Youtube comments of Andrew Brendan (@andrewbrendan1579).

  1. It takes an excellent actress to so convincingly portray someone with stage fright.
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  2. I like the recurring Tony!---I had no idea that a rooster in the kitchen meant good luck. I grew up in a family home built in the 1920's and before the kitchen was updated when I was growing up in the 1960's there was a big, black wooden silhouette of a rooster on one of the walls. I think there were also some rooster figurines on the windowsill over the sink. Now I'm understanding why there was all that poultry in the kitchen!
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  3. First two apartments: not really for me. Amanda's apartment: great! Amanda could start a side business as a decorator.
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  4. Very interesting ideas here about gender issues and gender roles yet I wonder how much was intended by Billy Wilder the director and how much is what people read into it.---Interesting to learn that the movie was well-received by a college audience. I had the pleasure of seeing "Some Like it Hot" at a university with an audience of mainly  college students---and people loved it!---I remember the "jolt" that went through the audience when Marilyn was shown in a gown that made her look topless. Marilyn was pregnant during part of the filming and, sadly, had a miscarriage.
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  5. How sad: Allen thinks of books as friends but leaves them outside to rot in the elements. What contradiction and irony.
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  6. For many years I've enjoyed stories, both fact and fiction, about New York high society but, somehow, have never heard of the story of Emilie Grigsby. Thank you for introducing me to a new---and real life!---story!
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  7. Thank you for showing a close-up of the books. When there are books in abandoned place I always want to see what the titles are as I love to read and also because the books give an idea of the interests of the people who lived there.
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  8. Ms. Warner: I was taught that when you apologize and then slip in the word "but" you're not really apologizing. YOU created the mess you made. You say, "I'm not a horrible person". You're certainly not a nice one and your attempt to use your job to intimidate someone tells me you do not know how to handle authority and that it was appropriate that you lost your job.
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  9. The woman telling Dr. John Deloney about her infidelity, calling her affair partner a "gentleman". A guy who knowingly is involved with another man's wife is not a gentleman.
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  10. The only change I would make: in the bedroom I would turn the little sofa around so it face the window and the view outside. What a great spot to read a good book or to just look at the scenery as it changes during the day and in different weather conditions.
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  11. What I found interesting was how well the clothing was preserved and the pictures on the coffin. I'd like to know more about that artwork, whether it was a common practice and whether the images were believed to have some kind of power to ward off evil.
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  12. I've been a housesitter in the past, took care of dogs, cats, fish but if someone wanted me stay in their home while they are away and they have a pit bull: forget it! I won't accept that responsibility or put myself in danger.
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  13. I noticed how Vanessa Kirby is able to exhale cigarette smoke through her nose. I tried that once many years ago and nearly did myself in!
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  14. Thank you, Cash, for having us over for a visit and for sharing some of your outside-the-office life with us! It was so nice to see little Violet and it's great that she's now the second generation to use your Cash chair!
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  15. Terrific video, Cash.Your channel has gone from not only apartments available, but to news and information that provides a real service. Outstanding work. And I'm already looking forward to our next trip with you to Japan!
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  16. It's good to see how someone used wealth to preserve history and to enrich people's lives.
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  17. I have to disagree on one point in the video. It's mentioned that Hetty's father said never to give anyone anything, even kindness. I read a 1930's biography of Hettie and it said that her father told her to never OWE anyone anything, not even a kindness. Though it was not with direct financial aid Hetty at times was very helpful to others.
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  18. I saw "The Towering Inferno" on Christmas Day, 1974, and I read the two novels that inspired the move: "The Tower" and "The Glass Inferno". I was around 13 and was starting to read more in the newspapers than just the comics and the advice column. I wish I had a more precise recollection but one article was about how people in the movie were affected by it. If my memory is correct, Faye Dunaway moved from a 20th floor apartment to a 3rd floor apartment -- that or something close. Many lives, knowingly or unknowingly, have been saved because of this movie that teaches people about fire safety and because of improved fire safety codes. -- Something I learned elsewhere is familiarize yourself with your surroundings so you know how to get out in an emergnecy. This isn't about living in fear but about having practical and sensible about possible trouble. Also: the Glass Tower, though it never really existed, is one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever seen.
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  19. During the time the Princess of Wales was still living I had two pen pals in England. One of them, male, said the royal family used Diana as "a brood mare". When the Princess died and there was a huge reaction of grief from the public (a phenomenon worthy of discussion) my other pen pal, female, said something like, "I don't know why I'm crying so much for someone I didn't even know". It's was mentioned by someone else a long time ago that when the engagement of Charles and Diana there were two photographs of them in the media but taken separately and it happened that Diana and Charles were each holding a book when photographed. Diana was holding a paperback romance by Barbara Cartland who I think was her step-grandmother while Charles was holding a scholarly book on eastern religion. Some people might take their disparate choice of reading material as an indicator that Diana and Charles were not suited to one another.
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  20. Claire Foy is superb in conveying emotion and reaction with just a look, not a word spoken. Ms. Foy is a star now and would have been one also in the days of silent films.
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  21. Happy slightly belated birthday, Mrs. Jordan! Thank you to all three of you for taking us along with you and letting us visit with you at home. Stay warm and well on this cold winter day!
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  22. Good to see a staircase that's sturdy and solid, not something that's only one notch away from being a ladder.
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  23. Another outstanding Mike Brady production! Thank you, Mike, for all t he time and work that go into your videos. These videos are of such high quality they could be on television networks. --- I once read a book called "Fourteen Minutes", about the sinking of the Empress of Ireland. Something that stood out for me from the book was how the Canadian Pacific line after Titanic sank had a policy that crew members were to be so familiarized with the layout of their ship that they could find their way out onto the open deck in complete darkness. My recollection is that many of the survivors were crew members rather than passengers who had boarded the ship only hours before. Because of the conditions of the sinking, the crew could do little beyond trying to save themselves. I'd like to encourage viewers/readers to thoroughly familiarize themselves with the layout of their homes, workplaces, schools, etc. so that they know how to get out in an emergency and maybe get other people out as well. Even in stores and malls and other public spaces, it could be good to look around and have an idea about how to quickly get out in a crisis situation. I'm not talking about living in fear, and parnoia, but about being realistic and having a sensible plan of action.
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  24. As Mr. Lynch talks about casting Naomi Watts for "Mulholland Drive" it sounds like he had a "This is the girl" moment!
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  25. Jodi Balfour gives a fine performance as Jacqueline Kennedy, but I think she more resemble's the First Lady's sister, Princess Lee Radziwill.
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  26. This is great, Cash! It's a pleasure to see a Japanese house and how it works and to see the surrounding area. I'm looking forward to what's next.
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  27. I'm glad you mentioned that. I didn't understand the significance of lowering the flag. I thought it might something do with mourning. In an indirect way it was, but I see it was more a matter or a monarch being present.
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  28. A great house and with so much potential to be well-used even if not as a family home, torn down after standing for so few years and being occupied for even fewer years. Of the houses featured in "This House", I think the story of the Gates mansion is the worst waste of a house I've seen.
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  29. Cash, not only could that little alcove be used as a home office, it's a great place to set up A SHRINE TO YOUR GOD!
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  30. Ken, great to see you for the first time! What a pleasure to visit Kimmswick. I grew up in a 1926 house built for my great-grandparents and occupied by four generations of our family and with items going back as far as the 17th century. (A German devotional book with wooden hinges, printed in about 1614) I've slept in a four-poster bed with ropes for the mattress and pegs holding the bed together. During the video I recognized items familiar to those in my family's home. My family has nearly all died out but, happily, many of the contents of the house went to the Mathers Museum at Indiana University.
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  31. I've been accepting the fact that I'm more vulnerable than I used to be: I'm now in my early 60's; I have arthritis in my knees and hips along with circulatory trouble in my right leg so I generally walk with a quad cane; if I tried to run I'd possibly just collapse. But...I do have a new can of pepper spray! Still it's good to just be aware of your surroundings and to plan ahead.
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  32. Brilliant work here. Not just the acting but in showing people at different locations wordlessly reacting to the interview. I particularly like the lady at 4:22 glancing over at her husband. In this scene only two people are talking but a lot is said by many people.
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  33. I've been noticing that the way to clear the streets of those deluded criminals is by outnumbering them with people who will remove them. If the people blocking traffic ever get the breakdown of society I think they want, there won't be a utopia, but a dystopia and, as history goes, they will likely be the first people to be removed: useful idiots who are no longer useful. I hope they read this comment.
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  34. I read Monica Randall's book "Winfield -- My Life in the Shadow of the Woolworths". Fascinating book. My favorite chapter was the one in which Ms. Randall told about she had F.W. Wooldworth's handwriting analyzed. It was very interesting to learn that handwriting analysis involves how people's writing deviates from the way they were taught to write, how a personal style of writing is developed. Maybe someone else can add on here but wasn't Barbara Hutton, the many times married heiress, the granddaughter of F.W. Woolworth. That poor (though very wealthy) lady had such a sad life. The money doesn't seem to have done her much good. I'm not surprised to learn of Egyptian elements in the decoration of the mansion. The Woolworth family mausoleum is built to resemble an Egyptian temple. I enjoy the mansions of the past but I would avoid visiting Winfield. I wouldn't want to get involved with the negativity and darkness of the place.
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  35. Wow. This scene could start so much discussion and debate and with valid arguments on both sides. I recently read a book called "The Needs of Strangers" by Michael Ignatieff (1984) in which the author talks about the importance of differences in society, finding identity in what people don't have in common while still having people's needs met, along with discussion about what is need and who determines that. A very challenging book with much else in it, but well worth the time and effort to read it.
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  36. The weight of the hoard was so great and it was piled so high that the hoard was holding up the house. Civil engineers said the house had to be cleared out from the top down. --- The two brothers' bodies were interred in a family mausoleum and then the doors were sealed shut. As in life, the brothers were closed off from the world.
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  37. With older buildings whose apartments have been gutted, I wish I could see what the original apartments were like. I don't mind something that isn't brand new and that looks like it's from another era. But all the apartments seen here, including Roberto's, were really nice.
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  38. Fascinating....and grievous to watch and listen to. All of these demolitions are tragic, but the one that I find particularly sad is that of Penn Station.
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  39. Ile de France: my favorite ocean liner and especially in her post-war arrangement. It's never been officially confirmed, but the plot of "The Last Voyage" (a man trying to get help for his wife trapped in wreckage) is clearly based on real-life couple who were aboard the sinking Andrea Doria. Sadly the lady on the Andrea Doria did not survive; she went into shock and died. What a strange mix of fact and fiction: a story heavily based on real people on the Andrea Doria filmed on the liner that came to the resuce of the people aboard the sinking Italian liner.
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  40. Thank you for taking us along, Cash! It's fun to join the three of you on a trip. May 2022 be a special year of success and blessings to you and Mrs. Jordan and Violet!
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  41. Bullies (aka abusers), take note: Watch this scene and get a good idea of what your victims think about you and what you look like to them. I wish harm no one, don't advocate it, but if something bad happens to you, there will be people who won't exactly be broken up about your misfortune.
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  42. What a loss! Bad enough the house is gone but that the fittings went too. The waste is sickening. Ken, along with others who have already commented, I'm thinking the room with the built in seating may have been used for the gatherings of some kind of lodge or fraternity. I didn't see anything to indicate the Masons thought maybe such indications were intentionally kept out sight of the photographer and the outside world. I noticed that the room had a couple of portraits (indistinct) that may have been of a man and a woman. Ken, I don't know if there's enough material for a video but I'll mention a house that interests me is Rosewell, the 1725 colonial mansion built in Virginia and that is now a ruin. Rosewell was one of the grandest and may the grandest of the homes of the colonal period in the U.S.
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  43. What a horrible, tragic story. --- Ken, you and your viewers might be interested in the 1954 novel "My Brother's Keeper" by Marcia Davenport. It's a very well-written story based heavily upon the Collyer brothers. Not only is it an excellent work of fiction, but I think it accurately shows how and why people gradually become hoarders and this was long before there was much research on or knowledge about the subject. There's also a non-fiction book about the Collyer brothers called "Shadow Men". -- I think videos such as this one are not only informative and interesting, but provide a public service because they can motivate people to look at their own lives and to take action to prevent themselves from going in the same direction as the two brothers.
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  44. Great apartment overall but one small part is an issue for me: the stove is next to the wall and there is no tile above the stove as there is over the back of the counter area. Will there be food and grease stains on the wall next to the stove? Can you be comfortable cooking without some elbow room on either side of the stove? If you use the right-hand side burners that's a lot of heat only inches from the wall. Will the wall eventually be scorched?
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  45.  @vicki8261  Well said. After the death of my mother (who I believe was worn to death) I had to put my brother who had Down Syndrome and dementia into a group home. I didn't want to do it, but his needs had become such that he needed a team of people to look after him around the clock. I helped my mother to help my brother, but when it was mainly myself and a little transportation help from a sibling, I couldn't do it. I was being worn out. I now see how the caregiver can be the one to die before the person receiving the care.
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  46. Great video, Ken! When Mrs. Astor referred to women who would come after her in society I wonder if she was making a dig at Alva Vanderbilt. --- Also you and your viewers might be interested in the book "Mrs. Astor's New York -- Money and Social Power" by Eric Homberger. -- I noticed that across the street from Mrs. Astor's original house we can see the marble Stewart mansion: maybe the subject of another "This House" video? --- I found the Astor houses overwhelming. The original house in its original form probably would have worked for me! Fun facts: the John Jacob Astor who was lost on the Titanic invented the bicycle brake and was one of the first science-fiction writers. He wrote a novel about a man who tilted the earth on its axis and was able to create perpetual springtime.
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  47. That's a fascinating observation. What with the way we pick things up from grown-ups when we're still children, I wonder if Kiernan Shepka finds herself acting or talking like her TV parents even now in real life.
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  48. Wow. Rose Terrace was a glorious place but simply too much of a good thing. So much there that was superlative and beautiful yet, considering how long the house could have lasted, was enjoyed by so few for so short a time and that time was even shorter what with Mrs. Dodge becoming a recluse. How sad that Mrs. Dodge became a recluse not just in her house but in only part of her house. I like to think that if I had such a house and could afford living in it that I would put it to good use a place of hospitality to many people and groups, having the house as something of a community center/place for visitors/temporary housing for those in need along with being a private home.
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  49. Mike, I'm glad you added a mention of the Dreadnought Hoax. Some fun facts are that the faux Abyssinian on the far left of the picture you showed is the author Virginia Woolf (still Virginia Stephen at that time) and the man at the far right is Duncan Grant, the post-impressionist painter, and the tall man at the back may be Virginia's brother Adrian Stephen who later, along with his wife Karin, became two of the first British psychoanalysts.
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  50. I knew that was the Sheffields' house! And, as I recall, this wasn't Cash's first visit to that house. Cash, this may be a long shot but here goes: you talked about using the basement as a home office. Maybe you and your family could rent this apartment and you could operate your business from the basement? Whatever decision you make about the new office space, blessings to you in finding the right location.
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  51. Thank you, Ken! I was yet another of the kids who watched "Dark Shadows" after school and I think Collinwood Manor/Seaview Terrace was the first house in which I became interested. I drew A LOT as a child and I drew mansions based on Collinwood and before I knew it was a real house. I would say that "Dark Shadows" and Seaview Terrace led me into an interest in houses and architecture and architectural history. I also became interested in the people who lived in such houses. (There's actually a word for the study of the rich: plutology.) Along with being interested in social history I became interested in social class issues and sociology. I've never been to Seaview Terrace or even seen it in real life, but the house, even if indirectly, has been of much importance in my life.
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  52. There's actually a follow-up video to that she herself made: the husband evicted her from the house. The so-called wife got a BIG wakeup call. And it's interesting that she kept saying "my children" instead of "our children". If she didn't have those children at the time of the marriage then some DNA testing will be in order.
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  53. Both wonderful places. I lean more toward the second. I'd love to see the houses as they were when new. The probably had double parlors and servants quarters. These houses make me think of the stories and novels of Louis Auchincloss. He once wrote about being in real life in the home of a wealthy New York City family to meet a couple friends to go to a dance or some-such. The mother called up the stairs, "Don't forget your poils. goils!" ("...pearls, girls"). That New York accent originated from the wealthy Dutch and when New York was still Nieuw Amsterdam.
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  54. I have a book about mansions of the Gilded Age and there was one house in Cleveland that had a kitchen just for making pastries. If the residents wanted to start a small bakery that would be a good idea but I find it just over the edge into ridiculous.
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  55. Maybe lifejackets had changed in the time between 1934 and 1965 but I've read that when the liner Morro Castle burned in 1934, some of the people who jumped overboard while wearing life jackets died of broken necks caused by the life jackets and the impact of hitting the water. I'm not sure but maybe the life jackets got pushed upward and caused people's necks to snap. At least it was a quick death and better than being trapped in the fire.
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  56. I was thinking the same thing. A cliff being worn away is a natural process. I figure the only way a prosecutor would be involved is there's a law or code that someone was required to do something to prevent erosion (maybe something such as putting cement blocks at the base of the cliff) and didn't do it. I don't know what the area looked like before the collapse but I get the impression the cemetery went close to or right to the edge of the cliff. Looks to me like some common sense should have been used and the bodies removed and relocated before this could happen.
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  57. This place is Wow City. Only drawbacks: I don't go for bathrooms that connect bedrooms; the privacy issue/possibility of someone walking in on you at an awkward moment. Also if the elevator is the only means of entering and exiting the apartment then the apartment is not for me because of fire safety/emergency issues. Too for an extra layer of protection I'd rather have an elevator that opens into a foyer or hallway, not right into my living space.
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  58. I don't know how well it fits in here, but I'm reminded of how many years ago Marilyn Monroe was asked about being bothered by men whistling at her. She replied with something about how it's time to be bothered when men stop whistling.
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  59. All that long living room space: finally room to have all my boxed-up but as-yet-unread books out on shelves and organized! I have so little in the way linens that I could use some of the shelf space in the linen closet for books. Both apartments are great. I'm at a point in life where I no longer like the idea of living alone (age and health reasons) and the second apartment would be a great set-up for two people to be there but still have space and privacy. And with a sink sprayer and room for our shrines, who in their right MIND could possibly ask for more???
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  60. I'm not a psychologist, but I'd say that second woman really is mentally unbalanced. She seems to have gone over the edge with anger and bitterness.
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  61. Not a painting but the grandmother of one my co-workers paid five dollars for a rhinestone necklace at a yard sale. Turns out the rhinestones were real diamonds and the necklace was valued at $10,000.
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  62. Your comment reminded me of the death of my brother in 2014. There had been been many people in the hospital room in the evening. That afternoon I'd told my brother when we were alone for a time that if he saw Jesus or our mother to go to them, that he didn't have stay, to let go. My brother's heart gradually slowed when he was alone(just periodic checks from the night nurses) and stopped at 3:30 in the morning. I think my brother needed the privacy and quiet so he could relax and let go of the world.
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  63. It's not well-known, but this is actually not the final scene of "Gone With the Wind". The final scene was deleted just before the movie was released. There we see Scarlett at the front gate of Tara. She looks down the road in the direction of the ruins ofTwelve Oaks where Ashley used to live, the man she no longer wants. The road is deserted. Scarlett then looks down the road in the other direction, toward Atlanta, where Rhett, the man she does love, no longer lives. The road in that direction is also empty. Scarlett turns away and walks back toward the house...alone.
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  64. Cash, you've turned me into a more discerning viewer. The first apartment is a dud. As Ilya mentioned below it's really a divided studio apartment. It's mostly better-than-nothing. The bedrooms are more sleeping compartments than bedrooms. For two people to live there and spend much time together it would be a strain. Second apartment: not bad! A huge improvement over the first.
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  65. Fascinating and sad how so much money was poorly managed and how the sisters didn't know about the value of the fittings of the house. I'm glad that the two sisters were still able to live what seems to have been a fairly comfortable life after the passing of their second brother. This video is a lesson in being and staying informed about finances and in the need for financial planning.
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  66. I just learned of this channel. Very interesting presentation, Dr. Grande!---I'd like to share some of my own thoughts about this case. (Some may have been mentioned below.) 1) I've seen the coroner's photos and I think it's possible Mrs. Borden could have fallen to the floor without much sound: Women wore a lot of clothing then and the layers of material provided sound-absorbing padding. I don't recall if there was a rug rather than bare floor boards, something else to absorb sound. Mrs. Borden also was in an kneeling or bowing down position so may not have fallen straight down with all of her weight at once. Also the Borden house looks rather large to me. I think it's possible for something to happen to Mrs. Borden without it being heard above or below in the possibly brief time it took for the murder to happen. 2) I've heard the house has no hallways because Mr. Borden thought them a waste of space so maybe the walls and doors also kept sound from extending far. 3) One documentary I saw mentioned an odd inheritance law concerning widows: if Mrs. Borden died second, her family would have received a big portion of Mr. Borden's estate. There would have been lot less for Lizzie and Emma to inherit. 4) I've heard that shortly before six members of the DeFeo family were killed in the famous Amityville murders in 1975, Mrs. DeFeo had said "something terrible" was going to happen, much like Lizzie had said many years earlier. 5) I once had a really awful roommate I wish I could tell you about. He was sadistic and I consider him capable of doing a lot. It would be interesting to get your thoughts on HIM!
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  67. Thank you, Big Old Boats! A great production about a ship that has become obscured in history. The Bremen deserves much more recognition. She had terrific interiors. It's sad that there are so few good-quality pictures of the inside of the liner and that there are even fewer in color. I'm glad you were able to use the motion picture footage of the interior. Do you know if that was filmed on board or was a studio re-creation? Either way it's still valuable in giving us a sense of the Bremen's interior.
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  68. Thank you, Big Old Boats! This is the first time I've seen an in-depth study about the Michelangelo and Rafaello. Very informative and enjoyable video. I was told that another factor working against the two liners was not only being divided into three classes but that the floor plans were complicated and have been desribed as "rabbit warrens". By the time the "twin fliers" debuted their class division was already anachronisitc as other liners had much less class distinction and passenger of all classes could move about the ships more freely. On other liners class divisions might be only opening or closing a sliding panel. The Michelangelo and Rafaello could have been hugely successful, long-lived cruise ships. Also I wanted to mention I've seen a drawing or painting from early on that showed the two sisters with black hulls and conventional funnels. It would be fascinating to see how the Mike and Ralph (as tugboat people called them) would have looked inside and out had they had more years of service. Some of those interiors soon came to look dated.
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  69. I read Anne Sebba's book "That Woman", very interesting reading. Something that I noticed was the number of people who were keeping diaries during the time period covered here, Mary Kirk Raffray being only one of them, diaries that would later provide information for the book.
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  70. I agree completely. There's a certain look of death that people sometimes have near the very end of their lives.
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  71. Cash, I have a question I hope you'll have time to anwer: Sometimes you show apartments that viewers suggest you and your family move into. If you did go to and found an apartment that would work for you and Mrs. Jordan and Violet, would you be allowed to rent that apartment yourself or would there be a conflict-of-interest rule or law that would keep you from renting one of the apartments you or your company handles?
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  72. I once saw a TV entertainment story about James Dean in which Maila Nurmi said that shortly before his death, James Dean had a picture of himself and put holes in the eyes. I wish I could remember the details but Ms. Nurmi believed that by doing that to an image of himself, James Dean had set something supernatural and negative in motion. i don't think she used the word "voodoo" but it sounded like Maila Nurmi believed that Dean had done something voodoo-like to himself.
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  73. I work at a university here in the U.S. that understandably will do in-house hiring for a position that opens up. However there is a requirement that jobs have to be advertised to the public on the university website. Even if someone already working in the office or department is going to get the job, the job has been advertised and people are applying for it even though there's no chance they will get the job. A total waste of time and a cruel thing to do to people who are looking for work.
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  74. Thank you Cash and Kunami and Violet for taking us with you! It's fun to see what people do in New York; so different from my experience of growing up with a soybean field behind the house---and we lived in town!
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  75. I'vedealt with the death of both of my parents. My father died in a highway crash just before I turned 21. My mother died when I was 48, essentially worn to death being a caregiver for my disabled brother (who is now deceased) and from other situations though I was able to help out at home and was glad to do so. When the time comes that one of your parents is gone you'll find you have more strength than you realize now, strength you need when you need it. Too you may need to be strong for the parent who is still living. You'll be amazed how much you can handle and deal with that seems impossible now.
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  76. I wouldn't be surprised if the wife had been drinking and it loosened her up to say what she really thought and felt.
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  77. Women own pit bulls too. I remember the case of the woman owned two pit bulls which killed and partially ate her. One of the woman's friends, referring to the dogs said, don't '...kill the babies". " Amazing.
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  78. Great place! All the apartments are terrific. For me the icing on the cake is a view that has the hills off in the distance AND that walk-through closet could be lined with bookshelves to be a home library.
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  79. Thank you for sharing all this , Cash. You are an inspiration, guide, and mentor. I might be considered almost the opposite of you as I'm not an entrepeneur and I assume leadership when there is no one else to do it---and I've found I'm very good at it but don't have the natural inclination. Some people such as yourself are born "starters" and leaders and some such as myself are what I call strong followers---and there's room and need for both types. Thanks for sharing your experiences and outlooks, Cash. I think you and even I with our different approaches and strengths can help people figure what works best for them.
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  80. As always terrific acting here and from both performers. Claire Foy with just a look conveyed so much. To use some older American slang, the Queen looked she was going to "blow a gasket", but kept herself under control. Nothing was said or done in anger, but the anger comes through. --- One criticism I have for this scene is the use of the word "transparent". I don't recall "transparent" being used in that context until around the time President Obama was in office here in the U.S. Still this scene is outstanding.
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  81. Cash, you have my vote! Wonderful apartment and especially for people who enjoy doing a lot of entertaining. Great walk-in closets and so much can be done with the apartment: the room off the living area might be made into a home library or a studio for an artist. The windowless room could be a place for retreat and quiet. Someone is going to have a lot of enjoyment in living in this apartment.
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  82. Dr. Grande, would you consider making a video about the famous hoarders the Collyer brothers who both died in their New York City mansion in 1947?
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  83. I've read about Florham in the book "Fortune's Children -- The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur Vanderbilt II and I think what appeals to me about Florham is not any particular room but the lifestyle that was lived there for many years: a year in advance you could know what would happen there and the estate was largely self-sufficient and the Twombly's were not celebrity rich people but a family that lived quietly and without much public attention. In her memoir "Dead End Gene Pool", Vanderbilt descendant Wendy Burden tells about going to Florham after it became a school. Both books are engrossing though the second one is the story of a family of tragedy and makes for heartbreaking reading.
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  84. I remember going to the Carnegie library in the small Indiana town where I grew up. Andrew Carnegie seems to have learned that doing things for others is a joyful, rewarding way to live.
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  85.  @uwbadger79  Elsewhere on You Tube there's an interview with Jacqueline Kennedy while she was still First Lady and also there's her tour of the White House. Mrs. Kennedy had that American, East coast, upper-class acccent. I don't know if it exists as much as it used to.
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  86. Fascinating video with so much spoken and visual information. This may seem to be a small point but I especially noticed the comment that when the Olympic returned to service in May of 1912 there were only 500 passengers and 900 crew. Ordinarily there would have been a huge number of people in steerage. I wonder how many Third Class passengers, if any, were aboard the Olympic for that crossing. It would be interesting to know how far in advance Third Class passengers were booked and where those passengers were that would have been aboard the Olympic had not the Titanic sank. Maybe travel agents or White Star staff re-routed those people to other liners in the White Star fleet or even to the ships of other lines if White Star was out of space?
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  87.  @eleanoraquitaine2966  I second the motion! Amanda has taken a small a space and not only made it look great but has made great use of that space. The apartment looks good and is efficient.
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  88. That bathroom was a major turn-off. It appears to be an extension of the bedroom and not a separate space. If a guest wanted to use the bathroom, they would have to close and lock the bedroom door to have any real privacy. A bathROOM is a separate ROOM. For me: no privacy, no deal.
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  89. Things actually could have been worse. I read Monica Randall's book, "Winfield: Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths". Ms. Randall told about how on Long Island after World War II there were mansions being bulldozed with the CONTENTS STILL IN THEM. On of the treasures lost was a statue by Michelangelo. At least the furniture and other times were taken from the Salomon house.
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  90. Terrific video, Ken! What a pleasure to see so many houses. My favorite here is the Heinz mansion. Thank you for all the time and work that goes into this and the others also. As I was watching I was reminded of a novel that you and your viewers might enjoy. It's "The Valley of Decision" by Marcia Davenport, published in 1944. It's about how a young Irish girl becomes a maid in the home of a wealthy Pittsburgh family in the 1870's and of how the story of her family and of the family she works for become connected over the years and up to the early days of World War II. "The Valley of Decision" is an excellent book that is still good reading today. Part of it deals with the winter during which the ice up in the mountains that was holding back the water of the river gave way during a thaw and the water came crashing into the city. Cary Grant was in the movie version of the novel. Marcia Davenport ten years later published "My Brother's Keeper" inspired by the tragic Collyer brothers in New York City who died in their hoard-filled mansion. It's another excellent book that accurately shows how hoarding starts and what it does to people a little at a time and it was written before much serious study was done on the subject.
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  91. Back in the 1980's in the town where I live (U.S.) someone in a local factory or plant noticed a camera in a men's restroom and the owners found themselves with a wildcat strike.
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  92. The woman who tossed the ring: if my understanding is right, he's the owner of the ring so if she really threw away the ring then she threw away his property and I'm thinking he could file a theft charge against her. Maybe grand larcency? I hope he got the ring back. Even if he didn't, he probably saved money in the long run: cheaper to lose the ring than be married to her and have all the expenses that would have come later including the divorce.
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  93. Ken, when I saw "Pink Palace" in the title of the video I thought you were going to be talking about Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay's house in Hollywood! It would be quite a house for your channel: carpeted bathroom walls and ceiling; office with red tufted leather (?) on the walls, ceiling AND desk; mirrored headboard over the bed; heart-shaped swimming pool and overall an over-the-top place. I believe the house was demolished in recent years and replaced with a Starbucks or some-such. Something (else) unusual about the house, and if my memori is correct, is that even though it was built before the stock market crash of 1929, I believe Hargitays in the late 1950's were the first full-time residents.
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  94. Ursula's story is understandable to me. When I was 20 and my brother 22 our father was killed in a horrific head-on collision with a coal truck. I was already suffering from what might be described as anxiety and agoraphobia then after the death of my father, who was quite a case history himself, our family moved to a new town. My brother, who is probably also autistic, became not only a hoarder but a violent hoarder. The death of our father must have been a part of my brother's hoarding. As our mother's health declined my brother's hoarding got worse. Ursula's story give me insight into the story of my own family which may have a genetic tendency to mental problems.
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  95. Having watched only part of this show I now have a bag of books filled up and I'm taking them to the Little Free Library up the street from me. More books will follow---I can only carry so many at one time! I haven't even gone out the door yet and I already feel better!
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  96. I've enjoyed and admired mansions for decades yet this house is entirely new to me. Remarkable that a house from so long ago is still standing and even more remarkable considering the size of the house. It looks like it could be a state capitol building from the early days of the United States!
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  97. Hi, Cinzia! I appreciate your realism and optimism. Yes, we are in a strange, uncertain time and for many people it's difficult to make plans for the future or plans have had to be changed but we can be realistic but not despairing. One of the best sayings I've ever heard is "We do today what we can do today". Another is "Do the good you are capable of doing".
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  98. I ike the neighborhood but the apartment is not for me: I saw a LOT of wasted, empty vertical space; cubicles that pass for bedrooms and a major lack of closet space. A "bedroom" with a 17-foot ceiling? A cramped kitchen space that's almost if not two storeys high? Things are just not right with this apartment.
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  99. Some women do get it. I was reading a book by the actress-turned-author Louise Brooks and she married and divorced two wealthy men and took nothing from them though she could have. I don't recall her exact words, but Ms. Brooks said something about it being wrong to end a marriage and then expect to be supported by the ex-husband. It might be said she was a woman who thought like a man.
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  100. Didn't look that way at first, but Anne Flint dodged a major financial bullet when Hearst got control of the estate.
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  101. Great advice, Cash, for someone thinking about moving to/already living in New York---or anywhere else. Also I have a kryptonite cable lock for my bicycle AND I sometimes put a kryptonite U-lock through the back wheel so the bike is locked twice. It may still get stolen but the thief is going to have to work for it!
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  102. What a pleasure to see these houses existing now to see the beautiful exteriors and interiors in color. I'm glad these wonderful places are still for us to enjoy and thank you, Ken, for making them known to us.
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  103. Cash, I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with the first apartment but it sounds like it was a learning experience and one that you've shared with others so something good has from it. Now...when you have bathtup enclosed with marble on three sides and only one end open you don't have a bathtub, you have a sarcoghagus.
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  104. The whole place is great but I especially liked the staircase area with that huge stained glass window.
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  105. Thank you, Mike, for all that went into this video: it was a great session of cringe-worthy ships! The worn-out Australis appeals to me in the same way I like abandoned, somewhat dilapidated mansions. As with an unoccupied house showing its years, the same with an ocean liner that is at the end of its career.
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  106. I noticed that too. I was going to comment on artwork having been blurred out. Is it because it might reveal the identity of the present resident or maybe a copyright issue?
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  107. In all the sorrow of the story of the Princess of Wales I've always remembered one somewhat comical situation. The Princess had been seen going to a man's apartment and people were thinking they were having an affair. To use the words of someone, maybe a journalist, who talked about this on TV, Diana was "a demon bridge player" and was just going to a friend's place to play cards!
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  108. This may be somewhat off-topic, but it's zany enough to mention. In the town where I live there is a center for in-coming calls. The employees have no direct contact with the public yet the office has a dress code that requires the phone workers to wear a certain kind of shoe.
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  109. Wow. I thought the call-in/phone center in my t own that required employees to wear a certain type of shoe was goofy, but this video has goofiness at a whole new level. This happened almost a hundred years ago, but is too good not share. I read this in the book "The Story of a Boy at the Hogarth Press" , (the publishing firm started by Leonard and Virginia Woolf) and this is my best recollection: A young man who worked for Woolfs came in at 9:01 and Leonard Woolf was going to dock him a minute's pay. The young man said he set his watch by the B.B.C. and was on time. Leonard Woolf set his watch by Big Ben and said the young man was late by one minute. What followed was a screaming argument about whether the time was 9:00 or 9:01. While the battle was raging, Virginia Woolf came in from outside, hadn't heard anything through the metal door, and said, "My watch has stopped. Does anyone know what time it is?"
