President Harding Tours Alaska in a Specially Adapted Car
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- For his 1923 trip to Alaska, U.S. president Warren G. Harding travels on an unusual mode of transportation: a Dodge Roadster specially converted to run on train tracks.
From the Series: America in Color: Alaska bit.ly/2r4VJDe
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Amazing restoration...bravo to the technicians who brought this footage back from the dead. Great work Smithsonian.
Danke schon
Amazing work. Cleaned up and in color it brings the past much closer.
If only there were to be more surviving footage... but some is better than none.
I played it at .75 speed on youtube and it was much better, although the narration was a bit lethargic-sounding.
Partyrockscool than
There is more. I've seen several called the only surviving footage.
Now where exactly did they say that gold spike is on the tracks?
It's right there --->
It's only coated in gold.
But gold is week brah.
It,s not gold at all only golden paint
@Biasly Unbiased if you are right
How can such amount of money stay there with tousands of people
Starving in the area 5 minute is enought to be banned have you think
That
1:21 "It requires multiple wacks to hammer the spike"
Harding: **Missed completly**
The Incredible Hunk As someone who works for a railroad museum and has tried the navie style I can assure you it is quite difficult without practising first.
Jacob Woods wasn’t that all people did back then??
Indeed CAN Control. Today however it is more commonly done with pneumatic hammers, plus I do not work on the permanent way team. Back then however that was all navies did so they certainly were skilled.
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Using a sledge hammer requires a bit of space to get effective swings.
That's something Harding did not have.
Also I really dont think driving a golden nail is going to work so it's probably best to miss and then just use an iron one when the camera is off.
President Harding died later that same year. I see Herbert Hoover in the background in the first scene in Alaska; he was Secretary of Commerce at the time.
That trip is what killed him. It made him weak.
He died about 2 and a half weeks after laying down that spike on August 2 1923 I believe in San Francisco
@@kevinconner2425. True.
That last steel cantilever bridge is at Nenanna and it still stands and is in use today.
That footage is amazing. Looks like it could’ve been shot yesterday. More please.
type in smithsonian channel america in color and more videos similar to this are at You Tube
Amazing footage! Awesome to see 2 Presidents in one clip!
Wow! Good quality color film.
In 1922 Kodachrome color movie film was introduced. Not cheap either.
This is a famous actual quote from our 29th President " Screwing is more enjoyable than drilling bolt holes !" - Warren G Harding. I consider it a memorable quote from a valid authority. It shows in this video also his abundant skills in hammering. The restoration of this video is absolutely amazing.
He should know considering the number of Mistresses that He had. He impregnated One, Nan Britton. It’s strange that He didn’t impregnate some of the others.
At :26, is that Herbert Hoover? He was Secretary of Commerce from 1921-1923.
Yes, it's Herbert Hoover
Yes, I recognized him immediately.
greg myers he looked like a kid!
@@phildomingo2786 he is about 49 here. Considering he lived to the age of 90 perhaps that is why. Fun fact, they had planned and practiced his state funeral in 1963 and this ended up having to be used for JFK, who at the time of this video was about six. It was these preparations that was seized upon by conspiracy theorists to claim they had advance knowledge of JFKs death when in reality it was for the 90 year old Hoover, who ended up passing away in 1964. Combined with Ikes death in 69 and LBJ in 73, this meant that Nixon was the only living President until his resignation. The only other time this happened that I can recall was 1799.
yep
This is awesome piece of History in Color!
I love Harding!
Same, he was an underrated President
These rotten stinking leftists historians, have vilified him, U.S. Grant, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, and Calvin Coolidge. All of them are good and underrated presidents. Coolidge is the best though.
The first scenes are from the President's visit to Vancouver, BC. Which explains all the Union flags and flanking Mounties (RCMP)
Seward is one of the most beautiful places you can easily visit here.
Surprised to see UK and Netherlands flags there.
That was in Canada, I assume somewhere in BC. The Presidents car is flanked by Mounties (RCMP)
@@zedxyle oh thankyou l was thinking
About that flag in alaska now
I know that it,s canada
Canada and alaska are brothers country
This is only 100 years ago folks
Ninety seven years :)
Steven Cooper: Only?
