Nobody really ever talks about the beautiful Saint Charles. I drive through downtown every day on the way to school. If you go into the public library, you can see some of the old newspapers back from the 1920’s! It means a lot as someone from Saint Charles to see something like this. 😂
Grew up here.. Still here... Arcada was a movie theater for a long time.. Before the movie started a piano and player would raise up from the ground in front of the screen and do a pre movie song or two... Also saw the original Ghostbusters movie and lightning hit the theater during the movie.... Crazy..
I’ve watched 3 videos of yours so far, I subscribed halfway through the first one. You’re so respectful of the places you explore and I like that about you. Keep it up! I love your channel :)
Do you guys live in Illinois? I’ve seen you do so many videos near the area and your one of the only people who say “Illinois” and not “illinoi” I live in the Chicago area so I was just curious.
Do Elgin! Downtown, the tower, casket factory, the armory, President Kennedy, the castle, the observatory, the watch factory, oldest cobblestone house, Elgins own currency, the mental health institute...You didn't discuss all the underground tunnels in St. Charles.
My parents used to own the casket factory in elgin! The whole building is incredibly creepy, we used to always joke that the haunted house that currently rents out space there could make more money by dropping people off deep in the building with a flashlight.
They owned the building after it was a factory, some of it is used for office space now, as well as a haunted house and a cabinet/wood carving facility. A large majority of it is empty though, and probably will stay that way until the building is eventually knocked down
I do remember walking through a room that was still set up as a casket showroom though, and I believe they had left some sort of framed certificate about how they had built one of the coffins for JFK, this was probably 10+ years ago though
IF you want more historic pics of events in Saint Charles, go to the second floor of the 303 n 2nd st (Rt 31) there are some there hanging on the walls of the hallways. BTW, this is the first time I've ever seen your vids. Keep up the good work!
1st off, congrats on crossing over 20,000 subscribers man! Your EP1 was informative & i learned alot about St. Charles, it's a beautiful place. I thought it was funny that you & your buddy were so amazed at the Coke-Cola bottle opener. Bring on EP2!
@@jacobweber7078 Oh that thing. wouldnt have called that a grotto. People keep trying to graffiti it in "satanic" symbols but obviously never bother to look any ACTUAL satanic symbols before doing so.
If you want to go to a historical site: you should go to Old Abilene Town in Abilene, Kansas. Almost all of the historical restaurants, houses, and stores are in very good conditions and most of them are still up and running. There's even an old school that you can go look at. If you go to the historical Society there they have an old log cabin house you can go to, and the historical Society itself is FULL of amazing things. You can also take a tour of Dwight D. Eisenhower's childhood home.
ANOTHER TOWN with a lot of history would be Bisbee, Arizona. It's a beautiful town with A LOT of history. I've been there before as well and it's beautiful
And yet another town that had a lot of history behind it: Tombstone, Arizona. I have personally been to all of these places and they are all breathtakingly perserved
Hey, I live in st Charles. Nice video. The Idle hour theatre was recently bough by another theatre company and is open now. A lot of the development by the river is complete and should be finished later this summer.
St. Charles is a gorgeous town. I'm sure you probably receive many Main Street suggestions, so here I go...Cedarburg, Wisconsin and Nashville, Indiana.