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  110. Mike, you have taken your channel to a new level with this video. A remarkable production all around and along with that I wouldn't be surprised if you've been part of saving lives. People who watch this video may start thinking about safety issues right where they are and about how sometimes we have to take action and make decisions for ourselves rather than waiting to be told what to do. In the book "Fourteen Minutes" about the Empress of Ireland disaster I read how the crew of Canadian Pacific ships had to know the layout of their ships so well that the crewmembers could find their way out onto an open deck even in the dark. We all should know the layout of our homes and schools and workplaces so that we can get out in an emergency. This doesn't mean living in and acting from fear, but it's about being realistic and sensible and prepared. Well done, Mike!
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  111. Same here. Red flag. I hope that one thing isn't indicative of other issues in the apartment.
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  112. I agree with some of the comments below. Even as I was watching the video I was wondering why that particular crypt was opened up and why that particular corpse was cut up as it was. This sounds like more than mindless vandalism, like it was a deliberate act of desecration on a specific person. There must have been some kind of hostile motivation to what happened, some kind of intended insult or revenge.
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  113. What a place! And another one completely new to me! The house and grounds are extra interesting with their connection to motion pictures. The way the grounds have been documented in movies reminds me of how the interiors and even exteriors of the ocean liner Ile de France were recorded for posterity in the movie "The Last Voyage" which was filmed aboard the liner. The intention was for entertainment, but movies have been useful in preserving history even if it was unintentional. I'm glad that some of the mansion featured here is still in existence.
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  114. Maybe I'm too picky but I don't like how the windows or windowpanes are so small. You have a spectacular view but have to look at it through all those metal window frames. It's like looking through a cage. The rest of the apartment and building are wonderful. As a book lover it pleases me to to see places in the building that have so many books.
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  115. I grew up in small-town, have never lived in a city and have never gotten accustomed to tall buildings. If there are any third-floor penthouses, I'm interested! -- I read a biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post and I recall how when Marjorie was a young girl her foot got caught in a railroad track and a train was approaching. Another girl who was Marjorie's friend pulled her loose and saved her life. In appreciation of her friend's courage Marjorie made sure that her friend was never in any financial need throughout her entire life.
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  116. One time the daughter of one of my mother's friends's stayed at our house while the mother was out of town looking for a job. The mother was single, the daughter was six years old. I was 24, I believe. I have never in my life seen someone like that little girl who threw herself at men the way she did. I figured she woould be pregnant at 15 or 16, she so badly wanted a man in her life. Men are portrayed in the media as dumb and unnecessary, but children really do have a huge need for a father. I read a book by single mother Anne Lamott and her son Sam about Sam becoming an unmarried parent at a very early age. At one point in the book Sam said that while growing up he was "desperate" to have a father. In a Reddit posting a woman talked about cheating on her husband and going back to her parents. The grown woman talked about how her father couldn't look at her. Even at that point in life a father mattered. There's a movement to deny and suppress it, but we men are IMPORTANT in the lives of our children. Even other people's children will look to us.
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  117. I can tell this is a 1920's building: those glass doorknobs remind me of the 1926 house I grew up in. The French doors too. I love old New York apartments. I'd love to go through the apartment for a much closer look at all those books.
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  118. I think it could even be called abuse.
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  119. I noticed that Ronaele, designed by an architect named Trumbauer, bears a strong resemblance to the mansion used for the TV mini-series version of Stephen King's novel "My Life at Rose Red -- The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer". Probably just coincidence but we have two houses that bear a strong resemblance to one another and two similar names are connected with the houses: Trumbauer and Rimbauer. I wonder how much Stephen King may have known about Ronaele when he wrote about Rose Red.
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  120. Her sense of timing could hardly be worse.
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  121. I had left-handed scissors in elementary school but for most of my life have used standard scissors and prefer them. I probably couldn't use left-handed scissors now! I've always used a mouse right-handed, have always hit a baseball as a right-handed hitter. I have to use my can-opener right-handed because that's only way it can be used!
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  122. The Jerome house at 2:17, large as it is, makes me think of a smaller version of the Clark mansion in Manhattan where the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark spent part of her childhood. All the best to those who bringing this neighborhood up from crime and decay! This may be a little off-topic but I'm reminded of Harriet Arnow's novel "The Dollmaker" which is about a rural Kentucky family that moves to Detroit during World War II so the father can take advantage of the job and financial opportunity and about how the members of a country family react to being in a far different place and culture from what they've known. In real-life some of my own relatives went from Kentucky to Detroit during the war.
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  123. My choice would be the second apartment. So much of the first apartment just looks out onto the deck and the deck is situated so that lots of people can see you out there. For someone who wants to grow flowers or grow fruits and vegetables to eat or to have both, the first apartment is a winner. I understand about waiting for the cake: here in mini-Manhattan/Bloomington, Indiana, I recently discovered the vegan blueberry muffins at a local food co-op. DEE-lishus!
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  124. From what we can see of the letters it appears they were written on high-quality paper that might have what is known as a high rag content that would mean little or no discoloration over time. Too if the papers were stored away from sunlight and especially in a cool, dry environment the paper could look almost if not exactly as good as it did when first written on. Good-quality ink could help also; ink of an inferior quality can eventually start breaking down the paper.
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  125. A terrific house. It's grand and big, but not gaudy or tacky ---and it's still standing. I'll take the tower sitting room off of Mr. Hecker's bedroom. That would be my little library and I would have a writing table there also.
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  126.  @adastra79  There was nothing at all wrong with your first comment which was light-hearted and fun. I understod it and gave it a like. Anyone bothered by that simple, funny comment is WAY too sensitive.
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  127. Both apartments are great. I'm not a fan of two-burner stoves but I've noticed I never use more than two anyway. Cash, you probably don't have time to read for enjoyment but I started a spooky novel that might be just right for you and your viewers: "The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike and translated from the Japanese to English by Deborah Boliver Boehm. A young couple in Tokyo along with their kindergarten-age daughter move into a new apartment building located next to a cemetery and strange things start to happen...
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  128. A fascinating story and well illstrated with valuable pictures. For me the apartment is a little too much like a mausoleum. Some of those interiors are so "busy" and so big that it doesn't seem like a home. Still a lot of people lived there and I hope they enjoyed their time there. Ken, this comment is going back a little to your recent video "The Mysterious Astor Orphans and the Mansion They Called Home". I just started reading the memoir "Astor Orphan" by Alexandra Aldrich, a descendant of the Astors who grew up in the Rokesbury mansion during the time when it had fallen into disrepair . I've only read a little of the book so far, but it's a fascinating account of the house and the family in it. There's a strong similarity to what happened with the Beales at Grey Gardens but "The Astor Orphan" is still a separate, unique story as told by someone who grew up in famous and historical American house.
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  129.  @MyFiddlePlayer  I'm not sure if you're encouraging me in my beliefs or being sarcastic or a bit of both after I shared an event that should be treated with respect regardless of one's beliefs, but you take your risks in a public forum. Either way, I find that science and Biblical belief complement and confirm one another if people on both sides are really honest. My first comment and then yours about the daily cycle and physiological stress actually go well together. Diarist Anais Nin once wrote, and I think is verbatim: "I have no fear of the truth". Nor do I. And you?
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  130. This reminds me of the house the now famous Collyer brothers lived in in New York City. After the brothers died in their hoard-filled mansion in 1947 and the house was being cleared, civil engineers said that the clearing out had to start at the top of the mansion because the trash on the lower floors was what was holding up the upper floors. The Collyer house had something like 130+ tons of trash and I wouldn't be surprised if Dale's house had the same amount of weight.
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  131. I had a funny experience at my workplace when a man I had been speaking with on the phone complimented me on how I did my work. I said something like, "Thank you, I appreciate that". The man then said, "Thank YOU, Andrea". I'd said at the beginning of my call that my name is Andrew!---As I'm aging I've noticed a change in my speech: I have difficulty say the "ths" sound as in "months". It now sounds more lke "munts". Why this is I don't know but I think it may be that I'm trying too hard to enunciate over the phone and/or it's part of aging.---I long ago lost track of how many times on the phone in the workplace I've been referred to as "ma'am", "miss", "the girl" and I've even been called "b****"!
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  132. Outstanding work, Mike! This is the work of a professional. This video could be used for teaching in a college class. I'm glad you mentioned Elaine Kaplan. Not only did she have to deal with the unwillingness of many businesses at that time to hire women, Mrs. Kaplan also had to deal with barriers because she was of the Jewish faith. Gibbs & Cox looked for the best in employees regardless of sex, religion or race.
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  133. What a remarkable story. Daisy Suckley was a wise woman who was willing to work to earn money. She saw that she would probably live an unusually long life and made arrangements for it. I would probably have sold the estate and gotten a little place in town. Whatever Daisy's motives she saw to it that a wonderful house has been preserved for many to enjoy.
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  134.  @HD-fd7tn  I remember the episode featuring the ex-model. She had a very nice home but e ven in daylight rats were running around in the kitchen. The house was cleared out BUT...the daughter's boyfriend raised a good question about what was inside the walls. He and the pregnant daughter were to have moved into the house and I hope they didn't.
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  135. How did Tommy Lascelles come to have so much power, even over the Royal Family? Who exactly was he? Was he an elected official? Did he have an inherited position?
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  136.  @bohemoth1  Thank you! I appreciate YOUR common sense. It's sad that you have to do it but you're wise in making preparations for the trouble you can see ahead with your neighbor's dog.
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  137. Another winner, Ken! I love old, grand, mysterious houses. It's not a ghost story but the terrifying 1946 movie "The Spiral Staircase" starring Dorothy McGuire mostly takes place in a Victorian house at night. This movie deals with what we now call a serial killer and is remarkable for its accuracy in a time when little was known about such criminals and their behavior. If anything "The Spiral Staircase" is even more frightening and disturbing now than when first released. I also like the Crain mansion's Victorian interiors from "The Haunting" along with those of the Bramford apartment building in "Rosemary's Baby", based on the Dakota building in New York.
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  138. They are a little unsettling. I watched again and it looks like the doors just connect one bedroom with the other. Doors like that remind me of the movie "Rosemary's Baby" in which the closet at the end of a hall had a door in the back that led into the next apartment.--- That first apartment that had the lock that had been tampered with: that told me all I would need to know about renting there: No!
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  139. Congratulations on the bike, Cash! Blessings of safe travel to you. It looks like the bike may really make things more efficient and productive for you.
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  140. Cash, it's interesting to see your content changing and developing over time. We viewers learn a lot and it's appreciated. You do a genuine service for many, many people. Now it's time for you to do something for yourself: give yourself time for some real rest.
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  141. WOO-HOO! The neighborhood has Dunkin' Donuts AND Starbucks: a double-barrelled CASH BASH! Great apartment, great views though the bathrooms have mirrors over the toilets which gives the wrong kind of views if you get my drift. Just looking out the windows of these apartments and seeing the changing light and sky would be free entertainment. The lounge area looks great with all those books; find a book and a chair by the window and a good time is ahead.
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  142.  @yehmen29  Your comment about looking like a hoarder lines up with my own situation. I live in a small studio apartment and have boxes of unread books as I live in a town where books are very easy to get (sales, Little Free Libraries, library bookstore) for little or no cost. I finally realized that the amount of books and other things I have that look borderline hoarder are just because I live in a space too small for a reasonable, overall fairly small amount of possessions. The books have caused me stress for a long time because I acquire so much faster than I read and donate. I've done some purging of unread books in the past but have brought many more new ones in. I may do another book purge. Just too much of a good thing. Also I made the decision that no new books will come in for the first six months of 2021and have started telling people so there will be accountability on my part. I probably have some hoarder and/or compulsive issue/s but I'm not going to let them dominate and control me.
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  143. Hi, Mike! I'm glad I found your channel and I just now subscribed. I've seen your video on the Titanic then found this one. Wow! I respect and admire the amount of time and effort that goes into your videos. I've been an ocean liner enthusiast since I saw "The Poseidon Adventure" on Christmas Day of 1972 when I was 11 but you had information and photos that are new even to me! Very informative and entertaining. I know that hindsight is 20/20 but when I see photos of the Lusitania there just seems to be a sense that something bad is going to happen, there's a foreboding that goes with that ship. Maybe just my imagination... Something I'd like to suggest for an upcoming video is one about the post-war Ile de France. You probably have seen the 1960 movie "The Last Voyage" that was filmed aboard the Ile de France just before she was scrapped. Some liner lovers hate the movie but I see it as a terrific movie and one that provides an extraordinary amount of documentation about the ship on which it was filmed. The camera takes us from all the way down in the boiler room up to the bridge and top of the ship and so much of the interior is shown. "The Last Voyage" is a treasure chest of visual information. I'm looking forward to watching your next video!
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  144. There used to be an ad campaign for a brand of cigarettes, maybe Camel, and I eventually realized the ads were based on Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall. On a billboard there was a very old man in a black leather outfit made for someone far younger and with the man was a voluptuous young blonde-haired woman. The text said, [Brand name], it's a trophy smoke". Another later billboard showed the same couple with the man in more conservative clothes and the young woman in a low-cut wedding gown and leaning forward as she's about to bite into a piece of wedding cake. The text said, "She's marrying me for my money. Like I care". ----Dr. Grande, that lines up closely if not exactly with the possibility you mentioned in your video.
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  145. Maybe this is more of the myth, but I've heard that Sarah Winchester invented sinks with built-in washboards and that it was her idea to have kitchen counters with curved, raised fronts to keep things from spilling to the floor.
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  146. Back in the early 1990's I worked in Red Cross Blood Services here in the U.S. and I remember talking to an elderly volunteer lady name Inez. She knew of my interest in ocean liners and told me that though the loss of the Titanic was of course terrible, what really had an effect on her parents was "...the sinking of the Lusitania". I suppose it was because the sinking of the Cunard liner was done intentionally while the Titanic disaster was an accident.
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  147. I once read that when the two sisters were very young and they learned that Elizabeth would eventually be Queen, Margaret said to her, "Oh, what a bore for you".
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  148. Wonderful comments and insights, Cinzia! What you said here will really help people. I'm not exactly having a no-buy year but I'm having a no-acquire six months. I'm determined to reduce the number of unread books that I have---and this is just after finding yet another Little Free Library near me. My weakness is books---so many now that their presence causes stress rather than gives pleasure---and my intention is that for six months no new books will come into my space. If any books cross the threshold they will be outbound rather than incoming! I told a good friend about this and I KNOW she's going to hold me accountable!
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  149. I was noticing how a wall had been inserted two-thirds of the way across the bay window. Sad that a room was divided that way. Ditto: I'd love to see how those older buildings looked before they were gutted and subdivided, the original features and fixtures. Even if the buildings were a little worn from years of use they would still have an individuality not seen in the newer or renovated spaces.
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  150. I remember this song when it was new. I was maybe 9 when I first heard "She's a Lady" but loved it though was not able to fullly appreciate it. L.B. Robinson, with his own style and interpretation, has done a superb job of bringing this song into a new era for a new generation.
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  151. Cash gives viewers so much information about how to get the most for their money and how to not be taken advantage of that I'm wondering about merchandise from the owners of New York City rental properties: the Cash Jordan dart board; the Cash Jordan voodoo doll---I mean, pin cushion! And who knows what the Dunkin Donuts execs are planning!
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  152. Cash, this may help with your sock drawer: I fold over each pair of socks then put a rubber band around the socks. Another method is to tuck one sock inside another. I'm sort of color blind so I like to get socks with patterns or a logo; helps me see what goes with what.
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  153. I think it would be a scream to bring in one of those chair-bucket toilet chairs and set it next to your desk. Maybe put a roll of toilet paper on the edge of the desk. Don't say anything, just let the management see it. This would probably get the worker fired, but it would be so, so, so worth it!
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  154.  @wendyleeconnelly2939  I can believe that. If someone were to see the mix of books I have they might think three people were living in my space or that I was a multiple personality!
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  155. Good for you, Cash, for not giving into your now- or soon-to-be-former landlord. I think you did the right thing and if you need to relocate again in a year: Well, you done it before and can do it again.
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  156. I wouldn't be surprised if some treasures were in that house --- and ruined because of the contamination from the cats and rodents. I woudn't be surprised if there was mold in the Collyer house also. Such waste...of people and of useful and valuable things.
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  157.  @nycp1969  I read somewhere that Jacqueline and Lee's mother said if you want someone's attention to speak softly. It certainly worked with the First Lady. Not only did Mrs. Kennedy have that soft voice, but the upper-class style of speech and the graciousness and poise to go with it. I remember years ago on TV there was a perfume ad campaign that said, "If you want someone's attention...whisper". There really is something to it! -- I agree: it seems that upper-class American accent is gone or nearing its end. I suspect we've lost a lot of regional dialects and accents here in the U.S., maybe because of exposure to mass media.
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  158. A lot. I was born in 1961 and it was common when I was growing up to see pedestal ashtrays about three feet high and cylindrical standing ashtrays with white sand in them in lobbies and waiting rooms/receptionist areas and I think that some auditoriums had ashtrays built into the back of the seats. Cars had ashtrays in the dashboard areas and in the arm rests of the doors and some cars had small ashtrays that could be opened and closed built into the backs of the front seats. People could smoke even in hospitals. I started taking college classes at Indiana University in 1979 and you could light up in class and ashtrays were built into the walls outside of classrooms. Dorm rooms had built-in desks and on each desk was an ashtray. There were also ashtrays attached to the walls in the corridor of the dorm where I lived and I believe you could smoke in the dorm cafeterias. I remember a cigarette vending machine the Student Union building. I come from a family of smokers and when I was learning how to read, some of the first words I could read were "Lucky Strike"!
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  159. That familiar and awful scenario: design and built a magnificent home that could last for centuries then in less than a century, sometimes much less, tear it down. A terrific house inside and out. I like how the exterior has something of a Collinwood Manor- Dark Shadows quality.
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  160. That narrow space (laundry area) ending with a doorway into the next apartment reminds of how in "Rosemary's Baby"" the closet at the end of the hall had a door in the back that led into the next apartment. Something that was unclear to me: is the laundry area a shared space between the two bathrooms of the two apartments? Do the tenant of both apartments use the washer and drier?
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  161. Almost four years ago my brother who had Down Syndrome died of pneumonia complications. He already had dementia and may have been autistic as well and had forgotten how to use the bathroom. I don't know if he ever understood our mother's death and why I couldn't keep him at home. My brother was almost completely non-verbal but an earlier time when he was hospitalized with pneumonia but still after our mother's death he yelled out, "I can't stand it!". He would yell and struggle for as long as 14 hours and fought the IV and nose clip for oxygen. Then there was hysteria in rehab where I had to hire someone to be with my brother all the time. There was also the bad group home for which I had to get Adult Protective Services involved and I could tell even more. My brother's death from the second bout of pneumonia was truly a blessing and release. My father had died in a highway crash and, terrible as it was, it was better than what my brother went through.
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  162.  @MarcMcKenzie-qb6or  Absolutely. It's remarkable how Stirling Siliphant combined the two novels. (I preferred "The Glass Inferno" of the two.) Not only that, but Stirling Silliphant was involved with turning Paul Gallico's novel "The Poseidon Adventure" into a movie and there's quite a comparison between book and movie. There are almost two separate Posiedon stories. Had the movie precisely followed the book it would have taken place around 1963. Too there are main characters in the book who are not even in the movie.
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  163. Great video, Ken -- as always! I hope there will be a follow-up with still more Manhattan mansions. Wonderful houses, but all of them are too much for me (especially as arthritis makes walking a bit of a challenge!) though I find the interiors of the Frick mansion more my style: they're simpler and more restrained than many others. If I was to have a home in Manhattan I"d like to have an apartment in the Dakota. Also, Ken, I've recommended the fiction and non-fiction books of Louis Auchincloss for people interested in the wealthy of New York. As I watched today's video I was reminded of a novel by another author and that is also about the wealthy of New York City and that I'd like to recommend: "The Lady Who Loved New York" by R. L. Gordon, published in 1977.
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  164. Truly a remarkable house, one designed and built according to a philosophy...and I'm so glad this one was saved. Thank you, Ken for the history and tour. --- Fun fact: actress Anne Baxter was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Ken, I saw you and Dalton in the recent "Hoarders" episode and I want to thank you even more for the huge amount of work you did for your friend Bob both inside his house for cleaning and clearing, and outside of his house serving as advocates and case workers, doing so much on his behalf. If that isn't true friendship and genuine concern for a fellow human being in need of help then I don't know what is. Many blessings to you and Dalton!
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  165. Just gave you your 100th thumbs-up!
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  166. The things being said by the women here, especially the last one, sound like a modern-day version of witchcraft.
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  167.  @DangerousDevilOfficial  I remember the TV commercials that had a man's voice singing, as best as I recall: "I can't seem to forget you. I can't seem to forget you. Your Wind Song stays on my mind". I haven't thought about or heard that in decades but it's one of those things people remember. The advertising people did their job well!
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  168. I'm remembering the video Cash made when he and some other people were locked out on a rooftop. I hope he's propping those doors open when he goes out onto rooftops!
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  169. Thank you for your comments and observations, Ms. Bateman. Well said!
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  170. How have I never heard of the beautiful home? This one is especially fine. Those outside staircases go on and on. You could get a lot of exercise just making one trip down and back!
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  171.  4Freedom4All  Amen! I'm taking some books to the Little Free Library up the street from me later today!
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  172. I'm reminded of the aerial views of the sinking of the Andrea Doria and of the burning of the Lakonia, another liner originally under the Dutch flag.
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  173. Lynnewood Hall makes me think of the ocean liner S.S. United States that has been laid up since late 1969. In the 1980's the liner's interiors and fittings were sold at auction and the vessel is now a shell and continues to be that way. So far it looks like Lynnewood is sharing and will share the same situation. The mansion is just too big. It looks more like a government building than a house. I hate to see the loss of a beautiful home but there are people, not buildings, with more urgent, immediate needs. I'd rather pay for someone to have dental and medical care; to have a new roof put on their normal-sized house; help someone with their first and last month's rent so they won't be homeless; get a car for someone to get to and from a job rather than spend the money on an architectural colossus that would surely be a money pit. Lynnewood's time has come and gone.
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  174. The amount of money spent on this house by the first Astor owners is staggering even for the wealthy of that era. Then later owners have spent millions and millions more. I wonder how many houses have had so much money spent on them.
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  175. I've read Paco Underhill's books "Why We Buy" and "The Call of the Mall" and in one of them he talked about how men find a place to sit down while women shop! I've been along on some shopping expeditions and recommend having a book to read while you wait. You can tell that I grew up without computers and smart phones!
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  176. Whew! Glad the fall wasn't worse, Cash.---Sounds odd but years ago Smithsonian magazine had an article about staircases which made me aware of what's safe and what isn't. The staircase here may look good to some people but I see a safety hazard. Good thing it has a metal railing. Getting furniture to the second room could be a problem.---Kitchen looks good but is impractical with cabinets far too high. With dishes etc. on the shelf it will look like a garage sale and items there will have to be cleaned periodically. Second bedroom needs cleaning or painting because you can see where the bed had been against the wall. Bathroom drawer makes me wonder what else may have been damaged or worked too hard. Some concerns and drawbacks but still a good place for the right people.
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  177. Wonderful apartment and I like how the closet space is used in such an organized, efficient way. ---What a great idea to have a little library in the laundry room. I have a hunch there's a lot of good free reading there. Looks like the buildings'version of the Little Free Library.---Off topic but I think that park area with benches along the walkway by the water was where a scene from "Prizzi's Honor" was filmed, one of the organized crime people meeting with the hit woman Irene (played by Kathleen Turner) to arrange for someone's murder. Note: Whoever moves into the apartment, please don't engage in such activities. Thanks.
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  178. Your comment reminded me of a hilarious comedy sketch from "The Carol Burnett Show" back in the 70's, a spoof of Joan Crawford movies called "Torchy Lady". Carol as Joan says (this is my best recollection) to her downtrodden maid (Vickie Lawrence), "Problems? You think you have problems? Do you know what it's like to walk into a restaurant and have everybody stare at you? Do you know what it's like to have a house so big you wander around day after day...just trying to find a bathroom? Do you know what it's like to have your pool heater malfunction? DO YOU? (Sobbing) These are the problems I live with every day so you just be glad that you're plain and untalented and poor!" One of the funniest scenes ever and it may be on You Tube.
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  179.  @wisehr  I second the motion. It would be more accurate to say "That one poor decision that followed many others but that was documented in public". Another phrase that doesn't work is "It's not me. That's not who I am". Then who else is it?
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  180. I have mixed feelings about mixed messages here. I think of how the daughters could have cleaned their own bedroom then I think maybe they're overwhelmed and discouraged by what's in the house and that the mother may stop them from clearing things out. I also wonder, did the daughters learn any housekeeping skills before things got so bad? could things be discarded when the mother is gone? Too one of the girls talked about getting ".used to it..." and that "...it's natural..." to them Then I think of how it's not that hard to figure out how to clear things awa. There was a comment about the hoarding being kept secret from the neighbors but just the glimpses of the outside of the house make me think the hoarding is no secret.Too the mother telling about how she would get after the daughters about, "Why is this here? What's this doing here?" when she's the hoarder is a great irony.
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  181. I remember a friend of mine telling me years ago about an abusive uncle who would beat his wife and four sons. One day the sons took their father out and beat him almost to death. After that: no more problem with abuse from Dad. I've heard that the only thing abusers respect is greater force. Still one wonders what kind of parents the sons became and if they are still dealing with the effects of their father's abuse and if the next generations have been affected. The abusive father stopped his behavior but should have been stopped long before.
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  182. How does one person kill 11 other people? One person can use two guns at the same time but eleven victims? Were they all confined to one room? Could the people being attacked have scattered in different directions? Were the people killed too scared or confused to do anything? Did anyone escape?---I lived in Illinois at the time of the murders, not all that far away, and had recently read and been deeply impressed by Truman Capote's book "In Cold Blood" about the murder of the Clutter family but I have no recollection of the crimes that happened in the house featured in this video. Of course back then there was no internet, no cable TV except for some UHF stations and just the three major TV networks.
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  183. What a remarkable house with a remarkable location and shape. Beautiful place. I think I'll pick the Gold Room as my favorite. Seriously, I wonder if the Gold Room provided some inspiration for the room of the same name in the Stanley Kubrick's movie version of "The Shining". Some believe that the movie has references to America being on the Gold Standard. In that famous ending that shows a picture taken at the 1921 Fourth of July ball at the Overlook Hotel, some of the people in the photograph have since been identified as prominent people of the era and who might have been guests at the Belmonts' home such as one of President Wilson's daughters. How sad and silly that there was a feud or competition between Mrs. Belmont and Mrs. Roosevelt. I hope people have moved beyond that sort of thing, but even though architectural and clothing styles have changed, human nature apparently hasn't!
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  184. Good advice. In old movies there could be scenes in which man speaks to a woman who then says, "Have we been introduced?" We really would do well to go back to the custom of people being introduced to one another by a mutual acquaintance.
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  185. I live in Bloomington, Indiana, a univeristy town with the university right in the middle of town. Rents of course are high and my landlord is a shark: not quite six weeks into my lease for my so-so efficiency apartment I got an email from the management company saying that people are interested in living here and that it might be good to renew my lease because if I don't the managment "may" start showing the apartment to someone else who will sign the lease. Not even six weeks into the lease... I understand that the owner wants to have as many people in here for as long as possible but this really going too far. A co-worker of mine who has a background in real estate said this is "...probably legal but highly unethical".
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  186. Thank you, Cash, Taylor, Liz and Kyle for showing us around! That was a lot of fun! The Windermere is quite a place. It hasn't happened yet but, Cash, I'm waiting for the day when you show an apartment in the Dakota.
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  187. I agree! Might as well wear a "FEEL FREE TO ROB AND KILL ME" shirt.
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  188. Something about the house makes me think this was a happy place.
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  189. I was thinking that was a Wind Song bottle! My mother wore that perfume. I remember the ads on TV: "Your Wind Song stays on my mind". That perfume really did have a nice fragrance.
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  190. Fascinating analyses of the characters. These videos are terrific. One thing I think may not be historically accurate about "Mad Men" is when the characters hear something they don't like and they ask, "Excuse me?" I grew up in the 1960's and 70's and I didn't hear "Excuse me" used as a question. I think it would have been more accurate to say "I BEG your pardon" or "What did you just SAY to me?" That's what I heard.
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  191. And those women who sacrifice their family for their happiness, I wonder how many of those women are happy.
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  192. It's fun to play Ocean Liner What-If. We can speculate on the career the Britannic might have had had she survived the war. I've wondered if those huge davits might have been removed and replaced with more conventional davits and the lifeboats in more of a line along the deck. That scenario happened with one of the Union Castle four-funnel liners. Of the Olympic-class liners I think the Britannic was the most attractive onthe outside though I found her interiors just a little too ornate. I was once writing a short story written in the form of a letter and it took place aboard the Britannic in 1936. In the story the ship had become an economy liner with lower fares. Her hull had been painted white and the fourth funnel had been removed and the remaining three lowered to give the ship a more modern look.
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  193. Don't ask me why but as I was watching I was reminded of the movie "The Sentinel" from the 1970's in which a young woman rents an apartment in New York and learns that the apartment is the gateway to Hell and that she is to watch over it. Ava Gardner played the leasing agent or broker. Cash, if there's ever a re-make of "The Sentinel" you should have a cameo role in the film as the person showing the apartment----and the name CASH JORDAN should have top billing in the opening credits with your name over the title. Seems perfectly logical to me!
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  194. @Terrence Bryant Maybe and maybe not. You don't know what's in my bank account.
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  195. Nope to whole place. Did anyone else notice at 7:21 how the refrigerator was leaning forward? At another place in the video I saw a crack. This whole building gives off a bad feeling.
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  196. I've been interested in and have read about Marilyn and watched documentaries and interviews about her for over 40 years and I don't think Marilyn would have liked this exhibit. It seems inconsistent with her personality and priorities.
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  197. Great apartment and thank you, Cash, for taking us around the neighborhood. I'd love to go walking around there and trying out the different restaurants and businesses and going to the park to walk or to read a good book on a park bench.
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  198.  @sinash  Well said! I recently turned 30---for the second time! With arthritis and circulatory trouble I'd have no interest in using one of those ladders more than a few times a year. For me those lofts would be to store items used only rarely.
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  199. Wonderful places. I grew up in a rather large house, additions made over the years by preceding generations of my family, and now that I'm in the no-longer-young category and have arthritis and some heart trouble that family house would be far too much for me. One of these Japanese tiny homes would be great for me. I think I and many others would be able to live alone for longer times and with less need for assistance. One change I would need is a bed that's at a "regular" Western height because of the difficulty gettting to a standing position from at or near floor level. I'm going to be looking at my studio apartment in a different way.
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  200. I noticed that the portrait on a stand that appears at 2:10 appears again later in the new library at 3:05 in the new library. I wonder who the man in the portrait is: maybe an ancestor, maybe an admired author? Speaking of authors, Ken, you and your viewers might be interested in the 1949 historical novel "Prairie Avenue" by Arthur Meeker. It's told by a man who is orphaned in childhood and is sent to live with wealthy relatives in Chicago. There is an aunt who is rather mysterious and who might be considered the main character and around whom much of the story revolves. The story goes from the 1880's to 1918, a great read. The fictional characters in the Meeker novel would have known the Pullmans. One of my ancestors was one of the founders of the still functioning Church of the Immaculate Conception on the south side in the 1880's but, my family would likely have been entering the Pullman house from the servants' entrance!
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  201. Good point! I think it would be good to get someone from an auction firm and who can use the internet to widen the range of possibly buyers.
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  202. I'm sorry you had what is really several awful experiences. Mother and daughter are each a real piece of work, to use some old-fashioned terminology. I'm glad things ended before you got more involved and used even more. If the daughter will do what she did and then brag about it at work, she's revealed who she really is and I bet even the other women don't trust her now. Who knows what else she will do in the workplace. Please don't allow yourself to ever be alone with her there and, if possible, don't be around her at all at work or anywhere else.
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  203. I'm wondering if someone who had once lived in the empty apartment was using a two-way mirror to spy on someone in the occupied apartment. I remember a news story about a landlord who did that and maybe even in more than one place in the apartment. I'd seal up that opening between the apartments for reasons of safety and security and also to just lower the heating/AC bill. From what was said in the video, it sound like the little girl whose remains were found in the coffin died of "under-nourishment". I wonder if she was too sick to take food and drink or was neglected to death.
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  204. The Old House at Collinwood was on the Lyndhurst estate in New York. Sadly that house was destroyed in a fire.
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  205. I've been thinking about the last sentence in your comment. If you need an object to have a memory maybe you could use a blank book or have a computer file in which you record the memory that goes with the object and then give the object away if there's no other reason for keeping it. Too I'd like to offer this idea: if you have to have an object or item to keep the memory associated with it, maybe that memory isn't so important anymore and it might be time to be more involved with the present and create new memories.
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  206. Edward Kenworth Carlilse: a businessman and he was a real bit of business himself.
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  207. I agree. Dozens of people could have lived in that house or stayed there as hotel guests. Were the house standing now I can see it being re-purposed in one of those ways. Too it could have been a venue for weddings and receptions and conferences.
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  208. Very interesting! Just now found your channel. I enjoy those might-have-beens and what-ifs. During the video I was reminded of a picture I saw years ago of how the Queen Mary might have looked: the drawing or painting showed hull 543 looking much as we know it now as the Queen Mary but the last third or last quarter of the ship looked like aft portion of the Aquitania including the counter stern. I'm going to check out the website you mentioned.
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  209. I'm glad the character of Margaret White has been given this much attention and even understanding. She had so little guidance and didn't plan to become the person she eventually did become. I know this will sound odd but my recollection is that Piper Laurie said somewhere that when she portrayed Margaret White, she played Carrie's mother as a comic character, maybe because Margaret was so extreme. Whatever Ms. Laurie's opinion was of Margaret White, she gave a performance worthy of an Oscar nomination.
