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  1. Thank you for calling it the Sears Tower and not that Willis abomination...
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  2. They pronounce it "Kay'-row". Most pronunciations are bowdlerized from their original forms.
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  3. You omitted that the primarily reasons for the demise of the railroad on the west side of Manhattan were (a.) with the coming of container ships, cargo was no longer being handled at the piers on the west side, (b.) with improved refrigeration, fresh meat no longer had to come from the meat packing district, and (c.) the lower Manhattan produce market was removed to Hunts Point in the Bronx to make room for the World Trade Center.
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  4. I live in a city called Santos, in the coast of Brazil. Here a trolley line was reestabilished around 20 years ago be used as a tourist atraction, making a loop through landmarks and historical building in our downtown area. It's a very sucessfull project being constantly expanded to make the loop bigger and still being active. Fun fact is that senior trolley drivers, that used to drive trolleys when they where the main public transportation, where the ones hired to drive in the revitalized trolley line.
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  5. There are literally 7 of these being used as a break water off Kiptopeake State Park 2.5hrs south of the Cape May/Lewis Ferry in Virginia. And they are intact if anyone wants to visit.
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  6. I used to use Lower Wacker quite frequently, between 1976-1980. It was a great way to avoid street-level traffic and inclement weather, you just had to watch out for potholes and freight trains. Back then, a few of those skyscrapers had loading docks large enough to handle one or two boxcars.
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  7. I was in Chicago for the first time over the summer and accidentally found myself in the lower levels. No clue how I got there, but it sure was a pain to get out!
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  8. Fun fact Sears was going to make the tower even bigger, around 5.5-6 million square feet. But since the faa limited the height of the building to 1,450 ft, Sears was forced to cut back the square footage to just 4.5 million square feet.
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  9. A very calm way of saying "Run, Run for your fucking lives"
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  10. Never knew Singer Tower existed, but hearing of its advanced technology it really was the grandfather of the modern skyscraper, all the technology used within its basement is almost identical to what was implemented into the WTC towers, from the super pumps that pumped water to the upper floors to the high speed elevators, if I was alive and had the money Singer Tower would’ve been turned into some upscale apartments or at the very least a multi lease office building with various businesses to be housed within, not very glamorous but it would’ve most likely survived longer
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  11. Never even hear of it. That’s why I love history you learn something new every day
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  12. Gorge, not George.
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  13. This channel is like Hayley's comet, it comes back every 86 years
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  14. The destruction of Penn Station was a crime against humanity.
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  15. My parents remodeled their study 20 or 25 years ago and the hard wood for the floor was from the submerged trestle. It had hues of primary colors somewhat pastel like and changed depending on the light and angles you looked at it. It was amazingly beautiful. Being submerged under the heavy salt water treated it in that special way :)
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  16. Great video. From what I know, the structure was built of Redwood froom the northwest when the loggers were falling the big trees. It was almost flawless wood, no knots. That grade is priceless today. I've worked remodeling 1950's homes from my younger days with the same. Back then I don't think they took account of how long it took to grow. Salvaging it was a good thing. I was raised by parents that survived WWII waste was a no go in our home.
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  17. While working in Manhattan, ive taken the tunnel many times. But as a native New Yorker, things like this are taken for granted. Looking forward to this video.
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  18. Should have been made a National Heritage Site. What a shame to lose it.
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  19. This was very interesting. You should also look into the salt mines below Detroit and lake erie
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  20. The old Waldorf was a pretty damn impressive building in it's day. Still would be now if it were still standing.
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  21. Interesting history. The Detroit projects were predictive of what was to happen later in St. Louis and Chicago with their housing projects. Good idea at first, but doomed to fail due to poor management and crime. Thanks for posting.
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  22. I owned a home in Amagansett for years. All of the year round residents knew to stay away from Plum Island. You couldn’t get anywhere near it since it was so heavily guarded. It was an open secret that it was a government run lab that “dealt”with nasty infectious diseases. Such a beautiful area, but you were definitely near the twilight zone. And yes, there were definitely experiments with ticks as vectors or delivery systems for a wide variety of infectious diseases, Lyme disease being one of the many. Lyme (includes other tick borne diseases) is the fastest growing notifiable diseases in this country according to the cdc. Most people think it’s only Lyme, but there are many other tick borne diseases in this country. They’re all nasty and can be very difficult to treat.
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  23. Such a beautiful and amazing memorial to Crazy Horse.
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  24. My grandpa was a businessman, he started out in the printing business and from the 30s until the 70s he traveled exclusively by train on out of town business. He refused to fly. He'd drive if it wasn't too far, but he liked trains.
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  25. I live practically right next to the mothball fleet and I drive by it all the time on my way to college. I know it’s for the best that the ships get removed but it’s almost sad in a way. When I was a kid the fleet was huge and scary, now it’s down to just four or five ships.
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  26. I operated the 12:08 money train (on overtime) a few times as a motorman. It was one of the many different non revenue trains I worked. All of the workers carried hand guns which they had to return at the end of their tour.There was one old timer who had the longest commute I ever jeard of. He lived in Arizona and flew home every weekend. It only cost him $10.00 since his wife worked for an airline. He told me that he was retiring in six months. It was still amazing to hear him tell me this. That was back in mabey in 1968 or so but I still remember him. I started working there in 1967, and no, it did not seem like yesterday. Old c/r, m/m, motorman instructor.
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  27. It's a shame no one actually lives in this beautiful building. Since the rent for a closet sized apartment in NY is obscenely high, I'd love to see this turned into affordable apartments, but I'm a dreamer.
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  28. The best place I know of to see Tillamook Lighthouse from land is at Ecola State park just north of Cannon Beach. Bring binoculars. I've been there many times and love it during the dead of winter during king tides. Incredible forces of nature at work. Disliking people as much as I do, being a lightkeeper on Terrible Tilly would be a dream assignment for me. Especially as a Navy sailor who loves the sea.
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  29. Thank you for posting this. My Grandfather was a conductor and he got the first train orders to cross that. My brother still has the original paperwork.
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  30. The hotel that used to be there was much superior to the lollipop building or the reskinned building. Both versions are hideous. At least the lollipop version was sort of interesting in a weird way.
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  31. You mentioned Wacker passing away in Lake Geneva. Would love to see some videos about the history of that town. Lots of old wealthy Chicago families had mansions around the lake which has a unique way of the USPS delivering mail by boat. Play Boy built a resort there and the founder of DnD is from the area and still holds GaryCon at the old Play Boy Resort.
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  32. Ive sailed my sailboat to Devils island many times and love it there. We were stuck in the very small harbor for two days because of storms. In fact Lake Superior has a mystic draw for me that started as a child, something I love a great deal.
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  33. In Newport News, Virginia, there is a place called Oyster Point. You are hard-pressed to find much of its history on the ground today. In the 19th and 20th centuries, oysters were harvested from the Chesapeake Bay in vast quantities. So much so that oysters were considered a poor person's food. That's why Oyster Rockefeller was a joke name. One of the principal points where oysters were unloaded onto trains was Oyster Point. At its peak, there were three rail companies operating daily runs from Newport News to the major cities of the Northeast. Over time, there were fewer and fewer oysters. The bay became polluted, and the culinary taste of the nation shifted. Now there is a major push to repopulate the Chesapeake Bay with oysters. Each adult oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water in a day. Early settlers reported how clear the water was when they arrived. It is no longer that way, but it might return if oysters return.
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  34. Some of the best concerts I’ve ever been to have been at the saltair. Great venue for music.
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  35. The new stadium should have been located elsewhere so the original majestic stadium would remained unmarred. Thanks for presenting this interesting historical content.
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  36. Urban Explorers are not vandals. True urbex enthusiasts do not disturb sites. The number one threat to any abandoned building is scrappers/vandals. Once they go to work there is usually little hope for recovery.
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  37. I had the misfortune of hands-on learning these 3 levels on my own last night as I was delivering an order on ubereats and Michigan avenue was closed off cause of the city’s winter parade. Thing is, I’ve lived in Chicago for most of my life and I actively try to avoid the lower levels (never even knew about the sub level til last night) cause the GPS always bugs out 🙃 lol Anyways, I just found the timing of this video being uploaded very funny, but also the video itself was very interesting:)
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  38. Every time I was on the Jay street platform, I always wondered what was behind that sliding metal gate. Now, I'm finally informed of that answer. Thank you!
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  39. I lived 3 blocks from Wrigley in the early 90's. Going to afternoon games and paying $5 to sit in the bleachers and do a crossword puzzle with a few cold ones was awesome. On summer nights with my apartment window open I could hear Harry and the crowd singing "Take me out to the ballgame". It didn't matter if the Cubs won or lost, always a great time. Before all the high tech, used to look for a W or L flag getting of the elevated after work. No other park exists like it.
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  40. Being from Chicago, I’m hyped for this episode
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  41. Using a mushroom cloud when describing possible dangers of decommissioning a submarine’s reactor is a little hyperbolic,
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  42. I live in Orlando. I watched a sinkhole open up directly in front of my apt and ate a car right after Hurricane Ian. Sinkholes are way scarier than hurricanes.
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  43. Love your videos. It's Or-Gun not Ore-Gone. ❤😂💯
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  44. as a canadian ik that ottawa isnt a provice you might wanna change that to "ontario" lol
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  45. Man shots out too you for putting an actual history too a hood that's not about how much drugs they used to sell back in so n so
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  46. As a truck driver, I've driven through Cairo multiple times and fell in love with it. Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri in just a few miles. Amazing location
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  47. Underground tunnels! A big improvement over above ground tunnels!
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  48. Another great history channel on YT is Battleship New Jersey, great info on the ship and other US navy history.
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  49. My mom got stuck on the parachute jump ride at Coney Island in the late 50s as a kid. She kept the newspaper article and loved to break it out and show us. I still love seeing it and Coney Island to this day, having been born and raised in Brooklyn!
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  50. Wow, I had no idea so many underground concourses closed. Before moving into my fraternity house at Temple, I explored all of them. Because of the many transportation systems I could travel from campus to Folcroft easily more than a dozen ways with my monthly SEPTA pass. I discovered a lot.
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  51. Very cool video. My grandfather worked as a researcher on the island from the early 60s to the early 90s. He never really spoke too much about what they did on the island, but he did sometimes jokingly allude to them doing things with dangerous diseases. Wish I could ask him about it, but he passed away a long time ago.
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  52. As someone who has traveled through Cairo several times. I know from personal experience that the whole area is essentially a ghost town. I have to give the people who stayed credit.... There is very little in actual service available to its citizens.
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  53. As a Chicago guy - I once crossed the GW Bridge at night about 10:00 PM and looked in amazement at Manhattan and the lit up Empire State Building. It is amazing how this can hold up all those lanes of roadway and the hundreds of heavy vehicles on the bridge at any given time. Truly amazing engineering.
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  54. I lived in and around Boston for many years, and this is the first time that I have heard of this great story . Thank you for posting this video
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  55. It seems that Ryan has a soft spot for Chicago. Love learning more about my hometown. This channel is the closest we have to a time machine.
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  56. I lived in the area and spent most of my life around where the fair was held. It has always fascinated me. #1 on my time machine travel itinerary.
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  57. We as Americans do not hang onto our heritage. Newer is better is the mantra. But in tearing down old buildings instead of repairing, renovating and remodeling, we lose a little bit of our soul.
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  58. If you're gonna be talking about old New Jersey stuff, I'd love a video about the Jersey Central Railroad. My dad used to be Supervisor of Passenger Stations for it and had an office at the terminal that's now part of Liberty State Park. He passed away about 30 years ago when I was young so I never really got to properly appreciate it while he was still around.
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  59. I grew up a few blocks fron the Canal. The smell back in the 1980's and early 90's was unlike anything I've ever smelled since. I would go as far to say that most young people that live in NYC today have never smelled such a stink! I still live in the neighborhood and can gladly say that the Gowanus Canal today is nothing like it used to be. Looks and smells much cleaner now. Compared to 30 years ago you wouldnt even believe that its the same waterway!
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  60. I'm surprised you didn't mention Vancouver's SkyTrain in this presentation. Very similar concept but without the rubber tires that still runs today.
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  61. My grandfather built grain elevators all over Iowa in the mid 1900’s. I know a lot about grain elevators! You did a great job.
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  62. Yes, an episode on the Lincoln Tunnel would be a good follow up. Also, an episode on the tunnels and bridge that made Penn Station possible would be of interest. Thanks, for these!
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  63. I swam at the Sutro baths at age 6. I ice skated at the reimagined pools in the early 1950's. I remember "the Mermaid" in the Sutro museum. I've eaten at the Clff House over decades and I hope they will reinvent the place yet agin.
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  64. I couldn’t listen any further than “nukular.”
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  65. Those bi-level cars were formerly owned by the C. & N. W. then became property of METRA. All of the other Budd bi-level cars, I believe, such as on the C. B. & Q, were stainless steel sided cars.
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  66. Glad to see this go up Ryan!
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  67. What was meant to be a calming announcement sounds very chilling all these years later. The irony.
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  68. I spent most all of my 21 years in the Navy in or around P-3’s. I logged over 4000 special crew hours. Seeing all those P-3’s in the boneyard brings a tear to my eyes and makes me realize just how old I am (77). I would love to go out to Tucson to see them again.
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  69. I lived in Chicago several years, and was totally unaware of these pedestrian/cart tunnels. Thanks for the education on their transient existence!
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  70. Interesting history. Thanks for posting. As a former southside resident, I was aware of the big housing projects along State street, but not this one. Improvement of the rabid crime in these areas will not be solved institutionally. The source of the problem is local and cultural in nature, and the solution must arise from the same source.
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  71. My dad attended the Stones concert at the old Civic Arena. Rumor has it that when they opened the dome, all the weed smoke left the arena all at once, and the whole city of Pittsburgh got high on fumes that night.
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  72. I had to like the video before I even watched the whole thing. If you could do a video on the history of Cabrini Green next that’ll be great since it’s hard to find information on the neighborhood in general. I’m born and raised on the near north side so it would be a great video to see
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  73. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, it reminded me of why I don't want beachfront property. Cheers.
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  74. Been living in these towers for a few years - absolutely love it. Had no idea about the history! Great video!
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  75. Weird.....this is the second video about The House on the Rock I've watched today. Adam the Woo was just there on 4/13. What are the chances? As a native of Wisconsin, I can assure everyone this place is absolutely amazing! I love your videos, Ryan! You share so much history and information, while still being entertaining. Well done, Sir! 😊
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  76. Established Titles is a scam BTW, you may as well make your own lordship certificate in microsoft word and print that out instead, it would be just as legitimate as Established Titles and you don't have to give your money to scam artists :P
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  77. Great presentation, Seattle's ship building history may be a good topic too!
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  78. Anything with Indy is a must-watch. Great interview
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  79. As an Oregonian and a light house geek I always look forward to my trips to the coast and Tilly is on the list even though it is only a visual experience. Forbidding during storm season and welcoming in the summer, A destination all year long. Thanks for doing this. Peace!
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  80. House on the Rock is by far one of my favorite places to visit. Each time I see something new. I can’t recommend it enough!!
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  81. The guide was great. What a fascinating place.
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  82. Iconic & amazing looking building. Needs to be kept but no doubt some developer already has plans to flatten it
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  83. Good job of looking at the situation both analytically and with compassion. With all the poverty tourism and scaremongering you see on YouTube these days it's good to see someone actually dive into the history and multiple factors in why these areas have these issues.
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  84. I went and experienced this for myself just a few months ago. I was down in Staten Island with some friends to visit another location and then we found this on Google maps. It looked like there was old remains of docks at one time?? Lot of pile ons sticking out of the mud in between them. Definitely a lot cooler and I thought it was going to be, had a good day walking around. Speaking of which I probably should make that video soon LOL. Thank you for doing this, I did not know the history of it
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  85. I went there this year. Quite cool. Went by kayak on my own. Made a video of the adventure, it's in Spanish though :)
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  86. My grandpa was a breaker boy and only those of us who grew up in NEPA regularly saw these old abandoned breakers and the culm banks that were never cleaned up.
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  87. The original Billy Goat Tavern is on Lower Wacker at Michigan Avenue. Made famous by SNL’s John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Loraine Newman. John Belushi and Bill Murray knew the Billy Goat from their Second City comedy club days before SNL. The original owners really did run it like the skit. Customers lined up by the wall inside and owner (Bill Charuchas) would go down the line “Cheezborger! Cheezborger!..." They were fast at delivering your food.
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  88. What a tragic loss of an architectural and engineering masterpiece to be replaced by: a parking lot? Thanks for remembering the once iconic structure so later generations can marvel.
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  89. Pennsylvania native here: I'm actually working on a documentary of the infamous Centralia coal fire disaster, reenacted with stop-motion LEGO animation!
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  90. THANK YOU FOR THIS UPLOAD! I remember my late grandfather telling about landing his first job at the old Luna Park back in the early 1920s. He said he saw many changes over the years...he got into shipbuilding by 1930 and held his sane job until 1976 when he retired at age 72. He died in 1985 at age 81. His stories were so grand. Thank you, Ryan. You brought back some great memories to me.
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  91. A video on the 500mile overseas Key West Railway would be quite interesting. An astonishing feat for it's time (1912)
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  92. I'm a Chicago native and I love seeing old pictures and videos on Chicago's history. Great work with this one Ryan.
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  93. These old buildings were designed to last at least 100 years showcasing the stability of government and civilization.. The average brick and mortor retail building of strip mall fame is designed to only last 20 years showcasing that retail trends change and it is cheaper and easier to demolish and build new.
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  94. Nice video! It would be cool if you could look into New Rochelle NY. It has a deep history in film, theater, and is making a resurgence. It was originally settled by french Huguenots seeking religious freedoms. It's proximity to NYC made it a destination for celebrities in the late 1800 and early 1900's. Keep it in mind :D
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  95. I'd be interested in a video specifically on the theatres of the city. Architects Rapp and Rapp did incredible work on the Riviera, Uptown Theater, and Chicago Theater just scratching the surface
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  96. You should look into the hidden roads here like the tunnels under Ford City mall. During WWII Dodge built the engines for the B-29 Superfortress there, and because they were afraid of possible bombing and sabotage targeting they dug tunnels underground to transport the engines and personnel. When I was a kid I heard that the tunnels went all the way to Lake Michigan but I can’t confirm that’s actually true. Also look into the private highway called the “bat cave” that only the mayor and other VIPs are permitted to use to get in and out or the Loop.
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  97. We have abandoned bunkers like this all over Rhode Island. They were awesome to run around these bunkers as a child with underground tunnels that seemed endless. Nowadays they closed up any openings and put railings up everywhere which is understandable due to how dangerous it was!
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  98. I visited this place about 15 years ago. The sheer magnitude of its intended completion is staggering. I got I photo with the smaller scale statue. My family ate at the restaurant on location as well. We managed to visit a day before a celebration for the Designers Wife's birthday.
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  99. Huh. I never realized the network was so big. A significant chunk is still open and used around the suburban station/city hall area, though wow is it easy to get lost.
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  100. I have a great affinity for Victorian architecture!!! San Francisco is on my bucket list for that very reason!
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  101. This is one of your few stories I know well, you did a great job.
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  102. Another castle. And below that is another smaller castle. And below that.... a small palace. And below that we're back to castles.
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  103. It should be noted that the lower west side of Manhattan was not a major office or residential center but full of factories and warehouses and it was also alongside the Hudson River piers where ocean going freight ships were docked and unloaded and reloaded. This was the age of break bulk cargo ships that were serviced by shipboard cranes that served the cargo holds, not the container vessels we see today. Most all of these piers are gone or found other uses. Manhattan is no longer a port city. The sixties saw the development of the world trade center and the area changed from industrial to offices and added a lot of housing units as well. Some of these neighborhoods have become quite upscale. The area also saw the demise of the West Shore highway that carried vehicle traffic down as far as the battery at the south end of Manhattan, the closure of this route meant that cars and trucks had to use the Avenues with traffic lights on each cross street, this of course accelerated the movement out of the area of industrial facilities as well. The decline of the NYCentral RR, later merged into PennCentral was also a factor in the decline of the high line.
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  104. Always love your Chicago videos
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  105. When I was a kid in the 70s we’d take the Tri-Borough bridge to Queens to see my grandfather. On the way we’d see GG1s electric trains crossing the Hells Gate Bridge. What a sight it was. Probably one of the most foreboding bridges I’d ever seen.
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  106. As a Rochester local, thank you so much for bringing attention to this!
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  107. Thank you for keeping your channel pure and not succumbing to AI and it's tragic attempt at narration. Content is on point.
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  108. This is very nostalgic for me. I grew up a few blocks from Coney in Brighton Beach in the 50’s & 60’s. Steeplechase Park was great. You didn’t mention the Parachute jump whose skeleton still stands today as a monument to the great old days. I had many friends who lived in the gated community at the western tip, Sea Gate. But other things that attract people are Nathan’s Famous and the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team. And obviously the beautiful beach, ocean and boardwalk that are unique to NYC. I think your title is a little clickbait, as Coney Island hasn’t had that corruption for 90 years. But great video.
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  109. Sue Line not So Line
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  110. As someone else said: "OH-gil-vee." Named after Richard Ogilvie, a former governor of Illinois.
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  111. Imagine my surprise when seeing you had a new episode, and it's an episode about the 2nd most interesting thing I can see out my window (#1 being Mt Hood)! I love the elevator!
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  112. My direct ancestor created the first mill on this site, and his mill is one of the pictures in the video. It’s cool to see that and I’d love to see this area become clean and vibrant again.
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  113. Vividly recall using the pedtunnel at Wilton place and Hollywood blvd often in the 1960/70's. I can still hear the echo of my footsteps reverberating off the walls and changing pitch via the 'doppler effect' as I made my way from one end to the other. Being that these tunnels provided some security, the less fortunate of the times would often urinate, deficate, and yes, even vomit in seclusion resulting in not only the rancid odor and accompanying rivers and cumulative pools of waste but the added exersize of leap frogging across them in hopes of getting out on the other side with dry shoes.
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  114. For the algorithm .
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  115. I'm from lake county and got caught up in something at a party down in cook county. Skipped my court date and did 3 months there in '95. Never got in trouble in cook county again.
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  116. Sinkholes are NOT covered by homeowners insurance! 😢One would have to purchase a separate rider, like windstorm (hurricane) insurance. 😩And, would probably have to have a geologist use ground penetrating radar to assess risk; 😮I asked when I bought my central Florida home!🤔🤣 One of the most famous sinkholes is at the Corvette Museum I. Bowling Green, KY;. The collapse swallowed 8(?) Vettes; some were recovered, some totaled!! The museum has a display on it, including the cars rescued.
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  117. In the 1960s we used to use the Holland Tunnel a lot. As part of the route from our home in New Jersey to Family in Brooklyn. By the mid-60s the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge was completed and we no longer used the tunnel. It was a very weird experience to a little boy to go through the tunnel and I always wondered what the phone booth boxes were for. Until my Father explained that they used to have policemen manning them in case of trouble.
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  118. Thank you for covering these types of stories and all your other stories. You cover things that most people simply can't appreciate.
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  120. I'd love to see more West Coast history stories. I have lived in Washington state my whole life and there may not be as much stuff as the east coast but you would be surprised about how far back our history goes.
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  121. This bridge has special meaning to me. Being raised about 4 miles away in NJ. My grandfather on my father’s side was a blasting and sandhog worker. He worked drilling and blasting the NJ cable anchorage into the solid rock of the palisades in Ft Lee several hundred feet down. The Manhattan side is anchored by a huge monolithic pour of concrete. Being held in place by only massive weight. My grandfather also worked on the Holland tunnel and the Catskill water aqueduct.
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  122. Great video, I majored in Physics (1980s) and remember a single reference to this facility, a photo and one line of text. Always struck me how much the containment chamber resembled a hot air balloon or a light bulb. Nice to have more information.
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  123. Thank you for your history of the Cliff House and as a native of San Francisco that I did not knew that Sutro own the Cliff house since he had his home right above the cliff bluff from the Cliff House, as he also started the Sutro Baths that burn down in 1966. And also the Sutro Railroad which he started his own Steam Train line to Central and California in which it was called, and still running as the Ferries, and Cliff Railway aka the Powell Street, and Jackson Cable cars, and then later in 1905 made a Streetcar line to the baths to in which the right of way is still there next to the Visitor's Center. as it was the #1 California, and 2 Clement Streetcar line then turn into a Trolley, and Diesel Bus line. I really enjoy your videos, Thank You...
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  124. I’m 35 and I’ve been a Chicagoan all my life. My mother has only been a driver since I was 5 and was afraid to take expressways for a few years after that. So when she finally did get acquainted with the highways, she avoided toll roads like the plague because “Why pay to drive on the expressway when I can just get there without paying?” So naturally, I grew up with the same mentality and avoided toll roads at all costs. It wasn’t until I started my current job 12 years ago that they started sending me to far away places in the company car on the companies dime and I would have to take the quickest and most efficient route to get there that I started frequently taking toll roads. With this I discovered the Oasis. I absolutely loved these, because on long trips I can drop in for lunch or for a reliable, clean, and plentiful washroom break. And what he didn’t mention in the video is that they’re mostly mirrored inside! No matter which side you came in on, inbound or outbound, the same restaurants on this side are on that side and there are washrooms on both ends so you don’t have to walk a ways to get what you want from an Oasis for most of the restaurants. Some were only on one side, but you probably had more time to kill if you were going there anyway. So sad to see them disappearing like this, they were a real treat for my long work drives.
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  125. Public housing country wide has always interested me. Whether it's NY, Chicago, St Louis...I find it all very interesting. Chicago was the poster child for failed public housing. The episode is pretty good.
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  126. Ryan, this video is amazing! Being able to scroll around 360 during your presentation was fantastic! Thanks!!
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  127. lmfao, I love this channel. But McRen had me rolling on the floor
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  128. Thanks for presenting this interesting history. I lived in Chicago for 6 years as a student, and was totally unaware of the Pedway Tunnel System.
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  129. Reactors stop requiring constant external cooling shortly after they are shut down. You should learn (at least) the basics instead of spreading irrational fears 🙄
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  130. Beautiful art deco building. Glad this historical site is being repurposed and maintained.
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  131. Chicago has a pedway system. Underground tunnels that lead between buildings in the heart of the city. And not the forgotten ones you covered before; but ones still in use
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  132. Thank you, Ryan, for all the history. I knew about the cars, I knew about line and trestle, but I didn't know all of that... As someone who really likes trains and train history, I really appreciate it. You know, I think we got some of those old metro cars around here. I believe those are the same class of chicago metro cars that I got to ride in a time two. I believe they're the same type as the one's Iowa Interstate bought for their IAIS 6988 & IAIS 7081 2-10-2 "Santa Fe" Chinese steam locomotive... I went for a ride in them a couple of times back in 2011 once round trip at Rock Island Train Fest, Rock Island, IL to Walcott, IA I believe and once at Planes Trains and Automobiles, fest. Geneseo, round trip from Geneseo, IL to Annawan, IL. I'm not sure if they're still making any runs with those old locomotives or not. 🤔 I think they are, I'm gonna have to look it up. I would sure love to go on another ride sometime. I wish they'd still have that trained festival in Rock Island, that was a one time in history awesome amazing event.
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  133. Coming from a point of experience. I can explain the tunnels in one paragraph right now. Anyone who has done any underground work in the city of Chicago since the early 90s knows. Look up the great Chicago flood. The tunnels were first produced to move goods and supplies around downtown. Now the tunnels are used to run electrical, plumbing, in some areas is use to run steam pipes to office buildings. These tunnels also run under the Chicago River. They were replacing pylons and they broke into one of the tunnels, which produced the great Chicago flood
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  134. One of my ancestors was stationed at and helped build Fort Thompkins. He, also, crossed the Delaware with Washington.
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  135. I was filming in NYC not too long ago and noticed all those old pilings everywhere. Didn't know they had such a cool story. There is a lot of abandoned stuff in NYC.
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  136. Thank you for pronouncing Willamette correctly.
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  137. I live right by Dearborn Station. You should do a show on it. The Tower is off limits but if you can get in it's friggin amazing. Fire wescapes up several stories to an upper level with a little work house. An ex GF charmed the maintenance guy to show us back in 2016.
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  138. Moved to Matawan Exit 117 in 1963. At the time they had no exit toll. Raritan you paid both ways 25 cents. Moved to Holmdel Exit 114 in 1970 & they did have a ten cent exit toll. But it wasn’t manned & the kids that lived near it used to put a paper plate in the basket. The other thing was if you got off at the Arts Center exit you could come in the back way to town. Right next to the old police station & town hall.
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  139. Wow this channel is back i’m surprised
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  140. “Architecture isn’t about why, it’s about why not!” -Some Scientist
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  141. Excellent review of a heartbreaking history. I pray a workable solution can be found.
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  142. I live in Chicago I have no idea about it until now. Thanks for sharing this information.
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  143. I served on the current wasp and I loved the history. I'm not sure many know of it. Thanks for sharing her name to everyone.
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  144. i fear for it. NYC has torn down incredible buildings before. mind you, they keep building incredible buildings however some take time to find their way into a persons heart. Once they do, no one wants them demolished. I love the Flatiron. it needs to stay. Some buildings just can't replace the uniqueness of what already exists.
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  145. If this is in regards to our abandoned station, oh do we have a lot. On the original IRT route/on the first official subway line, 91st, 18th, Worth and the original City Hall stations are abandoned and are all in pretty good shape still albeit w/ a lot of graffiti. City Hall station hasn't been tagged up thank goodness. When I was a kid, 91st street's lights were always on though a bit dim. At the end of the 90s, it was still on for sure, 00's it was also on because they were storing stuff there when they built the new (at the time) 96th street entrance. With growing numbers of riders, the train cars grew in number and length. City Hall was too curvy...gap distance too long. The other stations were just pointless to be extended due to being too close to others. Fun Fact - you can see where the 91st street entrance was (it's now an emergency hatch on the right hand side of 91st and Broadway). The City Hall entrance is still standing, though the fancy kiosk is now just a regular ass entrance. To see it you have to look through the gates. The Subway globe has a red emergency light now. All of the skylights are there iirc (it's been a decade since I checked). You can't see in the station of course, but they are still there. Just look at the ground around City Hall for glass blocks on the floor. For other abandoned stations, again we have a lot but I live off the IRT line so that's the only one i've looked into since I was a kid. Oh yeah, stay on the downtown 6 train to get a sight of the City Hall station for yourself. If you're brave enough, stand in between cars but hold on tight because that curve has a lean to it....actually nvm don't do it just stay inside lol.
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  146. From Wisconsin and from a big family of 7 kids with 2 parents. When i was little this place was so magical. I have gone few times in my adult years showing others it. So excited for my daughter to get older to share this place with her. Such a great place and takes hours to get through. Great video to shine light on such a odd place
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  147. Interesting, because I live in San Diego, and I actually learned so much from your video.
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  148. This one's going to be really interesting. I live in North Tonawanda, right on the canal, and don't even know the full story. Looking forward to it.
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  149. Ryan, you find such fascinating topics, and tell their stories so well. Thank you. I admit, I would never have guessed such a huge entertainment venue would have been built on the Great Salt Lake. Amazing.
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  150. Thank you for this. I’m huge on Detroit History, but I learn something new all of the time. This is great.
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  151. Thank you so much for continuing to highlight some of the more obscure and interesting parts of Chicago history.
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  152. There is a coal mine burning underground for more than 100 years in India
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  153. I used to use lower Wacker all the time to get from LSD to the 290 in a hurry. Then one day I found myself on lower lower or sub Wacker and was dumbfounded! So many cool areas to explore down there, but be respectful of the folks living down there, and stay safe because you are seriously isolated from everything else!
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  154. As a delaware resident I got excited seeing this, I haven't fully watched the video because I am out in public but I am willing to bet I've been in one or two of these locations I'm also hoping Woodland beach exists, since that once thriving Bayside town is now a shell of its former self
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  155. You did a fantastic job in this video. Something to learn
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  156. Really Ryan, a mushroom cloud isn't that a little dramatic. I enjoy your channel but you lost points on this one. Also pushing Lordship is a scam as buying land on the moon. What's next pet rocks...lol
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  157. Love the video, but it's not "George" as in the man's name. It's "Gore"ge.
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  158. I absolutely love your videos! Especially the ones about New Jersey. I’ve never heard of this and I have lived fairly close my entire life
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  159. You always do a great job at these videos
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  160. I loved helicopters as a kid in Chicagoi watched as the S58s flew over my house daily. Those helos were loud and that gave my ample time to get outside and see them pass over. I grew up to become a helicopter mechanic and pilot. I got into gyroplanes (gyrocopters) I joined a Chicago club and still fly 50 years later
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  161. Great episode Ryan! My family has ties to Riverview Park. I'm your era as well, Great America in Gurnee as a teen and before that I grew up at Kiddieland in Melrose Park. My father was a boatman on the Chutes in the early-mid 60s before getting drafted in the Army and then came home to a vacant lot in '68. He's retrieved artifacts from the Chutes on that land probably a decade or so ago. Metal lamp tubes that lined the boat slide and even some rotten wooded boat pieces. Part of the 'flume' I believe is still in the ground over there filled with overgrowth and random debris. His love for the ride made him create a detailed H.O. scale model of the Chutes with working components which he took to various reunions over the years and was featured on Chicago Fox 32 for the 50th anniversary of the park's closing. He would've loved to contribute more memories of this experience in Chicago at that time if he were still with us!
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  162. I’m happy to have been able to ride on one of these when I was a little kid visiting my grandparents in Chicago. We would ride on the Rock Island from what is now the Metra 95th Street/Beverly Hills station, into downtown. I don’t remember much about the train other than how cool and futuristic I thought it looked. For perspective, we used to travel from Los Angeles to Chicago on the Santa Fe El Capitan every summer. One year, we came back via the original California Zephyr. Good times!
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  163. Correction: The merger of the PRR and NYC was NOT ordered by the federal government. It was an idea hatched by the NYC and PRR. It has been dubbed "the wreck of the Penn Central" which up until that time was THE largest bankruptcy in American history.
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  164. You should do one on the MCC in downtown Chicago. It's a federal facility and a really draconian looking highrise jail.
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  165. I think an interview with Spartacus and Indy on the state of It’s History and other matters would be lovely. Also, I find it entertaining that you felt the need to warn us that Anthony’s a lovable nut.
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  166. Great Video, the immortal Vincent Scully said “One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat.” MUCH LOVE FROM THE BRONX , THE LAST OF THE REAL CITY
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  167. I especially love photos and illustrations of the downtown lake front in various stages of development. You should do a video about "the evolution of Chicago harbor"
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  168. fascinating I love these type of industrial heritage sites, just the sheer willpower and human effort is amazing
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  169. Can you do a video about the German subs off the east coast? Never learned about it or this topic in school
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  170. Absolutely, love this type of content.
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  171. Ryan I've been following your channel for a couple years and this is your BEST episode yet! I am partial to old buildings anyway but this was fascinating. There is another castle in Banff Canada with similar history and it is open to the public. Well at least the hotel part is. I'm sure it has hidden secrets just like this beautiful castle.
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  172. Nothing like a video on vintage rail, a very enjoyable watch. Ryan, thanks for your time, work and posting.....
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  173. I use lower and lower lower wacker for work every day! You gotta do a video on the secret highway that connects McCormick to navy pier!
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  174. Videos like this are why I love YouTube. And specifically this channel.
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  175. Ryan, this was a great watch, lots of information and vintage photos to help tell the story. As my high school history teacher would say "Learn from the past for a better future."
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  176. Fantastic. She is a great tour guide and very professional.
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  177. When I was a child I fished for perch off those docks !
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  178. Man this channel finds the coolest obscure historical stuff. Well done
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  179. "Nuk-U-lehr" LOL Sheesh!
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  180. God, I love the architecture of Chicago.
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  181. I love that every american and europeans call it Sears Tower.... because it is. :3
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  182. As a teenage delivery boy I was mugged in broad daylight by 3 project residents in front of the corncob building at 5:14. This location is the corner of 22nd and State Street, not far from Chinatown. The perps ran across 22nd Street to the now-demolished Harold Ickes housing project that ran south alone state starting at 22nf Street (Cermak Road). A police car happened to drive by right afterwards, and he picked me up to pursue. When we entered the projects with his lights flashing and slowly driving between buildings, a large number of residents started throwing all sorts of debris (rocks, lumber, bottles, etc) at the police car from multiple directions/altitudes. They had immediately decided that the police did not belong in there, and they did care if an assault had transpired. It was a revelation to a west-coast suburban boy (such as I was) of the problem attitude of the project residents. There is no hope for crime control without respect for law enforcement. The Ickes homes were not as tall as the Taylor homes further south on State, but they were nonetheless violent. Keep in mind this was in the relatively gentle 1970s. The topic of personal accountability is totally ignored when addressing crime, and crime has gotten worse even in the absence of the terrible housing projects. If the same scenario played out today, I probably would be shot, and the police officer shot at, as well....
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  183. Beautiful castle with a beautiful history.
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  184. Ryan, I happen to be a decedent of Samuel Diescher. Still living in Pennsylvania, my family and I have visited the inclines and it warms my heart to enjoy the awesome video that you have created. Interesting note, Samuel married Caroline Endres, the daughter of John Endres, she was also trained as an engineer in Europe. I will be sure to subscribe to your channel and share it with others. Thank you!!!
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  185. I remember my mother taking me, at four years old ( 1951) , to watch my nine year older brother involved in his swimming lesson at the Sutro Baths. Later memories of going out to Sunday afternoon dinner at the Cliff House....and yes, crying as I road the Merry-go- round at Playland scared to death riding the plugging up and down horse....and later watching that "Tank" ( or what ever it was) plugging down into its water filled "home" with big brother inside.....I feared I were ould never see him again.
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  186. To be fair, eating someones face is a serious offense. That pig had it coming ;)
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  187. The MBTA in Boston still runs PCC cars on the High Speed Line from Ashmont Station in Dorchester to Mattapan.
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  188. From Delaware, thanks for this I am glad you covered glenville.
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  189. Huh. Been advocating this for a while. The Transcontinental Railroad was probably one of the most transformative inventions/events in US history. Highly recommend, "Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869" , by Stephen Ambrose. It's a great, detailed read about the creation of the route and railroad.
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  190. I'm looking forward to this. Here I am a native of the Pacific Northwest -- I never had a chance to lay eyes on the Singer Tower. I would have been six when it came down. But its construction, it's jewellike architecture, and its unfathomable destruction have fascinated me for years. The story of Penn Station has been told and retold, but not the Singer Tower. I was thinking just the other night, someone really ought to do a good YouTube video on the subject, with a solid script and narration. You beat me to it!
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  191. Mind blowing - only 200 years from steam ship crossing Atlantic to Mars missions...
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  192. Remember to "Sun you buns on Beach G!" 😂
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  193. Corrections for this and past video: Knot is a measure of speed, not distance. Gross tonnage is a measure of ship's volume not weight.
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  194. Hi Ryan. Thanks for this video. I visited the 1964 Worlds Fair when I was 5 years old. I thought you would like to know that the Pepsi exhibit became “It’s a Small World” at Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando. The Coca-Cola exhibit was a musical carillon and is located in Stone Mountain State Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia. It still plays today.
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  195. Interesting to learn that Marina del Rey was once an oil field!
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  196. I run 2 286 foot rotary kilns Been doing it about 6 1/2 years now. I love hearing things about the industry. We have the capacity Is of processing 80 tons of Stone an hour Which yields a little bit less than half So 40 tons of lime per hour We were able to do this with 4 men
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  197. The Chicago streetcars were great, but a couple of factors led to their demise: 1) The economics of the time (late 1940s to 1950s) were working against a large system. 2) The demographics at the time were changing. White flight at the time led to an emptying out if formerly dense neighborhoods. 3) When the CTA took over in 1947, competition between the surface lines and the 'L' ended. The thinking of the CTA at the time was that the surface lines should be a feeder to the 'L' and that the 'L' should do the heavy line haul service. 4) Because of their high cost and inflexibility, the streetcars could not achieve the above. 5. Even before the CTA took over, the former Surface Lines was using buses for expanding services.
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  198. I lived in Centralia for 10 years. I remember when IC was bought out by CN. It was a bit of a shock. Both Lincoln and McClellan stayed at the Centralia House, probably not at the same time. It was the premier hotel at that time.
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  199. To this day, the pool on-board the Titanic is still full.
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  200. I would be interested in the backstory to Mediakraft and the like with Spartacus, for sure. There was a lot of speculation and I think going into that would be fascinating.
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  201. Texas is what can be called a 'super dreadnought' i.e. the 2nd proper generation of dreadnought style battleships. Also when it comes to 'dreadnought' that really just refers to an all big gun layout instead of the older style that had layer after layer of surface oriented gun (the French went so far as septenary batteries). Texas is one of several dreadnoughts left (if you are using dreadnought in the more general sense). For example the Iowa's and South Dakota class ships still around. When it comes to "last left" that would be Mikasa, the only remaining pre-dreadnought. NO first generation dreadnoughts exist anymore. Steam turbines are a feature of naval development at the time of HMS Dreadnought and she was the first capital ship to get them. However this is something that goes across the board and is not confined to the biggest ships. caveat: "all big gun" might be confusing to some people because they obviously have smaller guns. Pre-dreadnought battleships would have a big turret on the front and one on the rear, then a somewhat smaller secondary battery and smaller tertiary battery and so on. With dreadnoughts there will be 3 or more turrets and the gap between the size of those and the size of the next smaller guns will be huge in comparison to what pre-dreadnoughts had. The idea is that the main offensive power of the ship is all big guns. Not that it only has big guns.
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  202. Thanks for the history lesson, I grew up in 60’s 70’s SF and somehow little if any of the bay area’s wartime history was ever talked about. In our teens and 20’s the entire Bay Area was history to be explored right under our noses and about all we knew of it was that places like Hunters Point and Richmond were slums and places best avoided, nothing about the amazing contributions to the war effort. If it wasn’t for the internet the history would largely be lost and forgotten.
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  203. Visited Bisbee on a whim on a road trip 5 years ago. Absolutely loved it! Reminded me of Jim Thorpe or some of the mining towns near me in PA. Highly recommend a visit.
