Buena Park! Knott's Berry Farm & much more! Porto's Bakery , Ralph B. Clark Park and lots of food!

welcome to Pat Patterson's Best of California This episode Buena Park Orange County We're at Knott Berry Farm We're going to show you Knots Liza's going to show you Boot Hill We're going to go to some parks We're going to see Porto Bakery All the wonderful things to do here in Buena Park You ready Liza i'm ready Let's go I'm Pat Patterson and I love California [Music] I'm so excited We're in Buena Park my one of my favorite cities here in California in Orange County Knottberry Farm is in Buena Park And Olivia we are at what part of Knottberry Farm we are now in Ghost Town here at Knottbury Farm This is what started it all This is what started our theme park Walter KN was a very avid collector of western memorabilia and this whole Ghost Town is his collection And I'm going to get to show you around a little bit Are you Are you ready i'm ready I'm ready I'm excited I'm excited [Music] So this this building was actually here when Walter Knob acquired the property of what is now Knottberry Farm He saw it across the street He loved it And eventually in 1940 he brought it over here to Knottberry Farm He moved it as is Oh my gosh And it's still a working blacksmith shop to this day Wow And so one of the things that I know is true about Nights Berry Farm is you're maintaining the Old West heritage that a lot of people don't know existed in California They kind of think of that as the Old West somewhere to the east of us right no that's right There was there was quite a bit of that here Uh the tour we give here is called Early California and we talk all about how the people were coming out here for the gold rush and they experienced the Old West We had a lot of these mining towns a lot of these ghost eventually became ghost towns and that's actually where Walter not acquired a lot of our buildings So he collects old buildings from ghost towns So what are we looking at here Olivia this is old Betsy This is another one of Walter KN's acquisitions from all of his many journeys out to different old west towns So not only is this an amusement park but it's a museum That's right And Walter not actually referred to it as a living museum So this is our bird cage theater Now I've been talking about how Walter not collected a lot of old buildings This is one that he was not able to acquire Okay This one is actually based on the real bird cage theater in uh Tombstone Arizona Tombstone Of course a lot of tombstone wider gunfight at the OK Yes And of course Walter I was a big fan of that and he wanted the bird cage theater He found it He was not able to acquire it because it became a historic landmark So that didn't deter him though He said "I'll have a replica built here." What you see here is just the front facade It's actually an outdoor theater on the other side And are you a fan of uh Only Murders in the Building by chance steve Martin Yes Did he did he play here that's right He he actually this this theater was skyrocketed his career He started off performing here right in Knottberry Farm in this very theater Oh my gosh Is there a plaque there's got to be a plaque or something It's on the inside It's on the inside Steve Martin Well thank you Steve Martin Olivia where are we welcome to our schoolhouse Wow Now this building is an actual real schoolhouse from Kansas It's from Boy Kansas It was made in the 1800s and it was eventually bought by Walter Not So Walter bought this building in an auction You want to know how much he bought this schoolhouse for how much $25,3.50 Oh my god that is so great And then eventually when he had it here in the ' 50s his own grandchildren and the employees of Knots children went to school here Come on Yeah We brought new life to the schoolhouse Oh my god [Music] All right Olivia tell us where we are We're in our graveyard here It's called our Bootill Cemetery Every good ghost town has a cemetery and ours is no different But the fun thing about our cemetery is it has a very famous legend The legend of the grave of Hyram McTavish Legend has it if you step on his grave and you feel the heartbeat it'll bring you good luck Yeah you can feel his heartbeat I guess you're going to have good luck now Oh it's going to give me good luck It will I love that And you know what seeing you here as the daughter brings me to a very interesting thing about Knoxberry Farm So we have our light-hearted gags here like our heartbeat But during October this whole place transforms into not scary farm That all started back in 1973 Marian not oversaw it Um it started with Sinister Seymour So he was played by Larry Vincent He was a TV host He had his own show and he wanted to have it here in Knoxberry Farm So Mary and not had the idea of like oh why don't we add a haunted house to that and maybe some more like spooky things It was three nights long and it was a big hit and we've been having that event now ever since [Music] We're at Knottberry Farm Pan for Gold I'm here with my friend Digger Now Digger tell us what we're about to get into This is Panning for Gold which has been a part of Knottberry Farm since 1947 This was actually one of Walter KN's very first paid attractions here on the farm So every day guests come in they pay a small fee to get a little bit of gold to take home as a souvenir And this is actual 22 karat gold all the way from the Yukon River in Alaska That's worth something That's pretty amazing I'll just keep this for 100 years and then I'll sell it There you go Perfect There you go Let's get going [Music] Well Laura if you can tell us a little bit about what we're about to shove into our mouths happily We wanted to introduce a couple of our favorites The chicken wings with our boenberry barbecue sauce And then same with the uh all beef meatballs and our homemade mashed potatoes And then of course if you're thirsty uh we've got our boenberry lemonade Now look at this beautiful purple color Corn dogs These are corn dogs It's in our boenberry batter Wow And now we can't be remissed without trying some wonderful desserts So this is number one seller for us Our funnel cakes We're known for them We make homemade churros We And then we stuff them with the Well we put cinnamon sugar and then we stuff them with berry You can see the boenberry sticking out What did you think Dad well I love it It's Mrs Murphy's outside the Ghost Town Bakery This is incredible I can't believe Jeff hasn't Oh there he is There he is The cameraman got his [Music] [Music] food So I'm so excited We are in Buena Park were on the grounds of Knottberry Farm But there's something very special that Walter not did many decades ago and that was to build an exact replica of Independence Hall And Greg is an expert on this building Tell me I feel like we're in Philadelphia right well it sure feels like it doesn't it Walter Not this was Walter KN's dream project Independence Hall He loved Knottsberry Farm but it was his passion He was a patriot So he built a brick by brick replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia Why would Walter not want to build an Independence Hall is to give people a chance to visit here on the West Coast [Music] We're inside Independence Hall We're in front of a replica of the Liberty Bells There was a gentleman by the name of Bud Herbut He was a friend of Walter not and he went to Philadelphia and got tracings and measurements of the real Liberty Bell Wow Oh my gosh Whoa Wow Was called the Assembly Chambers Assembly Chambers Yes And and really the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the beginning It was debated and it was signed right here in this room Who would have been assembled here that we know uh at the time would have been Ben Ben Franklin Okay John Adams John Hancock to name a few Okay about that We have a 20-minute audio presentation that recreates the events of July 4th 1776 the signing of the Declaration and we hear the voices of the men who met in this room Wow So come see Independence Hall It's free It's open every day Get down here and pay attention to the the heritage of our great country [Music] I am so excited We're here in Orange County Buena Park Ralph B Clark Regional Park and I'm with Sarah And Sarah I can't believe this place I'm really excited that you're here too They have fossils You can volunteer to be a fossil finder You can you can see all sorts of things inside the interpretive center but also they have all these things Name some of the things outdoors they can do here Trout fish Yeah absolutely They can they can fish Uh you need a California license if you're over 16 Um you can use the volleyball There's there's a good county employee She immediately went to the license you'll need She knew exactly what to do Anyway what else we also have volleyball courts and uh softball fields tennis courts playgrounds a hiking trail that goes all the way around the park Um all kinds of different things So as a family piece you need to come down here and see it It lots to do outdoors lots to do indoors and you can stand inside What is this this is a megalodon Well I have megalodon Of course Of course What is a Is that like a prehistoric shark it's an ancient shark Wow They've been extinct for just about three and a half million years Three and a half million years Oh my god But their teeth are found all the way up and down the coast Wow Pacific and Atlantic So we've got we have them found in Orange County as well [Music] So Sarah there's an incredibly large skeleton behind me I mean is that a giant rodent of some kind what is this that's actually a giant ground sloth Uh it's a Harlland's ground sloth otherwise known as paramodon Okay And it lived here during the ice age I just got to I got to sit and take this in So we're in the middle of Orange County Yes The land of Disneyland Knottberry Farm a zillion housing developments I mean everything modern And you're saying they have what in there whales Whale A 10 milliony old whale 10 million old whale found here Well this was found a little bit farther south in Orange County Well but I mean it's Orange County I mean I mean Orange County This is incredible This is Stop all the presses This is amazing Oh there we go So we have six people in here What are they doing well they are very carefully scraping away like I said the matrix which is that sand and dirt from the fossils themselves Wow So they're cleaning them up so that those fossils can be used either for scientific purposes or for display Wow that's incredible Wow Ralph B Clark Regional Park City of Wina Park You got to check it out [Music] I am so excited We are in Bueno Park at my favorite bakery Only I didn't know there was one here Porto's famous famous throughout Southern California I got to talk to Betty Porto Betty this is unbelievable It's one of the It's the biggest bakery that we have built Uh it's got to be one of the biggest bakeries in the world Incredible They do incredible business Uh because all the tourism that comes here they know they do the Yeah They do their We do the biggest breakfast of all the bakeries Wow Because people come here before going to this land