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  210. Ken, what a great choice of photos: in a video about an F. Scott Fitzgerald story, at 1:32 the young lady dancing is Colleen Moore, the mega-star of silent films. She starred in the movie version of "Flaming Youth" and Fitzgerald wrote: "I was the spark that lit up flaming youth, and Colleen Moore was the torch." Miss Moore went on to do critically acclaimed work in sound motion pictures, including co-starring with Spencer Tracy, then chose to retire in 1934. She lived a long, good life until her passing in 1988. In reading earlier comments here it sounds like Beacon Towers is likely the closest to the fictional house but I expect that part of the Gatsby house is still a composite of real houses and the author's imagination. Not a house but for a long time I've been curious about the S.S. Poseidon in Paul Gallico's 1969 novel about people trapped in a capsized luxury liner and in the 1972 movie. The Queen Mary has a lot in common with the fictional novel (a Queen Mary model was used for the first movie version) but I wonder if the Poseidon had parts of other liners. The Queen doesn't have a grand staircase descending into the dining room but the fictional Poseidon and other real-life liners did. It would be fun to know more!
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  211. Maybe it's me but I've found that Lyndhurst has a special, positive atmosphere. What a pleasure to learn that a house has been so well loved and used. I used to be involved with the American Red Cross and was extra pleased to learn about how items from Lyndhurst were used to assist the Red Cross. Another house and estate that has been put to excellent use the mansion and ground of Yaddo, the home of philanthropists Spencer and Katrina Trask, that would be turned into a retreat for writers and artists. I don't know if there is much information and many photographs but maybe Yaddo could be the subject for an episode of "This House".
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  212. Ken, I'm reeling from this one. What an extraordinary history of the house and of the family. Some of the interiors remind me of those in the A.T. Stewart mansion in Manhattan. (Maybe you could make a video of that house also.) I'm an ocean liner enthusiast and I have a book called "Ravenscrag" which has some information about the Allan steamship line. I haven't read the book yet but after seeing your video I can tell I'm in for quite a real-life story. The Allan Line may not have been as big as Cunard or White Star or Canadian-Pacific but they had a pair of beautiful liners called the Alsatian and the Calgarian. The Calgarian was lost in World War I and the Alsatian later went to the Canadian-Pacific Line to become the Empress of France.
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  213. Mixed response for me: bedroom should have a full bath. The well or shaft of light and air is nice BUT...I think of how there could be a floor in there and at least one more room added to the apartment. There's a lot of space to heat and cool but that isn't being used. Not quite the apartment for me but someone is going to love living there.
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  214. I noticed that too! The sprayer made me think of the Gemini space capsules from when I was growing up in the 1960's!
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  215.  @mrsdrhux  The Princess and I were born only two months apart so, in a way, we were contemporaries. I'm in the U.S., had that day moved into a new place and a family member called in the evening and told me that Diana had been in that awful crash. The next morning before we were to meet, my family member called and asked immediately, "Have your heard?" I replied, "She didn't make it, did she?" Even here in the U.S. the Princess of Wales was held in high esteem. Around the time Diana left Charles, a co-worker of mine said of the Princess, "I admire her more each day".
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  216. It really was. It was a huge event for many people and I think it could be truthfully said that for some people JFK's death was a paradigm shift, it changed how they saw the world.
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  217. Beautiful place and I think I'll pick the library as my favorite room. -- I wasn't born there, but I like to think of myself as an honorary thrifty New Englander: Had I lived in and run the Poor mansion I would have used a good portion of the gardens for growing food for the estate and would have had some cows and chickens as well.
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  218. Bars on the windows of a second-floor apartment? I'd like to know more about the crime rate in this neighborhood.
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  219. The view from the apartment reminds me of the view from James Stewart's apartment in the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Rear Window".
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  220. Great comment. The Princess of Wales lived out the ideas discussed here.
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  221. Great to see the America/West Point/America/Australis/Noga/Alferdoss---if I have all those names right! She was a beauty and had such a long career. I think part of that is because the ship was large but not too large to be economical. From what I've read she sailed with a lot of empty cargo space as the America and then there were problems with striking workers but was most successful as the Australis. On a liners Facebook page just today there's been some discussion about how the Australis had a gray hull while the other Chandris liners had white hulls. The original black paint of the America was bleeding through the white paint of the Australis so the Australis was given a gray hull. I love the white-painted Chandris liners but for some reason the white didn't look as good on the Australis as the gray that was eventually used.
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  222. That's a very good point. 37 years is a long time to do something directed at the deceased. It makes sense that this might really have been directed at a relative/s now living rather than the man who died many years ago.
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  223. I second the motion. It went on WAY too long, too much repetition. The husband should have said his say and left or thrown the wife out.
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  224.  @Daphattack  When i was in high school in the 1970's one of my teachers (he actually taught Government and not Literature) would read Jane Austen's works over and over. I have a hunch that Mr. Hannah would have said there's no such thing as reading Jane Austen too much!
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  225. Ken, this was fascinating. I enjoyed the story of the house and Miss Davies. Viewers who would like to know a little more about t he Davies-Hearst story I think will enjoy a section of Louise Brooks' book "Lulu in Hollywood". The section called "Marion Davies' Neice" is mostly about Pepe Lederer but also give some information about the life shared by Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon. It's been a while since I read it but I think one of the recollections of Miss Brooks takes place in the beach house.
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  226. All the houses shown here are great in their way. I'll pick the Standord house as my favorite. I can see why General Colton didn't have a problem with the sun-blocking wall. Looking at the various photos we can see that the Colton house was getting lots of sunlight anyway. Is it possible there was another house on the other side of the wall seen at 1:10? Would that have been the actual site of the unwilling neighbor?
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  227. Great advice at the end, Cash, about not renting what you don't need. I've never seen a dishwasher under a sink. The drain for the sink must be in a corner of the sink.
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  228. As my mother used to say: "It's a bit much". I find the interiors excessive but the outside is beautifully restrained Beaux Arts creation. I read or heard that the big metal doors at the front of Marble House have no knobs or handles on the outside because there would always be servants on the inside to open the door for visitors; no need for anyone to open the doors from the outside.
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  229. I wonder if the ultimatum woman actually let go of the ring when she "tossed" it out the window or maybe she had some cheap thing that passed for a ring. I wouldn't be surprised if she still has the ring.
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  230. Thank you for this video! I've been intrigued with the Hopkins mansion for years. Something that may now be lost in history is what the colors were for the outside of the house. I wonder if there are any written descriptions or if there might be painting of the house somewhere. I've read that Shirley Jackson who wrote "The Haunting of Hill House" was originally from California and that her great-grandfather (?) was an architect. I wonder if Shirley Jackson's relative had any connection with the design and building of the Hopkins mansion and if the mansion may have provided some of the inspiration for the Crain mansion in the novel.
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  231. Wow. The ex-wife contacts you after 32 years. That is what I call chutzpah! And just plain gall.
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  232. Same here. I've always remembered a comment about how there are some things you do in a bathroom that you don't want to see yourself doing. Ditto with the mirror over the toilet. A mirror over the sink and maybe a mirror on the door is all that's needed.
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  233. Same for me. It would be great to have financial security, but then to do things for the others. I recently learned the phrase "the gift of giving". Even in a small way now it's a joy to do something for others. I know of people who don't have enough money to pay for medicine and rent and groceries at the same time or who need to get out of a bad housing situation. What a pleasure it would be to make their lives better.
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  234.  @sarahpiaggio2693  That's an excellent point! My own reading became more serious over the years and Diana probably had the same experience of moving beyond what interested her at 19.
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  235. In my book Elliott is male but not a man. He was the antithesis of what a husband should be.
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  236. I agree. The staircase is a terrible accident waiting to happen. I wonder if it violates some kind of safety code. If the stairs were at least opaque instead of transparent that would be a huge improvement.
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  237. I'm surprised I've never heard of this family before. Maybe they were less public than some of the other Gilded Age wealthy families. So many beautiful homes here, but the one I like best is the country house seen from the air. A simple, beautiful, grand house and with space to be a working, self-sufficient farm or at least nearly so.
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  238. Another fascinating liner video! Thank you! The deterioration of then explosion on the Norway makes me think of the movie "The Last Voyage" in which a boiler explodes aboard an aged and worn out ocean liner. The movie was filmed aboard the France/Norway's predecessor Ile de France. interesting how art and life have so much in common.
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  239. I'm a book lover and have boxes of unread books in my efficiency apartment, but Evergreen mansion is book-loving on steroids! And good for the people who brought and kept all those books in the house. --- I've seen the front of Evergreen before, hadn't realized how much there is to the house. Wonderful place.
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  240. I've had two bikes stolen in Bloomington, IN, in two years. I love seeing these criminals getting caught.
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  241. I like your well-informed, practical comments. I like big houses of the past but I wouldn't have one even if I could afford it: all that money to heat and cool empty, unused space; all the money for maintenance and taxes. If I had that kind of money I would find better things to do with it.
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  242. Thank you, Mike, for bringing another outstanding presentation to us. Your work is that of a professional. It's so well done and it's educational as well as entertaining. What a great ship the Olympic was. Wouldn't it have been something to be a 1920's passenger aboard the Olympic!
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  243. So much time has gone by and so many people with information are now dead that I doubt we'll ever know the truth about Marilyn Monroe's death. I've read and watched a lot about her and I'm inclined to think that her death was a tragic accidental overdose of medication (maybe mixed with alcohol she drank) administered in an enema by her housekeeper and/or psychiatrist. Marilyn did have some connection with the Kennedys but it appears that it wasn't as much or as lurid as some have said. You might be interested in the life and mysterious death of Mary Pinchot Meyer who was known to be very involved with President Kennedy and asked too many questions after his death and was too critical of the CIA and was murdered a year after JFK. Mary Meyer was around some of the early users of LSD and may have have been involved in drug use with JFK though it's unknown if they used LSD.
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  244.  @nathangale6421  It's indicative of his character now, a character who doesn't deserve the job he has.
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  245.  @philipgermani1616  Me too! Loved those secret passageways and vampires.
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  246. It would be fun to see what this house was like in its original state. I would probably prefer that to how it is now, nice though it is. My favorite spot is that bay window. What a great location for reading a good book and just watching what's going on outside.
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  247. Wonderful news, Ken! Congratulation on reaching the 100,000 mark. So many remarkable houses it's hard to pick a favorite but I think I'll choose that house that was on a corner and occupied by one of the Vanderbilt daughters. I think that one may still be standing and that it's part of a university or college. Maybe someone else can add a comment.
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  248. Welcome home, Cash and Mrs. Jordan and Violet! Thank you for taking us along with you to and from Japan. I had a wonderful time and I look forward to your next trip!
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  249. Wow! Cash, this is the most unusual place I've seen in your videos. Some wonderful features here, indoors and out. I have some books about old New York City apartment buildings but none of them mention the Pythian. I'm wondering if this is an older building that has been remodelled or is a newer building that has an old-fashioned exterior.
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  250. Same here. No way would I live or work in one of those super-talls. Too there's a novel from 1984 called "Skyscraper" and it's about a New York skyscraper that is too thin and too tall and things go horribly wrong. It's a well-researched book; there's even mention about how part of the building's trouble was that the concrete hadn't been mixed enough or didn't get poured at the right time. I don't recall the details, but "Skyscraper", though not well-known, is a page-turner of a book.
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  251. Extra thumbs-up, Ken! This is one of your most enjoyable videos. It was good to learn about Mr. Hilton doing so much with his wealth and opportunities and to learn about architect Paul Walker Jr., giving context to and added appreciation for the house. I hope you will make a video about Mr. Williams. I'm a big fan of those 1930's and 40's Hollywood houses with their white-painted brick and stone and with that French style and I LOVE this house! I would be happy to live in the Hilton house. There may not be enough photos and documentation for a whole video, but I've become curious about the house in which Jean Harlow lived for a time and that was called "the whitest house in the world" or something like that. I've seen some 1930's pictures from Architectrual Digest and it was very nice on the inside. The house is still standing and apparently much altered and is surrounded by trees and foliage that make it invisible from the street.
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  252. Just a small point but those wide windowsills could be used for bookshelves as long as the books aren't all that big, maybe mass-market-sized paperbacks. I'm a book lover so that could be my literary shrine!
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  253. I live in a small efficiency apartment and there's quite a bit of stuff in it, mostly books. I'm gradually downsizing and my goal is to have things downsized and orderly enough that in the event of my death my place can be cleared out in one day.
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  254. Maybe Satan is working against the church because of the way they are following Christ.
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  255. Wonderful place! I love old New York City apartment buildings and this apartment space is so well used. This apartment is not just great, not just groovy, not just fab, it is CASH-TASTIC!
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  256. I may be thinking of another house, but I was thinking the Flood mansion was once owned and used by a Catholic religious order. Whoever all the owners were, what a loss. The destruction of the house is especially sad though I'm glad the owner was able to have some parts removed and saved.
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  257. I wasn't aware of the different ways to monitor people---or of the different ways people can get around being monitored. For the work I do I prefer going to a designated, job-only workplace though a number of my co-workers are still working from home. I don't like the idea of my living space or my personal equipment being extensions of my workplace.
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  258. Great comment. When a house such as the Schwab mansion is completed and paid for... it isn't really paid for asthe owner has to keep paying and paying for upkeep and taxes and for the wages of the people who clean and maintain the house.
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  259. Great point: "...architectural versus decorated".
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  260. Thoroughly enjoyed this, Ken. Like others I knew the house had been demolished, never knew another house stood there afterward. Sad that both houses are gone, but it's not surprising in light of the situation and I'll say tha the Statehouse does look good with its expansions. I've read the John Hancock like the high life, having a coat with diamond buttons on it. --- Ken, your video has me thinking of a book I read in school many years ago and that you and your viewers may have read also: "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Forbes, the story of a boy who is learning to be a silversmith in Boston at the time of the American Revolution. Excellent book for young and not-so-young readers.
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  261. All those terraces are quite a sight, and as a person who has arthritis the most I could do with them is just enjoy the view from the top level! More seriously it makes me wonder how much of the terraces and gardens and grounds and of the house itself were actually used and enjoyed by the residents. I hope that at least some of the fixture and fittings of the house was removed and re-purposed. In the town where I live we have the Re-Store for just that purpose and I think it may be connected with the Goodwill organization.
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  262. Great video, Ken. I particularly enjoyed the drawings showing the growth of the house. I was at Mount Vernon in 1970 when I was nine year old. Now that I'm way older I would appreciate the experience even more along with the porch facing the Potomac. What a great place to sit in a chair and read a book and enjoy the view. I've read that the cupola on the roof of Mount Vernon is 18 inches off-center, but I can't remember why! I was reading in a book about the dishes and furniture and such that are in the White House (though President Washington and the First Lady never actually occupied the mansion) and was surprised to learn that the Washingtons were criticized in their day for what was then considered a lavish lifestyle while compared to the wealthy of today George and Martha lived well but rather simply.
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  263. Just a tiny part of a beautiful home, but I noticed how at 4:15 we see an interior door with window panes in it, allowing for natural light to extend further into the interior even when the door is closed.
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  264. The second apartment for me! The first one is nice but you can tell a room with a bay window has been divided in an odd way. Cash, that was one nice-looking pen you were using at 8:35. I'm glad to see that even though you're a computer/camera/technology person you were using a nice old-fashioned writing instrument. I looked several times and I think your pen is a ball-point or maybe a gel pen. Here a suggestion, Cash: When you reach 200, 000 subscribers maybe buy yourself a nice fountain pen to commemorate the occasion.
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  265.  @mentallyunstable1926  Hear! Hear! Many of the rooms in these houses could house entire families. I read Virginia Woolf's diary and back in maybe the late 1920's or early 30's she visit Knole, the colossal country house of the Sackville family and made a comment that all of the poor of the East End of London could be housed there. You and she were thinking along the same line.
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  266. All of these houses are great. I like the exterior of the first house but the interior of the Arizona house is great. Along with Wrigley Field in Chicago there is also the Wrigley Building by the Chicago River that flows through the downtown area; it's a beautiful building from the past and still in use.
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  267. Disgraceful that the Kahn's had to deal with anti-Semitism. I hope things went better for them on Long Island.
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  268.  @urbaniteurbanizer1612  In those days it wasn't bad manner. It was normal for people in interviews and settings such as talk shows to light up while they were speaking. Smoking on TV almost disappeared in the early 70's then got going again in maybe the 1990's.
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  269. Thank you for sharing even the misadventure, Cash. Someone will learn from this and avoid being in the same situation.
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  270. i agree. There's a lot about this apartment that is "off". I wonder if the downstairs toilet that doesn't have a sink nearby is in violation of health codes. The staircase is a disaster waiting to happen. After the recent hurricane situation in New York I would be very, very leery of a basement space as it might be filled with water or maybe already had been flooded. Then there's the lack of light and view. I'd have to be paid to live there.
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  271. Yep! Old enough that not only did I start smoking in high school but stopped smoking in 1981 while Ronald Reagan was President!
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  272. The last apartment: I would turn that tiny bedroom into a sitting room/library or it could be a home office area. Since Cash didn't say it I will: in that space you can set up A SHRINE TO YOUR GOD!
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  273. Maybe it's been mentioned elsewhere, but I'm curious about Kevin Monohan's relationship with his neighbors and others in the community. I wonder if there's a history and pattern of trouble with this man.
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  274. I was at my local library's bookstore just this afternoon and saw one of my favorite books ever: "Fortune's Children -- The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt. You may already be familiar with this book, but if you're not I highly recommend. I could hardly stop reading it once I started.
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  275. Being up that high I wonder if the view from the apartment windows is ever obscured by a low cloud ceiling. Being on the second or third floor is more my style.
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  276. I'll take the Dining Room or the Gold Room; the others are too much for me. I've read quite a bit about the mansions of the U.S. but I don't recall ever hearing about Idle Hour before. Thank you, Ken, for introducing us to this lesser-known Vanderbilt house!
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  277. I enjoy seeing the huge mansions of people such as the Vanderbilts, but it's also nice to see a house that is on a smaller, more human scale. I wonder what the reasoning was for changing the beautiful exterior. I also wonder what the inside looks like. I hope it hasn't been divided and subdivided in apartments with stark white walls and miniscule kitchen areas bathrooms with too many mirrors like I see on videos about N.Y.C. apartments.-- I'd like to read one of Paul Ford's novels. He's an author I'd not heard of before; maybe a forerunner of Louis Auchincloss, another high-society author and who died in 2010.
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  278. Now that's the way to get your point across! Beautiful images of the liners and it's great to see them together and get a sense of scale as well as design. Some liners are or were bigger than others but there is no such thing as a small ocean liner!
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  279. Cash, the view of you entering the apartment at 8:23 would make a great painting to hang in one of the apartments you show! Speaking of paintings: I wouldn't mind having that beautiful beach painting that we see here and there in the second apartment. I have a book-crowded efficiency apartment but I'll make room that.
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  280. Well said! Having such "closets" is an insult to tenants.
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  281. Thanks for taking us along, Cash! I'm already looking forward to the sequel!---I used to get queazy when reading in a moving car but grew out of it.---Same here. I don't drive much. I don't drive at all but I keep my license up to date for ID. I always say that I can drive well enough to get someone to the hospital--and create some new patients along the way!
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  282. I remember seeing Miss Dickinson as a guest on "Larry King: Live". Mr. King asked Angie Dickinson if she would write her autobiography and she replied with an almost laugh, "I burned my diary years ago". Good for Angie Dickinson for how she chooses to keep her private life just that: private.
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  283. Seeing those interiors: Oh, yes. Now I remember why I'm working toward minimalism. The outside in both forms: really not for me. Still, I say good for Mrs. Hearst for creating a house that was her own and for her wonderful philanthropic work.
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  284. Both excellent houses, but my preference is Belcaro. --- And speaking of Pittsburgh and families involved in steel production, I'd like to recommend the 1942 novel "The Valley of Decision" by Marcia Davenport. It starts in 1879 when a young Irish girl becomes a servant in the house of a wealthy Pittsburgh family and is about how her life becomes involved with the lives of the family she works for and also about people in her own family, how she is a bridge between what might be considered two different cultures in the same town. The story goes to the early days of World War II. One part is about when ice-dammed waters in the mountains hit the city. Gregory Peck and Jessica Tandy are in the movie. Great story! As good now as when first written.
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  285. Yes! Another winner from Big Old Boats! Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these excellent documentaries. I've loved ocean liners for decades but a lot of the footage here was new to me. --- Something that viewers may find of interest is that the Berengaria was to have remained in service until 1940 then be replaced by the Queen Elizabeth. In 1938 a fire broke out aboard the Berengaria while she was docked in New York. Her certification to carry passengers was revoked and the Berengaria returned to England without passengers, never to serve again as a passenger liner but was scrapped. --- Someone else may know more about this and can add a comment, but I believe Winston Churchill tried to prevent the scrapping of the Berengaria and maybe the Olympic also, knowing that the two liners would be of great value in the event of a war that appeared to be and actually was not far off.
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  286. Thank you for this excellent video! High quality production about an ocean liner about which so little is known --- and what a beauty she was. The Belgenland was called "the little Olympic", but she had her own identity.
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  287. I could make a residence out of just that upstairs hallway!
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  288. If my memory is right the brother who went out had some secret way in and out of the house that no one figured out.
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  289. Thank you, Ken ,for all the information you bring us. Not only had I never heard of this house, I'd never even heard of the owner! I hope that at least some of the fittings and artwork from the mansion were saved before demoltion. Sad that the house is gone but it's great that the grounds are a park rather than a housing development or the location of strip malls.
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  290.  @andyroo9381  I'm not aware that the final-final scene of "Gone With the Wind" is available anywhere, but there is or was a You Tube video of black-and-white photos showing the scene being filmed. I don't recall on what channel this was, but hopefully a search will locate it.
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  291. All of the homes here are great but, I think I'd go with Hillwood. I like the penthouse on Fifth but, I don't like heights! This is an obscure house but, here goes: I saw an "America's Castles" episode about the Vanderbilt mansion in Hyde Park along the Hudson River. There were one or two photographs of the mansion that first stood on that location. It has been owned by the Astors and the design was based on the White House though a little more ornate. I'd like to know more about that lost Astor house but I suspect there isn't much surviving information.
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  292. Amen!
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  293. Loved it, Ken. A remarkable house and an even more remarkable woman. Great to see someone make their life useful and it was an added treat to see and hear Mrs. Sabin speaking. --- Lately there was a lot of coverage about possibly demolishing the house where Marilyn Monroe lived at the time of her death and of giving the house historic landmark status. Maybe the subject for an upcoming video?
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  294. All of the rooms were in good taste: beautiful and grand but on a human scale. I would call the Homestead a particularly liveable place.
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  295. Since the Edward Stotesbury the original owner was so good with numbers i wonder if he realized the house and estate were impractical and ultimately uneconomical and simply wasn't concerned about what happened after he and his were gone. Or maybe people back then believed the money and prosperity would just contine. It would be interesting to know which applied to the Stotesburys. I was once reading about the mansions of Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, a millionaires' row, and learned that a number of the mansions only stood for a short time: some of the owners had clauses in their will that after their deaths the houses were to be demolished. What a waste. I'm glad I'm working toward minimalism!
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  296. I love it! I'm trying to picture Cash in one of those apartments saying, "...and a sink sprayer. Could you make this work for you?" He would also warn us about any Dunkin' Donuts franchises in the area. Vanderbilts and cash, Vanderbilts and Cash, I think I see a workable arrangement here!
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  297. I wonder if there's some drug use also.
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  298. The container place looked like it might be more trouble and stress than rest and enjoyment though I suppose some peole would like it. I wonder if there were any blinds on the windows. I don't understand the appeal of staying in such a place even for one night.
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  299. Great comments! I've lived with a hoarder who got violent and sometimes the path of least resistance is the lesser of two evils. Too when someone goes out to the trash to bring things back there's not much point in taking it out in the first place. If possible the best thing for the family member or partner or roommate to do is take themselves out from the hoarding situation but there are a lot of factors that may prevent that. Blessings to you for how you dealt with your home life and for the help you gave your parents.
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  300. That must be a fascinating job though I imagine it's probably also very challenging, frustrating and sad at times. I've thought about how I'd like to do what you do but I don't think I could deal with houses that have animal waste or dead animals in them or that have rodents running around. You provide an important service with your work.
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  301. I can see how some people would be disturbed at part of English houses or entire houses being shipped to America, but doing so has preserved so much that might have been lost and especially after World War II when many old English houses were actually blown up. The loss is appalling. I read about this in the book "No Voice From the Hall -- Early Memories of a Country House Snooper" by John Harris, 1998. Ken , this is a different kind of house and in a much different situation, but would you consider, if possible, making a video about Grey Gardens?
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  302. Good point about the fire hazard. I've heard that the highest a firetruck ladder goes is five stories and I believe the apartment here is on the sixth floor. Not for me. I don't want to live higher than the second or third floor.
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  303. Another winner, Ken! I enjoyed the picture shown at :13. I recognize it from the dust jacket of the excellent 1948 historical fiction novel "Prairie Avenue" by Arthur Meeker. I don't have a favorite mansion but I'm partial to the Second Empire style and there were some excellent examples of that style in Chicago. If I could live in such a house I'd happily stay there year-round, no need for me to have a multiple houses. And during a Chicago winter I would not only stay in town I would stay indoors for days on end!
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  304. I believe the Aquitania was in the Pacific during World War II. She was scrapped in the U.K.
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  305. How does a psychiatrist allow himself to get into a hoarding situation? He should recognize the problem and do what he would recommend to his patients. I saw that he used a cane so if there's physical difficulty he could hire someone.
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  306.  @wadelaurence6566  Actually that awful so-called wife DID become homeless. She made a tearful video after her husband kicked her out of the house.
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  307. I'm glad you explained the hamper! I was thinking it might have been the top of a laundry chute down to a laundry room in the basement. I've lived in a couple of houses that had those features.
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  308.  @arlenesolis024  That reminds me of what I saw in one of Cash's recent videos made in an older apartment. I'm sure the white ceiling beams had varnished wood that had been painted over. The metal plates around the old glass doorknobs had also been painted over and I wouldn't be surprised if the white doors also had painted-over varnish. Sad to see all that and it would have been easier to just leave those things as they were.
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  309. An especially beautiful home and a sickening waste that it was torn down.
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  310. This apartment has a lot going for it but I saw one very serious flaw: As soon as you enter the apartment through the front door you're standing at the top of a flight of stairs immediately to the left and with no gate or barrier at the top of the stairs. It would be very easy for someone to walk into the apartment, take just one or two steps and then fall down a flight of stairs. The entrance area of this apartment is dangerous.
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  311. Thank you, Cash, and Mrs. Jordan and Violet for having us over as guests and for taking us along on your trip downtown!
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  312. It's an ugly house. The Watts house makes me think of the hilarious Facebook page "McMansion Hell".
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  313. Very interesting, Cash! Not only interesting but informative. The first thing I'd go see in NYC is the Dakota though the Chrysler Building is spectacular. (I've heard that the observation area at the top and some of the most luxurious office space has been closed off for years) Here in mini-Manhattan/Bloomington, Indiana, I'm also outdoors a lot. This helps a lot: t-shirt, shirt, sweater then put on a coat; a pair of flannel pajama pants or a pair of sweatpants then put on the blue jeans. Being layered really helps.
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  314. Both apartments have a lot going for them. I'm curious about that outside stairway going down from the patio in back. I'm guessing the stairs lead to the laundry and storage areas and I'm wondering if the patio really is private for the apartment connected to it or is accessible to all the other tenants.
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  315. As they said in the DC and Marvel horror comics I read back in the 1970's: "AAAIIIEEEEEEE!" I just saw Cash Jordan drink Dunkin Donuts coffee. I don't know how but in a sinister way the universe got out of line and I was looking into some hideous parallel dimension. I think I need a hug now.---That being said, what a great neighborhood and apartment! The view: just looking out the window at the sky and clouds, the effect of light on the buildings close by or far away, at different times of day or the year would be a great experience.
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  316. Ken, maybe you or one of your viewers knows more about this and can add a comment, but my recollection is that some kind of change was made to the house or maybe someone moved into a different bedroom because a femae nude statue was put up across the street and the Vanderbilts didn't want to see it! Also wasn't Cornelious Vanderbilt or maybe his wife a Sunday school teacher? ---- Good thing Mrs. Vanderbilt had the good sense to sell and vacate the house before the stock market crash three years later. She might have gotten far, far less for the house and property. ---- For me the house is overwhelming that none of the room appeal to me that much though there might have been some nice sitting rooms that were not documented. The outside was beautiful though.
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  317. Cash, you are the son I never had. I HATE MEAT LOAF. I was made to eat that stuff as a kid: bleagh! Let's all stop the cycle of abuse-by-meat loaf and never serve it or eat it.
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  318. Good question! When I saw that railing move, the red flag went up.
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  319. This video has something I've seen only once before in a Cash Jordan video and recently: a dishwasher underneath the kitchen sink that has the drain in the corner. This seems to be something new. I'm going to be looking to see if this keeps appearing in apartments.
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  320. I believe 1961 was also the year that long-distance calls could be dialed (when we still dialed) direct. Also that year Marilyn Monroe received the Golden Globe for being the most popular female entertainer of the year or maybe most popular entertainer overall.
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  321. Fascinating ---as always! Such a beautiful house yet the setting for so much sadness and tragedy. Ken, you and your viewers might be interested in the fascinating books "This Crazy Thing Called Love: the Golden World and Fatal Marriage of Ann and Billy Woodward" by Susan Braudy, published in 1992. It's a can't-put-it-down book and shows how Ann Woodward's killing of her husband really was a terrible accident. Mr. Woodward's death was a fluke because Ann was using a gun that ordinarily wouldn't have had the power to kill her husband.
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  322. Both of the Queens had their advantages and strong points. The Queen Elizabeth was an improvement on the Queen Mary in terms of technology and design but I lean more to the Queen Mary's interiors when it comes to the asthetics of the two liners. Still the First Class Lounge of the Queen Elizabeth is even more beautiful than that of the Queen Mary and I find the Third Class dining room of the Queen Elizabeth to be exceptionally attractive.
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  323.  @EoEhNnE2013  I was just going to post a comment that she may be getting a cat next!
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  324. I was thinking the same thing: Chicago was a new town on the prairie, there were no old money families unless they came from elsewhere and I don't think there were. It's odd that the Leiters were shut out. Maybe because they had what might be considered a Jewish name? If you haven't already read it, you might be interested in the book "Mary Curzon: The Story of the the Heiress From Chicago Who Married Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India" by Nigel Nicolson. I read that no American has ever gone higher than Mary Leiter Curzon in English royalty though I wonder if it's more accurate to say "English society" instead. I'm not sure if the Curzons are part of the royal family.
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  325. Works for me. Both police officers in that incident need to be removed from the force. I don't know about the second one doing jail time; maybe he was still new on the force and paired up with a loser. Maybe if he's assigned to work with a better partner he'll turn out all right. I hope so. If not: so long.
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  326.  @TimeWarp2000  Excellent point. That house was well built. I doubt many houses built in recent decades could support that enormous weight even for a short time if at all.
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  327. I'm in!
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  328.  @kenlasky3904  Years ago in "The Tightwad Gazette" I read a great idea for socks: Wear just one kind of sock, buy a skadzillion of them, and then you'll have a drawerful that you won't have to sort or match!
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  329.  @maureensaino7840  That's such a vivid description of Ted Bundy's eyes. I've noticed how sharks have those unsettling, soul-less eyes. This may sound over the top but I've seen people on very rare occasions who gave me the impression they were demon possessed and I noticed those people had unusually dark, featureless, flat-looking eyes. I don't recall the color, but I saw photos of a man who killed two men in a bar fight and he had these strange, wide-open, staring eyes. We're told not to judge people on their appearance, but when it comes to the eyes I'd say judging by appearance is a good idea.
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  330. So Xander was only allowed to be with his mother for three weeks. I've heard that monkeys spend their first year with their mother and this only got three weeks. Monkeys in their natural habitat live in colonies with complex relationships. I wonder what all the disruption and separation emotionally, developmentally and psychologically.
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  331.  @ImAfemaleNoob2  I second the motion, Captain. I live about 20 feet from an intersection of streets and on rainy days if much water collects there I go out and clear the leaves and sticks from two storm drains across from one another. Nothing at all on the scale of this video but it's satisfying to see that water start pouring down through the grate. The last time I did that a family was walking by and the mom thanked me for what I was doing. I wasn't looking for a compliment or thanks but it was nice. My grandfather years ago cleaned out storm drains near his house, just did it because it was a good thing to do and maybe enjoyed it. There may be genetic predisposition to clearing out drains!
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  332.  @susancrawford5927  Reminds me of the bike-riding I did back in the 70's. I remember going way out on country roads and not even knowing where were were going, just exploring and having a wonderful time. I remember one time we REALLY explored and when I was back home I got my first-ever charlie horse in my leg. Wow! Did that ever hurt!
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  333. Many comments are saying that the teapots should have brought in more money, that the teapots are worth much more than the money for which they were sold. When I had an auction after the death of a parent in 2010 there were some very good items that brought in not very much money. The auctioneer told me that anymore people want to go to Walmart to buy things for their home. Too here in the U.S. and maybe elsewhere people don't want the family silver or china or the nice furniture their grandparents had. Part of this may be due to the popularity of minimalism and decluttering and the Kon Mari Method and Swedish Death Cleaning. If no one wants the teapots then can we really say they're valuable?
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  334. I don't use bags but I know that with a Louis Vuitton you have a purchase that's for a lifetime. If you divide the cost by the number of years you can reasonably expect to use your bag I have a hunch you made a good purchase. Even when you're gone another family member may continue using the bag. Too there's that old saying, "Quality is your best investment". I hope you get a lot of use and enjoyment from your purchase!
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  335. I love Shirley Jackson's work! "...and whatever walked there walked alone". I've encountered various stories about the origin of Hill House. I've read that at least some inspiration for Hill House came from a house the Shirley Jackson got just a glimpse of in New York City, a place she found malevolent but could never locate again; maybe it was just how the house looked at a certain time under certain conditions. A California origin seems more likely though, to my surprise, in a books Walker Evans photos I saw a large 19th century house surrounded by hills and the name of the family that lived there was Crain, the same name as the original owners of the mansion in the novel. I also read a magazine article once about an historic home on the East Coast here inthe U.S. (I don't recall the name or location and I gave the article to another Jackson fan) and the house has a couryard with just a regular door and that seems to serve no purpose. That and maybe other features of the house made me wonder if Shirley Jackson got some ideas or inspiration from there for Hill House. In a biography I read of Shirley Jackson there was a photo of the floor plan she made for part of the mansion. I wouldn't be surprised if Hill House is a compostite of differnt houses but I also wouldn't be surprised if most of that inspiration is from the Crocker mansion. Have you ever read Shirley Jackson's story "Charles"?It's as funny as "...Hill House" is spooky! I hope I haven't gone on too long. I love mansions and I love Shirley Jackson's writing!
