I've lived in St. Louis my entire life and heard about the 1904 Worlds Fair many, many times. I assure you, I learned more about this event in the last 15 minutes than I have in my first 50 years!
You never play Games with these videos and I think you've earned the Gold for finding all these forgotten stories from the past, History Guy! 10/10 with extra points awarded for style!
Those Olympics of 120 years ago had many almost comic competitors, but the marathoner who rode much of his race in a car takes the cake! Thanks forth that history that deserves to be remembered.👍
What an immense feeling of satisfaction you must feel bringing these fascinating historical facts to people like myself who, before I started to watch The History Guy considered the subject of History to be, in the most part, deadly boring. Thanks for helping to change my outlook, in the most entertaining way!
Hi, Lance. I was quite familiar with the Saint Louis World's Fair of 1903-1904, because my maternal grandfather, Oscar Menke, was a child in a lower class family, and he got a job at the Fair to be a janitor or custodian, at the age of 15. Turns out that he met my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Meyer, at the Fair, and they dated for some 7 years before they got married. She was a visitor to the Fair with her girlfriends. My grandmother was from a solid middle class family; her father was a Riverboat Captain on the Mississippi River. My grandparents were married 62 years and died within weeks of each other in May 1972. However, I was not familiar with the Saint Louis Olympics of 1904. My grandparents never mentioned it at all. Judy Garland was in a movie about the "Meet me in Saint Louis" World's Fair, but I don't think any movies were made of the 1904 Olympics. I can attest that the August summer days in Saint Louis can be brutally hot and humid. I was on the Webster Groves High School Track Team and the Tennis Team. Your description of the machinations behind the scenes before, during, and after the Fair were astonishing. Well done. Thanks. - Dr Dave Menke, Tucson.
My grandfather was there at age 12. He was from Leslie. Ran a bar during prohibition. They discovered iron ore in the old Indian ochre pit,( famously traded across the plains), and began a mining effort that created Leslie. That provided for a saloon and store, all family endeavored. My mother was to learn to crawl upon that Bartop. Alas the end of prohibition ended the bar boom, and the iron played out, my family moved to the city looking for work. The grandfather was a farmer and hunter but during ww2 he took work at the Curtis wright airplane factory as part of the parts inventory and disbursements office. He lived into his 90s. His first job was delivering mail by horse back. He saw radio, tv, and computers all spring to life. He saw the countryside become electrified. Saw man go to the moon. His greatest joy was listening,( not watching), to a cardinals game on his transistor portable radio with one ear bud.... idk but you make me want to talk about history!!!!!
Bloody Nora! The past is indeed a foreign country 😬. Also, that marathon sounds more like the plot of ‘Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’. It deserves its own movie! 😂
My wife and I love your channel and I have ALWAYS LOVED history. We both recently learnd of the Dyatlov Pass incident of 1959 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Perhaps if you find it intriguing and, worth remembering, you might add it to your wonderful library of history shorts. Either way, thanks for all the fantastic content History Guy!
Nathan Eddington ....it IS a definitely good and tragic story. But it all can be explained rationally. Those poor people went out of their minds due to dehydration and hysteria. And the freezing cold and not being ready or having the equipment needed. 🕊😑😶🙄
I’ve lived in St. Louis my entire life. I love this town. That kind of stuff can only happen here. The Olympics and the world fair defined who we were for a century. Unfortunately we never became the population and cultural center of the US that we should’ve been. You should also do a story on how the government briefly wanted to move the capital of the US to St. Louis.
What you do on CZcams is what the Internet would best be used for, the education of humanity. You’re a little snippets of history still give an incredible glimpse and perspective of our most recent past. I consider our (America’s) most recent past to be the last 300 years. I thank you for your efforts and the quality of your presentations!
