Old World Springfield Massachusetts
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2023
- Lets take a look at some of the old architecture in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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My neck of the woods, I drive past some of these buildings everyday in amazement! Great video, about to watch your video of Holyoke where I see old world buildings daily driving to work.
Mine too I'm in Florence
Eastern States Exposition is actually across the Connecticut River in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
I lived in Springfield from 1966 to 1977. I remember the department store Forbes & Wallace, Johnson's bookstore, the South Congregational church, the beautiful houses on Mulberry Street, the old cemetery, Forest Park and more. It was a lovely city back then.
Not anymore
@@pianorama Now it has MGM
The stone bridge is the railroad through downtown.
The factory at 3:00 is Smith & Wesson
If you are looking at the Municipal Building straight on, the "temple" on the right is City Hall and the one on the left is Springfield's symphony hall.
The Connecticut Valley Historical Society was housed in the Daniel Wesson mansion (since burned and demolished).
Great one! I live in Massachusetts. Nice to see a local video thank you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Any chance of you looking at old world Shanghi? @@oldworldex
It’s the best place and a time capture
There is amazing things to see today
Weekends are amazing and fun
I love my town 😢
It’s a huge carnival and the big e is here it’s so cool thanks for your time
Born in Springfield. Great photos.
I recall street curbs being about a foot tall as a child. Stepping off a curb was something you had to take care doing. They have piled up the asphalt over the brick.
Yes, either that or.......
I was born in Springfield in 1949 and lived there until 1963. I went to high school in nearby Chicopee. I moved to California in 1969, and never went back. Yet, the weird thing about this video for me is how few of the buldings that you show here still even existed in 1950's. There are some that I remember from my childhood, but the Springfield that I remember in general looked plainer this. It seems that a lot grand buildings were replaced with those much less ornate even before I was born, but I'm at a loss to explain why this was even necessary. BTW, they planted a giant MGM Casino right in the center of downtown a few years which seemed wildly inappropriate to me, at least until I watched this incredible video.
Comp or High?
Congrats on your book coming out😊 always enjoy your shares❤
Thank you...always nice when you comment as well.
Great okd footage of Springfield Massachusetts.
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Fantastic pics 😊
I knew this town would have some gems. Great video brother as always
How many Springfields are there ? They went around renaming most everything.
@@Kat.Evangeline true, Seems like is a Springfield in every state. Even the Simpsons and that soap opera Guiding Light used it is so common
Much appreciated
Forrest park was an inspiration for the famous children’s book author and illustrator Dr. Seuss he based the Lorax of the industrial part of Springfield. His dad worked at the small zoo within Forest Park. Hence why he gets all these ideas for animals from there. Mulberry street is an actual street in Springfield Massachusetts
Thank you, very much. This made my evening even better.
Love your vids old world, I like that you are a tradesman that looks at these with that particular eye.
My favorite phrase has become
Explain this to me in a way that makes sense, because your story doesn’t stand up in court.
This is great :) learning more of were my mom and my grandparents grew up and lived in. My grandpa was born in Springfield mass and my grandma and my mom was born in Bridgeport Connecticut. I love New England and it’s history, I am also learning more of our family history from New England. I wanna go back there.
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Saved to my HIStory Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon playlist, thank you.
GREAT VIDEO! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
South Portland Maine will blow you away as well as Harvard (Cambridge , in Boston) . Love the vids
great video Sir! you need the height if you are going to harvest free energy from the aether ....the higher you reach the greater the voltage is ....
I have spent most of my life in the Springfield area and I enjoyed the video. Springfield was an industrial powerhouse in the 1800s and early 1900s. Also, as you have shown, it had insurance companies, so the combination made it a fairly well-off city. It also had the very famous Springfield Armory which was put in place by George Washington to supply the US with small arms, so was there from almost the beginning. Springfield also had, and still has, a very large Italian heritage population which undoubtedly was a large factor in all the beautiful stone work. Back then, appearances and quality mattered, now it is mostly about what is the cheapest way to make it functional, and barely functional a lot of the time. If the building isn't going to contribute to a profit in some way, then it doesn't matter what it looks like, and we will probably raze it in 40 or 50 years for tax purposes anyway.
There is too much to go into here for me, I could probably write an essay on the subject. I think part of the problem is that people started to lose a sense of community, a quality that has taken over the country in the 21st century. If it doesn't benefit me directly, screw it. I don't have kids in school so why should I pay for a new school? I'd rather buy some junk from China or buy a $70,000 SUV that will be rusted out after 15 years than build something that will help other people far into the future. Greed and selfishness have taken over. Keep questioning
Dont forget Dr. Suess was born and raised in Springfield. They have a museum dedicated to his work.
I may be wrong, but i believe they tore some buildings down to build the MGM casino.
