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Scott Dailey
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Приєднався 2 лис 2012
Hi, I'm Scott Dailey and I love exploring the abandoned, quirky, and interesting pieces of the built environment. Thanks for joining me.
Architect, Historian
Topics Covered: Abandoned Places, Obscure History, Architecture, Texas, Houston, Infrastructure
Architect, Historian
Topics Covered: Abandoned Places, Obscure History, Architecture, Texas, Houston, Infrastructure
POISONED PICHER - Everything That Remains
Once a booming mining town, Picher was long in decline after mining ceased, before being slowly poisoned in a decades-long environmental catastrophe. It was designated as an EPA superfund site in 1983 with the goal of remediating the town’s toxicity, but in the 1990s they deemed the entire town uninhabitable, and began buying the residents out of their land. If Picher had not been dealt enough blows already, the town was struck by an EF4 Tornado in 2008, killing 6, injuring 150, and flattening much of the largely abandoned cityscape. I was curious, after such a wild journey, to see what remained of Picher. This is what I found.
SOURCES | FURTHER READING
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
panethos.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/picher-oklahoma-from-lead-zone-to-dead-zone/
careygillam.com/articles/article/feature-slow-death-consumes-oklahoma-mining-town
www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TR014
Great article on Picher: www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/last-residents-picher-oklahoma-won-t-give-ghost-town-n89611
EPA Superfund Presentation: web.archive.org/web/20180912204717/www.sagchip.org/planning/NRDR/pdf/TriStateMining.pdf
Research paper on poisoning: www.researchgate.net/publication/8073209_Zinc_and_Lead_Poisoning_in_Wild_Birds_in_the_Tri-State_Mining_District_Oklahoma_Kansas_and_Missouri
picryl.com/topics/picher
News Report on Picher Residents: ua-cam.com/video/HqM6jyxuRRU/v-deo.html
News Report on Picher Poisoning, EPA work: ua-cam.com/video/3yYl2nmKGhE/v-deo.html
Video on the tornado: ua-cam.com/video/CDZAZ4PbK-I/v-deo.html
Oklahoma News Report on Picher: ua-cam.com/video/lpox6VEZJsc/v-deo.html
TOPICS COVERED
Abandoned, Abandoned Places, Abandoned America, Picher, Picher OK, Abandoned Oklahoma, EPA, Environmental Catastrophe, Lead Poisoning, Oklahoma, Toxic Waste, Pollution, Tornado
SOURCES | FURTHER READING
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
panethos.wordpress.com/2023/08/07/picher-oklahoma-from-lead-zone-to-dead-zone/
careygillam.com/articles/article/feature-slow-death-consumes-oklahoma-mining-town
www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=TR014
Great article on Picher: www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/last-residents-picher-oklahoma-won-t-give-ghost-town-n89611
EPA Superfund Presentation: web.archive.org/web/20180912204717/www.sagchip.org/planning/NRDR/pdf/TriStateMining.pdf
Research paper on poisoning: www.researchgate.net/publication/8073209_Zinc_and_Lead_Poisoning_in_Wild_Birds_in_the_Tri-State_Mining_District_Oklahoma_Kansas_and_Missouri
picryl.com/topics/picher
News Report on Picher Residents: ua-cam.com/video/HqM6jyxuRRU/v-deo.html
News Report on Picher Poisoning, EPA work: ua-cam.com/video/3yYl2nmKGhE/v-deo.html
Video on the tornado: ua-cam.com/video/CDZAZ4PbK-I/v-deo.html
Oklahoma News Report on Picher: ua-cam.com/video/lpox6VEZJsc/v-deo.html
TOPICS COVERED
Abandoned, Abandoned Places, Abandoned America, Picher, Picher OK, Abandoned Oklahoma, EPA, Environmental Catastrophe, Lead Poisoning, Oklahoma, Toxic Waste, Pollution, Tornado
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Sketchy Abandoned Vegas Motels, and Their Uncertain Future
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Beyond the glitz and glamor of the strip, A half mile east of old downtown is a cluster of abandoned motels essentially frozen in time. They had names like the Star View and the Lucky, one story themed buildings wrapped around parking lots and swimming pools, their neon signs harkening back to a mid century vegas boom. It’s been 80 years since the first motels appeared on East Fremont Street, a...
BATTLE WON, Fight to Save the Luther Hotel Continues
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Almost a year ago, I made a video about the Luther Hotel, a historic 120 year old seaside hotel in the small texas town of palacios that was about to be torn down, an unfortunate but not uncommon outcome for buildings like this. Just when the hotel was on the brink of demolition, and crews had begun cleaning out the interior, a dedicated cohort of preservationists teamed up to imagine a differe...