Shane Hebert ...Classic!!!🤗 Also back then, a show called Doctor in The House, about a group of interns or residents...remember this vaguely!🤗🤣😂Age is catching up ....used to watch Benny Hill, Monty Python, Dr Who reruns in the late eighties and nineties. THEN, WE GOT THE JOKES...LOL. THAT IS TRUE COMEDY...Robin Williams, Dennis Leary, George Carlin...even got into Morton Downy.....my dad loved him. Hysterical....this world IS A CIRCUS WHEN ONE STOPS TO THINK ABOUT IT...So, there is the choice...laugh or cry...or leave.🤗
loll 1st spartan race in 2015 15k in the mountains in quebec..just finished a 12 hours day..2 hours car ..a joint for breakfast let the water in the car loll..damm muddy spring water hole was good loll
I'm so glad I came across this channel. You seem like a genuinely interested guy who just loves history and it really shows. Keep doin' what you're doing and I'll keep bugging my friends with little tidbits of history!
For some reason, in 2019, 3 of the Podcast that I listen to as well as this video have cover the 1904 Olympic. This was one of the best coverage of the events. Great job
Your coverage of the marathon may be the funniest segment I've seen on your channel. Thank you again for making a great history video. Keep up the good work!
FWIH, there was another event that started at the 1904 Olympics. A group of tea sellers found themselves the only people selling any refreshments on one summer day. Out of desperation, someone bought a cup of tea, took it over to where ice cubes were being distributed and put some ice in the tea to cool it down. Thus was iced tea invented.
I bet it got cancelled after too much of that old trick of everybody letting go at once to cause the other team to fall over. You still see that every year at drunken picnics.
The 1904 Tug of War was strange also. The team that lost the gold medal event, thought they have the silver metal but the rules required them to then compete for the Silver Medal in another Tug of War. No one bother to tell them that so they did not show up and even though they competed in the Gold Metal Match, since they did not compete in the second event, they got no medals.
Thanks for the photo of the high jump illustrating the 'straddle' style of jumping. I learned (and performed rather badly) the method that replaced it, i.e., rolling over the bar, and I couldn't believe how anyone could use the straddle jump. I can still remember watching the introduction of the 'Fosbury Flop', and the controversy surrounding it. Nowadays it's the only method used if you want to compete at any level.
There used to be a sign on North and South ave. In University City, Mo. that marked a place that the marathon was ran. Not sure it is still there. You made that place come to life for me with this great story. Thanks !
Bravo! This has to be the most humorous description of the 1904 Olympic marathon I have ever heard. Well done History Guy! My hat is off to you! And thanks very much!👏👏👏👏👍
Born and raised in St. Louis I've always been fascinated by the 1904 St. Louis Exposition. I was aware of the Olympic games but they are not well documented compared to the Exposition. Thank you for another great video of History That Deserves to Be Remembered !!!
the story about the marathon (especially about the cuban who took a nap and still finished 4th) is maybe the best story i've heard on this channel. which is saying something since this is a truly exceptional channel.
@@syxepop yes, it only took 11 months from my suggestion of a year ago, but I watched that episode. It pays to be subscribed and to have notifications turned on. I never miss an episode.
I think I've finally found one where I disagree with your conclusions! The later successful performances of a handful of the contestants at the 1904 Olympics can't possibly confirm that Sullivan was not a complete lunatic or that having the games there was not a colossal, Mack Sennet-worthy farce. Farm animals in the "pool?" Marathon as dehydration study? Anthropology games? The fact that they gangstered it away from Chicago in the first place only makes the organizers sound like Professor Fang in The Great Race. In fact, I'd wager that the farce in St Louis was probably at least partially the inspiration for that epic cinematic farce. Once again, laddie, outstanding performance (by you!)
I can't recall ever seeing a historical presentation for any of the early Olympic Games held between 1896 & 1936, until this episode. Now I understand why! The image of the Olympics has become so pristine and honorable, which could not be said of the 1904 iteration. Thanks for providing a new perspective. I also would like to suggest a topic for a future episode. I once heard that the News of a major event of WW2 was delivered to the President by a Western Union Messenger bicycling to the White House. I think it was notification of the successful detonation of the Nuclear Bomb over Hiroshima. What struck me was that the Military Communications Network was so archaic that this news needed to be disseminated over a Public network. I hope this intrigues the History Guy enough to make an episode addressing this factoid?