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  336. A beautiful house built for comfortable, gracious living and not to be overwhelming and way beyond human scale. I like the whole place, that gallery sure looks like a nice place to spend time with a good book or visiting or just looking out the window. Ken, you might be interested in making a video about Hull House in Chicago. It started out as a private home then was part of the Hull House complex started by Jane Adams for serving low-income people and is now a museum. It's a beautiful house with a great story.
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  337. Big Old Boats, this might the topic for another video: I read once that the 1972 disaster movie "The Poseidon Adventure" hurt the cruise business which was nowhere near as extensive as it is today. Too it would be interesting to know how much of today's popularity of cruising is because of the television series "The Love Boat".
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  338. I know just what you mean! That round tower in the right angle of the house might be called its signature feature. Not only was I a huge "Dark Shadows" fan, but I remember watching the very first episode of "Scooby-Doo"!
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  339. Loved it, Ken! I've long been interested in the White House and its history. Thank you for all the time and work that went into this video. It was a pleasure to watch and listen to. Whatever one's politics the White House is a fascinating house. --- I've read that Abigail Adams hung up the washing to dry in one of the unfinished rooms of the mansion. I've also read that Mary Lincoln was doing some decorating during the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln' didn't approve of "...flubdubs for this damned old house". Jacqueline Kennedy did so much for the Executive Mansion, but the work she started continued after she left and was still being done by Pat Nixon. -- Some of the Tiffany interiors look absoutely...well, interesting...but it would have been something to see them in real life or in color photographs. --- BTW I was suprised to see at 7:26 a pair of menorahs of the Jewish faith on the mantelpiece. I wonder the story is behind them.
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  340. Thank you for all the time and work that went into this production. I had a great time watching this. This may be open to debate but I've read that the Queen Mary was an updated version of the Berengaria with a deck plan similar to that of the Aquitania. Had the Elizabeth entered service as planned maybe she would have become the better-known of the almost-sister ships. I've read that thought the first Mauretania was very popular it was actually the Lusitania that had been more popular up to the time of her sinking in 1915. I knew a man, now deceased, who was on the Queen Mary when she was a transport. He thought that it would be a good idea to get the lowest bunk to the floor because there was less motion lower down and less chance of being seasick. The drawback was that when someone above him was throwing up....well, you know where it went. Yech. When they arrived in England those men must have been in a state of sleep deprivation and exhaustion. Just speculation but even though the Seawise University may have been in excellent shape with up-to-date safety features when ready for service, I question how successful she would have been: would enough people be interested in an educational cruise ship to make it profitable? Still many might have gone just for the cruise part. Then there's the cost of maintaining a very large liner that was already well along in years. Then there was the huge increase in fuel costs in the 1970's and increasingly high safety standards. Also how many ports could accommodate a liner nearly the size of the Empire State Building? I wonder if the Seawise University would have been in service for more than a few years.
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  341.  @chundychang  I've noticed how many houses in You Tube videos are so impersonal. I can understand that some personal items such as family photos might be removed and the place tidied up before the camera crew arrives but I see places that are houses not homes. I see places where everything seems to be the same age, built and purchased and installed at the same time, nothing that has been in the family for years. When you see a house where the family has lived for decades or even several generations it's a whole different thing. I like English houses, modest or grand, where a family has lived for a long time time. Even a grand home has a comfortable, broken-in quality to it.
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  342.  @rowdyrx6109  Your comment reminded me of something I read once from Ann Miller the actress and dancer. She talked about growing up in Texas and how blue jeans were something worn for working outdoors on a farm or ranch, not indoors.
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  343. Over and over: a beautiful house gone in a few decades when it could have stood and been used for centuries. I'm sure it's another example of the land being more valuable than the house. I hope a lot of the fittings and fixtures were saved though I suppose that's unlikely. I wonder if Mr. Marquand and others who commissioned mansions here in the U.S. knew that the houses were not likely to exist for very long. Marquand is a rather unusual name. I wonder if Henry Marquand is related to the author John P. Marquand the novelist who some time after Henry Marquand's lifetime wrote "The Late George Apley" which is about upper-class Bostonians rather than New Yorkers. John Marquand wrote a number of other novels that I believe are about wealthy people and he wrote stories about the character Mr. Moto who I think was a spy or detective. I know of the author's work, but so far have read only one of his books!
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  344. Wonderful old house. Good point about it not really being a place for small children: the breakables and that stairway could be an issue. -- My hat is off to the people of Japan. Getting up from the floor is big undertaking for me what with arthritis. -- Maybe for another video: are people in Japan friendly with their neighbors or do they not interact much?
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  345. I like those old buildings. I would have enjoyed seeing how it was before being modernized---and maybe even have enjoyed living in it that way. Maybe. That long living room area, if I lived there: Finally! Room for all my books to be out of boxes and to be visible on bookshelves all at once. What a pleasure that would be. Some rugs on the floor and by the window an armchair and a table for the books that are currently being read.
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  346. Maybe I got confused in the trip around the apartment but it seems like there's a basement underneath the basement apartment. This place ain't for me!
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  347. I love it! Cash has trained you well!
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  348.  @EMunaBee  Excellent comment! I'm reminded of Jean Arthur who was an outstanding and respected actress on stage and in films (Miss Arthur worked with James Stewart in "Mister Smith Goes to Washington" and played the mother in "Shane") yet was extremely nervous and sometimes had to be talked out of her dressing room. Miss Arthur wasn't a diva or deliberately unprofessional, she just had severe anxiety yet kept performing. ---I read Brooke Hayward's memoir "Haywire" and it was mentioned that her mother Margaret Sullavan talked about how she hated acting yet kept doing it. I think both of these ladies had a gift that had to be expressed despite the difficulty that went with that expression.
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  349. @Bren cato That reminds me of something Marilyn herself once said. Early in her career someone commented on how Marilyn was patterning herself after Lana turner. Marilyn said "When you're nobody and you want to be somebody you have to be somebody else".
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  350.  @Cramblit  Horrifying but useful information---which I hope I never experience for myself
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  351. I gave up on the Oscars a several decades ago.
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  352.  @saiyanjon  And I agree. I was simply quoting one of Cash's popular phrases.
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  353. I find the interiors of Eagle Rock to be the overall best in the mansions we've seen. I noticed that the stairway decorations by the pipe organ had a musical, harp-like feature in the metal work.
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  354. All the houses are great in their own way, but the one I like best is the dis-asssembled plantation house. Though not rebuilt I'm glad to see that materials used so well.
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  355. Maybe someone else knows more about this but I read once, many years ago, that the position of the pearl, indicates that the girl in the portrait had done a double-take. How that decision was determined but it's very similar to your thought on the painting.
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  356. I'm curious as to how old the house is. The inside looks new. Was the original interior gutted or greatly altered? I'm intrigued with big houses but I don't think I could live in one such as this even if I could afford it unless part of the reason for the purchase was to create jobs and to use the house in ways that would serve individuals and the community. You'd get a lot of exercise just getting from one part of the house to another! I would probably just use a few rooms if I lived there.
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  357. I've seen a diagram from what must have been the 1800's, maybe for the patent, and, sure enough, the paper goes over not under.
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  358. Wonderful presentation, Ken! I appreciate learning about the people who designed and built the remarkable houses you feature. I hope you'll come visit we Hoosiers here in Indiana. Down along the Ohio River and across from Kentucky we have the Lanier House in Madison, Indiana. It's a restored mansion overlooking the river and to the side of the central hall is a curving staircase set in a space that could be used as a missile silo! It's a LONG way from top to bottom. Madison went through a long period of having much of its downtown closed up because of economic conditions related to the steepness of the ground on which the railroad tracks were located and now parts of the town are a museum. Along with the Lanier house there is the Shrewsbury house and other places to visit that had become unintentional time capsules.
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  359.  @ReesieandLee  Good point!
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  360. I would love to know what that interior space looked like when the house was new. My plan for for the space with the bow window: home library! Put the bookshelves along the walls to the right to keep the books out of direct light. One or two armchairs by the window. A small table for stacking up books and for your cup of hot chocolate. I belong to a bygone era: I'd like to have one of those writing tables that used to be found on ocean liners: the tables had built-in racks and caddies for paper and envelopes, maybe a place for a bottle of ink. I'd like to sit in that windowed room and use a fountain pen to write letters. Taking a snooze in an armchair there wouldn't be too bad either!
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  361. Well, that was a surprise. Ken, i work at Indiana University where David Starr Jordan was once President of the University. Because of his beliefs about race and eugenics and because of cancel culture, a street named after Jordan has been re-named. The Biology building is Jordan Hall and some people want it re-named. A creek that flows through the campus for many years has been known as the Jordan River (though that may have nothing to to with the former President as it's a Biblical reference) has been re-named the Campus River, again as part of cancel culture. I think this is an example of people of one era putting their standards and beliefs onto the people of an other era. Anyway, I hadn't realized the former University President was quite THAT much of a character.
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  362. I remember being in Cleveland when I was in elementary school in the beginning of the 1970's, just after the incident in which the river caught on fire. Cleveland was a joke in that time, mocked even on television programs, but even as a fifth and sixth grader I noticed curbs made of marble and how in Terminal Tower, a beautiful building, the escalators were partly made of wood, maybe from when the building first opened in 1928, showing that quality lasts. I'm glad things have gotten better for Cleveland.
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  363. Outstanding! One of the best documentaries I've ever seen and having Gwedolen Chatfield, who look slsike Jane Austen, portraying the author with the author's own words make this production even better. To everyone in and who made this documentary: well done!
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  364. If my memory is right Cash made a humorous comment once outside a store that had figurines and busts and such and said those items could be used for a "shrine to your god" or he referenced the store from an apartment across the street that had a shelf or platform area that could be used for a shrine. It probably went over big in the comments section but "shrine to your god" became a running, ongoing part of Cash's videos.
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  365. Off topic but I love those English houses. I'd like to live in one!
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  366. I saw a picture of this house in a children's books I was reading many years ago. I was maybe six years old and the house bothered me, it was so strange. I still find the house unappealing, to put it mildly, partly because I have a bad early memory of it even from a photo, but some of those interiors are great.
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  367. For the woman ruining the car: instead of DIY and trying to figure it out as you go along, get a gift card for the amount of the repair work.
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  368. Yay! I've heard of the famous Strand bookstore and I'm glad to see it's still in operation. If my memory is right that's where Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe first met. Maybe another viewer can confirm or correct me. The huge old apartment building in the distance is the Beresford apartment building. Quite a view and quite a neighborhood!
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  369. WAY too much mirroring the bathrooms. Mirrored shower? Mirror over the toilet? Do you really want to see yourself taking care of those activities and needs? The bedrooms are more like sleeping cubicles with lockers. The apartment may be shiny and new but is not for me and maybe not for a lot of other people.
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  370. Same here: those stairs may look good to some people but to me they just look dangerous.
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  371. I had the experience some years back of having to be professionally involved with someone who turned out to be a pathological liar. I found out that for him, conning people and lying was just natural and was simply who and what he was and probably still is. This man didn't seem to have any trouble going through life deceiving or trying to deceive people. Maybe he even believed his lies while he was lying. I don't understand it--- or want to understand it.
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  372. I come from a household of domestic violence. I'd say you're right on the money.
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  373.  @ricdimarco1499  While I was growing up in the 1960's and 70's my family lived in four houses in three states and three of those houses had the bathroom located in the hallway. Only one house had a master bedroom with its own bathroom. In all the houses we had three bedrooms for five people. In one house there was a big bedroom I shared with two brothers and it was nothing unusual. I live in a college town now and the housing for students on campus and in town could be called luxurious and some people get a notification on their computer when their laundry is done. I'm amazed at the way that age group lives. If the people in this movie could see how their grandchildren and great-grandchildren are living!
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  374. Thank you, Ken! I've been intrigued with this house for a long time. To me the Stewart mansion has something of a "Great Expectations/Miss Havisham quality to it. I've read that though the Stewarts had a house that could hold many people for entertaining the couple did little or no entertaining, maybe have one or a few people over now and then. That huge house that could have had so much activity and so many guests yet just two people who were owners and probably a few servants lived in it. Ken, you may be familiar with the Dove book "Fifth Avenue, 1911, From Start to Finish in Historic Block-by-Block Photographs", edited by Christopher Grey. It shows the whole length of both side of Fifth Avenue in photographs. On page 39 is a large free-standing, maybe Italian-style house and the caption says, "Miss Mary A. Wendel/No. 442". The house is five stories high if you count the attic and six stories if there was a basement. Speaking of Miss Havisham, I don't know how long Miss Wendel lived in the house that had been her father's, whether she went out much or had people over, but I read that she died in 1934 without ever having had running water or electricity installed. I wouldn't be surprised if the house was a time capsule of the 1800's but how far back I don't know. I doubt there are enough photos or enough information for a This House video but what a story there must have been at 442 Fifth Avenue!
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  375. I think I got lost in the apartment just watching the video! Not the place for me but a winner for someone else. I don't go for that stove that's up against a wall on the left side. For cooking you need elbow room on both sides. As a left-handed person that stove would not work fo rme. The long breakfast shelf? No, Cash, that can be used a shrine to your god---and it's long enough to be a bookshelft too!
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  376. I agree. And he shouldn't have told her to order anything on the menu.
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  377. A friend of mine worked in food services at Indiana University and told me about the understaffed working conditions in the food court where they worked. Someone told that manager or supervisor that people needed to take bathroom breaks. The person in charge told them to wear adult diapers. Imagine getting served food by someone wearing a used adult diaper. My friend did the work of two or three people and with insufficient breaks and when my friend left, their former work area was shut down by the Board of Health.
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  378. Something I see in the print media is people who are black are described as "Black" with an upper-case "B". People who are brown are "Brown" with an upper-case "B" while people who are white are "white" with a lower-case "w". A local magazine was called out for that in the editorials and there was a lame reply that some manual of style somewhere says that's the way to do things. Reminds of "I was just following orders".
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  379. Hi, Peter! Just now discovered your channel. What a pleasure to be shown around this part of New York. It's so different from where I'm live in Indiana. I such a homebody that I can go for years without leaving the city limits of my town but love to learn about New York. You and your viewers may be interested to know that the study of wealth is called Plutology. I've never been to New York City but have read many fascinating non-fiction and fiction books about or set in the city. I'd like to recommend the novels and short stories and also non-fiction of Louis Auchincloss who was from a prominent New York family and was connected by marriage to the Kennedys; another "insider" author of wealthy New Yorkers was Stephen Birmingham who wrote the fascinating "Life at the Dakota" in the late 1970's as well as books about the history of wealthy Jewish families. He also wrote novels such as "Carriage Trade" and "The Wrong Kind of Money". Going back further there are Henry James and Edith Wharton. A can't-put-it-down book is "Fortune's Children" about the Vanderbilts written by one of them: Arthur T. Vanderbilt.v I look forward to seeing more of your videos!
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  380. I wonder how many of her family and friends or maybe ex-friends are already wise to her.
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  381.  @erynlasgalen1949  I come from a family with a variety of problems and my older brother turned into a hoarder and made life miserable for the rest of us under the same roof with him. He's not been diagnosed but is probably autistic along with the other difficulties in his life. I'm also using items that go way back: the pans my parents received when they were married in 1957 and I have a couple of black iron frying pans that go I don't even knoow how far back. Well, we got our money's worth!
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  382. A great apartment, a great location. My two favorite things: that cool metal basket for the apples and that big bathtub.
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  383. Great place, Cash and Chloe! I grew up in a 1920's house that glass doorknobs. Fun to see those again. It was a treat to see an apartment that is still furnished and especially to see a home with so many books in it, even in the children's room.
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  384. Wonderful video! As always! I see the Canberra's design as as further development of the design for the Northern Star and the Southern Cross. I think she was an unusual, but attractive ship. The Canberra is special for me because her sea trials took place on the day I was born. I remember reading back in the 90's about how it looked like the Canberra's career would be coming to an end. I didn't think it would happen, but it did. I'm glad she didn't became one of the Premier ships because a red hull, had that paint scheme been used, would have looked awful on the Canberra.
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  385. ...and maybe even arrange and "accident" for the truck that would put it out of commission!
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  386. Apartment #2: I really like the idea of the upper part being a home office---once you get your equipment up there! It's separate from everything else and even with windows there's little outside to be a distraction. I can see someone getting a lot of work done in that room.
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  387. Good for Mr. and Mrs. Stoakes for staying in the house for so long. A big, grand house yet not over-the-top. Though we don't have Before photos to go along with the After, I probably would have preferred the Before as I don't care for the busy, cluttered late 1800's interiors.
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  388. I'm glad you shared that. What a warning to be careful about mirrors in unfamiliar places. I remember a news story about some young women who had a cord going up into the heating/AC vent in the wall of the house or apartment they rented. Turned out the landlord had a camera in there and, to make things worse, I think it may have actually been legal.
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  389. The building in this video looks familiar. Is this the same house that was shown for exteriors of the Sheffield house in Fran Drescher's TV series "The Nanny"? The ivy over the window may look good and provide a curtain but is terrible for buildings as it gets into spaces and cracks and damages the building. Pedestal sinks are nice and multi-purpose. I've seen a pedestal sink used as a birdbath in someone's front lawn!
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  390. How could there be such a lack of communication that a palatial house was built when it was the opposite of what was wanted? The house that was built makes me think of an enlarged, more ornate version of the White House in Washington, D.C. but without the white paint that covers the stone walls.
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  391. I'm reminded of the phrase "the gift of giving". What a joy to be able to do things for others. I live in Bloomington, Indiana, which gained notoriety for being the least affordable city in the U.S. because people were and probably still are paying around half of their income on housing. (I'm paying a bundle for little.) So much here is run by slumlord management companies. I would love to help people with housing and paying for housing so they don't have to decide between food, rent and medication and that includes people with jobs. I would like to make sure that organizations that assist people with developmental disabilities have what they need and can pay their staff what they deserve and that excellent group homes would be available to those in need of housing and special care. I'd love to pay for people's medical bills and for things such as putting new roofs on houses. --- At the same time, even without fortunes, most of us can do things here and there for others. We don't have to wait for riches before we can help others, even on a small scale there are ways to help and serve and provide.
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  392. Rather than being illiterate, I wonder if Mrs Fish may actually have been dyslexic.
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  393. Something very special just happened here.
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  394. An outstanding video! Very well researched and produced. Such a terrible event, a terrible story yet engrossing. I've read that after the horror on the Morro Castle no changes were made to her sister ship Oriente. My reaction or impression is that the Ward Line and the Morro Castle, and maybe the Oriente and other ships of the line, were permeated with evil. Something to learn from this catastrophe is to familiarize ourselves with our surroundings and know how to get out and without necessarily waiting for direction to do so. I would suggest to people to make it a habit to have a small flashlight with your or near you. Also it appears very possible to me that the George Rogers started the fire. I'd be surprised he did not do so. I know that the evidence is circumstantial but there's so much of that evidence. Arson mixed with a highly flammable ship that was poorly maintained and operated is a combination for catastrophe, maybe even more than was anticipated by a possible arsonist. I'd like to recommend the book "When the Dancing Stopped---The Real Story of the Morro Castle and Its Deadly Wake" by Brian Hicks. This also presents evidence that George Rogers was responsible. The book is fascinating but does not dwell on the gruesome deaths of those who perished and is also a book about the treatment of American workers during the Depression.
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  395. I noticed that too. The stairway is a problem. It may look good but...
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  396. "Daddy, is that you?" I wonder if the child was trained to say that. Maybe not. Some years back when I was in my twenties and lived at home, the six-year old daughter of a friend of my mother's stayed with us while the mother was out of town looking for a job. The little girl didn't have a father in her life and at six years of age she was already throwing herself at me and my brothers. Children urgently need fathers in their lives. I wouldn't be surprised if that little girl was pregnant while still a teenager.
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  397. Only 14 minutes into the show and I'm noticing how death is a recurring theme in David's situation. There are so many references to death, burial, the grave but also "re-awakening".
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  398. I'd never heard the term "Halo Efffect", but I believe it. I'm not attractive and I've seen how things are sometimes easier for people who are better looking. It's just part of the world.
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  399. I agree. This apartment has a major security problem unless the sub-basement is only accessible to the apartment Cash was showing---and I'd be surprised if it is. Really, despite locks elsewhere, it looks like the apartment has no security.
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  400.  @bonitahobbs2374  The mansion at Florham was not built by slaves. New Jersey is northern state and if it had ever had slavery it had long since been abolished even before the Emancipation Proclomation of 1863. Slavery in the U.S. came to an end a little more than 30 years before the house was commisioned.
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  401.  @vincentgoupil180  I would say that one's accent is based more on location and the time spent there rather than on ethnicity.
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  402. I only know them through books and videos such as this but I love the Empress liners. What an experience it must have been to sail aboard one of them. Great to see this video and having it in color makes it even better. I watched to see the Empress but enjoyed the entire presentation. Thank you for sharing this!
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  403. Great place in a neat-o neighborhood! I like architectural history and I think that big room on the first floor was originally a combination of front and back parlors with sliding doors in between or maybe a parlor in front with dining room in back. Cash, this video would be good for an art appreciation class: the room shown at 7:58 with its color and vertical and horizontal surfaces and the light on the wall and floor makes this room look like a modern-day painting by Edward Hopper!
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  404. I had training from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for my workplace and learned that masks don't work but we still have to wear them. There's more to this than just health...
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  405. For a little over two month of my first semester of college I had a roommate who must have been a something-opath. Maybe simply a sadist. He was a snob and took pleasure in elaborate practical jokes and harassing a school librarian to the point where she resigned. He pulled one of his pranks on me and when he found out I had re-arranged his record albums into differnt album covers he was enraged. Talk about dish it out but can't take it. He was a classic in that department. He also had odd-looking eyes, maybe because of the socipath stare. I haven't seen my roommate in decades but I wonder what happened in life. I moved out before the first semester was over and he had two more roommates before the semester ended. I figure my former roommate is alone somewhere, I don't see how anyone stay with him for long.
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  406. I love that residents' lounge in the second building. I am definitely old-fashioned: there was a glimpse of table or counter area and I would be there with good paper and a pen (maybe a fountain pen) writing letters to friends.
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  407.  @mircat28  Great suggestion! The swivel chair would be more practical and would look so much better than the back of a sofa or love seat!
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  408. At least the single mother asked about ordering food. I was watching a video which dealt with a man who went out with a single mother who ordered meals for her children while the man was in the restroom and then said there was nothing wrong or sneaky about her behavior. One guy met a woman for a date at the state fair and she showed up with her four children. I bet those women don't have many second dates!
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  409. I'd like to know what was going on with the thief. Was he out driving looking for something to steal? Had he seen the package earlier, came back later, saw it was still there then go grab it? This done in broad daylight on a residential street. Strange behavior on the part of the thief. Seriously I wonder if he's a kleptomaniac.
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  410. The documentary actually didn't make money.
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  411. Your opening paragraph perfectly fits what is going with a friend of mine of many years. I'm a guy who has been looking into options for my friend who is psychologically and verbally abused by her husband who treats her like a slave and ATM at the same time. I've offered suggestions (never said "Do this" or "Do that", just suggestions and without criticism) and have gone fact-finding and gotten information that might help my friend leave yet she keeps finding reasons to stay and some seem to be legitimate reasons, others not so much: her husband can't take care of his physical needs alone or cooking or cleaning (I say, that's his problem) ; the dogs will have to be re-homed. Too there's a house that's nearly paid off and the matters of transportation and work and where to live after leaving and how to pay for it. I would never have thought getting free of an abuser would be so complicated. I'm here for my friend and when she's ready to take the next step of leaving I'll do everything I can to assist.
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  412. I thought Prince Philip was in the Air Force even before he married Princess Elizabeth. What was he doing prior to their marriage?
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  413. My favorite: the library area. I could spend a lot of quality time there with a good book!
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  414. Some great stuff in the neighborhood and the apartment. I have some trouble with loft apartments: there is so much unused air space and you still have to pay for the heating and cooling. Even if the loft area here was to be extended, how far can it be extended? How do you clean the windows at the top of the loft? This one doesn't quite work for me but I have a hunch it's going to be great for someone who will love living there.
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  415. The beauty of this house goes so well with the beauty of the surrounding landscape. How could someone with such a house live there for only a small part of the year? I would make it my year-round home. Maybe it's just my imagination but there seems to be a good presence or quality to the Hyde Park mansion. I've seen one or two pictures of the house that was torn down to make room for the present house. It was quite a bit like the White House in Washington, D.C., but a little more ornate. I'd love to see a video about that house but I wonder if enough documentation exists for such a project. Ken, this may not line up with what your channel is about but here goes: Would you ever consider making videos about ocean liners? They were mansions at sea and and had beautiful interiors in both public spaces such as the loungs and dining rooms and in private spaces such as the suites and staterooms. There was the Victorian or Edwardian beauty of such ships as the Olympic and Titanic and later the Art Deco of the Ile de France and Normandie and the New Realism (I think that's the term) of the Bremen and Europa, a modern but not exactly Art Deco style.
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  416. Ken, I enjoyed the biographical information along with the historical, yet what a sad story. Still i'm reminded of that great line from the movie "The Best of Everything" in which Amanda says to one of young womene who works for her: "Gregg, I've had more experience than you and for experience to be of value somehow someone must learn by it". Arabella Huntington's life story can be a lesson to us even today.
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  417. A bath-tub shower arrangement with wood? I don't think so. The rest looks pretty good!
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  418. I love it! Thank you, Cash and family, for taking us along and introducing us to Mrs. Jordan's aunt. And thank you to your aunt for allowing us to see your home. It's such a pleasure seeing the beauty of Japan and how clean and efficient it is and to see a Japanese home. It makes me see my little efficiency apartment in a different. way -- That's great how Violet is involved with little things like tickets and pressing elevator buttons. Before much longer she's going to be a sophisticated traveler! --- I'm eager to see what you have for us next.
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  419. Me too. It's a relief to know that my cremation is already arranged for and paid for. A pastor at my church consented to be my executor and I said to just scatter the ashes somewhere. No point in taking my ashes to a family plot in another part of the state, getting the gravestone engraved, and putting the ashes into a grave no one will visit. Let my ashes be part of a grassy hillside in the country.
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  420. Fascinating to hear Poe's mental state discussed from a modern point of view! Dr. Grande, if you haven't looked into it already I would like to recommend Hervey Allens' biography "Israfel--The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe" from 1934, an excellent book with lots of information and many illustrations including a photo of the house that inspired the House of Usher. There's not much information about Poe's biological family but from what little is said of Poe's sister it appears she was developmentally disabled. Some other authors I would like to suggest for upcoming videos are Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
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  421. That sound like a definite possibility. I saw a video about removing the dead from crypts in Guatemala because no rent had been paid on crypts for a certain amount of time. In some instances the people removing the the bodies would break them in half to make disposal easier.
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  422. That is one Cash-tastic apartment! Cash, I'm on the lookout for when you show an apartment in the famous Dakota apartment bulding. Looks to me like you're on your way!
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  423. The story of Mary G. Pickney would have been great material for a short story or novel by Louis Auchincloss.
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  424. Good idea, Cash, to have that device of six-pack electrical sockets removed from the kitchen area. I'm not an electrician or firefighter but that thing looks like trouble. In the college town where I live there were four frat guys sharing a house that had a device that overloaded an electrical socket or sockets and that started a fire that killed three of the four residents.
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  425. I've spent much of my life not far from railroad tracks so I wouldn't be put off by trains in close proximity to the house. Too I wonder how much sound carries up that steep bluff. I also wonder if the rooster on the property likes to wake everyone up at sunrise! I'm curious about whether any of the bathrooms have showers for those who may have difficulty getting in and out of tubs or just prefer showering. The primary suite didn't seem to have any kind of window coverings. Even in that location I'd want the privacy of covered windows. The part I like best was really just that bench in a grassy area overlooking the ocean. What a pleasure it would be to sit there and look out at the view.
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  426. Did you say built-in bookshelves? A library? Washer and drier? Great building and neighborhood? This country cousin who gets weirded out by anything higher than the third floor sees a winner. Only drawback for me: mirror right over the toilet. That's one view I can do without!---Once again, Cash, I appreciate how you give practical advice such as maybe staying put if someone is taking classes online.
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  427. Wonderful video, Ken, as always. My family has strong Chicago connections and it was great to learn about that wonderful couple who did so much for the city. Along with houses, I like ocean liners and, if my memory is right, Mrs. Palmer sailed on the maiden voyage of the Lusitania and reported her experiences sailing on the Cunarder. I believe it was Mrs. Palmer who made the interesting observation that the Lusitania appeared to have one deck too, many comparing it to an hotel that's one floor to tall.
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  428. Having recently had arthroscopic surgery on my knee and still having to walk with a cane I think the spiral staircase would work better for me as a set of bookshelves. I'm at a point and condition in life where I need an elevator but this apartment is a winner for someone.
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  429. I was also thinking about the guy with her. He was with someone committing a crime and simply walked out with her. I wonder if any charges can be brought against him such as being an accomplice. From what we can see he didn't seem surprised or bothered. I wonder what HIS personal history is.
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  430. The guy who was locked out: Always have your keys on you even if she says she'll have the door unlocked for you. A man is working to support his home and family and she locks him out because he's not at home at a certain time and she says it's "disrespectful" of him. She's the one who is disrespectful...and ungrateful and unappreciative. When he left, I wonder how long he stayed away. I hope it was a good, long time, like permanent. (Added comment: I think she set him up so she coud lock him out, she was planning to do that.)
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  431. A remarkable house, but so much stuff in it! Maybe someone else knows this better and can add a comment: I think it was Elsa Maxwell who encouraged people in the earlier part of the 20th century to reduce by half the number of things in the rooms of their homes. The Frick house is wonderful but so much is in there. Is there anyplace restful to the eye?
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  432. In the early 70's my family lived in a suburb of Cleveland. Sometimes when going for a drive we would go along the shore of Lake Erie and in one area there were several mansions like Bicknell though maybe not quite as large and that were probably from the same era. I wish I could better remember just where that area of beautiful houses was located, but maybe someone knows about this and can add a comment. It would be great to see those houses again.
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  433.  @donnarexrode9787  Donna, I hear you loud and clear. I remember someone saying back in maybe 1984 that people would be able to shop via computer. I thought: no way. Well, yes way. Did it ever happen! How wrong could I get??? I learned not to underestimate or dismiss what could happen could happen with technology. I work at Indiana University and I believe the whole place is now cashless. Seeing what's going on and comparing it with the Bible, we can see what's ahead and probably not very far.
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  434. Oh, great. An outhouse with a glass door on the front then the waste has to be removed. Might as well take care of bodily functions off among the trees. Bye. Heading back to the city.
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  435. Here in Indiana I used to work with someone who was a realtor and was told that when a home is for sale the realtor isn't required to say if someone died in the house but that the realtor does have to give that information if someone specifically asks. I don't know if that applies to NYC apartments. I live in an apartment complex in that has gone through three different owners in three years while I've lived here for almost 11 years. I doubt that the new owners even know about people who have died here in their apartments over the years and could answer a question about that from prospective tenants. I got to know my next-door niehgbor but never told her a previous resident had died in apartment, didn't see any need to reveal that information.
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  436. The pickled remains would have been from the father's medical practice. ....At least I hope so!
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  437. I'm a big-time solitaire player. I would have loved to have seen those cards!
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  438. Beautiful place and I like the glimpse of the sunken garden. -- Looks like there's been a significant amount of changes to the roof/attic area. I'm guessing some additions and expansions were made but then removed to restore the mansion to its original appearance.
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  439. B.I.N.G.O. Zara knew she was pulling a fast one. I suspect she'll be single mother for a long time and I wonder what her kids will think of her as they get older and become more discerning.
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  440. i don't know why it is but here in Bloomington, Indiana/mini Manhattan a huge number of new apartments geared toward college students have been built and more buildings are on the way. For some reason many new buildings around here are required to have retail space on the ground floor yet there are buildings who ground floors have been empty for years now. I don't understand how it all works but even I can tell that eventually there will be too many apartments. May take a while: I was told that if you have around 30% occupancy here you can still get by but maybe that's because of the outrageous rents. That and something about taxes and selling a building after only a few years. Too we're moving toward a time when there will be fewer college students because of people having fewer children. Looks like we're moving to a time of lots of empty apartments and/or subsidized housing.
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  441. Ken, I think I like this house best of all the ones you've shown in your videos. Coe Hall is beautiful and grand yet looks so comfortable and pleasant, a place one could call home. I'd say the bedrooms are the spaces I like the most. I could happily spend many hours in those spaces.
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  442. Great old place. Something that I hope can be undone is the amount of woodwork and metal work that has been covered in white paint such as the ceiling beams, the doors the metal around the doorknobs. I'm thinking there's a lot of varnished wood and maybe brass under the white paint and having it visible again would give the apartment a different look.
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  443. All those wonderful things and elements put together then taken apart after such a short time. And to make it worse, this has happened over and over. -- I remember reading about Millicent Rogers in a books called "The Power of Style" in which she and other influential women were written about. Very interesting reading. I look forward to the upcoming video about her.
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  444. Wonderful acting from everyone in this scene, start to finish. Even before Dame Eileen Atkins as Queen Mary begins her '...carpetbaggers and parvenus..." comment you can see the "Yeah, but..." look on her face. You can tell what's coming even before it's said!
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  445. I don't drink alcohol, but now when I go to the grocery store I often go through the liquor section to see what's going on with Bud Light. What's happening is next to nothing. The price has been lowered for Bud Light and yesterday I saw that one six- or eight pack had been sold out of all the Bud Light stacked up on the shelves.
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  446. Something I'm not quite clear about: for exactly how long was the Gates mansion standing? What was the date of compmletion?
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  447.  @lauraguida8482  I did read "Empty Mansions", great book. I could hardly put it down. I hope you'll enjoy "The Dollmaker", it's a remarkable American novel.
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  448. I especially like your comment about using the term "physical distancing". No need to downplay it or make it sound better than it is by calling it social distancing. Let's just call the situation what it truly is: physical distancing.
