At 7:16 mark shows the old Hotel Powelton and that building stands today at N 40th Street. In 1902, young doctor Albert Barnes and chemist Hermann Hille rented rooms there to set up a makeshift pharmaceutical laboratory for producing Argyrol, a silver-derived treatment for gonorrhea and other infectious diseases. After Argyrol’s stupendous success, Barnes purchased the entire building and converted it into a full-blown factory. Picassos, Modiglianis, and de Chiricos hung on the walls. In other words, some of the Barnes Foundation’s most famous paintings made their American debuts on these walls.
Keep the faith . Don't give up or give in to the negative crap no place ever stays the same it's still a great city ! Put politics aside what's happening in Philly is happening in other cities as well . Remember the past , ya can't change the world it's all in the way you handle it I'm from the northeast I tried living in other areas but came back and I love Philly !
Growing up I spent my weekends at my dads in Tacony. My best memories are the parades that used to go down Torresdale. I still remember when the old trolly tracks where there. I can’t stand what it is now.
No one is going to gentrify Tacony. But gentrification has worked in a lot places. The closest one to Tacony is Fishtown. People bought into moving to the suburbs en masse in America. My parents did too. That's part of what happened to many city neighborhoods.
You're welcome! Check out my other Images of Philly videos. This was my first, since then I've added locations. Lots of videos and images on Philadelphia History and Old Images & Old Images of Philadelphia Riverward Neighborhoods FB groups!
Very good video! I love the old vintage photos of my hometown but I wish there were dates given and locations in the city where they were taken. The music was pretty good too that you chose to go along with it! 😊❤️👏🏻
I love viewing these old time videos of my hometown.... I can identify with a lot of these scenes from the 50s onward...those really were different times ....when you look at the situation today, well, to me, anyway, things on the whole, are a lot worse..
Yes I was going to send this to a friend but changed my mind since it doesn't tell where the most of these places are ... she grew up in the burbs and it would be harder for her to identify these .
Thank you for these awesome photos. I believe that as time moved on some of these locations are the same with the usual upgrades to match the times that we live in. More please because it is very interesting to see the city that you call home. We always get caught up living our lives that we don't stop to realize the history of our cities. Well done Mr. Jack.
I live in Philadelphia near the oldest roadway bridge in continuous use in the country. It was a path used by Lenape Indians then taken over by colonists. They built the bridge over Pennypack creek in 1695!! Later in the 1800s it was paved. Later it won awards for civil engineering. It’s just made of stones that were cut From a nearby quarry. There’s also a house near me from the early 1800s. That has a slave tunnel down to Pennypack Creek. That may not speak to your comment about architecture, but there’s history all over Philadelphia besides the famous things like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. There’s a little preserved areas everywhere from the late 16 and early 1700s
I agree 100 % Kathryn ! People that live here go on vacations (the shore , the Poconos, Boston , Florida , North and South Carolina etc. Etc. ) but what most of don't realize is that right here especially downtown you can take short day trips for years and years and hardly scratch the surface of historical places !
I'm from Philadelphia. I went to Chicago on business back in 2007 and I absolutely loved the city. We were right on the river, that had been dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day, and I remember wondering to someone 'like... is it always that color?' Chicago is definitely one of the jewels of the US when it comes to architecture and cityscape. And hey, didn't you guys give birth to the skyscraper?
I thought the first camera was invented in the 1800s so I was wondering how they got images from the 1700s. After some research I found out there was a invention from the 1600s called the camera obscura that allowed artists to draw very detailed images
We recently had our line done via Ancestry. We'd been told for most of our lives that we were Irish, English, French, and German, and that most of our family didn't arrive here until sometime in the early 1900's. Turns out, none of that is true. We are almost entirely English and Scottish - 8% Irish and 7% German - and our family arrived in the Philadelphia area before 1700. I don't think the test can go earlier than 1700 with any accuracy. We mostly stayed in this area, with only a small percentage migrating as far as Ohio.
