Comments by "Uncle Dave" (@UncaDave) on "IT'S HISTORY" channel.

  1. Very good piece on what went on behind the history. You might want to check out Nitro, WV, where during WWI they created a whole town and made explosives. Very interesting story also.
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  2. Miss your opening music. Interesting video.
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  3. Tis’ folly indeed when what was once another’s dream goes against neglectful family, vandals, subsequent owners, tragic events of their own making, weather and the passing time in nature which forever steals a place back to itself. I have seen more of this than I like to admit. Fine job with this video Mr. Socash. Have you considered one on Gilletes Castle?
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  4. Your channel is such a rich resource of NYC history. As a subscriber I really enjoy them. Hope you do a piece on Robert Moses too, a controversial figure but still a great planner of his time.
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  5.  @downychick That is an excellent question! Maybe the dry climate drew all the moisture out of the concrete making them brittle and compromising molecular structure. Exactly what was the chemical composition of the concrete? Certain mixes over time can turn to a powdery dust. Colonial mortar wasn’t always the best. I demoed a collapsing 200 year old house with three chimneys. The chimneys joints were not holding the bricks. They came down with us only touching them with an excavator shovel. I think research determining what happened to the domes would advance our knowledge of possible conditions adversely effecting concrete. Regards the business failure, it sounds like the CEO wanted a landmark structure instead of just a place to manufacture their product. Great video.
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  6. Very nice video. Incidentally, my great grandfather was a trolley car operator in NYC. I still have pictures passed down to me of him in his snappy uniform.
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  7. Silvercup bread was the sponsor for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger TV show.
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  8. Funny this should come up. Wonder Bread is still being made by someone and I bought a loaf the other day in WV. I was expecting that white bread with holes in it but what I got was a very tasty slightly coarse texture bread, quite good. I grew up near Bridgeport, CT and there was a large Wonder Bread bakery there. My Dad was friends with the Manager, John Allen. We made several trips touring it as Cub and Boy Scouts. And yes it smelled great. I never told them my Mom only bought Pepperidge Farm Bread. 🤣
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  9. Good video. Want another to do? Check out the Hawks Nest industrial disaster in the 1930’s in Gauley Bridge , WV where a water tunnel that was originally planned as a water source for a hydroelectric power generation for Union Carbide, was expanded when they discovered pure silica to mine which eventually caused the deaths by silicosis of many many workers. It was a travesty disaster! The tunnel is still there and still operates feeding water from the New River to the power station.
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  10. Great 360 degree presentation! Thank you!
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  11. Roebuck retired to the little beach town ofGulfport, FL where in retirement he built a few FL bungalows that are well preserved today .
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  12. My girlfriend at the time and another couple in our senior year in Norte Dame HS of Bridgeport, CT, attended this fair. Was pretty spectacular! I haven’t forget the fair or my lovely girlfriend either!
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  13. A robber baron is still a robber baron. Most in our industrial history created some kind of order and stability in their particular business but as with any centralized organization of profit and power they were all guilty of one economic and human abuse or another. Reform began with a good head of steam with Teddy Roosevelt and continued later with FDR. The struggle between the two forces inevitably leads to abuses on both sides. The super wealthy billionaires we have now should be looking over their shoulders. Amazon workers want to unionize, and so it goes on. However this time the wealthy elite are a bit more shrewd. People like Bezos make a big mistake when they start building their huge yachts. The smart guys like Warren Buffet still live in their original homes. It’s an interesting story, yet unfinished.
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  14. “Criminally”?????? So you are subject to a jail term and hard time if you under rate this channel? Come on, use a better choice of words. I think the channel is one of the best but I wouldn’t think you should go to jail if you don’t like it. Your exaggeration makes a point but is definitely overboard.
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  15. Does the House have anything like this?
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