You should check out Elgin. It's huge and used the house the Elgin watch company and was a huge commercial and industrial hub in the past. Also, one interesting thing about the Hotel Baker is that it had a hydroelectric generator in the back to power itself and some of the nearby buildings back when it was built
Something about St. Charles you missed { in fact most of St. Charles current residents probably don't realize } is the huge connection to Texaco.....or should I say Texaco money! Nearby DeKalb became the barbed wire capital of the world { their high school team is still called the 'Barbs' to this day } and offered many opportunities for employment. A man named John Warne Gates { later nicknamed 'Bet-a-Million' Gates } was a sales rep & Texas was his territory. He was very good at his job & made good money which he used to start investments on the side - one of which was oil speculation. Well, he 'speculated' well & hit a gusher! A new business was formed - The Texas Company - aka 'Texaco'. Other business ventures were the steel industry & railroads. Gates died in Paris in 1911 leaving a fortune of around $40-50 million to his niece Dellora Angell Norris & his nephew Edward Baker, both from St. Charles. These two left a lasting legacy with gifts to the city, some of which you just visited such as the Arcada Theater, the Hotel Baker & the old St. Charles National Bank, to name but a few. Great video - you merely scratched the surface here, as far as history is concerned - do another one! Lots of subject matter remains! BTW - the 'Rocket Fizz' building was never a blacksmith shop....it's merely the location of a former blacksmith shop. The 'Rocket Fizz' building was built as a market. In 1943, the second 'version' of the Blue Goose supermarket moved in & stayed until a newer location opened up along the river & Illinois Ave. in 1963.....
I live in st Charles I actually had a dance recital at the Arcada. They have a secret club that’s based of the 1920s with waitresses dressed as flappers. I went up when they were having an art show in the area
Only if the state of Illinois would let you tour IYC saint charles lots of history in there many old buildings that they won't tear down due to the history
@@BrogodHuncho I know they would I was just an inmate there too lol I js wanted to see what people would say to that and if you you don't mind me asking what was the first 2 digits of your yin (just so I can see what time period u were there) mine is D50XXX just in case you wanted to know
Going from exploring Bandos to exploring Suburban towns! haha This is a neat series, dude. I'd really like to see where you go and how this series will development. I'd suggest seeing if you can get in touch with some historians from the towns you visit. Talk about the significance of the town and such. Also, a side note not really about the video, but I'd recommend looking into Open House Chicago. It's done every year in October and they open up a ton of buildings to the public all around Chicago, Oak Park and Evanston. I think you might really enjoy it. You can talk to me more about it if you want.
I love this. I am a little biased though because I am from here. You did some great shots on the inside. Definitely would have been more interesting if had mini interviews set up at the building(s). Another good idea: local historian to walk a little with you to explain the local history in relation to what you are doing. This would make this series definitely more interesting because the videography is great and you seem to know your stuff.
This was pretty good. I am local so I am real familiar with the strip. My one comment would be to turn off that background loop song cause it got real annoying after awhile. Maybe just use it for a theme song or something. Or if you add music switch it up a bit between breaks or something.
Cool video. Next time it would be interesting if you did a few interviews with some of the local old timers that would give you their perspective on what life was like there in the past
Love it bro! I also did something similar a while back. So far everything is great but my only tip which I also need to work on is b-roll. Dialog is great but maybe throw some cinematography of your flair. So far so good. Looking forward to next episodes!!! Cheers!
This was on my recommend and I live in st. Charles!!😂
Same though
Same
Same here
Same
Creepy this was in my recommended and I live in Geneva IL and I've never watched one of your vids
Yeah, I live in Geneva, same thing..
I live in saint Charles and this popped up😂
Same
Same
Batavia for me lol. Same exact thing.
Gotta love my city! I don’t ever want to move away. Great video, definitely the best one about the city out there.
Exploring With Sloth my boy 🤝👵🏾
This city is great never have left it
Yooooooo
Nobody really ever talks about the beautiful Saint Charles. I drive through downtown every day on the way to school. If you go into the public library, you can see some of the old newspapers back from the 1920’s! It means a lot as someone from Saint Charles to see something like this. 😂
Glad you stopped by, but kind of a shame you did not walk down the river to Pottawatomie park where the gazebo was originally built in the late 1800s.
I live down here in St Charles!! That’s crazy!
I live here to that is crazy
Haha same bros
You have a gorgeous town :)
So much Fandoms same
Ahhh I love visiting St. Charles, it’s so beautiful in that area! I believe that’s where Walhburger’s is going as well!
Grew up here.. Still here... Arcada was a movie theater for a long time.. Before the movie started a piano and player would raise up from the ground in front of the screen and do a pre movie song or two... Also saw the original Ghostbusters movie and lightning hit the theater during the movie.... Crazy..