The golf events were held at Glen Echo Country Club. It was the first course west of the Mississippi. To this day there is an Olympic flag flying on the grounds since it was an official events host. I've been to a number of events there. Very nice facility.
I thought I knew all about the 1904 Olympics. I didn't know most of the things in your video, and I am stunned! Great reporting on things we didn't know about such a popular event, in my area at least.
Sir, your advancement of the love for history is complimented in your presentation and passion, explaining however small an event may appear, however seemingly insignificant a person has been presented by others, those people and moments are the axles in which history is carried and rotates upon.
This one was quite entertaining history guy got a chuckle out of me thanks again I know these come from the patreon ones which I cannot support at this point but you will be the first one I support when I can🇺🇸🦅👍
Interesting history you can't make up. Thanks, as usual, History Guy. Olympics, deserved to be remembered. My grandfather, James Mc Caig, sold items related to the 1932 Olympics (in Los Angeles, California, United States) to include, then famous, vehicle radiator decorations. I still have 2 decorations and they're adored (at least by me). Wonderful story. Blessings to all the honorable officials, administrators, staff, support personnel and athletes who are involved in the planning, training and execution of the World's Olympic games. Keith
Never heard that story before. Thanks History Guy. T.R. famously said: "I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”
Another wonderful and insightful history that deserves to be remembered. It sounds like you had to do a lot of digging to get some of the unusual tidbits this time.
That was great. I've seen other videos on this, but yours touches on different details, so it was quite enjoyable. Though I would have been content to just watch you retell the same stories the other videos told.
Great vlog as always! I think the slowest runner of a marathon was a guy from Japan in the 1912 olympics i Stockholm. He finished 50 yrs later, in 1962!
After the marathon had finished, the athletes who had suffered in competing my have received some satisfaction when they learned that two of the race officials in charge of patrolling the course were badly injured as well, when their car swerved to avoid one of the runners and careened down an embankment.
To put it....Simple...Gosh dern man how in the world you got all of this across...In very fine style....Well you are the smartest Guy...I know...!...0'by the way...Thanks a million times over...This makes my day.............!
We love you Mr. History Guy Dude! Hello to Mrs. Mr. History Guy and big howdy to Mr. History Guy Kitty. Just keeping it real up up in here....I need more Mr. History Guy cough syrup. WE LOVE YOU ALL.
Great video on the 2904 Olympus. The marathon race was indeed odd. Trainers giving rat poussin SDSU s stimulant!! Tug of war as a sport. This piece of history is worth hearing about. Congratulations on now having over 300,000 subscribers!! Quality counts.
My favorite were the anthropological exhibit, for the information, interesting how that would be considered so incredibly racist and offensive to everyone today....But society then was a world so different, almost naive to what they were doing.....
They need to make a movie about that marathon race!! That had me laughing hard. The stray dogs, the stricnine . Seriously someone call Will Ferrell and Steve Carrel with this!
Aside of the Wanamaker organ purchased at the St Louis Fair, the department store purchased a large sculpture of an eagle. Both still reside in the flagship department store, now a Macy’s in Center City Philly. For nearly a century, prior to cell phones making communication instant, it was common for groups to “meet at the Eagle” at a certain time for a rally point.
I love The Olympic Games and appreciate this look back. It's fascinating how folks and ideas have changed and how what was once accepted is now so cringe-worthy. Thank you and Cheers!
I've lived in St. Louis my entire life and heard about the 1904 Worlds Fair many, many times. I assure you, I learned more about this event in the last 15 minutes than I have in my first 50 years!
Took a _nap_ and came in 4th place... Wow.
Given the death march conditions the race was purposefully run in, taking a breather might have helped.
Remember Jon Bois being like, it’s too stupid.
Yeah that’s what I thought
In my book the Cuban actually won, as the placed 1st,2nd, & 3rd cheated
You never play Games with these videos and I think you've earned the Gold for finding all these forgotten stories from the past, History Guy! 10/10 with extra points awarded for style!
Now that you have got into the history of Olympic Games, it would be great if you made a video on Jim Thorpe.