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  204. Thank you for this amazing video! Fort Hancock is such a unique place. Battery Potter was actually built from 1890-92 because right above the main entrance is the date of erection. It was the first of many experimental endicott era gun batteries built at the hook. It also was the only one of two batteries built in the US with land defenses. The granite facade was built with leftover granite from the 1850s fort. Battery Granger and Arrowsmith replaced the battery in 1907. The first disappearing battery was Battery Halleck built in 1892 and activated in 1896. The mortar battery predated the disappearing carriage and was built in 1890. The mortar battery was reused as the HDCP in WWII. Battery Kingman not Kingston. Boston had a missle master at Fort Heath but it was demolished in 1969. Most of the WWII temporary buildings were removed by 2012 and the last two were removed in 2018. The post hospital burned in the 1990s. Tours of some of the bunkers are offered and NPS who controls most of the site is working on restoring and adaptively reusing most of the post buildings. The Coast Guard still controls some of the tip and this includes the remains of the 1850s fort and a few endicott gun batteries.
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  205. Nice one Ryan! Great history of a great train! Your research and photos are top notch as usual!
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  206. I remember my mother taking me with her to ride the Green Hornets on the North Broadway line in Chicago. I remember the rapid acceleration, and smooth, quiet ride of the cars, much superior to the buses that would replace them. The only negative was the inability of the streetcar to maneuver around traffic, as noted in the video.
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  207. My father started working for the post office as a rural letter carrier in 1948 till 1982. He drove his own car and sometimes would let me ride with him. I was a tall boy so he would let me drive out in the country while he stuck the mail. I started doing that when I was 12. I took a day off work on his last day and drove the whole route with. Those were good times. I sure do miss him after seeing this. Great job.
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  208. All housing projects across the country are failures. Until the residents develop a culture that respects law and order, they will suffer the consequence of their poor judgement.
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  209. @10:57 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge with Golden Gate Bridge in background. Thanks for the visual west coast shoutout!
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  210. I flew on Chicago Helicopter Airways charter helicopter flights in the early 1960s with the West Suburban YMCA in LaGrange during summer vacation. Their gate area at Meigs Field was like something out of "The Jetsons," very futuristic and it looked out on the lake. We flew all over the lakefront and downtown and between Meigs, Midway and O'Hare Airports. It was a lot of fun, the staff was very nice and I'll always remember it.
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  211. I'm glad you do a lot of history on Pittsburgh. I have lived there all my life and love seeing your vids!!!
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  212. Excellent as always. Thanks for the upload!
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  213. You forget to mention that the US Army Corp of Engingeers literally undermined 9 acres under the Hell Gate passage. In what was the largest explosion of its time, they dropped the river bottom some twenty feet, destroyed two islands, and made the waters of the Hell Gate easy to navigate. The explosion shook lower Manhattan and was extensively written up.
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  214. Capitola is home of Pizza my Heart and has a cute coffee shop up the way. I think it's called Mr. Toots or something like that.
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  215. I thought I knew my Picher but its very beginning was new. Thanks.
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  216. In 2011 I toured the US and caught a train from Boston to New York. Much to my surprise on the approach to New York I saw to my amazement a bridge that looked like a smaller version of the Sydney Harbour bridge. Anyway, it’s something in common with our beautiful countries. 😊👍🏻 🇦🇺🇺🇸
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  217. Looking forward to checking this one out! We're a well known Erie Canal historic site in the Mohawk Valley.
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  218. If you think about it, everything in Florida is built on sand. Think of it as a Zen sand garden that gets raked over every couple of decades.
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  219. I would love to see #IT'SHISTORY tackle an old elevated structure that once stood 2 blocks west of the High Line.... the old Miller Highway. We know it today as the original West Side Highway. The reason for its construction, and reason for its eventual demolition, would make a great addition to your video collection!❤
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  220. Very cool of them to give you all access to the castle! These are the areas you see in a tour and wish you could go investigate.
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  221. Thank you, Ryan. I always appreciate your thorough research and effective presentation style. I am always a bit sad when places I had served at in the US Army are torn down. The last one to go is now part of the California State University Monterey Bay.
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  222. I live just a few hours from this beautiful area and go to the beach near there every year (almost). I always stop at the Muir Beach overlook on my way to Stinson Beach where I hang for the day. Gorgeous scenery that can still bring me to tears if I have not seen it for awhile. And I have lived in California for 72 years.
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  223. Great video Ryan. I was a senior project manager on the restoration of the current city hall. During construction they were digging up the old city hall. Luckily I was given the opportunity to be given a large granite piece that was the top section of the gas light. It ended up being a water feature in my front yard. An interesting fact as you mentioned that they moved all the graves were moved. They discovered graves that hadn’t been moved . Only the headstones
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  224. Thank you! the Pennsylvania Railroad was always in better financial shape the the NYC. From the time of its foundation to the merger with the NYC and NYNH&H, it never missed a dividend. The Pennsy's biggest problem was it took its eye off the ball and neglected transport in favour of real estate.
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  225. Great video. Interesting information. It's hard to believe those tunnels were used so easily for so much criminal activity years ago.
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  226. The phrase “going up the river” refers to being sent to Sing Sing.
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  227. We use to skate Peachtree in the 90s (woodruff park) and it was pretty sketchy back then but we were teenagers and oblivious. Took my daughter to the same spot last year so she could see what downtown Atlanta looks like and she still saw the beauty of it from the architecture and my stories of us skating everywhere. But now i see it in a different light as an adult and it is definitely not a safe area. Period.
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  228. Great video. I love film noir and the idea of these tunnels!
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  229. Entertaining Brief on 'The History of Wacker Drive'. It would take about 3 hours or more to cover it completely in detail... There are hidden locations that absolutely no one has access to down there... Call One of them, 'Chicago Fire Time Capsule' Sealed off from public viewing... It's the stuff of nightmares.
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  230. Minor nitpick, but the Ogilvie is pronounce oh-gill-vee, not oggie-ville
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  231. Awesome Job. That Bridge always fascinated me. Growing up 1/4-1/2 mile away from it. In the seventies,under some sort of city construction procedure, I got into one of the entrances up the spiral staircase to the to facade on the Astoria Queens side. I never forget how damp it was and the East River Smell. Thank You For Posting this..
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  232. i love all the chicago videos you have done. born in downtown chicago near the lakefront, i appreciate the time and respect you put into these videos.
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  233. It’s crazy I’ve been in close proximity to all those buildings except the one on the south side and I never noticed how much they stand out in the crowd of buildings. Thank you for another history lesson of my city
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  234. Ryan it was a pleasure to cooperate with You on this one as a guide 👍 Thank You 😉
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  235. My Grandfather worked at Sing Sing Prision in the 1950's shortly after his Discharge from the Maine Corps when he returned from the Korean War. New Guards would often be sent to Sing Sing for training before getting their assignments else where in the state. He worked in Auburn Prison as both a Tower Guard and the Union President up till around late 1979 or early 1980 before taking an early retirement due to a back injury. Sadly he passed away in December 2021 after his 81st birthday.
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  236. Thanks for describing the interesting phases of monument construction, which reflects different stages of national history. Washington the man was truly a national treasure and founding father.
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  237. That red lighthouse at the base of the bridge on the New York side was supposed to be torn down when the bridge was built. A lady launched a grassroots campaign to save that lighthouse and when it was, she wrote a children's book titled, "The Little Red Lighthouse." The bridge was referred to as, "the big gray bridge."
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  238. great video, the best translation from dutch for Pollepel is Soup serving spoon. the word Pollepel means Soup serving spoon in dutch.
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  239. Your reporting is accurate, as I had worked there for many years as a vendor repairing telecommunications, and some times working in labs I had to enter changing clothes and shower on the way out, all the scientists and maintenance people were very open as to what they were working on , cool place to have worked at.
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  240. I stayed at the Riviera during a friend’s wedding at Circus Circus in 1997 or 1998. It was the first time I’d been on a plane and the first time I’d ever visited the west. For whatever reason our rooms weren’t available so they put our party into two “high roller” suites for the first night and it was jaw-dropping amazing. I’d never stayed at anything that nice before. When we were issued our regular rooms the next day, though not as nice, we were not disappointed. It’s a shame that the Riviera was torn down as, at the time it seemed so nice but as you said, nothing lasts forever. I still have my memories though. Excellent video and keep up the great work! Thank you!
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  241. I remember the 1964 World's Fair. It was on the news at night. I was a kid back then. I had my 11th birthday of October 1964.
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  242. My home here in illinois was built at the turn of the century with materials salvaged from the Chicago world's fair.
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  243. This is better produced than shows on History Channel
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  244. I went through this tunnel in January when the Holland was closed it was amazing going through that tunnel for the 1st time I say it was amazing because of the history and the men that worked on this project its crazy awesome video 👌🏼
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  245. Oh, on a side-note, the Expo was known as the 'city of light' due to the use of electric light bulbs and the use of spot-lights. My understanding is that the majority of buildings/statues were made of plaster with limited use of marble. As a result many buildings had to be torn down. Eventually after the site was cleared it was turned into Midway airport serving that role for many decades.
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  246. My parents grew up in Camden in the 40's & 50's & they always talked about how safe it used to be & how no one locked their doors at night. I grew up in Camden in the late 70's & early 80's. My view is vastly different from theirs. We moved out of Camden in 1990 & I'm so glad we did.
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  247. Very interesting and well done, thank you. It's a shame that they are abandoned, train history should be preserved. I know I wouldn't mind having one or two car.
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  248. I’d love to see a It’s History of the old Cook County Hospital.
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  249. I grew up within walking distance of this old prison. Definitely very eerie.
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  250. So happy you did this! I'm a huge fan of Tillamook Lighthouse. Just something so beautiful yet, so mysterious about it.
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  251. As a point of accuracy, the view near the end of the video is of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), not the University of Chicago (UC). UC has a much more picturesque gothic campus, as opposed the to famously brutalist campus of UIC. Thanks for posting this visit to LSD!
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  252. Ah, the Igloo. Such fun times there. Student rush was the best! I wish they could have kept it standing in some capacity. Maybe similar to Stage AE for an outdoor event center.
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  253. Better to serve the country as target practice than end up in the breakers yard. We still have the USS TEXAS. Thanks to Ryan for posting.
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  254. Awesome video. Being born and raised here in NYC, I never knew the tunnel was named after and that original name as well. I love learning NYC’s history. NYC is so far deep in history that it will take a lifetime to uncover.
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  255. Great video! I used to drive regularly from my office in Cerritos to my customer at Edwards Air Force Base near Palmdale. I would either have to go around the 14 to the 395 or go up the 15 to 138 to the south entrance. My mom had taught fourth grade in the late 1960's and still had a California geography textbook, with a freeway map of Southern California. That book had the 39 freeway going from Huntington Beach all the way to Palmdale. Of course, it also had the 2 freeway going straight through Beverly Hills, which was also canned.
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  256. You gotta do the Louisiana Purchase Expedition (1904 Worlds Fair) that was held in St Louis soon! :)
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  257. Ryan, thank you for the history lesson about the "ATSF'! Great history there. That railroad was a real trailblazer.
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  258. The Pedway, those underground rail tunnels, the 3rd sub-level of Wacker Drive. This guy shows the most interesting and barely known things in the city.
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  259. This reminds me of that Tartaria/Mudflood theory! 🤯🤯 Great video as always! Keep it up 🔥
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  260. Yes, big mistake in this video. I had just left the twin cities and was delivering a load of tires to the Sears store in Duluth, MN when the news broke that the bridge had collapsed. I did the same run every week so I know for a fact it was on a Wednesday.
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  261. Great video, but you are mistaken on one fact. The girls did not make anywhere close to 40k a year. They were paid 1.5 cents per watch. If they painted 55k dials a year as you said, that would mean $825 a year - equal to about 20k a year in today's dollars.
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  262. WOW! Glad to see that we are reusing and appreciating our great Historical Infrastructure👍
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  263. I love the railway videos in particular, but almost all have been entertaining and informative pieces. Pictures of the culverts, bridges, and berm would have been a good visual aid,.if available.
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  264. Hey Ryan, love your show! Maybe do an episode on the pyramid in Gurnee, IL. It's pretty cool and I think people would enjoy the site.
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  265. A 27' drought?
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  266. I am reminded of a story about not building a castle on sand?
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  267. “The brutalist architecture then popular in Europe.” Here in Toronto, Canada, home to the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto (just to name one), this statement makes us feel rather left out.
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  268. I did a Pittsburgh transportation project for 8th grade english, and the Sky Bus was my favorite part. Love talking about this beautiful and flawed mode of transport. Great video, as always!
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  269. I’ve been to the beaches there many times. My father used to take us there when I was little. You could get a pass to enter the base to go to the beaches.
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  270. I got stuck on 94 just before the bridge going south in a semi. There was a little s10 blocking one of the lanes just at the split to top side. It took 4- 5 hours to go 2 miles. It absolutely sucked. 😅
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  271. Ryan, the old B&W image, drawings and great drone work really help to tell a full story. Thanks to all; Ryan Socash, Dr. Hubert, Kamil Krawiec and Dave Daddario for their time and work.
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  272. Ryan, thank you for sharing this story. Even though it's heartbreaking, we must not forget the past. The same with 9/11. Some of my coworkers are half my age and weren't even born then. They need to learn about what happened, and so do people 100 years from now.
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  273. Interesting video and new format. I'am guessing there are hundreds of abandoned mansions and Manor houses all over Europe that you could document. Really enjoyed the video, Cheers from Hamilton, Ontario.
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  274. Play Enlisted for FREE on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PS5: https://enlisted.link/itshistoryenlisted Follow the link to download the game and get your exclusive bonus now. See you in battle!
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  275. Thanks for this video. We used to visit Capitola back when I lived in CA back in the '80s.
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  276. Took a friend to visit family in Herford. We called them from Bisbee, told them we were in the area. He said I'll watch you come. He actually could watch the headlights from Bisbee to Herford.
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  277. I wanna cry every time I think about this loss and it was long gone before I moved here. You've included photos I've never seen before, thank you!
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  278. These aren't that big of a deal. Yes there's risk, but the same as when building them
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  279. It's good to see this video.I enjoy local history. My parents moved to Long Island after World War 2. My father served with the 3rd.Infantry and as was the case with other relatives, they moved from the city to Long Island. I don't see many local history videos, and yet Long Island has a very interesting history. Thanks for posting this.
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  280. I love this tunnel! Being a Michigander, when going to Canada or visiting relatives on the East Coast, it was the most exciting part of the trip as a kid. Plus, heights are scary, so I would beg not to go across the Ambassador Bridge 😆
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  281. 🎶 I got 99 towers but a clock ain't one... 🎶 😂 sorry, couldn't help myself.
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  282. Might not have worked well, but boy, it looked fantastic.
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  283. I don't know if you knew this Ryan but those Metra trains were based in Joliet and were on the former Rock Island line. The service went threw off of the southwest suburbs. I took it from Joliet to Downtown in my first solo trip into the City when I was 13 and many times more afterwards. I loved those double decker cars and durning the week they were always packed with commuters going to and fro . It used to cost 1.00 for a ride and you better have had your ticket for the Conductor to punch or they'd make you buy another. Those were fun days. Always wondered what happened to them because there were a lot of them.
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  284. Dude... I have been down here over 20 years now. Atlanta is a dump and extremely sketchy, I go downtown less and less due to the crime. Love the video though because I love It's History.
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  285. That last case makes perfect sense: she did kill him. So it's only fair she gets tried.
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  286. Thank you for this very interesting video.
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  287. I visited when I was a kid. If this is done by 2037 I'll have to buy a hat and eat it. I'm 41 now. I don't see this done in my children's lifetime.
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  288. My wife and I visited Ellis Island and went on a super rare Hard Hat Tour. Got to travel through the side of the island that nobody gets to see. We got to photograph the morgue, doctors residence, rooms sick patience stayed in, and more. If anyone is interested in this I would highly suggest it. Its History, if you want some really cool photos for future videos, let me know.
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  289. Ryan, I've been watching your Channel for quite some time. I finally decided to Google you.☺ You seem to have such a interesting back story with you living in Poland for that amount of time and having a Radio Show. I'm Subscribed to over 60 Channels & I got to say your Channel is my favorite! Keep it up Ryan, you are really on to something with the style & quality of your Content. Best Regards, Timothy ✌
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  290. Maintenance, after a few years, would have been a nightmare after the steel gridwork started to rust out. At least traditional trains are supported by the ground, and derailments are generally easy to deal with. The railplane would fall out of the sky like.... a plane....
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  291. Thanks for these videos. I've been following your videos for sometime now and I get a lot of info out of them that I would never have known otherwise, I enjoy history personally which is what drew me to this channel in the first place. You obviously put in a great deal of research to make these videos. Thank you I enjoy them.
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  292. Am I the only one who feels that “Silver streak“ should have been given an honorable mention? Cool video! Great pictures!
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  293. RIP to the lives lost....... Must say the new bridge looks so much better, hope is has a long life.
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  294. It would amazing to see this monument completed in my lifetime. As far as the environmental impact goes…is it really that extreme? No one stopped Mount Rushmore when it was erected.
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  295. Not known? Ever see The Blues Brothers? Probably the most famous (maybe the only?) movie to be featured on Lower Wacker. It's a great connector between Lake Shore Drive and the Eisenhower Expressway. Used to take it all the time...
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  296. Most suburbanites are well aware of Wacker Drive!
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  297. I’ve never been to Paris, but I want to go
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  298. This is my 3rd video from you and just want to say thanks for your time I enjoy learning new things when bored. The way you put your videos together is enjoyable.
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  299. Bisbee is definitely an anomaly for Arizona. It's a pretty surprising find because it's so unlike the rest of AZ towns and cities that are usually "young" in terms of most buildings not being older than the 1980s. First time I saw it I thought it was like an Italian village in the desert with the way buildings work their way up the mountain side. The narrow streets also help sell the European feel. Definitely an AZ secret though, up there with the communes turned artist towns.
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  300. Note that time stamps seem to be off. keep up the great work!
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  301. I love this Channel. The topics are underrated and not well known. Every video has HOURS of Extensive Research that can only be done by a Team of Profesionnals! Really Top notch Quality! Thank you 😊
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  302. Yes! Lincoln tunnel! Please give as much detail on the clearing of property, and how since replaced by "the apartments". Great job.
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  303. You always have the best videos around thank you for being a good Channel on YouTube
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  304. That is a great history video. And I live near the Six-Flags area. And years ago me and my wife would go downtown day or night. We have eaten and listened to bands play at the Underground. But I will say this, especially to visitors. (STAY AWAY) from the Underground Atlanta. Especially now and at night!! It's even dangerous during the day now. All of downtown Atlanta has become dangerous place, and over the last 20 years, it has turned into a den of theives and thugs! Like most large cities are. I just read an article in one of the travel magazines about 6 months ago that Atlanta, Ga, was ranked 3rd in the nation as one of the most dangerous cities to visit. Detroit and Chicago came in 1st and 2nd.I don't go downtown unless I absolutely have to. I keep my car doors locked, I watch my back as best I can, and I stay locked and loaded while I'm there! 😢😮😢
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  305. Like to see the view from the top of the pyramid
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  306. What’s with the sunglasses? 😂
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  307. Train stories are always good, thanks.
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  308. I was stationed at Cape May Coast Guard in the 80s. I remember that bunker. You offered a lot more info than I had then. Thank you.
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  309. Bisbee is a very unique town. I visited about three years ago and was struck by the drive in. It’s in a deep valley with only one entrance and one exit. It’s no wonder it floods consistently. The streets are narrow and parking is difficult, but there are ample bars and restaurants for those wishing to partake. The locals are not very nice, and the town is difficult to navigate, but you can feel the history all around you. I’d like to go back and spend more time there.
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  310. This is the sort of history I truly enjoy. Thank you for all of your hard work.
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  311. France has a bunch of fake building that cover ventilation shafts from the underground subways, I don't live there just watched a video so don't treat me like a news source
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  312. YAAAY! Delaware! Hi, all my upper and lower canal neighbors, from a crazy girl in Newark! I am waving to you all!
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  313. It was a mushroom farm because it was cool and damp and not useful for anything else
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  314. So much of humanity is wasted on greed.
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  315. My grandparents owned a cottage in belle River off of Lake Saint Claire. Using the tunnel to get to Canada was a treat, mostly, we used the ambassador bridge. It's sad that it is in disrepair 😢. Such memories.
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  316. I visited this sub back in 2014. Got a kick out of the fact it was used in the movie Down Periscope.
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  317. As always, It's History brings excellent historical topics to watch. Fastly becoming one of my favorite YouTube channels. Thanks Ryan.
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  318. Go to https://NordVPN.com/itshistory to get 70% off a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month free, only $3.56 per month. It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!
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  319. My parents lived 5 blocks away from where the tail came down in Brooklyn. My Dad walked over and checked it out.
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  320. I worked there from 84 to 88. It was a fun place to work as a teenager!
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  321. Hey Ryan I’ve been watching your channel for a while and living in New Jersey, have enjoyed your countless videos on history of New York, jersey, and Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and historical sites. Hope to see more of em in the future, keep doing what you’re doing! Lovin it
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  322. I am like number 100. this channel has become one of my favorites. throughout school HATE, and i mean Despised history class with a passion. With the Turn of the internet and video content, history suddenly has become interesting, and enjoyable to watch. maybe that was the problem, it was the medium in which i was taught history, now with the rise of well made AND documented videos i find it a pleasure to sit here and watch.
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  323. You’re a history rockstar, the shades suit you. 🤟🏼
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  324. Love your videos bro keep up the great work have you considered doing a video on the plane crash into the Empire State Building
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  325. I have a cousin that went to the University of Minnesota campus in the Cities, at the time. He had classes that day, but he ended up being sick. If he had went, he would've drove on 35W
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  326. Awesome video! I recommend your channel in rail forums often keep rail history coming I’ll keep recommending and watching! Would love to see the key west FEC extension come up or some Texas rail history or gulf coast in general
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  327. Do I still need to abide by the laws of Scotland while within the 1 square foot of land that I am lord of? What about international law?
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  328. Very touching tribute, Ryan. Even before you mentioned the parallels explicitly at the end, I couldn't help but notice that you approached this story with a special sense of respect and dignity. Very well done. Take care, my friend. 👍👍
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  329. Sponsored by Blinkist: Use my special link to start your free 7 day trial with Blinkist and get 25% off a Premium membership https://www.blinkist.com/itshistory
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  330. I CAN'T WAIT!!!!! 😁❤
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  331. Fun act, Dwight D Eisenhower was actually born and raised in Abilene Kansas, You can still see his birth place and the graves of one of his kids, his wife and of him there today.
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  332. Fun fact the PRR planted Japanese knotweed (looks like bamboo) next to all its tracks, because it was tubular and held water so the tracks wouldn’t start fires from sparks. Also the stuff is invasive as hell.
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  333. The Minneapolis MN has a Skyway System is the, largest contiguous system of enclosed, second-level bridges in the world—composed of 9.5 miles of pathways connecting 80 city blocks. First built in the 1960s.
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  334. and here i was thingking the channel was dead
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  335. Coolest thing about the covid lockdown was that lower lower wacker became a street racing track. Give it some time for the statued of limitations to run out and @vinwiki will cover it.
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  336. I never went over the Hell Gate bridge, but I've been under it a couple of hundred times at least.   Worked on a tug in NY for 38 yrs.. When I first started, I was told to never stand out on deck going under that bridge. The kids would get up there and throw anything they could find down on the boat. That included a track spike the deckhand found out on the deck.
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  337. I love this stuff that you make about New York city. I don't know what it is about New York but I am completely and enamoured with it. Love your videos Ryan
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  338. 2:44 Those are the Harlem and East Rivers --- technically tidal estuary and strait --- but definitely not the Hudson.
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  339. I've walked some of those army ruins as a kid going to Sandy Hook Beach,NJ,now just old buildings,lived there 40 years
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  340. What an unusual relic of history. Thanks for sharing.
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  341. You should do one on the steel mills of Chicago. Tons of good history there
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  342. These lost entrances seem like hidden areas in games that contain extra items or artifacts that you need to get 100% or to proceed forward.
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  343. You should also do an episode on the USS Cod. A Gato class World War II United States submarine in Cleveland. The Cod is also the most intact museum submarine complete with her original hatches.
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  344. Interesting that both Bertram Goldberg and Mies van der Rohe are famous Chicago architects from the Bauhaus in Berlin, yet their styles are dramatically different. Thanks for posting this engaging history.
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  345. The only problem with this channel is it doesn’t release content everyday. This is great stuff!
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  346. Wow, I never knew this Town existed(let alone heard of it). Learn something new every day(or night), thank you for this super informative video Ryan
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  347. All the comments that praise the GSP are from the shore. After you head north, past where the Parkway meets Turnpike, it's just another congested highway artery towards NYC, except worse because of the tiny lanes and tight curves. Edit: The Turnpike is "the heart of NJ". This is where the North, Central, and South Jersey division comes from.
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  348. Awesome video,I was born and raised in Lewistown and always love to learn any Pennsylvania history. Keep up the great work 😎
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  349. Being a lifelong Californian, I am very appreciative of sites that share the rest of our country's history before it is lost in time. Thank you for your time in sharing this.
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  350. I remember this day well my teacher's husband most likely would have been on the bridge when it went down. However his boss kept him late that day. I was nervous going over older Bridges after it happened.
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  351. Well done Mr Socash as always your research on these topics makes them informative and done well. Thank you kindly for making these videos. 💯😎 Nice shades by the way
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  352. There's also abandoned bunkers in Queens, NY. Fort Tilden, there are two.
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  353. Yes! I've been asking for this for some time. Was there a whole bunch of times when I was a kid. You'd get a Hero's sub sandwich over at the place at Addison and Western, and you could walk to the entrance of the park. You could always get discount coupons at Walgreens. Got pretty grungy at the end of it's life, but it was always a fun place!
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  354. I felt wrong liking this video
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  355. Thank you "It's History" for your dedication to history!
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  356. My good friend is a research biologist on Plum Island.
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  357. You really should visit the Coney Island yard Transit museum, they keep a running collection of old trains.
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  358. I am in awe of the old NY bridges each with their own design. I could tell which one they are. not like todays that all look the same.
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  359. I love your videos. As a Chicagoan, I learned a lot. The faceless statue for example. Thanks!
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  360. The sea is a harsh mistress.
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  361. My dad was a mechanic there. Riverview was a lot less dangerous than some other parks. Lloyds of London and US Fidelity covered them for personal injuries, workman's comp and liability and the premium at the end was only about $1000,000 a year. Only 6 people died in 64 years of operation and only 2 were the park's fault. The cables broke on the Strat-o-stat and two people drowned when the plane flew into the river. The trains that collided in 1937 were on the Pippen, which later became the Silver Streak.
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  362. I was 9 yrs old when the Arena opened. My last and most memorable visit was a Kansas concert in 1979. I never got to see it with the roof open. In the 1980's I moved to Los Angeles, where I enjoyed many concerts at the Universal Amphitheatre, which in the 1970's was open air, but was enclosed by the time I saw it. Great memories!
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  363. Nicely done. I worked on the Silversides in '79-'81 while in NROTC at Illinois Tech. That was back when Navy Pier was still in it's industrial guise. We got the active sonar working, one ping only. So glad that this boat remains preserved. Well worth the trip to Muskegon to see her.
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  364. Born and raised in Atlanta, I haven't been to Underground since I was a kid, and I hear it's not a great place to visit currently. Also, the peach drop doesn't happen anymore, they didn't do it 2020-2022, did it once more in 2023, and currently have no plans to reinstitute it. That said, there are plenty of other fun things to do in Atlanta, but I can't say I'd recommend Underground
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  365. Excellent video, many thanks. The miles-long approach to the bridge (to minimize the slope) is equally impressive.
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  366. I tried for years to get down there and i had access to some of these lower levers in the 90's. Never got in but i did see where some of the basements had connected to the tunnel. My last attempt was the IC train station at Randolph and Michigan. By the way, "highly Illegal" would have not stopped me from trying as it has not stopped people to this day. After the flood, most of the stores waterproofed there former tunnel entrances and made it impossible to get in. Still have the feeling that I would like to et down there.
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  367. I've learned about some amazing stuff from your channel. That towers construction looks pretty solid, I wonder how long it will be standing.
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  368. cool, a Malbork video :)
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  369. As a child rode the Penn Reading Seashore train out of 30th station to Cape May NJ. As a kid seeing the Steam Engine close from the ground level tracks in Cape May was a sight to remember. Going to college and commuting from Wayne Pa to Phila lived through the transition from PRR -> PennCentral -> ConRail. In the late 1960's the deterioration of the PRR infrastructure was quite apparent. From the PRR commuter 'red cars' slowly falling apart to seeing the huge freight yards just west of 30th street station slowly disappear.
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  370. My grandfather took my sister and I there several times as kids. She went only once and hated it, but I returned many times. We took the streetcars down North Avenue from Oak Park to Western and then got off at Belmont. That alone was an adventure. I was too young to ride the parachutes, but strangely, allowed to shoot the 22's at the shooting gallery. I can still smell the gun powder. The funhouse spinning floor discs and horizontal barrels were always challenging. When I think back at all that was allowed to do and experience, I can only think that just about everything fun there would be outlawed long ago. The memories of the place are indelible.
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  371. Hey Ryan, I just wanted to let you know that you and one other YouTube history channel have actually figured out how to make history interesting for me! I graduated likely well before you were born, but if my high school history teachers would have presented their lessons the way both of you do, my grades would have been far better! I've been subscribed for quite a long time now, and I have enjoyed every episode so far! Thank you for the awesome content!
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  372. It’s wonderful that someone posts historical stories and photos, so the experts can crawl out of the cracks and explain to the commoners about life.
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  373. Thanks for this video. My Grandfather was a machinist who worked in the Domino sugar factory in the 1920- 60’s. His boss also allowed him to have a pigeon coop on the roof. This was my families origin story into the US.
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  374. I've been there twice. Excellent place to visit. I promise you won't be disappointed. Go in the cooler parts of the year. And be ready to walk. And do the whole tour. His collections and the house. Well worth it.
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  375. Ah hour ago I was actually thinking about you making a video on the flatiron
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  376. A story that hits home, literally. I live five minutes away from here in Mystic. Lol
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  377. Thanks. Excellent telling of the story. Back when I lived in Brooklyn, my bike ride trips across the GW, and up RT.9W,including a tough climb to the top of the Palisades, was a trip!
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  378. Love that part of the southern lake shore. Exploring the islands is a great time and educational.
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  379. Would love to visit this place... Been to Bodie in CA about this time 47 yrs ago.. very cool place...
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  380. Very cool. And it will capture his shadow!
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  381. Mispronounced words whether intentional or not, I truly enjoy your stories Ryan and look forward to the next! 💙🙏🏼
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  382. Good video. Interesting subject. Unfortunately it seems California is de-criminalizing everything. Thank you.
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  383. Great video Ryan. Thank you.
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  384. Great vlog! Interesting story. One of Nicolay Fougner`s ships ran aground during a storm. The wreck is in sound between Budal and the island of Hudøy, close to Tjøme Norway. Our school had summer camp at Hudøy and on the boatride over you could see the wreck. I have not been there since 1990, so I do not know it the wreck is still above water.
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  385. As always, thanks for bringing us this piece Ryan! Truly appreciated! God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏼
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  386. Early English settlers sure were obsessed with York. There is York (Now Toronto), New York and this Yorktown. Am I missing any? Like wow.
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  387. I remember watching a dvd about trains I bought about 20 years ago from the History Channel. I remember one old retired railroad worker saying that passenger trains always lost money. You simply couldn’t get enough passengers to make a profit.
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  388. That was fantastic thank you for making this.
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  389. Why scrap the old girl? Turn her into a floating museum of the past history she played a role in.
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  390. Wow that’s funny, I just passed that block the other day for a job in tuckerton. Me and my friend were looking at each other like why is there a giant block in the middle of the street lol
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  391. 10:30 "oggieVille" ???
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  392. Ryan, There are two pieces of Texas architecture you missed that being the 622 ft tall Tower of the Americas built in 1967 to 68 for the !968 Hemisfair and the unique mode of construction that being of continuous concrete pour. Also the Hilton Palacio Del Rio hotel and it's use of modular concrete rooms.
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  393. Excellent job as always!
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  394. Another historic learning video love Art deco architecture, definition, and character better than today’s buildings. Keep up the good work.
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  395. Honestly I still think that Nuclear Energy is still viable, if we build reactors to proper safety standards. and let's be honest the Nuclear reactors that were build during the cold war were designed and built that way so the Nuclear waste they made would be used to make nuclear weapons. And no  Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster doesn't count as no one in their right mind would build a Nuclear Reactor anywhere close to the coast.
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  396. This is where I live! It's such a sweet little town now a days full of musical and creative people. Great video!
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  397. Once again a stunning Video, thank you.
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  398. Much larger scale but the Romans were using this type of building heating a long time before this castle was even a dream
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  399. Born and raised on the Jersey Shore and when I hear Sandy Hook I mainly think about the beach as that was the main place for us to go in the 80s and 90s. I sadly didn't even know this history about it until now!
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  400. Thanks Ryan... been driving around those concrete blocks for years.
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  401. I remember going to River View and riding many of those rides🤩. Thanks for bringing back those memories. I was born in the early 1950’s the memory of the park are still strong. Thanks again.
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  402. I drive past this thing every day. I've been wondering what the story with it was.
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  403. “SECRET TUNNEL, SECRET TUNNEL, THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS, SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNEL!!!”
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  404. Another great video. I'll be glad when you guys get the recognition you deserve!
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  405. It would be nice to see the HMS Valiant and Conqueror to be turned into museum ship..
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  406. Excellent documentary! Just subscribed.
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  407. Love the videos of Chicago.
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  408. Ryan, this was Amazing.................
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  409. I lived only a few miles from there and remember going to see The Blues Brothers seen being filmed back in the 80´s. Great story on its history!
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  410. Awesome video I live maybe a 300 yards from where the Sibley Breaker used to be again great video.
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  411. Ya know? I don’t remember subbing to your channel. I know of you guys due to Indie N. and his Great War series. Honestly you’ve become on of my favorite channels. So many different topics that one would never know of. Love it!
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  412. Nice video. Thank you for sharing. Tunnels are pretty cool aren't they? Happy day.
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  413. Interesting story behind a Los Angeles icon. Thanks for posting.
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  414. NU - CLE - AR
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  415. Well done, you made Minneapolis interesting. 20yrs ago I was maint mgr at a cabinet factory, maybe similar to sugar or flour mills but the technology to control dust explosions was incredible.
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  416. Dang I was hoping you’d delve into why Zamperla, an amusement ride manufacturer, owns Luna Park, and why’s Deno’s Wonder Wheel is a separate park despite being in the dead center of Luna Park. Good overview though!
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  417. got so excited when i seen its a video about my state, i lived in new castle, newark and now dover, i love this state but newark and new castle is getting worse, so many people from other states are coming here and ruining it, there never used to be this much traffic and bs going on here
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  418. Living in Arizona for most of my life I find it kind of interesting to think what would have happened if the town never collapsed
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  419. Wow ... Mind Blown! ... Rest in peace Corning. We loved Corningware and i had no idea (Probably forgot) that Corning had so much to do with the development of fiber optics. I still remember getting my Popular science magazine in the mail in the 1980's as a young teen talking about how amazing fiber optics was but at the time in 1984 (My best guess) it was mainly used for decorations and toys.
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  420. Thank you for the historical detail about this route. ❤
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  421. My beloved hometown. It's not just a municipal elevator, but the only vertical street in the world (yes it is legally a street).
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  422. Great watch as usual. Ryan, thanks for your time, hard work and posting.......
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  423. That Established Title thing is a scam.
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  424. Certainly does a hatchet job on the radio operator, who he states failed to pass the message on which, he if informed, would have taken action for icebergs. Also he states the radio operator confided in him that he left the iceberg warning under a paperweight at his elbow - seems somewhat convenient that dead men tell no tales. 🤔 Really interesting primary sources, thanks for sharing.
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  425. Ryan, your affinity and knowledge of all things about TRAINs is amazing. Thank you for this story about Pawtucket. My dear wife is from Cape Cod...I will share this video with her. Thanks.
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  426. This is my favorite channel. Thank you. And can you guys do one on the Croton Aqueduct or the Unbuilt IND Second System lines. Thank you again and keep up the good work.
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  427. Yes, very interesting to know more about mediakraft and how it ties itself with current projects, like world war 2 and time ghost. I would love to have a better picture on how all these chanels go together.
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  428. Thank you, your channel is a favorite of mine as your professionalism and quality of research are unexcelled .I saw this on display at Grand Central when i was a kid !
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  429. Dante's Down The Hatch was an iconic Underground Atlanta jazz and fondue restaurant. I went there a few years before it closed. You entered it by opening a door like the kind on an old wooden sailing ship and descending a flight on stairs. The walls on either side of the stairs were covered with photos of movie and television stars and other celebrities as well as politicians who had eaten there. The restaurant was dimly lit with a low ceiling where the diners sat. However, in a large two or three story area in the center was a pirate ship moored in water filled with small alligators. How's that for ambience? Alas Dante's is no more. The owner sold it and I hear it has become a night club.
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  430. Dziękuję, jak zawsze świetny materiał. Pozdrawiam
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  431. That's really cool! Thanks for bringing us this Ryan! 💙🙏🏼
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  432. Thank you for a great video! I grew up in South Minneapolis and always love learning more about the hidden history. Glad they have preserved the mill area and have revitalized the St. Anthony Falls area.
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  433. Happy July 4th from your friendly Northern neighbor here in Hamilton Ontario Canada
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  434. Discovered your channel today and had to binge. I love the way you present things.
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  435. Your last statement is very well put! I believe the new rail renaissance might be able to reestablish special identical trains of the early era like the orange blossom special or the zephyr. It takes visionary people who knew what these earlier trains offered. Such things as barber shops nail salons movies onboard etc. Also menus with unique offerings to make the trip really memorable. The fact that you put this article up tells me that you as well as I loved the older times when train travel was exciting! Thanks for the memories!
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  436. I was in 4H during my middle school days. I actually had the opportunity to visit the campus of K-State for a weekend in 1980. I took 2 classes (animal husbandry and calligraphy). I remember going to the indoor pool (possibly at Nichols Hall), and my group stayed in the dorms for the time we were there.
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  437. love all those old photos you found, wow, lots of great research
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  438. I was living in the suburbs of Chicago in 1991 and remember the under ground flood happening.Thumbs up.
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  439. Born in Atlanta in 1964 and I still live there. Been to underground many times over the years. Although you do need to be watchful of rough people, it’s not much different compared to NYC and other places. It’s a nice place to visit and get a historical view of the past. I love Atlanta and always will 🤩
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  440. Beautiful towers. I hope they can keep going strong. Thanks so much for another great video.
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  441. The timing on this episode is amazing! I just was in Chicago to study these buildings and others by Bertrand Goldberg!
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  442. I had never heard of this place before watching this. I'm very intrigued and will definitely be doing a deeper dive online. Thank you Ryan for bringing this European gem to our attention.
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  443. Keep up the great work! Perfect!
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  444. We went there in the dead of winter but will go back in the summer when the beautiful gardens are in bloom. This site is a must for your bucket list! Great video. Thanks.
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  445. Interesting! A first Dreadnaught battleship, an experimental battleship and a historical military vessel. That's something remarkable.
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  446. Great story! Love history.
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  447. I worked in the downtown of Chicago (Loop) area and LOVED the architecture. From the rehab of Marshall Fields entrance, the development of the Pier, and rehab of the Oriental (Ford) theatre and others in the theatre area, I've loved, and lived, through it all. I have two favorites. The Monadnock Building, 53 West Jackson Boulevard, a 16-story skyscraper built by the firm of Burnham & Root and built starting in 1891. It is the tallest load-bearing brick building (no steel frame or elevator at the time). Walls at ground level are about 4-6 feet thick. Second is the Bankers Building or the Clark Adams Building, 105 West Adams Street. A neoclassical 41 story skyscraper designed by the Burnham Brothers. Began in 1926 and completed in 1927. A major renovation reveals a very ornate lobby and staircase hidden for decades behind drywall (assuming I'm not confusing it with another Chicago skyscraper);
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  448. Very informative great video
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  449. The great War was the most epic history telling I've ever seen
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  450. The Glomar Explorer wasn’t a complete failure, look up operation Jennifer.
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  451. Anything vintage Rail is tops in my book. Great job Ryan.....
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  452. I feel very grateful to my hometown for saving one of the 3-4 drive-ins. I think there's only been a few summers when it wasnt open. It is still popular, and plays new and clasic movies.
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  453. As always, thank you for the stories of places.
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  454. That was super cool !!!!! Enjoyed every minute
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  455. As a truck driver I go through this tunnel way too often
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  456. Great show! This was so interesting. Please continue to produce more videos like this.
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  457. I literally just moved to SLC yesterday!
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  458. MANY Americans love history. Unfortunately, those with money and power do not.
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  459. Ice Cube is not from Compton. He’s from LA. But other than that, good video.
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  460. I lived just south of the Loop in the mid 70s and never heard of this system! I'm a bit more familiar with what my husband calls the "habitrail" system in Minneapolis...a much more cohesive set of overpasses and tunnels. He liked them because he didn't have to go outside at all in the bitter cold of winter or the muggy heat of summer. But he did say he always felt a little like a gerbil when walking through some of the overpass bridges lol.
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  461. I was 11 when 9/11 happened. I never heard of the World Trade Center before that day. I remember that day vividly as a kid growing up in Illinois. I remember I was late to school that morning and had to go around the front instead of going in through the side doors as they were locked. I was in 5th grade and we had just finished learning to play the recorder. As we put it away, our homeroom teacher returned to our home classroom and spoke to our music teacher. Even though they spoke quietly, I didn't think much about it initially. Then, our teacher announced to my class that were were gonna watch TV. I thought, cool, we were gonna watch the Cartoon Network! On the old school TV hanging in the corner ceiling in my classroom, I was not expecting what I saw. This big huge building on fire with a big gaping hole in the top. What was even more chilling was watching people falling from that big building. Initially, I thought it was just a big fire that had happened until I saw the second plane hit the South Tower as it happened on live TV. Even though I was young, I knew that planes didn't just fly into buildings like that. What was even crazier was after my mom had picked my younger brother and me up from our schools, I saw the long lines of cars waiting outside gas stations. I remember calling my grandma on one of the brick cellphone my mom had about what I had seen. But I would not understand the full impact on that area until years later. In 2014, I met my now husband and moved to Eastern Pennsylvania. He is from New Jersey and was in a county (I will not name) near Philadelphia. He told me that immediately after 9/11, many houses in the area where he was living at the time went abandoned. There was even a house that a husband and wife lived in with things left behind in their place that Tuesday morning they had left for work in their offices in the World Trade Center. He even knew people personally who had perished in the Towers. Seeing the events on screen is one thing, but listening to personal on-hand accounts of those events who have been there is another.