I never knew my father's biological father. I started to work on his tree and due to a misspelling, I followed his line back to Wilhelm Rittenhouse, first papermaker in the New World and Billy Penn's cousin. After getting my DNA results back, I found a 3rd cousin and where my misspelling happened. I scrapped 500 people from tree and can clearly trace my father's maternal lines back to at least 13 Puritan families and 5 Dutch (NYC and state) colonists.
strangely enough although most of these images are over 100 years old many of them are very familiar. there are copies of streets in different parts of the city that are still there. and the sixties only began the destruction of many of these places.
As a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era you are absolutely right! The same thing happened to my old hometown of NYC. I am now retired and living in rural Illinois. It all began when a young Congressman named John Lindsay who ran for Mayor of NYC in 1964 told the public to just call him Mr. Liberal. And it has been except for 2 Mayors all downhill ever since. Now we have another stupid jerk Eric Adams who constantly promotes himself as having swagger. Just like the most corrupt Mayor of NYC James Walker of the 20th century in the decade of the 1920s.
overbrook is one of those neighborhoods that's are 100% philly but feel to be 'someplace else'. there's a couple neighborhoods like that in the far northeast.
@@BobbyJackShow Gotta be careful though. There's time during the day its so peaceful and pristine. But... there's times at night where it can get real sketchy.
Where did your ancestors migrate from? Why were immigrate Europeans preferable to people already living here? Why were your ancestors allowed assimilate? I can go on!
@@BobbyJackShow hi...i just think it would be better if the person posting these historical pics would caption them. Since they are in your possession.
Not “ founded in ?…” but found ,literally , found , free masonry , means free stone work , we used to wonder how they built all those huge buildings , well , it seems “ they” didn’t , check out Jon Levi , mind blowing research ,
At 7:16 mark shows the old Hotel Powelton and that building stands today at N 40th Street. In 1902, young doctor Albert Barnes and chemist Hermann Hille rented rooms there to set up a makeshift pharmaceutical laboratory for producing Argyrol, a silver-derived treatment for gonorrhea and other infectious diseases. After Argyrol’s stupendous success, Barnes purchased the entire building and converted it into a full-blown factory. Picassos, Modiglianis, and de Chiricos hung on the walls. In other words, some of the Barnes Foundation’s most famous paintings made their American debuts on these walls.
I didn't know that. Are you a member of Philadelphia History and Memories or Old Images/Philly Riverward FB groups?
Imagine running a pharmacology lab in a Hilton today. You'd be thrown out once the maid dimed on you.
As someone born in Tacony, it really breaks my heart to see what Philadelphia was once like compared to the way it is now 😢
Keep the faith . Don't give up or give in to the negative crap no place ever stays the same it's still a great city ! Put politics aside what's happening in Philly is happening in other cities as well . Remember the past , ya can't change the world it's all in the way you handle it I'm from the northeast I tried living in other areas but came back and I love Philly !
Growing up I spent my weekends at my dads in Tacony. My best memories are the parades that used to go down Torresdale. I still remember when the old trolly tracks where there. I can’t stand what it is now.
Tacony in the building!!! Yea the neighborhood and city went to shit it’s really crazy to see how it’s got…I miss chinks steaks and do do’s pizza
No one is going to gentrify Tacony. But gentrification has worked in a lot places. The closest one to Tacony is Fishtown.
People bought into moving to the suburbs en masse in America. My parents did too. That's part of what happened to many city neighborhoods.
Tacony was a company " town" created by the Diston Saw company.
Thanks. It was fun trying to identify locations. 🥰
You're welcome! Check out my other Images of Philly videos. This was my first, since then I've added locations. Lots of videos and images on Philadelphia History and Old Images & Old Images of Philadelphia Riverward Neighborhoods FB groups!
That was an awesome presentation of old Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
Very good video! I love the old vintage photos of my hometown but I wish there were dates given and locations in the city where they were taken. The music was pretty good too that you chose to go along with it! 😊❤️👏🏻
Thanks. This was the first video like it that I made 5 years ago. Since then, I've added located to my other Philly history videos. Check them out!
