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  1. Thank you so much for continuing to highlight some of the more obscure and interesting parts of Chicago history.
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  2. There is a coal mine burning underground for more than 100 years in India
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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. You did a fantastic job in this video. Something to learn
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  6. 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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  7. Love the video, but it's not "George" as in the man's name. It's "Gore"ge.
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  8. 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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  9. You always do a great job at these videos
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. fascinating I love these type of industrial heritage sites, just the sheer willpower and human effort is amazing
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  19. 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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  20. Absolutely, love this type of content.
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  21. 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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  22. Nothing like a video on vintage rail, a very enjoyable watch. Ryan, thanks for your time, work and posting.....
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  23. 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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  24. Videos like this are why I love YouTube. And specifically this channel.
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  25. 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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  26. Fantastic. She is a great tour guide and very professional.
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  27. When I was a child I fished for perch off those docks !
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  28. Man this channel finds the coolest obscure historical stuff. Well done
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  29. "Nuk-U-lehr" LOL Sheesh!
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  30. God, I love the architecture of Chicago.
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  31. I love that every american and europeans call it Sears Tower.... because it is. :3
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  32. 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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  33. Beautiful castle with a beautiful history.
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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. To be fair, eating someones face is a serious offense. That pig had it coming ;)
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  37. The MBTA in Boston still runs PCC cars on the High Speed Line from Ashmont Station in Dorchester to Mattapan.
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  38. From Delaware, thanks for this I am glad you covered glenville.
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  39. 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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  40. 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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  41. Mind blowing - only 200 years from steam ship crossing Atlantic to Mars missions...
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  42. Remember to "Sun you buns on Beach G!" 😂
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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. Interesting to learn that Marina del Rey was once an oil field!
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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. To this day, the pool on-board the Titanic is still full.
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  50. 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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