Abandoned Store Left in 1963 | Everything is Still Inside | Time Capsule | Destination Adventure

[Music] everybody in the country she was aunt lil to everybody that's all they called her it kind of takes me back in time you know i spent a lot of time there lots of times i'd go up to aunt lil's my sister and i work in the store with her and help her a little bit it's a time capsule right from the day it opened in 1900 until it's closed in 1963 there's something from every year that you could find in there that that was sold in that store when i walked in i thought oh my this is what you see in old time movies this is this is what it looks like back in history growing up in the caribou i always knew that the store was there i just had no idea how much was actually there and you probably think you're looking at footage from a museum or something but you're not that's exactly how the store is and has been since 1963 when they just locked the doors and walked away [Music] ever since i was a kid all i wanted to be was an explorer sail the seven seas find new worlds but uncle d everything's already been found what like everything well yeah oh man well so much for that but if i can't be an explorer i can still be an adventurer so i bought a motorhome and i'm hitting the open road my name is dustin porter and this is destination adventure [Music] it all started in the tyrol area of northern italy where italy borders up on austria right at the base of the alps there he had had an uncle who had come out to search for gold and he had letters from his uncle they spoke italian of course and the uncle wrote british columbia as british [Music] m b i c-o-l-o-m-b-i-a british columbia which is how they spelled it in italian so he and his friends booked passage on a ship to colombia which was about 3 000 or 3 500 miles away from where they really wanted to go the captain who was a pretty reasonable fellow agreed to put them off the ship at colon c-o-l-o-n which is in panama they had no money they had no way of getting where they were going and so they went to work digging the panama canal anyone who knows about the panama canal knows about the conditions they were just atrocious and yellow fever dysentery and malaria they all got really set here i don't know what the disease was probably diphtheria or something like that but i believe a couple from california took him and nursed him back to health [Music] one of the bosses took louie home to san francisco with him and his wife nursed him back to health and once he got healthy in that then they put him on a boat to victoria to his uncles when he got to victoria's uncle wasn't there it his uncle had written victoria bc but it was yale [Music] he worked in yale for a bit and then he came north around that time a woman a young woman named clara noble was appointed as the teacher at lacklahash school he decided that this was going to be his wife and he courted her and they got married and shortly after that they decided that they wanted to go and find a ranch of some sort on their own and they headed north by 1898 1899 they were renting the ranch at mountain house which is 158 mile on the old caribou wagon road they stayed there for a couple of years she had a couple of babies they left the 158 mile and uh he knew about the land at 153 and it was really nice land as far as he was concerned and so he preempted 160 acres and started working the land because the place was uh on the road out to soda creek and out to likely and out to horse fly there was a fair amount of wagon traffic freight traffic people stopping by and so inevitably people came and said can we stay the night because of the number of people that were stopping and asking if they could stay the night they ended up building a large roadhouse 153 mile roadhouse the bottom part had the quarters for the family and then some rooms for people to stay in and the top part was one big room that was for the freighters the drivers it was sort of a dorm room the partitions upstairs were just oil cloth they had little slats and it was just oil cloths on for partition so if you snored everybody hurt you yes i'm sure the old wagon trains had to stop they didn't go very far in a day and so everybody wound up with beds and and feeding them and she had a reputation of one of the best tables on the road when they moved into the the 153 mile roadhouse they kept that little building and made it the store and that was the first store so gradually the 153 mile store came about i think in 1915 that little store was too far too small and they ended up building the present building which which you see there today that store uh served this area it was it was the the place you could get anything there if you couldn't get it they'd order it for you and it was well used by the people of 150 mile which was the center of commerce and governance for the whole area they used the 153 mile store it was the place to go place to gather place to socialize place to buy things it was it was the place it was great you know lots of people went through the stages would stop there and when they were going to town they'd leave their leave orders for different people lots of people we'd put them up and be packaged and ready to go when they came back and there was always people stopping [Music] that store served this area really well until clara's daughter who was running then died right there behind the counter she died and they closed it down and never touched it since it's the same as when i worked there i took nothing out [Music] basically the door was closed and locked and never opened for public sale again there's a lot of information we don't even know that exists alice and my wife finds stuff in there every time she's in there she finds new stuff to that we don't know existed [Music] when you walk in there it's like a step back in time it's just like it was in the 1900s just unbelievable the the kinds of things that you can find there the the clutter the uh the old stoves the old equipment everything is just the way it was uh you know in the early 1900s and it's just a remarkable place [Music] you guys ready to take a look in the store let's check it out i've been filming it here the last few hours just want to take you for a tour and show you some of the amazing stuff i'm finding in here first of all just look how full this place is unbelievable these cabinets they're just