Probably more than half the country didn't have an automobile,or telephone or electricity or running water and for sure they didn't have air conditioning.Airplanes and flying were barely getting started.
New Mexico and Arizona were just admitted to the union ten years before this video and Alaska and Hawaii were not states yet and wouldn't be for another 35 years.
Women had just gotten the right to vote 3 years before this video was made.
@@ebayerr Whats your point? You started off your comment with what I thought was going to be a rebuttal, but you ended up only agreeing with his statement.
hacked out life : You could substitute the word "just" for "only" in his comment and not change the meaning of it.
As if what? 100 years ago was the same world as today?
My point being,it's not the same world.
How time flies
the more I learn about WGH, the more I admire him.
Harding was the man who created the roaring twenties where our modern world of cheap mass produced cars, electrical appliances and technology appeared for the first time. He cut down the size of the Federal bureaucracy so taxes could be lowered and the money went into the economy and boomed the twenties.
Then we should beam him back!
He didn't create it, he allowed it to create itself. That's what was so great about him and Coolidge.
Eventually led to the Great Depression in 1929 under another carefree Republican Hoover .
@@770WT. Evidently You are blaming Republicans for the Great Depression. Be that the case then FDR couldn’t solve it. FDR’s greatest achievement was His handling of affairs during WWll. Unemployment was just as high in 1937 as it was on March 4th 1933.
Fergieman
FINALLY 1st time we get to see him in color
People keep asking about the golden spike. It wasn't hammered down all the way and wasn't meant to stay there. Its a symbolic gesture. It left with the person who brought it there.
Thankyou for you information
But l have a question
How they take it back without been
Noticed ,?
It has now been a century since Harding's trip to Alaska
I've heard a train derailed a bit later because a nail went missing that compromised the track integrity.
had to have been just gold plated or it would deform when getting hit and not be useful at all
In unrelated news; the music sensation the Wyld Stallions were playing their latest gig. Bill S. Preston Esq. was seen to be using a golden device as a guitar pick, some say it was spike shaped. Band associate Rufus had ' no comment.' Back to you Ludoergosum.
Good footage. Colorized and has a "you-are-there" feel. It's 2022, so this was 99 years ago. Go 20's.
How long would it take before someone tries to steal the golden spike???
They take them back out ,theres a few from transcontinental at promitory peak Utah
I've got it. Then I drove a painted one.
Very interesting I didn't know they had Color Film back then
They didn't. This is from a series called America in Color. Must have been colorized.
Well we could not see this anymore
The beginning footage looks like it's Vancouver, and he did visit Vancouver at that time
On the way back.
Its interesting how well the axel width of a car fits on Stephenson gauge track. With even the romans having a similar axel distance on their wagons.
I don't know where they got their facts from but that looks mighty like a four door sedan not a roadster being used on the rails.
Didnt they use that car in Ch.Chaplins GOLDRUSH. òr was it P seĺlars PINK PANTHER .jjust asking 🤔
David Ingram what
It was a dodge roadster
@@ryneprince7113The car in the video is definitely not
Growing up in alaska I went to camp at lake Harding and always wondered why they named it after him!!
Deep subject.
He planned to go there but never did.
He completely whiffed on that last hammer
Great footage
Fascinating I didn't know this one.
Herbert Hoover at 0:25 ? After the 1920 election, newly-elected Republican President Warren G. Harding appointed Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, right?
I’m going to go over there and get that gold bar
You are only 97 years late. But I guess late is better than no show
Still a lot of gold in Alaska but cost a ton of money to find it.
Love the car.
That car should've been a convertible.
Like - Well told • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
Harding has been underrated as a president, and historians are finally coming to that conclusion. Florence's waving at :08 is comical.
Why’s she look like she’s shoeing everyone away? 😂😂
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He visited my relatives in AK.
I have one of those ceremonial gold spikes
Why did everything seemed so nice back in that era?
1:31 - Hoover is doing a very odd wave here.
After the golden spike is pounded in. Workers always remove it and replace it with an iron spike as per normal. As nobody is leaving 1kg+ golden spike in the rail.