Those Olympics of 120 years ago had many almost comic competitors, but the marathoner who rode much of his race in a car takes the cake! Thanks forth that history that deserves to be remembered.👍
What an immense feeling of satisfaction you must feel bringing these fascinating historical facts to people like myself who, before I started to watch The History Guy considered the subject of History to be, in the most part, deadly boring. Thanks for helping to change my outlook, in the most entertaining way!
Hi, Lance. I was quite familiar with the Saint Louis World's Fair of 1903-1904, because my maternal grandfather, Oscar Menke, was a child in a lower class family, and he got a job at the Fair to be a janitor or custodian, at the age of 15. Turns out that he met my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Meyer, at the Fair, and they dated for some 7 years before they got married. She was a visitor to the Fair with her girlfriends. My grandmother was from a solid middle class family; her father was a Riverboat Captain on the Mississippi River.
My grandparents were married 62 years and died within weeks of each other in May 1972.
However, I was not familiar with the Saint Louis Olympics of 1904. My grandparents never mentioned it at all. Judy Garland was in a movie about the "Meet me in Saint Louis" World's Fair, but I don't think any movies were made of the 1904 Olympics. I can attest that the August summer days in Saint Louis can be brutally hot and humid. I was on the Webster Groves High School Track Team and the Tennis Team. Your description of the machinations behind the scenes before, during, and after the Fair were astonishing.
Well done. Thanks. - Dr Dave Menke, Tucson.
My grandfather was there at age 12. He was from Leslie. Ran a bar during prohibition. They discovered iron ore in the old Indian ochre pit,( famously traded across the plains), and began a mining effort that created Leslie. That provided for a saloon and store, all family endeavored. My mother was to learn to crawl upon that Bartop. Alas the end of prohibition ended the bar boom, and the iron played out, my family moved to the city looking for work. The grandfather was a farmer and hunter but during ww2 he took work at the Curtis wright airplane factory as part of the parts inventory and disbursements office. He lived into his 90s. His first job was delivering mail by horse back. He saw radio, tv, and computers all spring to life. He saw the countryside become electrified. Saw man go to the moon. His greatest joy was listening,( not watching), to a cardinals game on his transistor portable radio with one ear bud.... idk but you make me want to talk about history!!!!!
A team from tiny Galt (now Cambridge) Ontario Canada, won Gold in soccer at those games
I clicked on this video expecting old film highlights, but your channel highlights old films with better narration. Great job.
Bloody Nora! The past is indeed a foreign country 😬. Also, that marathon sounds more like the plot of ‘Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’. It deserves its own movie! 😂
@Hungarian Nationalist actually, haha! NONE of that sounds great, but I know what you mean. Want to swap for life in a lost empire? 😶
@Magyar Oh yes I do unfortunately.
My wife and I love your channel and I have ALWAYS LOVED history.
We both recently learnd of the Dyatlov Pass incident of 1959 in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia.
Perhaps if you find it intriguing and, worth remembering, you might add it to your wonderful library of history shorts.
Either way, thanks for all the fantastic content History Guy!
Nathan Eddington ....it IS a definitely good and tragic story. But it all can be explained rationally. Those poor people went out of their minds due to dehydration and hysteria. And the freezing cold and not being ready or having the equipment needed. 🕊😑😶🙄
Agreed Danny, but it is never the less an especially interesting tail to me.
I’ve lived in St. Louis my entire life. I love this town. That kind of stuff can only happen here. The Olympics and the world fair defined who we were for a century. Unfortunately we never became the population and cultural center of the US that we should’ve been. You should also do a story on how the government briefly wanted to move the capital of the US to St. Louis.
Congratulations on 300k subscribers.
The 3rd Olympics and 300000 subscribers... 3 and five rings... coincidence? I think not.
Clever indeed, nicely done.
What you do on CZcams is what the Internet would best be used for, the education of humanity. You’re a little snippets of history still give an incredible glimpse and perspective of our most recent past. I consider our (America’s) most recent past to be the last 300 years.
I thank you for your efforts and the quality of your presentations!
That was a great episode of Benny Hi....wait, Olympics?