At 8:50 those buildings at the Eastern State Exposition (The Big E) are the state buildings.
The Eastern States Expo buildings are all in West Springfield, a mile from downtown across the Connecticut River. Just have to clarify.
You can see a lot of Springfield landmarks in the movie The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud
Beautifully done! I wonder which buildings remain today?
I'm surprised the controllers have allowed the two Pantheon-like structures with the tall thin clock tower (Municipal Hall) to survive. The Poli's Theatre Block frontage is very striking 19 minutes in as well 🙂
what controllers? We are tricked and deceived into doing this to ourselves. There are no controllers kiddo, only liars. You'll figure it out one day.
@@nasunabi A blind man attempting to steer...😂😂😂
@@DDXY2K He's right, and if you assume you have no control you won't *have* the control that you possibly have. Every ounce of power you assume you haven't got is one you lose to that assumption.
HELLO SPRINGFIELD! Great presentation, I'm a long time fan of this sleepy but still surprisingly vibrant city. Stone Wall Tavern FTW!
massachusetts native here, i just drove through worcester, ma and some interesting buildings there as well
I have a file...I'll put it on the list.
Nice overview of Springfield. Thanks.
Love it !!
keep going posting this information sir. thank you
Thank you, I will
The building with the onion shaped domes is the Fuller Building at 1531-45 Main Street and is still there minus both domes and the other building you show after that is down at the corner of 1254 main and elm street at court square.
Born there first time seeing it. Thnx!
19:57 That's the modern day Union Station (or the artist's rendition of the plan) . They did a great job renovating it and making it a hub for Amtrak as well as city bus routes and regional bus lines. I've transferred buses there several times and sometimes I just sit there with a coffee and marvel at the decor . The old bus depot was real sketchy ... this one's clean, well lit and cameras every where. They shut down two streets around it and made them for buses only.
Wow, thank you for sharing this. At 3:47 Springfield Institution for Savings aka SIS Bank, had my very first bank account there. I can still see my lil bank book in my minds eye. That was in the 1980s. My hometown. My aunt graduated from Technical High School in 1982 or 1983. The Indian Motorcycle building was converted into condos/apartments as was Classical high school. Kimball hotel is still very much standing on Chestnut Street, its lux apartments. 18:06 that's still standing at least in 2015 it was, Mass Mutual Insurance Company on State Street across from Putnam Vocational High School. Springfield was called the City of Homes. The ornate architecture was everywhere, even in my lifetime. The city has let many areas just go to the trash, it's really sad. The Eastern States Exposition aka The Big E, it's in West Springfield, MA. There are houses there that represent each of the New England states. Full of history, foods from the states and more. I graduated from Central High School but not the old one in the photos. That was long gone. The new Central High is on Roosevelt Avenue. A lot of the older structures were still standing but have been badly damaged downtown when the 2011 tornado ripped through the area. A lot was lost. Good memories to share💕
Another great video,.
Wonderful video! I live in upstate NY and we still have many of these amazing old world structures which are astounding! Could you do a video on Providence RI and Newport RI...passed through both in our way to Cape cod on a side trip...filled with grand structures and fall river, Mass, too. The Cranston street armory in Providence RI was astounding...took up a whole block! It is in danger of being demolished, I learned on researching it after the trip. Thank you for these informative gifts! ♥️😊
I have a providence file..been meaning to make the video...coming soon. Thanks for the kind words..
I live 5 mins from here.
"Massa/chu/setts"
10:03 The Coliseum’s still there, and used to be the home of the hockey team that is now the Carolina Hurricanes.
"Reincarnation of Peter Proud" 1975, Library, the Puritan Statue, Museums, former Baystate West(now Tower Squiare): it had Friendly's at the time! Many places!
Basement windows uses for fresh air intakes for heating coal fired heating systems ?
5:05 Those huge rounded peaks look just like the ones on the Shriners building in Auburn Maine.
There's Several buildings shown here that resemble buildings around Portland Maine.
Thanks I grew up there. Not as nice anymore 😢
Same
They may have worked harder in the old days but they certainly did not know more.
The civilization that built these structures had higher knowledge and their work ethic is a mystery.
Good architecture, just like art, is a reflection of the people who make it. What does modern art and architecture say about modern America?
Time stamp 13 : 26 : Are these new shadow's they added or forgot to add in other photos ?
Fine vid...also enjoyed first horseless car 1825
There is a Springfield in every state in the US. I do believe that we will be learning the truth about our past coming soon.
Where are you from that MASSACHUSETTS IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PRONOUNCE. PHONICS...JUST SOUND IT OUT
I thought the same thing. It's literally pronounced the way it's spelled.
Yay!!!
Ice old photos. The ”Eastern States Exposition” is actually not of the City of Springfield. It is across the the river in West Springfield.
the big point here is ... where did all the money and the labor to build all of that come from?
