Philadelphia honors these great and noble gentleman... who also invented free mustache rides and the steam powered Sybian
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00:00Philadelphia has more than 300 historical markers spread throughout the city, each recognizing a significant person, a place, or an event that shaped Philadelphia's deployment.
00:11We were just talking about this the other day.
00:12I love to read them.
00:13I do too. Casey does not like to read them.
00:16Because I...
00:17I'm just not... I'm not... It's not that I don't like... I'm just not interested.
00:20I got you.
00:21It'll be a waste of my time because I will forget everything three steps after I walk away.
00:24By the way, the new markers were selected from 91 applications, bringing the state's total number of markers of more than 2,500 since the program started in 1946.
00:31You want to hear who some of them are?
00:32Yes, please.
00:33All right, these are the ones that are going to be in Philadelphia.
00:35John G. Johnson will be celebrated.
00:38But your cousin has to call me Jimmy.
00:39Johnson earned his nickname America's Best Lawyer, practicing from 1862 to 1884.
00:48Among his clients were U.S. Steel, Standard Oil, DuPont, J.P. Morgan, and other corporations.
00:54So he had the big, big, big, big...
00:56Sorry, Alaska.
00:57You're not a state yet.
00:58He has a kick-ass mustache, too, by the way.
01:01Absolutely.
01:02Johnson's personal...
01:04Ladies loved him.
01:05...art collection was...
01:06You know what he invented?
01:08The mustache ride.
01:08Free mustache rides.
01:10He invented that T-shirt.
01:11Yeah, and on the back of his connoisseur wagon, he said, the bitch fell off.
01:15Yep, and free mustache rides.
01:17I propose the ability to ride my mustache to any lady within the city limits.
01:28Any time, day or night, contact me, and I will allow you to sit akimbo across my face.
01:36Oh, and I'm also a lawyer.
01:37He's also a lawyer, yes.
01:39Also, Samuel V. Merrick, notable industrialist during the early years of the Industrial Revolution.
01:47He built Philadelphia's Southwark Foundry, one of the most advanced manufacturing plants of its kind in the U.S.,
01:53and co-founded the Franklin Institute.
01:56And I invented the steam-powered Sibian.
01:59It was a time of frustrated sexual appetites, and Spensters couldn't get any.
02:10That thing was powered by steam?
02:11Yeah, yeah.
02:12That's powerful, man.
02:13Absolutely.
02:14We lost many young ladies.
02:18Many of them that caught on in Philadelphia ended up in Delaware.
02:22Yes.
02:22It shot them across state lines.
02:27It shot them across state lines.