In 1922 Kodakchrome color movies were introduced but, I’m surprised it didn’t faded anything.
Why would someone give this thumbs down ? Its just history not political .
Very interesting
That was cool!
Where is that gold spike at?!
Warren G the OG.
Wow, the Marines really haven't changed their uniforms.
Unless ‘Roadster’ was the model name, that car on the rails was NOT a roadster and I expect better from Smithsonian. A ‘roadster’ is a 2 door convertible body style, sometimes with a rumble seat. The car shown was a 4 door sedan, most likely a Dodge Brothers (pre- “Dodge”) Series 116 Sedan. C’mon Smithsonian, don’t let millennials write your scripts!
Matt Kustom Kostumes wouldn’t it be a “railster?”
Is it possible that the "special conversion" they spoke of is changing it from a roadster to a sedan + the track wheels?
Truck Taxi, that would be way too much work.
God, maybe the car was actually nicknamed the ‘Railroadster’?
I guarantee no one cares and this was a waste of time to write this
Wonder what happened to the golden spike? Museum in Alaska?
by the way do they change out that gold spike after the ceremony? Because it not only seems like a point of failure but I feel like people would purposely remove it when no one is looking
What's with all the Union Flags?
It's in Canada
@@zedxyle Right, makes sense, thanks!
That’s the year gold “spiked”😆
Dodge railster!!
I would rather watch this , without the colorization or comments .
Alaska is a gold mine for resources and was a great purchase from Russia. Oil, Timber, Gold, Silver, and pristine wilderness for the most part
Something is telling me that solid gold spike isn't there anymore!
Obviously it wasn't intended to be permanent.
I don't think that gold spike survived the hammering into the rail. Way too soft. Wonder whatever happened to it afterward?
It was probably removed immediately, transferred to a museum, and replaced with a normal spike.
Gold would be too weak, and somebody would steal it anyways. No way they left all that money just sitting there, 100% chance it wouldbe stolen
Who else never knew we had a president Harding?
No one.
@@wholeNwon 🤣
He missed 😂
wonderful. business is booming. stocks are up, roaring 20s are upon us.
They pull the gold stake out
He is prolly thinking the whole time, man I wish i was here with my mistress instead of this old bag.
Warren G is a Regulator
And the he died on pneumonia on his way back
MI ("heart attack") Cooledge near his father's house at the time.
How many ounces is that spike?
64? x 1000$ per
john hud Gold plated and more like $12 an oz.
As if that spike actually got left there.. if someone in the entourage didn't swap it for brass or something someone would've gone back later to steal it. Personally I can't see why they even would've used a gold one in the first place. I mean why would you ?
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Why did everyone think he was hot tho
so im related to harding
Where can I get that car?
Thank goodness no Oswald.
And got caught with an Eskimo girl😮🤔😁😁😁😁😁😁
Great idea until a train comes along.
What’s with the British flags?
Harding actually died later that year in San Francisco as a result of this “Voyage of Understanding.”
Heart failure. Already on the way out before he ever left Washington DC.
They had color back then???
Do you guys think his human tissue has liquified by now?
What you mean?? Rotted?? Yea it’s probably gone
TheOfficialNatureBoy Yeah Thats Right
TheOfficialNatureBoy sadly 😞
@@alejandroperez-yy9ym 😔
A GREAT PRESIDENT
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That trip is what killed him.
The colorization is horrible, it would’ve been much better in black and white.
He never returned to the White House alive.
0:14 netanyahu
that golden spike would have gone into trump's pocket, replaced by a fake of course
Harding was a liar he promised to served a full four year term and failed to
He died.
The only Republican President better than Trump! Ps fabulous colorization.
What?
@@wholeNwon meaning there was a President (Harding) even better at corruption than Trump!
@@mrpeel3239 Never once was he personally linked to any corruption...zero.
@@billpressler5319 you are correct. I just couldn't think of another Republican President "better" than Trump! Lol
Now imagine if he was in the Delorean trying to hit 88mph to try and save us from Trump.
Ah yes, rare footage of the most sweating raunchy US president in history.
Trump wasn't alive then.
It is amazing to me that Harding's mistress actually lived until 1991!