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  462. Although I will probably never have a chance to hike this railroad, at least I can drive a train along the line in Trainz Simulator. Definitely do a video on Southern Pacific’s Tillamook line in Oregon and it’s eventual demise.
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  463. Every subway fan should pay a visit to the transit museum. It got detailed history of the system and, real 1900s train cars that will definitely bring you back into the age
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  464. A lot of research. Thanks again John in Chicago
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  465. MetroNorth will also begin to use the Hell Gate for trains running from NY and Ct on the New Haven line to Moynihan Station, with new stops in the Bronx. Hopefully this upgrade to NYC's amazing public transit system will be on line in the next 3 years.
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  466. Love your stories Ryan! Didn't know how much i was so interested in history lessons till watching some of your videos!
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  467. Thanks for taking the time to make this informative video! So refreshing to see and hear a real human. A real person who actually takes the time to make a video, instead of AI robot created videos.
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  468. Phenomenal job on this one! Cant wait for the next On location
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  469. What a massive undertaking - especially for the times in which it was built. Thank you Ryan for this and all your other videos. Your work is greatly appreciated.
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  470. I remember when Pittsburgh also had their own soccer team called the Pittsburgh spirit. I seen a couple other soccer games there, too.
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  471. Thank you for showing this. 🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦❤
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  472. Love your videos. One of the best you tube channels.
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  473. Thank you, Ryan, another great historical "exploration".
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  474. As a native N Calif. you did a good job of explaining SF history, thanks
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  475. Hey I bike by this thing all the time. Didnt realize it had all this historical context
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  476. My very first trip out of the USA as a kid was through that tunnel.
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  477. hello from the ash dump i mean flushing nyc. where im watching this. its great to learn about where you live. thanks
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  478. Yes another on-location!
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  479. Check out Ryolite in Nevada, Beatty and goldfield are also old mine towns still full of people
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  480. I love your channel so much!
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  481. Really great video as always! Fan since the singer building video! I have a request for a video about the Hudson terminal in New York. It was built in the 1900s and demolished in the 1960s to make way for The World Trade Center. I would really want to see a video for these buildings.
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  482. Love an onsite episode! That had to be awesome to see in person!
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  483. I don't know why, but there is just something wonderful about seeing moving bridges, be they the bascule tilting, rotating or lift style, operating. On the Union Canal in the heart of Edinburgh, there is a tiny wee steel lift bridge, which was neglected for years, but fortunately now restored and working again. There's a simple pleasure in watching it operating to let boats and barges cruise under it.
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  484. Great one Ryan! I lived in Winter Park in 1981. I remember the sinkhole very well. Such an incredible disaster. I was about 9 years old, so it fueled my imagination. I was so glad that nobody was hurt. The fear of that happening became very real, after that. I remember the new avenue for tourism in the area too, as if it needed it! People were selling, I Survived the Winter Park Sinkhole t-shirts!
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  485. I worked at a chemical plant that is still there in the BACK of the YARDS neighborhood. They take rendered animal fat and process that into chemicals used in everything from crayons and tires to cosmetics and soaps. They even had a rendering plant there but was decommissioned a couple decades ago. That's as close as you'll get to the smell of the stockyards now, in the city.
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  486. I would love a basement video!
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  487. Ryan, as usual -- great visuals, narration and loads of information. Thanks
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  488. Thank you for coming back its history
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  489. Yes RUSH HOUR on a weekday crucial detail!!! Our cell phones wouldn't work because the networks were overloaded.
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  490. Great vid as always. But leave me to question. Does a tunnel stand? If it doesn't what does it do, sit?
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  491. Before retirement I would go to Las Vegas a minimum of twice a year for business. Often the meetings were based at other hotels. However I always went to Rivera for the breakfast buffet.
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  492. I really appreciate this one Ryan! Thank you for your work!
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  493. "Allowing Calofornia's beautiful Nature to reclaim its original form along the coast" - that sounds like a wonderful idea!
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  494. Ate there in the fall of 1976. The was a Camera Obscura out-building; first one I ever heard of. It is visible in one of the photos with a sign “Giant Camera” at about 16 seconds in to video. The view inside was breathtaking.
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  495. Your videos are always great Ryan. Keep it up!
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  496. Another great video! Thank you Ryan!
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  497. You are a champ, Ryan. Somehow you manage to find the most obscure and obtuse corner of history and expound on it expertly.😊
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  498. As always, thanks again for yet another extremely interesting video Ryan! I don't know how much work you have to put into each segment you bring us.. I'm sure it's a lot... but, I truly appreciate your passion for what you do. It shows that you really love what you do! Until next time, God bless the I'm~ Scott 💙🙏🏼
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  499. Totally agree on your thoughts regarding remaining fragments of history
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  500. OMFG YES!!! DELAWARE STORIES!!!!!!
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  501. I really like your videos. They are well researched and well spoken. Please keep up the good work
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  502. When I was a Sophmore in HS my friend used to steal his parents car and we would underage drive down Lower Wcker as fast as that Caprice would go..looking back we did some crazy stuff and probably still lucky to be around lol. Fun story tho is there is/was a police station down there and I saw the biggest rat ever it was the size of a medium sized Racoon this was back in the mid 80s
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  503. Always a pleasure Ryan. Thank you for your diligence. God bless you. 😊
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  504. I live right next to an Nike missile site. It is an closed-off site for many years with so many proposed projects including a residential area as well as an playground which both of those were flat out reject for many reasons.
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  505. Wooooooo New vid on something weird, gotta love it. JS, we have a lot of odd infrastructure up here in Detroit/flint/Saginaw have plenty of oddities to make for an interesting video 😉
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  506. Thanks to Historians like you, once VR becomes truly affordable, it might one day be possible to walk upon that grand dance floor... Pardon me for a moment... "Will guests kindly not 'moonwalk' during this era? Thank you."
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  507. Thank you, Ryan...once again, a Real Treat...my Father took me in 1954, aged 10, to see the Prototype in the Field near Milngavie...it was Falling Apart by then...apparently my Uncle had worked on the Designs for Mr Bennie...dgp/uk
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  508. This is fascinating! I have heard OF these tunnels, but not a whole exposa
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  509. I believe this bridge is one foot longer than the Sydney harbour bridge which I saw for the first time recently in real life. Pictures in this video don’t do justice to how big it is in real life, it’s huge!
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  510. There was a direct entrance into Bloomingdale's at 59th and Lexington Avenue. Farther up , at 68th Street, there was a platform entrance into Hunter Collage. I'm not sure if that one is still extant.
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  511. Don’t listen to the haters, Ryan. We love you!
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  512. I first became aware of this magnificent bridge when at thirteen, back in 73' I git into antique toy train collecting. Lionel had made and marketed a Standard Gauge model of it back in the 1920's...
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  513. Me and my wife found them in our exploring. They are a cool part of the history of the area.
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  514. When I first moved to the east coast I lived in NJ right above the Lincoln Tunnel. Now I live in Brooklyn and rarely use the vehicle tunnels. I use the subway.
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  515. I kick myself every time I realize this bldg was still standing in 1967 when I first made it to NYC. I didn't know about it until after it was demolished. Glad to see such a good record of construction details. But like most visitors in '67, I wanted to see the Big 3* of skyscrapers. The 3 my Dad spoke of. They were, pictured in our home library, and had been an obsession since childhood. Those 3 were not in the financial district. My knowledge of those other skyscrapers took 30 more years. I dug into the history of skyscrapers when framed photos of the Flatiron Bldg.were showing up everywhere. Its not a true skyscraper, but impossibly tall and old-fashioned. Then, one learns of how the real deal came with the Singer Tower, the Woolworth bldg. and an insurance company building. They were built in quick succession and dominated the skyline. It was an exciting time to be a New Yorker! Though I could recognize the Singer Tower and understood its significance, these new details of the interior are thought provoking. The decor comes as a surprise. I would have expected to see Art Nouveau, the most avant-garde style of that era. Best known as the style of the Paris exposition and metro from 1900, seven years before Singer Tower was built. Curiously, these photos show a lobby styled for an earlier time, very intricate and baroque, Beaux Arts. As if it were the 1880s and there wasn't yet a vocabulary for how a skyscraper should look on the inside. Or, outside for that matter. Try to imagine, as the first architect ever to design a 40 story office building, how do you make it look? I totally agree with the thumbs down for the style of the US Steel building. Ironically, Singer Tower made better use of steel to create the curved dome. *In the mind of a student in 1967, the big 3 skyscrapers were Empire State and Chrysler bldg, and Rockefeller Center. At that time, could be seen one tower of World Trade Ctr completed. Obviously, all about maximizing square footage. Compared with the above 3, it looked like a backwardness in search of a style. Am sorry to see today's Hudson Yards has gone in the same direction. Fortunately, a great deal else recently built in Manhattan is quite spectacular.
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  516. We enjoyed visiting Sandy Hook . I did some shore fishing and I was somewhat shocked to see a NOAA agent searching my tackle bag . She explained that she had the right to do so without cause or a warrant . I really didn't care but if you have something you should not have legally , use my comment as a consideration if you visit Sandy Hook . It is well worth the visit !
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  517. You should have mentioned that Cheyenne has the Biggest Operating Steam Locomotive in the World, the 4014 Big Boy
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  518. Really love your channel and the content. Lots of great info and stories. Thank you!
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  519. Good job Ryan! Very well done.
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  520. Long live lumber
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  521. I have to give you credit for this video, the Hellgate is a rarely covered part of NY history. However, I think you were unfairly critical of the bridge's maintenance post Amtrak takeover - the reduction in tracks was done system-wide in many places post merger, such as Horseshoe Curve. While the bridge objectively looks like shit due to the shoddy paintwork, the bridge's structural and mechanical status is solid, and has never really wavered nor has a major or even moderate accident occurred on or due to it. Again, appreciate the video, but I think the latter half of the video was pretty biased against it.
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  522. I thought I recognized that sub😮 1996 movie Down Periscope the SS Stingray
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  523. I find industrial areas beautiful
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  524. I remember the beautiful Pieta and Belgian waffles! We were visiting from Ohio and I had my first subway ride.
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  525. Henry Hornbostel was the architect for the Hell Gate bridge. His initial tower design for the bridge was a more refined Beaux Arts composition. The project’s budget couldn’t accommodate this plan, so Hornbostel then devised the simpler yet more powerful design of two Roman towers we see today. The curve of the bridge approach was more to align and connect with the New Haven’s Harlem River Branch at Oak Point in the Bronx and to provide the necessary grades (5%) for efficient rail operation. The piers for the bridge approaches where originally to be steel lattice work construction but were revised to be smooth concrete structures to address the Asylum’s concern that steel lattice piers could be used by inmates as a means of escape. The bridge remains one of the strongest steel arch bridges in the world. Thanks for another super video!
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  526. Thanks for sharing this video on coney island. I am baby boomer and my generation in NYC grew up in the later heyday of coney island.
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  527. I wonder if the locks still work in the Morris canal that'd be pretty cool to go down in a boat
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  528. Great video. I have never heard of Governors Island. Awesome material. Thanks for posting.
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  529. Great job! I enjoy all of your videos, but I liked this one a lot. I’ve lived in San Francisco and Monterey and was surprised how much I learned in this episode!
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  530. Excellent, heartbreaking doc. Moving story about a great historical site I hope stays around forever more.
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  531. It's a shame they tore down the Home Insurance Building. Seems like an important historical landmark, not just for the city of Chicago, but for the world as well, as it was considered the first skyscraper, and there have been thousands of skyscrapers built all over the world in every major city since 1883, and Chicago had the first one? Seems like something they should have had the foresight to keep.
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  532. I lived in Elmhurst Illinois which is right along the Iowa Division of the Illinois Central which was the first look i got of trains and the Illinois Central railroad was always one of my favorite Railroad lines. Thanks for posting this. Have a blessed weekend everyone
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  533. Great video. Sent me on a rabbit hole. 😊
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  534. You forgot that people were hidden in trunks for free asmission.
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  535. as a civil engineering student who has always been intrested in history I quite enjoy these videos
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  536. YouTube algorithmed me this because I watch Brent. Am I the only one who wants to join him out there and start a new life?
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  537. Most average thing in ohio
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  538. Beginning geology students are told this story as a cautionary tale. There were several problems with the bedrock under the dam, and it’s quite possible the dam would still be here if the rock had held. (BTW, the rock under the eastern side is schist, not shale.)
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  539. Butner isn't a bad facility. Was there for many years. Jim Baker was housed there, too. He doesn't go into detail really what life is like there. Basically, you can at times forget you are actually in prison.
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  540. What a fantastic effort by the miners and also by the restoration team. Great look at a fantastic historical landscape. God bless
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  541. Yea there is a Nike base by our house
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  542. Raising the road deck was a great idea. Ryan, thanks for your time, work and posting.
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  543. This video shall be of interest to me
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  544. Great research thank you
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  545. Thank you for this history lesson. You do nice work.
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  546. This is the main reason I love this channnel. I love finding out about hidden gems like this 😎
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  547. love these type of docs!
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  548. Australia needs them
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  549. wow u actually made a video of Sandy Hook. That was fast!
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  550. Gives me some Toronto PATH vibes! Love learning about old infrastructure like this
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  551. Remember this river🤔😜🤪from All in the Family episode ‼️
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  552. When I first went to NYC from Sydney 30 years ago and went up the Empire State Building I noticed the bridge “hey, that looks like the Sydney Harbour Bridge!” Nice to learn about its history.
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  553. Great coverage. I used to work in Underground Atlanta on its reopening in the late 80's. I managed an art gallery, Antiquities Historical Galleries. It was quite an experience. Happy to see it coming to life yet again.
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  554. Well, We actually cause many of the sinkholes. Especially during low rain periods we pull more water from the aquifers then the ground collapses into the void. utilities usually pull from the deeper aquifers like the Floridian and most residential pulls from the shallower ones (Depending on the area, you could have up to five aquifers under you. Shifting slabs are becoming quite common with the recent development of marshy areas which were rejected in the past. I work with water utilities and have seen many developments that were clear cut and a layer of 6~12 inches of fill dirt layered over the water logged soil and next the streets and slabs go in. You go back 5 years later and all the wood frame stucco houses are cracked. Stair step cracks in brick houses are also quite common here and you have to have the slab Ram jacked to level it back out - for a while. Depressions in the roads are also common, but these are usually caused by a leak in the water main which is under the center of the road. The soil is mainly sand and (Hopefully) some amount of clay, but many houses are built on layers of almost 100% sugar sand and since the city planners main priority is property taxes, permits are usually no more that a formality. If your looking at a home and the seller wants you to sign a hold-harmless against foundation shifts do yourself a big favor and run away.
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  555. Love the format. Beautiful work.
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  556. Very well done! Snohomish County, just north of Seattle had its own timber products industry too! These mills burped out so much pollution that when driving north on Interstate 5, that someone in your car would ask, “was that you?!?”
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  557. was just thinking that. pretty sure it was a weekday. my father had been on the bridge 5 minutes before it collapsed. realistically, he was probably one of that last people across the bridge
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  558. Haven't been there since the 90s. Great video.
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  559. What a beautiful art deco building; happy to see that it has survived the passage of time. The lavish materials used in construction would only have been possible pre-depression. Interesting that architects and engineers did not include fire protection. Maybe such expensive safety precautions are only affordable when required by building codes?
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  560. 1848 is brand new by uk standards
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  561. Thanks! You’ve given me a great conversation starter for my 88-year-old mom. I was born in Chicago in 1956 but we moved away a year later. By the time we moved back in 1969, Riverview was history. Thanks for bringing it to life.
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  562. fantastic video. As a history addict I was on the edge of my seat the whole time for this amazing bit of American history.
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  563. "How did the homeless come to occupy one of New Yorks most unusual buildings?" Why --- Thanks the democrats and their open border..... Thanks to Ryan for another enjoyable watch, thanks for helping to keep history alive.
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  564. I live not to far from Mystic Island and have been there several times but never knew of this tower or its history, that whole area of the state is full of historical things to see. When the weather warms up again we will take a motorcycle trip to the area. Thanks It's history.
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  565. Thank You, Its nice to see my home turf of your channel. I live and work 1/2 mile from the location and visit it often.
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  566. I went on a date walking around the canals years ago. Lovely memories.
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  567. Great channel
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  568. I have long admired and enjoyed the film The Imitation Game. I also knew the background story of the Benchley scientists (and their machines) was much more complex and nuanced. This was an excellent Video Blog.
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  569. Thanks Ryan for another great watch..... America needs to start building "Things" again and cut back on offshoring jobs and decouple from china. Thanks for your time, work and posting........
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  570. Very cool video! Thank you for sharing. Looks like it would be nice to explore by bike.
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  571. Another great video.
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  572. My grandfather started with the PRR then with Penn Central and retired with ConRail
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  573. Love your documentaries.
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  574. Would love to see more content on Atlanta! I love your content when you cover local history like this.
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  575. Hugely informative, thank you for doing this video. I am recently retired at the age of 60 and railroading is one of my favorite things to watch and learn about. Thank you again.
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  576. I've used the Pedway many many times. Being that I don't drive and haven't for decades I would walk from Union Station to the IC, now Millennium station. While It didn't go all the way it covered enough that I could walk more than half the distance. I got to know it well and often ate there on my way.
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  577. I grew up going to Coney Island, I lived a few miles away in Marine Park. When I was a kid the old Astroland was still open but you could see how old it was, I was excited when they opened the new Luna Park. Coney Island seems to be getting better from what I remembered when I lived there but I left New York 3 years ago
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  578. Another interesting video. Thankyou.
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  579. Thanks Ryan! I Never knew of this place. I appreciate you sharing this story! 💙🙏🏼
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  580. Thanks for a great video! I lived in Pasadena in the 80's and 90's. I loved it there. I hiked into the mountains and saw some of the remains that are shown in this video. I had no idea how old they were, why they existed, and what a big deal the railroad was in its day. Smitty's Grill on Lake Street has many historical photos, including many of the photos shown in this video. Thanks again.
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  581. I really enjoy your videos, thank you! 💜
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  582. Nice. Thanks for your well-researched video. Maintenance costs near water are always expensive, especially for railways it seems. In Dawlish, England, there's a railway that follows the coast. After a 2014 storm caused a massive sea wall breach, the trackbed was completely washed out, leaving the rails to hang in midair. After £80 million, in 2022, a project to raise, reinforce, and improve the sea wall was completed.
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  583. The funny part about the high line was thst by the time it was finished it already was obsolete. Freight traffic was already diminishing, being rapidly replaced by trucks.
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  584. Very good content, thank you for sharing ❤
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  585. My day is always a little better when you post a video
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  586. Really enjoyed this video.. I was in Chicago in November inspired to visit by watching your videos and several TV shows.. I saw pedestrians signs and had no idea what they were but now I do lol… you answered a lot of questions I had but also make me want to got there is clearly a lot more to explore
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  587. Thanks for saying something positive about Chicago
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  588. Awsome. Lots we rarely see 😊
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  589. Mr. Socash, I love your stories. Hats off to your extensive research. I want to thank you for these videos. As a Marine veteran, these stories help keep history alive. I enjoy all your videos, not just the military videos. I'm always watching to see what you will research next.
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  590. I don’t know why but these things so interesting for me live in la so I drive around and wonder what building super old what it was like back in the day
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  591. YES NJ VIDEO!! Certified banger
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  592. Interesting video. I grew up close to Route 39
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  593. I actually like it.
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  594. My dad was a cement truck driver he helped build pour the cement He was a Teamster he worked for Sam Brain and Ropark He use to tell me about seeing Jimmy Hoffa ant his union meeting’s
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  595. This is insane timing. I just found a bunch of 8mm reels this afternoon my grandfather's cousin made during construction of the Verrazano Bridge.
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  596. Excellent video.
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  597. My father's parents came over on a coal collier in third class because that's all they could afford but they made it. My grandfather got a job on the D&H railroad in Howes Cave, NY.
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  598. Why don’t you do a segment on the Francis Scott Key bridge 🌁 😮 21:35
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  599. Before our family moved away in the late 70s, we would go there for brunch - the Mid-century version - and back then you could barter with the waiter for the price of your breakfast. What fun for a 7 year old! My Mom was a lifeguard at Fleishhscker Pool in the 50s when she was in HS - quarter mile long so they were in rowboats! My Dad loved going to Playland as a kid. Great video!
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  600. This is quite strange story and my best friend lives in Tuckerton. Thanks for making this story happen
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  601. As a kid I loved my dad’s Lionel train model of Hells Gate. Got a chance to ride over it a while back. My mom lives in CT now. We went into the city for the day 👋
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  602. Thank you for showing the history of NYC's Bayonne Bridge.
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  603. You have to be there to understand it.
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  604. It really is a stunning structure. Even in its decayed and vandalized state the structure stands tall. I think it should be preserved and perhaps even refurbished.
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  605. I’ve been inside that.
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  606. Great Video...always love your videos...but what's with the huge sunglasses lately Ryan?? Just curious...lol
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  607. Cool video literally live down the block
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  608. Now I'm 60 and thought I'd known for 40 years that I really liked Art Deco best of era/styles. I love seeing pics of modern buildings with Model-Ts parked outside. (Of course, there were several sleek vehicles by 1924 too.) I'm still good with Art Deco interiors. On favorite ext. architecture, I drew the line at right at the edge of Art Moderne. "Depression Era Art Deco" That's the style I've always preferred. Somehow, I've never heard this term, but I am on Aricept. Thanks as always for entertaining and teaching.
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  609. All in all that was a great recap You should mention though I don't know amendment something along those lines that the monument to George Westinghouse is not in Westinghouse Park It's in schenley Park in panther hollow across from the Phipps conservatory. Westinghouse Park is it 7501 Thomas boulevard. I drive past it everyday on my way from our apartment building in the 6700 block to construction junction to drop off recycling... All in all though well done sir
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  610. I remember going to the drive-in in Lebanon PA. I was between 6 and 10 so I don’t remember what was playing. I do remember falling asleep in the back of the station wagon. 😂
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  611. Excellent video!! I have passed through Bisbee wanting to visit this town many times! After seeing your video I want to live there! Western history is so rich all over Arizona.
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  612. Excellent video. GM&O your next documentary?
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  613. I enjoyed working at the Mart for several years. it's a great building
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  614. Awesome video
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  615. Theres a show on automotive history and they talked about the GM executives competing in building the sky scrapper with chrysler if I remember I think it was because of ford and dodge brothers leaving them building their first automobile then partnering with with walter chrysler. Dodge at tge time was ahead of ford. GM then had a new competetor and I believe they lost.
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  616. Thank you again for the Midwest. This one is about 40 miles away and a disaster.
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  617. Can I have one, I promise I'll take care of it!
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  618. Love the Hell Gate Bridge! If you take any Amtrak train north/east of New York City, be sure to sit on the left side of the train for spectacular views of the skyline as you climb the approach. There's a reason Amtrak loves taking publicity photos of its Northeast Corridor trains on the bridge. I'm not sure you could call its accommodation of rail traffic exclusively a "flaw" of the bridge. Sure, it sees less traffic now than when it was built, but it still sees plenty of trains. In fact, it could be getting busier in the near future when the completion of the East Side Access project at Grand Central would allow Metro North to reroute some New Haven Line trains to Penn Station via the bridge. I'd be interested to see how they would have incorporated road traffic into the bridge. The two approaches are extremely long to keep the incline slight enough for main line heavy rail. This and the fact it cuts through Queens without regard to the street grid would make building access ramps a challenge. The bridge's structure would also seem to preclude adding a second deck. It's a moot point now as the Triborough Bridges parallel the Hell Gate closely.
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  619. YOU'RE ALIVE!!!!!! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  620. I love this channel. Great nuggets of knowledge....
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  621. I grew up in the Delaware wedge which is also interesting in its own right, the construction of RT.1 which was needed hurt a lot of the smaller communities south of the canal.
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  622. You have an unusual grasp of history sir. Thank you for several videos.
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  623. A truley unique video was captured on the pennsy in southern ohio. Shot at the very last days before the conrail transfer, the engineer brought his home movie camara aboard the E he was driving from Columbus to Cincinnati and back over what is now mostly hike/bike trail.
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  624. One of my favorite hats has PRR on it, I also have a bunch of N Scale locomotives including the GG1 all with PRR markings, you could do a hole video just on the history of the GG1 electric locomotive.
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  625. Dude, I love your channel. It's amazing the stuff you uncover.
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  626. Another very well done video. Thank you.
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  627. Ryan - great 👍 video 😊❤❤❤❤❤
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  628. Your narration is perfect 💯. This is definitely one of my favorite channels 👏
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  629. I am sure five guys from Norway; Olav, Sverre, Oscar, Helmer and Roald, sat on a pole way back in 1911 on the 14th of December... can't be too sure exactly what time it was though - I think they stayed on that pole for a few days
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  630. Love this place! Always notice something new every time I go.
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  631. This was really interesting to me because I'm from PA, but the other half that is like a completely different state. I don't know if you've done one on the Reading Terminal in Philly, Baldwin locomotive works, the Reading Outer Station, or other places in SEPA lost to time. I had no idea there was so much history in this area, like the events that occurred in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.
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  632. Fascinating history of the NYC subway that deserves a full-fledged documentary. One with interviews with residents who used these long forgotten parts of the subway. I want to know so many more details and with pictures, and even any archival film footage. I wouldn't be surprised if people had personal film and photos of the subway. My dad carried his film and 8mm cameras with him everytime our family did a trip locally or on a road trip in California. I'm sure people did that in NYC, too.
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  633. Amazing video, Thank you. BTW not thousands but millions of immigrants have passed by the statue of liberty
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  634. Another Great One that I knew absolutely nothing about prior to watching this. Well Done 👏
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  635. This gives me so much nostalgia. I grew up going to this park all the time. Flushing-Meadows park is easily one of my favorite parks in the city.
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  636. Wow this was fricken amazing! I walked right into a wall... lol never knew you could do this, had to pull my vr glasses out of the box.
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  637. I work in these places sometimes and I’m amazed at how hidden they are
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  638. I have a lot of fond memories of Capitola. I once lived within walking distance of the Capitola Village, one of the sweetest places on Planet Earth.
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  639. Wow great video brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventures through time and history GOD-BLESS brother and thank you again and hello from romulus Michigan
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  640. I toured her when I was a teenager. It was a fascinating experience and it’s so sad to see her in this condition.
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  641. 2:51-the Hudson does not empty into Hell Gate. Also, very few people would travel from Wards Island. Perhaps escapees from the mental hospital.
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  642. I used to love riding through lower Wacker as a kid and then would drive it myself as soon as I got my license. I remember trying to impress some girls by taking them on a tour and taking the curves kinda fast, when the power steering belt on my moms minivan went!
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  643. Lemme tell you I absolutely love this channel…. Wow! Keep it up!!!
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  644. You should definitely look into the Ford motor plant superfund site in mahwah, nj and the negative effects it had on natives in Stag Hill. Worth a shot to just check ya know 👍.
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  645. Great video Ryan. Thank you for the history. I remember going to a few Cubs game as a kid. Coming from SW Michigan it was always a treat to go to Chicago. The games were fun to go to, listening to Harry Cary sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ at 7th inning stretch and waiting for what seemed to be hours getting out of the tight parking lot and getting back on I-94 to go home.
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  646. Good Evening Professor Socash, again great info about the World's Fair in New York 1939 and going to watch the one about 64 Worlds Fair, thanks again have a great evening....
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  647. My Grandfather Charles W Hostetler was a Conductor for the P.R.R. Enola Yard near Harrisburg to Altoona yard and back to Enola from 1941 to 1977
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  648. Train Numbers and Locomotive Numbers are different.... Any locomotive can power a assigned train. E.g Train 173, titled "Federal Express" was Power that day by GG-1 #4876. They didn't leave Train number 173 in the floor, they left the locomotive 4876 under the floor because they couldn't removed her in time and remove the rest of the consist, the passenger cars, away.
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  649. It’s very oryginal perspective on Chicago.
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  650. Very interesting🚂
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  651. Nothing like vintage steam, train - - - ship - - - steam traction engine or a steam-powered showman's engine "best from England" Thanks for posting.
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  652. I remember the S curves and LSD being East of Soldier Field. THose were feats of engineering to accomplish
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  653. For a history lover like me that thumbnail looks much promising ☺️
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  654. Cook County is so over crowded, we house inmates for them all the way down here at are jail here in Mercer County, IL which is about 3 hours away from Chicago. I guess it helps support are little jail but makes you go wow at the same time...
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  655. Not only New York's busiest bridge but the busiest bridge in the World. Designed for the future addition of a lower deck the towers were built to be adjusted when the added weight of the deck was imposed upon the towers. They could actually move the tops of the towers backwards to allow for the additional weight of the lower deck. Amazing engineering.
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  656. Used to enjoy visiting chicago, even with my kids, about 10 years ago it just went down hill.
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  657. As a New Hampshire native in NYC who visits my family frequently, I use the Hell Gate Bridge all the time to go visit my family! In fact I rode across it yesterday
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  658. Great video!
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  659. This was my favorite rail line as a child. I used to travel with my grandmother one The City of New Orleans from the 63rd and Woodlawn station to the south.
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  660. Great video I grew up in the coal regions, grandfather was a miner …Scranton area.
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  661. 15:20 OF COURSE THERES A LOT OF FERRIES IN SAN FRANCISCO!
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  662. Hey I just want to say that this is really well written. I learned a lot and I really love the ending. It's true, we look back at times of the past saying how could they live like that. In the future, we'll be the people they say that about. Thanks for making this :)
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  663. Being born & raised In the south bronx took many a walks and bike rides to Randall's Island. Gotta wonder if & how many of them sunken ships may still be submerged
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  664. Randall's Island had really changed, that could be a video on its own.... Thanks for posting......
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  665. Thanks!
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  666. Great video as always! I have a video suggestion: The Western Union Building. This has been a building near the wtc site built in 1873 and the top floors burned down in 1890
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  667. This is a fine piece of work, thanks so much.
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  668. Great tour and description of historic background. Thanks.
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  669. Subscribed for McRen shout out 😂
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  670. I love Coney Island. I lived in Brooklyn and we used to go swimming, drop some change in the batting cages, and ride the Wonder Wheel which scared me. Also rode the Cyclone, once. And later out to see the Cyclones (Class A, Mets farm team) play baseball in that great little park by the beach. Part of Astroland's appeal was its tackiness, almost like the old fairs. And that boardwalk from Brighton Beach was great for running.
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  671. Another fine historical watch thanks to Ryan......
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  672. Fascinating! You mentioned Wisconsin And Southern Railroad, I watch videos from Roman's Milwaukee Roads , he has excellent footage of that railroad. Greetings from Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
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  673. I simply love obscure history facts ty for creatin this channel bruh !
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  674. Btw- Sinkholes are everywhere around Frostproof, but mostly in cow pastures and farm land. It is always a huge fear of mine, and its from my childhood..
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  675. The Wreck of the PennCentral and The Men Who Love Trains are great books for morning on the downfall of the PRR, NYC and ultimately the PC as Conrail was formed.
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  676. Loved this one! Thank you for consistently keeping Brooklyn in the fold. I hope at some point you can take a deep dive into Brooklyn’s Historic Weeksville. Thank you for your great content.
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  677. Liking the new tame intro. No longer ‘rip headphone users’ As always great video and history, very informative!
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  678. Great Video!
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  679. I've lived in Chicago for nearly all my 23 years, never new about these tunnels. Ive always known of the pedway, but this is something else
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  680. This was very informative,now how about a video on Henry Flagler’s railroad to Key West?
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  681. My grandfather retired from the Illinois Central.
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  682. More twin cities history!! ❤❤
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  683. Would have loved to learn more about the train station in its heyday. Pics from then, tenants in the office tower, etc. Nice video but could have been about half a dozen other buildings in Detroit. Great job!
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  684. 8:57 Ryan, be careful talking about the curvature of the earth, you'll get all those flat-earthers wound up! 😂
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  685. It's truly unfortunate the obstacles that prevented this from going forward. Shows just how much power and influence that the major existing railways had during that time. Not to mention that The Great Depression played a big part that he seemingly overcame eventually. I honestly believe it's something that would & could still be used today if it had only been able to take off. Thanks Ryan for bringing this to us!
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  686. Oh my GOSH!!!!!!! This is SO AMAZING!!!!!! Something like this still needs to exist today!! Ride at your own risk!
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  687. Great video on the IC! Thank you!
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  688.  @ITSHISTORY  both entrances are near the Chicago River one is on the south side one is on the north side. Both are controlled by the city, and are staging points. The rest I was told was a “need to know basis” I did not need to know 🤭
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  689. My sister and I went there a few years ago. Our paternal grandfather's and grandmother's names are on one of the bronze plaques from when they came over on the banana boat in 1911.
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  690. Pictures don't do the building justice. When in Chicago, it's worth taking an art Deco tour with the Chicago Architecture Center and visiting these buildings. It's money very well spent.
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  691. Great video and channel. I always enjoy watching your videos. Keep up the great work. One place that would be cool for you to make a video about is Fontana dam it’s just outside of Bryson city, North Carolina and the lake was put there in the 1940s and towns were flooded it would be a really cool video about another flooded reservoir. I used to live right by Fontana lake, and when they would let it down, you would see train Trussell‘s and house foundations
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  692. Ryan you are becoming a Chicago legend yourself.
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  693. Keep up the good work love the videos
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  694. I have the book you shown and many others related. Victorians are one of my favorite architectural styles in homes. Thanks for this great video on the history.
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  695. Keep them videos coming
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  696. Ryan, you are amazing!!! I ❤ this channel and appreciate all the work you put into creating it! You're my favorite Chicagoan! 😁
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  697. I remember underground Atlanta when I use yo visit my family here all the time. But it was still here when I first moved to Atlanta in 2002. Great video, I never knew any of this, and I didn't know they revamped it. I don't go downtown that much.
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  698. Can you do a video on East New York, Brooklyn? I've always wondered the history of it there, especially New Lots Ave.
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  699. Its history has always fascinated me.
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  700. I can't fully explain this place. My friend's goal who brought me there was to watch me mentally crack. She admits she enjoys watching every crack in this place. Don't let the homes and gardens fool you, they're a small percentage of what is housed in this place. Yes the house is kinda cool and old schooly, but everything else hiding behind the scenes is just ludicrous!. Go back to the image at 0:09 and all those warehouses are part of the experience. Beyond the house is just vast amounts of STUFF. Each warehouse is a different theme and it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. After a certain point my brain was just like, "what is all this!?!??! He's just a gigantic hoarder!". I recall one place that had the same set of tea pots at least 500 times over. Creepy mannequins all dressed up to "play" instruments. A carousel that been chopped and put back together again with other mannequins. A room that's just full of musical organ parts all over the place. And SO MUCH MORE. Again, it's hard to just explain it all and what it's all supposed to mean. It took me a day to decompress from the place cause it really just didn't make sense to me at all.
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  701. Again a great and informative video. Keep it up
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  702. I wish we had this or something similar now. Only a handful of cities in the US have mass transit other that buses… As the powers that be made it so😑😔😡
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  703. Awesome video, I live in NYC and love learning about all the crazy secrets and hidden details of the city’s past that are right under our feet. That Hershey’s vending machine you showed in the Times Square station was funny to me because these days if that existed, all the chocolate inside would melt into a puddle lol. I just recently bought a bag of chocolates on my way home from work, and by the time I got off the subway, the bag had totally melted just from the heat in the station 😂
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  704. I'm actually going to the drive in this weekend.
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  705. Very interesting. Prison hiding in plain sight!
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  706. Very cool!
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  707. Awesome video!
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  708. These were in place as the military had beach patrols during WWII. They were looking out for German Uboats. I would love to visit this and, get pictures of the inside.
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  709. Oh hey. Interesting topic actually. I love abandoned and forgotten stuff, especially old railways.
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  710. We stumbled across it when we visited the Chelsea Market on our NY/USA trip in 2014, walked the whole way and was very, good to see they are doing something with the end section which was still bare back then
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  711. I've been there. I attended a convention and while there I went for a wander. The story possibilities are _epic_!
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  712. Growing up and still living in Ocean County, the GSP is a must for almost every drive. The worst parts the tolls but the locals know how to avoid them 😊 Taking my drives from college home taking the ACE to GSP or the back roads through the Pine Barrens till I hit New Gretna. Or all my Atlantic City trips. I love the GSP….. and I’m only 25 lol
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  713. Hi Professor Socash, Great subject Atlanta, I was born in Atlanta, Ga, back in the very early 50's grew up in the projects from what I remember, My family moved from Atlanta in 1956 and headed for Calif, boy I could have wrote a book about that trip to Calif and I would have name the book, "The Grapes of Wrath II, going to Calif in a 1948 Hudson with Mom and Dad my 2 sisters and a Brother and a 500lbs Grandma, I think that old car lean to the left all the way to Calif. I was the youngest a sister about a 1 year and 3 weeks older, we had a very special seat "ON THE BACK FLOOR BOARD , she was on the left and I was on the right, anyway Atlanta NOT THE SAME CITY anymore, thanks for all the info stay safe and be at peace... until next time....
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  714. I love the channel reboot
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  715. Ryan, always enjoy your vid's, but this was enjoyable as well as being educational. Washington and Idaho are my two favorite states.
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  716. Chicagoans might know that our last major grain elevator on S. Damen just got purchased by a developer and will fall to the wrecking ball. Another one bites the dust
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  717. NO WAY. Your just posted a video on this. Like 3 hours ago my Dad just sent a picture of me and my family riding the mount washington one
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  718. Super cool exploration. 360 view was definitely the right choice. Really liking the content lately.
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  719. Super cool that they made this work back then.
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  720. My family loved Riverview. 1950's to the end in 1967. Many great memories. My sisters and I would save money and take two buses to get there. Once, one of my Uncles brought us. He thought he was taking us on a train ride, but it was a roller coaster. He was more terrified than we were. Still can see his eyes shut as he gripped my little sister. lol Thanks for this video.
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  721. Love the chicago vids - keep ‘em coming!
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  722. A lot of people forget that while wolf pack tactics were made famous in the Atlantic. It was the US in the pacific who perfected it.
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  723. I recall seeing an array of these huge antennas on top of a building in Portland, Oregon a few years ago. Always assumed they were for radio or TV. Never would've thought they were for telephones.
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  724. Thx Ryan! 🚂🚈
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  725. very nicely presented - thx
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  726. I grew up in aptos in the early and mid 80’s I was an intern at a tiny TV station in 1983 called Capitola Channel 8 when I was 16. I would film the people on the beach and the esplanade. Man I wish I had that footage now to see how different it is. I climbed up on the railroad trellis and filmed up there too! I would interview the different merchants there. That was in 1983! Wish I could find the guy that ran that little station. ❤❤
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  727. No matter the faults, or flaws of this great country...I don't feel no guilt for it only love for her. Happy 4th to all those who love freedom, & their God given rights. May the flame of liberty never go out.
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  728. You should look into the steam train crash at Harcourt St. Station in Dublin Ireland on Valentines Day 1900. The photos are incredible 😮
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  729. This is my favourite episode now! Thank you Ryan for bringing a smile to my face! 😊
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  730. Excellent video and research. I'm from Hudson County, where Bayonne is located.
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  731. Now the random gate at Jay Street makes sense, thank you.
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  732. Thank you, from a Coplay resident.
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  733. No surprise to me that the Texas is haunted. Here in Charleston, S.C., we have two haunted ships in the second Yorktown (the first one was sunk during the Battle of Midway),and, the destroyer Laffey know as THE SHIP THAT WOULD NOT DIE(she earned this title after surviving numerous kamikaze attacks during the Battle of Okinawa). Check out Walter Cronkite's story of his his being on the Texas during the invasion of North Africa in his autobiography A REPORTER'S LIFE(his story of how he beat a competitor reporter back to the U.S. is something one must read)🌞🌞🌞✌✌✌✌
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  734. Great stuff, Ryan!!!
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  735. Dude ! I love this stuff!! You really nail it!!
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  736. A great presentation!! Thanks for sharing!! Along with "Anyhow," our most favorite It's History statement!!!
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  737. The Proper People should check this place out.
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  738. Thanks for another great video! The downfall of the streetcars was the result of the oil and tire companies successful attempt to sell the idea of big gas hogging buses that could drive 24/7!!!
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  739. Do a video on raising the street level in Chicago.
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  740. Thank you for sharing a piece of NYC history.
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  741. How the F*** do you pump out so many great videos, I make 1 every 4 months damn it.
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  742. It's also called "The Mother Road."
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  743. Wow! Awesome 👍👍
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  744. The scriptwriter did a great job with his historical knowledge.
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  745. Great history. I discovered the tunnels for myself in 2012 while staying at a downtown hotel. Cool.
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  746. Love the History and Buildings .... Keep them Comin .... How about some South Jersey and North Carolina Sites ??
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  747. 12:50 - The Government never forced the Pennsylvania and New York Central to merge; they simply approved the merger. However, the Government did effectively force Penn Central to take over New Haven, and the New Haven owned the tracks that the trains running out of New York use to get to New Haven, Boston, and Hartford. Just to clarify.
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  748. My first fascination with the fair was because of the unveiling of Mustang at the Ford Pavilion on 4-17-1964. Since then it’s become such an intriguing thing to learn about.
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  749. "Our neighborhood is classy, We've got rats as big as Lassie!" -- old NY song
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  750. Great video. Solid research and impressive imagery. Keep 'em coming!
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  751. Seeing the circus and monster trucks at the igloo was the best! Great video !
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  752. No mention of the first subway tunnel ever built in NYC? Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn had a subway line that ran under the street for several hundred feet. The line was operated by horse drawn train and went down to the docs north of Court Street. This was before Tesla helped build the first electric train motor. There are still sections of it that exist; while the rest was buried/filled in decades ago. 10 years ago there were still tours that would go down there.
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  753. I love New York ❤
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  754. Love the videos been watching for a long time from Queensland Australia
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  755. Good commentary. Thank you.
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  756. Happy Thanksgiving Professor Socash, hope you had a great day...
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  757. I just shared an article about the demolition of this beautiful Penn Station! Was searching for other videos and came up on your reminder! Looking forward to watching your video! 🎥👍
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  758. I am fascinated by your videos. I was wondering if you could someday do a video on the great hotels in the city. Especially, for personal reasons, The Sherry-Netherland, which I know has an amazing history.
