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Think about adding a soundscape please.. doesn't have to be all loud n showy either..still it's an excellent video ❤

This is an incredible place to visit and learn the history. Thank You!

Thankfully it was handled.Though a waste since There was a college looking and ready to buy

Can you show a picture of where the old St. Alphonsus was in Philadelphia? My Great-Great-Grandmother was baptized in the then new building in December 1855 or early January 1856. I know the St Alphonsus there now is a new place in a different location.

Absolutely superb. Very well done mate. I especially like that after the two then and now photos you do a side by side. Too, your ability to capture the spot from which the original photographer captured his shot to take yours is marvellous. Cheers!

The photo at 11 seconds shows a completed City Hall in circa 1885. Not possible. The accurate photo at 2:05 shows City Hall under construction. (It took thirty years to complete.)

Great Job, Thank you.

The part that’s still above water ….. do we know what part of the ship that is???

1:30 hey 7x Great Uncle Caleb, it’s your black great nephew.

Trajicly, many towns have lost some of their most important pieces of early architecture because of urban renewal. Philadelphia city planner, Bacon, did a real number on it, not for the better.

Philadelphia seemed to have back-to-back houses back then. And how different Dock Street would be today had the city decided to renovate the buildings and pedestrianize the street with trees.

A job well done sir. It was wonderful to see the photos side by side. It really added a lot to the presentation. Thank you very much for a very enjoyable afternoon.

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YES SIR THOSE WIER THE DAYS. THANK YOU FOR A FINE VIDEO. ROBBIE PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN

THANK YOU SIR FOR SHARING GREAT PICTURE OF PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN ROBBIE

One of the escapees lived in my area. He killed his wife in 88 or 89 and disappeared. His body was found on the Appalachian Trail in 2004.

Watching Blowout Right now, thanks for making this comparison.

Need some music

it’s cool to know people got to see it before it became what it was today. i still have pictures from when i was a kid with it in the background

Being a home-grown boy from South Philly, I can only add to the accolades expressed by previous viewers. I am almost painfully nostalgic and I love these you tube videos that transport me back to a time long past compared to current days. In many scenes, there is nothing left compared to now and it's fascinating to view all the folks in the many scenes and wonder....what were their stories like and what became of them.......

0:26 to 0:55 what track that turned left lead to?

Wow! I never knew that this episode was Philly! Unfortunately, and at that time, I was only a 4-year-old girl living in Folcroft. (After all, I was raised in Folcroft.), plus I can't remember that far back either. The furthest back that I can remember was when I was in kindergarten at the Folcroft Union Church; which was back in 1962-63. Secondly, if Route 66 only ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, how did George Maharis and Martin Miller get to Philly? Did they drive to Chicago, and then take another route there to Philly?

interesting how elements of terra Dr-Seuss grace l o t s of stuff thereabouts too..! 🍸

hell bent secret societies must've been what have hideously transformed the union into Corporateria there, it'd be spellbinding to watch that trash be upturned and marvel at its overdue replacement 🍿🍿🍿

I grew up in North Cape May in the 80s and 90s and have great memories of visiting the sunken ship over the years. This video brought back wonderful memories.

A horrible dark episode! It was also one where justice may never have been satisfactorily done. I understand many of the surviving perpetrators (notably the responsible German commanders) were put on trial right after the end of the war, were found guilty and sentenced to death. But then these sentences were commuted to 35 years imprisonment. And in actual fact they they got set free after only 10 years - maybe less in some cases. I've never really understood this. I guess there may have been a feeling that the slain US prisoners were already "avenged" - so to speak - when some German POWs were killed in a reprisal attack? Also I think there were unfortunate allegations about these defendants having been beaten or otherwise badly treated by US military police while in prison awaiting trial? Obviously I wouldn't condone brutality - but under the circumstances they also couldn't expect to be treated super nicely, in my opinion. Either way, it does feel very weird that the SS officers Sepp Dietrich and Joachim Peiper both died in their beds many years after the end of the war. Those two, at least, probably should have been executed for the crime, or at least have gotten life imprisonment.

Thank you for sharing these awesome photos! I’m a Delco girl from way back. I even have the T-shirt “It’s A Delco Thing”. I remember a lot of these areas. I was raised in Clifton Heights, but was forced to go to Upper Darby High School after they shut down our cute little school on Baltimore Pike. Did two years at UDHS and hated every moment. All my family still live in Media, West Chester, and surrounding areas. I love to visit Delaware County, but now live in Clearwater since 1997. There’s no place like home. We have a great Philly cheese steak place down here called “Delco’s”…but, there’s no place like home. You brought back all the nostalgia of the good old days. Thank you and Happy New Year from Fl.😎

Very interesting. I've lived over thirty years in Delaware County (though I was born in Montco), and as a history buff, I enjoy looking at these photos and buildings from times gone by (not to mention the railroads).

Wow

Wondering if there are any photos around of the once stood Immigration Station that was located at the foot of Washington St, at the Delaware River. So many people came from all over the world thru that place. That was Philly's Ellis Island during the late 1800's thru the early 1900's. There are hardly any signs located at that location today.

In 1952 I attended religious classes after school at the synagogue at Broad and Columbia. After class I would wait for my father on the corner of 15th and Columbia to pick me up on his way home. The neighborhood was Black then, but there was no sense of discomfort, never mind danger, even in the winter when it was dark by 5 o’clock.

We have tons of old buildings

The white cops were quite racist and abusive back then. When I started attending Temple University in 1977, a white cop referred to his club as his "ni**er beater." I guess because I am white he thought it was safe to say that to me. I sometimes drank at a local bar at 15th & Columbia.

I worked at 4th and Walnut, use to walk past these places. I miss that. I walked through city hall, and never had the time to go in. I wish I had.

If you’re interested in this topic I would highly recommend reading “From Elite Leibstandarte to lifelong scapegoat” by Manfred Thorn, a veteran of the LSSAH who was in the area of malmedy and was interrogated before the trial. His book has testimonies from both German and American troops who were present around Malmedy during the event. Just an all around amazing read.

Remember it well. A friend's husband had just purchased a shoe store earlier that year from his boss. It was destroyed during the riot. He was able to repair and come back.

3:34 - Re: the stone piers in the shadow of the steel structure, similar stone piers were seen as SEPTA contractors replaced the Crum Creek bridge. What a dilapidated mess the original PB&W must have been in the 1800's.

I was told by Grandmother half houses were called; ace, deuce, and tre homes.

I really enjoyed your video here.The before gives an idea of what was there and today.I trually likef when both photos were shown. They looked great together. I had to sibscribe.I only wish I found you earlier.

I loved seeing The Half House, too bad it’s still not there.

Very easy to imagine some amis tried to scatter to escape( as some did when killing started ) before the massacre

Great channel, I’ll subscribe

First photo from 1885 shows city hall already constructed and photo at 2:10 from 1890 shows city hall BEING constructed...

Great video

Very interesting. I've lived in Delco (specifically Broomall) for most of my life, and it's also where my mother grew up. I also recall my mother telling me that my grandmother would often take a trolley from West Chester Pike into Philadelphia.

i work at city hall and i love seeing old pictures of this cool building

This is a great video.

Thanks for a great video, Craig. As you know, I go to the Walmart near the Baldwin Plant all the time and those views are very interesting.

Great video.

There's a lot of West Philly scenes (52nd st, 55th & Market) as well as inside Reading Terminal & around it in '71-'72 in the movie "Trick Baby". "The In Crowd" has scenes of Upper Darby/The Tower and scenes shot around the area (Allen Lane Station, University City & a high school in Montgomery County).