mayhem going on in here there is uh who who is who is this who’s who’s stabbing this guy uh figure this out

Okay okay this is the uh hugut massacre in 1565 and uh yeah look at that that guy stabbing that guy that guy trying to process the fact that he’s just been stabbed I almost didn’t notice this you see the tree here see those feet dangling from the trees that is an

Ominous site right there we have a whole exhibit within an exhibit here on uh Pirates of St Augustine it says St Augustine twice burned by PIR Pirates you can see the the Flames Rising there we have the wall of pirates here different pirate faces on this flaming wall oh my

Gosh this is Fame pirate Sir Francis Drake and apparently one time he he burned St Augustine to the ground you rascal I do love how they’ve Incorporated local Legends into the wax museum here’s the tale of the missing lovers and this occurred again across the street at uh Castillo de San

Marcus says that uh two skeletons were found in the wall chained together I guess the backstory being that uh this was Captain Abella who was having an affair with uh Dolores who was the wife of his Colonel and the two were having an affair until they both vanished until they turned up as

Skeletons chained together in the walls of Castillo Des San Marcus here’s the tale of pirate Andrew Ransom he was a sentenced to be executed by the garat with a tie a rope around his neck and twist it but during his execution the Rope snapped they did the full execution they

Tightened the rope and it snapped at the last moment and he was uh he was no long he was not deceased so uh a uh a frier a monk a local frier said that uh this was a miracle that God’s work had chosen to not execute him actually saved him from

Execution instead he uh spent some time in prison and was later released this here is James oglethorp see his name a lot in this in this part of the country says he actually founded Georgia so this is the guy that invented Georgia but he also apparently at one time uh Unleashed a

Siege onto St Augustine that was unsuccessful talks about the yellow fever epidemic in St Augustine you see the grave there of St still and uh they would put these bells on the grave and that was just in case just in case they buried someone alive on accident so they would have the rope

In their coffin and if they woke up and we like I am not dead this is not good they could pull that string and ring the bell someone heard the Bell they could come running and uh and dig the person up and I’ve heard I don’t know if this

Is true but I’ve heard this is that this is where the term dead ringer came from I remember seeing this before here and this this really really stuck with me the dark research the hanging of sim Jackson Sim Jackson here was a bad man he was a

Murderer he killed his wife but uh he had an agreement with a a doctor to do a scientific study the study was to see how long a hanged man remains conscious and so they decided to uh developed a system where Sim here after he was hung agreed to communicate with the doctor

Via hand signals to show how long he was still alive and apparently he lasted 14 minutes hanging by his neck so um yeah not a pleasant way to go and a little taste of horror here where we have uh Frankenstein also known as Frankenstein’s monster the creation and Son of Dr

Frankenstein so there’s some old wax Parts up there in the rafters including a the xenomorph Alia there up in the rafters let’s take a peek who’s up there oh look at that look at that look who that is that’s Annabelle the doll here is uh a Creature from the

Black Lagoon and uh definitely a Florida monster one of the the the universal monster most associated with Florida who actually filmed scenes from that movie at some of the different Springs around uh the State of Florida as we pass around the corner there none other than Mr uh Mr Freddy

Krueger coming out of his Boiler Room with his uh his his finger knives there is the Dr Jackal and Mr hid head so would rotate and you could see uh do or Mr Hyde on one side Dr Jackal on the other I notice here it says get

Your own Dr Jackal and Mr hid head um see a sales representative is this one is this one for sale as we come out of the Chamber of Horrors there we see some some non horrific figures there’s Mr Michael Jordan there now now playing for the Potters basketball team and remember you

Know when you’re in oax museum you don’t put your you don’t put your hands all over the figures you don’t touch the figures you leave Britney Alone this is the Middle Ages room where we see some of these European monarchs look like they’re straight out of uh Monty Python and the Holy

Grail but here we have Joan of Arc which is absolutely absolutely a fascinating tale this young young French girl that uh that heard voices that got the entire country of France behind her absolutely uh Amazing Story and uh she was actually uh she was burned at the Stak famously a

Lot of people say that it was because because uh she was seen as a heretic that she could felt she could talk to God talk to angels but there’s also evidence that she may have simply been burned at the Stak for wearing men’s clothing there is

Cleopatra she was the ruler of Egypt but uh we read earlier she was of Greek of Greek descent and says she was also the lover the lover of Julius Caesar however when he was assassinated she became the lover of Mark Anthony here who was a uh a Roman politician so uh yeah very

Fascinating woman Miss Cleopatra here and I’m pretty sure this section is brand new this is science and Discovery we’re greeted at the door by a science ball o look at the science ball ah it’s electrocuting me but uh here in the science room okay no one else is more sciency than Mr uh

Mr Albert Einstein himself we have the the astronauts here Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldren and the poor uh poor third member who doesn’t get enough tension Mr Michael Collins because I guess uh if you’re not first no one remembers you there wiluite created one of the first powered aircrafts although where’s where’s