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  449. Cash, these apartments and the other features of the building are not just fab, not just the wow, not just groovy, they are CASHTASTIC! (a word that I invented that will soon be appearing in an Oxford dictionary near you)
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  450.  @cynthiajohnston424  You might also enjoy "Dead End Gene Pool -- A Memoir by Wendy Burden". The author is descended from Florence Vanderbilt and Hamilton Twombly who lived at Florham estate which is now a school. Its a sad, but fascinating story. Also there's "Fortune's Children -- the Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur Vanderbilt II. Both are excellent books. I especially enjoyed the latter one, could hardly stop reading it!
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  451.  @ExHogger1417  Thank you for sharing this. That is some of the best advice ever. People need to move away from the sound of gunfire, not toward it.
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  452. Locker 186, it's my pleasure to give your statement its 400th Like.
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  453.  @jeremyepstein7977  That is some good news! No matter how great the apartment and the view, if there's not a stairway with a reasonable chance of getting to safety then you just have a beautiful potential death trap. i think of fires such as the Triangle Shirtwaist fire there in New York or the fictional fire in "The Towering Inferno" and how the stairs in the Glass Tower were blocked by spilled cement. There should always be more than one route to or from. For me I don't want to ever live higher than the third floor and the first and second floors are even better.
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  454. Wonderful apartment and neighborhood! Someone is going to love living there and probably very soon! Great choice of coat. I'm thinking of the famous 1950's novel and movie "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit". Cash, you're the next generation of that. Actually you're about three generations down line! Still gray looks good on you and is a good color to wear for business situations.
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  455. The foul-mouthed, violence-threatening lunatic at 3:57 has the audacity to wear a cross around her neck.
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  456. I agree. Even when looking at Gary on a computer screen there such a sense of oppression and even danger. I was born there in 1961 though my family lived in a neighboring town. My grandparents lived in Gary until I was around nine or ten and left when many other white people were leaving. I don't recall much of the town, nothing in the video looks familiar. No way would I go back to Gary, Indiana.
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  457. I think the magazine Sacha's dad was reading was the New Yorker. Good choice, Dad!
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  458. I have to disagree with one comment: "We had the house that we had to fill with a lot of stuff". No. You don't have to fill the house just for the sake of filling it. There's nothing wrong with having only what you need and want.
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  459.  @christianlibertarian5488  I second the motion about American efficiency apartments. I live in one! It's many notches below what is in this video and it costs a lot because I live in a university town and am near the square and campus both. If I lived elsewhere I'd be paying far less in rent. A big part of my rent is paying for the location.
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  460. And the ring for hand towels in the bathroom is running a close third!
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  461. I could live in just the living room area alone; a wonderful space and view. Get a good book and read by the window; a great way to spend a couple of hours, that or simply looking out the window.
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  462. A situation where I live in Bloomington, Indiana, is the decrease in the number of firefighters. Firefighters have left this town to go live and work in surrounding towns where they maybe earning $20,000 (!) more per year. Too this town is a university town with very high rents so the firefighters who leave are making a lot more money and probably paying a lot less for housing.
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  463. Odd to walk into the apartment and face a kind of dead space and a large one at that. Might have been a good location for the bathroom or to have had the kitchen further back. I agree with one and earlier comment: the dead space could be a storage and home office area. Some curtains or a screen could make it into a separate room.
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  464.  @aggierowe9574  I have some books about the older apartment buildings of New York City and it's fun to just look at the pictures of those buildings and the apartments inside them. Though it was published in about 1978, a book that is still very interesting is "Life at the Dakota" by Stephen Birmingham. If you can become a fan of building, that book made a fan out of me! I even like the fictional version of the Dakota: the Bramford in "Rosemary's Baby" and the two apartments that had started out as one apartment and there was a hidden door.
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  465. Though Carey Mulligan is the main person in this scene, I'd say she and Sarah Silverman both walked away with the scene: one in a leading and one in a supporting role. I have been turned off in the past by Sarah Silverman the stand-up comic, but I am happy to say I am really impressed by her in a dramatic acting role though a small one. I find Ms. Silverman as interesting to watch and listen to as Ms. Muligan. "Well done!" to both ladies.
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  466.  @stormykeifer3118  I think there is something of a pit bull look: the eyes and the the placement of the eyes on the skull, the shape of the skull. The colors seem atypical of a pit bull but I think that is part of the dog's background.
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  467. Wonderful video -- as always! I read "Captain of the Queens" by Commodore Sir Harry Grattidge and he wrote about people enjoying and maybe even preferring the smaller, "club-like" atmosphere of the second Mauretania. One of those people was movie actress Lana Turner. It may have been on the Mauretania that women passengers would copy the hairstyles Miss Turner had during the crossing. One time the Commodore asked the actress to change her hair-do for when she went to dinner. Lana Turner arrived for dinner with a new "do" and other women had their hair done as the actress had worn it earlier in the day. The Commodore thought it was a good joke. Some of the lady passengers did not share in his amusement... Off-topic, but I like pens as well as liners. At 9:40 during the segment about Lord Haha we see a young woman writing with what appears to be a fancy fountain pen. I'd like to have a good look at that pen and I wonder if it still exists somewhere. Too, if my memory is right, Lord Haha was later hanged for treason. Maybe someone else can add a comments. P.S. --- I enjoyed seeing a clip at 15:10 from "The Last Voyage".
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  468. I like seeing those apartments that have someone's belongings already or still in them, the "lived-in" look for real. i'm not sure I would want Cash showing my place with stuff in it but I liked seeing someone else's!
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  469. I remember the late Dr. Joy Brown who had a phone-in radio program. She once laid it out for a caller and I think this is verbatim or close to: "If you're not willing to take on the commitment of marriage then why the hell are you taking on the even bigger commitment of having a child?"
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  470. I agree: a silly arrangement and as the tub fills there's probably a lot of splattering out onto the floor.
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  471. Wonderful place! I like the fact that a terrific apartment is on the third floor. I'm still a country cousin type and am accustomed to having a soybean field in back of the house---and that was IN town so anything very high up makes me uncomfortable. For that and because of the safety factor I hope to never live or work higher than the third floor. This apartment is like having a penthouse almost at street level, a great arrangement for people such as myself.
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  472.  @michellesartori6695  Thank you for your input, MIchelle! Thank you also for all you did in clearing out the house of those poor sisters. You might be interested in the 1954 novel "My Brother's Keeper" by Marcia Davenport which is based on or inspired by the Collyers. It's fascinating and accurately shows how hoarding develops gradually and this was written long before the topic was of interest to the public. E.L. Doctorow wrote a more recent novel called "Homer and Langley" which is about the Collyers but doesn't closely follow the facts. Obsolete Oddity's video was about the Collyers was outstanding!---I'm going to suggest to Dr. Grande that he make a video about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale who lived at Grey Gardens and were much like the Collyers. There's a 1975 documentary called "Grey Gardens" and the HBO dramatization "Grey Gardens"(covers around 40 years) starring Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. I recommend both if you haven't already seen them.
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  473. Whew! That's a narrow space for the toilet. I live in a small efficiency and in my bathroom the toilet is in a space not quite 30 inches across. That's actually do-able but 24 inches? No so sure... This may be an apartment for the very skinny!
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  474. I love to watch someone work with excellence. The young lady here has an unusual gift and has worked on and developed that gift. Kudos to her and inspiration to the rest of us. Here on You Tube I've watched clips of the T.V. series "Mad Men" and I was thinking the typist here would have been the top typist at the Sterling Cooper agency!
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  475. The woman is a nasty little operator who got called out for it. Sad that her children have such a mother. I wonder what it will be like when the figure out what kind of person she is.
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  476. I'm reminded of the late Stephen Birmingham's novel "Carriage Trade" in which one of the characters, a wealthy woman, wasn't insecure. She carried a Chanel purse but had taken the "CC" logo off of it. I had never heard of anyone doing that before but I suspect that was based on someone in real-life. I've always remembered that detail from a novel I read many years ago.
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  477.  @unholydonut  All I can say is: Wow! What a rip-off!
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  478. Papin47, I'm happy to give you the 100th like to your comment.
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  479. You might be interested in the book "Fortunes Children--the Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II. It's one of the most engrossing, page-turning books I've ever read. You may already know this but, I was surprised to learn that not one of the many Vanderbilt mansions was occupied family members for more than one generation.
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  480. Greetings from Bloomington!
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  481.  @tally1604  I could find it in the playlist but it's from 2 or 3 months ago I believe. One of Cash's staff members came to the building and opened the roof door from inside. Cash was making a video then with another realtor.
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  482.  @GaelinW  Not long ago I read a book called "Alone Together" which is about the hisory of apartments in America, especially New York City, and part of the book was about how the designs of apartments and single-family homes came to be designed for efficiency.
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  483. I'm glad I'm an obscure non-royal person.
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  484. As Sharon Tate was married to director Roman Polanski, I think of how he might have worked with her in continuing to develop her acting skill and in furthering her career by having Sharon in his own movies or in the selection of film roles that were right for her though directed by someone else.
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  485. Your comment reminded me of what was said about the Stewart mansion in New York. Someone said the house would be good as a gentlemen's club -- and it later was used for that purpose. I can see that happening to the Stanford house had it lasted longer. I was reading the book "The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned" about the '06 earthquake and it was mentioned that the houses on Nob Hill though intended to be family homes for many years were already in "semi-public use" by the time of the earthquake. The Hopkins mansion next door was already being used as an art school.
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  486. The ivy on the nearby building may look nice but the roots are getting into the mortar between the breaks and are damaging and weakening the building.
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  487. Looking at these dreadful houses....it's kind of looking at a dead animal in the road as you pass by in your car.
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  488. I like the practical way your mind works. Good thinking!
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  489. I don't know if this is true but I read or heard somewhere that the location of the mansion was originally a shanytown and that Henry Flagler invited the residents, free of charge, to a circus he had brought to town. While the shanytown residents were at the circus, Henry Flagler had their homes burned down so the people would go away and he could have the land for the house. I hope this isn't true.
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  490. I think of these apartments as they kind of places people look back on with some amusement and pride at the same time, saying, "Back when I was a student/first working in New York I lived in this little over-divided place by the school..."
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  491. Wonderful places in a terrific building. I'm still a small-town Hoosier from Indiana: those apartments make me feel like I'm in an airplane. Would there possibly be a penthouse for me---down on the third floor?
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  492. I don't ever want to live higher that a firetruck ladder extends (maybe five floors?) and I'd prefer something more like the second floor. With the second floor you're above street level but still low enough that escape in an emergency is do-able even if you have to use the window.
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  493. A terrific house! A very well-thought-out design with great details There was just a glimpse but I was particularly impressed by the effect you get with the volcanic rock over the fire place. This house is a winner. If I was potential buyer I would have few concerns: The house is so close to what appears to be a public road and doesn't have a fence or gates. Is this a gate or enclosed community with security? Too while it's great to have the mountain slope right behind the house I would be concerned about falling rocks or rockslides. The master bathroom is innovative but I would want more privacy. I hope there are curtains or blinds that can be closed.
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  494.  @fannycraddock99  You can watch that movie over and over and find new things in it. Did you know that some people who practice witchcraft make straw houses out in the woods? Guy and Rosemary's last name is Woodhouse.---I like both the Woodhouse and the Castavets apartments; I could be happy with either, even Guy and Rosemary's before they modernized it.---It would be great to have a Cash Jordan video in which Cash discusses the two apartments from a realtor's point of view.
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  495. Wonderful place! The two-into-one arrangment reminds me of a couple of videos I've seen about Greta Garbo's apartment when it was available after her death. The actress lived in what had been two apartments and it was one of the most beautiful homes I've ever seen. You could spend days there and never leave. The apartment we're seeing here has that same potential.
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  496. Procrastinate? No. Watching a Cash video "...30 minutes before taking a college final exam" is what I call effective, maximal time managment!
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  497. Cash, I know this is off-topic but having watched you do different tasks I'm trying to figure out: are you left-handed, right-handed or ambidextrous? I'm thinking you're right-handed but that you use your left hand a lot. I'm left-handed but do a number of activities right-handed. New York landlords: Please stop putting so many mirrors in the bathroom. Over the sink and on the door are fine. We really don't need to see ourselves doing some of the things we do in bathrooms!
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  498.  @bobcat3658  I was thinking about the "Dark Shadows" connection! Lyndhurts for the movies, Seaview Terrace for the TV show. If my memory is right, "the old house" that was sometimes shown and that Baranabas lived in on the TV series was on the Lyndhurst estate but was lost in a fire.
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  499.  @jcsgodmother  That's a new one to me! Thanks for the information!
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  500. Thank you, Mr. Wyetzner, for this great lesson. I love buildings and it's great to learn more about them as it increases my not just my knowledge, but my appreciation and enjoyment. I wonder if the bronze color of the glass for the Seagram building was chosen because it matches the color of Seagram's whiskey. Not far from where I live in Indiana is a huge hole in the ground, partially filled with with water. It's called the Empire Hole and is where the limestone was quarried for the Empire State Building. On the campus of Indiana University (Bloomington) a new building was recently built and it's a Mies van der Rohe design from the 1950's. I love big buildings, but I'm still a small-town boy: I don't like being higher than the third floor! Last of all: I'd love a discussion of a building that never actually existed, but that I think is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen: the Glass Tower from the movie "The Towering Inferno".
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  501. Same here. Nice apartment but not for me, doesn't quite fit.
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  502. Until I I started watching videos about "The Shining" I knew almost nothing about Stanley Kubrick but have learned that details are very important in his work and a big part of his work. In the early scenes in the Torrances' home there are a lot of books. Even when Wendy is talking with the doctor we see stacked-up books. I'd like to know what those books are. I suspect they were carefully chosen even though we just see them as part of the setting and background. I recall at one point early on we see Wendy reading a paperback copy of "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger. It would be very interesting to know why that particular book is shown in "The Shining". My recollection is that the Salinger novel is about a young man having a breakdown; maybe this connects with the breakdown of Jack Torrance?
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  503. Brilliant! I love it!
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  504. One of the rare occasions when I see books I've read! Some of those paperbacks were the Bicentennial Series by John Jakes. Publication of the 8 volumes lasted beyond  1976 and the series became known as the Kent Family Chronicles. I started reading those books in maybe 1978 when I was in high school. Many of the paperbacks shown were from a series of books with the names of states, titles such as "Colorado!" and "Texas!" if I remember right. I would enjoy seeing even closer views of books in your videos when you find books in an abandoned  place.  If I see something I've read you may wind up with a mini book review in your comments section!
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  505.  Konga 5000  I second the motion! What a treat it would be to see the material deleted from "Rosemary's Baby".
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  506. A tragedy. Along with others I want to commend you for the respectful way you handled this situation.---Also I'm curious about the building itself. Do you know what purpose it was built for and why it's in such an isolated place?
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  507. Very interesting point about how simply the layout of a house can cause stress. Not only the layout but even the decoration. I have a book about the interiors of "Gilded Age" mansions here in the U.S. and just looking at the photos can cause stress: the mix of patterns and prints and designs in rugs, wall coverings and the carving of wood and stone and furniture; the number of pictures and statues and figurine and plants. What has been called "visual noise" by an expert in working with hoarders is very loud in these places. Looking through those photos from the late 1800's I've seen not one room that has a restful or calming quality. Even the one or two uncluttered rooms are unappealing. To use a term no longer in use, even in black-and-white most of the rooms have a "psychedelic" quality. I can't imagine being comfortable in or truly enjoying such surroundings.
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  508. Dr. Grande actually spoke about Marilyn Monroe not long ago.
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  509. Same here. I used to live with a hoarder who saved bags from fast-food restaurants. The bags were standing open on the floor of his bedroom. I don't recall if there were napkins and wrappers in them and such in them. Tragic to have a mind so scrambled and to be so scared of letting go that people hold on to that stuff. This may sound odd but I wonder if seeing what they used is like a diary for some people and when they let go of something they let go of a part of their past. I keep a diary in a blank book and I love to throw things out!
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  510. Though only seen for a moment I'm curious about the portrait of Betty's mother. I wonder if that's really a painting from the 1920's or 30's and, if so, who was the woman portrayed? If the painting was made for the show are seeing a real woman or someone from the imagination of the artist? Either way the portrait is a wonderful work of art.
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  511. I live in Bloomington, Indiana, which has a huge university in the very middle of town (a large town within a town) and which makes for different kinds of diversity that make the town a mini-Manhattan including a vast number of expensive rental properties. In-person classes are suspended until early February. The apartment complex where I live now has a new owner who sent out an email asking tenants if they would be interested in a special deal for people who renew their lease. I haven't heard more but I'm wondering if I'll be able to get an arrangement in which my rent stays the same or maybe even reduced though the latter may be a little too optimistic!
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  512.  @wombat5252  Not being ridiculous. I'm thinking about things such as airborne grease from the stove getting onto the glass; condensation on the glass during cold weather and possibly mold forming around the windows. I figure that even up high there will eventually be dust on the sills. Too if there are residents who smoke there will eventually be nicotine on windows and walls along with most everything else.
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  513. Bumpkin Alert. Rube Warning. I'm a country-cousin type and being that high up and with floor to ceiling windows would be more than I could handle and I would never go out on the balcony or roof BUT...the first bedroom in the second apartment, where there could be a space at the foot of the bed by the floor-to-ceiling window: what a great spot for a comfortable armchair and a table with a stack of books. What a pleasure it would be to sit there in the sunshine and read or to look at the view and changing sky----if you're okay with being up IN the sky yourself!
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  514. What I particularly noticed was her annoying sense of superiority over men. That will go over real well... Too the "Would you rather..." question is unrealistic and pointless. How many people will actually find themselves in that either/or situation? Not many!
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  515. Sign me up for that one! I didn't even know Frank Lloyd Wright had designed a building overseas. I'd love to see a video about it.
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  516.  @CitrusandCapri  I think it depends on the style of the house and the location. A rustic style house in a wooded setting could look good. For a house I prefer lighter colors myself.
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  517. Good for you, Cash, for realizing alcohol wasn't doing you any good. I don't drink either; just never wanted or enjoyed the stuff. I'm also "north of 30", WAY north: Next month I'm turning 60 and with the physical breaking down of aging that's already going on I ain't happy about it. I may just schedule myself a bad mood for the whole day! Still....both apartments are very nice and the main one today has a lot going for it, could be great for a couple of roommates or a young couple pre-children.
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  518. I second the motion! I'd love to see a video about the Schwab mansion, another house that should still be in use today but has been gone for many decades.
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  519. What with all the changes in the past almost two years I would think the idea of a business space within the home is appealing to more people than it was before Covid. In a way it's really not a new concept: a few generations back it was common for people to own a business and live above it. Maybe we're just circling back to where we were!
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  520. What with the way Long Island mansions were torn down after World War II I'm a little surprised Farnsworth lasted as long as it did. Maybe it's because I'm from a rural background, but when I see that vast landscaping, along with the gardens I think of how a lot of food could be grown there and the estate be close to if not self-sufficient and have something to share with others. My best recollection is that the Florham estate was much like that, an almost self-contained, self-supported place.
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  521. Cash mentioned the red and blue subway lines. Suddenly I remembered the Blondie song "Union City Blue" from the "Eat to the Beat" album. Maybe minor for some peopel but how can you comfortably use a stove/oven when it's right againt the wall on one side? Imagine stirring something on one of those left-hand side burners. You would have to do it from an angle. For cooking, space is needed on either side.
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  522. Good idea. And men can start buying stock in cat food companies. There will be some big dividend checks coming in.
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  523.  @eleanoraquitaine2966  Thanks for the input---and you have a great user name!
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  524.  @eleanoraquitaine2966  This is off-topic from Cash's video but I'd like to highly recommend the excellent historical novel "Eleanor the Queen" by Norah Lofts. It's a great read by an author who had a great knowledge of the past and of the details of everyday life in previous centuries.
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  525. I'm the same way. I enjoying seeing and learning about these mansions and the people involved with them but, even if I could afford a mansion, I'd be happy with a one-bedroom apartment.
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  526. Whew! That shopping area is for the brave hearts. The mall in my town is the most I can handle. Still I love seeing these videos about how people live in Japan. What's next, Cash????
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  527. Ken, I don't know if this is true, but maybe you or a viewer can confirm or contradict this: I read or heard that before Whitehall was built there was a shantytown on the site and that Henry Flagler brought in a circus had the shantytown residents there free of charge. While the resdients were at the circus Henry Flagler had their homes burned down. Since the people of the shantytown had no homes there was no reason for them to stay so Henry Flager could now go ahead with bulding the mansion on the site.
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  528. To listen to and to watch Sally's performance along with the performances of the musicians is to be blessed.
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  529. During the Civil War there were people who wanted for New York City to secede from the U.S. so it could do business with both the North and the South.
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  530.  @FrankiesFancy  That sounds pretty darn good!
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  531.  @xanthopanmorganii229  It makes no sense to me either. Items could have been auctioned or sold outright or given to museums and historical societies and the "developers" could have made more money and/or possibly gotten tax deductions or refunds, depending on how incomes taxes were done in those days. Or even just open the houses to the public and say, "Here, take what you want". Monica Randall wrote about how she and her sister did get into some of the mansions and were removing what items they could such as gold door fittings and, if my memory is correct, a hanging globe light by Tiffany. The sisters were even removing clothing from the houses; not trying to make money but were trying save what they knew where historical items. Sometimes retired servants who still lived on the estates , though the mansions were no longer occupied, actually helped the two sisters.
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  532. If you haven't already read this Vanderbilt book I'd like to highly recommend "Fortune's Children -- The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt" by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II. I could hardly put the book down I found it so engrossing. Alva's daughter Consuela wrote her autobiography "The Glitter and the Gold" with ghost writer Stuart Preston. I know of this book but haven't read it. I did read "The Vanderbilt Era" by Louis Auchincloss. If you're interested in the stories of wealthy Americans in fact and fiction, I think you'll like the work of Louis Auchincloss who was from a wealthy New York family himself. I've read maybe 40 of his many books. I'd like to particularly recommend his book "The House of Five Talents" told in the voice of an elderly spinster who grew up enormously rich durnig the Gilded Age. I don't recall the specifics but Louis Auchincloss and Jacqueline Bouvier became step-siblings or step-cousins when Jacqueline's divorced mother married a member of the Auchincloss family.
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  533. Such a remarkable house and only a few photos to tell of it. At least parts of the house were salvaged though I wonder how many people know today that part of their home may have once been part of the Leiter mansion. It's not a pleasant suggestion, but maybe the Leiters were shut of out Chicago high society (at least a new boom town's version of high society) because they had what might considered a Jewish name. I read Nigel Nicolson's biography of Mary Leiter who became Vicereine of India, but nothing specific was said of the family's religious affiliation if any.
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  534. Showing up at your condo like that: talk about chutzpah!
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  535. Great video, Ken, and a great house. I could spend a lot of time living in that living room!
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  536. Cash, I'm puzzled by medicine cabinets that have a mirror inside in the back. I've never seen that until I began watching your videos but I'm sure it's not unique to New York City. The loft: I wouldn't use it for sleeping; won't climb up and down the ladder so I can go back and forth between kitchen and bathroom or working at the computer, etc.. For me it would be an over-sized storage area.
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  537. Not a major point, but years ago my work supervisor who was also a student majoring in Biology told me how mixing meat and milk products while eating and drinking overworks the body because two different types of amino acids (?) for digesting are produced at the same time, one for each type of food/drink. The Jewish custom of not eating meat and milk products t the same time is a is a healthy arrangement. I'm not positive but I think some people will allow six hours between consuming meat and milk products. Maybe someone else can add a comment here.
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  538. Nice neighborhood and nice apartment. The style of bathroom fixtures doesn't concern me particularly as I grew up in an older house which had fixtures from different eras, just give me a clean bathroom (bathtub preferred for a good, hot soak) and not TOO many mirrors. Really, I somewhat prefer older-style fixtures---but not so old that it means big piece of wood with a round hole in a tiny structure behind the house or something kept under the bed!---I'm really not a sofa person so I'd have the bed away from the kitchen area and get a regular table. It would be nice to sit there and eat a meal and watch the scene outside.
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  539. Dr. Grande would you consider making a video about Big Edie and Little Edie Beale who lived with cats and raccoons in their decrepit, overrun mansion in East Hampton, Long Island here in the U.S.? They were the subject of the documentary "Grey Gardens" and later portrayed by Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore in the biopic also called "Grey Gardens". I think the hoarding and the relationship between the mother and daughter would make for a fascinating topic and discussion.
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  540. Cash, it's all clear to me now: Because you've given sink sprayers so much publicity, I'm going to start buying shares of stock in companies that make sink sprayers. Let's all do it and get rich, rich, RICH!! Then all of us Cash Jordan subscribers can afford to live in New York.---P.S. I'm happy to give this video its 400th Like and I'm looking forward to your next video.
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  541. If you haven't already read it, I want to highly recommend the book "Empty Mansions" about Huguette Clark. I read the book several years ago and could hardly put it down.
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  542. I heard that too. If it's so strict that people can't even go for a walk for a change of scene and to get some exercise, it's going to be rough for those who live in really small apartments. I wonder how many people who are able to will just leave the city and if we'll see rents go down even more.
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  543. Only cigarettes. Quite a while after the death of my grandfather I put his pipe, that hadn't been used in I don't even know how long, in my mouth and even from that cold pipe with no tobacco in it there was an awful burning my mouth. My first and last experience with a pipe though the tobacco from a pipe or cigar can have a nice aroma.
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  544. I took typing my frreshman year of high school, maybe before I was ready for such a class. I didn't understand the importance of the skill or know how to think long-term. It's the if-I-knew-then-what-I-know-now situation. Still I'm thankful for what I did learn, can type fast and got a job in which I typed peoples comments as they were speaking.
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  545. I got the Covid (Certificate of Vaccine ID) jab because as an employee of a certain university in Indiana I was told I would or could lose my job. This was manipulation and immoral and illegal. I got the vaccine a couple of months after being hospitalized for blood poisoning and surgery following a Cortisone shot (arthritis) that went bad. Since the vaccine I'm in very bad shape with arthritis and heart trouble. I should have refused the vaccine and risked my job. Hard to know if my current state is because of the vaccine and how much of it is because of sepsis-related damage and how much is simply aging and family medical history. Either way, I totally refuse to get a booster or any other Covid vaccine. Also: rearrange "Delta Omicron" and you get "Media Control". Rearrange "Omicron" and you get "Moronic". Revelation of the Method?
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  546. Cash, thank you for voting and I want to encourage everyone to vote. That one vote can change the outcome of an election. Even if the candidate you vote for doesn't win, the number of votes that person gets sends a message. One of my ancestors died in the Andersonville prison camp during the American Civil War, probably of disease or starvation or both. After he suffered and died in that place and that way, how can I not go to a comfortable polling station a few blocks away from me and cast my votes?
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  547. I think some people are enjoying a fear of Covid. I think it gives drama to their lives and when those people enthusiastically embrace rules and mandates, even when they don't need to, it makes them feel good and virtuous.
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  548.  @OceanlinerDesigns  Mike, you very likely know about this book already but just in case you don't: I'd like to highly recommend "A Man and His Ship---America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States" by Stephen Ujifusa, published by Simon and Schuster, 2012.
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  549. Same here. I don't like being up high. Just the height creeps me out but there is also the safety factor. I don't want to live higher than a firetruck's ladder will extend and that's maybe five floors at the most. The highest I would live is the third floor and I'd prefer the second floor and to be close to a stairway.
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  550. And along with all that: no more baby trapping/parenting fraud.
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  551. The house was torn down after Mrs. Davison's death in 1961.
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  552. I agree with Mia Farrow about the novel "Rosemary's Baby": "You can't put it down". I believe I was only 12 years old when I read the book (had never seen the movie which would have been released around 8 years earlier) and though I was and still am a slow reader, I read "Rosemary's Baby" in one day.---I've also become very interested in the famous Dakota apartment building which was used in part as the Bramford, much like the Queen Mary was used in part for the S.S. Poseidon in the 1972 movie "The Poseidon Adventure". I'd like to have an apartment of my own in the Bramford though maybe with different neighbors but, despite everything, I really do like Minnie!---I've seen Roman Polanski's version of Ira Levin's novel, or parts of it, several times and each time I've noticed something new. "Rosemary's Baby" is an outstanding film.
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  553.  @nicholasjanke3476  What a great fun fact about the name of the building being inspired by Bram Stoker! Ira Levin getting letters from people wanting information about real covens reminds of how Shirley Jackson, after her story "The Lottery" was published and created an uproar, got letters from people wanting to know what New England towns had a lottery so those letter writers could watch people get stoned to death!
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  554. I remember a biography program about singer/actor Bobby Darin. He was very interested in politics and, if my memory is right, when Mr. Darin let it be known he wanted to run for a political off he was told that his sister was really his mother and to protect that privacy Bobby Darin refrained from more political activity.
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  555. I was told once, "You have nice handwriting for a left-handed person"! I love to write and since childhood imitated old-fashioned handwriting. One of the nicest compliments I ever received was from a work supervisor who said, "Your handwriting is almost Victorian", and recently someone said my writing looked like it was from the "1700's or 1800's". I liked that! That's what I've been trying for for many years! I may hold my hand in an awkward position but I love the act of writing and the look of handwriting that is both beautiful and legible.
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  556. Wow! I knew of the Hopkins mansion but had no idea there was such a story to go along with it.
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  557. You may already know about this but just in case: Glensheen was used in the movie "You'll Like My Mother" starring Patty Duke. The house could be said to be one of the characters in the movie. I became an admirer of Glensheen watching the movie.
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  558.  @kridder1018  This is news to me! What is the name of the Wendy Webb novel with the estate based on Glensheen?
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  559. Both residences are great, but I lean more toward the Beaux Arts house and I would choose grandfather Crocker's Second Empire house in San Francisco over that.
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  560.  @hihi-nc6xm  You're a move ahead of me, PDI! I was going to recommend "The Queen's Gambit". I can imagine that if Beth saw that chess piece she'd have something to say about it!
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  561.  @zogzog1063  Your comment reminded me of the novel "Honorable Men" by Louis Auchincloss. Part of the book is told by one of the characters who plays bridge with a group of other ladies, one of whom has a husband who is a fantastic bridge player. On one occasion the husband shows the narrator how to better her game and the text was about how through the afternoon the man went through "...hand after hand..." and "opened a whole new dimension of the game. If Chessie was a brilliant player he was still more brilliant as a teacher". All I play is solitaire but that inspired me to become as goood as I can be at it. You might enjoy the Hercule Poirot mystery, starring David Suchet,"Cards on the Table" that is about a murder that happens during a bridge game.
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  562.  @rend7267  That's great that you started a library! I hope other people will follow your example. There's a L.F.L. down the street from me but I may just leave some books in the laundry room where I live.
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  563.  @rend7267  I love it! The shelves, the lady coming back to check books and then starting a library at her new place. That is what I call a home run!
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  564. The letter "J" didn't come into useage until the 16th century. "Joseph" would have "Ioseph' which isn't so different from "Imhotep". Fascinating video, Brother Joe! Thank you!
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  565. Fascinating discussion, Dr. Grande. This may be a little off-topic but if you or any of your viewers are interested in the idea of Is-there-something-wrong-with-the-house? I'd like to recommend Anne Rivers Siddons' 1974 novel "The House Next Door". Not a well-know book but up there with Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House". This might be a topic for another video: In "...Hill House" the Crain mansion was deliberately designed to have a strange, confusing, disproportionate floor plan. Things were intentionally "off" for some reason. I would think that would have some kind of negative effect on people. In the Kubrick movie "The Shining" the interior floorplan doesn't match the outside of the hotel. Even inside the Overlook Hotel, doors and the sizes of rooms didn't match. Someone made a comment about how we might not quite consciously notice things being not quite right "...but your brain notices".
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  566. Wonderful place and a wonderful presentation. That garden is terrific. I'm curious about the checkerboard flooring: I've heard that that's connected with Freemasonry. I wonder if the pattern of the floor is connected to the Masonic Lodge (Washington and other Founding Fathers were a part of that group) or if someone just liked the way it looked.
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  567. Just found your channel! Great video, terrific comments and observations along with the clips from other videos. I've seen some of those other videos; those houses are something else. It's like people are trying to think of some way to spend money, they have so much of it, so they buy and install dumb things just to spend money or so the whole house is on the same level of extravagance. This stuff is interesting in a weird way but I'm reminded of a line that Barbra Streisand had in the movie "The Way We Were": "Decadent and disgusting". I'm also reminded of Spencer and Katrina Trask, the wealthy couple who turned their estate Yaddo into a retreat for writer's and painters and who decided to give away their fortune by helping others. If i were enormously rich I'd have a pleasant home or apartment and it would be more fun helping people with medical bills or a new roof or paying their rent or getting someone a new car and paying for the insurance so they can become self-sufficient after a while. That would sure be better and more enjoyable than a home theater with motion-sensitive lighting.
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  568. I remember that show. I don't recall that episode, but would enjoy seeing it.
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  569. Wow! Mike, you have done yourself proud: I am so impressed with the talent and self-discipline and attention to detail and with the amount of information that went into making this video. I've known of and have seen pictures of the Chusan but your video has given me so much knowledge of the ship and so much appreciation of her. Well done! I know I'll enjoy seeing and learning about any liner you feature. Two that I would especially enjoying seeing are the postwar Ile de France (also known as the S.S. Claridon!) and the Dominion Monarch.
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  570. Very interesting, Cash! I really enjoy videos such as this one. You provide valuable information. I'm here in Bloomington, Indiana/mini-Manhattan. I have co-workers who now work from home and our work site looks and is mostly deserted. We have loads of rental properties being run by a few management companies that I find, based on expereience, to be second-rate/almost slumlords, who are making as much as they can into August-to-August leases because we have Indiana University right in the middle of town. Also there are managment companies that will make you decide on renewing or not renewing your lease when you're not even six weeks into it. Legal but "highly unethical" according to a friend experienced in real estate. Rents are confiscatory and some businesses can't hire people because potential employees can't afford to live here in town! Some people who already commute are finding that it's becoming so expensive that working here isn't worth it. Many jobs are available here I'm not sure about wages and benefits. Indiana University recently started paying a minumum of $15/hour yet fast food places pay better and have better hours and better parking and better locations. Something has to give somewhere in terms of paying people more and charging them less for rent.
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  571. Wonderful video, Ken! Fascinating and yet a cautionary tale also. Any plans for a video about Buckingham Palace? I'm not hinting at anything, mind you, just asking a question....for a friend.
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  572. I've heard O.J. Simpson was in an episode "Law & Order" in which the character he played was murdered.