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  759. Comes across as a most decent, humble and honest chap yes..
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  760. 👍👍 it's amazing what has been abandoned in NYC or almost any large city.
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  761. Another cool and super informative video Ryan 👍🏽😎👍🏽
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  762. Did you mean January of 1914 ?
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  763. Didnt expect to see a vid on this here, Its even creepier in person.
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  764. I grew up in Coney Island which is not far from Bay Ridge and I had a great view of this beautiful bridge from my house, actually if u lived anywhere around there in neighborhoods like Coney Island, Sunset Park, parts of Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, Red Hook, Gawanus the bridge is so big it dominates the landscape u can see it easily its especially beautiful at night with the lights on. It's definitely my absolute favorite bridge in NYC
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  765. THANK YOU, great video, with love from the Wolf Lake Nike Missle Complex, Chicago south east side.
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  766. Many miles of different railroad tracks up in Sussex and Warren Counties have had the rails, ties and ballast removed and have been turned into the Rails to Trails program. Before that those of us who were avid horseback riders used them. You could go all day and many miles. They were beautiful.
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  767. Interesting video, here in Toronto, We still used incinerators up until I think 1987!
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  768. Delaware is one of those states you forget exists until you see a video like this.
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  769. I was sad when they got rid of the Sands and the Dunes. So much history and great performances
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  770. Great show today 🐾🐾🦉🤠
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  771. Fascinating history of an Art Deco icon. Thanks for posting this interesting content.
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  772. My favorite NYC Subway cars are the R32, R46 and R62. I was shocked when a news video I was watching referred to the R46 as "a bucket of bolts."
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  773. I love these train videos, the buildings ones as well. Another instant classic, great job Ryan
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  774. Good job repositioning the mic, no breath pops and less muddy on the EQ. Love your channel!
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  775. My wife and I enjoy all your videos. You do a great job with basic history overviews of many subjects. Prior to putting this video together, however, it would have been wise to check with some of the engineers at the Chicago DPW and/or with consulting engineer firms such as HNTB Corporation, Parsons Brinkerhoff, CTE, etc., who provide condition inspections and designs for rehabilitation of these old bridges when needed, as you missed an important point -- one that is easily missed by not doing so. There are major differences between a Chicago Type Trunnion Bascule Bridge, which pivots around large diameter trunnion shafts located at fixed points on each shore (truly similar to a seesaw), and a Scherzer Rolling Lift Type Bascule Bridge which actually rolls back away from the river on large tracks and treads as it lifts (hence the name, rolling lift). They are not the same. The rolling lift bridge provides more clearance for navigation than the trunnion bascule bridge type can, and the rolling lift type remains a viable movable bridge design today, as do various types of trunnion bascule bridges. However, the early Scherzer rolling lift bridges had serious structural issues that were not overcome for a couple decades. This led the City of Chicago to develop the Chicago Type Trunnion Bascule, with assistance from Ralph Modjeski and others, in the first decade of the 1900s, and they established it as their standard. All Chicago bascule bridges designed and built for the Chicago DPW over the past 120 years or so have therefore been Chicago Type Trunnion Bascules, not Scherzer Rolling Lift bascules.
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  776. I am from the Houston area and never knew about this. Thank you for covering it.
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  777. One of my favorite Chicago skyscrapers, down to the elegant Cartier appointments in the lobby. The beautiful marbles always make me want a latte with their color and texture so reminiscent of that beverage. Ryan tells the story of his city with much erudition and really puts his heart into it.
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  778. I am American Hungarian, it is great to see some of my roots, thank you very much. Art from Ohio
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  779. Always looking foward to your content .
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  780. Fun Fact: The word Coney means Rabbit! There were many rabbits on the island when the Dutch settled. It is derived from the Dutch word Konijn which evolved into Coney! Great video! Thank you!
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  781. You do a lot of episodes concerning New York and New Jersey, are you from the area or do you find it particularly interesting for some other reason? Not a complaint; I live in NJ and I'm always interested in learning about local history.
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  782. You can tell, even from the still photos, how treacherous the current flows thru Hell Gate. It’s the Atlantic Ocean.
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  783. "The bridge is out!" -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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  784. the futures so bright RYAN'S gotta wear shades. :glasses-purple-yellow-diamond:
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  785. Thanks for this Ryan!
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  786. All of your videos are informative and interesting but this one is in the top 5%>. Great job
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  787. Yo Cash-Money, I appreciate that pic that you threw in from "3,000 miles to Graceland". Love that Movie. 👏✌
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  788. Another great video.
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  789. Not old enough to remember the 1939 Fair, but I did go in the 60’s. Thanks for a great video on the WF Line.
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  790. I guess you could say this is a ghastly situation
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  791. Well done Ryan, interesting!
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  792. Great presentation. You answered questions I have had for decades. Thank you.
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  793. I have lived in New York City my entire life and this bridge never fails to capture my fascination. It is awesome to consider, it never tires the eyes and most importantly, it is functional and necessary.
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  794. So awesome you visited my neighbouring country! Poland is great and FULL of history! ❤ Don't miss on the Baltic States as we have many hidden gems here too! Love your episodes! 👍
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  795. Always a pleasure thank you so much
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  796. Was well worth the wait!
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  797. Amazing research and presentation!
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  798. My family came those there. I’m pretty sure they changed our last name and sent family home. Some ended up in South America as the story goes, but they have been lost to time. Granted it was a hundred years ago.
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  799. Nice history lesson thanks.
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  800. 7:03 is that a Tesla tower?. Cool share thanks!.
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  801. Well done video, there are more than one entrance to the tunnels. But the official one is where you state. There are 2 other ones.
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  802. I drove and walked Centralia in the mid 90s. You could still see where the houses were. The streets name posts were there. No houses. A church still stood and a cemetery with a banner strung across the iron fence “ Our Future “. U could see where it had burned under the roadway and smoke coming up from the ground
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  803. It’s a shame, young man you deserve 100,000 views easily on your channel. You do great work.
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  804. Excellent video. I've learned a lot about New York infrastructure from you and your great presentations than anywhere else. Thank you.
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  805. This bridge could serve a vital subway connection between Brooklyn & Staten Island, which was never done.
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  806. Nice Episode :D
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  807. Always great to see a video about the Greatest Generation, the ones that pulled together during WWII to fight for our Freedoms. But now it's up to us, today, to protect those Freedoms from those that would be more than happy to take them away. Thanks to Ryan for another fine watch................
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  808. Very interesting Ryan~Thank you‼️ So easy to walk by this building without any knowledge of all that went into it & all it’s been a part of 👍🏻
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  809. I’m honored to be the first comment
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  810. Fascinating video, thank you 👍
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  811. I used to live in Orlando and I would hear about sink holes on the news all the time
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  812. great video
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  813. Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲
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  814. Living in South OC CA, I've never been to Vegas, and I doubt I ever will. It just doesn't have anything that appeals to me. Well, maybe the Pawn Stars . . lol. But I am sadden when I hear historical and iconic buildings being demolished. It's like history being erased, and I always find that shameful. But when it comes to hotels and resorts that just don't pull in the money - it's a necessary evil, I guess.
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  815. As a one time Queens resident, I am happy that the iconic, historic Staten Island Ferries still exist.
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  816. Thank you for the history lesson on the tunnel. Growing up in Detroit that tunnel has always been a part of life.
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  817. I was a boy when they were building the VN bridge. I remember driving back to New Jersey from Brooklyn and seeing those tall towers.
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  818. Your channel is what history channel was 15 years ago. We miss your type of content
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  819. Thanks for this video! Very interesting that my city has some cool history!
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  820. Again thanks Ryan for a piece of History I knew nothing about, but I do now know about this history , THANK YOU...
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  821. All These Awesomeness Videos That You post Are Super Amazing And Now Learning More History I didn't even know Super Awesomeness
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  822. I'm honestly obsessed with these ships. I have original items from all 3 sisters. My Britannic piece being my pride and joy. Been studying these liners and others for years. I Love to see content that actually tries to get the history right. It seems like it's mostly conspiracy videos out there.
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  823. Hello everyone
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  824. Thank you for sharing this awesome It’s History video about the impressive Hell Gate Bridge. I have seen it many times driving by it. I also once took an Amtrak Train from CT over the Hell Gate Bridge, and going on through to Penn Station for my trip to my final destination, Iselin, New Jersey. It was amazing to take this train ride over this majestic historic railroad Bridge. I also know that Lionel Electric Toy Train Company manufactured and sold their toy version of it too. When I was a child, our family took a Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan Island, and when we got to the Hell Gate area where the rivers met together, I remembered how very turbulent the water currents were in that vicinity too. I could understand why boats had accidents or were sunk there.
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  825. Some of those racist city-councillors must've really hated jazz!
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  826. Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸
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  827. I recall this tragedy vividly. Thanks for the video ....
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  828. This is a good one!
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  829. I love them ! come take a ride! (at folder 4) :)) 🚅🚈🚞🚝🚂🚃🚄 trains, trams, aren't they all beautifull
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  830. I was there about a year ago and spent most of a day there. Loved it.
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  831. Excellent video
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  832. I live in Jackson TN, I pass over the IC tracks currently used by CSX and the West TN Railroad with the occasional UP engines coming through we have an old train depot that used to be a museum, but it’s beautiful and sits along those very tracks
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  833. Doug Stanhope is the only reason I know of this place.
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  834. Book Tower is a treasure!
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  835. Something about the history of Jersey City, NJ, the second largest city in the state. Hasn’t been covered very much on this channel…
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  836. Great video Ryan, keep up the good work. 👍
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  837. Interesting history. Visiting the magnificent building in person is highly recommended. Thanks for posting!
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  838. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!!! Keep up the amazing videos! I get so excited everytime I get a notification that you upload
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  839. Alot of host changes can really throw off the pacing and feel of a show/web series, but you guys are doing a great job at transitioning. I'd also love to see sparty and indy on every once in a while. Keep up the amazing work guys!
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  840. I always enjoy your videos. Whenever I see one, I watch it. Well done. This, as the others are, excellent!
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  841. Very good job regarding content and edition, thank you very much!
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  842. Omg yassss you did the Pedway. One of my favorite bars in Chicago is in the Pedway
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  843. Attention flat earthers, skip 8:56 if you still don’t believe the earth is round 😂
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  844. WHEN I WAS A KID IN THE LATE 40s AND THE 50s WE USED TO GO TO THE POST OFFICE TO LOOK AT THE WANTED CRIMINALS RUNNING LOOSE! EVEN IN KANSAS , SING SING PRISON WAS ALSO KNOWN TO US KANSAS KIDS ,EVEN MORE THAN LEAVENWORTH FEDERAL PRISON! I DID GET TO VIEW THE PRISON RIDING AMTRAK BETWEEN ALBANY AND NYC!
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  845. Very well done
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  846. I grew up on the Reading Railroad side of town. The Pennsylvania railroad served the other side of town.
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  847. I had a great view of bridge from my past home is Stapleton Heights. You can get a spectacular view from either side. You can visit Fort Wadsworth historic grounds on Staten Island side or Belt parkway (Shore Road Park) Brooklyn side. They both have such a close up to the immense size and beauty of this magnificent structure sitting at the mouth of the Hudson River. You look one way and it's the Atlantic Ocean and the other way the magnificent Hudson River. PS It was reported that my childhood friends' father was the first motorcyclist to cross the Verrazano Narrows. He road an Indian Motorcycle and his last name was Fagone. I did actually see a picture (I think newspaper pic) of him doing it, but never was able to officially confirm it. Thank you. Very well done. Thanks for posting
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  848. Sweet
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  849. I am 63 years old. I consider myself well informed and a pretty smart guy. One time as an elementary school librarian, a student asked me how many books I'd read in my life and I answered, "Oh, about fifteen thousand thousand. The number is about twenty thousand now and I did not know that monument was there until today. Holy Cow! The smarter you get the more you find out what you don't know.
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  850. It's been REALLY cleaned up & it's becoming a lovely waterway once again.
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  851. Fascinating! If I'm ever in Philadelphia, I'll have to pay it a visit!
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  852. Dallas, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia have their share of underground (or bridgeway) pedestrian connectors as well.
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  853. I lived in Chicago during that brutal winter of 94-95. Deep sub-zero temperatures so cold that it made most of Lake Michigan freeze over. I needed to walk from the Loop, just west of the Art Institute to Navy Pier that day for work and I happened upon this interesting network of underground walkways. It didn’t take me all the way to Navy Pier but it kept me a lot warmer than I would have otherwise. On a typical warm spring or summer day I never would have thought of checking it out. But that day I really needed to minimize exposure to that windy frigid cold! It’s definitely one of those little known gems of Chicago. Thanks for posting this!
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  854. Awesome yet sad video
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  855. Holy crap, did I just catch this right when it's posted! NICE! Cant wait to watch!
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  856. Interesting as always.
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  857. Hope you're feeling better soon!
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  858. I want to thank everyone who posted Sopranos jokes. You made my day.
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  859. Your channel is such a rich resource of NYC history. As a subscriber I really enjoy them. Hope you do a piece on Robert Moses too, a controversial figure but still a great planner of his time.
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  860.  @johnkeefe20  As a lifetime Lehigh Valley resident, I had to correct him! Lol.
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  861. My GF's grandparents were among the first to drive over the bridge when it opened in the '60s. They had just moved from Brooklyn to Central Jersey and it made it much easier to visit family still in the city. It's also my favorite part of the annual 5 Boro Bike Tour, but my least favorite when driving over (the toll is outrageous).
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  862. That was awesome, do more castles and their history.
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  863. Ryan Socash - always a Win! Im a huge Enthusiast when it comes to NYC, hope I'll make it (to) there some Day. But that RCA-Buildung was News for me - Stunner! Regards from out of Dschermany, Frank
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  864. Wow! I`ve never seen 360 before and it`s great. Yes, let`s have some more.
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  865. Anchoring cables.
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  866. I grew up 10 minutes from Sandy Hook! Many great memories in that area, and I took my fiancé on a tour of the fort the last time I was home 😄 thanks for the nostalgia!
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  867. I would love to stay out there!
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  868. Great video.
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  869. Thank you!!!
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  870. I spent many vacations with my parents, down there. Dean Martin, a friend of my Dad's, told us about The North Shore. Mom and Dad became members of the Yacht Club!
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  871. My 99 year old gma (we are a Chicago family) spoke of such mythical tunnels, myths for the most part in her youth as well. But thanks for this video, I love this city and am always happy to know more. PBS gets something’s but not all the wild and crazy things this city has done!
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  872. The first concert I ever went to was at the Civic Arena, 1996 Smashing Pumpkins
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  873. I'm born and raised in Chicagp and never knew this building changed its name and its 2024. It will always be The John Hancock Building as the Sears Tower will always be the Sears Tower.
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  874. Thanks for another good story man❗❗👍☮️✌️👌
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  875. Many of the grain elevators still exist in Buffalo. I know, I live there.
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  876. A video on "Euclid Beach Park" and/or "Geauga Lake", both just east of Cleveland would make good subjects to continue the theme of old & much loved parks that are no longer with us.
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  877. Excellent! As a pre teen I had the privilege to ride both Broadway Limited and 20 th Century Limited! Now as an old guy wish they were back! Outstanding history ! Thanks!
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  878. Thank you for making such a fascinating channel, full of stories about places and things I've never heard about.
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  879. What a great story! Thank you for sharing this with us.
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  880. I see you now have Stevie Wonder narrating this video?
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  881. Been to Cook County a few times, worst times of my life. Dirty, rodent infested, with disrespectful, power tripping guards. You left out division 5, although closed, it is still occasionally used for overflow, and intake and release goes through there.
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  882. Been there once during my Air Force days, 1970s. I "was chosen to drive a deuce and half though the forest and along the coast line from Travis AFB up to Crescent City, OR. I was able to drive through the tree. We went to many of the mountain tops to calibrate radar equipment for the Over the Horizon detection system. A nice 30 day trip.
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  883. This was a gem. Stanhope is what I search for
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  884. I never heard this before and I'm totally amazed that it did happen. I love trains but right now I'm speechless.
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  885. SEARS TOWER. Period.
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  886. Thanks for doing these videos.
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  887. Uplifting! Seriously I will have my sister come over check this elevator out.
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  888. Thank you 😊
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  889. This will be interesting Cannot wait!
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  890. Been there its wild!! ❤ you can feel the energy and its ALWAYS cold 🥶.
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  891. Interesting, I never knew the history of Scripps and I've been to La Jolla and that particular bridge before.
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  892. Nice video
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  893. ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS BESIDES MICHAEL WALLIS, A JOURNEY DOWN ROUTE 66. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VIDEO.
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  894. I really liked this one
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  895. Really great, thank you!
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  896. Didn't expect to see a history video about the university just down the road today.
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  897. About time you were able to making a video about the Hell Gate bridge. Great job!
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  898. Great video.
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  899. You teach us all some amazingly rare things, but this was the most fun!
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  900. Far as I’m concerned this was your best video so far. Thank you very very much.
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  901. Great vid👌🏻👍🏻
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  902. Ooo I always find these videos very interesting
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  903. Whoever wrote this script knows what they are talking about 10/10💪
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  904. Interesting as heck like all your other videos
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  905. Very interesting. I was born and raised in Brooklyn and always wondered why, now I know
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  906. Great job on the video. I actually live about 30 minutes from what we all called the castle. I remember back in the late 80’s and 90 riding by it on the train on the way to Grand Central Station, making sure never missed my quick view. In the early 2000’s I owned a jet ski docked never the island and was able to explore it. There was much to see but it was still a cool experience to have.
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  907. I live in New Jersey raised in Brooklyn and travel to visit family in Brooklyn traveling the Verrazano narrows bridge always amazed by the design ,length and view of Manhattan and Brooklyn very breath taking. Love your channel and love history keep up the good work
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  908. Interesting video
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  909. I live just south of the lake in Tooele, and didn’t even know about the Lucin cutoff! Great info and video! Thanks for making it!
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  910. When I was younger I remember driving through the State Street corridor that included Robert Taylor Homes and a few other high-rise housing projects with my dad once. Even as a kid I remember grim vibes coming from them.
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  911. Well done...seem to be a pretty unbiased yet informative video...will have to check out some more. Thanks
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  912. Great commentary with clearly spoken English, it's refreshing to hear🇺🇸
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  913. Compton is making a slow come back.. Compton strong.,
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  914. What a great, 'warming' 🔥 story in history! Thank you so much for sharing it with us!! As a side note, I got a very rare side glimpse of Ryan during his presentation!! How cool is that!! 😎
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  915. A very interesting story. This elevator troubled history explains well why the American political system doesn't work very well when it comes to providing public transportation services to the people. In Europe, Asia and South America, public lifts have been built since the 19th century, and many are still in operation, without any problems and with people's approval. Meanwhile in the USA even the building and the maintaining of valuable and necessary means of trasport causes protests and political conflicts...
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  916. 😢 The route from L.A. to Big Sur is scary with deep cliffs and roadway failures. It is like a life gamble to commence such a trip.
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  917. Great video, thank you for sharing
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  918. Excellent Video. Makes me wish to visit some of the classical US railroad towns. Thx
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  919. 5:45 NYC loved using "V" instead of "U" just for the looks back in the early 1900's. SVBWAY, PVBLIC LIBRARY, etc. I like it.
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  920. Very interesting, thanks
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  921. As a resident of the city, I’m hope for a Taco Bell/KFC restaurant.
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  922. Oh, awesome, had many camps at YMCA with scary stories there and I remember them like yesterday.... it was many decades ago! :) Great Vid!
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  923. The Pennsey was one of my favorite railroad lines. Right behind the I.C.R.R. Have a blessed day, everyone.
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  924. Amazing
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  925. got one in my town! used to play baseball there as a kid
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  926. Thank you for this history
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  927. I would like to see more special on location videos like this one
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  928. Another very interesting story 👍🏼
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  929. Bisbee’s biggest export now is Doug Stanhope.
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  930. Thanks!
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  931. Cool video. I worked on the renovation for 6 years. Amazing how they saved all of the original features that made it a cool old ballpark. One thing ive never really found info on. The marquee has a green logo on the back. Not sure how old that is. But they turned the sign around and painted the red sign everyone knows. Ive been in every inch of the place except the scoreboard. One cool story. The away team lockerroom bathroom always stunk. The rerouted the plumbing vent into the air ducts. Funny all the things in baseball to get into the other teams head.
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  932. This piece was very fascinating Ryan! Thank you for bringing us this interesting story 💙🙏🏼
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  933. Hi Ryan I have been watvhing your videos for quite a while now and tthey always interest me I am not American but since covid I have been studying the foundation and growth of America and have learned so mmuch. I just want to than you for your great work and have a happy healthy and joyous 2025. Peter Mac Donald Penang, Malaysia
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  934. Hey Ryan, yet another interesting and informative video...thanks! However, I didn;t know that Enrico Caruso was a Vulcan..! (Just kidding!!) Keep 'em coming...!
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  935. There was a line in Chicago on the northwest side of the city that was revitalized from an abandoned right of way to a park/greenway. The former Milwaukee Road's Bloomingdale line. You may wish to check it out Ryan.
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  936. Is there drama involving him? Would take a lot for me to dislike him, hope everything's cool.
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  937. Thanks for sharing ♐ 👍
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  938. Grew up in Hunterdon County. Thanks for this!
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  939. Well hello Professor, again another piece of History great review of this building, stay safe and be at Peace...
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  940. I've never been to Chicago but your channel almost makes me feel like a local. cheers from Canada.
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  941. I am so pumped for this video! I have several items from the 1893 World's Fair! I Love it!!!! Thank you for this!
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  942. Back to the classics, nice!
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  943. I love these stations being time capsules. Imagine peaking through a crevice in a door to one of these abandoned hallways. City Hall Station Tour would be definitely on my bucketlist when going to New York one day as well as trying to staying in metro 6 to go around the loop.
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  944. There's a rail and bits of infrastructure that can be found along the East side of Willow Lake where the IND World's Fair Right of Way once ran. I took a hike in the area last year discovering these artifacts.
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  945. Incredible my brother keep up the great work very informative truly truly great thank you
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  946. I love the videos Ryan, keep up the great work!
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  947. great vid, neoclassical motifs dominated the fair but Louis Sullivan's Transportation building, known as the Golden Door, broke rank at least at moments. By far the most deviant of the main attraction buildings.
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  948. I used to work security for the NUWC and occasionally got asked to overnight on the island to keep an eye on the test torpedo. First time I ever saw an incinerator toilet.
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  949. Hey Ryan, my first time commenting. Love the Channel, great videos. Super informative, keep up the great content
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  950. I dig your patriotism, Ryan. God bless America!
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  951. This is great.
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  952. Very interesting. Love the stories you share.
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  953. A a teen in the 1970s, I visited Underground Atlanta. It was unique, but even then it was in a decline!
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  954. Excellent 👌
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  955. The mouth of hell has opened up on earth 👍🏼
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  956. @7:20 - that may have been the smoothest transition to date, across all the folks I follow. You added a data point to the story in order to blend into the sponsor. Nicely done sir!
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  957. My mother has talked about this accident for decades. I'll be sharing this with her in a few days as we watch over dinner together. Thanks for another story about a major event of my parents' life.
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  958. Grew up in Chicago, had family in Milwaukee, rode the Electroliners many times, and although they were fast and modern, the ride was very bouncy. I suppose the cars were too light for those speeds -- it was a joke in our family, how you'd be thrown around on the Electroliner. -- charlie, sacramento CA. Keep up the good work!
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  959. I lived in central Florida in the '70s as a teenager. I remember sinkholes making the local news from time to time. A house partially falling in to one, usually.
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  960. Very cool story, thanks for telling it.
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  961. Thanks for another great video! Very enjoyable and informative!😊
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  962. My parents honeymooned in San Francisco in 1958. They loved Cliff House and brought back many souvenirs.
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  963. Tremendous!
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  964. another great vid !!
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  965. General Motors and Firestone Tire had a lot to do with Philadelphia’s subway system never finishing lines that were planned and construction started.
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  966. Mr Socash is obviously all over the place; in Chicago, on the beaches in Normandie and now on the US Westcoast ... And as always telling a very good story the perfect Socash way! Thumbs up!
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  967. A great history of times past. Every generation leaves marks of what they considered to be the ultimate expression of progress. Singer building, an inefficient aristocratic coal burning maze of paper offices and masonry halls was the best they could achieve, but has no place in our time other than as a showpiece. It is only hopeful to be able to look back, looking down, and in equal measure disheartening whenever looking back forces us to look up instead. Hopefully the skylines of America's great cities will, in 100 years, be as unrecognizable to a 21st century inhabitant as today's are to one from the early 20th. Buildings are places for the living, not for the dead.
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  968. Really nice job of research and presentation, thanks
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  969. your polish is pretty good
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  970. Coat of paint and some better ventilation and it'd make an amazing indoor/outdoor market and/or library and/or natural history museum.
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  971. It has always looked like they landed a spaceship on Soldier Field.
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  972. The Buffalo nickel in history........ ❤
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  973. Outstanding video! Very informative and interesting!
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  974. Thanks!
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  975. Very cool and interesting. I would have done a second take on "carousel" though...
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  976. Love your video! How in God’s name did those people back in those days who drive only horse and buggies possibly build these amazing buildings? Then go back home to there a little wood build homes with out-houses and no electricity? I'm not believing these buildings were built during that time? AND why were they demolished at the end of the fair? IF they were built during this time period. Makes no sense.
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  977. Aw, come on Ryan you're from Chicago. It's not like you grew up under a rock 😮
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  978. What an interesting story. The village is so cool looking and with such a long history.
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  979. you should have mentioned that fiberoptic communication also required the invention of LASER technology to work over long distances.
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  980. Love the content. I always look forward for a new uploaded video!! Great stuff! I hope you are working on a future video consisting of the now semi abandoned Letchworth Village in Rockland County, New York.
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  981. i saw sesame street on ice there. 10/10 lol
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  982. On top of that if the engine fails that passengers would be stuck up there. Too high up for ladders.
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  983. Yea!!! More Staten Island content!!!
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  984. Beautiful City, i always will Love Atlanta, Great Experiences & The Diversity was cool…!!! When I lived in Atlanta we went to the Underground all the time and shopped, Especially at the Foot Locker in the Underground….Negative Thinking & Speaking People have Negative Vibes & You get The Same Energy what You Emit…Rich In Culture, History & traffic 😅but outside the traffic, That City Was Amazing to Me in my 20’s and 30’s….Miss The Atlanta Peach Drop, too…!!!
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  985. That was a awesome story I never knew that was done
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  986. The Statue Has a true meaning for the land but there's false practices thats carried out..But let there be a Torch Of LIBERTY in the Hearts of the people..Cool Video👍🏾
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  987. Im from the UK and I've often seen this building on tv and visit America advertising.i love it's architecture. Id love to visit new York. I hope it gets used again and it definitely needs protecting 😊
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  988. I think preservation of these unique homes is more imporltant than low income housing. Put that in sureounding towns. This should be a world heritage site
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  989. i do think ya should do more 360 videos like this, i found it to be fascinating
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  990. If you do the fall of the PRR, it is a must to do a video on the fall of it main rival, the New York Central.
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  991. Merry Christmas, Ryan and family!
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  992. Long lines, at&t long last 😊!
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  993. Thanks for uncovering this hidden history.
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  994. I got a call from my Mom's cousin in Nashville about the bridge. My youngest sister passed over it about 10 min before it went down. She didnt hear about it until later on Social Media.
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  995. I hate when beautiful old buildings are demolished and replaced with plain, ugly “modern” buildings. I also hate that architectural beauty seems to be relegated to old buildings and that conformity to plainness and ugliness seems to dominate post World War II buildings. The powers that be need to start designing and building beautiful buildings again. The is no reason that all newer buildings have to be plain, ugly glass, metal, and concrete eyesores. The demolition of this beautiful old train station in Chicago reminds me of how just relatively recently Alton, IL tore down their perfectly fine and functional historic train station and replaced it with a “modern” one designed in the obligatory plain, ugly style that all newer buildings seem to conform to.
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  996. Thanks! As a fellow Chicagoan Love your videos.
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  997. Another good one! Glad you covered this.
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  998. I was 9 years old. We were supposed to go up and visit the fair (we live in Philadelphia) except that my grandmother died….so I never got there. Thanks for this video to show what I missed!!!
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  999. Great history presentation. I am an elderly retired architect who has visited many of Wright's projects. This is by far the best presentation on the Larkin Building that I have experienced.
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  1000. I was a little kid. But I remember that big globe.
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  1001. There is also in Brooklyn a abandonment tunnel, downtown Brooklyn on Atlantic Avenue from Flatbush Avenue down to water east river part of the Long Island railroad system. That’s pretty interesting too. Ryon, but keep up the good work love history especially in the new York tri-state area love your channel.
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  1002. Hey Mr. Socash; I've watched several of your It's History videos and I have to ask; are you a Railroad Fan yourself or is it a coincidence you have so many railroad videos? They are some of the most knowledgeable videos regarding the industries history!
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  1003. You're right that it is remarkable that today we take for granted what was near miraculous a century ago; but one has to wonder - if we are enjoying the comforts and privileges of the elite of yesteryear, what wonders must the elite of today enjoy? 🤔🤷‍♂️
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  1004. Very informative
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  1005. Well done, Ryan! Hopefully there will be more on location episodes in the future!
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  1006. This is such high end, well researched content , that's local, yet so easily enjoyable regardless of the viewers location. Thank you.
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  1007. Thanks for sharing this Ryan! We have something similar here in the upstate of South Carolina called the Stumphouse Tunnel that's now a park but I would love to have you do a piece on it if you would. It's a place I've been visiting since I was a little feller and still find it a fascinating place each time I visit! Thanks & God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏻
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  1008. My cousins wife went over that bridge, before it collapsed.
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  1009. My dad was one of the accountants during the construction of this bridge. Appreciate the video.
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  1010. I think he might have a point about Marshland being needed for the ground but I think it has to do with the fact that the signal would bounce off of the water not sure if it's the fact that the water has surface tension so it makes it good surface to bounce off of but if you go to Seattle the TV stations in the 50s as well as am transmitters in the 30s were on like Vashon Island so that it would be able to bounce off of all of that salt water I'm sure that's probably Marshland in New Jersey off the coast of New Jersey too it being a very tall antenna it would also help to have the signal bounce the ocean as well
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  1011. I believe that the name Hell Gate had its origins in a man named Mr. Hale, who hailed from that vicinity in the early years of the occupying of NYC by European settlers, i.e. "Hale's Gate". I read that in a book named "The Hussar's Millions" about the loss of that ship. Apparently despite great efforts to locate and recover the extremely valuable cargo of the Hussar, the endeavor did not bear fruit.
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  1012. I always enjoys learning new facts about the fair. Chicago gal here.
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  1013. Please just call yourself Professor Socash. Sounds cooler
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  1014. I saw Abe Lincoln at Disneyland! He had his own place on Main Street USA
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  1015. It’s like you know me 😍 can you do st Lawrence seaway one of these days ?
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  1016. Nice shot of the San Fransisco/Oakland Bay Bridge at the 11 minute mark...with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
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  1017. Great video, thanks.
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  1018. This young man does a nice job.
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  1019.  @ITSHISTORY  Please, please, please make more! 🙏 This is my first video of yours and didn't even make it 3 minutes in before I hit the subscribe button! 😀 As I haven't been able to use the passport I finally got in 2019, I can't wait to see what else you have and what other amazing places there will be to 'explore' and learn about.
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  1020. lmao tell me your from PA, without telling me your from PA.. ;)
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  1021. Very interesting and informative. I've been to this prison twice, though I can't say I had any paranormal encounters, and one of my relatives worked here as a security guard.
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  1022. Great material!
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  1023. I like your new intro better! Nice work, old one was always surprising
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  1024. Yay some Minneapolis love! Woiuld love to see more Minneapolis things!
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  1025. Thanks!
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  1026. I'd love a video on the CB&Q railroad
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  1027. I nearly had a panic attack when a parade blocked my route to the PPV viewing I was heading to yesterday. I'm lucky I found the stairs to Lower Wacker which helped me bypass the enormous crowd.
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  1028. First one here😁
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  1029. Will there be more about Przemyśl Forts, in ex. Fornt nr 13 and its legend, and fort no 12 which in past was an ammo depot and now it is a Museum
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  1030. Is it just me but lower Wacker looks very familiar to a fan of The Dark Knight
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  1031. Another excellent video Ryan. Thank you so much for doing all the research to share with us.
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  1032. I respectfully disagree that one visit is enough. I've been there myself, and each time I discovered something new, something I overlooked before. It's enchanting each time, but I don't go very often, maybe 3 or 4 times in my entire life, and usually it's to introduce someone new to the area to something out of the ordinary. The first time i went was as a kid, and my dad told me everything for the house was carried up on the guy's back, and I thought he meant all in one trip. After learning the truth, I wasn't as impressed with it, and my dad had a good laugh at how hard I was to please. Regardless, the gift shop book about the house was one of my favorite childhood books for picture gazing.
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  1033. A video on the Kalakala art deco ferry would be a great video👍 if it hasn't been made yet. I don't believe it has
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  1034. I live 15 min from this!
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  1035. Just here....waiting....for the premier..
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  1036. Even a segment on the Ohio Erie Canal would be really interesting to me. There’s a mural in Cincinnati on Central Park way and it’s really inspiring to drive past.
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  1037. Love Underground Atlanta. Great informative video!
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  1038. I went there as part of a school field trip. I liked going into the shops and just wandering around.
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  1039. Even the horrible auto genrated subtitles of youtube got it right...lol
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  1040. Forbidden islands, underground Tunnels, it all absolutely fascinates me.
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  1041. I really enjoyed this video ❤❤❤
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  1042. First
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  1043. Yay. I actually commented about this one on the last video. Glad to see he actually did a video on it.
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  1044. sorry about the confusion mate
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  1045. Interesting that this technological feat started in Pasadena, location of Caltech today.
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  1046. would liked to have seen more about the construction rather than the German plan to blow it up
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  1047. As a native New Yorker, I always enjoy your videos. Keep it up.
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  1048. I haven't been to NYC in years, and never heard of the river being mentioned. Thanks for the video. Cheers.
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  1049. Very Very educational
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  1050. This video topic is fascinating. 👏
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  1051. Great story. Thank you for creating and posting it. Loved the old-time drawing and photographs.
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  1052. Holy hell! Now I have to check Hotels extra careful if I ever visit NY. Wouldn't want basketball Americans to appear out of the blue in my hotel. Scary place!
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  1053. What did the fish say after he swam into a wall........."DAM"😁🙄😉
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  1054. Informative documentary, nice job! I had no idea this explosion had occurred there. The flour dust was and is still a dangerous aspect in the milling process. A concern that Washburn addressed in the more modern way with his new building. One minor point of confusion was that you mentioned the date of 1887 in the into and then subsequently use the correct date of 1878 (as I later found) for the rest of the video.
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  1055. What a great story. I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah and the 90s. I visited the great Salt Lake often over the years. I have wondered about the old railroad tracks that would drive through the great Salt Lake. Thanks for the video.
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  1056. Taking a date there in the 80's was a surefire way of showing a girl a good time. Food was never that great but the views and ambiance made up for it.
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  1057. This video was a nice surprise! I didn't know there was a replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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  1058. Well done mate, you held it together well ! Rest up
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  1059. Funny thing: We live just 15 minutes away from the S.S. Lane Victory, it's a great tour.....
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  1060. And you think your workplace is bazaar!
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  1061. In the late 90s, we drove through Sandy Hook on the way back from another location on a class field trip. The old brick buildings looked really cool and from another era. I had no idea there is camping there and I would love to do that sometime!
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  1062. Would be fun to rebuild them!
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  1063. Here for all the Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes fans.
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  1064. So cool to see so many videos from New Jersey I live 5 minutes from Sandy hook
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  1065. Undoubtedly one of the most unique places on the planet, you can see all the way to the Atlantic ocean. Oh my God.
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  1066. This place is used in so many movies.
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  1067. I remember me, my brother, my friend, and my teacher went into the Sears Tower. We went up the top floor and as we going up my ears popped.
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  1068. Thanks, great video.
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  1069. You mention more than 12,000 Liberty Ships built?? The number completed was actually 2710, which was still a huge number in maritime terms.
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  1070. Awesome video, Ryan!! Could you do videos on the Lincoln Hwy and PCH as well?? I'd love to hear your take on them.
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  1071. Not Ugly, it has character.
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  1072. We used to go to Windsor for all special occasions, because staying in the riverfront hotels allowed dogs. Havent been back since covid. I really miss biking Pelle Island, and all the great brunch and dinner restaurants.
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  1073. Yes yes yes. I love this channel
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  1074. You ought to do a video on Jerome AZ
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  1075. I’ve seen a couple circuses there when I was a kid. Through my teenage years I seen many many concerts. I even remember when they had monster truck jam there several times. I remember when Brian Adams had a concert there. Then after the concert we went to a local bar and he was sitting in the bar performing for the bar patrons.
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  1076. Ryan idk how you do it, but you weren't kidding about making this channel active again. You and the crew are on point.
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  1077. I love this channel! You have great info and a great listen for us! Keep it up esp the Chicago content
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  1078. Why don't we hear of 100 year old railroad bridges collapsing? Why is it just highway bridges?
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  1079. YES I live just outside of Detroit, the era of abandoned skyscrapers was my favorite, so much to explore. Thanks for the upload! Nothing makes me wish i lived in that time more then the Book tower.
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  1080. I have gone there several times. I park my car there for FREE and go see a Mets game. Yeah I'm a cheap arse.😁. Also to see Veronica Lueken ( dead now) who had visions of Virgin Mary and Jesus there at the Vatican Pavilion back in the 80s. Awesome large place to visit Just during the day though.
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  1081. Just found your channel, amazing. New subscriber 😊
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  1082. Excellent
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  1083. Can you do a video on the Oklahoma
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  1084. Went on a regular tour there. Very cool. Got great pics and video.
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  1085. Ryan, that bottle house reminds me of the one at Knott's Berry Farm..... Thanks for keeping history alive and kicking.
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  1086. I love going there. Great view and a nice park. Reminds me of Mount Mohawk upstate NY.
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  1087. First
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  1088. Ryan, thank you so much for sharing both Washington's story and the story of this beloved monument of our most important founding father! I am thinking about the time I first heard this statement about Washington. It was that a decision he made saved The Revolution. At the time I heard that, I believed it; but I did not completely understand it. But when I think on it, or am reminded of it by people like you, I am filled with such gratitude towards, and admiration for him! How did George Washington save The Revolution? He refused to accept the role of king or dictator which we would have gladly given to him. When I think even more about it, he not only saved The Revolution. He saved our history. Because if he had accepted either role, our history would have been vastly different than what we know. We not only owe a debt of gratitude to George Washington but an even greater debt of gratitude to Our Heavenly Father who gave Washington to us.
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  1089. My mother had a vacation house in Florida. The threat of sinkholes was a big factor in why she sold the house.
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  1090. Tens of thousands of people live along this highway now; it must be maintained for everyday life to proceed. Many small Towns along the highway need the tourist just to survive. I drive SR1 in Northern CA every day and love it. You did not mention the area of the highway that bypassed known as the Lost Coast, as it was too difficult to build there.
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  1091. Was randomly recommended this today. Fascinating history channel. Subscribed!
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  1092. You left out all the fun of crank calling.
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  1093. Reminds me … I LOVED Old Chicago.
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  1094. I appreciated the info on my beloved Belvidere oasis
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  1095. Ryan, Your videos are really interesting. Thanks, How about giving us a history of The Atomium in Brussells, the giant model of an atom. I have been in it since its recent refurbishment, and even all this time since it was built in 1958, it is just amazing .People would be fascinated to tour inside. When I collected a postage stamp showing it, that part of the world seemed unattainably far away, as did the future. From Australia, you could only contemplate going that far by a ship. The day finally came when all that changed.
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  1096. Professor again another great history lesson from the past, have a great day be at peace and be safe...
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  1097. This was a most impressive video. Thank you very much, sir.
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  1098. I love your videos
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  1099. Thank you for making this video.
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  1100. Another great video. Very interesting and informative. I loved it. Your final picture of the Museum of Science and Industry was not even mentioned. Wat a great place to visit.
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  1101. my mothers home. Thank You
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  1102. May communism leave this planet forever.
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  1103. Good insight/reporting :)
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  1104. The underground complex had huge hydraulic lifts to bring the missiles up from underground They were amazing Most of them were never acknowledged as having existed. I remember seeing one of these sites in Upstate NY that was never acknowledged. To this day the government denied it ever existed even though it is privately owned now with a defunct restaurant on top of it and the lift still being there as well as the complete underground complex.
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  1105. I’m impatient
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  1106. I went to the Civic Arena in the late sixties with a Cub Scout den outing. We went to watch the Penguins, so it must have been 1967 or thereabouts. I don't remember the details, but it was a great time for a young kid! It was the only time I was ever there, unfortunately. I didn't know it was torn down till now. Thanks for the great video!
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  1107. It's pretty crazy. I grew up in both the US and Canada and seeing and pretty much seeing how much reference is left of the Pennsylvania railroad. It's pretty amazing. Like when I visit a Pittsburgh I see the old Pennsylvania railroad train terminal which is still used today Just not all the time
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  1108. This VPN really works i mostly use it for locked yt films.
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  1109. Thanks for the education, as always. Nicely done.
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  1110. From Chicago thank you for calling the sears tower by its real name and not the willis tower which nobody here will ever call it that
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  1111. Fantastic Fantastic Fantastic!!!!!!
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  1112. i live near here in san diego, i remember when i first started hiking in the desert near these cars they were pristine, north of Jajamba. but the moved them further north near the nudest colony and then the word was out. covered with graffiti ever since. careful, it is CA desert. i almost got shot there but could not convince sherifs to intervene.
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  1113. Nice historical tour.
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  1114. The plural of “incident” is “incidents”, not “incidences” (which does not mean the same thing…). Great video!
