Chaz Rough: Welcome everyone to this edition of Looking At Louisville. I’m Chaz.
Stacey Yates: I’m Stacy
Chaz Rough: And we’re here at the Local Science Center on Main Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky live.
Stacey Yates: Well Chaz, we are revisiting the science center we know in previous episode we did mention the exhibit but this is special. This is a traveling exhibit and it’s all about the story of the Titanic.
Chaz Rough: You know the great thing about this is there are so many pieces to look at and there are some pieces that have never been seen before and they’re only going to be seen here.
Stacey Yates: That’s right. They’re debuting a couple of items o f the 150 artifacts that they have on display. These have all been recovered from the ocean floor where the wreckage was found.
Chaz Rough: How big is the exhibit?
Stacey Yates: it’s about 6500sq ft in total. Several rims untold, some that are set up like replicas of one of their class cabin would look like for example so I’m really excited to checking it out.
Cheryl Mure: Hello. Welcome
Stacey Yates: Thank you.
Chaz Rough: Thank you very much.
Cheryl Mure: Welcome to Titanic 1:08 Exhibition.
Chaz Rough: Thank you. We got out boarding pass.
Cheryl Mure: You got your boarding pass. Know you know on the back of that is the story of a real Titanic passenger. So you’ll see you’re Mrs. John Jacob Astor and your age.
Stacey Yates: Eighteen.
Chaz Rough: Oh. This is not good. I’m 65?
Cheryl Mure: You’re 65.
Stacey Yates: Very fitting?
Cheryl Mure: You could see your class of service.
Chaz Rough: I’m First.
Stacey Yates: Me too.
Cheryl Mure: A little bit about yourself but what you don’t know.
Stacey Yates: I’m from the Elite Social Circle.
Chaz Rough: I’m a 1:40 artist and that’s true.
Cheryl Mure: See? So that’s a great fit. The only thing you don’t know is your fate on the night of the sinking. We will find that out at the end of the exhibition. So right now we are in the shipyards of Harland & Wolff. Titanic is being built. She was conceived in1907, built in 1912. There were five years of anticipation for the ship to launch and that’s what you’re learning here. You’re seeing parts of the ship, there’s a big wrench behind us.
You can get a sense from what you’re looking at here, the magnitude of titanic. When you think about the wrenches you have at home in your tool kit.
Chaz Rough: True. I mean that thing is huge.
Stacey Yates: Your toolkit.
Chaz Rough: Now, how much is something like that weight?
Cheryl Mure: Not sure exactly how much it weighs now but you could see it almost look like wood. At one point it was metal. It was on the ocean floor from 1912 to the year 2000 when we recovered it so that’s just the natural deterioration.
Stacey Yates: So you don’t work to restore these things but…
Cheryl Mure: We conserve them. So we just prevent an in further decay of the artifact. How you see it is exactly how we found it. So, what we have here showcased right when you first entered the exhibition, or some of the never before seen artifacts. These beautiful postcards that were again recovered inside something leather, so you could see the remarkable condition of them. And people are always surprised by that. So it makes you just start thinking about passengers because as we continue through the exhibition, you’re going to become more and more and more interested in the story.
We have some more of our never before seen artifacts in this particular gallery. So when we come upon here, look at this beautiful gold plated toiletry case. So when you think about how we travel today through security with our three ounce bottles and plastic, this is what this would be used for, carrying your toiletries on board Titanic and I think it’s beautiful and the braded chain that you see right there. Again, we’re debuting that here at the Louisville Science Center.
What we’re looking at here is the collection of old grotten dishes. What’s so fascinating about this is the photograph behind me which shows exactly how we found these dishes on the ocean floor. They were obviously in a crate; fell from the gallery to the china cabinet storage area of Titanic. The crate deteriorated over time and that’s how we found the old grotten dishes lined up like that and we re-create that here with the old grotten dishes from Titanic. They look remarkable don’t they?
As we move in to this gallery, we’re starting to get ice warnings. Icebergs are in the area. The mood is changing a little bit as we move forward. It’s getting a little bit darker. Something’s about to happen as we turn the corner and the iceberg is right in front of us, absolutely.
And we want visitors to touch the titanic iceberg here so that they can feel how cold it was on the night of the sinking so see if you can hold your hand there for a long time.
Stacey Yates: Many people didn’t die from drowning but they died from cold.
Cheryl Mure: Hypothermia. They froze to death.
Stacey Yates: Which we need to find that our fate right?
Cheryl Mure: You do.
Stacey Yates: Okay. Ready? Want to see of you live or die?
Chaz Rough: Okay. Let’s go find out. I’m just going ahead —. I’ll go right to the dust.