I’ve watched 3 videos of yours so far, I subscribed halfway through the first one. You’re so respectful of the places you explore and I like that about you. Keep it up! I love your channel :)
Hanzie Bear Thank you so much ❤️ More to come
@frosty z Thanks dude!
Do you guys live in Illinois? I’ve seen you do so many videos near the area and your one of the only people who say “Illinois” and not “illinoi” I live in the Chicago area so I was just curious.
Do Elgin! Downtown, the tower, casket factory, the armory, President Kennedy, the castle, the observatory, the watch factory, oldest cobblestone house, Elgins own currency, the mental health institute...You didn't discuss all the underground tunnels in St. Charles.
My parents used to own the casket factory in elgin! The whole building is incredibly creepy, we used to always joke that the haunted house that currently rents out space there could make more money by dropping people off deep in the building with a flashlight.
They owned the building after it was a factory, some of it is used for office space now, as well as a haunted house and a cabinet/wood carving facility. A large majority of it is empty though, and probably will stay that way until the building is eventually knocked down
I do remember walking through a room that was still set up as a casket showroom though, and I believe they had left some sort of framed certificate about how they had built one of the coffins for JFK, this was probably 10+ years ago though
I grew up there. That theatre was amazing to go to. Then it cloesd for a long time. Road to perdition was shot there as well.
Saint Charles east gang where you at?
Right here dude
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Go North
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As a UK citizen with a friend who lives on the outskirts of St Charles, I found this fascinating,. So well done and thank you.
When I saw the beaver all I can think of is “who is justice beaver”😂
Emmy Minaya totally right same here😂
Good to see a lot of shops are in business. Loved this episode, excited for more!
Batavia IL downtown is actually pretty cool too. Lots of history.
The arcada theatre was built in 1926..it has a pipe organ in it still..in use to this day..its also hunted..a great place to see a concert
The filling Station has amazing food! What an awesome town! Lived near there my whole life.
I used to live at a place that looked exactly like that
OH MY GAWD DAT IS MY HOME TOWN
You should come and check out Aurora il lots of rich history in this town
You forgot the part where they keep raising the property taxes.
Awww. That beaver @ 2:51 was so cute! Nice work on this video with just the right amount of historical relevance added in your dialogue. 😷👍 for ya.
IF you want more historic pics of events in Saint Charles, go to the second floor of the 303 n 2nd st (Rt 31) there are some there hanging on the walls of the hallways. BTW, this is the first time I've ever seen your vids. Keep up the good work!
Whoa!!! Happened to be watching this today!!! Happy 2 year mark!!!
HEY SISTERS ITS ST. CHARLES HERE WELCOME BACK TO A NEW VIDEOOOO
It was so cool to see a perspective of my hometown from someone else. Sometimes I forget how pretty it is
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching
@@lordexplores Yeah, you even filmed some stuff I'd never noticed. Still have never been in Hotel Baker
Awesome 👍😊 I love your videos
Thank you!
Amazing! Considering that I live here and all haha...
STC BABY LETS GOOOOO
Yeah about 2 months ago I went here for a school field trip and watched a show
1st off, congrats on crossing over 20,000 subscribers man! Your EP1 was informative & i learned alot about St. Charles, it's a beautiful place. I thought it was funny that you & your buddy were so amazed at the Coke-Cola bottle opener. Bring on EP2!
There used to be a Coca Cola botling plant down East on North Avenue ( 64 ) before Pheasant Run, if its still there!
Do Geneva we have awesome history additional to a hidden grotto
@@jacobweber7078 what grotto? the place right at the bridge with the stupidly huge catfish or something else?
@@jacobweber7078 Oh that thing. wouldnt have called that a grotto. People keep trying to graffiti it in "satanic" symbols but obviously never bother to look any ACTUAL satanic symbols before doing so.
bro we are way more historic just saying when was geneva created defently not 1833
I love st Charles! I just had a dance performance at the arcada theater 2 weeks ago
I did too! I don’t know what company you’re from, but I’m sure you did an amazing job! All of the dances were amazing
Mörgaña I was from dreams dance academy
I also have never seen this guys channel before and had this video recommended to me as well. I also live in st Charles.