Emancipation, Education, & Abandoned Buildings - The Mary Allen Seminary
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On a hill in the north end of Crockett, Texas, are the crumbling remains of a grand, seemingly out of place structure. The four story second empire building towers over the surrounding landscape, and although it’s been abandoned for fifty years now, when it was conceived it was a revolutionary institution for the state of Texas. This is the Mary Allen Seminary, and in 1886 it became the first c...
Goal Park: Houston Artist Reimaging Columbia Tap Trail in EaDo
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For over a decade now, Houston artist C.R Betirri has been injecting vibrant life into spaces across the city and the world with his colorful and unique art and murals. In 2016, he saw an opportunity for his passions in arts and sports to convene in his East Downtown neighborhood, while contributing to the area’s rapidly evolving cityscape. He is the visionary behind Goal Park, the reimagining ...
NYC's HIDDEN FAIRYLAND: Forest Hills, Queens
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In the bustling streets of Queens, New York is a hidden place unlike anywhere else in the city. This tunnel here is a portal to an architectural fairyland where the bustle of New York is traded for winding tree lined streets, whimsical Tudor castles, and carefully landscaped parks. It’s called Forest Hills, and it was envisioned over a century ago as a suburban escape from the city, designed af...
Ghosts of American Steel [PA] [Carrie Furnace] [Abandoned]
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Looming over the Monongahela River Southeast of Pittsburgh is an awe inspiring relic of a bygone era in the city’s life. It’s been 45 years since the final piece of iron left the Carrie Furnace, and these rusted husks are nearly all that remains of what was once the largest steel mill in the world, and a critical piece of the region’s former industrial might. The full site of the Homestead Stee...
The Man Making Houston Bikeable
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atotb.org/ Emmanuel Nunez is not your typical Houstonian. In a city where the average commuter drives nearly an hour a day, he almost never gets in his car. He does nearly all of his travel by bike and public transit, giving him a relationship with the city and his close-in neighborhood very different from most commuters. Just over 10 years ago he identified two missing links in Houston’s growi...
The Future of Housing that Wasn't
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For the past decade no building has captivated me quite like Habitat 67. Ascending over the Saint Lawrence River opposite Montreal Harbor, this is an apartment complex like no other, an experimental project intended to usher the world into a livable, egalitarian urbanist future at a time when global society seemed to be rethinking everything. Views, light, and nature for the masses, in a bold a...
Abandoned Houston Shipyard to Become Public Park
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Turkey Bend, East Houston. This unassuming warehouse may not catch your eye at first glance, but a few hundred feet behind us might be the coolest pieces of Industrial decay in the city, and one that’s at the core of a massive revamp of Buffalo Bayou through the East End. Serving its life as the Houston Barge Terminal, this site is a truly one of a kind opportunity in Houston. A victim to both ...
Why DALLAS Was Almost a PORT | [TX]
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Over 200 miles inland, Dallas, Texas is an unlikely port city. Nonetheless, for a hundred years of the city’s history, on and off efforts to make the Trinity River navigable resulted in what is today six abandoned dams and locks intended to be part of a network leading from Dallas to Trinity Bay. Let’s explore them! SOURCES | FURTHER READING 1. www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2023/mar...
Historic, Abandoned Luther Hotel TO BE DEMOLISHED
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Built in 1903, the Luther Hotel in Palacios, Texas is a historic seaside escape fronting the town's shoreline. This wood clad three story building dates back to the establishment of the settlement as a railroad and resort town in the early 1900s, and has been a fixture of the city’s waterscape ever since. In its lifetime, it hosted LBJ, Rita Hayworth, and Shirley Temple. But thanks to decades o...
BLOCKS of East Houston About to be DEMOLISHED
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Nowhere is Houston’s urban progress more evident than on St. Emanuel Street in East Downtown. Over the past 20 years, this area has transformed from a gritty, half inhabited industrial neighborhood to one of the most active streets in the city. But thanks to an ambitious and controversial highway widening plan that now seems inevitable, this entire half of the street - including entire blocks o...
ALL THE DRAMA on the Houston-Dallas High Speed Rail Line
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Since my last video covering Texas Central, a lot has happened with the project, but none of it gives a definite answer as to what the next steps are for the rail line. Texas Central is the private company behind the 240 mile high speed rail line connecting Houston and Dallas, a project first announced 10 years ago that has met both excitement and skepticism. Near the end of a multi-year battle...