full of old letters and documents super clothing for western canadians fancy a lot of the bigger stuff that they didn't actually stock in store you'd order from a catalog like this this one's from 1904. be very careful some amazing stuff in there life magazine november 21st 1949 20 cents for that wow one really crazy thing that i found is uh lil died in here august of 1963 and the calendar here is still on august 1963. so let's start in the corner here this cabinet is full of men's shaving stuff that's a neat kit two of them there this is all like uh for fixing horse tack and whatnot it's full of buckles unsold and this section here this is all like the cigarettes and cigars these tins are still full of tobacco these boxes full of cigars quite the collection copenhagen chewing tobacco yeah that's kind of cool dollar 98 brand new later i'm really curious what this uh chinese stuff would have been not sure and you'll notice there's a there's a lot of stuff in this store that is it never sold but it's brand new still with the manual cream separator that's pretty cool and over here there's this one kitchenaid model 3c neato pocket cutlery look at the print on this holy lots of colors replacement filler it's for the inside of a thermos oh 1940 coca-cola and these this is cool these are all chocolates i just love these boxes so cool some egg scale that's pretty fun wow look at the spices and for quite a number of years this was also a gas station so they have a good collection of uh gas and oil stuff in here i love these old buttons wow that's pretty amazing the oil's still in there so crazy and this back here this is probably my favorite section of the store it's like the office section it's just neat because a lot of this stuff is still dated 1959 1947 1954 so much paperwork in here i think that lighter right there is snakeskin wow the old safe still says christina on it amazing oh and this is so much fun look at this still in the original stand this is all like uh birthday cards and stuff plan ahead happy next anniversary too that's a fun one another birthday it happens to everyone time wounds all heals don't know maybe like the heel of a boot don't quite get that one i don't know comedy was different back in the day oh god that's pretty fun if we come around the corner here i like this this is a wooden bird cage never see that again any alarms or something not sure what those are oh they're telephones wow that radio still has the manual that's pretty cool old morse telegraph this absolutely blew me away this is all new in the box shoes and boots flashlight section look at that fur coat holy pretty uptown reading glasses sunglasses it's pretty amazing they got all this stuff custom made for the store 1934 on that one you guys will like this this cupboard is completely full of brand new like beauty products and stuff i don't really know what any of it is pretty fancy little boxes for it though look at that box it's pretty wild it still smells super good in here [Music] little sterling silver case it's probably eyeliner or something in there wow violet powder not sure this corner over here is pretty fun this is all uh games like board games and stuff you know what there there was kids that grew up on on this property three stooges comic book wow not even out of the plastic wrapper yeah there's kids that grew up on the property here i'm amazed they didn't go through this stuff like these old marvel caps for toy pistols guaranteed sure fire made in canada like that marble maze brand new marbles it's cool all these boxes are made of tin this is all halloween stuff i know they used to have quite the celebrations here so it was from a halloween party or something there's quite a lot of camera stuff in here all the old photos that you guys saw throughout the video that was a collection that was actually found in here uh a whole box of negatives they found in here that's a cool iron gas powered or something lots of sewing stuff in here this is pretty amazing still works too it's crazy this cabinet here it's full of uh corsets and jewelry uptown girl wow a couple more things i'll show you at the front of the store here take a look at this cabinet this is like all all pharmacy stuff it's a huge amount of stuff in there i don't know what a lot of this stuff is really licorice so they had a blacksmith shop here a lot of this stuff is probably things that he built he's very famous for his bells listen to the ring on this beautiful and this i think is my favorite spot look at this this is all the store books from the day it opened everything bought everything sold look at this one 1899 to 1910 in that book alone i'm not going to open those because they're so old and fragile obviously very irreplaceable but my first visit here allison was nice enough to to show me through some of these books and it's amazing in elementary school we're taught about the the people that started and built the city of williams lake and you can see their names in that book signed off what they bought what they ordered just crazy to see that thank you all so much for checking out this video i hope you enjoyed it i hope you learned something and a very special thank you to all of my patrons that help make these adventures and these videos possible i've noticed a big boost on the patreon page lately and i really appreciate that and i have a whole bunch of bonus content coming onto the patreon page from this video because a lot of stuff happened that didn't quite fit the storyline of the video but i still really want to share it with you guys there's sections of the store that never made it into the video and a couple of the interviews i want to just share the the complete interview there's a lot of really interesting information in there both historically and just in my opinion life wisdom i really enjoyed chatting with everyone about this video and i can't wait to share it with you guys as always take note of pictures leave nothing but footprints i'll catch you on the next one [Music] do [Music] you

Channel: Destination Adventure

Views: 666,314

Rating: 4.9171457 out of 5

Keywords: abandoned, lost, forgotten, found, history, historical, time capsule, preserved, Urbex, Discovery, discovered, Nat Geo, Doccumentary, BC, British Columbia, Canada, adventure, explore, Destination Adventure

Id: Xi3eeSZFfCw

Length: 27min 1sec (1621 seconds)

Published: Thu May 06 2021