The tour started by heading south from the Kennedy Space Centre to LC5, LC6 and the two pads at LC26.  There is a photograph of these pads on display that shows the overall layout of the site.

The tour first went to the LC5 / LC6 blockhouse, a small cramped structure that seemed to be uncomfortably close to the actual rockets being launched. Apparently this was due to the nature of the soil making it impossible to reliably use long cables.

LC5 / LC6 was used for the original Mercury Redstone sub-orbital launches and has several plaques commemorating this event as can be seen below.

This is the actual blockhouse viewed from the launch pad side, the person standing close to it gives an indication of scale.

Below is the view from the blockhouse of the Mercury Redstone vehicle on the pad used for the actual launches in 1961 (LC5).

Here is a mockup of the Mercury Redstone set on its launch pad.  The support structure that was used to raise the rocket to the vertical and to give access to the vehicle before launch was apparently constructed from oil derrick components and they hope, eventually, to reconstruct a replica.

The Then and Now Tour continues on the next page.