The Texas Rust Belt: How Changing Industry Made Port Arthur a Relic Amidst a Statewide Boom
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Located in the far Southeast corner of Texas along the Louisiana border, Port Arthur is a city built for a boom that busted. Home to the nation's largest refining complex, the city developed on oil money and blue collar jobs. But as the turbulence of the 60s and 70s and the decades long decline in refining jobs took hold, Port Arthur became a shell of the city it once was. SOURCES | FURTHER REA...
PRESERVED - An 1800s Alsatian Village in Rural South Texas
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PRESERVED - An 1800s Alsatian Village in Rural South Texas
Mysterious Burial Crypt Hidden Under Houston Bridge
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Mysterious Burial Crypt Hidden Under Houston Bridge
Abandoned Amusement Park Slowly Becomes Nature Preserve in Texas
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Abandoned Amusement Park Slowly Becomes Nature Preserve in Texas
Will Dubai's Quick Rise Stand the Test of Time?
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Will Dubai's Quick Rise Stand the Test of Time?
Dead Mall to Become New Texas Bullet Train Station
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Dead Mall to Become New Texas Bullet Train Station
Abandoned Pineda Island Resort (AL, US)
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Abandoned Pineda Island Resort (AL, US)
Response to Not Just Bikes: Why I Hate Houston
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Response to Not Just Bikes: Why I Hate Houston
Farewell to the Warehouses of Timbergrove
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Farewell to the Warehouses of Timbergrove
Iconic Abandoned Hotel with Weird History
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Iconic Abandoned Hotel with Weird History
Serial Killer's Texas Legacy (Texas Railroad Killer)
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Serial Killer's Texas Legacy (Texas Railroad Killer)
Texas' Beaches Are Disappearing, Leaving a Wake of Worthless Waterfront Houses
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Texas' Beaches Are Disappearing, Leaving a Wake of Worthless Waterfront Houses
Where the Pecos River Crosses Itself
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Where the Pecos River Crosses Itself
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Take a dog or cat with you to see how they react
I live in Warsaw, Poland. If I wanted to avoid flying, I could leave by train early tomorrow morning and be in Barcelona before the end of the day.
A shame they had no conscience when harming those innocent seals for greed
💯 % trash
A bullet train, or HSR is the stupidest thing ever, for Texas. Put on your thinking caps. Ha! *It goes from Houston to Dallas - please let me know why it's important to travel between these two cities rapidly... *How many people will be riding on this train between these two cities? Is it a justification of the costs? *Just because we can build something, does not mean that we should...Texas is unique all on it's own. We don't need to copy what other places have to be relevant - because that's all it would be, in reality. This toy train does not help the masses. The one's that are proponents stand to gain money from this project. Do not believe that they are doing it for Texan's benefit.
1:54 ive never heard anyone pronounce archipelago like that before
I barely passed english
@ScottDaileyUA-cam all good, gave me a good chuckle
0:36 There are no good things about it :(
very nice video, but you can't do a FHG retrospective without mentioning and showing the amazing the tennis stadium, its past glory (US tennis open host until 79, Sinatra and the Beatles played there) and its current rebirth. for another project try nearby sunnyside gardens. same garden repose in the big city concept but smaller scale, mews, not tudor revival
The former residents didn't look at the bigger Picher
hilarious/grim...
I dont get why everyone thinks Houston is the best place on earth for getting dates as a single young man.
Compare Dallas' to St Louis in yudsydy river traffic while the Trinity flows in one direction it's fixed going down and the supply line is. Nothing today.... illusions and fools stones bc are the dreams carnies have to scam you for river boat money and.it will always sink the concept..
Scott. I always enjoy your videos. I had a good friend who grew up and lived in Miami. Pronounced “ Miamah”” since it’s close to the “Missouah” border. I didn’t know about Picher and it’s a sad story. That part of northeastern Oklahoma can be very beautiful. I’m on the road traveling in a van and am now in the Sawtooths of Idaho. I’m taking videos and someday I’ll need your advice on editing. Cheers! Duke
Very inspiring video
Stole alot of land for this to still not even be a reality yet. Trxas is communist AF
Yes, I am waiting to ride the train to Dallas . This use to be a busy mall back in 1980 when I was in high school when I was living in Spring Branch.
ANOTHER Progressive pipe dream/fantasy. A bottomless, 'feel good', bottomless taxpayer money pit the only benefits a few local OLIGARCHS, supported by the lying local media.
I thought you were going to talk about Fairyland, which was an amusement park in the early 1960s that was on the property where Queens Center Mall is now.