Shane Hebert ...Classic!!!🤗 Also back then, a show called Doctor in The House, about a group of interns or residents...remember this vaguely!🤗🤣😂Age is catching up ....used to watch Benny Hill, Monty Python, Dr Who reruns in the late eighties and nineties. THEN, WE GOT THE JOKES...LOL. THAT IS TRUE COMEDY...Robin Williams, Dennis Leary, George Carlin...even got into Morton Downy.....my dad loved him. Hysterical....this world IS A CIRCUS WHEN ONE STOPS TO THINK ABOUT IT...So, there is the choice...laugh or cry...or leave.🤗
Run a marathon in St Louis in August with no water? Shouldn't be a problem... 😒
You would think locals would know better.
loll 1st spartan race in 2015 15k in the mountains in quebec..just finished a 12 hours day..2 hours car ..a joint for breakfast let the water in the car loll..damm muddy spring water hole was good loll
I am quite sure that any film footage of that marathon would have looked like a Buster Keaton movie, written by Monty Python
With Benny Hill music.
A buster keaton reference!? You sir deserve a high five!
Tyler Cooper
Indeed! I’m glad that I’m not the only one that knows who Buster Keaton was. In fact, he’s my profile picture!
I'm so glad I came across this channel. You seem like a genuinely interested guy who just loves history and it really shows.
Keep doin' what you're doing and I'll keep bugging my friends with little tidbits of history!
I love stories of old marathons. They're just great.
For some reason, in 2019, 3 of the Podcast that I listen to as well as this video have cover the 1904 Olympic. This was one of the best coverage of the events. Great job
Your coverage of the marathon may be the funniest segment I've seen on your channel. Thank you again for making a great history video. Keep up the good work!
The marathon sounds like a Mack Sennett movie. XD
FWIH, there was another event that started at the 1904 Olympics. A group of tea sellers found themselves the only people selling any refreshments on one summer day. Out of desperation, someone bought a cup of tea, took it over to where ice cubes were being distributed and put some ice in the tea to cool it down. Thus was iced tea invented.
They should bring back tug of war.
I bet it got cancelled after too much of that old trick of everybody letting go at once to cause the other team to fall over. You still see that every year at drunken picnics.
The 1904 Tug of War was strange also. The team that lost the gold medal event, thought they have the silver metal but the rules required them to then compete for the Silver Medal in another Tug of War. No one bother to tell them that so they did not show up and even though they competed in the Gold Metal Match, since they did not compete in the second event, they got no medals.
@@unclepatrick2 thanks for sharing👍
I would love to watch that!☝
What a shame....
Thanks for the photo of the high jump illustrating the 'straddle' style of jumping. I learned (and performed rather badly) the method that replaced it, i.e., rolling over the bar, and I couldn't believe how anyone could use the straddle jump. I can still remember watching the introduction of the 'Fosbury Flop', and the controversy surrounding it. Nowadays it's the only method used if you want to compete at any level.
There used to be a sign on North and South ave. In University City, Mo. that marked a place that the marathon was ran. Not sure it is still there. You made that place come to life for me with this great story. Thanks !
Bravo!
This has to be the most humorous description of the 1904 Olympic marathon I have ever heard. Well done History Guy! My hat is off to you!
And thanks very much!👏👏👏👏👍
Born and raised in St. Louis I've always been fascinated by the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.
I was aware of the Olympic games but they are not well documented compared to the Exposition.
Thank you for another great video of History That Deserves to Be Remembered
!!!
The world fairs of that era just sound awesome.
ValensBellator Well, aside from the overt displays of racism and colonialism, of course.
Cory S
We could certainly do without the “anthropology” section lol
I'd be great back then
@@ValensBellator
Why?
Why would you do without the anthropology exhibits?
It sounds remarkable. Do you or dont you want native practices kept alive?
Congrats on 300k subs! Nice to see so many people appreciating history! Keep up the great work!✨
I like the fact that many in the archery events were older. They didn't have to only be Senior Games.
As always a great use of 15 minutes.
You will learn something from these excursions into the 'mists of time.'
Hope the voice gets better.
Oh neat! You actually took my suggestion for a video!
the story about the marathon (especially about the cuban who took a nap and still finished 4th) is maybe the best story i've heard on this channel.
which is saying something since this is a truly exceptional channel.