If you want to go to a historical site: you should go to Old Abilene Town in Abilene, Kansas. Almost all of the historical restaurants, houses, and stores are in very good conditions and most of them are still up and running. There's even an old school that you can go look at. If you go to the historical Society there they have an old log cabin house you can go to, and the historical Society itself is FULL of amazing things. You can also take a tour of Dwight D. Eisenhower's childhood home.
ANOTHER TOWN with a lot of history would be Bisbee, Arizona. It's a beautiful town with A LOT of history. I've been there before as well and it's beautiful
And yet another town that had a lot of history behind it: Tombstone, Arizona. I have personally been to all of these places and they are all breathtakingly perserved
I'll be in AZ soon so I will definitely look up those towns! Thanks for your knowledge and thank you for watching! :D
Thanks, guys.
Hey, I live in st Charles. Nice video. The Idle hour theatre was recently bough by another theatre company and is open now. A lot of the development by the river is complete and should be finished later this summer.
I came across your channel by accident
I got to say i don't regret it. Love your vids, good job
St. Charles is a gorgeous town. I'm sure you probably receive many Main Street suggestions, so here I go...Cedarburg, Wisconsin and Nashville, Indiana.
Nicely done...another great midwestern historic river town is Madison, IN. Largest contiguous historic district in the central US.
my gran-papi owned a bicylce shop and harbored al capone when he'd slide thru the crib nahm sayin. check it out in Geneva called Capones Hideout
You killed it! I would say get more geographical, north of 64, or 2 blocks west of 25, stuff like that.
Another Awesome walkabout. 2:20 sounds so nice! I appreciate your skill and your passion it def shows thru! Loved it! 😍😍😍
St. Charles is awesome
Love how much detail you included in this video. I grew up here, so this was cool to watch!
Great video! Can’t wait for the rest of the series!!
I recommend going to ALLEY 64 in Saint Charles!!!!
This is a nice place to have cocktails and socialize...
Awsome content in this video I have lived in st.charles il for 20years
Well my FBI agent is ON IT. I've been looking at moving to st. charles/batavia area and here we are in my recommended. thank you for the video!
You should check out Elgin. It's huge and used the house the Elgin watch company and was a huge commercial and industrial hub in the past. Also, one interesting thing about the Hotel Baker is that it had a hydroelectric generator in the back to power itself and some of the nearby buildings back when it was built
I live in St Charles for 7 months it's a pretty town
Exciting vids! Would love to join u guys. Haha. Moved here in IL recently (from The Philippines).
0:23 He litrally almost got ran over by a car 😱
Lol
Something about St. Charles you missed { in fact most of St. Charles current residents probably don't realize } is the huge connection to Texaco.....or should I say Texaco money! Nearby DeKalb became the barbed wire capital of the world { their high school team is still called the 'Barbs' to this day } and offered many opportunities for employment. A man named John Warne Gates { later nicknamed 'Bet-a-Million' Gates } was a sales rep & Texas was his territory. He was very good at his job & made good money which he used to start investments on the side - one of which was oil speculation. Well, he 'speculated' well & hit a gusher! A new business was formed - The Texas Company - aka 'Texaco'. Other business ventures were the steel industry & railroads. Gates died in Paris in 1911 leaving a fortune of around $40-50 million to his niece Dellora Angell Norris & his nephew Edward Baker, both from St. Charles. These two left a lasting legacy with gifts to the city, some of which you just visited such as the Arcada Theater, the Hotel Baker & the old St. Charles National Bank, to name but a few. Great video - you merely scratched the surface here, as far as history is concerned - do another one! Lots of subject matter remains! BTW - the 'Rocket Fizz' building was never a blacksmith shop....it's merely the location of a former blacksmith shop. The 'Rocket Fizz' building was built as a market. In 1943, the second 'version' of the Blue Goose supermarket moved in & stayed until a newer location opened up along the river & Illinois Ave. in 1963.....