Orville where’s Orville at have uh Henry Ford here the uh creator of the assembly line help to mass manufactur the automobile and uh created Greenfield Village out in Michigan which is a great uh tourist attraction see Galileo here in his laboratory studying the Stars his equipment see making little models of the Moon

There and then uh Alexander Graham Bell not only invented the telephone but made the world’s first phone call be a real bummer he spent all that time inventing the phone and then someone else got to use it first Marie Curry here who uh discovered radiation and you don’t want

To touch her because she actually died from uh radiation poisoning she’s highly toxic we have Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb amongst other things and uh actually the uh the hero this guy over here Henry Ford who uh actually captured Edison’s last

Breath in a jar and you can go see that currently on display at the Henry Ford reso George Washington Carver who revolutionized farming also often famous for his work in cultivating the peanut and uh yeah it was it was it was him working on peanuts that actually helped uh Enterprise Alabama when the

Bull Weeble destroyed their crops it was the uh the new Ingenuity of peanut farming that led to their success Charles Darwin there studying uh this skeleton here thinking thinking hard about Evolution the mother of modern nursing Miss Florence night Andale and then over here Louie pasture he uh invented a vaccine for

Rabies and also found a way to uh make milk not as diseased and to cap off the science room we have our friends from Star Wars Mr Darth Vader there C3PO in the back got little R2D2 there and uh Mr Yoda here’s a man truly uh truly helped

Shape Florida into what it is now Mr Walt Disney there in front of uh Cinderella Castle he’s not currently hanging out with Cinderella he’s got uh Snow White there he’s talking to that bird on her hand wonder where the uh where the dwarves are hanging out at

Walt Disney there in his in his in his pocket we got Mr uh Steamboat Willie but guess what Walt guess what you don’t own that anymore that’s mine that belongs to all of us you can’t you can’t keep him he’s ours give me just kidding you can

Keep him you see some heads here in this box there’s Sleeping Beauty You Can Tell She’s got her eyes closed and Alice from Alice and Wonderland and uh another Johnny duck character the Mad Hatter heading into the wax Studio where all the magic is made here they do have

Some more figures in here some uh aristocratic figures Charles I Queen Victoria that is Benjamin dis Ry this is the costuming room in here where the different wax figures are dressed after they’re completed different wax heads here on display there is Moses Moses’s head King Solomon so some some religious figures

In here there is uh Princess Diana and again some of these I don’t know everyone this is Felix Mel seen he’s a German composer ludvig von Beethoven I think there was another Beethoven in the uh in the museum joannas Broms Cardinal richo oh that’s King totin common that’s that’s

An interesting one and then some guy named mulier there is Elizabeth the and many of you pointed out to me not the mother of Elizabeth II this is Phillip thei of Spain and uh Mary the First and there is a lot a lot of European monarchy in here I think in the old waxs I think it was very popular to have a lot of the uh a lot of the old European monarchy yeah Henry VI he’s he’s a figure you see

Pop up a lot especially in the older older wax museums you actually look back here into the wax Studio you can see the wax heads there along the counter the process of creating these wax figures you can see Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn up there on the Shelf I think

They were on display as full body figures last time I was here yeah you see the the body there labeled Huck fin back there you can see the mold room the different mold you can feel the wax yeah it does you know basically feels like you know candle like you’re touching a

Candle not normally supposed to touch the figures but was that is that Angelina jolia you recognize those lips got check out these heads here up above the studio it’s Andrew Johnson Teddy Roosevelt in the middle Benjamin Franklin be Thomas Jefferson John Adams George watches a lot of President heads here

Charlamagne lady in waiting there Winston Church Hill another Charles deal so some of these are I guess where they had duplicates Jefferson Davis a Native American there that says unknown John C calhon there is uh Abraham from the Bible I didn’t see Abraham Lincoln here though that’s interesting he’s usually

Usually see a in in a wax museum oh there’s bonapart and uh his wife Josephine and as we say goodbye to the WX we I’ll say goodbye to George castanza here as well as uh Cosmo Kramer and the uh and the museum with a visit with the characters of

Seinfeld and then uh the opinion cards here handed out by Wax hands and uh the uh the tip box so thank you for joining me here today at Potter’s wax museum the oldest wax museum here in the United States and it looks great I was surprised how much it

Changed how much it moved around and they really do a good job in there of uh of keeping the figures looking good um you know you go to different wax museums there’s different levels of care that go into the wax figures these are very very old figures but they they look very

Fresh the clothes are clean the exhibits look great and um I talked to uh one of the employees here that they actually they’re an active maker of wax figures they do make wax figures not only for their own museum but for other attractions as well so that’s really

They apparently they did the uh the prohibition Museum in Savannah which is another Museum that I love so great time here at Potters definitely if you’re in St Augustine take the time to check this out because this is not only is a piece of history but uh just a great all round

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