The early Olympics were apparently absolutely /bananas/.
I could watch an hour long special on that marathon alone. Wow.
That year....Canada won gold in Soccer, Lacrosse (Canadian teams won Gold and Bronze), Golf and the 56 pound weight toss.
We are now struggling to manage the 150 lb weight toss.
Being a runner myself, I like to the history on the Olympics and that marathon.
Since 2019 is the centenary of the Great Molasses Flood of Boston, I was hoping to see your take on the tsunami and flood.
BoscoBob - THG ultimately DID a video on such incident (I remember it well), but probably you've found it by now...
@@syxepop yes, it only took 11 months from my suggestion of a year ago, but I watched that episode. It pays to be subscribed and to have notifications turned on. I never miss an episode.
Suggestion. S.S. Princess Sophia, 1918. TITANIC of the Yukon. 364 souls on board. No survivors. End of the Yukon gold rush.
Absolutely my favorite channel. Bravo again!
That was a terrific episode! Thank You Very Much.
Very well put together.
Wow...always interesting, thank you.
Keep 'em comin', History Guy - best channel on CZcams by far!!!
I So Enjoyed This!
I think I've finally found one where I disagree with your conclusions! The later successful performances of a handful of the contestants at the 1904 Olympics can't possibly confirm that Sullivan was not a complete lunatic or that having the games there was not a colossal, Mack Sennet-worthy farce. Farm animals in the "pool?" Marathon as dehydration study? Anthropology games? The fact that they gangstered it away from Chicago in the first place only makes the organizers sound like Professor Fang in The Great Race. In fact, I'd wager that the farce in St Louis was probably at least partially the inspiration for that epic cinematic farce. Once again, laddie, outstanding performance (by you!)
I can't recall ever seeing a historical presentation for any of the early Olympic Games held between 1896 & 1936, until this episode. Now I understand why! The image of the Olympics has become so pristine and honorable, which could not be said of the 1904 iteration. Thanks for providing a new perspective.
I also would like to suggest a topic for a future episode. I once heard that the News of a major event of WW2 was delivered to the President by a Western Union Messenger bicycling to the White House. I think it was notification of the successful detonation of the Nuclear Bomb over Hiroshima. What struck me was that the Military Communications Network was so archaic that this news needed to be disseminated over a Public network. I hope this intrigues the History Guy enough to make an episode addressing this factoid?
best History Guy video yet !
THG - Love your work! Where were you, when I was at school? My ole' history teacher could bore the arse off a wooden horse!
Which is why you only see the front half of a wooden horse to this very day....
I was howling when you described the events of the Olympic marathon. Well done as always.
Thanks for the good show.
The golf events were held at Glen Echo Country Club. It was the first course west of the Mississippi. To this day there is an Olympic flag flying on the grounds since it was an official events host. I've been to a number of events there. Very nice facility.
Would you consider a video on the incident at Malmedy (sp?) during the Battle of the Bulge? My father's company was largely wiped out there.
Thanks for the memories🥇👍🏆
I find you quite entertaining it’s a pleasure to watch you sir thank you
I thought I knew all about the 1904 Olympics. I didn't know most of the things in your video, and I am stunned! Great reporting on things we didn't know about such a popular event, in my area at least.
Sir, your advancement of the love for history is complimented in your presentation and passion, explaining however small an event may appear, however seemingly insignificant a person has been presented by others, those people and moments are the axles in which history is carried and rotates upon.
Congrats on 300k
Thank you!
You kill it man with all your videos 😉
Wow, what a nightmare the 1904 Olympics was, awesome! I love the history vids sir, please keep doing what you're doing!
This one was quite entertaining history guy got a chuckle out of me thanks again I know these come from the patreon ones which I cannot support at this point but you will be the first one I support when I can🇺🇸🦅👍
Great stories; so much pain for the athletes it is hard to believe. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting history you can't make up. Thanks, as usual, History Guy. Olympics, deserved to be remembered.
