Comments by "Clair Waucaush" (@clairwaucaush7225) on "This House" channel.

  1. Walmart was much better when Sam was alive. I remember him touting most of his products were made in the USA. American flags were often in his TV ads, along with himself. After he died the suits took over and most of their products came from CHINA, at a much lower cost. And a MUCH higher profit. They have put out of business a LOT of smaller places and even American factories.
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  2. What a street to have in a city and state, but it's all gone. Americans go to Italy, Rome and love looking at all the old old buildings, same with England...but then back home they tear everything down. Having that street intact as a museum tour street would have been totally great. Those mansions can never be reproduced and they have ALWAYS been replaced by some bland building that could have been built elsewhere. Same with a freeway.
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  3. What a great house. Too bad it was demolished. At least a couple rooms were saved, that's better than most houses like this. The kids of people like this MUST be spoiled, aside from what they said. The house was 'outdated'. In England you have families who are still in homes handed down several hundred years. They don't say they're 'outdated'.
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  4. I like EVERY room in these old mansions. The BEST part is that it is still standing. Way too many of them have been demolished, and usually for no good reason!
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  5. The central historical building of that entire area and they let it get torn down. THAT looked like one heck of a great mansion. A perfect example of a Victorian. We are sooooo lucky the pyramids and Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower are not in the USA, or they would be GONE!
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  6. Wow, this is great. A triple happy ending. All of Long's main buildings survive! That is so rare!
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  7. I always thought that it should be a law that if ANY historic structure is torn down any useable parts should be salvaged.
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  8. Finally a good news video for old houses. Usually the stories end sad.
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  9. They should have made their mansion the art museum. People like that shaped the world WE live in , yet their hoses torn down and forgotten.
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  10. Its great that it still stands. It is odd looking, but a real look into the original owners style. EVERYONE sais, "If I had the money I'd..." well, Belmont DID have the money and did what he wanted! Good for him.
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  11. Wow, too sad that they are all gone...Are there ANY left on Long Island from this era? Ken, you should make a DVD of this episode. It would be a good one to keep.
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  12. A happy ending. Mansions that survived to be museums. ima knew how to manage them and kept them going after she was gone.
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  13. Wow! This one is different, the OWNER of the house tore it down! He couldn't keep a portion of it, or make it smaller overall? Instead ripped the whole thing down. He should have found someone who liked it. Otherwise it looks like a great park to visit. Still, it would be annoying walking around there knowing what WAS there.
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  14. The library and gold room were my favorites. Though I wish the entire house was still here to tour. It is great the fireplace was saved.
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  15. A section of it could be one heck of a great Presidential Library for President Trump. Then his family could live in other parts like they do now. I hope he doesn't move because of everything. Those clowns would have come after him no matter when he lived.
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  16. Wow a house that's still standing AND a museum! My favorite room was ALL the rooms! I'd love to go see this some day! Great video Ken!!
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  17. Another good movie with a Victorian house set is 'The Ghost and Mr. Chicken' with Don Knotts. The opening shots of the house I think are the Psycho house redressed, but the interior sets are all Victorian. A great Halloween movie.
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  18. A great house and video. Lucky it's still standing. It seems some people when they get THAT kind of money they lose their minds and go nuts, not thinking of the future at all. Almost thinking they'll live forever. This is a great house, but way too big for anybody at any time.
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  19. This is an historic home. John Thompson Torrance is a great American historical figure. Good grief, he invented Campbell soup!! I really hope they DON'T tear his home down. TOURS would be great!!
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  20. This is great! A happy ending to an historic house!! I hope to go see it some day.
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  21. Great house with a happy ending! Though, the house is NOT open for daily tours. I think you have to call and make an appointment.
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  22. It does look pretty far gone, BUT they could shore it up, save it as a 'ruin'. It would still make a great tourist attraction with a nice park around it. It is a definite part of our history! ALSO you guys at This House should write a book full of pictures. All the interior shots used in the videos would be great. I think you'd have a few buyers for it! Haha! All your viewers!
