The Coffee Pot - Historic Lincoln Highway Bedford PA

[@journeywithjay]

Cool history on that place never knew it was around that long.

[@ODDySEEy]

Something stupid becoming something cool. :D That is the way I look at these types of sites.

[@rogergarman]

Great job Scott!!! I remember going to see the Ship as a kid. There are really a lot of places like that along The Lincoln Highway. Just east of York on route 30, you can see The Shoe House. I haven't had luck of it being open when I tried to go in the past, or if it is still open. They sold ice cream out of it. It was actually on an episode of The Amazing Race too. Maybe something you can check out when you get down that way.

[@ODDySEEy]

Really neat stuff. I don't know what that Pinnochio Pied Piper things was at the end of my video. Thunderstorm was really bad as I was coming out of another site location and I saw it and thought... I gotta get that on the list. Lots of things along Lincoln Hwy. And yes... of course the Shoe is on the list. ;)

[@rogergarman]

@@ODDySEEy I think there's a place West of Gettysburg. A guy has all kinds of elephant stuff too.

[@rogergarman]

@@ODDySEEy Mr. Ed's Elephant Museum

[@robertsieber8374]

@@rogergarman I was just there today

[@bsale2024]

I enjoyed this video very much. Bert Koontz was my 3x’s great-uncle. My great-grandfather worked at the filling station for his uncle during the great depression. So happy this little piece of Americana has been preserved for generations to come. 🙂

[@ODDySEEy]

Looks like the "preservation" is coming to an end. Just read an article that it is being turned into something for food distribution... which means it will have to follow "code".

[@mrjuliusjohnson4619]

I grew up in Everett, Pa. in the 50s and60s. My Foster Parents had a few relatives who lived in Bedford and when they went to visit them, I would go to the Coffee Pot.

[@ODDySEEy]

Interesting!

[@jamiesuter3606]

memories, saw that pot every time we drove to Bedford with my parents. Thanks!!

[@ODDySEEy]

That is how this all started for me Jamie. :) Glad to have helped renew that feeling.

[@alankorzi6738]

My son and I found this earlier this year while doing some off roading in the area, indeed a cool find. Great to now learn the history behind it, love the video

[@ODDySEEy]

It is the little things that you see out of the corner of your eye while on to a specific destination. That is what I go after :D

[@josephvandevander6848]

The way ppl love road-tripping, sight-seeing &most of all, nostalgia, so much now that it’s a real shame The Ship couldn’t be saved &restored. 😣

[@ODDySEEy]

The ship would have been a WONDERFUL site to visit. I put off my doing this youtube stuff for far too many years and now regret all those things that are no longer there.

[@jasonhoffman7903]

They did a nice job on that. Back in the late 90s I drove beer truck and right next to it was kase beverage. I used to look in the broken windows the floor and roof were falling in. I was so happy to see years later it was moved and restored.

[@ODDySEEy]

I saw some of the pictures of when it was really deteriorated. It is rather amazing that they were able to move it and restore it. Unlike its previous location where there is now a bank (which speaks volumes on what was going on when they were going to knock it down) it sits back just far enough off the road that you could easily drive past it and never know it was there.

[@stancrawford933]

@@ODDySEEy at one time it was a bar

[@brianwalter7387]

Love it..ready for more history lessons scott..keep up the awesome lessons looking forward to next video

[@ODDySEEy]

Thank you, Brian. The hardest part is that there are SO MANY SITES!

[@stancrawford933]

I grew up in Bedford Pa and remember it well

[@ODDySEEy]

It must have been awesome back in the day.

[@stancrawford933]

@@ODDySEEy as I look back on it I have to agree but then I didn't pay it much mind....for a while the coffee pot was part of a local bar at the original site

[@stancrawford933]

@@ODDySEEy in my teen years I worked at The Wonderland Coral Caverns as a guide

[@WilliamWeicht]

I lived a few miles away from the Ship Hotel. I was sad that it burned down. I was hoping that it could be restored too. I am glad they were able to save the Coffee Pot. I also remember going to Story Land in Schellsburg back in the 70s. I love watching your channel. It brings back so many memories.

[@ODDySEEy]

That site would have been one of the best places to see nowadays. One of those places that was so kitsch in its time but now would be a retro-kitsch site to see.

[@aliciaroles8565]

Great job and good info!

[@ODDySEEy]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kevinkutz9582]

In 1886, Charley Hall discovered a way of smelting Aluminum out of Bauxite in his kitchen in Oberlin Ohio. 2 years later, he founded the Pittsburgh Reduction Company with Alfred Hall in 1888, which became the became the Aluminum Company of America (1907). Wear-Ever Aluminum was developed and sold as cooking and camping utensils. The earliest photographs of the Coffee Pot promoted the Finest Coffee on the Lincoln Highway as being made by Wear-Ever Aluminum.