I know this town by heart
Try forever yougert it’s great
I live here
Hometown
My hometown 😍
I live in st Charles I actually had a dance recital at the Arcada. They have a secret club that’s based of the 1920s with waitresses dressed as flappers. I went up when they were having an art show in the area
I used to live there and go to Bell Graham Elementary School
how does this only have 462 views
😃 That's where my family is from!! 😊
I find it cool but weird that you covered saint Charles probably just be I live around there
Only if the state of Illinois would let you tour IYC saint charles lots of history in there many old buildings that they won't tear down due to the history
Corey Renwick yeah but I used to be an inmate in there the inmates might just attack you state don’t want that on they hands
@@BrogodHuncho I know they would I was just an inmate there too lol I js wanted to see what people would say to that and if you you don't mind me asking what was the first 2 digits of your yin (just so I can see what time period u were there) mine is D50XXX just in case you wanted to know
I dig this series so far bro! Great commentary.
Ok. Next time I go, ima try getting a Coke and open it by the old Coca Cola machine! Please keep this coming!!!!
Going from exploring Bandos to exploring Suburban towns! haha
This is a neat series, dude. I'd really like to see where you go and how this series will development. I'd suggest seeing if you can get in touch with some historians from the towns you visit. Talk about the significance of the town and such.
Also, a side note not really about the video, but I'd recommend looking into Open House Chicago. It's done every year in October and they open up a ton of buildings to the public all around Chicago, Oak Park and Evanston. I think you might really enjoy it. You can talk to me more about it if you want.
The new buildings are there now, love st Charles. I live one town over
You're so underated. Plus 1 sub!
I love this. I am a little biased though because I am from here. You did some great shots on the inside. Definitely would have been more interesting if had mini interviews set up at the building(s). Another good idea: local historian to walk a little with you to explain the local history in relation to what you are doing. This would make this series definitely more interesting because the videography is great and you seem to know your stuff.
What about Alton, IL ? 🤔 also they have great coffee in Alton.
I love history and this great. you have the voice and character for excellent narration. I look forward to more.
Nice! Done just as well as your abandoned videos 👏👏👏
I was at the same show at the Arcada!
Hey I live there such a nice town very open and inviting that spire changes color when it gets dark out
You got more to see in Saint Charles. Our antique shop is located in a turn of the century hospital
yall came here!
This was pretty good. I am local so I am real familiar with the strip. My one comment would be to turn off that background loop song cause it got real annoying after awhile. Maybe just use it for a theme song or something. Or if you add music switch it up a bit between breaks or something.
3:05 you chose to do this when it was raining so hard that it was up to almost the bridge
You could add, for your St. Charles IL video, that the TV star Donny Walburg lives here.
Cool video. Next time it would be interesting if you did a few interviews with some of the local old timers that would give you their perspective on what life was like there in the past
You guys should check out the SCI prison in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
My dad built that drum chandelier at the Arcada lol
I wented high school in st.charles high school I saw easton corbin in concert 2013
Nice video! 👍
Love it bro! I also did something similar a while back. So far everything is great but my only tip which I also need to work on is b-roll. Dialog is great but maybe throw some cinematography of your flair. So far so good. Looking forward to next episodes!!! Cheers!
I love my city :3
Nice video, live right up the river in Elgin, also a very interesting downtown.
Nice 👍🏽
The building is alter brewing
Who else live here and got this on there recommended
I live thier
You no click bait love you my bro
Dude I live here
I work there at Riverside Pizza & Pub
Chief Keef Sosa I just got a job there lol. At the new Batavia location.
Jäger From GSG9 wow that’s crazy small world we live in 😂
Chief Keef Sosa it really is.
I live in st. Charles
How is st charles with longboarding? I'm visiting next week and was gonna use mine to cruise around.
Great video !!!
I live about ten minutes away from here :)