My grandfather, James Mc Caig, sold items related to the 1932 Olympics (in Los Angeles, California, United States) to include, then famous, vehicle radiator decorations. I still have 2 decorations and they're adored (at least by me).
Wonderful story. Blessings to all the honorable officials, administrators, staff, support personnel and athletes who are involved in the planning, training and execution of the World's Olympic games. Keith
Never heard that story before. Thanks History Guy. T.R. famously said: "I can do one of two things, I can be President of the United States or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.”
Another wonderful and insightful history that deserves to be remembered. It sounds like you had to do a lot of digging to get some of the unusual tidbits this time.
Hey Playboy , thanks for the insight and storytelling!
Just love this guy, always so interesting.
That was great. I've seen other videos on this, but yours touches on different details, so it was quite enjoyable. Though I would have been content to just watch you retell the same stories the other videos told.
Very interesting, thanks!!
The first poster of the exposition is by Alfons Mucha, he deserves a video by himself.
I la la la love history, and this history channel!!
Great vlog as always! I think the slowest runner of a marathon was a guy from Japan in the 1912 olympics i Stockholm. He finished 50 yrs later, in 1962!
This was interesting. A lot of the athletes sent some amazing records. Thanks for sharing this.
"Agricultural pollution" is a wonderful euphemism.
Waller in with pigs🐖
No black American athletes in the 19 0 4 Olympics 😜😜😜😜
At least in track-and-field dam
@@marrtinsharp9030 you should invent time travel and go complain about it when it happened
Thank you
Well researched History Guy👍🤓..good history! Very interesting🤔😉
That was a great episode
Awesome video
After the marathon had finished, the athletes who had suffered in competing my have received some satisfaction when they learned that two of the race officials in charge of patrolling the course were badly injured as well, when their car swerved to avoid one of the runners and careened down an embankment.
Good Morning History Guy 😊
good episode :)
To put it....Simple...Gosh dern man how in the world you got all of this across...In very fine style....Well you are the smartest Guy...I know...!...0'by the way...Thanks a million times over...This makes my day.............!
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We love you Mr. History Guy Dude! Hello to Mrs. Mr. History Guy and big howdy to Mr. History Guy Kitty. Just keeping it real up up in here....I need more Mr. History Guy cough syrup. WE LOVE YOU ALL.
Great video on the 2904 Olympus. The marathon race was indeed odd. Trainers giving rat poussin SDSU s stimulant!! Tug of war as a sport. This piece of history is worth hearing about.
Congratulations on now having over 300,000 subscribers!! Quality counts.
That was one of the most interesting things I've ever heard and I am again amazed I've never heard of it before.
Great story , H.G.👍
Lol! Great vlog! I think the marathon in Stockholm in 1912 needs its own episode. With the runner from Japan finishing in 1960!
What an interesting crazy time to be alive. But I guess that's anytime if you open your eyes and mind to the times
My favorite were the anthropological exhibit, for the information, interesting how that would be considered so incredibly racist and offensive to everyone today....But society then was a world so different, almost naive to what they were doing.....
They need to make a movie about that marathon race!! That had me laughing hard. The stray dogs, the stricnine . Seriously someone call Will Ferrell and Steve Carrel with this!
Aside of the Wanamaker organ purchased at the St Louis Fair, the department store purchased a large sculpture of an eagle. Both still reside in the flagship department store, now a Macy’s in Center City Philly. For nearly a century, prior to cell phones making communication instant, it was common for groups to “meet at the Eagle” at a certain time for a rally point.
I love The Olympic Games and appreciate this look back. It's fascinating how folks and ideas have changed and how what was once accepted is now so cringe-worthy. Thank you and Cheers!
Those were some crazy Olympics!!
Amazing that you could present all those interesting events in 15 minutes. /:-)
WONDERFUL ❗️
Out of all the chaos came some incredible stories. Those poor runners! Can’t even imagine today’s athletes enduring those conditions.
I roared with laughter with this one...unfortunately, I'm at work.
Hi love your channel i was wondering if you do a video on the b 52 that crashed on elephant mountain in maine
Thank you for you history knowledge. Wonderful. Can you do a lesson on the Tuskegee Airmen?