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  23. A very good short video. Alas with a sad ending...again. All those mansions were NEVER replaced with something better.
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  24. Every room in that house was special! That is one house that should NOT have been torn down. Wow. People don't think, or look ahead. Something like this will never be built again. Well, at least a small portion of it is still around. That is, if they don't tear down the museum too!
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  25. I hope out in space somewhere is a heaven for Old Victorian mansions!
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  26. How is it possible this mansion got torn down!?!?! People with vision are so FEW and FAR BETWEEN It astounds me. Americans go to Europe and MARVEL at all the old buildings and statues. Yet, back home things on an equal footing get TORN DOWN, or just left to rot. Then a blasted fast food place or apartments are built in their place! Otherwise great video Ken!
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  27. A happy ending for a change. Do they give tours of the house?
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  28. We have all seen a tone of historic buildings get torn down, and NOT for progress. Lack of vision is usually the culprit. In a town called Canton Ohio, there are a load of EMPTY LOTS that HAD historic buildings on them, but now just grass or gravel. Most towns have at least one or two historic homes to tour. NOT Canton! @IntriguedLioness 
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  29. Those rooms were astounding. Then 'renovated'?! The overall view I get from these videos and studying and touring old mansions is that A LOT of those people had more money that sense. They were spoiled, self centered and frivolous. And all for nothing, probably 80% of all those mansions are gone.
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  30. Great video. It's also great that the house is still standing. I was getting ready to purchase that mansion until I saw the photo. A little too crowded now. Oh well!
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  31. Another happy ending. Ken, have you ever done a percentage of houses on your videos, the ones that still stand and the ones demolished.
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  32. It would be nice to see some current photos of the inside, in color.
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  33. Too bad Dr. Zazio wasn't there to help!
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  34. It's great that his house is still standing. Harold was big into 3D photography back in the 50's. He took many great shots of Marilyn Monroe in 3D! 'Safety Last' is a total classic movie. Best seen in a theatre on a big screen. Even now, a hundred years later, there are some scenes you almost have to look away from. And people who are really afraid of heights... don't bother trying to watch it!
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  35. How anyone could tear that down is beyond me. Like he couldn't build an apartment house somewhere else. This house would have been the best house museum of all! Maybe there is a House Heaven they all go to once they're tore down!
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  36. They should have done everything they could to save Hancock's mansion. Considering he helped PAY for our fight to freedom!
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  37. Great Video! I learned about Daniel Boone when I was a kid. I'm guessing they don't teach anything about him in schools now. Too bad, he's a definite part of American history.
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  38. Most of these mansion stories end bad. Way too bad for this one, the town should have saved it and it could have been a center of activity, festivals, tours...It was lived in for 25 years?! I have socks older than that.
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  39. Did I miss it? What ever happened to Marjorie Post's penthouse? Is it still there?
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  40. One of the few house stories with a happy ending. I very much want to visit this house now. If you look at old bridges, the beams of many still say Carnegie Steel
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  41. SO if Sarah and her husband could do all that back then.... The owners of the house could still make some extra money opening it up for tours a couple days a week. A great house and story. Super great it wasn't torn down!
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  42. After they tore it down, what was built in it's place?
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  43. Sadly these kind of stories almost always end the same way, "...the house was demolished...."
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  44. Finally a house with a happy ending!
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  45. Wow, it didn't last very long!! How could they tear it down!?!? People back then didn't think or look ahead AT ALL! Ken, you should make a calendar with shots of all the houses, and some interior shots. It would sell out quickly!!
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  46. It's great that it's still standing! Do they give tours through it?
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  47. That is a great studio. With the huge skylight it would be perfect for painting. She was quite an interesting person and artist. She died so long ago. What is the status of the studio now?
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  48. The National Registry wasn't started until the 1960's. It seems this family wasted no time in selling the house, and I'm sure they figured in NYC it would be torn down by a developer.