farm So so I'm excited We are going to get to see Haley make one of these cakes And Frana you're the chef here What is she making right now she's want to decorate the red velvet cake Okay Here at Porto Buena Park so it's one of our favorites Um of course she has to be very careful because you know the finished product is is the one we look for And uh we we we had to please our guests and they they want perfection as well at quality And uh so she's very careful decorating the Revel cake And these are Revel crumbs All right Now tell me what's up next here Well next one of our next is our fruit tart and is very very very uh well known in Portos One of the favorite for our Ol as gorgeous berry right but right now they're working in the futar This is 11 in It has everything fresh strawberries uh blackberries apples mango uh raspberries blueberries So pretty much every day we do like 400 400 400 it can go to 500 or 600 And I heard that some of these berries are extremely local like you some of them are bought this morning Yes Uh they grow it for Portos They grow it around um Santa Clarita So they are local Everything is around you know very fresh Uh as you can see they are very big and I mean it's one of our favorite [Music] favorites Moros Bakery This is incredible here in Buer Park You got to check it out [Music] So it's time to take your second act creative uturn Today's topic hobbies genealogy my family tree I've always wanted to know where I came from Thought I was Irish Patrick Patterson Turns out I'm Scottish So I developed a plan to have a family trip over to Scotland I went on Facebook groups to find out more about the local uh history genealogy People flooded me with data I contacted a local expert the Elgen Heritage Council over there in Scotland They have them all over the UK Check those out I was able to go and check out a newspaper which had a number of listings regarding my grandfather great-grandfather and they found out the hotel they owned was still there I could go visit it with my daughters Incredible And then last but not least was enjoying the trip booked by a travel expert I didn't know how to do it so I turned it over to a travel agent which I know many of us don't use anymore because of the internet but boy am I glad I did it in this case Now not everybody can afford a trip to Scotland but you can do all of this via Zoom I did the library I did the Heritage Council All via Zoom Hope you enjoyed how I've done my creative U-turn Now it's time for you to do yours [Music] So Liza lunch is here I am getting the grilled chicken sandwich You have what there i am a huge fan of pork So I had to try the media noce and the kubano Kubano the Cuban family So that makes sense And then what are these little guys these are little fruit tarts that we have No we're discovering new food here I mean this is good [Music] That's [Applause] [Music] [Music] good I'm so excited We are in Buena Park I'm with Art Brown And you are curator of this historic house Yes It's the Whitaker James estate Whitaker chains estate belongs to the city of Bueno Park but the historical society maintains the inside Wow Oh my gosh Art What a beautiful home this is You mentioned the wood burning stove This is incredible This is beautiful isn't it it's beautiful All rough cast iron same irons charcoal white gas Okay Pressure cooker Wow have the ice box there right wow I have to admit I think this might be my favorite room because it is stuff I remember from my childhood Now when you're here and you bring people in what is the main goal that you are trying to impress them with educate people what it was like to live in the 18 early 1900s Art Brown thank you for showing us this incredible house Oh it's my pleasure Anytime you want to get back here and invite people to come see it we welcome them You got to check out the Whitaker Jane Mansion here in Buena Park Open to the [Music] public Here we are for Liza's Breakaway at the Cauldron Spirits and Bruise I'm here with Laura Hanaman Laura this is amazing Tell us a little bit about your witch themed haunt Well thank you for coming first of all and um yeah I'm a I'm a witch So we have a little uh witch themed bar here that has special effects that we have French themed food Um and you know it it's about the whole experience Being a designer at a theme park you know you you want to envelop you know the entire experience the audio the visual the you know but now I can introduce taste in it and and that's very important to me My menu is French influence Um I say influence because it's not completely French but it's beastro style So something that we can share and promotes networking conversation Well thank you so much Laura We can't wait to check out everything you have to offer Thank you Let's go check it out Now Rachel tell us what you're about to do I'm scared It's a little bit of magic We're going to go ahead and turn your cotton candy into a [Music] cocktail Whoa Whoa That is not at all what I expected That is not what I expected That is so great Completely is gone Well cheers Cheers to the cauldron Cheers to Rachel Both of you Cheers to And cheers to Buena Park Thanks [Music] guys So that's our trip to Buena Park I don't know I kind of got into trouble but I could live here This is okay I love it I'm in Knoxberry Farm Pat Patterson's best of California See you next [Music] time We should all have pockets Like I don't have pockets I need pockets and stuff I don't have And I deserve pockets Give us pockets Take that to the Senate This is 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