Cheryl Mure: You’re going straight here. You made it.
Chaz Rough: No. I lost.
Cheryl Mure: You did not make it.
Chaz Rough: I’m 12500ft down. Is that right 12500?
Cheryl Mure: Yes. 12500ft down.
Chaz Rough: you know that’s the way it always goes on this one.
Cheryl Mure: Yes.
Chaz Rough: Well, after viewing the Titanic exhibit; needless to say, I got very hungry.
Stacey Yates: Absolutely.
Chaz Rough: And we took about a walk down the street here to the Bristol Bar and Grille.
Stacey Yates: That’s right. The Bristol’s been one of local’s favorite little hot spot since 1977, winner of the most Best of Global Awards than any other restaurant in town.
Chaz Rough: Now why did you have in?
Stacey Yates: Well, we have to have the green chili wanton. I mean, a city staple right? Craved the most, pregnant, Artichokes fritters we start off with and then I am since it’s a little chilly today, I had the black bean soup and a salad.
Chaz Rough: I had just a garden burger with asparagus. You know I chose the asparagus because it gave us a great story about asparagus on the titanic festival.
Stacey Yates: Right. I also have lettuce thinking there might be iceberg on his salad of iceberg.
Chaz Rough: But —
Chaz Rough: Mark had the pork dish on ace which is my husband’s favorite entrée when he comes here too and then we captive off with some great desserts; remnants of the chocolate cake with raspberry moose filling and some bread pudding not with Borboun but with the rhum sauce and cranberries.
Chaz Rough: Now, speaking of menus and food, we also saw a menu of the food that was served the day before the Titanic went down.
Stacey Yates: They have the menu for the first class, the second class and the third class passengers which you think it’s really interesting.
Chaz Rough: Now, we’re going to go over to the Galt House and they’ve actually prepared a menu that was taken from there right?
Stacey Yates: Right. They replicates some of the menu items from they eat dinner from first class and just a really neat theme dinner that you can try at the Galt House I believe though February and they’re going to roll that in to a package whether you can get tickets to the Titanic exhibit at the Science Center, a hotel room and this theme dinner which you think would be a really fun weekend.
Chaz Rough: Well, we actually did a little segment on this, so let’s go to that now and we’ll be back here in just a moment.
Stacey Yates: We are with Keith Labelle with the Galt House Hotel and Suites. And we’re actually sitting high top the hotel at review and one of the best restaurants in the hotel right? And you got some really interesting specials going on at conjunction with the titanic exhibit and why don’t you tell us about?
Keith Labelle: We do welcome guys. We have a neat partnership with the science center and work with those officials on two titanic arrangements actually. We’ve done a review specific authentic dinner. So for a couple of dates throughout the course of October, November, December and January, guests can come up to review and have an authentic dinner as would have been served on the ship itself.
The review package itself when you dine with us comes with a couple of tickets to the exhibition as well as complementary parking. On the reverse side we set up a couple of accommodation packages as well, a one and two nights package that is a apart from the review dinner but include obviously overnight accommodations, tickets to the event itself ad depending upon whether it’s the one or two night package, a complementary breakfast also.
Chaz Rough: So for more information, what do people need to do?
Keith Labelle: Easy, checkout GaltHouse.com or 1-800-The-Galt.
Stacey Yates: That looks like fun.
Chaz Rough: You know it looks like a great time. You could bring your family here and then have a great dinner.
Stacey Yates: Absolutely. Alright could be out romantic couple’s weekend as well. Now talk about some of the other things and you do. Yeah, that is a little souvenir boarding pass. Talk about a couple of items that we did not talk about that you can take part of while you are at the titanic exhibit.
Chaz Rough: Well, they’ve also got a couple of movies. They’re going to be showing the iMax Theater based around the Titanic.
Stacey Yates: One is the James Cameron.
Chaz Rough: Correct, the actual James Cameron. I believe the other one is called “Into the Abyss” or “The Abyss”. So you can go to the science center website, Louisvillesciencecenter.org for that information. And one of the things we also didn’t show in the Podcast is you can rent the audio tour.
Chaz Rough: For adults and children.
Stacey Yates: They have a different size earphone for the children. So if you don’t get to go through the curator like we did, you can listen to the audio tour.
Chaz Rough: And I believe its $18 for adults, $14 for kids.
Stacey Yates: And $5 extra for the audio tour.
Chaz Rough: Now remember if you have any ideas for an upcoming episode or about this Podcast, please send to us podcast@gotolouisville.com. Of course you can Facebook us and you can twitter us as well.
Stacey Yates: Or is that tweet?
Chaz Rough: Tweet. So as always.
Stacey Yates: You’re looking at little —.
Chaz Rough: See you real soon.
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