[@kevinkutz9582]

Alfred Hunt, not Hall.

[@zzzzipy12]

Bedford!!! Where my PA family lives & where I wish I lived!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ODDySEEy]

Fortunately, Pennsylvania is not going anywhere, anytime soon and is always patiently waiting for the return of its kin. :)

[@destinyangelmason9831]

Love this!! I wanna go see this place now!! Thanks Scott!!

[@ODDySEEy]

If you are capable and able, see as many of these sites as you can. Taking the back road is always a better options than the faster commercial roads of life. Remember, you are able to enter this building during the first two weeks of October (Bedford Fall Festival). I don't know if the "Beer" virus will mess that up this year.

[@destinyangelmason9831]

@@ODDySEEy We always take the back roads even if it adds an extra hour or 2 to the trip :) I was wondering if it would open this year when you said about the 2 week window... I will keep my eyes and ears open. I love your videos!! Keep up the good work

[@kevinkutzart9680]

I enjoyed that as all of your other videos. I think I may have painted the Pot about a dozen times.

[@mattrizzo7821]

Nice video.. nice area too!

[@ODDySEEy]

It sure is!

[@SchardtCinematic]

You should head to York Pa and do a video on the Haines Dhoe House. I live a mere 5 miles from it and it's just always been there. I drive past it almost everyday.

[@ODDySEEy]

It is on my list... I try to do a rotation around where I live. I also try to not do locations that are too popular, mainly because it interferes with the recordings, but also because they are often "pay for" sites and I do not want them using my videos for their profit. Haines Shoe house is not just a pay site, but also gives you a "tour", which is great. But one thing that almost EVERY "pay for" "tour" site has in common is the act of not telling the Facts, Truth, or History... they tend to tell you things that will cause you to tell other people to come and visit. (NOT SAYING THAT HAINES SHOE HOUSE WILL OR DOES DO THAT... I don't know yet). BUT... it is on my list... so we WILL find out eventually.

[@SchardtCinematic]

@@ODDySEEy I live 5 miles from the Shoe House and drive past it almost everyday. For me. It's just always been there. The current owner sadley passed away in I think 2018 or early 2019. Her husband and family still run it in her honor. She actually researched the history and in the Ice Cream there are photos of its construction. When I was little it was painted white with a black soul. Like a baby shoe. In her research found out it was originally painted tan. With a brown soul. I've been there quite a few times under diffrent owners since I've been little. I'm 50 now and my latest visit was in August 2019. It still looks great. I myself have been going to Somerset County all my life going through or around Bedford many times heading out to Meyersdale Pa for the Pennsylvania Maple Festival and I never knew the large Coffee Pot was in Bedford. So now that is on my list to visit. My parents grew up in Meyersdale and i still have lots of family out that way.

[@bcgamer5916]

Thank you very much for making my day I used to live in man's choice and Bedford I went to bed for high till 8th grade and then moved to where I'm at now once again thank

[@stancrawford933]

I grew up in Mann's choice also left there in 71 to go to Trade school as an undergrad

[@ODDySEEy]

My pleasure!

[@jservello]

Awesome work. Loved the story

[@ODDySEEy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@suvtraveler3587]

Great fun place

[@bhimmler]

Another amazing Video and History Lesson! I lived a few miles from the Coffee Pot & Bedford Fairgrounds and was always fascinated with the Coffee Pot, and hated to see it deteriorate the way it was. I now live in North Eastern PA, but do try to visit Bedford when I can, and last year took a pic in front of The Coffee Pot. Thank You again for all that you do to preserve and share the History of Pennsylvania.

[@ODDySEEy]

With the way the world is going... I figure I gotta capture it before it is gone.

[@bcgamer5916]

Hey Brian your story is pretty much like mine I lived in man's choice and then Bedford and now I moved out here to the Northeast I live in Mount Carmel now

[@stancrawford933]

@@bcgamer5916 I grew up in Mann's choice also and now live in Ashland!

[@plymouth-hl20ton37]

Scott you jog my memory I was trying to remember when that boat burn up we used to go past it when we'd go from Ohio to Kinzers PA steam show I remember driving past it 1989

[@ODDySEEy]

I could only imagine what it was like on the inside and to have that view.