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  573. I saw a biography program about singer and actor Bobby Darin and he learned that his sister was actually his mother and his mother was actually his grandmother. Not all of this kind of situation are because of wrongdoing on the part of the mother: I know of a family in which a daughter was raped, beame pregnant, had and kept the baby. I think it was in adulthood that the child learned their sibling was really their parent.
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  574. Of Frick mansions this one is my favorite. I liked all three of the bedrooms that were used by the Frick family and of those three I like Helen's best. It's the least elaborate and has a friendly, homey quality.
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  575. A few cattle prods might come in handy.
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  576. Thank you, Cash, for showing even the not-good apartments. It helps your viewers to be even more educated about what to rent and what not to rent. These apartments might be useful for someone who plans to live in them for no more than a year, a transitional housing situation.
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  577. Even in the courthouse Greenberg doesn't look scared or sorry, he looks like he's going to explode in anger. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a history of anger and violence.
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  578. In the past I've heard about how women would tell other women, "Have a little money that he doesn't know about", but this is the first time I've heard of that advice being given to a man. Good for the lawyer!
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  579. Singer and actress Deborah Harry from the group Blondie told in an interview in Vanity Fair magazine in 1994 about how she was once abducted by Ted Bundy. She accepted a ride, got in, found that the door handle on the passenger side was missing, was trying to open the door from the outside by reaching over the slighty open window. Ms. Harry said the car swerved, probably as Bundy tried to stop her, and she fell out into the road. Ms. Harry said that when Ted Bundy got national attention she recognized his face and remembered the car and the rigged door. Ted Bundy, as I understand, generally killed women with brown hair parted in the middle and in her early years Deborah Harry was still a natural brunette with her hair parted in the middle. There's been some controversy about whether Ms. Harry encountered Ted Bundy or someone similar, the reason being that Ted Bundy was in the Pacific Northwest while she lived in the New York-New Jersey area. I believe Ms. Harry: Ted Bundy had a car and driving from one part of the country to another wasn't difficult. John Gacy is believed to killed people in other places than Chicago while on business trips. In fact, one teenager, now middle-aged, gave an interview on the "Soft White Underbelly" You Tube channel about getting away from Gacy while with him in a hotel room in Georgia or another Southern state. If John Gacy could go around the U.S. so could Ted Bundy. I'm glad you posted your comment because you and Deborah Harry give credibility to each other's experience.
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  580. One of the houses that is big and grand, but also looks homey and comfortable.
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  581. That style and the woodwork make me think of the Dakota though probably many other places look something like this apartment also. I'd like to turn the bedroom into a home library and have a comfortable armchair and a table by the window and then settle down and read the books I've been accumulating for years!
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  582. A wonderful place! Even for those of us who are just "window shopping"!
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  583. I like that motto and I'm going to remember it! Thank you!
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  584. The floorplan isn't the same, but the exterior of the house reminds me of Seaview Terrace which many of as we were growing up knew as Collinwood Manor. Sounds like the Schell house was a happy place while Mr. Schell was still living.
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  585. Having seen Anna Nicole Smith on her reality show and having seen other shows and coverage about her I got the impression Ms.Smith was slightly developmentally disabled. She never finished the 10th grade and I've wondered if that was because she had gone as far as she was able to go in school.
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  586. A tragic architectural and artistic loss but the important thing is that no lives were lost in the fire. Compared to a human life the house isn't that important. Interesting to learn about the Smith & Weson .38. I own one!
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  587. That so-called family at the beginnning...oh, my gosh. I want to know what happened afterward. I wonder if the son has any further contact with his witch mother. I'll bet he's cut ties with her. I hope that woman, not lady, has faced and is facing massive backlash from her behavior AND I hope the same for the bio father. The female parent should be doing some jail time and it wouldn't hurt to have the same for the sperm donor.
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  588. Fun fact: the house at 3:36 is made of concrete. I saw it in a Dover book about concrete homes. The Fulton-Cutting house: what a horror of a house. I find the place jarring with it's odd, asymmetrical, arrangement of features and angled floorplan. -- I read somewhere that when Tuxedo Park residents didn't have as much money as they used to, maybe because of the Depression or after World War II, and were not able to maintain their New York residences as well as those in Tuxedo Park or maybe gave up the New York homes entirely, a butler in the park made the wry comment that "the season" there was now lasting from January 1st until December 31st. Nothing wrong with making one's Tuxedo Park residence a ful-time residence if one had to choose between two homes. As I said about another house, the gardens could be used for growing one's own food and being more self-sufficient.
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  589. Ken, I'm back again with another comment! The information about hotels made me think of a novel you and your viewers might enjoy. It's "Hotel" (1965) by Arthur Hailey who also wrote the 1968 novel "Airport". "Hotel" is a fascinating book about the people working at the Hotel St. Gregory and gives lots of information about how such an establishment worked in those days. I wonder if any of the book is inspired by the Hilton family and their hotels. The movie 1967 version of "Hotel" stars Rod Taylor along with supporting roles by Karl Malden, Merele Oberon and Melvyn Douglas.
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  590.  @donniemoder1466  I didn't have an opinion one way or another about staircases. I don't live in NYC and am not familiar with their buildings codes. I did hope there was one and I'm glad that proved to be correct.
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  591. I'm thinking of those famous words attributed to Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake".
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  592. I'm glad to learn that someone else has read "The Celtic Queen'! I read it many years ago and it was a great story.
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  593. The photo at 1:31. Great photos and film clips here but 1:31 is my favorite.
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  594. Both apartments are great and I love the views! I would go for the smaller one. The penthouse is super BUT....for me the big open space above the kitchen is simply unuseable space that you still to have pay to heat and cool. I find the smaller apartment more practical. That's the one for me.
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  595.  @freyathewanderer6359  I can believe that. I've even read that the cruise business was adversely affected by "The Poseidon Adventure".
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  596. I love your suggestion about sock/dust rags! I have some Venetian blinds that need cleaning and the sock method might be just what I need. Thanks!
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  597.  @EliseLogan  I'm going to do that!
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  598. Just this morning I bought three Anne Lamott books to give to a friend. Ms. Lamott and I probably don't agree on some major issues but I think we're both walking in the right direction to a good destination.
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  599. It's the Hopkins mansion that was also lost in the fire. There's at least one video about it that I can think of here on You Tube. It had quite a history though didn't stand for all that many years.
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  600. Those window sills are so deep. Plenty of room for a shrine to your god! Woo-hoo!
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  601. A couple of people have made comments comparing Wingwood to the Winchester house in California. I'm thinking of Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" in which the Crain mansion was deliberately "off" with the intention of causing confusion and unease.
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  602. I agree. I don't advocate it or want anyone to be hurt, but, realistically, it really is just a matter of time before there's a meeting of roadblockers and someone who may have had a bad day and doesn't have much inhibition and someone is going to get run over.
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  603. Question for Cash and/or other viewers: In the neighborhood of the apartment there are a lot of old three- and four-story buildings with businesses on the ground floor. Were those buildings originally private homes from top to bottom or were they built with commerical space on the ground floor?
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  604.  @vsibirsky  Thank you very much for the input! Good to get that information from someone who knows the neighborhood so well!
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  605. The Liberte makes a brief appearance in the Jane Russell movie "The French Line". Much of the movie takes place aboard the Liberte, but the studio sets were used instead, but early in the film there's a view of the Liberte at the pier in New York.
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  606. Great comparison with the Collyers. I'm reminded somewhat of Mrs. Edith Beale and Miss Edith Beale who lived at Grey Gardens in the Hamptons.
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  607. I agree. Let the new tenant create their own space and spaces. That divider was an immediate turn-off that may have worked well for someone else but it's not for everyone.
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  608. Excellent point! I think what we're seeing are not uncharacteristic, isolated events but events that are part of ongoing behavior that finally got exposed.
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  609.  @justjane2070  My pet peeve is stoves that don't have space on either side. A stove that on one side against a wall or cabinet or refrigerator is inconvenient, messy and possibly unsafe.
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  610. Mr. Armour may not have been good to his workers, but give him credit for putting his affairs in order and paying off his debts. Too I'm glad his wife and daughter were provided for. Ken, you menioned Jane Addams's involvement in the strike situation. She operated Hull House, what might be considered a community center that started out in a 19th century home originally owned by a man named Hull. The original part of Hull House still stands in Chicago as a museum along with some office and conference space. Jane Addams and her work and Hull House might be an interesting topic for a future video.
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  611. I was thinking that the quotes on the wall give the foyer the feeling of a public building, maybe a courthouse or a building on a university campus.
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  612. No medicine cabinet? That means there will be no need for medicine in the future. Yaaayyyy!---Just got of the descending clothes storage but it looks like someone learned the Kon Mari method of folding clothes.
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  613. The interview with Veronica Lake is now available on You Tube. She was fascinating.
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  614. Wonderful place, but so sad that so much beautiful woodwork has been painted over with that stark white.
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  615. It's remarkable how Albert DeSalvo kept going back and forth between employment and incarceration for very serious crimes before his final imprisonment and death. Remarkable also is how someone so troubled ever got married. What did his wife see in him that she married Albert DeSalvo in the first place? This is in no way a criticism of Mrs. DeSalvo but I'm interested in what she was like and why became involved with, married and stayed with someone so disturbed and dangerous. I wonder if Mrs. DeSalvo wanted to get away and had nowhere to go and/or had conflicting feelings about what choices to make or felt obligated to stay because of the religious and social mores of the time. Too what was Albert DeSalvo like at home?
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  616. I have to disagree. The news from Dallas was about such an enormous event that something such as a discussion of clothing was so trivial in comparison that there was no reason to wait for the fashion lady to finish speaking.
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  617.  @aggierowe9574  What an experience that must have been living down the street from the Dakota! It must have been a special time in your life. I'm imagining having that remarkable building as a part of my neighborhood. From books that I've read/looked at about New York apartments I know of the Ansonia. Quite a place!
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  618. Ken, this was terrific. I had a friend who has since passed and who lived in Levittown. She told me that Mr. Levitt would drive through the place to make sure people were taking proper care of their properties. I'm old enought to remember the Monkees song "Pleasant Valley Sunday" which seems to be a criticism of suburbia, but for the people who first lived in such places, people who had gone through the Great Depression and a World War (some of whom may have been Holocaust survivors and war brides) moving into Leavittown must have been almost like going to Heaven. I was sorry to learn of the racial segregation, but not surprised. "Levit" sounds like it might be Jewish name yet I wonder if Jews were also restricted. The movie has a reference to churches, but no mention of synagogues.
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  619. That's a good point. I wonder what kind of life she's going to have. If she's out of jail now will anyone hire her or marry her or trust her? I wonder what her own family thinks about her and how those relationships are. She wouldn't be welcome in my home if we were relatives.
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  620. I love the view from this apartment! Just having that to look at for free is a big selling/renting point for this apartment. I like that option to have a second level added: i see no reason to pay for the heating and cooling of all that empty air that serves no purpose. Why, Cash, with a second level added to one of the bedrooms you would have room not just for a shrine to your god but you could install a whole temple to your god!
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  621. The present appearance of Drayton Hall is impresssive enough, but imagine this place when it was a lived-in, functioning home. Not the most glamorous part of the site, but the privy reminded me of a video I saw elsewhere on You Tube: it was a video about exploring a deserted and rundown 18th century mansion somewhere in the eastern part of the United States. Remarkably the brick privy was still intact and the camera showed a view of the interior. It was large and could accommodate a number of people at the same time though I'm sure there were men's and women's sides to the structure. Instead of having the usual seating arrangement with round holes where people could relieve themselves, that part of the privy was broken up so that some parts were higher than others so people of different heights, children or adults for example, could more comfortably and conveniently take care of their needs. I've never seen that attention to detail in such a humble, functional structure.
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  622. Cash, maybe you could carry some kind of repellent with you and it might be good to travel with someone rather than solo. Take a self-defence class? Smash-and-grab? Where I live the sequence would very possibly be smash-grab-get shot. I know this won't go over well with a lot of people but, Cash, is it time to consider becoming a licensed and trained gun owner?
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  623. A nice place with an extra interesting layout...but not quite for me. The deal-breaker is the two-story-high living area. I simply won't pay to heat and cool all that empty cubic space with which you can do nothing.
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  624. I could live in that house. It's big and grand yet simple and on a reasonable scale. I liked how in one of the photographs we can see clothing drying out on the clothes line!
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  625. This is a little off-topic but seeing that descent down the spiral staircase reminded me of one of the scarier scenes in the 1963 classic movie "The Haunting". Good for Zoltar the fortune teller to be wearing a mask!
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  626.  @MBP1990-z8i  Woo-hoo! Thanks for the confirmation!
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  627. I'm in for the Dunkin Donuts party!
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  628. The book area doesn't work for me either. It looks hazardous. This is an example of form not following function though the rest of the house is very nice.
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  629. Apartment 1: I could finally unpack my boxed-up books and use that extra-long shelf in the hallway for an extra-long book shelf.
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  630. Great place! Cash, I'm glad I found your channel. Always interesting to watch and listen to and I'm learning things from your videos. One thing I've learned is a funny difference between Manhattan and Bloomington, Indiana: on the ground floor in Manhattan people are concerned about rats. I live on a second floor in Bloomington with a door that opens directly outside and though I live just off the square I once almost walked into a possum that was outside my door and sometimes I smell skunks in the morning!
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  631. I'm imagining how much cats would like those stairs. I can just picture the felines at different levels on the stairway and watching what's going on when they're not taking their naps!
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  632. I'll bet there's not father in his life.
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  633. Stay warm in New York, Cash! Put on layers. It's 6 degrees Fahrenheit here in mini Manhattan/Bloomington, Indiana, so it must be even colder in the real Manhattan!
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  634.  @LibbyRal  Great observation! One thing that REALLY bothers me is being in a room with an echo. Even when furnished that apartment may still have the sound reverberating. Not for me! I'm working toward minimalism but one of the drawbacks of that lifestyle is living spaces with so little in them that there's an echo. I may have to keep some things just to absorb sound!
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  635.  @LibbyRal  YIkes! That's true! I hadn't thought of that. Great apartment, maybe for someone who's accustomed to living in the Grand Canyon!
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  636. I've noticed that in the abandoned locations I've seen that are in the American West there is a lot of evidence of rodents. I'm curious about what the rodents find to eat and drink in these deserted places that they stay there apparently for a long time and leave so much evidence of themselves. Anyone have any ideas or information about this?
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  637. The outside of the house, well, to put it politely, is not for me. Far too busy. The inside: very nice! I'd like to get a look at the books in the library and see what titles are there. I wonder if the people who work in and maintain the house ever read those books.
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  638.  @michellesartori6695  Something else that you might find interesting is the book "The Secret Lives of Hoarders" by Matt Paxton who was the original star of the TV series "Hoarders" here in the U.S. Mr. Paxton isn't a psychologist but he talked about the pattern he'd seen in hoarders, that they are often people with a naturally high level of anxiety; have had a traumatic experience [I've noticed hoarders also come from traumatic ongoing situations such as an abusive childhood or growing up in poverty] such as the death of a parent, the end of a marriage, estrangement from a child and there is also a family history of hoarding. I've dealt with a hoarder relative and lean a little that way myself but am now working toward minimalism!
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  639. Fascinating commentary, Dr. Grande and fascinating comments from viewers. I've been interested in the life of Marilyn Monroe for a long time and have read and watched much about her. I would disagree in part with one thing: Marilyn not having good work habits. At times Marilyn was remarkably focused and self-disciplined on achieving goals and in giving a good performance. The lady who ran the Blue Book Modeling agency said of then Norma that she had never seen anyone who worked or studied so hard, "...who wanted to be somebody". Actress Mitzi Gaynor in an interview talked about meeting Marilyn in the morning after Marilyn had been "studying all night" in preparation for their work together. Marilyn often wasn't easy to work and it may have been inconsistent but at least part of the time her work habits were exemplary.
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  640. It goes both ways across the Atlantic. What may be the two greatest female characters in American novles, plays and movies, Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind" and Blanche DuBois were both played by one British actress: Vivien Leigh. (Just a coincidence, but both characters were Southerners.)
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  641. I hope you didn't open the car door for her when you took her home!
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  642. I don't know what this says about me and my family but I was born in 1961 and I also read "Rosemary's Baby" when I was about 13!
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  643. The New York apartment for me doesn't actually exist: I want the apartment that Rosemary and Guy moved into in the movie "Rosemary's Baby". Cash, I live in Bloomington, Indiana, which Habitat for Humanity found, at that time anyway, to be the least affordable city in the United States because people were paying half of their income for housing. I'm amazed at the apartment buildings that keep being built here, luxury apartments for college students. There's a zoning rule that some or all of these new buildings have to have commercial space on the ground floors. Some of those business spaces I pass by have been empty since the buildings opened and probably will stay that way. Indiana University is huge and right in the center of town and hires many people but those people can't afford to live in town or have to live far from their workplace. Even before Covid and the university going online for much of the year I was wondering how much longer expensive student housing can keep being built before there are too many apartments. We may be at that point now because of the virus situation.
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  644.  @yangyangnezin208  Thanks. I'm a better person for knowing that.
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  645. Now that's a good question: would I spend the night in the Stanley Hotel? I would say no. The hotel is apparently a great place but built in a style I don't find all that attractive and I get the impression it's become very touristy and too much about it's own image. I love the fictional Overlook Hotel from the Kubrick movie. I would gladly stay in that beautiful building and in that location. I would even enjoy being a caretaker there. I've been a house-sitter for people and being the caretaker would be the same thing but on a much larger scale!
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  646. I noticed that too. Those cabinets are so high that a stepladder would be needed. Because of the height and inconvenience I would only store items that are rarely used or maybe even clothing that isn't being used depending on the time of year...or I just wouldn't use that cabinets at all!
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  647.  @rael5469  Thank you for your comments! I don't have a car so I often travel by bike and with a backpack on me. In one of the pockets of my backpack I always have a little flashlight.
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  648.  @theresahemminger1587  I'm referring to Lucy Arnaz, the daughter of Dezi Arnaz and Lucille Ball. Prior to the movie Lucy Arnaz had worked with her mother in one of Lucille Ball's sitcoms so was already had acting experience though "Who is the Black Dahlia?" may have been Ms. Arnaz's first dramatic role.
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  649. The Titanic and also the Olympic had interiors that I would have been comfortable living in. The Britannic, the third and last of the Olympic-class trio would have been a little too ornate for my .tastes. --- Ken, I would enjoy more This House videos about the interiors of ocean liners. Some people really did live aboard ocean liners. My particular favorite is the post-World War II Ile de France. We can see so much of this ship inside and out in the movie "The Last Voyage" released in 1960.
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  650. I wonder what else that "officer" has done in the past that we don't know about. I would be surprised if what is in the video is just his first act of inappropriate behavior.
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  651. In a constantly changing and growing city, to keep a private home for very long at that location was maybe unrealistic. I can see having a family enclave of several houses as an arrangement that could last for a generation or two, but beyond that, not really.
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  652. I haven't seen many Dick Cavett interviews but the the interviews with Bette Davis and Veronica Lake were terrific.
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  653. That's a good point about the views. They're on the drab side but it would be enjoyable to watch the changes in the sky, the clouds and light at different times of day and even at different times of year. I wonder what it's like to watch a thunderstorm come in from that high up!
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  654. I agree: a little more explanation of the apartment would have been helpful. I think the living area by the window IS the bedroom. I'm guessing the sofa is a sofa bed or there's a bed alongside the wall opposite. It would have been helpful to have seen and been told a little more.
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  655. Cash, your Japan series is so good it's Cash-tastic!
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  656. I've read about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, mostly about Wallis, but this scene gives new information and a new interpretation of what I did know. -- I think it was in the Duchess of Windsor biography "That Woman" by Anna Sebba that it was mentioned that the Duke of Windsor may have been autistic Probably not possible to determine now and then there was what sounds like a traumatic upbringing. I wonder if the former King fully understood what he was doing and if he was being manipulated by Britain's enemies.
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  657. Not as large, but another town in waste is Gary, Indiana. Part of my family lived there for many years and I was born there, but I have no intention of ever going back.
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  658.  @ohdear2275  Yes to both. I enjoyed "That Woman" and found it to be well-written book with some new information. It's been a while since I read "That Woman" but it may have been there that I first learned of the Duke of Windsor and Ernest Simpson both being Freemasons. Just recently on Facebook there was some discussion of Prince Harry often being sceen holding his hand in front of his abdomen and that it may be a Masonic sign or gesture. It would be interesting to know if his brother Prince William and their father King Charles III have continued the royal involvement with Freemasonry.
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  659.  @ThisHouse  Thanks for the reply and information, Ken! I"m catching up with you: this is really in relation to your video about the Robie house. Here's another fun fact: in the 1974 disaster movie "The Towering Inferno" the skyscraper the Glass Tower was inspired by the Frank Lloyd Wright drawing or plan for a "mile-high skyscraper". Speaking of Show business, actress Anne Baxter was the granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright. Also at Indiana University where I work a new building just opened: it's a 1956 design by Mies van der Rohe. The building is small, spare and......cost $55million dollars!
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  660. You might be interested in the 1964 book "The Recluse of Herald Square -- the Mystery of Ida Wood" by Joseph A. Cox. Very good reading and much more information.
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  661. Thank you, Cash and family, for having us over for a visit!
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  662. I'm partially crippled with arthritis, I'm in pain a lot of the time, I limp and I walk with a quad cane. It's no fun, but at least no one is expecting me to carry an air-conditioner. And, by the way, AC woman, why didn't you make arrangements to have some help you carry the air-conditioner?
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  663.  @vincentgoupil180  I simply shared an interesting anecdote and what I've read of New York history along with sharing an idea about accent and location. I have ridiculed no one. I think you're reading more into my comments than is actually there.
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  664. The first places aren't even rooming-house or dorm rooms; no kitchens, no laundry room. Two shared bathrooms per floor? Nope. The last place: very nice!
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  665. Very interesting and informative! Thank you, Cash. I've come to realize I could never live in NYC, it would be overwhelming for a rural type such as myself but I love to experience the city through your videos. Here in the university town of Bloomington, Indiana, rents are sky-high because of so many college students many of whom have a lot of money one way or another. Classes are now online until next February and I wonder how many students will just stay with online classes which are cheaper than in-person. You've gotten me curious about the rental situation in this type of environment: how may landlords are are willing to be more flexible and how many apartments are just empty. Also: Yes! Please! Bring on the hoarder apartments and other awful ones. AND...that clear spiral staircase is ridiculous and dangerous!
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  666. How can a cat whose face is covered in fur still give such a look of death?
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  667. I second the motion! The Gardo house in Salt Lake City was a remarkable place yet I've only learned of it in the past few years.
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  668. I've seen videos from recent years of the interior of the house. The improvement that has been made is remarkable. The interior of the Ocean Avenue house is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen.
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  669.  @meagancobb1417  I knew about the house from back in the 70's but only in recent years got interested in it and realized how big it is. I'd like to suggest just looking around on You Tube and you should find some videos about the Ocean Avenue house, there were quite a few last time I looked. I think the wall between a couple of bedroom was removed to create a larger space, maybe the master bedroom; there's a huge Palladian window over one of the staircase landings. The window was once obscured by drapes but was later uncovered. Paint has been removed from woodwork. If you like cooking there's a big new kitchen. I've seen photos from the time of the murders; the interior was awful but now years later, as I mentioned, is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen.
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  670.  @cherylbusch6236  Terrific comparison to "The Heiress". I found the novel dry and unmemorable but the movie....wow!
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  671. Hooray! Cash, I'm so glad for you about keeping your office for another two years. Good for you for negotiating. In a way you provide your landlord with free advertising by showing the building so you deserve something for that. The apartment: certainly not boring but it's not for me BUT...someone is going to LOVE living there.
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  672. Happy birthday, Mrs. Jordan! I hope you have a great day and a great new year in your life. Interesting neighborhood but this apartment isn't quite the one for me. I'm very big on fire safety and having stove burners only inches away from the wall makes me very uncomfortable. Having the small kitchen in a separate odd-shaped room doesn't work for me but I can see that this apartment would be great for people who don't do a lot of cooking and who are young enough to climb all those stairs!
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  673. Happy birthday, Cash! May this be a special day and a special new year of your life blessed with health, prosperity, success, peace, and satisfaction. Also: you remind me of Noel Coward the entertainer and author who said, "Work is more fun than fun".
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  674. I see a winner here! The rear area on the second floor could be a home office as suggested and also it would be a great place to have bookshelves for a home library. Sunlight damages books so that shaded place would be great for them but I'd want a comfortable armchair by a window for when I'm reading a book.
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  675. Question for Cash and other New Yorkers: I was noticing that many of the buildings in the neighborhood are cleary from the 1800's and the earlier part of the 1900's. Were those structures built to be residential only and the businesses added later on or were they always a combination? I love those built-in bookshelves/shrine area but not up in the windowless loft. If the shelve were downstairs there could have been a great home library area but I guess not that many people anymore have or read many physical books. That IS a lot of shelf space and I suspect more than many people would want. I don't own enough to use all that upstairs storage space. The apartment isn't quite for me but someone is going to love living there.
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  676. I'd love to see those interiors before they were gutted and rebuilt. I like older places even if they're dated and maybe showing the signs of many years of use and probably would have preferred the Before to the After!
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  677. Clean, efficient and I expect security there is excellent---and it's not quite for me at this point in my life! Still I appreciate learning about how people live in Japan and I'm looking forward to more!
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  678. Cash, this may be a little off-topic but you and your viewers may be interested in a book I'm reading: "Alone Together--A History of New York's Early Apartments" by Elizabeth Collins Cromley; Cornell University Press, 1990. The book is about how the concept of multi-resident, multi-family buildings was introduced to New York in the mid-19th century from Europe and had to be adapted to American lifestyles and values and especially in Manhattan. In the mid-1800's in Manhattan there was a shortage of stand-alone, single family houses along with a greatly expanding population. Some people believed that living in an apartment house would destroy morals and families, and the public had to get accustomed to the concept of apartment living.
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  679. I second the motion! I love ocean liners, but I would have avoided the Imperator. I wonder how many people who might have known a little more about ships and stability than other people or who just gave the matter a little more consideration actually did stay away from the Imperator. I wish I could remember it better or find it elsewhere, but I've read that Albert Ballin said something about the Imperator being a good hotel in a bad ship.
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  680. I work at a major Midwest university and I agree with you! Better to learn a useful trade for which there's a demand than get a degree in Gender Studies or some subject that has nothing practical for life after school.
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  681.  @di4085  The front of this house was used for exterior views of the Sheffield home in the TV sitcom "The Nanny". Fran Drescher who created and starred in the show played the role of Fran Fine who was the nanny for the Sheffield family. "The Nanny" is a great comedy show.
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  682. Gorgeous place. And so many outstanding photographs. I wonder that the story is just behind the photographs; who made the decision to document the house so thoroughly and so well. I noticed that circular opening in the floor in the rotunda area and that a higher metal railing had been placed around the original railing. Good idea; that first railing looked nice, but someone leaning over to admire the rotunda could have taken a terrible fall.
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  683. Great exchange between Ms. Oates and the interviewer. An interviewer who asks informed, intelligent and interesting questions of a guest who gives clear and articulate answers that are not only about herself but about other people and about writing as well as other topics.
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  684. Thank you, Cash, Mrs. Jordan and Violet for taking us along with you on your trip. It's a pleasure to see where you go and how you get there. I like seeing the cleanliness and efficiency of the urban areas, but I love the beauty and quiet and space of the rural area where there sky and space and plants. I look forward to seeing how a Japanese home is laid out and operates!
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  685. I noticed that the back and bottom of the drawer under the bathroom sink had been hacked out so as to allow for the pipe going down from the sink. A small part of the apartment but it looks really bad. Overall the apartment and building are great.
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  686. Very nice house. The staircase hall is spectacular. I noticed in one of the ground floor corners of that space that there was a little doorway. It would be interesting to know what's beyond there: maybe a little bar area or coat closet or maybe even just a little lavatory or supply closet. ---A tunnel built for the use of Marilyn Monroe sounds a little far-fetched though it's possible the actress did use it. It appears to be a service/utility area from when the house was built.---Some parts of the house may be out of date (someone mentioned that we don't see the kitchen) and needing work but I think it would be a pleasure to live in this beautiful old house. This is the kind of setting where I could stay for a long time and not want to leave.
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  687.  @mudphloodphilly2456  I think Stephen King is an excellent writer. I've always enjoyed his work including his non-fiction/autobiographical book "On Writing -- A Memoir of the Craft". Though the fictional Rose Red and real-life Ronaele look much alike maybe that was because of decisions made by the TV production people. If the name Rimbauer may have been inspired the name Trumbauer I think it would be an interesting example of real life being the basis for something in fiction. As someone who has written fiction myself I see nothing wrong with that.
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  688. There is something familiar about this house. I've seen it before or one remarkably similar in one and maybe two other videos. The house I'm thinking of had on one side of the structure what appeared to be a barn door or a door that might have been used on a commercial building such as a garage or warehouse. The door looked very much out of place on the side of a house. I wonder if that door was part of this house but in a section that has since collapsed.
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  689.  @urbaniteurbanizer1612  I think it was around the time that cigarette ads were banned from American TV (1971, as I recall) and when anti-smoking public service announcements were shown that smoking nearly disappeared from TV for a long time. One of those little things that stays in one's memory for some reason: in the late 70's I was watching "The Merv Griffin Show" and I was surprised to see his guests Lindsay Wagner and David Soul, both in popular TV shows at the time, light up and smoke. The cigarettes and lighter may have been on the coffee table in front of the host and guests. I don't recall either of them taking out a pack of cigarettes. By that time smoking on TV had become unusual. You rarely see anyone smoking in a mid- to late- 70's TV show. I don't remember about the earlier part of the decade. I think Madonna did smoke a cigar on some occasion but I didn't and don't pay much attention to her. I do recall an anti-smoking PSA with Brooke Shields who later acted in a TV show in which she was smoking and I think it was a cigar.
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  690. Cash, I remember the happy times I spent standing by an easel back in the 1960's when I was in elementary school. All the time and trouble you went to for Violet's easel will be worth it when she uses and enjoys it.
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  691. I agree. Even houses such as the ones in this video haven't lasted long in urban areas and not always as private home as intended. I think it was in the book "The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned" that it was mentioned that at least some of the house on Nob Hill were already in "...semi-public use" when the earthquake occurred.
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  692. My favorite: Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer (sp?) in the "Coffee Time" dance number in the movie "Yolanda and the Thief" followed by the "Slewfoot" dance number with Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron in "Daddy Long Legs".
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  693.  @MsMadeline02  Robert Evans had a supporting role in the 1959 movie "The Best of Everything". He was the sleazy, seducing rich guy boyfriend of the character portrayed by Diane Baker.
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  694. Actually marriage IS negotiation and it's a kind of business. May sound odd here, but when I read the novels of Jane Austen I saw that marriage is a business arrangement.
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  695. I was just mentioning that in my own comment! I've read "My Brother's Keeper" and it's a terrific book and a real cautionary tale.
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  696. Prove it.
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  697. How is it that I've been intrested in for years in American mansions and the people who lived in them yet have never heard of this place? --- My favorite part of the mansion is the stair landing that also served as a library. I like seeing a place serve more than one purpose. I work at a university that has a building with one of the staircases at the end of the building. There is a landing with floor to ceiling windows looking right into the branches of a tree. Years ago I would use those stairs and think what a great sitting room that space could be. Now? It's accessible only in the event of an emergency escape, a wonderful space used and enjoyed by no one.
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  698. I want to know what's going on with the condensation on the windows of the second apartment. I can see that being a problem.
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  699. You're right , Cash: "Naps are amazing". For some reason I sleep much better in the daytime than at night. As someone old enought to be your dad: You look so tired. Please make time for yourself to rest. That down time can actually be the best use of your time. As much trouble as you're dealing with at least it wasn't worse: no one was injured or worse from falling debris, no one was electrocuted from the mixture of water and electrical equipment.
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  700. I like having the bookshelves there in the hallway! Very handy especially now when some libraries may be closed and books are so expensive to buy. Cash or anyone else watching: is that common in New York to have a kind of Little Free Library in an apartment building?
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  701.  @SL-lz9jr  Thanks!
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  702. I have to disagree: clearly the owner of the dog wasn't making good decisions before the dog attack and can't be trusted to do so afterward.
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  703. After so much was removed from the house, was anyone living in it?
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  704.  @wombat5252  Maybe someone else is but, I'm not willing to live in a space that requires a ladder indoors for cleaning windows. Then there's the matter of getting the ladder: buy it and store or borrow it...from where? I have better things to do than bother with the logistics that go with impractical windows.
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  705. Always a pleasure to watch your videos, Cash. Have a great holiday and may 2021 be your best year yet, a year of health, peace, success and satisfaction.
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  706. Wow! A wonderful place, Cash. It must be fun to simply look around such a place. Also this might be a topic for one of your Cash Jordan Shorts or maybe people reading the comments can just answer this for country cousins like me who used to think that "thing" and "thang" were separate words: what is meant by New York terms such as downtown; mid-town, and uptown and even more specific terms such as mid-town east?
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  707. 6:50: "I guess in this corner you could do something". Of course you could something! That's your shrine space!
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  708. Very interesting mix of authors! Many of these are new to me here in the U.S.---I'm a big fan of Barbara Pym. Her book "A Glass of Blessings" is actually at my bedside right now. I know it will be a good read. There are so many excellent writers and so many excellent books out there that were not written in English. You've gotten me interested in authors whose work is now accessible to me through translation.---Too there are so many good books that were written and published decades ago, whose authors may have since passed, but are still good books to read. I'd like to encourage people to look into older books that may be unfamiliar to them to and to discover the writers that maybe their grandparents or great-grandparents read fifty or sixty years ago.
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  709. Keep the car going and taked the protesters for about a one-mile ride then leave them there.
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  710. You don't just "get over" ongoing abuse, betrayal and trauma. Way more complicated than that.
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  711. Sometimes in old movies or TV shows, usually comedies, or even cartoons, there might be a scene in which a man approaches a woman she says, "Have we been introduced?" I'm from the 60's and 70's and the impression I have is that in the past when things were more familiar, you didn't speak to someone you didn't know.
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  712. Off topic but I wonder what kinds of interesting items could be found in the backyard. Maybe old coins or antique bottles or other artifacts from the past. Hopefully no artifacts that had a first and last name!