They did not have the money and the people to build them. Further, the architecture in some buildings look like russia or even islamic !
Springfield was an industrial/innovation powerhouse 1830's-1930's. Springfield armory which made most if not all weapons for the US Army (starting in 1794) was there and that spun-off a lot of other companies. A car company by the name of Rolls-Royce even assembled cars in Springfield for a short time in the early 1900's.
@@Rbhjr1 the armory is a castle, middle-ages
What do you mean they did not have the money to build them? Of course they did or they would not exist. Also, Russia, Islamic, huh? You need to get out more.
Mass-a-chew-sits
Now there is so much crime the state police have to patrol the city.
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Will you do an Old Holyoke next?
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Boy, you said a mouthful there kiddo! Who and what we are, And ! Have Been! All Along. Yes, I've been looking at this, for quite some time, and I'm not sure we have the genetic structure to remember who we are and have been. Yet, we the lowly people of this world could take it back in a breath, if we could only come together and decide what it is, fundamentally that
"" We "" want. And then see only That ! As Our World. No Doubting! And in a moment, it would be so. That's how powerful We Are.
That is why they keep is divided, that's why they try soo hard to get us to believe in their His - Story. I can't help but wonder if the ones who left before us, the ones who manifested these awesome structures, did they leave us with a way to correct ourselves ? At this point, we would need a magical potion or something to bring back those ghost DNA, which would make everything the evil ones do, Moot. And then we could watch them turn to Dust.
On buying the first one shown, that was our great great grandparents, which in some cases, may be
" us " 200 yrs round trip so they say. But as we are seeing, if you didn't agree with the given story, you got a one way ticket to the nearest asylum. And they had plenty! Must have been a WHOLE BUNCH Of us calling
Bullchit on the narrative back then. Resistors! 😂
peel back the lies
Where my fellow Massholes at?
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Massa-chew-sits...aka Massholes...
as a New Yorker, I feel you. lol
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Hey now! I'm from there LOL
@@guyztruth4593 just playing lol
@@guyztruth4593 I spent six months in Worcester (Wusta) they gave me permission to say that.🥰
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There are no massholes in Massachusetts.
I wonder what the Egyptians thought when they wondered into the Pyramids and all those building structures. They all could of been incubator babies not able to put the puzzle together either. My studies bring me to the alien factor I find in all past civilizations now vanished into history.
They went to the North Pole, and they are just bigger better people than us. No aliens unless you consider Jesus an alien
Yes it's non humans that are the controllers. All people in most places of power worship and serve "them". Fallen angels and lucifer/satan in the guise of "aliens" or et's. These were the "gods of old" all pantheons roman, greek, norse etc all fallen angels "masquerading as gods".
The finest example of period American architecture would have to be Abraham Lincoln's house. You should do a video on it perhaps.
Wut I see they are scared of the sun
This video was terrible. All you did was plagiarize some old pictures. You added absolutely no extra information. You comments were bland and meaningless. Where are these places in Springfield? What happened to them? Who built them? This is a zero-value-added video. Are all your videos like this?
I enjoyed this glimpse of Old World Springfield, being a Western Mass Hole however I had to leave a comment regarding the narration. I question weather the narrator knows how history "works". I'll set aside his struggling to pronounce Massachusetts and what that might tell the inquiring viewer. The almost paranoid discussion about not accepting what we've been told, and uncovering the lies: I don't even get it. You want to know about a given building in a given city,? look at the newspapers, look at what people have written about it, find the accounts of the people who lived then. That's how history is done. You want to know the "truth" about James Naismith? Go read everything that has been written about him and draw your own conclusions. This notion that history is a lie or that "they" are hiding the truth from "us" is laughable. Why would they build Central High school as ornate as they did? Perhaps the attitude to education was different then. One thing is for sure, labor was cheap and skilled, materials were readily available and regulation was limited. You doubt if they built a specific building in 3 years? Go to the library and check the papers. Maybe he's tying to be provocateur to increase the clicks but dude, you want the truth about Springfield? No one is hiding it, no one is covering anything up, no one is feeding you lies. Do some digging and read something.
No mystery then? History is just as we have been told? Aw man, now I have to remake 200 videos and learn to read. Thanks for setting me straight..
As long as we just remember-there is absolutely no difference between societies; they are all equally impressive
I thought there would be a little more history other that "this is a building" and "this is a house" and "this is a bridge made of stone" smh this video sucks
By the way the Big E is in WEST SPRINGFIELD a completely different city
You really have trouble pronouncing Massachusetts?.. and architecture usually is recognizable for the period of it's construction, no?.. you keep referencing other stories and ideas... about???.. Springfield??
I used to work in Springfield :)