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  1115. I want to live there. Sounds nice
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  1116. It needed to be said. Thank you :)
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  1117. Another great video , thanks Ryan
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  1118. I've been wondering why this ship has been here for many years!!! Now I know🎉
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  1119. This was excellent, thank you. I love Coney Island, especially the Wonder Wheel, great memories on that ride with several dates. There were some great rides that are now long gone, like Astroland's Break Dancer, or the Saturn 6 which sat a corner lot near the bowery. As did the old rickety Zipper, Hammer, and the infamous Hell Hole (a rotor ride), all gone an replaced with newer attractions that just don't offer the same thrill. I constantly find myself looking up at the parachute jump wondering what that free falling sensation was like (yes, they were REAL parachutes and were the only thing slowing your decent towards a bouncy landing). And the old abandoned roller coaster that was torn down during the Giuliani era, the Thunderbolt. Not to be confused with the new one using the very same name. There was also another rollercoaster that was long gone that I saw in movies and pics only, which was simply beautiful. It was called the Tornado! A must see in YouTube clips. Try some treats at "Williams Candy on Surf Avenue for some of the best candy apples anywhere. And Nathan's is not just hotdogs btw, their loaded fries are to die for. As are their delicious lobster rolls too. Again, thanks for this, very well done.
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  1120. Enjoyed them as a kid in the 70s. Mom insisted on bringing our own popcorn from home, so there was always a big, greasy paper grocery bag full on the front seat. Really enjoyed them as a teenager. Last time at a drive-in was more than 10 years ago, and wasn't thrilled by most of the people sitting around in lawn chairs instead of in their cars. It was like a huge tailgate party and you could barely hear the movie.
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  1121. I lived nearby in the Redwoods myself... It was incredible but this documentary was A+. Thank you!
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  1122. Great documentary! Always good to know how we got to where we are. The progress we've attained in and what was achieved in implementing such scientific discoveries into our every day lives from their humble roots as just what began as bemusings, wonderings and thoughts of really visionary individuals brought to the forefront is very interesting.
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  1123. Saw the Grateful Dead there mid 80s
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  1124. I love your channel, greetings from Mexico City ✌🏻
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  1125. We had a seagull fly into our van driving on that road. Couldn't really do anything about it or go anywhere. It was not my favorite bridge to drive but we took it from Biloxi, Ms. to the New Orleans Children's hospital several times during the 9 months we lived there.
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  1126. 👍👏😊♥️🇺🇸
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  1127. Hi Ryan, now you have a subject matter very close to me, I live in SWFL Cape Coral and looking at your map looks like my area is very safe it show white shade area, THANKS YOU SO MUCH , here is something about SINKHOLES, my home owners ins policy WILL NOT COVER ANY DAMAGE FROM SINK HOLES, we had enough from Himocain Ian, Oh yes my house lots of damage in fact still working to finish up the work, almost done, well thanks for all you do and the investigation and research time you put in your subjects, be safe until next time THANKS...
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  1128. I rode on that Aerotrain on the Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia-Pittsburgh route in 1956, the route which was discussed in this video. It was particularly exciting to ride it around Horseshoe Curve. The train was a really big deal at the time and captured a lot of headlines and interest. They had it for testing on the New York Central for a brief time but I don't believe it ever saw any scheduled service on that road. There was a lot of interest in experimental trains during the 50's and 60's as railroads were trying to find innovative ways of competing with cars and airlines. The New York Central ran a different (single unit multi car) train (locomotive by Baldwin, cars by Pullman) called the "Xplorer" between Cleveland and Cincinnati from 1956-57 but which also failed. There was also consideration during that time of a US version of the Spanish "Talgo" train (1950's version) which had articulated cars capable of tilting around curves, as well as many other technologically advanced features for the time (and even now). It also never made it into US service. Finally, there was the United Aircraft Turbo train which also had tilt capability as well as a gas turbine engine. Amtrak actually ran that in service for a few years and I rode it between Boston and New York. The neat thing about that train was that it had cabs on both ends with raised passenger seating in each cab, like in dome cars. You could actually sit up high in passenger seats on raised areas of the cab cars along with the engineer and look out forward at the track ahead. You could also look backward along the top of the rest of the train (I did both). If you are interested, you can find information on any of those trains by doing an internet search on their names.
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  1129. You can see this from the parking lot of the Ikea store in Red Hook. Awesome views lower Manhattan from here.
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  1130. He is the man. The internet is just full of bullies just like school
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  1131. Great video! Underground Chattanooga is also an interesting subject to look into
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  1132. Didn't they change California Ave to Martin Luther King Drive?! ...way back ...before you were born?! Another great vid, Ryan!
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  1133. Our office is right near there. Some of the stories are true. Us locals have opinions of both the domes and the nearby mountain where the Hohokam Indians disappeared.
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  1134. First! Great video as always! Please make a video about the Pennsylvania Railroad East River Tunnels in New York City. Also include the famous Steinway/Belmont Tunnels of the IRT subway!
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  1135. Yet another fantastic video, love your stuff.
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  1136. Went longboarding this summer w a buddy downtown saw a homeless guy with 5 huge pet rats 🐀 I’ll never forgot the vibes in the underground road
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  1137. Great vid
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  1138. I love your work! Keep it up!
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  1139. I haven't checked it out since it closed some years back.. I used to like visiting there...yeah, there was a certain grimy element about, but I grew up in Brooklyn, so that didn't bother me. I'm gonna have to check it out again now that it has reopened..
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  1140. Excellent piece of American history. Perseverance through adversity. Thanks a lot. Colin ( England ).
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  1141. Damn good Documentary Ryan !!
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  1142. Very good video about great building with modern features new in 1930s including air conditioning I don’t understand first to use alternating electric current I saw that statement before I thought AC current was standard for electric distribution since before 1900 Direct current loses its power over distances Alternating keeps voltage for large distribution Thank you for video
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  1143. Thanks for the video!
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  1144. There’s a book called Under The Sidewalks Of New York The Story Of The Greatest Subway System In The World by Brian J. Cudahy on page 166 shows a picture of a revenue car Number # 66 it’s a double end car builder unknown but to me it looks like it was built by ACF
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  1145. Great video! I lived 2 blocks from the burned Nichols Gym structure when I attended K-State in the late 70's. We'd go climb around in there after Aggieville closed! Fun times!!
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  1146. Love it. Can you do a video on my hometown armory. In The Bronx which is the Kingsbridge Armory. It is one of the most famous one, they even filmed movies in there
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  1147. Ryan have you ever done a story on the Greenbrier Hotel and it's dark secrets? Thx for sharing your new content... Take care my friend and God Bless...
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  1148. An Awesome Program
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  1149. As a Brit, thank you for great American history, which is far better than the big bits of history seen on the TV channels 👍🏻 Keep the unusual coming.
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  1150. Interesting! Thanks for the info.
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  1151. I’m five minutes from the stockyards! Shaht Aht to Bubbly Creek!
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  1152. Ryan, your documentary is top quality it's feel as if watching it on the History or Discovery channels. Keep up the great work. I love watching your rail series. Speaking of NY. Ryan, did you know in Bedford, Indiana there's a place called the Empire Quarry? It's where the huge hole in the ground is where the Indiana limestone was cut for the Empire State Building. The birthplace where it all originated. Several tons cut and hauled by rail to NYC back then to make what we see in the Manhattan skyline today since 1931. Other notable buildings like the Pentagon and in even in Chicago like the famous Palmolive Building along with some other historic buildings.
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  1153. Please don't stop your videos
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  1154. I do some of da best sites of Chicago from where I used to live. In Da Gold Coast... Miss em so much!❤. I got engaged at da Hancock in the Observatory.
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  1155. The fact that you used the LDS temple to show Tucson was kinda weird. But it is a beautiful building.
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  1156. Sad how shortsighted and destructive those men were.
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  1157. Very interesting history & thanks for sharing this with us ☺️
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  1158. Without a doubt, one of the best history sites on Youtube.
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  1159. Always interesting content and nicely produced! Thank you, Ryan and team. Best to all.
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  1160. excellant presentation - in 1983 my wife and i went to Vegas - wew were tol not to stay or go into the riviera as there so many better, and less expensive places to go to
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  1161. There is still an operating drive-in theater in Glendale Arizona
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  1162. Great info.
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  1163. Fascinating history about NYC and Brooklyn Bridge 👍🏼
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  1164. Nice Interview.
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  1165. Wow, I'm OLD but had no idea this even existed in our once great country !! Don't mean to be negative but look at all that was accomplished by our forefathers, their vision, brains and determination !! Today it seems that burning it down and getting in your face is what people, who have never created a thing, find the time to do with themselves. Great video, and well over a century ago to boot ! Dreamers keep dreaming !!
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  1166. Even if empty, the building is an urban sculpture worth preserving.
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  1167. Just love your videos ,, and Happy New Year
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  1168. There used to be rows of them Parked at the Sabine River Navel station in TEXAS when Iwas a kid . All gone now
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  1169. Well done 👍 Thanks
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  1170. Thanks for the cool story of this place. Excellent job 👍
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  1171. Awesome video. I would love to see you cover the 1898 Omaha Worlds Fair sometime!
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  1172. For those of us who grew up in Coney Island in the 50s and 60s there was nothing like the magic of everything about it from its tip to its end never was and never will be again
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  1173. Ryan, if you haven't already done it you should read the book "At Dawn We Slept" by Gordon Prange, Donald Goldstein, and Katherine Dillon. It addresses the myths and conspiracy theories surrounding Pearl Harbor.
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  1174. hi ryan. how 'bout a vid about strange doors? not Jim, but forgotten or hidden doors that were discovered or held surprises like disused infrastructure or passages to forgotten places or hidden rooms. no modern stuff now;)
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  1175. I definitely never realized there was a wire passed back and forth for 6 months to make a suspension bridge. Respect.
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  1176. I bought and live in one of these! It's a 1928 and we constantly get remarks about how "cute" and nice it is. It's way more durable and stronger than our old house that was built in the 00's. "They don't make them like they used to" is so true. We enjoy it.
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  1177. Toured Eastern State in Philadelphia. It’s pretty neat.
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  1178. Hello from Warsaw, Poland!
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  1179. Really good doc! I’ve been to the Canals numerous times during my life. However, you did forget to mention a few interesting facts about the canal. For starters, the canal was instrumental in transporting much of the Brownstone used to build Brooklyn’s iconic Brownstone homes. Also, you didn’t mention sludgie the whale! Nor the beautiful Newtown creek nature walk along the canal. In addition, you will see ducks floating on the water from time to time. This signals that the water is getting cleaner, despite still being unsafe for humans. If you’re interested, check out an artist name George Trakkas. He was pretty influential in bringing attention to the canal back in the day.
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  1180. You can't do any of that Lord or Lady garbage with an establishedtitles purchase, also deforestation is a myth in the Western world. If they planted trees in the Amazon, ok, but they don't
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  1181. Fantastic story!!!! Thanks man!! 👌👍😁✌️🔆❗☮️💠🖖🌞🌞😀♥️
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  1182. A fascinating story, thank you!
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  1183. Awesome job, thank you for your hard work,
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  1184. Cool
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  1185. Thanks!
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  1186. "Its 360°" Me: ITS SO HOT
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  1187. Always wondered about St. Elmo Thank you
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  1188. Great video. I live in Chillicothe Ohio. Canal history is in my blood.
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  1189. Why do you have your sunnies on? Weird
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  1190. Enjoyed this very much so professionally done with alot of history, thumbs up
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  1191. "They are the Argonath! Long have I desired to look upon the kings of old. My kin."
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  1192. Great video
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  1193. The Romans used this type of central heating 100 BC although under floor heating systems have been found dating back to 1300 BC in the palace at Beycesultan, Turkey
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  1194. Good story man !! Thanks ❗♥️♥️🔆✝️☮️🖖✌️👌👍🌞
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  1195. Ryan you need to look into the town of Valmeyer Illinois, which was destroyed by the 1993 flood of the Mississippi river and was relocated a few miles away on higher ground.
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  1196. BEST YOU HAVE MADE
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  1197. Thank you Ryan
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  1198. Very interesting. I hope they will do the needed upkeep. It's a shame that they can't open it to the public. Thanks so much.
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  1199. One of those experimental concrete ship was intentionally grounded at Aptos CA. Being used as a fishing pier.
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  1200. My dad worked at the Sherwin Williams lab across the road from the village.
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  1201. Yeah, new york. You sent me a toll charge when I didn't have the truck and turned in my old tag for the truck. When the tag showed up in new york on a dodge like the one I had. But the truck went to scrap because I'm the one to take it there. I'm also the one to turn in the tag for that truck. But new york send a toll charge to my old tag that I reside in Florida. Smh. 😅 Obviously I did not pay it but did contact the dmv here in Florida and new york. And I had proof it wasn't me because I drove semi at the time and had my log book that is federal regulation to prove I was not in new york at the time of picture. It blew my mind when I got new york mail in my Florida mailbox. Lol
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  1202. DELAWARE MENTIONED. HELL YEAH, BROTHER.
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  1203. I’ve always been fascinated by Sutro Bath and Adolph Sutro himself. Thanks for the great video!
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  1204. My mom used to work for patrick engineering and would tell me all the tunnels and stuff in the city. I love the pedwalk connected to TJ Maxx that leads to Randolph Street Station
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  1205. That was a fantastic video! I'm from Tucson, Arizona and I remember going to lake Havasu with my parents as a kid when my dad told me that was the London bridge. And explain to me that each piece was marked and sent over a piece by piece. Always astonished me as a kid! I've wanted to hear that story for a long time and I always thought that that bridge was the bridge that the song was about. So I appreciate the update and information. I also had no idea about The Bridges History in the London bombing nor about the lamppost from the Battle of Waterloo. All super fascinating and very cool!
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  1206. Please do videos on other little-known built-over streets, like Cow Path and Carroll Avenue.
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  1207. Detroit is my hometown, and I'll always brag about it, detroiters are tough people, we hang in there and one day my city will shine again...
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  1208. There are 4 surviving Liberty Ships not 2
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  1209. You’re a lucky man Ryan to be able to spend so much time exploring this castle. This is my favorite episode so far. I think I’m going to subscribe to your Patreon so I can see more.
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  1210. Thank you Ryan Socash for keeping the past alive....🙂
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  1211. Great video
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  1212. Very cool, hope they find a use for it
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  1213. Thank you for the history! I remember the ice skating rink and artifacts housed upstairs - more recently we walked/climbed the ruins and nearby caves & trails (Lands End) - the improvements are amazing. Just a note- you mentioned the Sutro Egyptian Exhibit is at San Francisco State University (Museum Studies). SFSU is a part of the California State University Systems, however, the image shown in the video was of the University of San Francisco (a Jesuit university). I appreciate the research and informative work! Will check out the other videos. Best!
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  1214. I was very surprised to see Cactus growing on the Hook . Lots of Cactus ......
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  1215. I can dig it. Great episode.
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  1216. Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲
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  1217. Big fan. First time sending a hello & huge thanks from Plano, ILLinois.
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  1218. Phenomenal video. When I was a kid, I remember riding those trains in New Jersey between Hoboken and Newark, both with epic train terminals that have been fully restored. Some of the rail cars were still emblazoned with the “Pennsylvania” livery.
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  1219. Not even a mention of the most important history.... There's something about major nude beaches, that always seems to cause them to have conflicts over piping plovers and least terns. Somehow adjacent military areas, or textile fetishist beaches, rarely seem to have those same birds needing protection from larger and more invasive beach user groups.
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  1220. This was fascinating. Who knew? Nevertheless, Rochester, Syracuse and other cities up there are hopeless dumps.
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  1221. Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos you offer. I have learned so much.
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  1222. A superb job, Ryan. Thank you.
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  1223. I have to say, i think this was my favorite of all your videos. The social cause and impacts are part of the telling of history in the real world that certain elements want to whitewash as if it’s just a myth. Unfortunately you’re likely to lose subscribers.
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  1224. Wow. I find it very funny that this video just randomly popped up in my feed just now. I was walking through my neighborhood today and remebered there was a tunnel nearby. I decided to make my way towards it realized it had been completely covered up. Not a single trace left, except a manhole. It was located on 52nd st and Vermont Ave. in South L.A. I do, however, remember using them as a child in the Eagle Rock/Highland Park curca 1980. Really enjoyed this video.
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  1225. Awesome video. I wasn't aware that there was ever a LaSalle St. tunnel. i wonder if any of the underground walkways have closed off access to this tunnel.
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  1226. Thank u bro for doing Seattle where I live
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  1227. Thanks Ryan for another information I have never heard of, I think I will now start calling you Professor SoCash, I am in my 70's so by the end of my time left I might get my first degree in," IT'S HISTORY"...
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  1228. Good stuff
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  1229. Hey Ryan. I am a New Jersian. Can you do a segment on the Lackawanna Cut?
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  1230. The High Line Park is mentioned a fair amount in a great zombie book series called The City by Sarah Lyons Fleming. The main characters in one part us it to get around and avoid zombies. We’ll worth reading.
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  1231. Makes me proud to live in Pennsylvania
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  1232. Part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940. The rest wasn't completed until 1956. The NJTP mainline was entirely completed in 1951.
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  1233. cool
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  1234. These are not just buildings, they are pieces of art. I hope we preserve them as long as we can.
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  1235. Amazing channel, a new favorite! Incredibly well done and packed full of knowledge!
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  1236. Thank you for this awesome video!...Great job setting the historical context for the Carbide & Carbon Building!!...Amazing that the Jewelers Building at 35E Wacker is just a 3 minute walk away…this beautiful 1925 building figures prominently in Chicago’s parking garage history and warrants IT’S HISTORY attention!!!
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  1237. Awesome video. Lots of interesting information. 👍🏾
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  1238. So much to learn from you....
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  1239. Great job, thank you very much
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  1240. Fantastic story!! Thanks man!! 👌👍❗✌️☮️🖖♥️
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  1241. Thanks for sharing 👍😎👍
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  1242. This place is truly magical! Ive beem there a half dozen times in my life and unfortunately i can say that each time i go it seems like the collections are starting to really show their age and eventually itll be gone!
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  1243. My father was assigned here 1950 to 1951. He was in the communications branch.
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  1244. Thank you Ryan
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  1245. Nice work again Ryan! Remember when factories were in Manhattan…? This became a beautiful green space with easy access… makes a nice walk! Come visit NYC for a nice nature walk. 😃
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  1246. Your post are very interesting I subscribed
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  1247. I just noticed you started uploading again, hope you don't stop any time soon, great to have you back
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  1248. The wood was recovered and cut into the most amazingly durable flooring you could ever hope for. Every fiber of the wood is saturated with salt so it's as hard as rock.
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  1249. Thank you for your hard work and dedication. As a History buff and lover of all History, our country, and the long long hard fought road that led us to where we are today. Pandemic and all. 😷
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  1250. My mom was a stenographer at Oakland's Western Pacific coach yard. When I was about 10, I got to ride the Zephyr out of the yard and through the train wash in a Vista Dome car and went on to Stockton where I got off, and rode back in a WP truck. I lived in East Oakland near the main line and could watch the Zephyr return every evening.
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  1251. I've crossed this border by car many times and I never even knew there was a tunnel there!
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  1252. Here! This is my hood lol
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  1253. Very interesting. Our infrastructure and cities are some of this nations greatest assets. This is very important piece of our country, but I will admit I can understand how it must frustrate its daily users to pay to cross it while sitting still in traffic at times. A magnificent structure.
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  1254. Wow very sad but informative. I've never heard if this disaster, thanks for doing this video.
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  1255. Thank you so much for this video. Very cool idea and I would have love to have seen this go.
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  1256. Once again, you have answered an Unspoken Question...thank you...and do please keep up the good work!...dgp/uk
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  1257. Man this was great!
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  1258. Great content, very informative
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  1259. The busiest bridge in the US is the Manhattan Bridge - when measured by number of people who cross it daily. The Manhattan Bridge, in addition to a roadway, has several subway lines and very busy bike and pedestrian paths. GWB is the busiest when considering vehicles only.
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  1260. Ahh I got happy when you mentioned the Woolworth building basement but you didn’t even mention the big marble pool down there. I had some fun parties in that pool.
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  1261. I absolutely love your content!
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  1262. Always love your videos 👍👍👏👏
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  1263. Good times.
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  1264. ✌️❤️
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  1265. My first time listening to you. I enjoyed it.
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  1266. Love your videos. Keep it up. Can you make a video on Lake Michigan ghost ship by the Port of Chicago that's be docked for like 35 yrs or more..
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  1267. Same as coplee in Boston
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  1268. Just saw the new Garfield movie with my wife at a drive-in. We both really loved the experience! And we’re making it a monthly thing for us now. WesMer in Weslaco Texas is the southernmost drive in in the country.
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  1269. Thank u for the interesting story told so respectfully, good job! My son also took his Boy Scout oath and gained great character and experience with them. I’m convinced he wouldn’t be the young man he is today without them. I’ll be watching you again!
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  1270. I lived in a 1909 Sears Catalog house, quality built miles from town at the time. It was sent by train to Grand Rapids Michigan, then transfered to three wagons pulled by horses, and delivered to its site in rural Cannon Twp. It is a farm house style built with great solid materials, the quality is still evident today when walking in the attic.
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  1271. Absolutely fascinating I've always been curious about the NYC subway systems history it's construction the engineering the tunnels the grand scale and scope of a metropolitan transit subway system
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  1272. Love this channel ❤
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  1273. Hey? Ryan. Thank you for your video. I was Liberty State Park in around 1977. And again aroumd sevetal times 1978 and 1979. I was at a train show. With my friend Jim Emnerly. He had jims custome trains..I go with him as his helper It was fun. I then started selling at train show on my own.i was at Libberty State park just befor 911 ywin tower attack. 1996. 1997. 1999. 2001. I sold at the yrain show. It was much different then time period of 1977 1978 1979. The station had slight decay. The tails were in tact in the 1977 1978 1979. I temember Ywo Peensy GG1,S Were on display. A couple of steam engines. E8,s and some other old time engines. They jad a excursion out of Libberty State Park.. we thought thecsyeam engine was heading to Bay Head. But detered to the western part of nj. We met that night at our train club. In the old Elberone train station in Elberone Nj. So we went up to the show. I stayed with my friend jim emmerly. To.help him out. He made jersey central railroad cammelbacks. He took mantua camnelbacks. Replace the motors with pennlinebowsers motors.. I have 12 of his cteations. And they still run. Some are 1 of kinds. He had a CNJ RR 2_8_0 Consalidation. He made a pennsylvania rr DOODLE BUG. E3. And jersey Central rr Double ender. I have the cnj rr #774# camelback. And 5 CNJ RR ABA F3ABA,S. Sets. Their Athern Bluebox kits. Custome painted. Tanaged orange and Blue. Jims models still run great. Any way. Im a admin to 3 groups about the jersey central rr. Thank you for your video. Ot brought me back to 1977 1978 1979. It was awsome. I understand that the state dose not want to spend the money to restore the station. I hrard a fumkor. That light rail comes in. I know the ferrys still run. I loved going to Liberty Park jersey city nj. I own a original coppy of jersey central railroads. VHS. The Big Little Railroad. Its awsome. Your video is better. Do you sell DVDS Of your video. How much for each one?. Id like to buy please. Brett L.
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  1274. So much history in this city! Love the city. Thank you for the video!
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  1275. It’s a great fishing 🎣 spot as well! 👍🏻😎
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  1276. If I hit subscribe I will be unsubscribed!!
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  1277. Thank you so much for including both sides of the stereograms! It allows the viewer to experience the full 3d effect as our ancestors did over 100 years ago!
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  1278. Very interested!!!
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  1279. Cool stuff
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  1280. Yes sir another home run
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  1281. Good morning from Cape Cod ⛵ the congestion on the expressway is still congested to this day 😂 very interesting story Ryan, I've been a Masshole my entire life and haven't heard of this incident. Thanks for bringing us this awesome content ✌️🇺🇲
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  1282. Another great video.
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  1283. Friend called family to say that he just got off the bridge.
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  1284. ❤Great storytelling as always! How cleverly omitted was HH Holmes. While also, understandably so for maintaining a positive vibe, it was difficult to un-think other portions of true history, though. 🤷‍♂️
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  1285. What a tragedy to loose an architectural gem and replace it with an obscene box. Corporations always err on the side of profit, with no regard for culture or tradition. We are witnessing the same negative forces at work today, with wokeism being promoted by every corporation simply to advance sales.
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  1286. The only time I was inside the stadium was during the world cup in 1994, I worked as a laborer for illiana fence installing temporary gates for the event. Love the look of that grand old structure. Not so much now unfortunately. Great video as always Mr Socash.❤️💯👍
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  1287. nice
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  1288. Thank you Ryan for sharing yet another interesting topic! I truly appreciate all that you bring us! Your dedication is very well noticed here! Got bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏼
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  1289. Wait. In 5 years, you will be doing a video on all these TESLA charging stations abandoning.
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  1290. amazing story!!!! thanks man!!! ☮️✌️👌👍✴️🇱🇷🗯️
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  1291. PLEASE MAKE THE JOLIET PRISON ONE. I LIVE 20 MINUTES FROM IT
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  1292. Love stories like this. Wow, a ghost highway. ❤
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  1293. Bizarre that they didn't connect it to the freight tunnels...especially given they also carried utilities and could be used for climate control... I have been obsessed with the Chicago freight tunnels over the years... a shame they were not kept in use...
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  1294. Hello from the Redwoods! ( Humboldt) Walking through the Redwoods you can feel the wisdom from those trees . Sad that so many were cut down but thankful that the rest were protected. Always amazes me when I see a widow maker sticking in the ground. ( A branch the size of a large tree) They fall from hundreds of ft. High. Great series on this. Thank you! 🌲🌲🌲 🎼
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  1295. I first started exploring the pedway back in the early nineties as a kid. I was always fascinated with being able to walk from the Metra station near the lakefront to City Hall and the State Of Illinois building without ever going outside. Cool video!!!
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  1296. cool vid!
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  1297. The HS2 isn’t happening mate not up North I believe Leeds and Manchester has been dropped as it’s too expensive I live in Leeds so hear about it on the news Great videos Keep up the amazing content and thank you
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  1298. I enjoyed visiting the house on the rock and will go back again. Theres so much to see (lots of detail), you just can't see everything in one day if you take your time and not rush through.
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  1299. Great episode. I grew up in nearby Forest Hills/Rego Park and spent a lot of time in Flushing Meadows Corina park. As a young teen my friends and I cut school one day and manages to find a way into one of the towers leading up to the restaurant. It was open, abandoned with several inches deep in bird poop. We had also made it inside the old pool and the building that has since been demolished. I grew up in the best times the 80’s and 90’s..
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  1300. Basically, this was the prototype for the first malls in Minnesota.
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  1301. Very interesting piece Ryan! Thanks so much! ~ Scott 💙
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  1302. We thoroughly enjoy your channel. You have a great delivery & presence. The topics are always informative & entertaining. Thank you for providing them.
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  1303. Makes me miss watching this as it came out
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  1304. My step son rode this train in the 90s he loved every minute of the round trip both ways.
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  1305. Great video. Have always admired the Chrysler Building. Thanks Ryan!
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  1306. While this was very sad to watch, you sir, are a wonderful historian. Thank you for the upload.
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  1307. murder capital of the world lol
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  1308. A truly fascinating and informative video. I so admire the professional way it has been produced. I'll be subscribing.
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  1309. This is a great channel.
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  1310. German* West Africa (Not Germany AND West Africa) Germany colonized current day Togo and Cameroon in West Africa.
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  1311. There 😂2 sure things in life...death in Texas
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  1312. Ryan, loved this story about the GW. Because of the iconic natureof this wonderful bridge, I wanted to give a shootout to the movie SULLY. Sully used the bridge as a reference point and the movie showed the plan flying close to the tower as it was losing altitude. By the way,, I love trains and train history and I have a special affinity to draw bridges.
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  1313. Ryan, great watch.... History always makes a enjoyable watch. Anything with vintage steam is even better, BUT nothing beats vintage steam railroads !!! If I only had a dollar for every time I rode the Disneyland R.R. or the Calico R.R. at Knott's Berry Farm I would be a "Multi-Millionaire." Well almost.
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  1314. Ayee shout out to az. Bisbee is beautiful but old thanks for getting az in on the fun! Thank you
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  1315. 👍👌👏😊❤️
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  1316. Thank you Ryan
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  1317. I attended Illinois Institute of Technology, which was founded by meatpacker Phillip Armour. The stockyards were an engineering marvel of their time, and the assembly line techniques developed there were later adopted by many other industries, including automobile manufacturing.
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  1318. wow! I’m first!😍😍😍😍
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  1319. I love this channel can’t believe my city was talked about! Jackson Tn, been in that train station many times!
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  1320. YAY Ryan! 👍👌 Great video. Interesting topic, well presented…keep up the good work! 😊👌👍🤙✌️
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  1321. As always a interesting video.
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  1322. I absolutely love stuff like this.
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  1323. Anybody from Chicago will tell you, avoid this at all cost, GPS will have you in circles and spit you out nowhere you wanted to be 😂
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  1324. My grandma has a painting of riverview in her basement that has been there since I can remember, I never thought to ask her what it was so i finally asked her last week and it has led me down a rabbit hole. I live super close by, just off of Belmont and it’s wild that I’m just now discovering this
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  1325. You will never see artwork like this again..Beautiful
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  1326. Another high quality informative presentation! Thank you!
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  1327. Excellent
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  1328. This is what happens when train conductors are overworked!
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  1329. Beautiful Video 👌👌👌🌹🌹🌹
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  1330. Our transit and roadway system is actually pretty kool
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  1331. Wow. This was fascinating to watch. Learned something new today. Thanks 😊
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  1332. What an amazing video! I’m a Caps fan so I hate the Pens, but love historical tales of arenas. And yes, that Doors concert was amazing, one of their best live recordings!
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  1333. I grew up in Belmar in the 1960s and we rode the New York and Long Branch all the time for something to do. One time taking a CNJ passenger train south to Bay Head the conductor let us stay on the train as it went around the loop. We got out and chatted with the crew that refueled the locomotive. It was a very nice gesture I was probably about 12 or 13. This was sometime around 1970. Both the CNJ and Pennsylvania RR ran passenger trains on the NYLBRR the Pennsylvania were pulled by A-B-A E-7s I think they were, the CNJ a single diesel. The ride quality and the interiors of the Pennsylvania coaches were far superior. My Dad told us on more than one occasion to appreciate the locomotives in PA red and the Keystone placard on the front because their days were numbered. Sometime around 1972 a trainman gave me a PennCentral lapel pin which is of course lost to time. I do however have 2 Pennsey and 1 CNJ kerosene signal lanterns one of them (Pennsylvania) was given to my Dad when he was a kid by a NYLBRR trainman. Grandpop owned a Diner in Belmar and this guy ate there often. This would have been in the late 1930s early 40s.
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  1334. Fantastic video
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  1335. What a deal scary....Thank you excellent video..... Shoe🇺🇸
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  1336. I love these videos. By far one of my favorite channels!
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  1337. Very nice presentation. Also, the Clanton family still owns land here. It is a great place to visit, and even better place to live.
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  1338. Thanks for a great story ! I had never known about this elevator, but it's always nice to learn something new and interesting and the story about how it came to be.
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  1339. Good stuff
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  1340. This is in my state and if you visit New Hampshire I highly recommend
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  1341. I always wondered what those were
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  1342. With californias gdp they should be forced to desalinate sea water. Arizona, Nevada and Utah do not have that option.
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  1343. Thank you for all the hard work you do to bring us these history stories. ❤😊🎉
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  1344. Doug Stanhope country
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  1345. I always look forward to your videos!
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  1346. Great video! Our channel did some investigative journalism on this subject and how it affects the Des Plaines River! 👀 Check it out if you want to find out more information about the affects of the Chicago Sanitary Ship Canal and other pollutants in the Chicago area!
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  1347. It’s a neat and inspiring place to visit, I visited many times as a kid. Loved it
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  1348. Everyone wants her to be preserved but refused to pay for it.
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  1349. What’s with the sunglasses Ryan? It’s creepy. IMO
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  1350. My favorite bridge in the world ❤ growing up blocks away, reminding me of the Eiffel Tower, I’ve driven, rollerbladed, biked, and walked it many times, explored underneath both sides, partied in raves (gwb side), made love, later my sons 1st bday party where they filmed the Big movie (the wish scene) collect GWB art n photography and soon just tattoo it on my forearm so I can see it wen I’m nowhere near it ❤ I love my GWB bridge
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  1351. Interesting video
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  1352. 24 hours? It takes like 6 hours to fly between NY and London.
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  1353. Great video TY. Plum Island was also chosen due to its geographical location which created a natural barrier to mainland USA beyond Long Island .
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  1354. This is a fascinating story. Thanks for the research on it. I would love to see some of the 'remanants' of the old trestle.
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  1355. Thank you Ryan
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  1356. 💛💛💛 Thank you Ryan and It's History Team. Great video!
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  1357. You're so cute. I'm glad you show more of yourself in these videos.
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  1358. Great video! One note... at timecode 15:51 the image used is in fact Shepard Hall at City College of New York (CCNY) and not New York University (NYU). I earned my BFA in Film there and spent 3 years making shorts in tower inside Shepard Hall. The view is from the east side of the building with Saint Nicholas Terrance running adjacent to the building. My grandfather and I love your videos!
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  1359. One of my lobster diving spots. Cool video on the history! I mostly see sea lions there and not harbor seals but most don't care to know the difference anyway.
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  1360. I hope you are feeling better… now that is dedication!
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  1361. Your welcome Ryan! I'm really glad you made this documentary.❤
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  1362. Great video, however you’re incorrect. The operation still continues til this day. They just use standard armor trucks instead of trains. Money is still transported to a secret location. They made this change back in 2007.
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  1363. Yes ,you can swim with the sharks in camden.
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  1364. As usual ,pretty through. Coney Island was originally an island were the Coney a small rabbit like creature was previlant ,hence it's name. Like the fish the " sheepshead" which gave neighboring sheepshead bay it's name. A storm in the 1800 washed in a bunch of sand which connected the island to the mainland making it the ground u see today. I lived in Gravesend in the he 70's and 80's,and while I knew Brooklyn streets were named after famous founders, I never new who the street I lived on was named after until now . Boynton place. Thanks for a great Vid
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  1365. I just love these trains. Thank you for cheering this old duffer up on a rainy afternoon in Scotland.🤡
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  1366. Ryan, I don't think were in Chicago anymore !!!!!!! Will finish video after dinner. Really
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  1367. The HighLine is one of the most pleasant, quiet, wonders of NYC.
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  1368. Here we go, another train video. Awesomeness, great video. I just Subscribed to your Eat's History channel, looks cool. Superb Ryan
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  1369. Thank you for this video! I love your channel💯
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  1370. It will always be the sears tower to me. As a field trip in school we did the stairclimb as part of the trip. As a hyper active child I made it fine but goodness it is a long way to the top lol.
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  1371. Thank you so much for an interesting and informative video! Didn't know these even existed! Honestly in my opinion i think they should reopen these tunnels and have then used for Ebikers/skateboarders/roller skaters. Of course with a speed limit in the tunnels(if people can be smart or considerate enough to go slow). If not reopen them with mirrors, cameras and brighter lights should people want to use them. I definitely think the ones by the schools should stay open/ or reopened if it's safe for the children with safety measures with teachers/or parents at each end of the tunnel. I do believe the tunnels shouldn't be opened all day though, especially the ones by the schools. Maybe reopened to be used by women/childen only(as I'm sure that'll decrease crimes against women/children)with safety measures put in place as well.
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  1372. Wow cool video! Now, Winter Park is a highly desirable affluent area! (I live nearby.) 🙂
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  1373. When my son was little, like 3-4 years old, his favorite treat would be to get McDonald's at the O'hare Oasis and watch the cars go by. We live in the south burbs and had lots of family in the north burbs, so up 294 for a visit, and then hit the O'hare oasis on the way back down where he just loved seeing the top-down perspective of the cars and trucks It must have been so novel, this thing I've taken for granted my whole life (born and raised in Chicagoland). Ah, this was just like 10 years ago. Time flies.
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  1374. Thank you for making and posting this video.
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  1375. It's still so iconic
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  1376. Excellent presentation , Thank you !
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  1377. I love this channels videos. Ive lived here since I was 6 and now 50, still learning new thing about NYC’S history!
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  1378. Great video!
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  1379. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥️
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  1380. I was born in 1959 and remember the heyday of the Belvedere and Des Plaines Oases. Stopped there as a kid twice a year going to pick up and then drop off a cousin who stayed with us every summer all summer.
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  1381. I’ve always admired this beauty! Sitting across, enjoying a pretzel or a Nathan’s,.. mesmerizing history!😊
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  1382. I grew up just south of Sutro Baths and visited the ruins many times. My grandparents had stories of using the baths when it was open. It’s quite the developed park now. Sadly the Cliff House & Louis’s restaurant have been closed since Covid. About 10 years ago there was a river otter that took up residents in the water of the ruins. He stayed for quite a while & residents named him Sutro. I saw him too. I’ve often wondered what became of him. I didn’t know the other enterprises Adolph Sutro had. Thanks for the education.
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  1383. Lower Wackoff.....driven that a million times
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  1384. San Francisco is no longer what it one was , Destroyed by so called politicians , Homeless rampant, business closed ! It was so Beautiful in its Day , Thank you for the great history you have given us .
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  1385. Great video, as always, and this time especially perfect because it merges two of my greatest interests: architecture and the sinking of the Lusitania. The photo of Elbert Hubbard holding his briefcase and wearing a heavy coat was actually taken by a press photographer onboard the Lusitania before it sailed from New York, and is the last known still photo of Hubbard. Even more remarkable is that, for a brief moment at the lower left of the screen, you can see Elbert and Alice smiling and waving at the newsreel camera that filmed the liner’s final departure. They are, appropriately, standing closely side-by-side.
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  1386. Breath taking. I like this better than Versailles. It's so Beauty,and the Beast.
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  1387. Another GREAT subject information Professor Socash, I was just to lazy to look it up, but I would always look at the Statue of Liberty the base always reminded of the Star of David, ( i think to many points around base) and that was Jesus standing on the base and all of the Arch Angels were at like the North South East sections and as a great war would invade the Great Statue, that is kinda where it would stop, kinda like a dream or a vision of seeing something, any way great lesson for today thank you be safe and at peace...
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  1388. Very interesting!
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  1389. It’s called Custer State Park, not Cluster State Park.
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  1390. I immediately recognized the Baloo class; the USS Batfish is a museum in the town I was raised. Every grade school kid got at least one tour of it growing up. I remember thinking, "If I join the Navy, it won't be as a Submariner!" I went Navy Aviation and enjoyed all that fresh air on the flight deck!
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  1391. I got to see Smashing Pumpkins play at the United Center a few years ago, and when WPC sang that line, the arena went berserk with applause. It was awesome to see and hear.
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  1392. Thanks!
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  1393. Maybe make it into an Airbnb.
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  1394. Wow!!! Well done.❤
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  1395. Not only are you back, but it's with a video about modern urban history! (does cartwheels)
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  1396. Excellent bio for the Lighthouse - Thank you!
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  1397. I appreciate this channel so much. As someone who grew up in the Chicagoland area and has been to so many of the areas spoken of on this channel, I must say I love the context provided here. Can't thank you enough. 🙏🏻
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  1398. It's actually crazy. I have friends who lived in Pittsburgh and always told me about the igloo. I was like what until you post this and I was like oh right now I remember and I'm a hockey fan who was from Toronto who had an arena literally named after the team itself which was Maple leaf's garden which is still around the day that isn't so popular
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  1399. Those are four GREAT men!
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  1400. That was really really awesome thank you, I would highly enjoy to see more on location its history!!!
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  1401. Thanks again for another interesting piece Ryan. I truly appreciate your attention to detail in each item that you bring us. I'm a huge history buff and enjoy just about anything I can get on different places around the nation and beyond! God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏻
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  1402. I have always known the drive as Lake Shore Drive and even if they rename it. I will still call it by that name.
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  1403. Excellent video. I wish someone would restore the canals in my area of Ohio,stark, Tuscarawas, Coshocton counties. I think it would great to boat, kayak and canoe.
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  1404. Another great, informative video. Thanks for posting it! Subscribed. (Buffet = say Buh-Fay. It's a French word. ) 👍
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  1405. Interesting video
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  1406. In the 80's I worked on a street in the San Fernando Valley called Owensmouth. It was a reference that now the Owens river discharges here, not in the Mono Valley. Mulholland had another engineering failure. IIRC, he was self taught. During a project on the Colorado River, it breached its containment and rushed towards a point below sea level. It did so for over a year before stopping it. Thus, the Salton Sea.
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  1407. Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, love the videos brother 👍
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  1408. Love your channel Ryan! There’s nothing like it anywhere. I’ve learned a lot. Please keep them coming! 😊😊😊
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  1409. It is definitely strange and fascinating. There’s so much to see and even though I’ve been there twice before I’m sure I’ve not seen everything and will discover something new.
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  1410. They were good but always dirty and smelled like piss plus you might get jumped
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  1411. Cool story . 👍
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  1412. Approve as a Texan
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  1413. I grew up with the ILLINOIS CENTRAL in Bardwell and Paducah Kentucky from 1984-2005
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  1414. Metro in Washington DC has a money train. Yup! It’s yellow!
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  1415. Have you heard of Point Roberts, WA? The only way to get in to drive through Canada. In order for kids to get to school, they have to cross the border in Canada and and back to Washington state.
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  1416. Thanks!
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  1417. Thanks, Ryan. Sad but very interesting story.
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  1418. Ryan, get well soon. Congrats on another great video.
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  1419. @ITSHISTORY this is a wonderful channel 👍💯😎
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  1420. Very cool to see!
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  1421. Ive downloaded it and played a little. It's a nice game
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  1422. Great video
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  1423. When you listen to history and makes you think people nowadays saying their lives are so hard 😅😅😅
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  1424. Nicely done
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  1425. My uncle who raised me & my sibling in Lake St.Louis, Mo was born there.
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  1426. That ending was quite poetic. Thank you for it
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  1427. My friends lived on the canal. It was great fun to kayak up and down. Beautiful town.
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  1428. Great video!
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  1429. .WHAT A PITY.
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  1430. I remember going to the park several times as a child.
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  1431. Great video, this reminds me of my nearby Lake Koocanusa. When the water level is at its lowest old Highway 37 is visible as the pavement is still in the bottom of the reservoir.
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  1432. First
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  1433. I Iast attended this park in 1966, one year before it closed. Fun, Fun, Fun..............I laughed my troubles away, just as Two-Ton Baker used to say!!!
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  1434. Ah yes, another 🚂 video. Nice, great video Ryan 👍🏽😎👍🏽
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  1435. There’s also an abandoned World War 1 bunker in the woods right by Exit 0 in Cape May if you know where to look, and an abandoned World War 1 watch tower right near this bunker!