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  49. The rich back then had style and class. Their mansions LOOKED like mansions. Equivalent houses today look more like public buildings. Lodges, or vacation structures.
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  50. I'm not surprised this house didn't make it. They didn't even spend much time there!? People with more money than sense. SIX stories high? Wow, if it did survive a tour would take over three hours! Too bad you couldn't find a modern picture of what is on the spot now.
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  51. WHAT!?!?! Weddings?!?! It's not a museum!?! Do they at least give tours?
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  52. A great house with a happy ending. I think the rebuild looks a lot nicer than the original. Would love to go see it.
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  53. I should have one of those mansions. I helped pay for them!!
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  54. These This House videos almost always have a sad ending. No fault of theirs...I just can't imagine slamming a wrecking ball into a house like this. Like there was no place else to build that ugly hotel.
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  55. Well, this story had HALF a happy ending. At least it's still standing, changed, but standing. I guess that is actually a good route for some of these. They have to be able to be lived in by modern people in modern times. It would be nice if they ALL became museums but too bad they can't. And the saddest part, I can't afford ANY of them!
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  56. Ken, you didn't fully say, kind of hinted. Were all his mansion torn down?
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  57. How much? Let me get my check book...
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  58. So good that it still stands. There is hope that some day someone might get it and turn it into a museum.
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  59. This is my favorite old mansion. I've been through tours of many old mansions and the Seiberling house FEELS like a house, a home. It has a very cozy and comfortable feel to it. I've been through it many times. I was even going to be a guide but the day before I was to take the test and sign up my car DIED! So I never got around to trying it again. I can't pick a favorite room, I like them all. Also hey Ken, it's not SEE berling...it's pronounced like Sigh-berling.
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  60. Did the house they moved everything to survive? Is it a museum now?
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  61. This is a great video Ken! I've been to Manhattan so many time but I never heard of this!! NOW I know about it. I look forward to touring it someday. What a historical home. Washington's HQ ! Wow!
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  62. Great video, and great that it's a house that survives. AND another on my list to visit!
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  63. As I've said before. These big mansions are our castles. Built in eras long gone and never to be repeated. They need preserved. This is a great house. I hope to visit it one day.
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  64. Only ONE of his buildings survive in Manhatten!!
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  65. Wow, Elon Musk would have been second banana to this guy. What a dynamo he was!
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  66. People who tear these down never realize THESE mansions our the American version of old castles in Europe. Historical buildings of a time that will never come again. Built by people who STARTED businesses that affected the entire country and future.
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  67. France, Germany, England ALL managed to KEEP their castles and build elsewhere. Not here, all our castles, which are these mansions from an era never to return, historic time capsules. All lost and replaced by cookie cutter houses and condos.
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  68. Wow, what a great house. Hopefully the people who end up buying it will appreciate it. Not those types of people who buy a house like that then say, "We need to modernize it." and proceed to RUIN it. It was typical or the plaster moulding in the parlor to be painted all white. The sun room at the top of the steps was also called a sleeping porch. In the summer you could sleep out there when it got too hot. That back downstairs room is perfect for the tv and modern 'stuff'. A good family room. When going through a house, esp. one you don't know the exact date, have a close look at the door hinges and door hardware. They tell you a lot about the houses age. great video..keep going!
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  69. Old mansions are great but this place was TOO great! It was way too big all the way around. And if it had survived even now who could handle the upkeep. Too big for a museum tour at $15 or $35 a head, or even $100 a head. I really think those rich people back then thought they were going to live forever. At least she let people save what they could. I wish I would have been around to cart some things out. I would have loaded up the van!!
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  70. His house that is still standing, is it a museum? Or does a family live there?
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  71. Wow. This house didn't last long. Too bad.
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  72. Old mansions are one of my favorite subjects. But this place, it really was too big. Waaaay too big. The builder must have thought he was going to live forever.
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  73. I like these videos best when they have a happy ending! ( a still standing house)
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  74. Another mansion gone, this time to ashes. That would have been one great house to see and explore. So tragic it's gone. Even had it survived the fire some jerks would have some along and tore it down anyway!