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  713.  @Dr.Yalex103  Along with the issue of the inbreeding there was and maybe still is the issue of hemophilia among royal families. To the best of my understanding and recollection, Queen Victoria carried the gene for hemophilia which was passed to her daughters who married into other royal families of other branches of the same royal family and where the condition manifested itself in males. The author of a book I read about Victoria's daughters said the hemophilia spread like "wildfire" among royal families. I believe the hemophilia gene in Victoria was simply an anomaly rather than the result of inbreeding.
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  714. I once saw TV show about imploding casinos in Las Vegas and one of the casinos, not a major one but more patronized by local people, was said to be so unstable by engineers that just a strong wind could have brought the building down. As I recall the casino was maybe 10 stories high and probably had hotel rooms also. I'm wondering about the structure in this video, how it would do if a storm came through or just on a windy day. I don't know much demolition but I don't think it would be that difficult to bring down the rest of the Dallas building especially as it's already leaning in the direction it was intended to fall.
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  715. This channel is new to me, just came up in my recommendations today. This has been a breath of fresh air---the kind you get without a mask---because I see that others have come to realize that the public has been lied to and scammed and duped about Covid 19, that the pandemic is plandemic and a scamdemic. The public has been and is becoming more discerning about Covid (which IS real but the response has been hugely excessive and destructive) and how words and terminology and numbers are kept obscure and are manipulated in order to scare and imprison the public and to damage the economy in multiple countries. Simply the public has been wising up. I work at a university here in the U.S. and in my specific workplace there had to go through extensive and intensive training from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences before I could come back to work and I was taught that MASKS DON'T WORK. The minimum device to protect people from the virus is an N95 respirator. Anything less is useless. I was told a mask may help only in that it may remind the wearer not to touch their face. Even after that at my specific workplace on the campus we still are required to wear masks and the university has a rule that masks have to be worn on campus in most situations. Also an e-mail from the university was sent out and had a question about What-do-I-do-if-I-see-someone-not-wearing-a-mask? The answer was that there was no specific guideline at this time but I'm guessing it will be some kind of snitching. The university already has a plan for that so that "micro-aggressions can be reported so I'm expecting the same for those not wearing a mask; some way to report them.
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  716. She's men not giving up their subway set to a pregnant woman. Ma'am, did YOU give up your seat for a pregnant woman?
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  717. Twenty bucks for a burger? Thanks but, I'll just brown-bag it with peanut butter and jelly. Way-cool apartment! I agree, Cash: that "haunted conversation piece" sideboard (?) really is unusual. I noticed the hinges and it looks like the front of the right-hand side swings out. An unusual piece of furniture.
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  718. When I see this old house I think of what has been lost. I've seen the movie "Washington Square" which takes place when a house such as this one would have been 30 years old at the most and when I compare what the original interior must have been like to the stark mostly-whiteness of what is now there I just feel sad. I wonder how many carved pillars and arched doorways and pocket doors have been removed. In fairness, though, since the house had been used for business, many of the original interior fixtures and features may have been removed many years or been too worn out to keep. We can be glad that this house from so far back in New York's history is still standing.
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  719. Terrific video, Mike...as always! Not simply a well done and entertaining production but educational as well. If you ever decide to change occupations you'd make a great teacher!
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  720.  @greeneyedsoutherngirl6468 "East coast upper class accent" as in economic/social status, not value as human beings. "Upper class" is a very common term. I'm a little surprised you don't seem to be aware of such everyday terminology.
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  721. so which of these is "...an illegal NYC apartment"?
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  722. "...selfish or that you just don't like women". If a guy who wants to halves on a meal doesn't like women then why is he asking one out at all.
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  723. Privacy and solitude are great but as I'm approaching 60 and have had the experience of being alone in my place after surgery I've become aware of the value of having someone else around in case of illness or accident. I would like to share a place with someone/s and I think there can be an arrangement where there's a balance of space and time for oneself and of interacting with other people. If the people sharing a place have the same priorities I'm sure something can be arranged that will work for everyone.
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  724. More congratulations from me! 15,000 and on your way to 20,000! Your videos are so well done and so informative that I can see how you attract more and more viewers and subscribers. I don't recall who it was that made this observation but I'll pass it along: the name Britannic was more likely than Gigantic because just after the Titanic sank, the Imperator, a much a larger ship than the Olympic-class liners, was launched to be followed by two more even bigger. To name a liner Gigantic when there were larger liners wouldn't have made much sense. Britannic really was the better, more logical choice. Have a wonderful time in Sidney!
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  725. Loved it, Mike! What a pleasure to watch and listen to your videos. Though not mentioned here (maybe in a sequel?) my favorite transformation is that of the Ile de France after World War II with the Liberte a close second. I may have mentioned before that the Arundel Castle was intended to be the liner in the movie "The Last Voyage" but, for some reason, the Ile de France was used instead. It would have been great if the Dominion Monarch had had a longer life. I've imagined her becoming a Chandris liner, but I suppose turning all that cargo space into passenger space was more complex than using ships that were already liners with only limited cargo space.
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  726. Something that may have worked against Betty's acting career was her strong Southern accent.---I've seen the Betty Page look in the movies "The Crying Game" and "Pulp Fiction". It's been a while but I believe that singer Debbie Mazar, if I have the name right, had the Betty Page look also.
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  727. Correction: Bettie not Betty.
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  728. Thank you Cash and Mrs. Jordan and Violet for taking us along with you! ---Good info too about the outlet mall. I'm here in Bloomington, IN, (mini-Manhattan) with the Indiana University students moving in in big numbers for the first time since of August of 2019 and the population increasing by about 40 K. I'm just proceeding with caution for now and enjoyng the trip with the Jordans!
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  729.  @alicewolfson4423  Good to hear from a fellow Bloomingtonian Cash viewer!
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  730. Actually no. As I recall from geology classes, rocks are igneous (volcanic) along with sedimentary and metamorphic.
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  731. I had a college roommate for less than one semester back in the 70's. He was the most sadistic and also the most snobbish person I've ever met. I don't know if he had security issues about relationships but he was quite overweight and maybe that was an issue. My roommate loved elaborate and even cruel practical jokes. I pranked him back one time and he was furious. I moved out that night and said for years that it wouldn't surprise me if I turned on the TV and learned that my ex-roommate had bodies stashed in his house. I've done a lot of changing and growing in the decades since and I hope my ex-roommate has also. I haven't heard anything bad about him, but I wouldn't want to see him again and I wouldn't be alone with him.
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  732. It's always interesting, Cash; we're not just entertained but informed and educated from your videos. I'd like to know more about that places with the books in front! I want to know about books even where I don't live! I can think of about ten Little Free Libraries in my area but I'm having a six-month book ban because I already have too many books! P.S.---I like the reading room/library in the apartment building and the apartment is great but those bathroom colors...well, not quite for me!
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  733. The disclosure may depend on where you live. I live in Indiana and a co-worker of mine was also a realtor. She told me that realtors aren't required to tell possible buyers that someone died in a house but are required to say if they are specifically asked.
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  734. "...;that's not my son". If that's not your son who is it?
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  735. I may be the odd viewer out here but: Great apartment but too much terrace for me. It looks like the view is more terrace than the surrounding community and the views of Manhattan further away. For most if not all of the apartment you have to go outside to really see the view. I would actually do better with the apartment upstairs.
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  736. Maybe someone can confirm this but my recollection is that Henry was a heavy smoker (maybe the one who go the English royal family started on cigarettes?) and because Victoria had a rule against smoking in the house, he would sit in a fireplace and light up so the smoke would go straight up the chimney!
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  737. The woman with boobs up to her collar bones: I wonder if she dresses and jiggles like that in front of her father. The woman going on a first date with a Christian man: and she wears a dress that gives the illusion of being see-through. Did she think that would lure him in or something? She told him that she's not the one for him.
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  738. My mother grew up in Gary in the 30's and 40's and I believe that for part of that time she lived on Pierce Street.
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  739. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some artifacts and relics of Brooklyn history in the ground under that patio in back. Maybe old bottles, some coins, a piece of silverware or two. Perhaps the foundations of an even older building. It's not impossible that someone from a few centuries ago might even be buried there.
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  740. I noticed how much bathroom space is mirrored, maybe a little too much. I read a comment once that are some things you do in a bathroom that you don't want to see yourself doing. After being locked out of my apartment just once I started wearing an extra key around my neck. The only time I remove it is when I get a haircut. That maybe a little extreme for some people if I need a key, I have it.
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  741. A wonderful place. My worn-out knees can't handle a three-story home but someone is going to love this place. I especially like how well laid out and organized it is.
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  742. A wonderful space, so well thought-out.
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  743. All that space but the stove is against a wall on one side. Not necessarily a deal breaker for me but a stove that doesn't give you elbow room on either side is not a good arrangement.
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  744. Women, when you put your hands on someone in an aggressive, abusive manner you are not a woman in the eyes of the law, you are an assailant and men can defend themselves against assailants.
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  745. Nice apartment...mostly...but that big open space to me is a waste of space. Too toward the inside of the building and overlooking the kitchen there was an alcove (?) on the second level that might be an odd storage space in an odd location. The bedrooms are so narrow. The location is good, the apartment is nice but odd. It will work for someone but it's not quite for me.
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  746. An appalling loss and waste. I'm not all enthusiastic about Victorian houses, but this one really was pleasing to the eye. The house reminds me of how I pictured the Crain mansion when I read "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson.
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  747.  @warren_r  Thanks for the heads-up. I'm hadn't noticed the shallowness of the sinks but I'm going to be on the lookout---and avoiding that kind of arrangement if I ever move!
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  748. I don't recal where I heard or read it, but someone made the wise comment that when a parent badmouths the other parent in front of the child, the parent making the negative comments is insulting half of the child's DNA.
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  749. I haven't been to a movie theater since 1997 when I saw "Titanic". I'm an ocean liner enthusiast and even I didn't like the movie. I don't like the smell of movie theaters. I had to cover my ears during parts of "Titanic", it was so loud. I don't want to see sexual content or hear vulgar language. I dislike the way Oscar winners take advantage of their winning to talk about causes they are involved with, however worthwhile, or to make political commentary or just plain insults. Funny thing is, I once wanted to be an actor. Now I'm happy to leave it to others. Rather than go to a movie theater I'll happily spend time with a good book.
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  750. I really haven't looked into the JFK assassination, haven't read or watched much. There are so many theories and so many people who have been called suspects along with Lee Harvey Oswald that, as with Marilyn Monroe the previous year, I don't think we're going to know what really happened and who was involved. An interesting theory is that President Kennedy wasn't doing what others wanted him to do (Mary Meyer made a comment about this but wasn't very specific), becoming too independent, and was killed by the CIA. One theory involving organized crime sounds like it may have substance. As far as the number of shots fired, I really don't know but I'd say that more than one shooter is a reasonable possibility.
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  751. That I don't know about. The name Jean Hill isn't familiar to me.
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  752.  @Crezelltree4261  This is simply one thread among many comments, not the whole discussion.
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  753. That's a great idea of a Mauretania/Britanis. This is just a guess on my part, but I'm wondering if Chandris chose the smaller liner that had been the Monterey because the Cunard liner would have proven to eventually be too large of a ship for the immigrant service that would eventually taper off and end and with a future in cruising being unsure at that time. Maybe the Mauretania was just more ship than Chandris wanted to take on; one big (and really not that big) liner being enough for them. I've also wondered about the Dominion Monarch going to Chandris, but again the D.M. might have been a little too large and then there would be the cost and trouble of turning a lot of cargo space into passenger accommodation. It's fun to speculate on what might have been. I like to say that one of my favorite games is Ocean Liner What-If!
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  754. Nope. No sell, landlord. I don't mind old but this place is dirty. What else is an issue that we didn't see? Bugs? Rodents?
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  755. Not for everyone what with the amount and kinds of things in the house but Ms. Von Teese's house is remarkable that there are so many unusual things in it, so well-presented and so much an expression of the woman who lives there.---I would have liked a good look at her home library to see what books Ms. Von Teese has as books are big part of my life.---Also: the mannequin (?) head with the hat on it must be that of Jean Harlow the "blonde bombshell". ---My favorite part of the house is the bedroom, calm and restrained in style that I like but not box-like minimalism.
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  756. In the town where I live I've seen spray-painted graffiti about protecting and helping sex workers and pole dancers. I say, how about help them to get OUT of sex work and into something that isn't destructive and dangerous? The graffiti is so out-there that I've wondered if the whoever made it is joking or actually serious. In this town: probably serious.
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  757. I think the "lady" in this video needs to be served with a restraining order.
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  758. This apartment would be terrific for me! A big part of my home entertainment is reading. That wall opposite the bed would have bookshelves. It would be a pleasure to wake up and see rows of books. I love the view. Mix that with a comfortable armchair and I'm good to...well, not go but to stay put. Any information about laundry in the building?
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  759. "...not in a garish or overpowering manner". I'd say that's a good description. OK, throw copies of Architectural Digest at me, but I find the interior of the house way too busy and even landscaping seen in old pictures is to cluttered. In one picture if looked like the front of the house was largely covered with ivy. I didn't care for any of the inteiors, but the outside is quite nice.
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  760. We don't know if the man came back to clear it later. Too, as mentioned below, storm drains will have to be cleared out over and over. It's not one-and-done. I clear out storm drains near where I live and they don't stay clear once leaves, sticks and debris are removed. It's an as-needed task.
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  761.  @mvaiks  We don't know if the man was back later or not or if someone else did more clearing later. Of course more debris will be there as the water keeps draining. I doubt the man in the video had the freedom to keep standing there and clearing the drain over and over when he probably had other obligations. Too no one was stopping other people from assuming some responsibility.
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  762. I've worked in academic survey research doing phone interviews. Very interesting to learn about how you were involved in finding out about potential jurors.
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  763. No sink sprayer? No sink sprayer? My world is collapsing, imploding on itself! I'm going to have lie down. I think I may swoon!
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  764.  @johnp139  I can't argue with that. I know and acknowledge Covid is real while still believing the response to it is far out of proportion.
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  765. That is extreme.
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  766. THANK YOU, Cash, for sharing your own experiences and outlook about work, success, failure---and success from what seems to be failure. In the 1959 movie "The Best of Everything", about people in the New York publishing business, Amanda (Joan Crawford) says to Greg (Susie Parker), "Greg, I've had more experience than you and for experience to be of value someone, somehow must learn by it". In an ad for her Master Class, author Margaret Atwood said, 'You become a writer by writing. There is no other way. So do it. Do it more. Do it better. Fail. Fail better." This can apply to so many people involved in so many pursuits. Cash, I KNOW that what you said today will be a blessing in the lives of many people.
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  767. I find the view from the apartment to be dreary and those open staircases that are something like ladders make me uneasy. With all that room I would have liked to have seen a washer and drier but overall a great place for the right person. Not interested in bars but if there were second-hand bookshops nearby or a branch of the library; one nice, family-style restaurant and a nearby grocery store I would be a happy resident!
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  768.  @givememore4free  I recall that. I just think that a place that big could have its own washer and drier. Still having those appliances on the same floor isn't a bad arrangement and having a couple of each would have been even better.
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  769. The only time I can think of someone reading a book in a bar was Diane Keaton in the movie "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" back in the 1970's! And she was reading a Bible.
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  770. Ex-wife wants to do things as a family. Isn't she the one who broke up the family in the first place?
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  771. What a privilege and an honor for those in the studio to be there with Dame Judi for this glorious live performance of the work of Shakespeare.
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  772. I'm remindede of the serial killer, I think he was called the Green River Killer, who pretended to be a police officer and would kill prostitutes. Maybe another similar killer was stopped before he really got going. I wonder if there are any cases of missing young women in the area where this event took place.
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  773. I wonder how many good police officers we're losing due to leaving the force and getting other jobs because of the hatred generated by the bad officers.
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  774. The woman who said men don't know when a woman is bending over backward to make his life easier: I suspect she doesn't know when a man is bending over backward to make HER life easier. I also suspect she was single at the time she made that video and that she still is single.
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  775. I have a book of Edward Weston's photographs and one of them is of a 19th century house simply called the Crain house. Behind the house are big hills but the house is not on a hilltop but at the bottom of the hills. I wonder if Shirley Jackson knew of this house and if the house was partial inspiration for the house in her novel. Too I read an article once about an historical mansion in maybe New York state or in New Jersey. I don't remember a lot but I do recall there was what might be called a courtyard that served no purpose and I think just one normal-sized door opened onto that space within the mansion. That and maybe other things got me thinking about Hill House and whether Shirely Jackson knew of this house.
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  776. Dr. Barbara Ehrenreich who wrote the book "Nickel & Dimed -- On Not Getting By in America" gave a lecture called "The Power of Negative Thinking" and said that it's OK to be mad about change and loss and disruption that have come into your life through circumstances beyond your control. That lecture may still be available on YouTube. I had severe anxiety as a child, didn't get any help. Things got better then in college I became phobic, dropped out, and went for years being looked down as a bum living with his mother. Gradually I was able to rejoin society after a long time though lived at home, but helped out a lot. I would be surprised if people did NOT hold me up to their children as an example of failure. If those people knew what I went through... Corporate propaganda: When a new management company took over the apartment complex where I now live they sent out an email saying, "Welcome to the [company name] family!" Family? Do you management slumlord people think we're so stupid that we don't realize that all you want is our money...for which you provide a location that is dirty, maybe even moldy and where less than half of the laundry room appliances work properly?
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  777. I remember the case you're thinking of. There was a boy named Stephen who was kidnapped and lived with the two men who abducted him. Stephen later escaped with another boy who had just been kidnapped. Stephen later died in a motorcycle accident. His brother was mentally ill and became a killer but was not Ridgeway. Stephen and his brother were a different family, the name may have been Stanger.
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  778. Thanks for taking us along on the family vacation, Cash, and thanks for showing us your own apartment. I like those older ones. Much of my growing up was in a 1926 house so I'm accustomed to living with the fixtures and features of the past.
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  779. Great video. I'd like to add some more information. If a monkey is in the house it's very likely to stink. Too monkeys can be mean and aggressive. I don't have direct experience with them but have heard people talk about the drawbacks of pet monkeys and have seen monkeys just among themselves and monkeys seem to be the only animal capable of intentional cruelty. They're cute but vicious and smelly.
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  780. I don't know if it was used in prepration for this excellent video, but there's a very interesting book about Ida Wood called "The Recluse of Herald Square -- The Mystery of Ida Wood" by Joseph A. Cox and published in 1964. Recommended reading! --- Also, is the hotel still standing? It would be fun to visit the rooms where the ladies lived for so long and, according to the book, never got direct sunlight.
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  781. It used to be a woman wouild tell her married daughter to always have a little money the husband doesn't know about. Now we live in a time when a husband needs to have a LOT of money his wife doesn't know about or at least can get access to.
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  782. "....a shrine to your god". And the mantlepiece shrine would have a little icon of Cash Jordan the patron saint of New York renters. I can tell that this apartment is now in its third century. It would be fascinating to look at this space down through the years to see what the interior was like and to see the people who lived there. I'm guessing the floor plan has changed a lot over time. Maybe the apartment was once a bedroom area or parlor?
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  783. I like those New York movie apartments from the past. Not as upbeat but I like Rosemary and Guy's apartment in "Rosemary's Baby". That apartment that was originally the rear portion of a larger apartment would be great for me!
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  784. I picked up on that. Not intended but a new term just got added to my vocabulary!
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  785. Some appealing old places but I have an issue with stoves and sinks that are right next to a wall or refrigerator. It's awkward and, when it comes to stoves, I have a concern about fire safety when there isn't open space on either side of the stove.
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  786.  @kridder1018  Thanks!
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  787. 96 or 116, I hope I don't live anywhere near that long. -- Very interesting documentary. Does the house in which Mrs. Lewson lived still exist? Either way it would be interesting to see what is on that site now. --- It's been a while but I read a very good historical fiction novel called simply "Havisham" which is the story of Miss Havisham from "Great Expectations". Highly recommended!
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  788. I agree. Too having the bathroom so close to where food is prepared is an unpleasant arrangement.
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  789. Pretty nice place. Even better if there's a laundry room in the building. It seems like a small point but I like how the stove has some open space on either side. I don't like for stoves to be next to something with the the burners not even a foot away from the side of a refrigerator or cabinets or just the wall. For safety and convenience with a stove I like having some room on both sides.
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  790. It would be interesting to know more about Stella (I didn't quite understand her last name) the typist here. Her brain must have worked extra fast. I wonder how fast she could read, whether a letter at work or simply a book for enjoyment.
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  791. It must have been so much fun for Amanda Carlton to create this living space and I wouldn't be surprised if it's an ongoing work in progress. Her interest in re-purposing is good old-fashioned Yankee thrift and common sense for the 21st century. I like how Ms. Carlton is so relaxed and down to earth that she can talk about bathrooms even while sitting on the lid of the toilet. Good for you, Amanda! This is an apartment you can be comfortable in for a long time without ever leaving it.
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  792. Now that's a vivid description! And accurate!
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  793. I'm one of those slightly ambidextrous lefties: I had left-handed scissors but got accustomed to right-handed ones; I've always held a baseball bat right-handed; my handwriting leans right though occasionally I write back-handed with the writing leaning left. I've practiced writing right-handed after learning about how Nicole Kidman learned to write right-handed when she portrayed Virginia Woolf in "The Hours". In my workplace I noticed we had not only a significant number of left-handed men but of gay left-handed men. I also volunteered for a Red Cross Book Fair in my town and many of the Red Cross people, both staff and volunteers were left-handed.
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  794. Nuh-uh: toilet in the space of a phone booth and no sink? Forget it. Still it's fun to see who well people are able to utilize small spaces. Maybe some of them could come to where I live and give me some pointers!
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  795. With me it's books. I have the conflict of having so many books that they cause me stress but I really want to read them before I give them away---and I'm a slow reader! I've had some purges in the past when I gave away books I hadn't even read and once I started the process it wasn't all that difficult. I may be doing that again soon. Apart from books and having a lot of pens that I find at the university where I work I would be considered a minimalist.
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  796. What a beautiful country! I'm turning into a Japan Fan! I wasn't aware that there was so much space that is still forested and I love the efficiency and cleanliness of Japanese towns. I probably mentioned it before, Cash, but since you and your viewers are interested in apartments, you might enjoy the 1993 hair-raising, blood-run-cold Japanese novel of the supernatural"The Graveyard Apartment" by Mariko Koike. A father and mother and young daughter (sound like anyone we know?) move into a new apartment building by an old cemetery and strange things happen from the get-go. Things don't go in ways the reader might expect and the tension and suspense build and build until...well, no spoilers here!
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  797. Probably not an issue for many people but I dont like a stove that is next to a wall or the side of a refrigerator. I'm much more comfortable when the there is even a little counter space on either side of a stove. I think it's safer and also easier to keep the area clean.
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  798. That first clip is truly disturbing. That woman is a nasty, crazy, controlling bit of business who is setting a horrible example for her children who are watching and hearing her. I wonder if she was the one who initiated the divorce. Nasty as she is when dropping off the children, it must be better than living with her. It must be a joy to be even partially free of her.
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  799. The woman gloating about her dying husband and he was not the father of the sons? He died and she was left penniless and I think she was facing homelessness the last I heard from/about her on You Tube.
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  800. A group of people in a house that has no furniture but that does have fentanyl. I wonder if this some kind of drug house and/or squatter situation.
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  801. Great places! IThis country cousin might consider overcoming being weirded-out by heights. The pantry in the first apartment has so much space I could use part of the pantry as a bookcase!
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  802. Works for me.
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  803. It's now many years ago, maybe late 70's or early 80's, when a lifeboat from the Andrea Doria washed up on a beach in, I think, New Jersey here in the U.S. In a similar incident a lifeboat from the Britanis (sank on the way to the scrapyard when she had the name Belofin) some years after the liner sank washed up on shore which I think was in Africa.
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  804. A baseline: same here, Cash. If I could afford something big and expensive and lavish I would still be happy with a modest one- bedroom apartment. Maybe a two-bedroom for a roommate as I'm getting older and am more conscious of the risks of being alone. If I did live with someone else there would have to be space for privacy for us both.
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  805. My favorite part of the apartment: the hourglass!
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  806. For some people this tiny house would be great. Have at it. Not for me, though. Also I remember a tiny house resident making the comment that some of the houses have a smell when they don't have a regular toilet. I find this place too small, too restricitive in what I could do and I wouldn't feel safe alone in an isolated location.
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  807. It's been a long time now but I remember reading that actress Nicole Kidman, who is left-handed and who played the role of Virginia Woolf in the movie "The Hours", was in a scene that showed Virginia's hand close-up as she was writing the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and that Ms. Kidman was told someone else's hand could be shown for the close-up because Virginia was right-handed. Nicole Kidman was so involved and immersed in playing Virginia Woolf that she, Ms. Kidman, refused to have someone else right hand shown for the close up so she learned to write right-handed just for those few moments of film. I'm a leftie and after reading about Nicole Kidman, I've practiced here and there writing with my right hand. I found that it's not just using a different hand but even having my upper body in a different position when I write with my right hand.
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  808. Outstanding production! What a mixture of fact and fiction and so well thought out, such attention to details. Have you ever read John Maxtone-Graham's book "Crossing to Cruising"? Only a few pages long but one chappter, "The Once and Future Normandie" has a fiction section that tells about the Normandie's time as the Lafayette during World War II, her return to peacetime service and her original name and what happened during her the rest of her career that lasted until 1966. I never met him but I know that John Maxtone-Graham would have loved this video of yours!
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  809. Interesting little room off the kitchen. I agree: maybe not a bedroom but could be a great home office. Too with the indirect light coming through the sliding glass, that room could be a retreat space for meditation or prayer or to just enjoy the quiet and solitude. And I know what you're thinking Cash: someone could up a shrine in there!
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  810. Cash, I liked that glimpse at 1:06 of the book of tabloid covers. Over the years I've kept a mental list of my favorite scandal sheet/tabloid headlines that I've seen at the store: PET'S REVENGE --- LITTLE GIRL POSSESSED BY SPIRIT OF DEAD POODLE; I GOT AIDS KISSING THE BLARNEY STONE; GIANT CONDOR CAPTURES JET LINER --- FEEDS PASSENGERS TO ITS YOUNG; DRACULA IS ALIVE! Good times...good times.... Great to see the famous Strand bookstore and you picked a good book. The late Michael Dorris was an outstanding American writer. The apartment six floors up is too much for my aging, arthritic legs but that view: wow! What a pleasure it would be to just sit there and look out at scenery.
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  811. No exaggeration to say that this is a tragedy. Over the Labor Day weekend in the town where I live a man, for reasons still unknown, shot and killed his son, daughter and wife and then himself. Landon Clifford at least did nothing to physically harm others. I didn't know him but that seems to be consistent with his character even while being affected by medications. His death has caused great suffering but even though I never knew Landon I'm sure he didn't realize that it would and that he would have acted differently if he had known.
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  812. I live in a university town in the Midwest U.S. and the rents are sky-high. The rental market is more and more geared to August-to-August leases because so many renters are college students. I USED TO have an October-to-October lease. I live in a small efficiency apartment and pay a rent that elsewhere could get me something much larger. Just to rent a room can cost up to $700 per month. I refer to Bloomington, Indiana, as "mini-Manhattan". There are thousands of luxurious rental units geared toward college students who have to come from affluent families. I took college classes starting in 1979 and lived in a 10 by 10 cinderblock dorm room that had a phone box connecting with the room next door and the bathroom down the hall. There is now some on-campus student housing where residents are notified by computer when their laundry is done! When it comes to working people, many have to live far away from their jobs so as to have affordable housing.
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  813. I know Dylan Mulvaney naturally has what might be called a slight build, but he's so thin that I'm wondering if he has anorexia along with his other problems.
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  814. Many years ago Winston Churchill said something similar to your comment. I don't recall the exact words but it was that fascists would deny being fascists or accuse others of being fascists. And we have it now...
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  815. 100 K subscribers! Congratulations, Cash. You have enough subscribers to fill a sports stadium. Way 2 go! Wonderful apartment in a way-cool location. I'm not a TV or sofa person so there's plenty of room for me to have a comfortable armchair and bookshelves, a writing table and a small table or desk for the computer.
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  816.  @bluehappiness10  Ted Bundy had a car and could get around. In Vanity Fair magazine in 1994 singer-actress Deborah Harry told about being abudcted by Ted Bundy and getting away from him and this happened in the New York area.
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  817. Interesting that Ms. Kendall and her daughter both had brown hair parted in the middle. I've heard that Ted Bundy killed women with brown hair parted in the middle. The young woman who was the first victim is shown with her hair parted on the side, but I wonder how she wore her hair at the time of her death.
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  818. I'd say both apartments are equally good for the person living alone and for roommates. Being from a small town (we lived in the city limits but had a soybean field behind our house!) I'm a little off-kilter seeing a view higher than the third floor and not having woods and fields and trees or some combination thereof. I'm old enough now that living alone doesn't appeal to me the way it did when I was young so for safety and for company I'll take the two-bedroom.
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  819. I'd like to see the white paint taken off of the interior woodwork. I suspect that when the house was new the interior was quite different from what it is now. I wouldn't be surprised if the carved wood is even mor elaborate under the paint.
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  820. Yep. That's her and she was left penniless.
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  821.  @washkoskat  I've only seen a little of "The Sentinel". I recall at the end how Ava Gardner as the leasing agent was showing an apartment a young couple and the husband asked about quiet neighbors. The leasing agent said that there was one neighbor "...who is a recluse. She is a nun", and you see how the young woman who is the main character had become the sentinel. Talk about chilling. I love the apartments in "Rosemary's Baby": Rosemary and Guy's apartment both before and after they move in and then Roman and Minnie's apartment and how the two living spaces were once one big apartment and are still connected though the hall closet. I'd love to have one of those reaction videos with Cash responding to the two apartments from his professional and even personal viewpoint. I like both of the apartments myself, there in the errie Bramford apartment building which is a fictional version of the real-life Dakota.
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  822. I could happily make just the Grand Salon my home or one of the bedroom suites. If not for what seems to be a remote location I can see this house being used and enjoyed by many people as a kind of community center. Even before it was mentioned that weddings have taken place in the auto area I was thinking that that space could be used as a church or other house of worship.
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  823. Heartbreaking.
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  824. If you do only a little cooking and no baking and if you can change the shower head and can arrange for privacy in the bathroom this apartment is a good one.
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  825. Cash, your lived-in apartment even with stuff on the floorlooks better than the empty ones. Suggestion: next apartment that has a sofa or bed, take a three-hour nap. You look exhausted. Seriously, please get some rest. I'd love to go back in time and see the second apartment when it was new. It would have been vastly different from what it is now. I wonder if there was a boiler room or coal-burning furnace in there. Maybe also living quarters for a building superintendent.
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  826. Either of these two apartments would work well for me but I lean toward the second one. The second one has all those shelves in that long, low close. I could use that space for a library/book storage area though I would do my reading by the window.
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  827.  @ayeshak6822 I'm not a lawyer but if I rightly understant legal matters the man who was following Ms. Coutts hadn't actually committed a crime--- at least not yet. Too if the skaters went after the man and unmasked and assaulted him then they would be guilty of a crime. It was mentioned that the man had been seen before though that might be circumstantial since his face isn't actually visible. I would be interested to know if there had been rapes or robberies in the area that might be linked to the man in the video. Maybe he just follows women around which is bad enough. I think Ms. Coutts and the skaters did the right thing without going too far. It might have been better for Ms. Coutts to have called the police earlier in the incident but that's not said as a criticism. Without the camera pointed toward him the stalker may have become bolder.
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  828. With all those railings you and the height of the apartment you could save electricity by rigging a clothes line from one loft to another! Very nice place in an odd way but impractical for many people. Too I see a huge amount of open space, the heating and cooling of which has to be paid for but that serves no purpose. I would prefer much, much more floor space for a second level to the apartment.
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  829.  @bkcollectorshop9631  I've actually suggested to Cash in some earlier videos that it might be a good idea for he and his family to leave New York. And I think sooner than later might be best.
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  830. I've read about the British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) and my recollection is that she and her husband whom she married back in 1912 had an arrangement of a joint account, but what each of them earned beyond a certain point or a certain bank balanced belonged to that person. The system worked for them. Maybe it would work for a lot of other couple also over a century later.
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  831. I really hope the woman in this video watches this one to get your input, Ace. She might get a better view and understanding of herself, but I wouldn't be surprised if she's surrounded by women who affirming her behavior and attitudes along with the input of a simp or two. She wants to have her divorce cake and eat it too. Now she's choking on it.
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  832.  @paco7992  I figure it was a mix of people: that some people in Tuxedo Park were hardworking entrepreneurs who had worked their way up while others were born into comfortable lives. Too I never said the residents would farm the property themselves; even someone in reduced circumstances in Tuxedo Park could probably afford to have someone do that work.
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  833. Quite a few years ago now I read a book called "Fourteen Minutes" about the sinking of the Canadian-Pacific Line's ocean liner Empress of Ireland in 1914. Canadian-Pacific, after the Titanic disaster two years earlier, had a rule that crew members were to become so familiarized with the layout of their part of the ship or maybe with the whole ship itself that they could get out onto an open deck even in complete darkness. When the Empress was in a collision with another ship and at night she went over on her side and sank inf 14 minutes with around 1,000 fatalities. Many of the survivors were members of the crew and not because they looked out for themselves and left passengers but because the crew members were familiar with the deck plan and knew where to go while the passengers had boarded only hours before. Crew membes of the Empress of Ireland did what they could for the passengers but there was very little; it was mostly everyone for themselves. Ever since reading that I've encouraged people to become familiar with their surroundings: home, work, school, mall. office building where they have an appointment and to know how to get out. This isn't being paranoid but preventive. There could be a disaster situation or someone committing an act of violence and we need to know how to get to safety.
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  834. Great apartments views that may be even better, but I have no interest in living higher than a fire department ladder can reach. The third floor of a building is high as I ever want to be. Maybe it's just the way the apartments were staged for viewing, but there was a lot of echo in those places and that's not for me.
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  835.  @jeremyepstein7977  I'm glad to hear that that's a law. I've never been in a high-rise fire but I have been stuck in an elevator. I presently live on a second floor and I'm staying with that!
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  836. Overall a nice apartment but I can't get past those built-in bookshelves over the staircase: almost all of the shelves are inaccessible without a ladder and even using a ladder there would be awkward if not hazardous. The shelf part of the apartment is not well thought-out.