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  1436. Another nice job! You know you are getting up there when you've been to at least 6 old school amusement parks that are just memories now. Ocean View was smallest but was in 2 movies, 4 of them passed close to when River View did. Miss them all. No ride requirements and minimal restraints made rides exciting when you wanted to ride and terrifying when you HAD to ride the shooting star or wild mouse, hang on!
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  1437. Thanks for making this type of content ❤️💯 honestly keep it up Mr Socash
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  1438. Now this is history
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  1439. Love these videos so well researched and presented!!
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  1440. Rode the City of Miami and the Hawkeye. Two trains different as night and day but both did their jobs very well providing regular and safe service.. Thanks for sharing and doing the research.
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  1441. I work there. A lotttt of boats
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  1442. I remember Skybus at South Park as small boy.
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  1443. Bro, would you ever consider doing the Ohio State Reformatory (Mansfield, OH) ? Lots of spooky stuff there, and the ghostly figure that treks the woods nearby. Love the videos
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  1444. I would love to see that interview !
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  1445. love to hear about blackpool tower ;)
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  1446. I use to go there twice a month. Delivered to the now defunct Alco Store there. Was a fun drive.
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  1447. Mr. Socash your videos are awsome. Can you make a history video of the New York Susquehanna & Western railroad? They have one of the most interesting histories of any railroad past and present. They are a class 2 railroad that has been around since the late 1800s and are still kicking to this day, only ever reaching class1 credentials for a year or two in between when the canadian pacific took over the Delaware & Hudson.
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  1448. do the sumner and callahan tunnel in bostom. the sumner is going to close for huge renovations.
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  1449. Hello this really good video on high line and it's history. I was wondering if you could do a video on the old elevated West side highway? From West 57 St to the Battery Underpass.
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  1450. That was so cool. I hope you're okay with going to more places and doing more episodes like this.
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  1451. What an absolutely amazing story and a fascinating building. Thanks so much for sharing. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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  1452. Thank you, Ryan for the trip down memory lane. 😊 I remember going to Coney Island when I was a little kid in the early 1950's. I begged my Dad to take me on the Cyclone (He said I was too young).😁
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  1453. Loving the rooftop episodes!
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  1454. As an Australian tourist, I walked the High Line in 2009 just after the first section was re-opened as a park. Thank you for this great history, 99% I did not know.
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  1455. How about the bridges in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin all being built at a slant.
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  1456. Even though we're English, watching this clip made us feel so sorry for the building. It was truly innovative along with the employee welfare. It was a building made for its employees and was a work of art. How many companies provide for their employees like that now? You can imagine it was a place that the employees enjoyed working in. The environment, the culture. You just cannot see that happening these days. He was ahead of his time, well ahead of us as we are now. If anything we've gone backwards. My husband had heard of Frank Lloyd Wright because his stepdad was an architect all his life. There is also a Simon & Garfunkel song called, 'Frank Lloyd Wright'. Therefore, he had heard he was a brilliant, innovative architect and what he had heard turned out to be right. So sad that all of this has been lost. It should have been made into a National Monument, with the City funding its upkeep. It could have become a museum with displays of products, a restaurant and sales counters. But I guess the modern world doesn't want to see the ideal way of conducting business and taking care of people. It is all soulless, corporate backstabbing where everyone tramples on everyone.... How Darwinian of a primarily Christian country.
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  1457. As a Kid [ I'M 72 NOW ] We would take a Bus from Berlin to Camden for Schools Cloths or Christmas ... Shopping at Stores as SEARS WOOLWORTH , WAMAMAKERS .... And around Christmas it was FANTASIC ...
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  1458. From your reflection on the boy of this story…you are obviously a man with a good heart❤, I enjoy your channel. Thanks👍🏻
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  1459. ✌️❤️
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  1460. It is very cool to learn and see these beautiful remains. Thank you, Ryan!
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  1461. wow amazing place and documentary!
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  1462. Great video
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  1463. Ryan all these videos are brilliant. Keep it up mate 👍
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  1464. Yeah, he's probably polish, we all know it here
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  1465. Great video guys! You guys have become my new preferred history account. Better than history channel. Lol
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  1466. Very cool, driven by it few times before never knew it’s history. Thanks.
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  1467. Amazing video, love the spotlight on Pittsburgh. I saw the Wiggles Live and the Circus at the igloo when I was little kid, and my first pens game was there. Sad to see it gone but parking at the arena is such a nightmare that I get it.
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  1468. Imagine being the engineer driving that train! 😂
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  1469. I'm a veteran, I want to visit and climb this tower too!
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  1470. There can never can be too much information. Thank you!
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  1471. if only i could have seen it
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  1472. Well done.
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  1473. Very interesting thanks for posting it. Have a great weekend everyone.
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  1474. Nothing can beat against mother nature! you play with fire you get burned. it has been told but people chose to ignore.
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  1475. Mini Ken Burns documentary. Great stuff!
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  1476. I used to work building transformers Uptegraff Transformer co in Western Pennsylvania and the building we worked in was built in 1907 and the equipment used to do the final tests before shipment was mostly from the Late 1930s and early 40s.. we mostly built new ones a lot were built for NYSEG but we also did a lot of work for Duquesne Light refurbishing their old Westinghouse Transformers.. most of which were 60+ years old but still worked like new and I always hated tearing them apart
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  1477. I think I may have suggested this topic a couple years ago! Lol. Anyway, great vid, my dude. First visited there sometime in the late 70's/early 80's and have been back many times, tho not in the last several years since my kid's grown. But within a couple miles you have House on the Rock, Taliesin (Frank Lloyd Wright's studio), and the American Player's Theatre, an outdoor venue that does a lot of Shakespearean and classic Greek theater. I'm not on their tourism board, but there's some cool shit to do in Spring Green, WI. 🤘
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  1478. This video is AMAZING!!
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  1479. Azkaban!!
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  1480. Good end for the domes, very useful!
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  1481. Casual steals someone else's license plate
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  1482. 3:28 Commentiquette is that you?
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  1483. That Victorian house at 9:55 is just stunning
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  1484. I Love 💕 Coney Island 🏝️
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  1485. Hello from Kansas 🇺🇲
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  1486. Those ships were notorious for splitting in half. That’s what ended many of those ships careers post war. They were so cheaply built and the steel so fragile, that many seafarers feared the liberty ships.
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  1487. YAY! A vid close to my home! Thanks!
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  1488. Excellent job covering a massive amount of history in 28 minutes!
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  1489. Crazy how Delaware litigation stopped 5 years of progress. Nonsense like that still goes on.
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  1490. Thanks for this update!
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  1491. I’m watching this video while staring at the fort 😁 thank you for the great video.
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  1492. I love history, this is definitely a top tier history Channel.
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  1493. Great Channel! I enjoy all your shows about Pittsburgh my hometown. I'm from the South Hills by Kennywood Park! My father worked for the city Civil Engineer. He helped rework waterworks and flood control. In the 1960s..He also surveyed "Parkway" rt 376/576 N to Wexford. Bonnie Ohio
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  1494. I toured the prison about 10 years ago, it was absolutely terrifying. Thank you so much for this documentary, very interesting to learn even more about it.
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  1495. Love your show
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  1496. That car chase in the Blues Brothers is epic 😲
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  1497. Imagine being a creator, spending hours to make a very good history video and only got 1,2K likes... Guys like this video, it helps to youtube share with more people!
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  1498. Don't forget about all more Bradley he was the mayor for Compton too he was the football coach at Centennial he trying to run for mayor again but they keep shutting down because they think that he still with the street stuff he's older he always been older but that's the politics
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  1499. Most enjoyable. Nicley done! Thank you.
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  1500. So friggin interesting! 👍🏻
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  1501. Luv the story of Riverview. My parents went there long before my life began. I do remember seeing alot of memories posted in a second hand thrift store in that area in my personal adventures. So many happy faces. If you can would you consider doing a video on THe Oid Chicago indoor amusement park? Thanks.
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  1502. Excellent doumentary! Thanks for sharing this information with us. 👍👍😊😊❤❤
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  1503. What a sad story for people who where living there
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  1504. There are numerous hidden tunnels under Washington DC Pierre LeFant designed Washington DC it is the only designed major city in the USA
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  1505. I wonder what is the next type of communication will be.
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  1506. Its good that they are saving a place with such a rich history . That ship yard must have seen a lot of ships over the years.
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  1507. Interesting history behind an ionic Chicago building. Thanks for posting!
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  1508. Great video!
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  1509. Enjoyed this. Thanks for creating the video
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  1510. Wonderful history. I had no idea. I used to work at 17 East Monroe Street.
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  1511. 🧡🇨🇦🧡
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  1512. My very favorite bridge, road over it many times as a child. I miss it.
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  1513. I’ve gone over that bridge. I always thought it was beautiful.
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  1514. USS Drum Gato class. Beached next to USS Alabama in Mobile Bay
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  1515. Oh my yes this young man has my heart. Thank you for this stoty😊
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  1516. Way to go Ryan, no sniffles detected! 😃
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  1517. Great video.
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  1518. I ❤ this channel!! I love the history about these interesting places, I have learned so much since I started watching, thank you for this! 🙏🏽
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  1519. Cool video. Great job
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  1520. GREAT WATCH.... Love both NYC and Chicago history, have been to both many times, don't get may but I like Chicago a bit better. I really wish the city leaders of both would get their heads out of there A$$ and take pride in the cities they are responsible for.
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  1521. This great video.
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  1522. Wow, this was intense!
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  1523. this was a very UPLIFTING story.
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  1524. You have created a wonderful presentation here. Very Nice !!! You also might take a look at The Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway in Marin County, California. It was built originally to be electric and had similar designs in regards to the electrical engineering. It was only supposed to be steam powered while being built but never completed the electrical construction portion of the project.
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  1525. Amazing what a stiff breeze, 5 gallons of gass & one match can alter
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  1526. Your videos are always interesting. $48 in 1948 for a train ticket, that is a lot of money, how much is it today, anyone know?
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  1527. Thank you for this documentary. ❤ One of the last relics was torn down over a decade ago. It was the Western Belmont overpass. It was developed to help relieve traffic congestion from Riverview.
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  1528. Tell us how you really feel cliff Don't hold back
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  1529. 1966, stationed in Key West sonar school, three other sailors and myself decided to go fishing from the 7-mile bridge. We arrived late Friday afternoon and set about rigging our lines over the edge, letting the fast current of the tide take the hooked bonita bait about a hundred feet from the bridge. We settled down on the catwalk, eating some snacks and drinking beer. When it was time to go to sleep, we wrapped the secured lines around several beer cans and drifted off to slumberland. About 4 a.m. beer cans began flying . Using a boat winch and a grappling hook, we hauled up a 200 pound grouper ( or jewfish ) on one of our lines...the biggest fish I had ever seen. You could slide your lower body into its mouth. A minute later, more cans began flying from a second line.We had caught a 6 foot hammerhead shark, which proved to be a lot harder to grapple and raise to the decking. The shark was near dead by the time we got it unhooked. We carefully pushed it over the side, a 40 foot drop. I don't think it survived. We sold the grouper to a fish market the next morning, splitting the cash between us. I will always remember that weekend on the old 7-mile bridge. Good times.
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  1530. Great research! Love your channel!
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  1531. Great video.. definitely would like a part two and a basement's video .. great job sir.. you did a brilliant job..
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  1532. This is really cool.
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  1533. Thank You for this story, I have ridden the California Zepher from Emeryville to Chicago, a most remembered trip.
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  1534. Its gonna take a day just to see this video '-'
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  1535. In its prime it reminds me of the "L" in Chicago. As a former Illinoian I know Chicago and the nasty "L" very well. Now Long Islander this is much nicer but NYC went underground with its transit which can be not so nice. It IS coming around though with the new Penn Station, new trains and new lines.
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  1536. Everyone knows that the top of the Chrysler building is where the Kingpin's lair is hidden...
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  1537. Thank you Ryan
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  1538. Just leaving this note before I hit the do not follow or whichever button. I dislike scam title's like Abandoned...If You can't get the title right I doubt You got much else right either .Goodbye.
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  1539. Great video! I loved all the information.
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  1540. Interesting video
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  1541. Wow! Thanks. I’ve been there a bunch but never knew!
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  1542. One the best narrator in YouTube land
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  1543. What neat place to kayak!
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  1544. Great video's 👍🏻
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  1545. New subscriber! I didn't know that London Bridge end up in Arizona! How do they move the bridge?
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  1546. Good video!
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  1547. Thanks for sharing another great story about our USA 🇺🇸 history!!
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  1548. I noticed you changed your way of narrating the videos a bit and I love it.
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  1549. The MTA have vent shafts and emergency exits all over the city
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  1550. There were several drive in theatres in South Florida that were still operating in in the 1990's and early 2000's. The one in Sunrise (Broward County) may still be in operation. They made up for lost revenue from the theatre operation by hosting flea markets during the day. The Thunderbird drive in in Sunrise is one of the largest open air flea markets in the state. A few building were put up to house some flea market vendors in a mini mall set up, and the Flea Market runs every day, it's a huge tourist attraction.
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  1551. Yeah there's that west coast flavor I've been craving!
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  1552. Thank you for this one! ❤🤍💙
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  1553. TRAINS!!
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  1554. Good stuff young man☺️
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  1555. interesting history. Thanks for posting.
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  1556. Having grown up in Bisbee, little is told of the significance of the Mexicans regarding the success of the copper mine. The Mexicans with their mules, carried the much needed water to the miners. (Hence Mule Mountains) The Descendents of early Portuguese conquistadors, they owned most of the land around Bisbee and some of them still do to this day. Some of these Descendents died in Viet Nam. It's a very rich history...even before the arrival of the industrious Serbs, whose European architecture can be seen in various buildings including the Copper Queen Hotel. Thank you for the mine history. 👍
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  1557. Thank you for the video. I would use the Poppy Peak tunnel in Kindergarten (1988) and always wondered why the tunnel had mirrors. Using the tunnel was normal after school and Highland Park was not a safe place in those days
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  1558. you do a great job, Ryan. really love your work
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  1559. Total incredible my brother thank you thank you thank you
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  1560. Interesting video - good job :)
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  1561. We had pedestrian tunnels here in San Diego too.
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  1562. Good video Ryan, here's an idea the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway?
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  1563. Is it cold studio? Wondering why you have the tea cosy on your head. 😁
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  1564. Great historic video! I've known of The Cliff House's history, but knew little of the Sutro Baths! Didn't know anything about the owner/builder Adolf Sutro and his past until your indepth coverage! Very interesting and well done nostalgic trip back!
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  1565. love this content
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  1566. WOW!!! Just wow!! Amazing!!
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  1567. I saw several events here in my childhood - awesome to see.
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  1568. First
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  1569. Great interview :)
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  1570. Good job on the video. I went from there to Joliet (which is where everyone goes for about a month while you get classified for a prison to be sent to). Then to Shawnee prison which is 22 hours a day in a 6x8 cell with another dude. No heat or air conditioning, etc. Locked up with animals who ain't never goin home so they got nothing to loose, know what I'm sayin? And the guards are more heinous than the inmates. Cook Country jail is like a nice kindergarten compared to prison. Once that "guilty" comes down, you are no longer a human being. Imagine going into a huge haunted house for Halloween but there's no exit, you're lost, nobody will listen to you and all you can do is try to survive to make it out some day years later, but you're not even sure if you ever will. Fun times.
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  1571. It’s not garlic it was wild onions
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  1572. Wow That's So Awesome and Amazing of A Historical Castle from the 14th Century
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  1573. a great story and well told:-)
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  1574. I enjoyed this video style
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  1575. i use opera GX.. and love it!
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  1576. The His/Her Majesty's Ship?
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  1577. Well done video. Enjoyed it. Were all of the images used of Chicago’s Cable cars and streetcars or were some from other cities used as filler. Had two great grandfathers who worked the streetcars and a grand aunt who worked in CTA’s payroll department while I was in CTA’s Strategic Planning Department for 18 years. Some of the tracks were removed by the city when they put median planters on many major streets such as Western Avenue. In the late 80’s or early 90’s a group of about 20-30 Transit Professionals organized by Dan Joseph chartered two TTC streetcars and rode Toronto’s Streetcar network at night. We picked the night of the fall time change and got an extra hour of charter time as a result. We started with the current model operating on the system and then half way through the night got a tour of their yards then took out a historical model. Have to say how friendly and gracious all the TTC employees were who we met on the trip and what a nice visit it was. This was a photo charter so we got to stop at various spots for photos and enjoyed the unique aspect of this kind of charter when we made a pit stop at a Dublin Doughnuts by just stopping the streetcar in the middle of the street and going in for a bathroom/food break. Not something possible during regular service hours. What a wonderful experience it was!
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  1578. I have a upright Piano with a Iron plate on the back commemorating the Columbian Exposition...
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  1579. My most irrational fear is getting swallowed up in a sinkhole. And I don't live anywhere near them.
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  1580. Great video! I grew up in Lake Havasu City, and my grandma use to work closely with McCullough. The London Bridge is a nostalgic icon to me because of the memories I have of it.
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  1581. Awesome video
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  1582. Interesting video
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  1583. Forgotten? I never knew we had them
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  1584. I prefer old New York City. It was more classy and gentile.
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  1585. It's the pinnacle of American Neon Culture. Vegas can try, but Times Square will always be Times Square. And, having visited in the sketchy days, I'm all for Disney. Move the questionable practitioners to another borough...Name you favourite here...
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  1586. Hey Mr. Socash
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  1587. Great Video. Thank you for the Arizona History Lesson. Many of us Arizonans were born in a different state, and didn’t get to learn our local history in grade school.
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  1588. Dope south la finally
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  1589. Love to show keep it up
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  1590. Nice ... sank you very much
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  1591. Hey Ryan, another fantastic video! I am a life-long Chicago-area resident, and I worked at Great America for two seasons in the 1980's. I was only 5 years old when they closed Riverview, and I feel like I missed out on something great. Oh, and a small correction...you said that Walt Disney's father worked at the World's Fair of 1983...I'm pretty sure that was in 1893! Keep the great videos coming!!!
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  1592. Go New Jersey!!!
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  1593. I been in Chicago my whole life and I never been to lower lower Wacker drive I'm bout to go find the entrance
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  1594. Your glasses distract from your material. Must be lasek surgery? Get some Ray Bans.
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  1595. Good stuff thx 4 the efforts
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  1596. Interesting video
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  1597. How exactly were they "Abandoned"? At what time mark was there an abandoned Liberty Ship? Seemed to have missed that part.
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  1598. 🎉CONGRATULATIONS!!! 600-THOUSAND subscribers!!!🥳
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  1599. Great to know about this. I think the most remarkable view of Manhattan is from the bridge at night. I never knew the bridge was built so recently.
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  1600. Another great episode Ryan. Being from Florida we don't get to experience these things on a daily basis. The city that never sleeps is an understatement. I went through there at 4 am and it was at a standstill. I was just excited about being on it.
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  1601. I really appreciate your narrative on this iconic subject.
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  1602. So who y’all calling migrants? 🤣 Your ancestors migrated here too 💯
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  1603. I used for many many years (40)👍😍😄🚌
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  1604. Awesome video my friend .
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  1605. Very well done documentary!! Seriously, great job covering every single base on this disaster!!
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  1606. There is an awesome D shaped bunker off Mississippi right in the gulf. They had massive cannons that would fire and skip the cannon balls off the water into the hauls of a boat. You need a ferry ride to it but it’s very cool to explore. There’s one right at the end of the Philadelphia airport too.
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  1607. Excellent presentation. Thanks for sharing.:face-blue-smiling::hand-pink-waving:
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  1608. Nice
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  1609. Great historical account of my city. I am from Watts and will forever love my city.
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  1610. Great video Ryan!
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  1611. Really enjoy the nyc videos! Amazing!
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  1612. Wow...thanks Ryan! Great content and delivery. Cheers bro
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  1613. What an amazing place! I bet the local roofer was a rich man 😂
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  1614. Nice presentation. For some really good in depth Riveriview history, including its reasons for closing, there is an excellent book titled "Laugh Your Troubles Away-the Complete History of Riverview Park", by Riverview employee Ralph Lopez and the late Derek Gee, an expert on Riverview's History.
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  1615.  @ITSHISTORY  make them all the time I like falling asleep to calming history voices videos lol
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  1616. Just found this channel. I'm impressed
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  1617. Thanks!
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  1618. "The statue cost $400,000". Adjusting for inflation that would be $11,672,765.96 today. So she definitely was a huge investment for the people of New York. And a worthwhile one at that.
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  1619. What a shame- a heritage building- nothing more than an a easel. 🇺🇸🦖☄️
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  1620. Nobody cares about the history,, It’s a shame. The comments bellow are a joke . Thank you for your research ❤️
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  1621. Great vid. As for the name Pollepel, a pollepel is a big spoon, like the one used for serving soup. It is a Dutch word.🙂
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  1622. Excellent episode!!!
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  1623. This was really interesting, thank you for doing it!
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  1624. Always wondered about that ship driving by thru the years, thanks!
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  1625. My wife likes Auntie Anne's pretzels so we always stop at the Lake Forest Oasis and they never have any pretzels lol. It is amazing.
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  1626. Grew up in the area and this was an awesome history lesson!
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  1627. My video is the NJ devils house 👹 maybe😊
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  1628. yea i’ve know. all too well about florida n their sinkholes. i think ever since hearing about that poor man that got swallowed up by one in his bed i was horrified. i only go there to go on cruises but that’s it
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  1629. This was very interesting, thank you !
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  1630. Thanks for the Ausome content!!
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  1631. How do you manage to keep on making interesting content?
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  1632. I've been there a couple of times.
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  1633. My god, I have seen the metro cars sitting outside the Wisconsin Southern yard in Horicon, WI. Did not realize they were connected story to those in California
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  1634. Cable TV and home video definitely helped end it, I had never thought of that before, but that makes total sense. And what did they show late night on cable? All the drive-in horror and teen/college sex cheapies that had been Drive Ins' bread and butter! The Drive-Ins I went to in the 70s had a speaker that you hung on your window, so it wasn't great fidelity - and if I remember correctly, the speakers sometimes didn't work great, there could be static. (Expensive upkeep, hundreds of speakers!) I didn't remember the radio signal but that would definitely make sense by the 80s, when everyone had FM radios in their cars, better speakers, and movies were doing more and more in stereo. That must have saved the Drive-In business for an extra ten years.
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  1635. YAY I love this channel
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  1636. Excellent work. 🙌
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  1637. This was super interesting! I didn’t know any of this.
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  1638. Good video as always but it was during wednesday rush hour, not Saturday.
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  1639. Had my very first REAL sourdough bread there in 1982. Dont remember what I ordered....just that ( drool) bread. Sooooo glad I got to experience The Cliff House 💙💙💙💔💙💙💙💔💙💙💙
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  1640. In America nothings "shocks" me anymore after the past 2 1/2 years. Great watch.....
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  1641. Ryan you're the best
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  1642. As a teenager in the 1980s it would be covered deep in trash from Dumpsite 101, where NYC dumped it's garbage in the ocean. Full bags of trash, medical waste, crack vials, you name it- would wash up.
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  1643. NY cities The big Apple Never sleep God bless y.all.🙏.
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  1644. I love my state!
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  1645. Good day, I actually was going to say that i really liked your content, congratulations! I have subscribed to your C h a n n e l 😉 Maybe, You can do the same and we will become "real" Youtube friends
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  1646. Thank You. Great History on my old Hone Town.
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  1647. There’s always a malapropism. I’m convinced they’re meant as Easter eggs. Today’s is “eloquent” instead of “elegant.” As always, a wonderful, entertaining and unusual treat. Love these videos so much!
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  1648. I recently visited Bisbee with a friend and her gracious friends showed us around. Her friends had moved from Tucson (my dream retirement city) and I was interested in why they chose to move to Bisbee, mostly because they're so young- in their late 20s. They said they see a lot of potential still within the city and they want to open a bar/restaurant. We did a ghost tour, had a wonderful dinner, went to the smallest bar in America, then went to St. Elmo's where we witnessed 3 bar fights!! I love to see a thriving historic town that has a local culture but when they say wild west, they mean it in Bisbee! This was a surprisingly entertaining place to visit!
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  1649. Well done! And no, I didn’t realize you were running a fever and had the ‘flu! The Mom in me is hoping that you grabbed your water bottle and went back to bed after you recorded this. LOL I have never even heard of this island, so this was a fascinating tour for me - thank you!
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  1650. I made jewelry in the 1960s and 70s with turquoise from the Bisbee copper mines.
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  1651. I think Fenway is older than Wrigley. Wrigley is better though ;). GO CUBS!!
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  1652. Man this skeekale river sounds really fun, how have I lived here for 14 years and never heard of it! (jokes aside great video!)
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  1653. Yes, I am watching this video using WiFi from my fibre connection. 😊😊
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  1654. I like videos and comments.
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  1655. Great history lesson
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  1656. Loving the recent focus on pittsburgh!
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  1657. I LOVE "It's History."
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  1658. Great video, thanks for posting!
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  1659. Amazing. I appreciate your on location report.
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  1660. My Mother worked there when she was in High School...and she took me and my brother a couple times,fun place.
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  1661. Fantastic video, thanks! 2:42 wow that's a lot of people
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  1662. 33 Thomas Street is even more bizarre
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  1663. I never knew it was a veteran memorial.. thank you
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  1664. Hey guys! I love this channel and I’d love to do some volunteer voice over work for you - reply if you think that works for you :)
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  1665. God!! I miss drive in theaters!!! Some of my best memories were from them, so damn American!🤘🏴‍☠️
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  1666. I lived in Wisconsin for decades. Never stopped to look at the house. I love architectural wonders. Love all the history and pictures. You did an awesome job thank you.
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  1667. good video, had no idea about this.
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  1668. I didn't knew you're doing "On Location" videos. That's very good too! Thank you Ryan, good job 👍
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  1669. This is great historical insight. Thank you. Now can we get this running from Seattle to Philly? I'd pay for a pass. <3
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  1670. I live by the Morris canal
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  1671. Thank you sir! I've lived here my whole life and never really knew the whole story. I've gone to a couple concerts out there and have only ever known it as a concert venue.
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  1672. My uncle took us to Riverview several years in a row, from about the time I was 7 until I was 10. Seeing the photo of Aladdin's Castle still gives the creepy feeling that that big face gave me when we went. It scared me but I went in. I remember the slanted floors and the mirrors that distorted your appearance. Love the Chutes but only went on the Bobs once because I was terrified. Loved the Comet because I liked a roller coaster with a roof. Wonderful memories.
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  1673. Awesome video
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  1674. Kudos Ryan ! Very well done as usual. From Pittsburgh, PA
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  1675. Top Tip: If you plan to go up the tower, buy your tickets online. Otherwise you'll be standing in long queues for a long time, and on hot days that's not ideal.
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  1676. Hey Ryan, always great to learn from your expert research. I have an idea possibly. Travelling through New York state a huge amount over the years I have thought about the history of the state rest areas. I know in recent decades there were many renovated. Some loosing charm with newer designs. All the best to you, keep up the good work!
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  1677. 😊 too cool ... thanx , Ryan ... very entertaining very well done ❤
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  1678. Fascinating stuff, thank you 😃🙏
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  1679. He distinctly said National League Park. Fenway is American League.
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  1680. Thank you for the amazing content!!!
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  1681. Drove over the Francis Scott Key Bridge and saw it yesterday. Didn't know anything about it. Thanks for the great video.
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  1682. I saw a concrete old ship once. Couldn't figure out if it was real but now I know.
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  1683. Amazing essay and great visuals. Instant subscription! This video is approached with such specificity and clarity that it is very enjoyable to watch, especially as someone knowledgeable with the area.
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  1684. Great video!
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  1685. Nicely covered, thanx! Cherish memories of beaches, Monterey north to mid Oregon driving Hwy 1! Drove south 2 San Simeon, Hearst Castle. Would lov 2 see the rest!
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  1686. I’ve watched dozens of your history documentaries and loved everyone. Thank you.
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  1687. Thank You for your documentary. I was privileged to be part of working on the Millwork there; and the Book Depository next to the train station.
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  1688. The top of the soldier field is ugly. The lower part is absolutely gorgeous! I am sad they will destroy it because of the failure of the top.
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  1689. Brilliant!
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  1690. EXCELLENT VIDEO / VERY. INTERESTING RYAN
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  1691. Great job on this.
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  1692. What a wonderful piece! Thanks so very much for sharing Ryan and I pray that you have a very Merry Christmas & God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏼
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  1693. I used to know a prostitute who went by the name "Biarritz D'Elegance", who worked on lower wacker drive. She had a girlfriend named "Parkin Lot" who was a lot of fun.
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  1694. Thanks!
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  1695. "Manhattan Island for a string of beads." This is not a sad story. It's a myth. (I'm glad it's touched upon here.) Do not believe that Indians were stupid. These exchanges for a few tokens - symbols of the deal struck. Goodwill gifts. Land Access / Usage Rights, were almost all deals struck for an Alliance. Manhattan was a large chunk of land. An Alliance with people who have gunpowder - is a pretty sweet deal for Natives with new heights to rise to. And: Old scores to settle.
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  1696. Bring her back!
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  1697. I feel like there was a missed opportunity to end the video with "I'll be back" 😎
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  1698. Are we sure this wasn’t aliens?
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  1699. Amazing, thank you!
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  1700. I was wondering which building is that, located in the 1904 photos, Haussmann-style, next to the corner building just to the right of One Times Square, where I believe the Nasdaq building is now located?
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  1701. Interesting technology back then
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  1702. Thank you for today lesson... ...
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  1703. definitely had my history fix... absolutely first class, great work.
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  1704. Might want to put a clause in the advertisement... "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."
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  1705. Why not offer tours of these ships? I would pay to see the inside of them.
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  1706. Interesting video
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  1707. Great video:) I miss the old opening music
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  1708. How innovative, beautiful, and amazing Venice used to be. I don't understand its attraction these days. It's like a swap meet on the beach with an open sewage system they call canals. Bring back the Old Venice.
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  1709. My mom’s parents. My grandparents lived across the street from interstate 5 in pacoima. Also arleta. Seems the border changed. Idk. But they had a tunnel. Just down the road. It was definitely a no go place. Lol Saw people using it. But my grandmother made it clear you don’t ever go in there. She was a crossing guard. For enough decades to cross grandkids of her first students. Seriously. Mary Albright was her name. She was respected on her corner by everyone. Her neighborhood was a strange place to me. Normal homes. But it was the sidewalk with a 6 ft tall chain link fence right on it. Gated driveway too. Like living in a cage. Big Dobermans lol. She passed in 92. I miss her and think about her every day
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  1710. Good
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  1711. I think the Simpsons did it.
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  1712. I love learning about things like this!
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  1713. Nice job Ryan!
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  1714. The old LA buildings were awesome...so glad i saw them before i left.
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  1715. Love it! Proudly born in Red Bank, NJ !
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  1716. As a teenager it was a great place to take a date, don't actually remember any of the movies! 😍
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  1717. It was kind of a ridiculous project if you really think about it
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  1718. I hike and visit several times a year, good piece, thank you for showcasing it
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  1719. Good Report.
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  1720. Socash!!! You forgot to mention that the first attempted night game - on 8/8/88 - ended up getting rained out! It was as if God or Weeghman or Wrigley put up one last protest!!! Good stuff as always. You do great work (especially on so many pieces of Chicago history) - keep rockin’ the content. And…GO CUBS GO!!!
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  1721. I ride the bike paths on the D&R canal.
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  1722. Such an amazing amount of info! Thank you 💟
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  1723. Transit projects always seem to get put through an absolute shredding by local politics — even the ones that ultimately get built. Excellent work as always, Ryan.
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  1724. I am a native Chicagoan and I have never heard that roadway referred to as a "forest of pillars". No and in fact that's rather absurd. You probably shouldn't just make things up because you could cause people some embarrassment. If a tourist were ask one of us where the "forest of pillars" was we not only wouldn't know how to answer them we would think they're kind'a crazy too. The third level of Wacker Drive is home to plenty of dangerous homeless people and that is no place for a tourist to explore. Forget all your delusions about the homeless being just unfortunate normal people, they're not, they're dangerous and they will hurt you.
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  1725. Fantastic videos! Super robota! Dzięki!
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  1726. I liked that GG1 electric loco that could only be removed in pieces! They were such characterful locomotives! Thanks for the video.
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  1727. I love your channel . You are in Poland? It's amazing the info and graphics you provide.
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  1728. Ryan I have done research on Illinois research hospital in Chicago, ill but could not find out any history or what ever happened to it. The hospital seems to have been lost to history. I know it existed because I was born there in June 1958.
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  1729. Nice job filming this & while sick.
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  1730. Oggyville? Try OH-gahl-vee
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  1731. Informative Good video 😊😊❤
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  1732. American history is such a great topic to base your channel on. The states is like 50 countries in 1. Plus America is nornally leading the way when it comes to innovation and new technology. Thankyou for the great material. It's nice to binge on a channel whilst learning at the same time.
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  1733. FANTASTIC SIR! Thank you for taking us along. I could never afford to visit this, but now I have!
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  1734. As a kid in the Long Ago, I remember seeing these in film and TV shows, and asking my dad why we didn't have lots of them here, and him patiently explaining to 8 year old me that the Scottish weather was not really designed for outdoor cinema!
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  1735. Nice video
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  1736. Very good sir.
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  1737. Thank you for featuring this. I grew up in Milngavie, so I know the area well.
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  1738. better call Sal
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  1739. Delaware is a great state to live in!!!
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  1740. First time seeing one of your videos. I must say that its well done. Any video of the Chicago worlds fair would be great. would love to know what happened to the moving sidewalk or people mover.
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  1741. Great presentation
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  1742. I’ve passed these buildings numerous times but never knew the history. Thanks!
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  1743. One of your better videos....
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  1744. Ryan your Chicago videos are my favorite way to spend a lazy afternoon! Thank you!
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  1745. where are you from its history? a subscriber just curious.
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  1746. 1st video of yours I've seen. Instantly subscribed! 😎👍 My wife and I have vacation-rented one of the colorful houses three times so far.
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  1747. Cool video😎
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  1748. Ryan you are awesome.. love your videos
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  1749. Very beautiful castle and surroundings. Thank you to the gracious guide for all she provided.
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  1750. More
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  1751. Chicago Was a Very interesting place! Thanks Ryan!
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  1752. Coney Island 🏝️ is the most magical and happiest place on earth 🌎🌍 And it is where dreams come true ❤️💐
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  1753. So cool, I would love someday before I die and before we go to World War III where these castles are going to get destroyed, I’d love to go visit them and see Europe. It’s a bucket list dream but it would be awesome. Keep them coming Ryan, LOVE ❤ the on location tours.
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  1754. I really liked this film. Seen it at the theater. I found the cinematography ahead of its time and I believe it set a standard for future films.
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  1755. An "It's History" upload is one of the best parts of my day! Thanks again Ryan for yet another wonderful piece! The hard work you put into each story truly shows! I'd love for you to do a piece or two from something in my state of South Carolina if you're interested please. We have a very rich and interesting history from our mountains to the coast! Again, thank you so very much! 💙🙏🏼
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  1756. I rode in a 1919 BAKER electric car in 1968. Very impressive !!
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  1757. You really should do a video about Cohoes NY and the water infrastructure and the mills and railroads and canals. The amount of history is incredible in this city and most of it has disappeared and is forgotten
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  1758. I say the train is coming baby I say the train is coming now I say the train is coming baby I say the train is coming now!!
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  1759. grew up near Lake Rose
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  1760. 1:54 thats outside my school lol
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  1761. Great Content, I was there 10-15 years ago. There was no dollar menu, back when the dollar menu was a thing. I remember it being 3 times more $ than the McDonald's by my house.
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  1762. Another great video. As always a fine topic. Thx.
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  1763. Thanks Ryan, for another great history lesson!!
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  1764. Ahhh. Great memories. As a kid in the 50's-60's the drive in movie was much cheaper. Two adults and 4 kids was out of our budget for a walk-in theater. Mom would make fried chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers, or sandwiches. We would visit Safeway for a selection of "Craigmont" soda, no snackbar for us. Movies I remember seeing are Babes in Toyland, 10 Commandments, The Robe, Spartacus, In Search of the Castaways (9 year old me fell in LOVE with Haley Mills), Breakfast at Tiffanys (mom's pick, meh...), Swiss Family Robinson.
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  1765. Such a smooth transition into todays sponsor 😅
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  1766. Thanks for sharing this piece with us Ryan. I really enjoy you bringing us stories that otherwise, I most likely would know nothing about. Your hard work is duly noted and appreciated! God bless! ~ Scott 💙🙏🏻
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  1767. Thank you!
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  1768. Interesting history of a WW2 legacy structure. Thanks for the content.
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  1769. Yooo it was owned by Archibald Kennedy? According to my research on ancestry he's my great great great great great great however many greats grandfather
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  1770. Very interesting history and it is a beautiful castle. Thank you.
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  1771. I Love My City! I love the Pedway, we're able to go from place to place without being exposed to the weather especially with the weather in Da Chi being bipolar😂
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  1772. Never heard of this place! Great story!
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  1773. Great video!
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  1774. Love this,
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  1775. Thank you..
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  1776. Another great video. Very informative and interesting. Thank you.
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  1777. I have never been to Chicago , and this went way too fast to try to follow.
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  1778. Cool video
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  1779. A classic in Chicago architecture!!
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  1780. Ladna czapka.
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  1781. The carriage design clearly shows its connection to GM's transit buses of the era.
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  1782. This was great. More History on Location please. Maybe you could turn the channel into a historical/travel vlog
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  1783. Legend has it that the idea for the design for the building comes from a pack of cigarettes. Look it up you'll be amazed 😊
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  1784. So cool!
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  1785. Such a cool place. I was Bourne in Montebello California 1968 but never got to go that far North. Until the 1990s and that was to Old Town Sacramento Via Donor's pass from Utah through Reno. I missed out. I hope they find a way to open before it goes to waste. The location just seem to be jinxed.
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  1786. Thanks for another great video
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  1787. Thanks!
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  1788. Thank you for this great video on manmade buildings. Do you have a similar video about naturally occurring buildings?
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  1789. Another remarkable piece...thank you...dgp/uk
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  1790. I wish I could afford to bring that town back to life.
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  1791. Thank you Ryan
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  1792. Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for making them.
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  1793. Love the on-location episode! I'm so glad the castle was rebuilt. Reminds me of the gigantic task of restoring Warsaw's old town architecture.
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  1794. Great piece of History, thanks.
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  1795. There is 3 close to me in Ohio
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  1796. My grandmother said you could win free groceries. & she said the roller coaster was so much fun. I can’t believe I never knew this existed until TODAY! & I live near Midway…
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  1797. Ive been to the only functioning drive in in NJ many times...Delsea Drive In. Love drive ins. Been going to them for over 50 years. My first was with my parents, The Atco Drive In. Box Car Bertha was the later second showing. The first was a kids cartoon. LoL.
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  1798. This was a very interesting and intriguing documentary. Thank you for presenting this Content and I couldn’t help but listen to the whole documentary. Good job.
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  1799. Kinda sad to say but a bit of these beautiful towers lies in a dusty box underneath my bed. It's not really something I own that I like to look at- I have it as I'm a massive architecture geek and these towers were so innovative at the time of construction. I do have on display however, a brochure from the WTC and a box of matches from Windows restaurant.
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  1800. Awesome thank you
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  1801. I was fishing next to this place a few weeks ago. Thanks for this video!
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  1802. Nice Job. 👍🏼
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  1803. Very informative, thanks so much.
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  1804. Thank you for doing something other then New York city, New Jersey or Chicago,
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  1805. The Chrysler Building is actually undergoing a massive renovation that includes the re-opening of its observation deck.
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  1806. Very interesting story. Thanks
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  1807. Interesting
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  1808. Very well done video! .. Very interesting. Thanks for posting!
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  1809. I love these longer videos
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  1810. Well since I'm from the south I say a-que-duct also so in order to conquer New York City and wipe it off the map all I have to do is take over its water supply
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  1811. I have beautiful memories as a kid there, like the candy dipped apples. 😊
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  1812. Chris farley died on the 60th floor btw
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  1813. Love your channel. Very informative, very cool
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  1814. MY FATHER WHO WAS BORN IN 1915 ANYWAYS WORKED ON GOOSE ISLAND DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION FIRST PULLING HIDES AND THEN LATER WORKING IN LEATHER PLANT STARTING ORIGINALLY AT 25 CENTS PER HOUR AND I BELIEVE HE SAID TWELVE HOURS A DAY HIS NAME WAS BRUNO GRENIS DAVID ADAM GRENIS MAPLETON AVENUE BOULDER COLORADO
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  1815. Amazon is now gonna get ideas...
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  1816. Love House on the Rock!! Been there multiple times... My boys loved the infinity room & window over the valley.
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  1817. People today must have at least 10 things in their home than can listen to them, "Hey Siri" for example. Nikola Tesla was a genius not fully appreciated in his time. Next: SpaceX Starlink?
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  1818. Ryan thanks for the story about the money train... Never heard of that before.. Thanks again for all the investigative journalism that you do to bring us these stories...Take care my friend and God Bless...
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  1819. Please do a video on the basements. I love your videos.
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  1820. In 2000 I was a bartender at Clementine (in the old 1/5th Hotel) & I would pass the Flat Iron Building before & after every shift. Even being a native New Yorker & seeing that gorgeous landmark 100’s of times throughout my life, I still pause to look at it more closely & find never before seen details & I’m just in awe. They just don’t make buildings like that anymore. Will they ever again? :-(
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  1821. Been following for a while. Love all the videos. This one was so good I joined as a YouTube member of the channel! Keep it up
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  1822. Thank you for talking about this technology. You did a lot of research and I appreciate it
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  1823. I went there as a child. Loved it…
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  1824. Calgary and Edmonton have tunnels and closed in skywalks to keep pedestrians safe and warm, or cool and endless downtown malls. Also not prone to earthquakes. When I was in LA and area nearly 20 years ago I tried to find public transit which no one I talked to thought was available, turned out there was, but obviously not used by many, never saw any either.
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  1825. Great video
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  1826. Fascinating, one would never know.
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  1827. Very cool history
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  1828. I was surprised that you didn't mention Larry Hoover, Noah Robinson and all the mobsters that were housed there. I would have been shocked if you had actual photos of the inside of the jail. Other than that, that was some good information.
