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00:09Behind the gates of Frontierland is the inspirational America of the past century.
00:15Here is the treasure of our native folklore.
00:18The songs, tales and legends of the big men who built the land.
00:22For over 40 years, keelboats operated in Frontierland waters.
00:32Many guests today wouldn't even know what a keelboat was unless they had seen the Davy Crockett Keelboat Race episode of the old Disneyland TV series.
00:40In the late 1950s, however, everyone would have recognized a keelboat as a small, old-fashioned wooden houseboat since that popular TV episode helped propel the national Crockett craze.
00:51On the show, tough guy Mike Fink raced ramshackled Gollywhomper against Davy's Bertha Mae.
00:57To the vanquished went to spoils.
00:59Mike, an actual historical figure, lost the fictional race, but won a long-time Disneyland attraction.
01:06The original boats had two windows.
01:08They were also used in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer movie.
01:11New boats had three windows.
01:12The boats were powered by diesel engines.
01:14Each boat could hold about 30 guests.
01:171958 original wooden boats were replaced by fiberglass boats.
01:21From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968, Mike Fink and Keelboats are similar to those used in Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, television production of Mike Fink and the Keelboats.
01:32In 2001, the Bertha Mae was auctioned off for $15,000.
01:37In April 2003, the Gullywhomper was added as a static display along the rivers of America.
01:43The Gullywhomper!
01:45Come on up, Lord!
01:46Come on, Lord!
01:47Come on, Lord!
01:47Thank you very much.
02:17All right, we're off.
02:28Speaking about things that are off, over there on the dock, that's old Tim right there.
02:33It's him with one of them learning times.
02:36He went to one of them four years close for 12 long years to get his two-year BS degree.
02:40That's right, now he's a professional BSer, professional boat shover, that is.
02:45Look at that, everybody, give a round of applause for that great big boat shover.
02:50It's one of them silent clouds, only dogs can hear.
02:54And Tim can hear every single one of them.
02:59All right, I'd like to give a hat a hat on all you buccaneers, souvenirs, chandeliers, engineers.
03:04Handlaws, handlaws, big ones, small ones, grandmas, grandpas, and I'd like to give a special hat a hat on all you lovely, lovely ladies.
03:13I'd like to give a special hat a hat on all you other ladies, too.
03:19Well, you're aboard the Bertha Bay.
03:21This is the same old boat that old Davy Crockett used to race Black Peak down the river, 1810.
03:27There on the left hand side there, folks, that's old flashbound right there.
03:31That's where they stick you in a log and take you up five stories.
03:35They're up, you down.
03:38Woo, yeah, it's a cut.
03:41It's fun.
03:42It's not quite as fun as this here deal boat.
03:46All right.
03:47Well, at least they start line shorter.
03:52Well, they're on the left hand side there, folks.
04:04That's old Davy Crockett can do.
04:07That's where they give you a little stick and make you paddle all the way around the river until your arms hurt.
04:12Your back's sore.
04:13You're smelling, sweaty, and stinky, and gross, and disgusting, feeling.
04:18That's great fun, though.
04:19Oh, yeah.
04:20They're on the left hand side there, folks.
04:21Look at that.
04:21That's all from our beer restaurant.
04:23I heard their food's so good.
04:25They throw it to the decks.
04:30Wow, there's a lot of ice on here.
04:31You don't know.
04:40I'm hungry, honey.
04:41well let's get an uncle jett out these parts now they say he's going to build himself a brand new
05:03lot of cabin i thought we'd just stop out behind doing a brand new house warming party oh smell that
05:10smell that fire sound black smoke what could it be what could it be oh my goodness oh no oh no this
05:20is terrible this is terrible yep let's say we're all in for that outdoor party yep oh you know that
05:29could this be all near martha's home cooking exactly gold uncle jett likes his home well done
05:49yes
06:03Well, we just entered the Keelbow Rampits.
06:21I call these the Keelbow Rampits, because if we were to hit one of them sharp jagging rocks,
06:28you're probably going to keel on over.
06:30Rampantly!
06:33You just can't take these rocks for granted.
06:37Well, yeah, coming up on the left-hand side, folks, there's them two idiots.
06:49There's the old shaman telling a story like always.
06:52Well, why don't we just sit here for a spell and listen to the old shaman tell a story?
06:57Okay.
06:59Okay.
07:00Okay.
07:01Okay.
07:02It looks like a picture of the You'll see the city
07:09It looks great
07:10I mean it looks like a picture of the building
07:11They're so big
07:13It's gonna have to do a image
07:14Nony
07:15Nony
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07:26Nony
07:27Nony
07:28Nony
07:29Nony
07:30Nony
07:31Nony
07:32Well, there are the right hands on there folks, look at that, couple of my dear friends.
07:47A couple of my dear friends.
07:51I know you didn't just come out here to listen to my bad jokes, you wanted to see some celebrities.
07:57Well, there's one right there, from Russia, that's the best answer there.
08:03I have an awful itch, I have an awful itch.
08:08I have an awful itch.
08:13I have an awful lot of them.
08:17Oh, man, I have an awful lot of them.
08:23You just need to get them.
09:29And they say that falls are about 10 stories tall.
09:33Some of them come swear, folks.
09:34They said it's about 11 stories.
09:37I don't know about that.
09:38I just find that to be a totally different story.
09:42I don't know.
09:43I don't know.
09:44I don't know.
09:46I don't know.
09:52I don't know.
09:54I don't know.
09:58I don't know.
09:59I don't know.
10:00I don't know.
10:01I don't know.
10:02I don't know.
10:32I don't know.
10:37I don't know.
10:40Oh, I'm going to get out of here.
10:43I'm going to get out of here.
10:45I'm going to get out of here.
10:47I'm going to get out of here.
10:49I'm going to get out of here.
10:51I'm going to get out of here.
10:57Well, they're on the left-hand side.
10:59Folks, that's hoping that our ball.
11:01Now they see more water comes over them.
11:03One minute, they'll be drinking on the after.
11:06I just don't know about that.
11:08I just found that, to me, just a little bit too hard to swallow.
11:14Well, folks, this is the most dangerous part of our journey right now.