[@deecee9735]

Are you talking about the “ship hotel” , I was in the place many times from the mid 50’s -the late 70’s , it was really nice you could see 3states , and 7 counties , from up on upper deck , they had good food, and what can remember they a gift shop , and a bar too , but sometime in the mid 80’s in went into decline , the people , tried to sell it but couldn’t get , what they wanted for it , then a little later , “jewishlighting “ struck it and it 🔥 burned to the ground , It should have been restored , as it was a historical land mark. It used to have a gas station , and a caged bear ,on the other side of rt.30 , back in the 30’s or 40’s , but it was a nice place !

[@tadavis12]

Have you ever been the the birthplace of Tom mix? Pretty cool little place off the beaten path too!

[@ODDySEEy]

No Way? Is Mix Run really names after the Mix family of Tom Mix??? Crap, now I gotta get that on the list too. LOL

[@mrsmithnet]

Great video!

[@ODDySEEy]

Get that on your list for when you are passing through to Pitt ;)

[@Rayzor66]

Awesome Info, never knew that existed. Had to text father, to see if he ever seen it. He's been driving truck since forever lol. Another good video. Thanks Scott 😊

[@ODDySEEy]

Ray, have your father jump onto the channel :) Perhaps he has locations that he always wondered about. It was my need to drive to different locations for my former work that partly contributed to the creation of this channel (they called me the Road Warrior for my former job).

[@Rayzor66]

@@ODDySEEy welll.. dad still runs a flip phone, and does not have a computer. Or the internet at his house. I don't blame him though. Lol simpler that way i believe.

[@KarlRosePhotography]

Thank you so much for making this AWESOME video....I just subbed I live on w Pitt Street & I can walk to the coffee ☕ pot it's nice to see some local folks making videos too I am a history buff (my GPA in history was 4.0 yep straight A's in all my schooling) I miss the Bedford Pennsylvania events cancelled due to pandemic

[@ODDySEEy]

Thanks for the sub and that is awesome that you live that close. All too often we get use to seeing our own back yards and forget what is actually sitting right in front of us. As a native born and raised Philadephian, I did not realize what we had (even after numerous tours and historical walks) until I left. Now I look forward to telling a lot of the "proper" history of Philly with the things you will find right along the streets... so much more than being the original capital city. As for the "beer" bug, it is absolutely shameful what has been canceled. Almost like someone wants us to totally forget who we once were and become something different that no longer cares.

[@bobairhart8175]

there is a motel called Lincoln court (I think) the rooms are like they were in the day of Lincoln Highway it maybe be a Shellsburg address

[@ODDySEEy]

I will have to look into that. I wonder if that is the little shacks of Lincoln Motor Court.

[@bobairhart8175]

@@ODDySEEy I think so there was an article in Altoona Mirror newspaper few ago about this place there is one of them photo things that you stick your head in a hole out in front how can I contact you other than here

[@ODDySEEy]

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[@TechNWRO]

Is Gravity Hill in Bedford County still an attraction?

[@ODDySEEy]

More of just a road outside of Paris. But even when I went out there were people driving through.

[@brianwalter7387]

Scott..in claysburg there is an african American cemetery up behind Peggy's diner..that would be an interesting history lesson

[@ODDySEEy]

I added that to my viewer suggested locations. This would be the second African American cemetery I have been alerted to... one in Huntingdon PA that I haven't quite found just yet.

[@deecee9735]

Hardly… when I used to go there , back before it was moved to it’s present location , back in mid 70’s , then it was a shit hole bar , good place to get facial reconstruction, get teeth removed, black eyes , etc. etc. But , I played bass with my buddy , Jeff Stallone he sang and played guitar , he asked me if I wanted to play in a band with him , ( we had played in other bands together he was, my bro in all things good a bad , but we both played in this band “Ned Ickes Strings and Keys” a country western band , but Ned didn’t know we were both “ beer drinkers and hell raisers”, so we played other songs from Bob Seager, Jeff could sing just like B.S. , and other sings in that range , we had a blast ! But the place was a real dive ! But the booze was cheap…. R.I.P. Jeff M. Stallone , my brother !

[@ODDySEEy]

Interesting.

[@wxxr9095]

The United 93 Memorial (9/11 crash site) is nearby

[@ODDySEEy]

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[@DDExplores]

yea,,, gimme a cup-o-joe

[@ODDySEEy]

Interesting side fact, the phrase "Cup O'Joe" was a Naval Phrase from WW I, when the 1913 Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, decided to prohibit alcohol aboard any naval vessels. Coffee intake increased greatly because it was the strongest drink on the ships. That with a bunch of men who were use to having whiskey and beer at the end of the day going through alcohol withdraw symptoms, created the derogatory saying of, "I am going to the mess to get a cup of... Joe". ;)

[@DDExplores]

@@ODDySEEy ,, cool thanks