It is late in the day, but the planned route should borrow from Herb's light bulb moment to connect the three major metroplexes. The central point of IAH/DFW/SAT is around College Station and Waco. Instead of a Delta configuration, the route could conform to a three-legged stool.
Dallas should expand their only river ..
I love hearing history of these old towns.. hope government does something to rebuild these towns ..
The fact that it's PRECAST CONCRETE aka PLATTENBAU architecture to our German architecture fans yet it looks like that says that you can have both efficient, quality construction and a spectacular looking development rich in details... There's no excuse for crappy, slapdash designs without proper decoration when Forest Hills looks like this!
They don't build them like this anymore, which is a crying shame. These places are paradise compared to the austere offerings on display in both cities and suburbs...
It's Centralia of the South! Nothing finishes off a place like a twister, believe me... That or a forest fire... Survived both in my time and it's really the heavens way of telling to you to move on!
Image at 1:16 - Picher Furniture & Undertaking Company. Now that's an interesting combination of businesses.
🤣 I hadn't even noticed that
Indeed.
Great video! The project isn't worth it imo. That river has too many issues to overcome. The flooding issues, silt and debris alone would scare me off from funding anything dealing with the Trinity. Cool idea still.
Agreed! Failed thrice!
Yo conocí ese lugar!
Why would anybody want to go to Dallas or Houston?
If the cabal were to be eliminated and HAARP were nonexistent, we could actually have peaceful weather, as God intended. HAARP stirs up and steers these devastating hurricane events. Harvey sat on top of Houston for days- that's not normal. Pray for peaceful times to return. I surely will.
Same location was used maybe 20 year ago or less as a club, it was underground awesome experience in my teens
What was the name of it
Not sure but I saw this and I was great: ua-cam.com/video/L4Dvm3OXVWE/v-deo.htmlsi=UkPcfOT-ZH1_pH5B😛
NJB is a flawed channel run by a flawed guy. He is all about the clicks now, and counterproductive to the concepts he claims to support. Chuck at Strong Towns seems to be a guy who realizes when he’s going in the wrong direction and improves, but that NJB guy loves his attention too much.
Dallas is a filthy sewer.
And if it was shut down trains would be running every hour today... Sad how decision makers self-centered values keep other people from achieving greatness, and enjoying the value of innovation.
Please Texas voters, push for this program. We are already 25 years behind China and Japan in mass transit
i remember growing up driving through here & i’d always love looking out the window haha i always loved the architecture!
International and Great Northern Railroad, now Union Pacific.
You're a liar!!! I have plenty of proof to prove what I'm saying. You obviously did not go through the things I and my family went through. Contact me liar. I have the real truth.
It's kind of ironic that they want to spend a lot of money to put a transportation hub where a dead moth sits because the location made it hard to get to
Does Houston’s humid climate play a role in the deterioration of these developments?
It does - buildings in desert or otherwise dry air climates tend to do better.
Wow , the stomping grounds of America's greatest ever : Ramones.❤
In the mid 80s local industry laid off several thousand workers and quit using union contractors. The area went to shit after that.
Reminds me of Riverside Illinois, also an Olmstead project. Wish MORE places looked like that!
I used to explore that bunker when I was a kid. It had ammo rooms, rooms that looked like a jail Cell with bars. I remember one room with the label above the entrance that said "Hell Room" ( Never found out what that room was used for) It wasn't garatti, It was in Government block lettering, And you could tell it had been on there for years. I am surprised the Hotel has not utilized the bunker for a patio bar, or restaurant. I certainly would.
I wish they would have utilized it more!
The project overlooks one critical fact. No one wants to go to Houston. Even the people in Houston, don't want to be there. And DFW certainly does not want them. So why give them high speed rail to get them up here faster?
San Louie or San Luis? I always thought it was the San Luis.
OH CRAP IT WAS SEMI ABANDONED ITOUT IT WAS AL THE WAY ABANDONED AND WHERE LETHERFACE SLAUGTRED LIKE KIDS BUT NO... NO GOST CILDREN HERE
Yeah, and Mrs. Kennedy 'almost' had a nice visit in '63. Way to go, Dallas; forever in love with yourself.
A couple of years ago I moved off of Beltline road near Seagoville and just drove one day down Beltline to see where it would leave and it crosses over a part of the Trinity River where you can see these concrete structures in the river. I always wondered why they were there and just assumed maybe Dallas had a Ferry system back in the early 1900’s I had no idea that these are remnants of Lock and Dam system. Thank you for this history lesson as a history buff I am always amazed to find out things like this about our city.