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  837.  @susancrawford5927  Good to hear from you and thanks for those thumbs-up!
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  838. Wonderful place! A small drawback is that the kitchen sink has right angles and corners rather than curves. That could be a cleaning issue but the sprayer might take care of cleaning those corners. If you're like me and still have paper documents and file folders, a two-drawer file cabinet could fit under the stairs and next to the kitchen area. For people who really enjoy cooking, the space under the stairs could accommodate a small bookcase for cookbooks.
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  839. The narrow space between the two bookshelves: put in shelves and make the space into a home library.
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  840. Those bathrooms make me think of the holodeck on the starship Enterprise before someone's fantasy situation gets started. I don't see those bathrooms as the setting for a nice, hot, relaxing bath.
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  841. There is an short-story anthology called "In Sunlight or in Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper" published in 2017, edited by Lawrence Block. Two of the many contributing authors are Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King.
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  842. I have around 20 boxes of books I haven't read and maybe a couple hundred more unread books that are not in boxes. I'd put in shelves and turn the loft into a home library then get a comfortable chair by one of those windows or outside and then finally READ the books I've been accumulating for years. A very special Christmas to you, Cash!
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  843. One of my favorite lines is after Angelique who has been dead for six months but without decay comes back to life in her coffin and says to her twin sister Alexis who said the body must be destroyed, "....someone must be destroyed, but it won't be me. It will be you". Then when Angelique has taken Alexis's place she says to Quentin, "Angeliques body must be destroyed...and the sooner the better". That scene is on You Tube along with many other "Dark Shadows" videos.
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  844.  @winros  One died from boxes falling on him, the other died of starvation and dehydration. A horrible prolonged death.
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  845. I've been saying for years that "The Poseidon Adventure" must be partially based on the loss of the Heraklion in 1966, three years before the novel was published that was made into a movie. The Heraklion was a British passenger ship that was sold to a Greek company and given a name from mythology. The ship carried passengers and was made into a ferry as well. The company was poorly managed (I'm not sure about the ship's safety situation) and the Heraklion was lost in a storm in the Mediterranean. The R.M.S. Atlantis was a British liner sold to an international consortium and given a name from mythology: Poseidon. Much of the Poseidon's original Second and Third Class accommodations were turned into cargo space. The ship was badly managed (no ballast) and was lost because of a tsunami, another nature-related situation. The similarities are too many for coincidence. Paul Gallico who wrote the novel had been aboard the Queen Mary in 1937 when she took a heavy list to one side and he was against a dining room window with only glass between himself and the ocean. This was re-created in the first chapter of the novel. The author had wondered what would have happened had the Queen Mary not righted herself and eventually "The Poseidon Adventure" came from this. Mr. Gallico consulted with engineers about a scenario in which a liner could remain afloat, for a while anyway, upside-down. Going by the history of ocean liners and what is mentioned in the novel, had the Poseidon disaster been real, it would have taken place in the early 1960's.
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  846. Why don't just a few people go out into the street and pull the protesters aside and free up traffic?
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  847. The closeness of houses in the U.S. depends on where you are. Some are only a few feet apart, others sit on large lots with plenty of room.
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  848. I love houses and the study of architecture but this place would have been too much for me! A few years ago I read the biography William A. Clark's daugher Huguette, "Empty Mansions". It was fascinating reading. Huguette owned houses and apartments she didn't even use, one of which she never set foot in. Had the house bee kept in the family I wonder if Huguette would have owned it, kept it in good condition but never used it; just having a house maintained and ready for...no one.
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  849. It's been a while since I read the original story but I think the activity of the birds may have been connected with the tides. Also a while ago I've read about Daphne DuMaurier herself and my recollection is that there are several versions of how the story originated and I don't recall that she ever said what the story meant. The author may have just left it up to the reader. Since Alfred Hitchcock used only the premise of the story he may have implied meanings that Daphne DuMaurier didn't have in her short story---which is one of the most frightening things I've ever read!
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  850. What a neat place! I love the Japanese rural setting. I have to admit I'm like Blanche from "The Golden Girls": my idea of roughing it is staying in a hotel that doesn't have room service!
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  851. With knowledge of the Bible we can see where this is headed. I'm especially thinking of Revelation 13.
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  852. Along with the rottenness of her false accusations there was her conduct in the courtroom. That young woman is major trouble and to be avoided. What else is she capable of? What else has she already done?
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  853. I don't know if the change in color is intentional but the walls of the primary bedroom look like they have stains extending down from the ceiling.
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  854. Nuh-uh, baby. The first apartment isn't an apartment. It's a rooming house or dorm. I don't know about New York codes but I didn't see a fire extinguisher there so. Fire hazard. Second apartment way better.
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  855. Somewhat off-topic, but my if memory is right, the Wayfarers Chapel mentioned here was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and was where Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay were married in 1957. If someone knows more about this, please add a comment.
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  856. As long as there are big sticks and tree branches lying around, you'll probably always know where Snoop is!
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  857. I like how Jessica Lange at the end used the term "..so-called failures". If you strove for excellence and learned more about and were challenged in your craft and found satisfaction in your efforts then you did not have a failure.
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  858.  @jazzythecat918  Oh, my gosh. That is amazing that Mr. Levit would restrict his own people from living in the houses he built. You have to ask what kind of thinking or "logic" went into that.
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  859. The woman with the blond hair talking about teaching things to her son seems to really mean well, but I think of what I head Dr. Laura Schlesinger say on her radio program once: "It takes a man to lead a boy into manhood".
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  860. Same here: The Bremen and Europa were both sensation liners but I find the Europa to be a little bit more attractive. When you look at the forward superstructure, the bridge front, of both liners you can seem some resemblance to those of the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary. The Bremen and Queen Elizabeth had more vertical bridge front while those of the Europa and Queen Mary had a more stepped appearance. The forward superstructures of the Europa and Queen Mary are so alike that I think of them as ocean liner cousins!
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  861. Maybe I"m missing something, but in the first video it sounded like neither the woman nor the man was all that great.
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  862.  @rickhickman1935  Oh, the irony would be so sweet and delicious! And it would be great to know where these criminals live so people could block their driveways and sidewalks so the protesters couldn't go anywhere.
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  863. Same here: even though I've kept a tell-just-about-all diary since I was 15 and am now 60 the name of my first love? That information goes with me to the grave. Some things are so valuable and special that they are not to be shared.
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  864. VERY interesting comments and observations. This film, though not what Stephen King intended, is remarkable as a stand-alone. In another "Shining"-related video someone posted a comment about the party scene in the Gold Room, that a woman walks by with what appears to be a bloody handprint on the back of her gown. I remember that in "Carrie" there's a scene in which the Miss Desjardin the gym teachers has a bloody handprint on her short pants from the incident Carrie had in the shower in the beginning of the movie. Maybe Kubrick was referencing "Carrie" in some way?
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  865.  @mysteryjunkie9808  Same here! I saw a You Tube video about the Clutter murder case and exchanged some comments with someone who had actually been a visitor to the house. He said that the house is much the same as the Clutters knew, the only significant difference is that the kitchen had been modernized after a fire.
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  866. I've read that about the Queen Elizabeth, that she could acheive 34 knots, but that it was simply too expensive to operate her at such speed.
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  867. What a mess. I have no answers or suggestions. Well, maybe one suggestion: Cash, I've mentioned this before and will do so again now. Maybe you and the family move out of New York? --- I also ride a bike. Temperature-wise my cut-off is 20 degrees instead of the 40 degrees you mentioned. If you ride your bike in temperatures below 40 you will get used to it and it will save money on train fare and possibly be safer as well.
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  868. Please don't go. Gary really is that dangerous.
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  869.  @andyroo9381 I'm not aware of that final-final scene being available anywhere, but some time ago I saw a video here on You Tube that showed black-and-white pictures of this scene being filmed. Also you may see a GWTW picture of Vivien Leigh standing at a gate: that is a still from the missing scene. -- I haven't seen GWTW in quite a while but my recollection is that it shows a picture of Scarlett standing at the gate and that fits in with the deleted scene. -- I read Margaret Mitchell's biography "The Road to Tara" and was interesting to learn that Katie Scarlett was not the heroine's original name in the manuscript. She was called Pansy, but because that was also a derogatory term for gay men the name was changed. -- I' ve also read the Scarlett was based, at least in part, on real-life Viriginia Felton who became the first woman to serve in the Congress or Senate of her state or maybe on a national level. Too Virgnia Felton's husband was a physician and he actually lived the scene at the train station where the soldier were lying on the ground as far as could be seen.
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  870. Good to read a comment from a fellow Hoosier. I'm in Bloomington!
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  871.  @ceeletter5772  You and I are probably thinking of rhe same scene! The lady going up the stairs then the legs dangling in the air and the slipper falling to the floor far below.
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  872. Dr. Grande's video about Ed Gein got me thinking of the fictional character of Carrie White in Stephen King's novel "Carrie". There are some similarities in the real-life and fictional stories: the fanatical mother, a father who is gone early in the child's life, a child who becomes a killer though one of them does so through what might be called supernatural ability.
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  873. Zowie. That first female. Asking if she's not his everything and if he won't make an effort for her while she sits in bed looking a slattern with hairdo from "Far Side" cartoon.
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  874. Thanks for the tour, Cash! You're turning me into an Indiana armchair New Yorker! Bloomington where I live with a huge university a few blocks from the town square in some ways could be a mini-Manhattan with the diversity of people and businesses including restaurants. We even have high rents! I've seen little shopping activity downtown. Someone said our College Mall is "like a ghost town". Macy's there is closing. With Christmas being the make-or-break time for many businesses I won't be surprised if we see more of them closing in the near future.
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  875. Just a guess on my part, but I would say the talent and ability are out there, but just not known or used by those who have it. Maybe those people haven't had the opportunity to discover their abilities.
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  876. The original house is outlandish, what I would call a house on steroids. How could anyone feel at home there?
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  877.  @justjane2070  Thanks for checking!
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  878. The first case here: after the wife made her horrible comments and destroyed her marriage in front of others, wouldn't it be interesting to know what the other people there were saying after the soon-to-be-divorced couple was gone. I can imagine something like, "Can you believe she said that? Well, that marriage is over and she brought it on herself". I wonder also if some wives decided to be extra cautious of their words and extra appreciative of their husbands.
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  879.  @BaibyDoll  True. It's not my house but the arrangement of the bookshelves on that narrow balcony is not well thought out and it really is dangerous.
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  880. I grew up watching diaster movies in the 1970's and was interested in real-life disasters also yet I've never heard of this incident. I want to encourage people reading this comments that it's VITAL to familiarize yourself with your surroundings so you know how to get out quickly and safely in an emergency. This applies to your home; school; workplace; house of worship; places you go for shopping or entertainment. A lot can be learned just by looking around for exits signs and doors; for windows; having an idea of what's outside those points. I'm not talking about living in fear and parnoia but about being realistic and practical. This can simply be a part of everyday life; knowing your surroundings and how to get out of them.
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  881. These videos are outstanding. I've never seen a single episode of "Mad Men" but I still find these videos fascinating. They even get me thinking about what would be said about me if I was a character in the show!
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  882.  @rickstubblefield4685  I wish I could answer your question, but it's been so long that I don't recall the specific details. There may have been something about not wearing running shoes, but instead wearing dress shoes. Whatever the rule was or is, it was really silly. I think it was also a no-blue-jeans job even though employees were never seen by the clients/callers or the public. I wonder if the company lost some good workers because of the ridiculous dress code for people that no one sees. I wonder if the workers now work from home. I'm glad I never got hired!
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  883. The Apostle Paul knew what he was talking about!
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  884. Thank you, Cash and Kunami and Violet, for sharing your family time with us. It was a pleasure. Cash, though you and Mrs. Jordan are both from different places, little Violet made me think of the song "Native New Yorker"!
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  885. For my job I had to go through a LOT of training from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and one of the things I was taught is that masks don't protect us from Covid, that the minimum of real protection is from an N-95 respirator. Still I respect the right of a store or office to require the wearing of masks and I do wear one. The people who work in a business have enough to do without having to get after people not wearing masks and I'm not going to add to their burden. For those who truly can't wear a mask there are alternate arrangements that can be made for doing business somewhere or maybe the could call ahead and explain the situation and work something out with the management. The New England Journal of Medicine has even said that the wearing of masks is just symbolic and is good for reminding people not to touch their face though when I have a mask on I'm touching my face frequently because of the mask.
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  886.  @Nobody11052  Actually I'm the antithesis of a karen. I'm one of the least troublesome people that others will encounter.
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  887.  @ghostscript2044  I hear what you're saying and I respectfully disagree. Masks are just cloth, how can they have only one-way protection? Too the virus can pass through cloth.
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  888.  @Nobody11052  If you'll re-read my original comment you'll see that I simply disagree with masks based on the training I have from a reputable organization. I expressed my views here in a public forum and did so without being disrespectful. I wear masks in places of business, etc. and I do so without complaning to editorializing to the people who work there, out of respect for and courtesy to those people. Simply disagreeing on the efficacy of masks while I still wear them doesn't make me a karen. If anyone is being unpleasant it's you.
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  889.  @ghostscript2044  Yes. Just go to the website for the National Institue of Environmental Health Sciences and go through the training modules/classes that I did for certification. Too one can do a Google search or look around on You Tube for information that goes along with the training I've had. At the same time I suppose that whatever you believe, you can find someone to confirm it. I will continue to belive that masks are of limited or no value, that a handkerchief can do as well without being over one's face and mouth for hours at a time. I've said what I have to say, I don't expect to change the views of anyone in these threads as you will not change mine but we can disagree agreeably, with mutual courtesy and respect. I've expressed my views in what I hope is a mature, reasonable way and now I'm done.
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  890. I watch Cash Jordan's channel about New York CIty apartments. How very many people can afford them is a mystery to me. I live in a university town in Indiana and we have exorbitant rents because of the presence of tens of thousands of college students who have wealthy parents or governments backing them or being able to put the rent onto a student a loan. Working-class people have had to leave town because of the cost and there's a problem getting some jobs filled because possible workers can't afford to live here. Rents keep increasing and hundreds and hundreds of apartments have been or are being built. I'm not in construction and am not an economist, but even I can see that some kind of collapse is coming.
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  891.  @michellesartori6695  What a remarkable story! It's heartbreaking and fascinating also. As I read your comments I was thinking about how the story of the sisters could be in book form. Absolutely: the stories of Ethyl and Win should not be lost in history. Thank you for sharing some of it here!
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  892.  @michellesartori6695  Michelle, THANK YOU for sharing these aspect of the lives of Ethyl and Winifred and also of your former father-in-law. These stories are too valuable to be lost in history. After so much abuse and neglect and trauma it's amazing that the sisters were as involved as they were with community issues. That two people who had been so traumatized trusted you and allowed you into their lives and that you were with your former father-in-law when it was time for him to leave tells me what a wonderful person you are. As you are blessing to others, many blessings to YOU.---Andrew
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  893. I keep seeing sinks and stoves that are up against a wall. For both of those you need elbow room on either side. Other wise you have to be to one side or working from an angle. For me at least, not a good kitchen arrangement.
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  894. Thank you, Cash, for your videos. They are well produced, entertaining and provide valuable information that will make life better for people. You provide a real service to others and it's appreciated. Too I admire the way you also create more opporutnity for yourself in your line of work. Much success to you!
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  895. Great plan: go on social media to talk about how hard you think your life is and how bad you think your husband is while you look like a slattern and reveal how wrong you are.
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  896. Whoa. Hold the phone. Serious ixnay on the third apartment. Did anyone else notice that the refrigerator is up against and blocking the door of the fusebox? Is that safe or legal? Deal-breaker for me. What else is wrong there?
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  897. Is this house in the famous Westmoreland-Portland Place neighborhood? The last bedroom shown is my favorite room of the house; with that indirect light and blue walls it looks like a great place for one of my favorite pasttimes: taking a nap!
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  898. This place is a winner. I liked all of it. Even the stables could be turned into a beautiful residence.
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  899. I have a hunch that many of the people blocking the roads are affluent and consider themselves above the average working person. Too I suspect that what they are doing is really not out of concern for the environment (or else they've been brainwashed to think that) but to break down the economy and bring in a socialistic or even more socialistic, even totalitarian government. What these road blockers don't understand is that if they get what they want, they will be among the first people to be removed, the useful idiots.
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  900. I don't know if it's historically accurate but I recall a 1975 made-for-TV movie called "Who is the Black Dahlia" starring Lucy Arnaz as Elizabeth Short and Ephraim Zimbalist, Jr. as a police investigator.
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  901. Great space! Or maybe I should say spaces. So much can be done here. The one thing I would change is the mirrored closet doors in the bedroom. I do NOT want to see what I look like when I get out of bed in the morning!
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  902. As a privatehome this place was doomed from the start. It looked like a giant nursing home ot me. -- I can see having an elevator there even though it's only three stories high. As a person with arthritis, climbing or descending the stairs would be difficult and painful.
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  903. Wonderfully done video and narration! True that Sylvia Plath had to make a decision about which life-and-career path to take. I had the pleasure of seeing an exhibition of her paintings at Indiana University and learned that Sylvia Plath had serioiusly considered becoming a painter before her deicsion to pursue a writing career. Recently I read "Ariel--the Restored Edition", by Plath, then Ted Hughes's "Birthday Letters" then "Ariel's Gift--Ted Huges, Sylvia Plath & the Publication of Birthday Letters" by Erica Wagner; a great combination of books. I think it should be mentioned that some of the Ariel poems were not published the first time the collection was published not necessarily because Ted Hughes was trying to protect his own image but because some of the poems were directed at other, identifiable people. Also at the time of her death, Sylvia Plath's arrangememtn and selection of poems for "Ariel" may not have been finalized.
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  904. I've never been to New York City, will never go to New York City, but I love those New York CIty apartment buildings. My favorite is the Dakota, but there are so many wonderful structures to admire and enjoy even vicariously. I'd like to live in one of those older apartmens but have it look as it did in maybe the 1950's.
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  905. Louise Brooks, the silent-film actress who later became the acclaimed author of the collection of autobiographical essays "Lulu in Hollywood". One of the memoirs is "Marian Davies' Niece" and much of that section of the book is about being a visitor at San Simeon. If anyone is interested in the Hearst Castle, Louise Brooks' recollections are must reading.
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  906. Making that outdoor corner into a little garden is a nice....or you can turn that space into "...a shrine for your god".
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  907.  @queens6583  Thanks for the information! Now I get it with the bars!
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  908. Well, the house is....interesting. Wasn't there a murder at Belcourt or a death situation with a contested will back in the 1980;s? As I recall, the handyman had become very involved with the elderly lady of the house and got her to go out in society and have a good time but there was concern that he was taking advantage of her. I remember watching an A&E network show, I think it was "City Confidential", that dealt with the case and I'm sure it involved people who lived and worked at Belcourt.
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  909. I think my favorite room was just that simple upstairs bedroom though the whole house is outstanding.
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  910. Exactly! I was going to post a comment about that. If this apartment doesn't have access to a staircase for emergency use then people can be trapped in the apartment during an emergency. I'd want a second, alternate means of getting in and out of there.
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  911.  @georgiasmith7615  For me no stairs for emergency or just for walking up and down means no sale. I grew up watching movies such as "The Towering Inferno" and I won't allow myself to be trapped in a place without stairs no matter how great the apartment.
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  912. In the comments I've seen criticism of the news people for giving the name of the young woman being followed, saying it gives the stalker more information on her but she seems to have come forward of her own accord to make public what happened to her. Too It's possible the stalker already knows who she is and where she lives. After seeing this news story I'm going to be more aware of someone walking closely behind someone else and will even say, "Did you know that person over there is following you?" or if someone comes to me and says they are being followed I'll take that seriously and let the person stay with me as long as they need that safety in numbers.
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  913. Entertainment centers are easy for me: a set of bookshelves and a table for writing and for playing solitaire.
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  914. Cash, you are turning me into a Japan Fan! What a wonderful, fascinating place. Some of the views make me think of my own south-central Indiana. I'm eager for whatever you have next.
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  915.  @roberthaworth8991  We don't know a lot about the day-to-day lives of the Collyers, what may have started the hoarding. Could have been various things, maybe a combination. Some years back I read Matt Paxton's book "The Secret Lives of Hoarders" and he mentioned three things that often occur with hoarders: a high level of anxiety; a painful or traumatic event such as a divorce, the death of a loved one or being estranged from a loved one; a family history of hoarding. When it comes to the Collyers specifically, I wonder if the inbreeding may have been a factor. From watching "Hoarders" I've seen a number of episodes in which the hoarding was triggered by the death of the hoarder's mother.
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  916. Many years ago I read a PEOPLE magazine interview with singer Dolly Parton when she was starting to become well-known even outside of country music. I've always remembered a comment Miss Parton made: "I don't drink nothin' but water". For Lent one year I drank no liquid but water and I lost three pounds in a week. I drink soft drinks only infrequently but had been drinking a lot of milk, plain or chocolate milk. I mentioned once to someone how my legs would make cracking noises when I stood up and I was told that I need to drink more water. Lately I've increased my water intake and I find that drinking water chilled in the refrigerator is more satisfying than water from the tap. I avoid ice water because it can be too much of a shock to the system.
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  917. Very interesting place, Cash. The living space is OK but the kitchen and bath areas just a little too small. Good point: lots of natural light, a real plus for this apartment. I like the building overall.
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  918. The second house for me and in particular the living room. I could spend many happy hours there alone or with friends.
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  919. If they're not text books the books you have in storage could go to library sales, thrift shops, fundraising book sales, Little Free Libraries. An earlier comment suggested selling the National Geographic magazines. Maybe you could get a small amount for certain issues but based on my experience of many years of working for Red Cross and library sales I would suggest just discarding or recycling the Geographics.
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  920. A trip down memory lane! I've done better with pens. I like to write with a fountain pen and am I ever glad for quick-drying ink!
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  921. For me entertainment and relaxation would be just sitting in a comfortable chair and enjoying the view. Add a good book to read when I'm not looking out the window and I'm set!
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  922. Nice little place! I like how the bathroom doesn't have the excessive amount of mirrored surface as in other apartments and doesn't have a mirror in the back of the medicine cabinet, what I think is a weird arrangement. Another plus: though small there's some space on either side of the stove. For reasons of safety and practicality I don't like having the side of the stove against a wall or the side of the refrigerator or cabinets.
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  923. Dr. Grande, I've noticed that people sometimes ask if you might make videos about fictional characters. After seeing your discussion about Ed Gein I'm thinking about the character of Carrie White in Stephen King's novel "Carrie". Carrie was the child of fanatically religious parents though her father died early in the child's life. Carrie's mother was not only a religious fanatic but might also be considered abusive. Carrie was bullied for years by her schoolmates. As a teen Carrie discovers she has telekinetic power and after being humiliated at her high school prom goes on a destructive and murderous rampage. if this scenario isn't too far-fetched maybe it could be the subject of one of your videos.
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  924. Great comments from Ms. Shriver. It appears clear to me that the mainstream media is keeping neglecting to report information on Covid that is unfavorable or inconvenient for people and groups in power. It seems to have been "forgotten" that Covid has a more than 99% survival rate. Covid is real but the situation has been hugely blown out of proportion by those with an agenda. I've come to believe that Covid is used for controlling people. There's a lot more going on than a virus.
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  925. "...after you take a shower. What did you think I was going to say?" Right after that a commercial ad for diapers came up on screen. ....Sigh....
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  926. Cash, I'm getting the sense that you and your family will be leaving New York. Maybe you're not yet at that point of decision but, in your videos I've been getting the impression that your time in that city is coming to an end. On a happier note; I've noticed that the brick building with the gabled roof across the street from the building where your office is located clearly goes a long way back in New York history. That's a structure from the days of shutters on windows and of horse-drawn vehicles.
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  927.  @suzettekath9860  This sounds interesting! I'm going to be on the lookout for "Court of the Stone Chldren". Thanks for the recommendation!
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  928. I WAS WAITING FOR IT! You didn't let me down, Cash: the fireplace/shrine!
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  929. If she broke up with the guy and blocked him even before her girl trip, then how on earth was he to know when she would return even if he wanted further contact with her? I guess he's supposed to be psychic as well as fight for her.
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  930. Ken, this is a way-out coincidence, but here goes: At 11: 47 the surviving chimney of the Hopkins mansion has a shape or silhouette similar to that of the Glass Tower skyscraper in the disaster movie the "The Towering Inferno" which takes place in San Francisco. In the 1974 movie a fire breaks out in the world's tallest building on the night of its dedication.
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  931. Great idea! A library in the house would be great: a comfortable chair, a a beautiful view and a good book.
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  932. All those bookshelves and a sliding ladder? I am IN! Two small points: in a couple of the bathrooms the sink is quite a distance from the "throne". Also I'm a little uncomfortable with the wood flooring beneath the fireplace. It would have been better to have some tile or stone there for fire safety and so the wood doesn't get damaged. The first point isn't a big deal, the second one can be fixed.
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  933.  @taoist32  I should have said I'm in---if I could afford it---and I can't! It's just fun to think about what one could do if money was not an issue.
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  934. I don't know if this could mean anything or indicate something but I've seen photographs of Lizzie Borden's mother and of Lizzie herself. Both had women had strange-looking eyes.
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  935. Great observations! If I go looking for apartments I want you to come along with me!
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  936. Though it was mentioned that the house has bathrooms, was that a chamber pot that I saw by the fireplace in Mr. and Mrs. Twain's bedroom?
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  937. Just now subscribed. What an interesting video! My favorite part is about the Dakota. I'm fascinated by Guy and Rosemary's "Bramford" apartment that is really the back part of the Minnie and Roman's apartment. There's a video on You Tube called "Rosemary's Baby---Closet" in which Guy and Rosemary first visit what will become their apartment. Though published back in about 1978 Stephen Birmingham's book "Life at the Dakota" is fascinating and informative reading.
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  938.  @markippo  Diana had so little privacy that it may have been difficult to do things without being seen. I remember at the time of her death a man who had been homeless talked about how Diana had seen him and paid for him to stay in a hotel for six months. Had that man not told about what the Princess had done for him it might have remained an unknown act of kindess. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other kindnesses done by Diana simply out of caring and concern and with no desire for publicity or praise.
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  939. I've seen some photos of the Tiffany interiors of the White House. If we could have seen those interiors in color photographs...! Not everyone liked the Tiffany style. I've read that when Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House he not only had the Tiffany glass screen removed but ordered it broken into "...a million pieces"! Margaret Truman said that looking at photos of the East Room that had Tiffany elements added to the "Steamboat Gothic" of the Grant era gave her a headache! I have mixed reactions to Tiffany creations, but would sure like to go back in time to visit the White House while it had Tiffany interiors.
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  940.  @vicrothman1402  I'm glad T.R.'s Presidential order wasn't carried out. Is there any informatin about where the screen went and if it still exists?
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  941. I wonder if many people in New York simply take the initiative to clear the storm drains around their homes and businesses. I'm not saying cleared drains would have prevented what Cash discussed here as the sewers are over-burdened, but it can still help if only a little.
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  942. Really enjoyed your video! I was born in 1961 so I was around when "The Addams Family" and "The Munsters" were new, prime-time programs. I was very young but I remember enjoying the slapstick of "The Munsters" but "The Addams Family", with its drier and more sophisticated humor, scared me. Later I came to appreciate both shows. One of my favorite moments in television is from an episode of "The Munsters" when Herman had been seen around town and there was newspaper coverage about a monster being loose. Lily,who of course thought the situation was ridiculous, was in the kitchen with the rest of the ghoulish family around, said, "It just goes to show you, this world is full of weirdos!"
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  943. I suppose those people blocking streets and highways are just never going to realize that nothing good is being accomplished by their behavior and that people just trying to get work and pay their bills are being adversely affected. I wonder if there's some way to block the protesters when THEY are trying to get somewhere.
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  944. Agreed. It went on far too long.
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  945. Wow! What a place and location. Cash, I'm on the lookout for the day you show us an apartment in my favorite New York City building: the Dakota!
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  946. Happy birthday, Mrs. Jordan! Thank you to all three of you for taking us along!
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  947. I noticed the checkerboard pattern to the entrance hall floor. I heard that the checkerboard design or layout has a connection to Freemasonry. Ken, maybe you or one of the viewers knows more about this: is the floor design just for decoration or did Henry Pratt have a connection with the Masonic Lodge?
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  948. It would be interesting to know what the outcome was...or will be if it's in the court system now.
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  949. Cash, it's much the same here in Bloomington, Indiana/mini-Manhattan. The presence of a huge, over-populated university in the middle of town sends rents up and up while blue-collar/working class people can't afford to live in town and while more and more apartments are being built. and at the same time we have many homeless people. I 'm not a builder or economist but even I can see that some kind of economic bubble is going to have to burst.
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  950. Not quite the same topic, but a recommendation for men: is your wife/girlfriend/partner really using birth control? Maybe you could run some water through your condoms to see if any pin holes or needle holes have been made. Maybe some of the surprise babies or "oops" babies are such a surprise or such an oops to the mother.
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  951. The not-a-girl-or-a-boy "teacher" (who BTW is a girl), what kind of school hired her in the first place? Probably some leftist place and I suspect the parents of those poor children are probably in line with the kookiness going on there. --- The woman wanting men's tampons. Do some of these male wannabes realize how feminine they are? I don't know if I could be as nice as the young male employee. I might have just said, "Here's what we have. Buy or not buy something", and left. Or...what would happen if the retail worker said, "There are no male or female tampons. The tampons here are non- binary. We don't have cis tampons".
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  952. Those first two ex-wives: Wow. They mentally unhinged or close to it. If I were a chld I'be scared to be with them. Maybe it's a relief for the children to go be with dad and the stepmother.
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  953. Like in the Monty Python movie: "I'm getting better". Being a Hoosier from rural Indiana I'm not a fan of high places but am finding these high-up places less unsettling and the views here are the wow. BUT....I'm not ready for balconies yet and especially not the kind with transparent barriers! I need a penthouse...on the third floor!
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  954.  @faeriesmak  That's a great plan. I may need to just sit down with my books and go through them one by one and really consider whether I'm ever going to read them, if I really want to read them and do I truly want whatever a particular book could bring into my life. If the answer is "No" those books can be donated and go to someone for whom they're better suited. I think that sometimes we can simply be a bridge by which a book gets to the right reader.
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  955. Both "officers" there need to be fired in my opinion.
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  956. When is this going to be over with? When will the cell door be closed and locked on this "man" and he'll be out of the public's sight and hearing?
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  957. If that tile in the second bathroom isn't a flat surface and has a washboard kind of surface as it appears then it's going to be need a lot of scrubbing to prevent mold. --- I would have gotten the centipede out of the tub and let it go outside.
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  958. Cash Jordan versus Dunkin Donuts: Clash of the Titans!
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  959. I'm a book lover, but I'll choose the parlor as my favorite room...but I would take some books in there with me! --- I believe Father Divine and his organization acquired the Lorraine Hotel which I think came to be known as the Divine Lorraine Hotel. Last I heard the the deteriorating hotel was being restored. Not related to the house, but, Ken, would it be possible to increase the volume of the audio in your videos?
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  960. Seeing the bomber and the people who were near him and how close those people were to death and destruction without knowing it, it made me think of Alfred Hitchcock movies or disaster movies from the 1970's though this was so terribly real.
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  961. I was maybe nine years old when I was inside the West Baden Springs Hotel. It was used for a business school at that time. I have a faint recollection of being a few steps into the area under the dome and looking up at the rooms above us. We didn't see much else and I don't recall anything else of the under-the-dome area. Maybe my young mind couldn't take in such a huge space indoors!
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  962. Lance, I ain't buyin' it. ---Not one admission, mention or acknowledgement of your own wrongdoing, your own criminal, abusive behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more that the public doesn't know about.
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  963. My idea of an entertainment center is a bookcase or bookshelves. I don't need a TV and that long living room wall would be a ideal for unpacking, shelving and organizing the hundreds of books I presently have in cardboard boxes. For me THAT would be FUN!
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  964. I think it's weird to withhold knowledge of the existence of one your children so you can use that child for a surprise/shock value.
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  965. I noticed that too. The house looked seriously run down in some of the photos and the windows in the library seemed to be bending. In one picture it looked like a window had been boarded up from outside.
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  966. My family lived in Crown Point when I was born in '61 but I was born in Gary where my grandparents lived. My father grew up in Hobart, my mother grew up in Gary.
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  967. And I wonder how many of those four children have the same father.
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  968. Hooray for the wonderful people who helped Fig---and for Fig himself!
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  969. Well, that marriage is over.
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  970. Dr. Grande may have mean the first of all the innocent victims.
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  971. To use some old-fashioned terminology: the guy has a few screws loose. And, as you said, his badge should be taken away. What else has he done and what else is he capable of doing?
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  972. I don't know much about rent stabilizing but we could sure do with some kind of rent control in the university town where I live and where the rents are so high that there are working people who can't even afford to live in town. Some businesses don't have employees because potential employees can't afford housing. The raising of rents has to stop somewhere.
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  973. Your comment reminded me of something I read years back and that I wish I could remember in more detail. I read about a man in prison who was a serial killer, I think for imprisoning, torturing and killing other men, and he learned that another man who had committed similar murders was going to be incarcerated in the same place which may have been death row. The first serial killer had expressed his eagerness to meet the second serial killer. I dont want to know what those two may have talked about and probably enjoyed talking about.
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  974. Mike, if you You Tube had an equivalent of Oscar and Tony and Emmy awards, you should have a shelf of them for the quality of your work. --- Also you and your viewers might be interested in the memoir "The Last Voyage of His Majesty's Hospital Ship Britannic" by Reverend John A. Fleming who was a young chaplain on the Britannic. It may have been in that little book or elsewhere that I read about how Rev. Fleming for years dreamed of water flowing down the corridors of the sinking Britannic. Unknown if he and Violet Jessop ever met, but since they were both religious (though one was Catholic and the other Protestant) people maybe they were in church services at the same time.
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  975. John Maxtone-Graham in his book "Crossing to Cruising" has a fascinating fictional section in the chapter called "The Once and Future Normandie" about the Normandie's wartime service as the Lafayette then her return to peacetime service. Mr. Maxtone-Graham's fictional account take the Normandie into the 1960's when she is replaced by the France. Fiction but great fun to read and it's a good account of what could have happened.
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  976. I'm not even in a relationship, but if I was I would secure my computer so that no one else, especially a female SO can do anything to it or with it.
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