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  1829. Another great video in the books🤟
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  1830. When I was a kid, I read the book Iron Coffins by a former submarine captain. After explaining to people how much of an interesting book it was, somebody told me that one of the submarines was located at the museum in Chicago. Later in life, I found myself on a business trip in Chicago, and I had an extra day before I traveled away. I spent that day at the museum. It was worth the wait. It is nice to see a video about this decades later. Thank you.
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  1831. Thanks!
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  1832. Nice work again Ryan! 😃
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  1833. TRAIINS!
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  1834. Someone once said... "my House" is a Sears Home...but I say it's more likely...Haunted!!! 😳😅
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  1835. I always appreciate a great history lesson. Thanks Ryan.
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  1836. good quality educational
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  1837. Really enjoyed this video from beginning to end ❤
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  1838. My parents took my younger brother and me in the mid 60's. I remember I was too little to ride the bobs, but everything else was a wonder and a cacaphony of noise, light and fun. You picked great pictures because they all reminded me of sights from being an amazed 5 or 6 year old. I'm 64 now.
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  1839. Well done... Thank you
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  1840. Thank You for this bem. As a, kind of "historian", i just can't let me be amazed of things like this. Great work, keep these coming, though, I am afraid of seeing Americans getting dumber, for every day. Sorry to say, but the truth hurts. Where might I find this amazing place, though, it should be in the "neighbourhood"? from a Finn in Diaspora
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  1841. I love this new episode on location it's totally exceptional that we can learn and see at the same time I've been a subscriber to yer channel for a long time now more on locations would be appreciated thank you for all yer hard work on its history
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  1842. There are lookout towers along the coast of Delaware and Maryland. There's one that you can go up to the top. Plus the surrounding park.
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  1843. I made it to my first drive-in theatre a few months ago. Took my wife to see Barbie. I passed out in my trunk while she watched. It was beautiful
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  1844. My Mother-in-law was the banker who was in charge of the latest remodel of the Cliff House.
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  1845. You should come to Northern Ireland. History, heritage & culture are in so abundance here.
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  1846. Thanks!
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  1847. Great video, thank you. I did think it was an odd choice that you depicted a 1970s automobile, when suggesting the car the designer drove influenced the train's cab design. The Aerotrain cab design does resemble a mid-1950s car's roofline, but by the 1970s...not so much.
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  1848. Thanks again Professor Socash, you are a Great teacher of History, really like this lesson of the Subway in NYC, I have never been to NYC, but I have been to the state of New York went to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, well until next time be safe and be at Peace...
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  1849. Do what's on the roof tops of San Francisco or Los Angeles
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  1850. You're my favorite youtuber
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  1851. I loved seeing it in person, by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen. If you're ever within an hour or two of Chicago, and love history, I HIGHLY suggest making the special trip... Just be ready to pay out the A** for parking, I think entrance (in 2013) was $25 for adults... They also have a lot of planes and stuff there too. The only thing I can really say about it, is, that its not quite as big as I thought It would be. I just wish Id have had the extra money to be able to go aboard which is a rip off, its like 30 bucks for a "guided tour" that lasts all of 10 minutes, IF THAT... I get that they have bills but that's so excessive and greatly restricts history from people who may not have the ability but do have the love... maybe its that tour that sparks a love in a young child... but yeah, highly recommended
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  1852. Sorry didn't catch your name. That said ''how do'' Not what l would normally watch but nice piece 👍
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  1853. Been here multiple times. It’s like Field of Dreams but in real life, James Earl Jones’s speech urging Kevin Costner to not sell the farm because it’s a magical place could very well tie to HOtR
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  1854. The original main line of America was the Amboy and Clinton districts i always thought.....Abe would be rolloing over in his grave...at least the IC Bridge still stands and is used across the Illinois River at LaSalle, IL....nice vide.o sir..👉🏻
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  1855. Now theres a reason to visit New York! Id like to cruise through this whole system . I was only vaguely aware of it . Thanks Ryan!
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  1856. new subscriber, due to my love of history
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  1857. I think about these houses all the time
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  1858. Love the Cali content! West Coast Best Coast!
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  1859. Natural convection would likely keep the upper rooms very comfortable without any additional heat sources. Would also be good to mention how fresh air is heated by flowing through the hot stones, -which allows it to be completely separated from the the smoke of the combustion oven (which has its own chimney). Interesting content, subscribing 👍
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  1860. You are a good speaker!
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  1861. Awesome video. If you haven't done it already, you might be interested to cover Boblo Island which was in the Detroit River between Detroit and Leamington, Ontario. Ferries from each place brought people to it, and it once had the largest dance hall in either North America, or the world
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  1862. Great job covering the history!.
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  1863. I wanted to applause at the end of this video. I don't want to wake the wife and kids though. :)
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  1864. We still have one! Only about 15 minutes away! I saw Barbie last year.
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  1865. Saw you liked doing videos about history in New Jersey, being on a historical committee I have lots of fun facts that not a lot of people know about that have very significant turning points for the state, let me know if interested!!
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  1866. I love this area it looks amazing and can only imagine how it once was. Ive never been there, never been to usa at all, but i love exploring this part in GTA Online. I guess its the only way i will see this area :)
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  1867. Anything for a dollar, even if the cost is of life beings employees are expendable, that is so pathetic.
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  1868. Great video. Well researched.
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  1869. The Old Stadium was definitively better. Or at least with the new design, the columns could have been visible from the inside. This is strange and not an effective way I think to implements old and new.
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  1870. There are still the Japanese bathhouses in Japan Town. Hi in a women’s only day, enjoy cold plounges, saunas, traditional rituals and brushes. Clean, soothing Enjoy! The bathhouse in the doc feels so eerie seeing it on the beach and imagining it burning. A Point in time.
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  1871. THIS IS TYPE OF INFORMATION THAT SHOULD BE THOUGHT IN HIGH SCHOOLS GOOD VIDEO.
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  1872. holy shit this is good
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  1873. Thank you Ryan
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  1874. I visited the torch in the early 90snot outside it but inside the the torch
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  1875. Engine is like Big Alex of snow piercer
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  1876. I've lived in utah my full life and literally never knew this thing existed
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  1877. I love all your videos about my city and other cities that you covered. Thank you!
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  1878. If you are going to venture into the Pine Barrens beware of the chiggers. Those things are truly from hell. :goodvibes:
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  1879. Coffee Stipend!
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  1880. I love the beauty of this buildings architecture and the top statutes. It's a mayor icon of the area. I have a picture I took hanging in my apt
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  1881. So even after a fire and bombing the structure still stood? But jet fuel caused the collapse??????? NO IT WAS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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  1882. first
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  1883. Cause he's cool like dat.
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  1884. I lived very close to the bridge for many years. A lot of those pictures are of the old Bahia Honda Bridge, which was also replaced. The roadway on the original 7 Mile Bridge was so narrow, if 2 Winnebagos passed each other, they'd sometimes smash each other's windows off. The 7 Mile Grill used to be a great place to eat but it was sold and now has ridiculous prices.
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  1885. I just saw your other video about the bathing resort, now this. Both reminded me of Spirited Away.
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  1886. I wish you would do one on the Missouri Pacific. That would be neat too. I like the Illinois Central very much too.
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  1887. Great step into history. Easily one of my favorite videos. Real shame on not being able to ascend the bell tower stairs. Would have been an interesting view.
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  1888. Haha wtf lolz 😂
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  1889. You really brought back memories with this episode. We visited Riverview many times and as I grew was able to ride on all the rides. It really made an impression on me watching Alladin's eyes rolling around, the Penny Arcade and the smell of the bumper cars! When I married, I started working at ComEd across the river from the old park. My sons graduated from the old Gordon Tech down the street from the old park. We still shop at the Riverview Plaza from time to time. I even have a copy of the old electrical diagram of the park hanging in my office that I found when we were closing the old California Ave. office. I couldn't forget Riverview if I wanted to. Keep up the great work!
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  1890. Good job,interesting to see history behind the WTC
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  1891. Good job
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  1892. So... Looks great, loaded with engineering shortcuts, didn't work so great. It's a GM product alright.
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  1893. I forget the next couple of lines, but then it goes... Secret tunnel!
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  1894. Wow, thank you!
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  1895. I’m not saying the skybus system was destined to be perfect, but it was innovative, forward looking, and not completely impractical. It should have gone forward and the US should have taken more of a lead in the development of next-generation public transit.
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  1896. These are so cool! I think we had one of these in Denver a long time ago when I was a kid but I might be incorrect. Maybe I'm thinking of the airport or something.
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  1897. It's not "forgotten", I can walk to it from my house!!!🤔🤔🤔
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  1898. Love your work (as an Australian).
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  1899. Great bit of history. Very cool that your first CN picture is of a GMD/EMD canadian only loco ( they've since been spread far and wide after their retirement) the GMD-1. Developed for CN and NAR to be used on lightly laid priarie rail lines.
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  1900. You are so thorough. Love em.
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  1901. ❤
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  1902. I’ve been waiting for this video!!’
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  1903. Great episode !! Really don’t know how I missed it when it originally showed 🧐
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  1904. Thumbnail change
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  1905. As a 21-year old, drove from Miami to Key West in the winter of 1984. Cruising on the Seven Mile Bridge was surreal. Key West was a quaint little town then.
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  1906. Great video sir !
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  1907. Wonderful video, beautifully put together.
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  1908. Lol I think I mentioned once you have great hair and should endorse a hair product.
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  1909. I was one street over from that sinkhole in Winter Park when that happened. Heard the sirens and got there about 10min. after it started.
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  1910. I would have bought a Sears mail order home if it was available. Sounds like a win-win to me.
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  1911. Thank you for sharing, Ryan❤
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  1912. When my wife and I were dating in 1976, her summer job was working in the Belvidere Oasis gift shop. Good times!
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  1913. Interesting and impressive.
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  1914. Thank you for sharing this History
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  1915. There were so many possibilities with this if it had been done right and had succeeded. For example, going further with the bus configuration for the passenger cars opened up possibilities like synergies in manufacturing where they could actually build some or all of the components for both rubber tire on road buses and railroad cars in the same plants. Both rail and bus cars could roll off the same assembly line. They could even be interchangeable chassis and cabin configurations where they built a rail chassis and a road chassis and then bolt the same passenger cabin on both chassis. Going even further they could work out systems where cars could be pulled cross country by rail, disconnected and swapped onto road chassis at the destination city to offer ten separate downtown or suburban destination s from one train. So when the Chicago bound train pulls into the rail yard in chicago, it could split out the ten passenger cars to be fitted onto bus chassis, and then each bus can deliver passengers to all kinds of downtown stops like hotels and offices, sports arenas, malls, etc.
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  1916. Very interesting Ryan, I never heard of Riverview.. I've been up there to 6 flags Great America in Gurnee, a few times... Never heard of Adventure land as well... Well except for in Des Moine, Iowa... Maybe I'll get to see that Carousel someday... My favorite carousel I think is. The steampowered carousel... I believe it's the only one ever built, That's in Millennium Park Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
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  1917. That was awesome thanks so much for the history. I have Canadian history so alot of the American I am not that verse on. That is a crazy story
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  1918. Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still- motion photography pictures. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Traveled ( 66 ) numerous times from Illinois to California years ago. I remember the ( R.R. ) running parallel to ( 66 ). Wondering how many dust bow! Refugees hoboed A ride to California's Agricultural regions-???🤔. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉💵😉.
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  1919. Absolutely LOVE your channel, keep up the fantastic work.. Watching this episode gotr me thinking about Palisades Amusement Park in Cliffside, NJ. Some of the few good childhood memories I have are from there. I used to live about 2 miles away from it & my grandparents & uncle would take me there in the 60's. It used to be just across the river from NYC & used to have lots of Celebrities' perform in the open air theater. Very sadly it closed, i believe in 1970 & they replaced it with ugly condo complex called Winston Towers. Any chance of doing a episode about the park someday? Thanks again for the great content you provide..
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  1920. My family's heavy construction company built this highway. I could tell you plenty....
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  1921. Love the episode. I would definitely like to see more. There's a salt mine in Poland that I think your viewers and myself would like to see.
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  1922. No surprise,- it is new pork after all🙄
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  1923. U.S.S. in Pittsburgh, PA.
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  1924. It's interesting to see how something so useful will disappear because of governmental interference that will make it impossible to continue. I spent much time in Chicago when I was a kid (70 years ago?) and never knew they were there. Brilliant!
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  1925. I appreciate your channel so much. You really do a great job exploring less discussed topics. Thank you
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  1926. Truly amazing enginnering, just like Jets, Bridges, i cant imagine the feat to complete something like this in -2-3 years building under a body of water with all that equipment..I have been through the Lincoln tunnel many times...great pain the ass....but kool at the same time, but now id love to see how the new york subway system was constructed.. with all the routes...
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  1927. Thanks!
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  1928. A true gem. One part history lesson, one part urban explorer. I only wish it was longer.
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  1929. Use to walk on the cat walk ..in 70's many times .walk the tracks frm jackson hgts to the h.gate..fond memories .b 67 soon .now? Im old
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  1930. Nice story Ryan!
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  1931. Bridges are fascinating and very complex engineering civil systems. Each being very unique in so many ways and each their own story. Many thanks...
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  1932. well done! thanks!
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  1933. Also, the correct word for the nickel as well as the little tram car is jitney jitknee not jittey.
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  1934. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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  1935. Well done, I have never been to New York.
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  1936. you are a godd narrator
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  1937. I love the night time scenery from Newark airport to the parkway interchange. The refineries lit up and churning at night is an amazing scene. We won’t mention what is being pumped. Into the environment. Enjoy the scene!
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  1938. There is one near me that was turned into a public middle school. Not sure how many buildings were left for reuse.
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  1939. How about Jerome, AZ. Went from Boom Town to Ghost Town and now an art destination.
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  1940. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
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  1941. FASCINATING, (to say the least). I was 6 years old when this POS came out and ran on the Holly subdivision of the GTW. Obviously, I didn't know, or care about an "Aerotrain" as I was perfectly happy with the roads Steam power ONLY. It'd probably would have scared the hell out of me had I seen it.
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  1942. Nice to see more Parks built, "hope somebody checks the soil before the kids start playing there."
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  1943. I wasn't sure if i was watching history, but the intro made it clear. 10/10 would learn again 👍🏼
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  1944. Definitely MORE
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  1945. When the Woodland Drive-In is mentioned, the aerial photo shown is the Cascade Drive-In, which was about 2 miles east on 28th st. The Woodland site is now occupied by a Lowes store, and the Cascade is now a Target and a Costco. The Cascade was a big 3-screen ozoner, and was a virtual twin to the M-78 Drive-an near Lansing. 🍿🍿
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  1946. Good content. 😊
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  1947. I remember taking the first official bus over the bridge from Staten Island (turns out there were unofficial ones nearer the bridge) after taking the ferry across. If I remember right, there was an option to use the lower deck for trains, but it was never followed through with.
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  1948. Awesome building. Awesome video. Awesome channel. Sears Tower always! Thank you.
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  1949. I have a book titled "The 100 Best Small Towns in America" (1993) It ranks Bisbee "47" in that category.
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  1950. i live in Belvidere, im not surprised that the only reason people know of the town by its oasis. XD
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  1951. Love your channel!
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  1952. I grew up in Key Largo traveled the 7 mile bridge countless times. Got stuck on that bridge I don’t know how many times probably the worst one is when a 18 wheeler hit another vehicle head on and the vehicle actually got tossed over the side of the bridge. We also used to watch the boat races back in the day from the 7 mile bridge. The old bridge just goes to show you from what we went to to where we are today if you look at the width of the old bridge compared to the new bridge it’s considerably wider and still to this day if there is an accident on that bridge you’re SOL you’re stuck until that accident gets cleared out
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  1953. This was good video. I would say it was 99% accurate. I live just 7 miles west of Plum Island in the North Fork town of Greenport, and I have for my entire life.  (I am 54 years old.) My father, many of his friends, my friends, and a wide array of local people were employed there. Most for over 20 years.   I attended three Family Days on the island. Days where the families of workers were invited to the island for tours and a nice picnic/BBQ lunch.   While the labs were off-limits for obvious reasons, the workers and supervisors were extremely clear about the operations of the facility. So I have a pretty good idea of what is, or is not true about Plum Island. So you conspiracy freaks can calm your jets.
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  1954. Seems like pedestrian bridges would be a better option...Or maybe sunken streets with pedestrian bridges at ground level...
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  1955. They have that kind of segregation in Fresno California. It's called Redlining, and they do it in housing and education!
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  1956. Looking good Ryan! Keep up the good work!
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  1957. Really great video !!!
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  1958. I stayed at the New Yorker in 2019. Nice place.
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  1959. Damn I really enjoy your awesome interesting videos . 👍🏻🇺🇸
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  1960. I have to watch my toes. Unstable ground lies beneath me. My first experience was in 1959, when I was 4 years old. A whirlpool flooded an anthracite mine tunnel when workers dug 6 feet beneath the Susquehanna River in northeastern Pennsylvania. Twelve miners died and another 69 escaped. The railroad shoved dozens of 34-foot-long coal cars to seal the chasm. The cars were sucked into the void as if they were toys. My parents and I lived 7.9 miles away from the catastrophe. As in Poland, the Wyoming Valley is honeycombed with underground mines. My mother tells of hearing the miners’ pickaxes scraping beneath the family homestead. As an adult, I moved to Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the heart of karst topography. Underground beds of limestone are ideal for sinkholes in the Lehigh Valley. I did my banking business one-half mile away at a multi-store office building. In 1994, Corporate Plaza slid partway into a sinkhole, just eight years after the Plaza was built. Before that happened, II moved down the road to Bethlehem City. In the late 1990s, a sinkhole began swallowing the front yard of the home of a couple in their late 80s. They escaped. The gap stretched 25 feet from their front sidewalk toward a few feet of their house. We lived two blocks away (0.2 mile). After I relocated to another home in Bethlehem, three homes began sliding into a sinkhole in 2016 along a busy street leading to the central business district. No one was injured. The sinkhole was filled with rock and soil, seeded and fenced off. I can’t imagine what the neighbors on each side of the missing houses must feel. I live about three blocks away (0.1 mile away). These chasms open routinely in the Lehigh Valley. Leaky water mains, dry weather, wet weather, new construction—the cause doesn’t matter. Naturally I always have a rider to my property insurance policy that covers sinkhole damage. I must. Every time I walk past that fenced-in lawn where three houses once stood, I wonder whether my house will be next. Move? I can't afford it. I keep my fingers crossed.
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  1961. I am positive it's the result of the back seat getting smaller.
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  1962. l subscribed ,so i want to see the basements in chicago . I think , although some of the things I have seen in the subways I am not sure .
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  1963. Absolute Masterpiece Documentary! Such a TRAGIC LOSS for Lower Manhattan! I recall visiting the site and what POS replaced it.
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  1964. Can’t wait to move here in a couple more weeks!!
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  1965. Thank you for putting this history on Riverview. My parents took me there just once in the mid 50s. Though my Dad went there a number of times as a kid, my Mom decided that Kiddieland was a better choice for me to go on rides. So much that we went there at least once a month all during the spring summer and fall season. That was enough of an influence for me that I got my first job at Kiddieland in the summer of ‘67. The same year Riverview closed. I do remember seeing the park as we road the bus from Harlem Avenue heading east into the city, and the Riverview TV commercials with someone like…Fatty Arbuckle maybe doing the sales pitch? I’m sure someone with a better memory may have that correct name. Again thanks for this story.
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  1966. Well done, "It's History"! Excellent presentation!
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  1967. Amazing video! thank you so much for putting it together
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  1968. Basements would be cool!!!
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  1969. The Concourse under broad street but above the subway is at least 50‘ wide and 7 blocks long and should be made into a year round climate controlled green park with led grow lights and lawns and shrubs and flowers and the businesses that closed their concourse level entrances many years ago could reopen them.
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  1970. Excellent video
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  1971. Great History , Keep it comin '''''...
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  1972. Well those Redwood Forests are homes for many flora and fauna, discover those connections, I have, but risked life and limbs doing it.
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  1973. 1:30 look at that hair!! I thought she had a hat on...
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  1974. Thank you very much for your great content!
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  1975. I thought it was very informative.
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  1976. Omg!! What a DISGRACE it was demolishing that stunning masterpiece of architecture!!! And how STUPID and DISGUSTING the entire NYC skyline looks like now compared to this historic beauty!!! I've been driving around those modern skyscrapers and have to admit there's NOTHING beautiful in them AT ALL, and they DO block the sunlight shining down to the streets. Pathetic replacements! Had they renovated that building when it started becoming old with its safety features, they would've got a staggering amount of money back in form of visitors to the building throughout the years, and long into the future! Who builds anymore masterpieces like this?? NO ONE! Talk about gigantic losses there from some real revenue! Blah, stupid 😐 😒 😑 🙄
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  1977. NJ subscriber here!!! i remember being little with my two childhood friends in the backseat with me in my mom's car & my uncle my mom's brother being in the front passenger seat & scaring us kids with stories & tales of the Jersey Devil! while we were going/driving past the pine barrens one night on our way home back to Trenton! Late one night!
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  1978. Iv been on that so many times it's pretty cool
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  1979. And this might happen again only with the triple cantilever on the BQE, resulting In catastrophic 1-5 day gridlock, 1-2 week delays of goods & services, & Deaths/injuries. Traffic could well extend into NJ & Nassau County. Staten Island would most be affected as the only other way out aside from local streets are the Bayonne Bridge, Gothels bridge, or OBX to reach the 2 tunnels & bridge to the East. The triborogh Area would also be clogged, & I wouldn’t be surprised if traffic reached into CT, Putnum County, & maybe PA, & DE Because of the potential collapse of the very neglect they did with the WSH. & on top of that, no pun intended, they built a park on top of it.
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  1980. I remember riding on the Embarcadero in a VW Beetle during trips to the city from San Jose. Glad it is gone.
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  1981. wow, the red sandstone was gorgeous. What a practical work of art, built to last forever but torn down in 50 years, a tribute to America's fickle whims of greed as it was dumped as landfill and made a parking lot just like as sung in Yellow Taxi...
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  1982. Thanks for this! I grew up in Linden (exit 136) in the 60s and remember stories of treks to and from the Jersey Shore from my grandparents and parents who lived in Irvington in the pre-Parkway days.
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  1983. Great video!
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  1984. Мене це не цікавить. Цікавить зовсім інше. Чому ютюб блокував відео які я мала бачити ще 7 років тому?
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  1985. Thank you sir 🙏
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  1986. We Americans would have restored and made theme parks out of some and a National Monument out of 1 navy and 1 army.
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  1987. I actually live in the keys this is awesome history
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  1988. The Dekalb Oasis has been a key milestone and landmark for me for a number of years. I make the journey out west every couple of weekends and it marks my leaving Chicago land and returning. It also has my favorite bathrooms on the whole tollway. Unfortunately, the gas is cheaper at the Love's in Rochelle so I usually go there anymore. Thanks for making this video! Really fascinating.
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  1989. That was a cool place to visit. I'm glad I got to do that
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  1990.  @ITSHISTORY  I live on the south side now. I used to live in Hyde Park. My Mom worked at Rockefeller Chapel & used to give tours of the Robie house. It sparked my love of architecture.
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  1991. Wacker = wacko
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  1992. Thanks!
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  1993. Interesting video. I'm not only a history buff, but I'm an electronics guy, been involved in ham radio etc all my life, including CW Morse Code. Suggestion - in future videos, where you're talking about a technical subject, have someone who is knowledgeable in the field review the video before you publish it, to avoid the embarassment of having techinically knowledgeable folk having to point out basic errors in the comments, like the most basic fact of how to pronounce the inventor Morse's name.
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  1994. It's a shame CV-6 Enterprise wasn't preserved, she was the most decorated warship in U.S. Naval history. Keyword...was.
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  1995. Thank you that was very informative 👍
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  1996. If you are from Chicago, Wacker Dr. is far from forgotten. It's the quickest way out of down town.
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  1997. I would love you to do the tunnels in Manhattan on Park avenue
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  1998. I was born in Bethlehem :) Always saw the steel stacks going to school.
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  1999. I saw this in person and it truly is a marvel of the time
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  2000. Let's get learning
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  2001. I would rather see old paintings destroyed, than these architectual masterpieces😊!!!
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  2002. Great hairline!
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  2003. Excellent mini-doc up to today, thanks! I was born Santa Monica 1950 but never knew as we left in early 60's.
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  2004. Less than a fortnight ago I checced this channel for updates, great to see the return!
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  2005. It's the Olympic that sank, with the Titanic's nametag.
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  2006. Wouldn't they be Queen of the Ocean since ships are traditionally referred to as "she" ???
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  2007. obviously I'm a fan of history watching this. it makes me crazy when it is erased. how can the ignorant not see the value of this?
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  2008. Globalisation has done this around the world getting steel made where there's cheap labour it's sad it didn't need to happen
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  2009. Go see the Black River & Western in Ringoes & Phillipsburg has a nice ride along the river.
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  2010. Was watching It's History's video on a hospital lobby, when the loud intro jingle played, I woke up 10 patients that were in coma
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  2011. Well done
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  2012. Thanks Ryan for the info new subject matter for me....
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  2013. Thank you for the wonderful video. It would have been better if you showed interior shots throughout the years.
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  2014. great video......
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  2015. Good video, good narration. Thanks.
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  2016. Fascinating. Thank you for sharing this bit of history
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  2017. Thanks!
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  2018. when I was a little girl, there wasn’t anything my grandma Susie would not do for me and my sister. She would take us regularly to Belmont Park and of course to the children’s pool. We would frolic and have such a good time. It was so much fun. Of course this was back in the late 70s and there were no seals at that time. It was so clean and clear. You could easily find a parking spot. the music was good. The times were simple. The first answering machine had just come out. It was sold at RadioShack. I am a native San Diego and I love my town. I do think those of the seals have a right to be there. We have good people watching over our beaches now so we can take our children and we are educated about what to do with an a rip current. Although the children’s pool was very special and I will never forget it and I wish other children had the right to be there. The animals need to come first sometimes. We almost never put them first ever ever ever why? Why don’t we give respect to the environment and to animals I just don’t understand. Why do humans have to always come so far and above them that we make them disappear? It doesn’t make sense.
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  2019. Wow what an awesome video Ryan 😊👍🏻
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  2020. I don't remember past your cars ever being furried across the rivers. I do remember freight cars being from your across the rivers. It was usually done on barges that were pulled by tugboats
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  2021. Do the follow up.
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  2022. Good vid
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  2023. Best Western Movie Manor in Monte Vista CO - one of the few motel drive ins 🎉
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  2024. Excellent!
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  2025. 👍👏😊❤️ Thanks for posting
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  2026. Great video! Learned a lot about my city that i’ve never heard before!
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  2027. Ryan, this video gives meaning to the saying --- "Learn something new every day."
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  2028. Interesting; Thanks for posting
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  2029. Very informative. I enjoyed it!
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  2030. Thanks for making my hometown history juicy to digest, thanks Ryan!!
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  2031. Great video! However, I wished there were more maps, illustrating the different routes being built and interconnected. (suggestion for a future video)
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  2032. has to be preserved whatever it takes.
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  2033. I'm loving it!
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  2034. They just didn’t have the foresight to plant back after they harvested.
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  2035. Wonderful! Having been to California many times during 1960s to 1980s I was enthralled by your well delivered tale of Capitola; partly because I had never heard of this amazing town! Thank you for the history lesson and my best wishes for the safety of the current residents❣️
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  2036. Excellent documentary!
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  2037. Gotta be honest. Until I saw this posted on your great channel, I never ever asked , "Now what" in regard to Nike bases.
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  2038. We still have 5 functioning drive-ins in my state.
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  2039. sick video ryan!!
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  2040. if you like this, check out the PATH in toronto
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  2041. This is the most surreal place I've ever seen with my own eyes.
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  2042. Fun fact: it is illegal to hunt camels under Arizona law!
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  2043. Rough-top
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  2044. That was good! Thank you Ryan.
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  2045. Thanks, i’ve learned something today!
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  2046. This is a very interesting video Ryan . I like the fact you where on location for this one .
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  2047. I enjoy American history. I'm always learning something everyday. Thanks Ryan for entertaining my brain 🧠. I appreciate it.
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  2048. My grandfather was a high rise steel worker in New York City. He worked repairs on the torch of the Statue of Liberty. I don’t know what year but to give an idea of his generation, he was in the Calvary during World War 1. Iron work was in the family. My uncle worked on installing the decorative iron work on the UN building.
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  2049. Great video. Shaved head looks great, too. An alternative form of transport such as this is a good idea, but not practical in concept. Horses can be used for more than just pleasure and meat. They are working animals.
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  2050. I once drove from Port Orange to Key West when visiting family in the former, it’s really beautiful
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  2051. When I was in college in the mid-90s I had a friend who was an engineer for Illinois Central.
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  2052. First to arrive
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  2053. I love, love, love Bisbee. I live in Phoenix Metro and it's my favorite long weekend get away.
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  2054. The shades 😎
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  2055. As New Jersey resident, driving on this road=great very fast, the downside= it's expensive. If you have to travel this road for work everyday expect to work 1 day a week to pay for tolls. 1 entire days pay to pay yours tolls for the week. If you go into New York you may need another days pay. It's stupifying how much you have to pay. Oh, if you don't have the money, no problem you can pay by mail but they tack on $50 dollars because you didn't pay the toll. Lol I avoid this road as much as I possibly can. GSP would cost you maybe 10 bucks, turnpike 21 dollars to drive the whole way from south to north. I take the parkway, thanks
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  2056. I am like number 494
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  2057. Thank you, good vid
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  2058. The Coast Redwoods are q place I return to often. Thankfully, people saw the beauty and wonder of what remains. Great video and information!
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  2059. My professional career involves the remediation of sinkholes. Anytime you have limestone, you will be susceptible to sinkholes. Luckily, there are fixes to them when they occur.
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  2060. Love you LOVE your show!!
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  2061. Thanks a lot. I enjoy these NY series ❤
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  2062. Woooo
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  2063. I want to hear a story about someone being born in a skyscraper prison
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  2064. Thanks Ryan. Great video
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  2065. Ryan, thanks for sharing!! I was at the World Trade Center Labor Day weekend before 9/11. Lived in DC at the time. Pentagon stuff was scary for us. Have been to the Memorial and like it a lot. So sad!!
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  2066. 👍👍
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  2067. Tom Scott would have loved this elevator
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  2068. beauty comes from ugly. great video 2x👍
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  2069. Thanks for another excellent video Thx.
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  2070. I learned a lot from this video. I had no idea this building even existed or its history. I worked for Chrysler in Highland Park MI in 1978-1979 and never heard a word from anyone about the station. This is the first I ever heard of it, 42 years after I lived there!!! The only railroad I knew about was SEMTA, along the old Grand Trunk RR, which I rode once because I didn't want to drive I-75 in the snow. It dropped me off at Chrysler Center in the same place I crossed into the complex from the parking lot. Thank for the lesson!
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  2071. Ryan Socash? More like Ryan Socool.
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  2072. First?
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  2073. Singer sewing machines were the iPhones of their time
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  2074. When America was safe When you could be a little child and safely walk the streets at all hours I remember walking home at 15 in the cities at 3am with no worries
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  2075. Thanks... Liked Subscribed...
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  2076. Another great video .....thanks Ryan. I recently visited the USS Massachusetts and it has a whole section dedicated to the Liberty class ships.
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  2077. @ITSHISTORY Ryan - I LOVED the "On Location" version, well to be honest I love all of them but the "On Location" and the interview with the expert really had a personal touch to hear from an expert like this explaining and telling the stories... I wouldn't have known there was a window behind tthat huge painting where the grand master was if I visited with out a guided tour, and then again, would it have gone into the detail the expert (sorry can not remember his name) gave. Truly a remarkable episode. If possible keep doing the "on location" episodes with a local expert. WOW Ryan... GREAT episode!
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  2078. The neighborhood is still beautiful..
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  2079. The elevator pods are pretty cool and innovative, but the arch in general is quite underwhelming. This video is amazing though, great context/info.
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  2080. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO. I USED TO LOOK AT THE TRESTLE WHEN I WAS A KID IN THE 80'S AND 90'S AND WONDER ABOUT IT. MY USELESS PARENTS DIDN'T TEACH ME ANYTHING ABOUT LOCAL HISTORY EVEN WHEN I ASKED.
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  2081. It seemed that the state of Florida had employed the strategy of “what you don’t know won’t hurt us”.
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  2082. 2 minutes in, and from the presentation alone, im sold. Like and Sub. Lets watch the rest...
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  2083. Great video! 🚂
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  2084. Just signed up for a year of the Magellan! Looks awesome! Thanks for another great video!
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  2085. Thanks for the history lesson.
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  2086. We’re RVers. One of our favorite places to travel to is the Erie Canal area just south of Rochester. We would stay at an RV park just south of Rochester that was right on the Canal and we would ride our bicycles on the tow ways. We marveled at the lift bridges and lift dams used to drain sections of the Canal for repairs that were still in working condition.
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  2087. It's like a real life backrooms video game
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  2088. You should check Leopoldov in Slovakia, that's the fortress
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  2089. You also missed the 1979 TV movie "SOS Titanic"
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  2090. Boy do I remember Drive in Movies, lets just say my girl friend became my wife and had a great daughter soon after and that was 54 years ago, thanks Professor Socash for so many memories I kinda forgot and thanks for Drive in movies...
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  2091. In the late 1800s a city block long project to create a collection of large townhouses was built in the Venetian gothic style in Philadelphia. These grand homes had upper floor balconies and several had covered roof decks with arched openings on all four sides. The block truly looked like it could have been in Venice but without a canal. Today only three of the homes still exist.
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  2092. I love this place, nice to know some of it's history.
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  2093. I was in the construction field before I retired, so this is a really interesting story for me!
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  2094. When I got married in 1973 the wife picked out a Princess phone from our Ma Bell. It had a lighted rotary dial that was powered by a plug in transformer. Maybe 5 years later found out we were charged a hidden monthly rental charge so I ran out & purchased a phone. Sneaky how they never told you about the fee.
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  2095. That thumbnail just looks like a house in minecraft when someone didnt have enough land while building
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  2096. The thumbnail looks like a POV for a B&M inverted roller coaster
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  2097. So the reason it is in ruins is because it was stripped down to be used elsewhere? That's recycling!
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  2098. …and everything worked so well. NOT like nowadays.
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  2099. Thanks!
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  2100. you must be local lol because you called it by its right name....sears tower
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  2101. Been a subscriber from nj
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  2102. This video reminded me that there use to be a tunnel on Beverly & union 😮
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  2103. I loved the place and went many times. I even had a season pass in 1961 which I added to a picture I have that was on sale at O'Hare years ago. It contains a lot of the pictures you have along with the tickets. Very well done video!
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  2104. not so secret an apartment if I knew about it
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  2105. Chicagooooo
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  2106. Great video
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  2107. Your topic today caught me by surprise. I enjoyed the history of the city but found the need to build tunnels under the street to prevent children from being run down was saddening. I can't imagine the mind set of a person who is so preoccupied by themselves and what they want, and want to do that they disregard the lives of the people who are walking on the street. I see that as self centredness in the extreme. Still shaking my head in disbelief. 😮
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  2108. I'm happy to know that the drive in I went to as a kid every summer is still in operation.
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  2109. it kinda makes staten island unique
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  2110. This was a great video
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  2111. Excellent video
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  2112. I visited this place in the mid 80s when he was still alive.
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  2113. Quite enjoyable, informative and interesting. I'm a former Arizona resident and I will always love it, I'm therefore very interested in Arizona history. Thank you for sharing this great little video.
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  2114. Coney Island beach was my first beach experience as a baby. I rode the Steeplechase horses. I Love that my #NYMets have their minor league there. ⚾️ #LGM ⚾️ #BrooklynCyclones ⚾️ Nice History.. Thanks❣️
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  2115. This is heartbreaking. Thank you for the well done video.
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  2116. History:)
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  2117. Great video 👏👏
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  2118. I want to see this in my lifetime!
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  2119. I love that Art Deco Alamo
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  2120. I have to correct you there, Strauss Did Not Officially Designed the Golden Gate Bridge, It was Architecture Design by Charles Ellis: " Charles Alton Ellis (1876 – 1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge. Because of a dispute with Joseph Strauss, he was not recognized for his work when the bridge opened in 1937". Strauss took the Glory, and still the Golden Gate Bridge District to this Day 2022 Will not give Charles Ellis is Name on the Historical Dedication Marker. As I have the American Experience DVD on the Golden Gate Bridge in which saying that Ellis was the Original Designer, and they sell it at the Visitor's Center at the Golden Gate Bridge site. Also I was Born at the Presidio back in 1956. Strauss had a Stroke, and Died 8 months after the bridge open. I heard that the Steel from Beth Steel were shipped coast to coast by TRAINS that was on the documentary too... Not the Canal then the bridge would of been finished in 1939 or 1940. Did you also knew that Strauss Bribe the Board of Supervisors in the mid 1920's to have HIS Design in which it was a piece of Shit Design, in which one of his bridges is still standing in San Francisco on 3rd Street right next to Oracle Baseball Park of the SF Giants. Can you Imagined the Monstrously Gigantic design like the 3rd bridge over the Golden Gate?? And also after the bridge was open in 1937 since then to today over 1800 persons committed suicide. But You have enlighten me in your presentation of history, I will be watching it, I love it.... Thank You
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  2121. Really enjoy your videos especially railroad history.
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  2122. Thanks!
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  2123. A fascinating lesson in Chicago public transportation history. Now if only there was a follow up with the brief existence of Chicago's street cars.
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  2124. That's WATERFORD crystal, mister. Although it is no longer made in England, it was the highest standard of quality crystalware.
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  2125. They are Not abandoned. They are stored.
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  2126. I lived in a Sears house while in college. It was a big four bedroom place with no updates besides appliances. We called it the "Mildew Mansion."
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  2127. Very good report, but you've got me accustomed to it. I especially appreciate your doing your own narration and not reverting to AI. Please promise that will never change.
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  2128. Great research and Story. It looks like I will have to do my own research if I want to look at an actual Virgin forest myself .
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  2129. Thank you for sharing
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  2130. 1988 I lived at Belmont and Western when I wss pregnant. Shopping at Dominicks \ Toys r us. I'd walk there than my dad had newspaper clippings on River view.... I couldn't imagine an amusement park there...... Glad I came across this video.. 🎥
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  2131. This is a classic romantic story of Mankind vs Nature. And yes, it is like all lighthouses. Beautiful and antiquated technology. But some, are just meant for Nature to keep within the realities in why God / Mother nature must prevail. Like old Castle's and Other built timepieces. The romantic views are just hard to let go of. ❤
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  2132. It's insane what sacrifices were made to build the modern world
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  2133. The first time I saw the London Bridge was in Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
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  2134. I live just a few hundred feet from the D&R canal. It's well preserved near my home, and I spend hours a week along the mule path trail.
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  2135. Interesting lost history.
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  2136. Great video! Thank you!
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  2137. Believe it or not, all 5 of the original Beach Boys musical band members grew up in Compton, in the 1950's. (Mike Love, Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, and Al Jardine.) They went to Morningside High School. How White is that????
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  2138. Very interesting indeed! : )
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  2139. This video was amazing thanks for the history lesson 👍
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  2140. thank you for this video that took me back home.
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  2141. i literally drove out to prominent point and golden spike several times and never knew the history behind those. good video!
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  2142. I love your videos.
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  2143. Your channel is awesome thank you for sharing what you do 🌈
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  2144. Very Interesting!👍🇺🇸
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  2145. Great video.
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  2146. this is a great story for trains, good reporting its one of my Favorites !
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  2147. Genuine question, but nowadays are these even ran as a business or strict novelty?
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  2148. Im from jersey and subcribed
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  2149. California - Land of the fruits and nuts
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  2150. Yeah that's a real puzzler
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  2151. My dad was on one of the destroyers, I think the Chantalane, he always played it down, but half the navy showed up at his funeral, we lived near Chicago in the 60's I got to go on the boat at the museum of science and industry.
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  2152. Long live the Drive-In.
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  2153. You forgot coal dust. It lights over a wider range of dispersion than methane.
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  2154. Excellent video! Very well done. You maybe making the best videos on YouTube.
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  2155. Okayyyy dude, I was on lakeshore this morning and was wondering this exact question.
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  2156. My family traveled to Key West from Hallandale, FL in 78. Which bridge did we travel. I was in the 8th grade. My parents bought me a shined piece of Agate that I had for many years on that trip.
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  2157. 2:44 Beautiful 💋💋love u💋💋
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  2158. How funny, I saw one of these today and wondered what it was
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  2159. Looking back at the timeline, its insane how QUICK Japan became a US alliy and the country modernized and became a massivve producer of electronics in the 60's-90's and how close they were to domination of china and with the distruction of Pearl Harbor and a massive portion of the US Navy (Made a mistake we will never do again, keep all our "eggs in one basket")... If Germany or Japan got the bomb first, this world would be a completely diffrent place... Scary to think things like that
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  2160. Weil done.
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  2161. Thanks!
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  2162. Wow. I just commented on another of your videos about covering this....
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  2163. I have visited the Eagle Scout Memorial in Kansas City
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  2164. What is "Bro science philosophy"?
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  2165. Wow just wow. Had no idea. Thank you for a great and informative video. God bless brother
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  2166. Great video!
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  2167. Just walk south on broadway for30 minute and you get to the Flatiron building. Looks the same, it’s not covered in billboards and it’s not in Time Square!
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  2168. I worked at One Penn Plaza back in the early 90's. There was an elevator entrance to the building from Penn Station. The building was maintenance man told me about the entrance. Saved my at least 10 minutes in my commute.
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  2169. I’m convinced all the mispronunciations are for people to comment corrections 😂
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  2170. Great watch, somewhat reminds of the "Underground Portland OR" tour.
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  2171. I actually was given the contract to clean the old prison in Joliet and I refused because of it’s history
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  2172. I'm actually about to go to a drive in tomorrow to see Star Wars The Phantom Menace. Though I have to sit through Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes which I personally don't care for. I live a half hour away from Bengies in Maryland. SO I'm excited.
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  2173. Shout out west Pullman born and raised
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  2174. I am like number 813
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  2175. Supposedly the Moonlite Theatre in Virginia is being restored and should be open by the end of the year. So not all Drive-in Theaters had an unhappy ending.
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  2176. Correction typo P.T. Barnum not Burnam.
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  2177. I was hoping to see the interior of the building. But the history is interesting.