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  75. Well done but sad video. You could do a similar video of Canton, Ohio. It had a good amount of really nice old mansions and now they are all gone. We are all very lucky the pyramids were not built in Ohio!
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  76. Its great it's still around and no torn down. Maybe some day they'll make it a museum so everyone can see inside. KEN, do you live in an old mansion?
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  77. So what exactly are you supposed to learn at this university? That they tore this down shows they're pretty stupid!
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  78. They should rent it to writers for a month at a time. A writer could get a lot done in a month out there.
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  79. Visit?! I want to live there!
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  80. Its great it is still there!
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  81. It seems when people, anybody, gets that kind of money they think they'll live forever and that the money will always roll in. Then real life steps in and ends it. Too many of those people back then built houses that were just plain TOO BIG and expensive to keep up and they ended up torn down. This was the worst as it was only used for such a short time. The depression knocked off a lot of these houses.
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  82. Its very good to have a happy ending to one of these house stories. Too many end the same, ...demolished.
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  83. Harry had a great time with his money. Typical that the houses in England are still standing, even after a WAR, but the one nice one here was torn down.
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  84. FINALLY! One of these mansion stories with a happy ending where the house DIDN'T get torn down!!!
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  85. I don't know why I keep watching these. I get so annoyed at the end when they get to the part where the mansion was torn down.
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  86. Great video! What is the house used for today if not a home?
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  87. Geat that the house is saved. I ve got to go see it. The video is so short I thought for sure it was going to end bad with the place getting torn down!
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  88. What?! She auctioned it all off...right away? A rich loser!
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  89. When you hear the word 'developers' you know the story will end sad. Luckily no developers have gotten ahold of the pyramids, or they'd be gone too!
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  90. Great video! This is one nice mansion, though huge it seems to feel like a home. Maybe someday they'll give tours through the house. Question: Ken, do you live in a big old house?
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  91. Great video! Another fabulous house bit the dust. What's there now? Condos? Another old house I know of, a family home, but the biggest on its block, built over a hundred years ago. Solid brick with large first floor rooms. A total of 6 bedrooms in the house. Two upstairs bathrooms with a sunporch the length of the house out the bathroom doors. A huge attic built finished for more living space, with one wall over twenty feet high. 4 staircases, front sun rooms on the first floor...A great house to grow up in. Which I did! But, alas, it too has been torn down!!
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  92. The building that replaced it looked like a big blank BRICK...Nothing special at all, and it will probably last a long time, they never tear those types down! At least that old thin building to the right is still there.
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  93. It's great they are both still standing. Are they both still used as homes? Or offices? Great video Ken. I liked both houses, though the first was my favorite.
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  94. Houses are built now with wood from trees that were 7 or 8 years old when cut. Old Victorians and the Colonial days used trees that were 200, 300 or more years old. Nice dense HARD wood. Back then even PINE was a hard wood! I have a cabinet that belonged to my great grandparents. It's astounding at how HEAVY it is!
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  95. Houses could last years and years, So why is it always such a mad rush to build them quick. Always quicker and quicker.
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  96. This was a great building. Even greater that it is still standing. I have always liked old mansions and Victorian houses. BUT some of the houses you show seem to be built by people with more money than sense. And I think all that cash made some people think they would live forever.
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  97. Great video. I think this is the only house in your videos that is still used as a residence! Ken, do you do other videos? The guy on the ghost videos sounds like you, BizzareBub it's called.
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  98. Another happy ending video. They usually end with a demolition. I'd love to go see this place. What a house. AND the owners got to spend their lives there. That's good, so they didn't loose their money or run off to Europe like some, or many do! Like I've said before, so few people have REAL vision, and Henry Overholser had it big time!!
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  99. Totally great that it's still stands. Do they give tours? Is it a museum now? I liked all the rooms!
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  100. I like all the rooms. Another historic house on my list to visit!
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