I am proud to have grown up in Philly, but I have moved on.
We thank you Rich, for updating us on your current wherabouts.
I love viewing these old time videos of my hometown.... I can identify with a lot of these scenes from the 50s onward...those really were different times
....when you look at the situation today, well, to me, anyway, things on the whole, are a lot worse..
It would have been nice to know the locations of these photos tho as a Philly native most are familiar to me
What parts of Philly?
Yes I was going to send this to a friend but changed my mind since it doesn't tell where the most of these places are ... she grew up in the burbs and it would be harder for her to identify these .
@@gardensofthegods Your friend in the burbs probably wouldn't be able to identify the places, so you don't want to embarrass her.
Thank you for these awesome photos. I believe that as time moved on some of these locations are the same with the usual upgrades to match the times that we live in. More please because it is very interesting to see the city that you call home. We always get caught up living our lives that we don't stop to realize the history of our cities. Well done Mr. Jack.
I've noticed that Philadelphia has a most unique style of architecture so unlike ours here in Chicago. I find that most interesting.
I live in Philadelphia near the oldest roadway bridge in continuous use in the country. It was a path used by Lenape Indians then taken over by colonists. They built the bridge over Pennypack creek in 1695!! Later in the 1800s it was paved. Later it won awards for civil engineering. It’s just made of stones that were cut From a nearby quarry. There’s also a house near me from the early 1800s. That has a slave tunnel down to Pennypack Creek. That may not speak to your comment about architecture, but there’s history all over Philadelphia besides the famous things like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. There’s a little preserved areas everywhere from the late 16 and early 1700s
But you guys manufactured the best pinball machines ! I find that interesting as well
I agree 100 % Kathryn ! People that live here go on vacations (the shore , the Poconos, Boston , Florida , North and South Carolina etc. Etc. ) but what most of don't realize is that right here especially downtown you can take short day trips for years and years and hardly scratch the surface of historical places !
I went to high school up the block from the old King's Highway bridge. Holmesburg bakery cream donuts are the BEST!
I'm from Philadelphia. I went to Chicago on business back in 2007 and I absolutely loved the city. We were right on the river, that had been dyed green for Saint Patrick's Day, and I remember wondering to someone 'like... is it always that color?' Chicago is definitely one of the jewels of the US when it comes to architecture and cityscape. And hey, didn't you guys give birth to the skyscraper?
What a great video. It would've been nice to post street names and/or location for point of reference.
This was the first video that I did like this. Check out my newest Philly videos!
Great shots, although documentation (place, year) would be very helpful.
I thought the first camera was invented in the 1800s so I was wondering how they got images from the 1700s. After some research I found out there was a invention from the 1600s called the camera obscura that allowed artists to draw very detailed images
Yeah but the real first photo was taken on 1825. That was 26 years since it was the last year of the 1700s
It says Images, not photos.
I saw my neighborhood in the 40s and my high school from the 30s. Thank you!
Which neighborhood/parish? Check out my other Philly historical images videos!
Port Richmond neighborhood and Northeast Catholic High School on Erie Avenue (across from Harbison Milk)@@BobbyJackShow
Great video.
Glad you enjoyed it
Fascinating
That is what Mr. Spock would say!
My ancestors arrived in port in the early 1720's. Philadelphia looks a lot like a European city and probably did right up through the 1950's.
That is so interesting!
The largest number of colonials were actually Swede's
How do you know? Did your family generation spoke to it to each younger generation? Or something
We recently had our line done via Ancestry. We'd been told for most of our lives that we were Irish, English, French, and German, and that most of our family didn't arrive here until sometime in the early 1900's. Turns out, none of that is true. We are almost entirely English and Scottish - 8% Irish and 7% German - and our family arrived in the Philadelphia area before 1700. I don't think the test can go earlier than 1700 with any accuracy. We mostly stayed in this area, with only a small percentage migrating as far as Ohio.