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  2178. I've been watching your videos for years and I live in the little town of Highlands that you mentioned here in the video so it was a real treat watching this one. It's pretty accurate what you said at the end about Sandy Hook being a place to "get away from it all". Most of my time not working is spent walking my dogs along Sandy Hook!
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  2179. Very, very interesting, although I found the 1,000 to 4,000 numbering system a bit baffling. Great history lesson, thank you!
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  2180. My girlfriend at the time and another couple in our senior year in Norte Dame HS of Bridgeport, CT, attended this fair. Was pretty spectacular! I haven’t forget the fair or my lovely girlfriend either!
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  2181. The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a success it did raise the sub but because it was more damaged then they thought the sub snapped in half on the way up
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  2182. Ryan the Rapper! 😂
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  2183. Ryan, I love your channel. You have such interesting content. I’m a history buff and truly find your videos very entertaining. Thank you.
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  2184. Great episode, New York City is never really respected its landmarks!
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  2185. Great video. Thank you.
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  2186. RIP observation decks.
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  2187. They were always busy, what a shame to see them go.
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  2188. 90s Coney Island had this but it was horror themed and called The Hell Hole. 11:27
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  2189. @it’shistory Happy Thanksgiving Ryan
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  2190. New subscriber from Union beach New Jersey. Can’t wait to hear your story 😎💪
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  2191. Interesting video
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  2192. USS Texas is going to dry dock soon and then moving moorings
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  2193. I would love to here you read that book to us. Thanks Ryan you have some of the best videos on the history of architecture I've found keep up the good work!
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  2194. Well they say you learn something new everyday. I’ve been a Pittsburgh area local all of my life and this video is literally the first time I, or anyone I’ve shown this video to, has ever heard of Skybus. Pittsburgh loves its history, but it seems the Skybus slips through the cracks to quite a number of Western Pa folk like me lol
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  2195. Thank You For Sharing 🇺🇸
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  2196. We have a Sears home between New Hazelton and Hazelton British Columbia Canada. It has been kept up and is used by a community garden group.
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  2197. I knew what they were but still I love what you are doing,thank you so much! From Da Bronx got nothing but love for you!
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  2198. Great video. Very informative.
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  2199. HAPPY 4TH OF JULY :)
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  2200. ... 2:46 ...fairbanks-morse diesel locomotive from beloit wisconsin , just north OF chicago...
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  2201. Great video 👍 thanks
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  2202. Wonderful! Thanks Ryan!
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  2203. Great video! I was at Liberty Island when they were still in the process of doing the restoration work on the exterior of Fort Wood.
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  2204. Interesting video. I've living in utah my whole life and never heard of this.
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  2205. Why not mention naco, Douglas and Cananea that were all part of the times
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  2206. Excellent video. I had no idea that the Gowanus was 'that' nasty ! Would you also do a sister video about the Newtown Creek just to the north ? It has much history also. Aarre Peltomaa
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  2207. Drives in still exist. During covid it was booming because the normal theaters were closed or had strict restrictions.
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  2208. Thank you for your content.
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  2209. I grew up on the south shore of Long Island and left to go to school in Philly, where I stayed for 36 years. I drove the bridge many many times over the years on my way up and back to visit my family. More than a few times I almost drove right through the toll gates since, unlike many other toll bridges, you had to wait for the physical gate to go up. I still think of that whenever i drove over it. 😄
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  2210. See "The Wonderful Ruins of Detroit" on the web.
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  2211. Bravo. French engineering
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  2212. Life insurance.. come on Ryan lol. Great research as always.👍
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  2213. Thanks for the good word, that maybe Chicago can get the system together. The dealbreaker on the tunnels is that, like you mentioned, certain sections are open only at certain times. So, you never know when you can get through. The section between State and Dearborn is reliable and the one I use. Thanks, all the best, nice work.
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  2214. Canada still has 40 operating drive-in theaters. That's one theater for every one million people. lol. Before the FM broadcasts, each parking spot at the theater had a wired speaker and an electric heater, both of which were hung on a hook inside one car window. Heaters allowed drive-ins to operate late into the fall or early winter season and open again early in the late winter or spring. The eight drive-in theaters of Toronto surrounded the outskirts of the city. Today those locations would be considered mid-town, as the city expanded. The land value rose substantially and the owners sold out for tens of millions of dollars through the 80's. Today, there are 4 drive-in theaters accessible by Toronto, but most are about 1-1/2 hours drive from the city, but well worth the drive for the experience. As a boomer, with a car at age 16, the drive-in was an experience that will never be forgotten.
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  2215. Great video keep up the good work👍
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  2216. I grew up in NYC through 6th grade (1980) before my parents moved to NJ. I can vaguely recall riding with my parents on the west side highway (elevated) a number of times. I can also recall the news reports of that collapse as well but, being an early grade schooler it wasnt something that I could easily discern back then.
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  2217. Really well done thanks for sharing
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  2218. IT WAS AN EXPERIMENT EXPERIMENT PEOPLE WERE BASICALLY DONE RIDING THE RAIL BY THE 1950 S ANYWAY AND I'M SURE IT WAS HARD FOR THE RAILROADS TO CLEAR THE LINES OF FREIGHT SO THESE TRAINS COULD RUN AT FULL SPEED
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  2219. Impressive playlist 👍
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  2220. Given he comes from a Polish family and now lives in Poland……..ummmmm
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  2221. Good research for this video.
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  2222. Lovely video! Great pace and great guide
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  2223. Thank you Ryan..
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  2224. Thanks for the research.
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  2225. I moved to Florida from Ohio and I had numerous sinkholes on my farms there. It's geologically called Karst, a soft limestone that dissolves when water passes through it. Caves are similar just lateral. If you have limestone you can have sinkholes
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  2226. As usual, another great and very interesting video from the channel. My grandparents met at Bletchley Park and actually married there during the war, with my grandfather in uniform. They were code breakers!
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  2227. We have tram tracks under the roads in Leeds (Yorkshire, UK)
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  2228. My mom's house is from sears.
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  2229. They were beautiful looking locos, typical of American design back in the day. The trains, cars and buildings of that era were awesome.
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  2230. In 1972 a friend and i went to the London Tavern near times square, his twitchy older cousin was the bartender. The place was dead midday when suddenly this crazed man stood in the middle of the street over a steamin' manhole, and dropped his pants, proceeding to swing his butt grimacing steaming his nether area A crowd developed quickly, followed by the inevitable pretzel vendor. Cops arrived and tried to disperse the crowd (the man still bumpin and grindin looking insane) but the pretzel vendor would have none of it screaming PRETZELS HOT PRETZELS. Finally the cops chained his cart to a lamppost, threatened the crowd with tickets and dragged the still depantsed crazy guy away to a paddy wagon (they still had them then). We got a round of drinks on the house from my friends cousin. I never laughed so hard in my life. True story
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  2231. The Auditorium Building had a form of air condioning forty years earlier. I think a very interesting competitor for the Field Building is Hood's RCA Building in Rockefelle Center. The RCA has the advantage of the Plaza for viewing, while the Field is pretty well closed in. Thanks for another interesting video.
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  2232. I thought this would be about Carcassonne! Thanks to Poland for the beautiful reconstruction!
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  2233. You look really handsome in this reel
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  2234. Thanks for the excellent information.👏👏👏👏👏
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  2235. I like taking the pedway from city hall all the way to the Swiss hotel 😂
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  2236. What a great video!! My father born in 1915 was a millstone resident and he told me that as a kid, he would wave to ladies lounging on decks of pleasure boats as they slowly moved along the Delaware and Raritan canal. He retired in 1976 from the Laurie rubber and reclaiming co.in east millstone right on the bank of that canal. That factory is long gone now.
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  2237. I hope its saved love old architecture its like its meant to be there .😊
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  2238. Wait, that isn't chicago
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  2239. Very well presented
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  2240. It's history.It's one of my favorite programs
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  2241. You are a meticulous researcher. I am VERY impressed. But for your information: Methane is odorless.
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  2242. Thank you for your videos.
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  2243. Clinton Illinois
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  2244. Good info.
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  2245. did you say "Bro-Science"??.....seriously????
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  2246. I grew up an hour from House on the Rock. Very cool to see you do a video on this!
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  2247. New subscriber. Great show.. thanks!
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  2248. Ryan your hair is getting more and more extreme.
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  2249. Incredible history! I got here after reading about this tunnel system in our swedish railroad magazine "TÅG".
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  2250. Its Azkaban!!!!!
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  2251. I live in south jersey and actually am related to the leeds family. I totally believe in the jersey devil and would love to hear your story
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  2252. Our family house standing strong as ever. Bluford, Illinois.
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  2253. I think they wil be given to the alQaeda and Isis to be used in the next September self-inflicted destruction. They need the approval of Dicky Chenny and Dubya Bush.
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  2254. Thanks for the review. Take care of yourself.
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  2255. Hell, yeah, definitely want to hear the story specially, that I’m from New Jersey
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  2256. This was a very good video and good storytelling too! 👍🏻
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  2257. Wow, what a great video go often to those roads and canyons, and always wondered why that section was closed. Glad to see a video on it.
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  2258. I honestly never questioned where the name Venice Beach came from, this was super fascinating
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  2259. I've been to Moszna a few times. Cool place. But few people know that there's another interesting place nearby, Pławniowice.
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  2260. Great video
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  2261. Great job.
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  2262. I always knew of the phone that's one the 8th and market train lol its right behind the Chinatown stop or the one after it
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  2263. 1941?? That’d have to be a call between FDR in the White House and some schmuck in Berlin with the initials A.H. (maybe you’ve heard of him?)
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  2264. I’m doing a paper for my English class about the Negative affects of Gentrification and this right here is exactly what gentrification is. Adding three different perspectives of the Government,The Residents, and the Children it’s always the minority neighborhoods that get gentrified it’s never the middle class or the rich smh so they know very well what they’re creating
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  2265. I found a stink pump not far from where I currently live
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  2266. And now, in the Philippines, inside makati manila, theyve used the pedway layout as the model to base their own pedway system
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  2267. Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
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  2268. The Keys and the Everglades are my favorite places in the world!! Born and raised in Dade! I cycled from Homestead by the “Last Chance Saloon” all the way down to Key West!! No better fishing anywhere else in the world! Thank you for this content!
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  2269. Awesome as always🤟
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  2270. I lived right down the street at 388 zebra place the house still stands
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  2271. Excellent content. Good presentation. Just need to work on adjectives. "Severe" refurbishment ...
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  2272. People dressed so much nicer back then.
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  2273. R.I.P. U.S.S. Arizona and U.S.S. Utah , and to all of those who gave so much on that day your not FORGOTTEN !
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  2274. Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still- motion photography/maps enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. viewing this presentation from the safety zone of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida🐊🐊. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024) 🌈🎉😉 .
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  2275. Interesting history of a great city of the world. Thanks for the content!
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  2276. AC is still live despite changes within casinos
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  2277. I live not too far away from the Harvest Moon in Gibson City, IL. Always a fun visit to catch a film there.
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  2278. Excellent! Thank you!
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  2279. That ending had me in tears...
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  2280. Top video.
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  2281. A new video from Ryan and it was about vintage Railroad, a double whammy............
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  2282. Really interesting topic! I had no idea she was from Illinois like I was. My family visited San Diego and I loved it but he didn't remember it. When I moved to Los Angeles 4 years ago my brother visited place we had 20 years earlier which was the end of that pure jetty walkway thing at La Jolla and took a same picture. I wish Los Angeles had preserved its beaches like San Diego and La Jolla did
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  2283. Outstanding Work Sir
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  2284. Sad 😞 what has happened to the Ling. But museum ships need a lot of work to preserve
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  2285. I love these early 1900s buildings, there is an eerie aura to them, they are from a different era but also a different world, where architecture was flamboyant but in a truly classy way, and esoteric references are everywhere.
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  2286. I drive past this several times a year and didn't know what it was until recently. Now I know it's history! Thank you
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  2287. Enjoyed the video, I own one of the dome cars from the train.
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  2288. I had friends in Portland OR who had one of the larger victorian kit houses. It was HUGE, and absolutely stunning.
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  2289. I’m from Northern NJ, subscribed.
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  2290. Another great video
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  2291. Very well done. I have gone through Cairo for years cutting across Kentucky to get to Columbia Missouri . I always stop in Cairo to mill around a bit. Most all of the main downtown next to the river, has been removed.
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  2292. Philly has one too
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  2293. These topics you cover are where I "live", if I can come up with something coherent I'll send it in. The episode where you were walking around the Polish island was a nice experience to watch
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  2294. Love your videos . I think Long Beach New York would make a interesting small video . Founded by William H Reynolds
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  2295. Another problem with identifying a Sears home is that it was easy enough to modify the houses during construction or over the many decades following like adding extensions or adding more floors. An 800 square foot house in 1930 could be a 3,000 square foot house today.
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  2296. And it will be completed for Ford’s new electrical division it’s going to be beautiful
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  2297. In the end, the people actually benefited from this monstrosity. Take what you want
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  2298. Very informative and well done video
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  2299. My uncle god love him took me to Riverview three times but unfortunately I was too young to enjoy the park at is fullest. Fortunately I have a lot of happy memories and yes please do a video on Adventureland.
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  2300. Wonderful and thanks...
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  2301. Good vid.
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  2302. Ryan, how do you find this stuff? I grew up in PA (granted, it was the other side of the state), but never heard of this Sky Bus. Kudos to you for your superlative research and excellent presentation!
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  2303. Thank you
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  2304. I never had the privilege of going to a drive-in theater, my Mother and Uncle did go with friends back in the day though. Heard many stories of their times going to watch movies such as Jaws, Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke and Carrie. Great video Ryan 👍🏽😎👍🏽
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  2305. Keep making more videos!!
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  2306. I’m actually working in Coney Island right now as I’m watching this video
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  2307. Thankyou for an excellentpiece ohistory story telling.brilliant .loved it!!!!!!!!😊
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  2308. Go bald baby! Kojak, Yul Brenner, Mr. Clean. Michael Jordan. Bald is real man, baby!
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  2309. Ironically, drive in movie theatres would be insanely popular today. A different way to watch a movie
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  2310. Interesting yt channel.
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  2311. Excellent video
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  2312. That is a beautiful bridge, especially at night. I've driven over it thousands of times. What about the Throgs Neck Bridge? That's nice too.
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  2313. Great research young man👍
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  2314. You have/had family from Poland? I saw polish flag on your hat once in video and now yo are promoting app and trying polish🙈🙂
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  2315. Have You done a Vido of the Alanta Georgia Underground ?? More Fantastic History ...Thanks .....
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  2316. Would love to purchase the building at a fair price and refurbish it to it's original glory it is a work of art has a lot off potential if someone listening let me know thank you
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  2317. You Tube unsubscribed me from your channel. But I am back 😂
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  2318. You missed out on talking about the crazy traffic jams during season. It's a 2 line road and can take hours to get to the main land. Lol
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  2319. 20:43 these stairs are the coolest part!
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  2320. By chance, I'm in the Boston area this week! What good fortune that the latest release is a local tale. 😁 Even if an unfortunate one.
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  2321. New sub! Liked 🙏🙏🤗😮
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  2322. Very good, thanks
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  2323. I live in the Pine Barrens. I have since the mid-ninties. Ir is very creepy at night. But I've never seen anything odd. And I never walk around at night. There's always a feeling that you need to get inside quick once the sun goes down.
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  2324. good video thanks
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  2325. Another Joy...thank you...dgp/uk
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  2326. One Of The Better Videos I've Seen. 👀 ❤ 😁 😎 On Route 66. 🇺🇸
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  2327. What a sad story, my heart actually ached at the end.
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  2328. Fascinating episode, thank you 😀
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  2329. it hurts me that they pave over these amazing tracks
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  2330. Always great stuff, especially RR topics. You should look itno the New York, Westchester and Boston, an Electrified subsidiary of the Hew Haven that served westchester county into the south bronx and ceased operations due to bankruptcy in 1938. I used to investigate the derelict station in my neighborhood when young and found out years later the building was designed by Cass Gilbert ! There are many ruins of the system still in existence, a station was actually turned into a luxurious home
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  2331. Very interesting. Didn't know anything about it until now.
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  2332. Very well made video
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  2333. Another wonderful documentary. Thank you for the post.
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  2334. Great narration. Interesting h istory. The park is really beautiful.
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  2335. Thanks. This was really interesting for an English guy interested in railways 🙂
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  2336. Thanks!
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  2337. Great historical videos! Have you thought of doing a video on the Blue Ridge Parkway Pisgah Forest?
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  2338. Yes. Do a video on Wrigley. ❤
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  2339. Some good ones in the UK - Fort George, Tilbury and the walls around the town of Berwick upon Tweed. Was into them for some weird reason when I was a teenager !
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  2340. Thank you Ryan for your optimism & yes the sky can be the limit❣️ The themes you choose to document are always interesting‼️👍🏻❤️
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  2341. Just got introduced to your channel by this video, well done! You have a new subscriber in me and I'll definitely spend some time watching your other videos which look really interesting as well.
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  2342. Amazing story on quite the amazing scale. Very well done!
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  2343. Great video. I did not know anything about the igloo. Thanks for another great well done video🤟
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  2344. Inused to look up the ratings on bridges i would travel....because of the ratings i stopped traveling. I have been to about 40-43 states so I just stay in a relative small area of Missouri. A new bridge is in the process of being built... I will travel on it soon. :)
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  2345. Being from the west, i thought sandy hook was just an elementary school. So much more informed now!
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  2346. Man, I had a couple pen pals on the JFK when I was young. Even got invited to get a VIP tour of it during fleet week one year by them and they gave me some challenge coins. It was an incredible experience. I didn't even imagine they would have decommissioned it. Though I also didn't know it was that old.
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  2347. Ryan, another enjoyable watch. Great narration to go along with the "classic" B&W photos.
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  2348. What a coincidence, I was just there for the first time two days ago :-)
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  2349. Damn it feels like a crime to be here this early
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  2350. I'm so afraid of heights and this video was painful to watch...my feet get so terribly achy!! I don't think I even dare to go to Paris 😵‍💫😂
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  2351. What a tragic loss of an architectural and engineering masterpiece to be replaced by: a parking lot? Thanks for remembering the once iconic structure so later generations can marvel.
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  2352. Hey Ryan! I'm surprised that you didn't mention that in 1943, Navy Pilot George HW Bush received training at Navy Pier! Another great moment in Chicago's history! Keep the great videos coming!
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  2353. Great video!
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  2354. Great video.
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  2355. I like your channel man it’s fun and entertaining as well as informative.
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  2356. Everything you do is amazing ! Should have a TV show
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  2357. Interesting history. Thank you for posting this information.
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  2358. Really like this type of content... opportunity to learn the history of humanity and what was able to be accomplished....
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  2359. It's sad that people assume a bus or plane must be more comfortable than a train, so the train designers mimic a bus or plane. UK train interiors are now deliberately "airline style" - ie cramped and seats mis-aligned with windows - because people think that's cool. In fact old-style trains (up to around 1970) were far more comfortable. The Aerotrain cars were 4-wheelers - a worse ride than 8-wheelers. The 4-wheel UK "Pacers" were awful too.
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  2360. Sign up for Extra with our link https://extra.app/itshistory and start building your credit with a debit card - yes, a debit card!!
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  2361. What's up with the shades? 😄
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  2362. Please do some haunted houses with back stories . 😊
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  2363. Hey Ryan, just wa nted to tell you that you're doing a great job with the narration.
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  2364. Interesting! Great video!
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  2365. Very interesting, great job
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  2366. Houston has it's own underground tunnel system, somewhat similar to Chicago's.
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  2367. If you are there in Chicago solely for Marathon purpose, then this is highly recommended 😊
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  2368. The fella at 3:49 looks like a serial killer! Great video sir, very, informative.
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  2369. whats with the sunglasses
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  2370. Clinton Illinois there alot it's history here this is number one (ICRR)Clinton Illinois
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  2371. Very good interview and Indy is a inspiration. Go after your dreams.
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  2372. Love your work. Please consider Governors Island and fresh kills park SI. Forgive me if I have missed this being already covered! 😂
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  2373. Nice video
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  2374. Good episode! Glad you had more details on the Washington Station crash with the GG-1.
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  2375. You got my sub today 💪🏼
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  2376. Thanks Ryan
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  2377. Nice work. I grew up a couple of blocks from Sutro Museum and spent a lot of time there in the 1950s and early 1960s, ice skating, playing the arcade games, and marveling over the truly unique collection of oddball stuff that was still there in those days. My buddies and I watched it burn from the old Sutro estate on the cliffs above the museum. I could tell you many stories.
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  2378. Man what a video. I live in RI and it’s pretty accurate
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  2379. Thanks for sharing this.❤
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  2380. Have you considered making a video on the underground tunnels of Rockford, IL.?
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  2381. I'm 75 years old and I still have the same hairline I had when I was 19 so I'm not really interested in male pattern baldness Thank you very much.😮😂
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  2382. Thank you for this video, it was really interesting. I haven’t seen, but could you do a video on Chicago’s electric buses? I remember them when I was a kid in Chicago and would like to learn more about them. Thanks for all the cool and interesting history topics!
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  2383. New subscriber. Born & raised in Southern NJ & have been tent camping in the Pine Barrens for years.
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  2384. I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL. PLEASE CONTINUE TO SHARE YOUR TRUTH.
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  2385. Coney is far from the best amusement park as far as modern rides what sets it apart from the new super amusement parks is the atmosphere which can’t be duplicated
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  2386. Thank you Ryan for the great video, these works of art are simply amazing.
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  2387. Never been on the skyway, but now I am thinking about a trip just to see it! Thanks.
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  2388. I've never heard the word carousel said the way you did. Car ow sel...
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  2389. Great job! Most of us never heard of the system. Have you done the Cincinnati system? Other guys have, I think. I grew up back east with some familiarity with NYC subways. I'm 80. It's Thu. Sep. 19, 2024. St. Joseph, MO.
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  2390. You gotta do eureka springs Arkansas
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  2391. I remember going over this bridge when I was a kid, it was December of 1976, we spent a week in the keys area
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  2392. Oh man...I loved that place. Got to go and rode everything except the loop water slide as it was always closed when I was there. Snowflake moms would need therapy nowadays if their kids went there.. lol
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  2393. You forgot to mention a gang call The Warriors in Coney Island lol j/k
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  2394. I'm the man who loves that subtle Wilco shout-out.
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  2395. One Times Square is big, iconic and ugly; as I watched this video I moved past thinking of the building that was hidden behind all of the ugly signs and wondering about the SPACE in that building. Is any of it above ground level occupied?
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  2396. Amazing video. Thank you.
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  2397. That’s an awesome video! Thanks for sharing! My great grandfather, James Bard, was one of the lighthouse keepers. My grandma would tell me stories of how her and her siblings would play in the caves especially in the winter.
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  2398. Thank you again for this informative video on US history. Although I am in the Philippines, it is as if I was able to tour a part of the USA already.
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  2399. Great job but that castle reminds me of ridiculous opulence
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  2400. Thank you! That was awesome!
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  2401. Great job !
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  2402. Excellent Vids! Keep up the great work. Thanks!
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  2403. Another fine watch from "It's History" Thank you.....
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  2404. Very interesting history. And, no AI! Thanks for sharing your research and for creating a very interesting and entertaining video. 🙈🙉🙊 😎 🇺🇸
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  2405. I've always wondered about this thank you
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  2406. I was here yesterday
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  2407. An Oregonian. Very cool
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  2408. There was no mention of Chicago's prewar PCC fleet, the Blue Geese. I've seen streetcar tracks poking through in various spots in Chicago. Back in 2014, I was driving along Western Ave. and saw rails peeking through st one spot. I lament that I'm too young to remember streetcars in Chicago. Only two lines were left by the time I was born, and I was a year and a half old when Green Hornet 7213 made the last run.
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  2409. Growing up our family traveled from Kansas to Michigan every other summer to visit family friends. I was always in awe of the restaurant in the sky over the interstate. Unfortunately we never got to stop to take in this marvel but I still recall seeing the Howard Johnson’s signage. The things you remember from your youth 😂
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  2410. Thank you, Ryan, that was an awesome bit of lost history.
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  2411. Great video. I didn't know about a couple of those reservoirs
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  2412. In a word: Excellent. Thank you for a great episode.
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  2413. RYAN. , WELL. DONE ✔
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  2414. Great memories.
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  2415. Really love us being on the scene and asking questions!
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  2416. Have seen it, fabulous museum
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  2417. Those buses fake wheels, yea a marvel of engineering. 😂😂😂😂
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  2418. Would make a fine AirBNB
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  2419. Thanks Ryan Great subject matter, Ya I lived about 2/3 miles from where the Monitor is at the Museum, again thanks...
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  2420. Thanks for the interesting summary of the complicated history of England of this time. A toast with gin and tonic!
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  2421. (Sorry, comment is for a different video)
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  2422. an excellent video on History and architecture ! Thanx , man , you did good on this one ❤😊
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  2423. thanks for the LOUD intro
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  2424. I was born in '63 in eastern North Carolina and have never heard of this. Thanks for sharing!
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  2425. Great Video!!! .. I did not know many of the interesting facts!! .. My Father (rip) spent a great deal of time in the Keys back in the 1950's :)
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  2426. Very interesting ,even though it looked like a job interview!
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  2427. Thank you Ryan
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  2428. I live in salt lake…cool video 🫡
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  2429. Love your work! Go Cubs!!
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  2430. Lack of Pedestrian walkways in general is a symptom
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  2431. Very informative well made video. It is unlikely to happen bit a few north shore railroad studies indicate why scope creep. By limiting the viability of a north shore rail without considering connecting to either Brooklyn or nj it would basically mimic existing bus routes for far more cost. As such the tunneling appears as a waste for connecting a failing north shore rail to another expensive tunnel. I believe for success links to the airports amtrak nj transit and the subway would allow alternative access to penn station via this rail split the massive cost and make it financially viable. In other words massive scope creap. And that makes it pie in the sky. No politician will support a project on that scale in the face of so many challenges. Physically it can be done , fiscally probably not
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  2432. THANK YOU SO MUCH. A TOTALLY AWSOME VIDEO AND EDUCATION.
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  2433. Hey, I’m now absolutely convinced big foot is a real being..not an ape. So maybe the jersey devil is next?
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  2434. Didn't know about this part of history. Makes Red Dead Annesburg seem cooler.
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  2435. Nyc and nj are excellent at raising everything, especially taxes 💩
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  2436. I enjoy your videos very much.They are very interesting and entertaining. This one for some reason especially. Thank you very much.
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  2437. Good morning from Cape Cod ⚓ in wellfleet Massachusetts there is the wellfleet Drive-In which also is an antique flea market, they also have indoor cinemas on the property. They've been doing remarkably well. Thanks for bringing history to us Ryan 👍✌️🇺🇲
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  2438. Just discovered your channel. Liking the videos you've created. Lived in Chicago for 46 years. I worked nights so by the time my CTAtrain went by Addison, stop the W or L banners would have been taken down. BUT I always knew how we did that days game because there was a blue light for win and white light for loss at the top of flag poles. That tradition was one of the features i loved. Go Cubs
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  2439. some of the aircraft in storage are used to provide parts because a lot of these aircraft are no longer manufactured. some aircraft are placed in storage because of budget cuts. selected aircraft can be quickly used again.
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  2440. I remember going to the train yard where los angeles held all there trains .it was filled with thousands of train tracks this was off N.Broadway next to China town .well during me walking on top of the public side walk looking down to the tracks I noticed a old historic water suage,or should I say a water pipe .that was made man made out of a tree.now there's a plack,talking about this historical wooden canal.the historical train tracks are no longer there they made it into a park it's so huge that the land could be a small airport .but it's a beautiful park .it's now called the historic state park .any one remember the tracks that were once there ! In the 70s
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  2441. First time viewing your channel. I enjoyed this on location video very much. Such an interesting subject. I am now subscribed. Thank you!
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  2442. Do you come up with your scripts ?
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  2443. Samething here in NYC
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  2444. Bring em Young! 😂
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  2445. Pls do a video on historical Detroit mansions
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  2446. P.S. Ryan its the other Coney Island the master pieces of beautiful amusements . The American playground. A place you can always write home about. god bless you and family have prosperous rest of the year !
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  2447. You should have included some pics of the 400+ ft tall mammoth stack at the new prairie state power generation and coal mining facility in Southern Illinois west of il rt 153 and south of il rt 15 near lively grove It contains the latest in scrubbing technology. It would have made a great addition to this video
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  2448. These buildings are super cool. Would be neat to make them into small machine shops and manufacturing shops
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  2449. Thank you for today's lesson about N.Y. bridge, stay safe and be of good cheer...
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  2450. I really enjoy your videos. The subscription button doesn't seem to work, I had to resubscribe this time. Thank you for your posts. ❤🎉😊
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  2451. gary and the rust belt will rise again..better buy prop now,while nobody wants it...once global warming gets in full swing..
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  2452. Awesome!
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  2453. Just a thought you guys.... The sinkhole are forming for a long time out of sight for us which means there are WAY MORE HOLES than you can imagine and....well....the oceans are rising!! What's the day going to look like when the water decides to go up & not down??? 🤔🤔 I'm 48 & I went to Florida 20 years ago to spend time with my father I only knew b4 I was 4. At the end of a 2 week trip where we went EVERYWHERE, I looked at him & said "Ya know, this state is just 1 big sponge!!" How true that statement is in more way than 1!!! 😜😜
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  2454. Awesome bridge
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  2455. Good work
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  2456. I well recall the money train. Having a job, that will let me off at 11:30 Plus hours at night, almost into the wee hours of the morning, I would see the money train parkinga at such stations as 59th street, and 72nd Street in New York City. And, at least five security agents would come out, with the hands on their side arms, ready to face any threat. They would go to the Token booth, collect whatever they were collecting, and exit, with the same preparation and defensive preparation. They would enter the money train, and the train would take off. The film, once it was released, I noticed that the money train ceaseed to exist. Enough said.
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  2457. Bizarre doesn't quite describe the House On The Rock!
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  2458. Took my daughter there on a beautiful sunny day, great view of the city and I recommend it!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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  2459. Excellent video🏰
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  2460. Thank you for your superb research and presentations.
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  2461. Amazing 👍
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  2462. very cool video, outside looks very beautiful
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  2463. I used to fish off it with my dad, it was awesome 😎 plenty of snapper so delicious
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  2464. Excellent Video
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  2465. Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
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  2466. Thanks for that very nice tribute! :)
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  2467. Fabulous presentation on a unique part of American history! Thanks for creating this!
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  2468. Thank you Ryan!
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  2469. This just makes me want to watch "True Lies".🤷‍♀️😂
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  2470. Early 80s as kid 4 or 5 i saw friday the 13th from the back of a van,open doors while adults were at the front smoking/drinking. Cold/cool westher,lots of cars. But,it was pretty quiet and people were respectful back then.
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  2471. I love the way you blast that horn at start of each video , excellent!
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  2472. Interesting. I just drove through the town and was startled by how bombed out it looked; and then I saw your video that you just put on. Thanks.
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  2473. Well done (again). Keep up the great work.
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  2474. Perfection Valley
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  2475. Thanks for doing this project. I grew up in this area. The lighthouse at the southern end of Jamestown is called Beaver Tail, not Beaver Trail.
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  2476. Great narrator.
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  2477. My wife's father grew up in a Sears house. From what she says, it was a very well built house.
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  2478. Very interesting & fascinating presentation. Having never been to the New York area, this will change that. Will make for a vacation trip to see.
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  2479. Lol! When I first saw the cover photo I thought it was a picture of some burritos with cheese on top!
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  2480. The building’s appeal as a hotel is undeniable. If the finances of endless debt due to owner mismanagement can be worked out I have full confidence tourists would love to stay there. It’s a beautiful building with great history and recognizable the world over. Get it together guys.
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  2481. As a New Jersey resident in Burlington County..I hadn't known there's a bunker.. Cape Mays residents rather you concentrate on the towns beaches / boardwalk/ shopping district as well Victorian residential neighborhoods.. Thank you This Is History appreciate the New Jersey History 👍🏼
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  2482. So interesting. Get well soon.
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  2483. Very good video. It's a shame most Americans learn their own countries history from Hollywood. There are Americans who honestly believe that the film U-571 is a historical fact. Carry on the good work.
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  2484. Do you think your sunglasses are big enough 🤔
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  2485. It’s giving Azkaban vibes
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  2486. It’s history Rocks 🪨
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  2487. Such a beautiful, and sad, story.
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  2488. Wow thank you. I just learned of the high line from google maps and i wanted to know all about it. After traceling the web for a while i found your video and it taught me all i needed to know. Thank you
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  2489. Ryan, That was so cool.
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  2490. " Contributed" their work- yeah right-
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  2491. Interresting video .
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  2492. This was a pretty ambitious effort.
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  2493. Because of the forward thinking of adding a lower deck in the future the price was too high so they decided to not install steel cladding on the towers that is why they are open.
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  2494. Amazing video, new sub. As a born and raised since ‘78 native to the Olympic Peninsula, great history here. Had the pleasure of the Seattle Underground Tour for our sons 18th birthday some years ago…also Check out Betty MacDonalds 1945 book “The Egg and I.” Great read (comedy and fact) and historical significance. ✌🏼
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  2495. keep making these dope videos you keep me so intrigued and interested every time! 💯
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  2496. 💀..Always comprehensive, Always relevant..Excellent work, Ryan..!!
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  2497. Make a video about automaton's!
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  2498. great video.
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  2499. Fascinating history. Always hated exposing through these when I was young especially when seeing someone entering from the other end.
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  2500. I was probably 8 or 9 years old when the local drive-in theater decided to show two movies. One of those movies was deep throat and the other movie was last tango in Paris. A large group of us neighborhood kids we're watching it from the gravel pit close by... Today I can say we probably shouldn't have been watching that😅😅😅
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  2501. very interesting
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  2502. I grew up swimming at salt air, I am 36 now in Sept 2024. It has been over a decade since I’ve swam the waters but I went to MANY shows and parties there. I’d have to say, some of the best times of my life were had there. Thanks much!
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  2503. Thanks!
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  2504. Subbed from Jerz
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  2505. This is a fantastic story! I grew up in the Boston area and never heard of this! Thanks for sharing this history
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  2506. I am a history lover, & I just came across your channel, really awesome content! New Sub right here!
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  2507. Drove down to Key West in the mid 80's. While it was developed, it was still quiet. I got to bicycle about and visited the Hemingway house. Tried to go back in the late teens and the construction and detours made it impossible to drive, let alone find a parking space. Maybe it's different now. But I think the quiet charm of Key West is mostly overrun by hotels and condos.
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  2508. In 1974, when I was 8, my parents took my sister and I from our Grandmother's place in Pompano down to Key West; while on the 7 Mile Bridge, we looked around and saw nont one, not two, but SEVEN waterspouts, four on the Atlantic side of the bridge, i.e., East, and three over the Gulf side (west). None were closer than a mile of the bridge, but it was, even for just a kid, a memorable and scary moment. That was the old bridge, obviously.
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  2509. That was great. Greetings from the Garden State !!
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  2510. Interesting digression: when the Cubs left the south side, they at first played at West Side Park until Wrigley Field was completed. That location is now occupied by the University of Illinois School of Medicine, the largest in the country.
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  2511. Ryan, Thank you for my new history lesson for today, you are a "GREAT HISTORY TEACHER" until next lesson, oh I have a question, will we have to take a "Test" after each lesson, LOL PEACE....
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  2512. My new favorite channel. You have this "Joe Mantegna" quality to your voice that I get a kick out of.
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  2513. It’s crazy that the typewriter in my room is over 100 years old.
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  2514. I have three still active near me what about 20 minutes 30 minutes in about an hour from me
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  2515. I remember going to the twin sky drive-in in Wheeling Illinois. I’m Milwaukee Avenue many times. They had a jeep that would go around called the birth control truck with a spotlight. If you thought that was going on the spotlight the car and they also watch the exit because once in a while you’re driving reverse gear through the exit to sneak in or you have somebody in the trunk when you come in.
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  2516. I now have the full house theme song stuck in my head.
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  2517. Camden has a nice aquarium though
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  2518. more Texas history videos
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  2519. It can be regarded, by some, as tacky, but I love the energy of it. ❤
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  2520. Great Video, with details of the U-505 I did not know. I grew up in Hoffman Estates, and had visited the MSI several times as a kid. I think I have toured 505 two or three times. Based on this video, I hope to see it soon again. It seems fitting that it is below ground, as if still on patrol. The MSI's JU-87 Stuka dive bomber is one of only two intact Stuka's in the world, currently.
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  2521. Amazing videos, thank you!!
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  2522. That bridge is freaky cool
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  2523. Hey another NIKE Missile site from 2 videos ago Gonna bet the ZU-23-2 was not used there since thats Soviet. lol
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  2524. That was very fascinating
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  2525. I subscribed because so far your content is very interesting and learning knowledge.
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  2526. Well done, great building
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  2527. Yeah Tombstone is just a tourist place now. Its fun to visit but a lot of the true history is lost to the shops. I haven't been in years but growing up in Tucson, that's just kinda the way we felt about it.
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  2528. I live in Tennessee and I don't know anyone who doesn't either have family that still currently lives in Michigan around the Detriot area, or they they have family that used to. My mom was actually born in Detroit despite my grandparents being from here in Tennessee and then moving back when she was around 3. They were there for about a decade or so in the 50s-60s. I believe nearly the entirety of my family moved there at some point in the mid 1900s and about half moved back. My wife is the same exact way, her grandparents both have family in Detroit area that moved there from here around the same time period. So there's always somebody going to Michigan, or them coming here, all year long for visits. My mom and grandmother tell me how nice the city used to be in the 50s, and how well the jobs paid at the time, but sometime after that they could get jobs back here paying the same amount without risks of layoffs(until the early 90s that was) with lower cost of living as Tennessee came out of the lows from the depression.
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  2529. Things like this are terrible but also an interesting and unique opportunity to study the effects of pollution across multiple centuries.
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  2530. My grandfather was an electrical engineer who worked for Raytheon during the war and the phone company in peacetime after. In the mid-70's, I was a little kid and my grandfather somehow had access to the upper floors above the public observation deck at the Empire State Building. So, one day he brought me up there and I remember being in a room with floor to ceiling plastic windows and a large array of 4' diameter radar dishes (my interpretation) pointing out of the windows in a wide arc. Above that was yet another floor with a door that led out onto an open roof of sorts. I was afraid of heights and was terrified to go past the doorway, lol. Anyone more familiar with that building at that time that can bring my childhood memory more into focus?
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  2531. I ride mountain bikes in woodside and the logging roads are still there from 1890s , every tree was cut down from the bay to the coast, you still see massive stumps hacked off everywhere, there is some original trees maybe 3 or 4 , thanks to all the great people stopping the total destruction of all California redwoods, the second growth are over 100 years, please let senior citizens ride mountain bikes in the forest, it’s how I get out there
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  2532. It was my favorite building in NYC, the first time I visited the city. I loved its uniqueness. I hope it isn’t torn down. I love it.
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  2533. I took a service call down there before phone GPS was prevalent. It was pretty interesting to get down there.
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  2534. Thank you
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  2535. I saw a YouTube video on when one of these tunnels sprung a leak and started sucking in and create a whip pool
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  2536. Are you from NJ? Your vids about this area seem to have more of a personal touch
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  2537. my mom has visited the World Trade Center in 2008 now she has lived in indonesia
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  2538. Overall good video
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  2539. 😊Great Doc ! The more people that know how fragile our ecosystem is , the better !
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  2540. Thank you for such a nice informative video!
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  2541. 666k subs 👀
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  2542. I grew up in this neighborhood ‘89-‘06
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  2543. Very interesting!
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  2544. Many Years ago I saw Pictures of My Dad on the Ship and before left N.J. for N. Carolina IT STILL look as a Ship .
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  2545. A really informative history, thank you.
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  2546. Thank you!...another intriguing piece of US History...dgp/uk
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  2547. U did a great job for the length of the vid. There is much more to why the drive in started showing smut. I think amazon,had a movie about it. It eas called back to the drive in . Thanks for a great video
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  2548. Ah, gta san Andreas san fiero docked submarine
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  2549. Great show!
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  2550. Very interesting!
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  2551. What happened to the Pearl Harbor spy's?
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  2552. My husband and I lived in San Jose. We would have many more day trips to Capitola all the time. Our family rented one of the many vacation homes That are there to celebrate my sister-in-law's birthday. Her husband had Maine lobster shipped in for the celebration. I have nothing but good memories of Capitola.
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  2553. Interesting video
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  2554. Minor point. The Bronx monorail ran from the Bartow station to City Island...not Barrow. Good vid !
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  2555. I loved this video, now I feel even more proud to live next to this magnificent bridge. From the rooftop of my building, you can appreciate this bridge in all its majesty.
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  2556. I work for the Illinois Tollway. There is so much crime at the Lincoln Oasis now, it's such a shame. That area used to be so nice when I was growing up in the 70s...
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  2557. Wow! Your video revived a memory from elementary school that I had totally forgotten. My siblings and I were staying in Chicago with our dad and stepmom for two months during the summer. We took a trip and stopped at an Oasis. I was totally blown away since I had never seen anything like them before. So, thank you for making this video! 🙏
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  2558. First!
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  2559. What a great video! Thank you!
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  2560. Oh dude!... That is so cool. But, America always destroys its history, kinda heartbreaking what we have lost in such a tiny tiny space of time
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  2561. Great video 👏🙏
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  2562. Thanks!
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  2563. Great video start forward and to the point!
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  2564. Ryan consistently has the best segues on YouTube
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  2565. Eagle rock girly here. Thank you 🙏🏽 for sharing our history with the world 🌎 ❤
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  2566. My mama graduated Compton HS Class of ‘56 🤍🩵💙
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  2567. Even tho I wouldn't want to visit there during winter, the Baltic coast looks very nice. Maybe one day......Poland is on my bucket list.
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  2568. I subscribed I wanna see the underground too ☺️
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  2569. Sad, but also fascinating story.
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  2570. Very cool video!
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  2571. I live in Illinois. Right at the beginning of Route 66. I really enjoy going to the Route 66 museums.
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  2572. Thank you for this video. I appreciate the hard work and dedication you put into your content along with the visual aids... Very well done
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  2573. Thank you, love your content!
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  2574. I did not know about this an̈d I live in utah I never learned about this in history and I'm a history nerd wth
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  2575. Innovation without experimentation…that’s the moral…you have to put the time and $ in…
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  2576. Thanks for the video. Very informative.
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