Comments by "JI80" (@ji8044) on "This House" channel.

  1. No they are built to sell, not to fail. The reason we think houses built 100-200 years ago were so much better than today is because only the well built and more expensive ones have survived.
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  2. Ken that was one of your top 5 best videos.
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  3. Those beautiful old houses gentrified the neighborhoods which existed before they were built.
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  4. The Colosseum was destroyed at, least parts of it, many times. What we see today is largely restoration and preservation carried out starting in the 18th Century.
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  5. Much of the history demolished in that time period was the result of earlier demolition to build the houses torn down in the 1950's
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  6.  @ThisHouse  But the majority of new city housing after the Civil War were row houses and none of them were built by the people who occupied them. You can't build a row house by yourself. I do agree that would be the case with some of what we call today single family housing. In Baltimore they have the uniquely English common law ground rent rowhouses, which I don't think are found elsewhere in the US. thank you for the replies. .
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  7. An ironic statement since it was greed, power, and lack of caring, which created the fortunes which built them in the first place.
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  8.  @ThisHouse  We probably have different ideas of what constitutes the working class Ken. For instance I doubt they were owned by anyone who worked in the stockyards. Good discussion though. Many of the row homes still standing today were never owned by their occupants back in the day. They were built by developers to rent. My grandparents lived in Philadelphia row houses all their lives, but only as renters. The homes they lived in weren't sold to occupying owners until the 1960's and 70's. Home ownership in the cities is a post WWII phenomenon for the most part.
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  9. That's sheer idiocy, how do you steal things from mansions you own. LOL
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  10. What a terrible, right wing, fascist thing to say!
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  11.  @mariecolette170  Greed was what enabled these families to build the mansions in the first place. What a warped perspective.
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  12. Upside down and backwards the mansions the he bought and razed were literally enjoyed by one family only.
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  13. Love your channel but I disagree with parts of this video. For instance the William Clark Mansion only existed for 16 years. It had zero historical or cultural value and was strictly the act of a single ego blown out of proportion. In one of the world's largest cities, it would make no sense to use this land strictly for old house tours and cultural events.
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  14. Greed was the basis of the houses which were destroyed.
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  15. And you didn't even mention things like asbestos or lead paint issues.
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  16. I enjoyed the video, too bad he didn't hold on to the Chargers though. The money get got is worth around 100 million today, but the Chargers are worth almost 6 billion.
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  17.  @jaynareynolds3684  I thought your statement was terrible and completely clueless about history and the world generally.
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  18. They are not actually and some of them command incredible rents even today. Not sure where you got such a crazy idea.
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  19. That was one of your best videos!
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  20. You told us a lot about yours.
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  21.  @jimc4731  Ok Donald Trump, we get you hate immigrants.
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  22. This was one of your most interesting ones, thanks!
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  23. That is a very ugly xenophobic comment.
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  24. Upside down and backwards, the houses he demolished were based in greed and narcissism while the apartments which replaced them are utilitarian.
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  25. Excellent video, well researched.
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  26. It's an example of non-functional architecture actually. As you noted in the video the roof always leaked and the placement and size of the windows made some of the rooms unbearably hot in summer and extremely cold in winter. Enjoy your channel and never miss an episode.
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  27. Wow, you don't seem to get that houses old than 200 years were torn down to make way for these mansions in the first place.
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  28. Very good one, I didn't know anything about these streets.
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