Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "History Remembered: Historic Markers" video.

  1. Someone else in the comments mentioned that there seems to be a historical marker in Texas almost every 100 yards. So your comment ties in with that nicely.
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  2. heh I did the same myself. Did you notice how birth markers seem to be placed two miles from where people were actually born? That just struck me as consistently odd.
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  3.  @aust1ntexas235  I don't know if everyone was born in Texas.
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  4. Key West is an interesting place. The beach sucks though.
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  5. The famous Fort Nonsense is in Morristown New Jersey. I've been there. I grew up about 10 miles from it.
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  6. It's free wordage!
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  7.  @SarahDigsHockey  everyone and everywhere has a story.
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  8. We went there with the YMCA camping program I used to get roped into going on every year. My Mom liked a vacation from me every year. That was always an adventure because it was run by disorganized college students. I was there in the 70s and don't remember any talking signs. But it was an awfully long time ago now. I vaguely remember we got a guided tour of one of the battlefields. Pretty country as I can recall.
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  9. Because you're going to be ancient history pretty soon.
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  10. I grew up not far from Morristown, New Jersey so around there every other tree it was claimed George Washington hitched his horse to it at one time, or another. Which lead to some off color jokes about the guy sleeping around a lot. In the town next door they even split a road around one such tree. I wonder if that tree is still alive? Damnedest thing you've ever seen though. A tree smack dab in the middle of the road.
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  11. Brass is $2.08 a pound and bronze is $2.68 today. Those signs have to weigh a good 50 pounds I'd imagine. So that's a payday. ships sailing from the US used to use pennies as ballast. Then on the beach in Africa they'd melt them down into ingots and load them back onto said ships. Because pennies were worth 2 cents each in scrap copper price. Double your money! Pennies haven't been made out of copper since 1982.
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  12.  @valerieschoen7494  Mo Town is a silly place.
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  13. I love history markers and always feel compelled to read whatever is inscribed on them. Then again I read cereal boxes too. Because I just happen to be a compulsive reader.
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  14. In the future history markers will contain hash tags, I'm sure. Maybe QR codes?
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  15. NYC has had it. Move on already. I got out after 9/11. I saw the WTC collapse and I was like that's it. Dis place sucks. I did have a lot of fun there in the 80s though.
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  16. I grew up in one of those areas and yeah we laughed about it. We were always like, he sure slept around a lot, didn't he? Representing Turkey Hill! Our claim to fame was we were the bakery for the Revolutionary War.
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  17.  @PHXDOG  I never said you were wrong. I was there in the 1970s and just don't remember seeing anything like it.
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  18. Andy Warhol lied!
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  19. Indeed. Revisionist history is history that in the eyes of some, deserves to be made up!
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  20. Now we know what those three men were up to on that boat.
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  21. Or the South of the Border Pedro signs. Those are the true guide stones. 500 miles to SOB!
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  22. We have a road here called Indian Mission Road. Their mission of course was to slaughter all of the immigrants. Who were Dutch. There's nothing worse than an annoying Dutchman I suppose. As legend goes one of them wouldn't take his suit of armor off ever. So they nailed him over the front gate in it.
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