I never knew my father's biological father. I started to work on his tree and due to a misspelling, I followed his line back to Wilhelm Rittenhouse, first papermaker in the New World and Billy Penn's cousin. After getting my DNA results back, I found a 3rd cousin and where my misspelling happened. I scrapped 500 people from tree and can clearly trace my father's maternal lines back to at least 13 Puritan families and 5 Dutch (NYC and state) colonists.
Grew up in Juniata, but the family was from Kennsington. Some good memories here. Thx.
Check out the Facebook groups that I run... Old Images of Philadelphia Riverward Neighborhoods and Philadelphia History and Memories.
When houses were built strong.
strangely enough although most of these images are over 100 years old many of them are very familiar. there are copies of streets in different parts of the city that are still there. and the sixties only began the destruction of many of these places.
As a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era you are absolutely right! The same thing happened to my old hometown of NYC. I am now retired and living in rural Illinois. It all began when a young Congressman named John Lindsay who ran for Mayor of NYC in 1964 told the public to just call him Mr. Liberal. And it has been except for 2 Mayors all downhill ever since. Now we have another stupid jerk Eric Adams who constantly promotes himself as having swagger. Just like the most corrupt Mayor of NYC James Walker of the 20th century in the decade of the 1920s.
At the 6.50 mark we see the South Street Terminal of the Market Street Delaware Ave. El that opened in 1907 and demolished in 1939.
Do you know what it was demolished?
Thank you for a fine video enjoyed it ROBBIE PHILADELPHIA PA FISHTOWN
Thank you for watching! Check out my other Philly videos. I also run Old Images of Philadelphia Riverward Neighborhoods FB group, too.
The city went down the hill now. I grew up in overbrook park on 63 and lansdowne and the city is not the same. But nice to see these old pictures
59th and Jefferson. Ur right.
overbrook is one of those neighborhoods that's are 100% philly but feel to be 'someplace else'. there's a couple neighborhoods like that in the far northeast.
@@BobbyJackShow Gotta be careful though. There's time during the day its so peaceful and pristine. But... there's times at night where it can get real sketchy.
It's the narcotics ravaging the streets these days. Vito Corleone was right.
White flight is readon!
Divine Lorraine Hotel, Strawbridges, Lit Brothers, and City Hall. All are really old buildings.
7:35 Those must be those Trinity houses I've heard of. I never knew they were also Back-to-back houses too!
Yep. Father, son and holy ghost. My grandmother and grandfather grew up on the same block in Trinities just off Lehigh Avenue.
Love these photos! But at 6:50, where is that location
Somewhere on Kensington Avenue looks like they were still building the El train tracks
The great migration was the worst thing to happen to Northern American cities 😢
Blame mechanization of cotton harvesting and the desire by Southern Whites to be rid of their fellow Blacks. L*nching was "in vogue" at the time 🤢🤮🤮🤮
Why?
@@glossypots
The critters from the south 💩 destroyed Philadelphia just like they have every city!
That's why!
Where did your ancestors migrate from?
Why were immigrate Europeans preferable to people already living here? Why were your ancestors allowed assimilate? I can go on!
sadly, I don't see where any of these pictures are labelled.
Pics need dates please...
Feel free to research each photo and supply dates, places and names. Thank you.
@@BobbyJackShow hi...i just think it would be better if the person posting these historical pics would caption them. Since they are in your possession.
@@lindamarsella4743 have you viewed my other Philly videos? Most if not all have captions.
@@BobbyJackShow i will. thanks
At 6:05... that girl pushing the stopped looks lime she's no older than a teenager herself. Hopefully, she's a nanny and not the mom of those kids.
2:15 Are those tracks in the bottom left?
Are those Observatories in the background??
6:47 where is that taken from?
Right around Delaware Ave and SpringGarden.
Not “ founded in ?…” but found ,literally , found , free masonry , means free stone work , we used to wonder how they built all those huge buildings , well , it seems “ they” didn’t , check out Jon Levi , mind blowing research ,